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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Sam has already learned a great deal about leading beside Dani. The Ship period hands him a much less orderly version of that job. Their home is gone, their teacher has chosen a direction they cannot follow, and the classmates arriving from...
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The school is wrecked, Illyana is a little girl again, and the New Mutants have had enough of Magneto. That is the situation surrounding their move aboard X-Factor's living headquarters, Ship. After Inferno, even finding somewhere to sleep...
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Gateway should be named separately from the eight main field X-Men. He is essential to the Australian period, but calling him an ordinary ninth team member suggests a relationship these stories do not establish. He is an Aboriginal Australi...
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Longshot helps give the Australian base a conscience almost as soon as the X-Men move in. The Reavers have accumulated valuables by hurting people. To most observers, a room full of stolen objects might remain an anonymous collection. His a...
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Havok comes into the Australian period with more than a powerful set of blasts. He has a history with the X-Men, a complicated relationship with his brother's shadow and a growing connection with Madelyne Pryor. A remote headquarters does n...
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Dazzler is an especially revealing person to place in a team that is pretending to be dead. Alison once worked to be seen and heard. Now public visibility is something the group has deliberately surrendered, and her home is a remote base fi...
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Psylocke's Australian look is a useful introduction to where she is in this period: armored, hooded and still recognizably Betsy Braddock in her original body. Her early bravery has not made her physically indestructible. Wanting to operate...
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Colossus has one of the simplest and most painful objections to the team's new arrangement: his sister thinks he is dead. The tactical advantages of disappearing do not make that fact smaller. Piotr can understand the plan and still hate wh...
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Rogue has a place in the Australian team, but even her own room cannot guarantee privacy. Carol Danvers remains a presence inside her, with memories, tastes and a claim to the body Rogue is trying to live in. The problem follows her across...
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Wolverine looks like somebody who could settle comfortably into a hidden base and an unofficial war. He knows how to operate without public recognition, and he doesn't need a school timetable to tell him where the danger is. The Australian...
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Storm reaches Australia with her weather powers restored, but that doesn't return the X-Men to their earlier life. The team has survived Dallas and accepted a new kind of secrecy. Ororo must lead people who have effectively removed themselv...
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The world thinks the X-Men are dead, and the X-Men decide not to correct it. That is the bargain underneath the Australian period: a chance to operate beyond the attention that has endangered them, paid for with the knowledge that people wh...
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Magneto is still responsible for the New Mutants during this transition, but responsibility and actual knowledge of their lives are drifting apart. The students keep encountering dangers outside the school, and they are increasingly relucta...
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Gosamyr enters the story through the alien slaver Spyder and the effort to free her family. She needs the New Mutants’ help, but her presence immediately makes the relationships inside the team more complicated. Her ability to affect emotio...
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Bird-Brain enters the New Mutants’ world as a creature being contained and studied. The immediate question for the students is whether he needs help. As Doug begins to understand him, that question expands into what has happened to the othe...
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Amara’s role in this transition begins with leaving the New Mutants rather than arriving alongside the new figures who appear later. New Mutants #56 makes her decision to transfer to the Massachusetts Academy explicit, following the confron...
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Illyana’s story becomes increasingly difficult to separate from the danger surrounding the entire team. Limbo is part of how she travels, part of her history and part of the power she uses. When her control over it is threatened, the proble...
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Warlock’s understanding of human life has always been incomplete, and Doug’s death brings that difference into the most painful possible focus. His best friend is gone, but the way humans talk about death, souls and resurrection does not gi...
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Roberto and Warlock’s Fallen Angels adventure is a separate chapter, but returning from it does not place them back into an unchanged version of the school. By the time they return, the Bird-Brain crisis has cost Doug his life, and the surv...
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Doug’s contribution to the Bird-Brain story gets to the heart of why a language power matters. The others can see that this strange creature is frightened or hungry. Doug can begin turning unfamiliar sounds into an actual exchange of meanin...
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