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· SCP
SCP-032: Brothers' Bride SCP-032 turns up at a Foundation facility and asks to be kept there until someone comes for her. Her makers knew where to leave her. From a distance, she resembles a woman. Up close, that resemblance falls apart. He...
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SCP-031: What is Love? SCP-031 makes a familiar face into something you really shouldn't trust. Its tendrils spread through the Ryugyong Hotel's pipes and air ducts. The pods at their ends can appear to someone as a person they once had a c...
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https://t.co/l7esvsrJ23 https://t.co/94qMRu8Zhe Interested, and unexpected partnership. Curious to see what all comes from this.
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7/7 Michael Nowlan: coerced power source Michael Nowlan is the person the Alliance is pursuing and exploiting. Counting him alongside its willing attackers misses the central conflict of the story. His mutation amplifies the powers of other...
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6/7 Apocalypse: employer and controller Apocalypse stands above the Alliance's four field operatives, directing their work and demanding obedience. His appearance at the end of X-Factor #5 puts a face, still largely concealed, to the master...
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5/7 Timeshadow makes it difficult to know how many opponents are actually in front of you. His mutation shifts him out of sync with ordinary time, producing overlapping versions of himself that make his movements and attacks difficult to fo...
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4/7 Stinger gives the Alliance its most obvious ranged weapon, and its least reassuring trigger discipline. She generates electricity and fires it in bolts, keeping pressure on opponents who are trying to stay clear of Frenzy and Tower. Her...
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3/7 Tower makes the space around him part of the fight. He can change his size, growing into a much larger and stronger opponent or shrinking down. That range gives him options beyond the obvious image of a giant trying to flatten somebody....
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2/7 Frenzy is the Alliance member who can make a threat credible without raising her voice. Joanna Cargill has superhuman strength and extraordinarily tough skin. She can withstand punishment that would stop most people and keep applying pr...
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ALLIANCE OF EVIL 1/7 The Alliance of Evil enters X-Factor with four mutants chasing one man they cannot afford to lose. The original team in X-Factor #5–6, published in 1986, consists of Frenzy, Tower, Stinger and Timeshadow. Together they...
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9/9 The Hellions really surprised me. I expected a fairly disposable little rival team, the sort of group that turns up to fight the New Mutants and then disappears until another story needs them. There is so much more in these six kids tha...
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8/9 Emma Frost: mentor The White Queen gives the Hellions their school, their training and their connection to the Hellfire Club. She also decides which questions her students are allowed to ask. Emma's telepathy makes that authority diffic...
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7/9 James Proudstar joins the Hellions with a grievance that reaches past the New Mutants. As Thunderbird, he carries the name of his dead brother, John. His anger is directed at the X-Men, whom he blames for that loss. Emma offers him trai...
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6/9 Roulette can make an ordinary mistake arrive at exactly the wrong moment. Jennifer Stavros alters probability through psychic energy discs, giving a target good or bad luck. Her power suits a team fight particularly well. She does not n...
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5/9 Jetstream has a very specific objection to Empath: being on the same team should not get him killed. Haroun al-Rashid generates the energy that propels his flight, with technological equipment helping him control it. That puts him oppos...
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4/9 Catseye is perfectly comfortable being a cat. Being human takes more persuading. Sharon Smith shifts into a purple feline form with claws, speed and the agility to make close quarters unpleasant for an opponent. Her first assignment aga...
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3/9 Tarot brings a whole deck of threats into a fight. Marie-Ange Colbert can give physical presence to figures pictured on her tarot cards. In the Hellions' debut, that means the Devil and the Knight of Swords become immediate problems for...
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2/9 Empath can make someone feel what he wants them to feel. Manuel de la Rocha treats that ability as permission. His mutant power manipulates emotions, letting him turn resistance into affection or confidence into fear. Against another te...
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HELLIONS 1/9 The Hellions give the New Mutants something their school has been missing: a rival class. Introduced in New Mutants #16 in 1984, Emma Frost's students train at the Massachusetts Academy under the Hellfire Club's protection. The...
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6/6 · Pyro · Fire control Pyro does not wait for the X-Men to show off. During the Brotherhood's quarrel, he turns the flame from Blob's match into a creature large enough to frighten him. He enjoys the demonstration, and Blob's size does n...
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