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12/12 That's the part of the Magistrates that needs to stay in the discussion. Plenty of X-Men enemies can overpower somebody. These people can take somebody away with the approval of the country they live in. Jenny's life can be reassigned...
11/12 The ending in X-Factor #62 leaves Genosha under temporary military control, with elections promised. Anderson gives a televised explanation blaming the president’s alleged nervous breakdown for the kidnappings. Wolverine immediately c...
10/12 Anderson turns against Hodge too. By Uncanny X-Men #272, she and Moreau are working against him, and she helps get Storm to the prisoners so their powers can be restored. Meanwhile, the legal treatment of the captives has come down to...
9/12 The processing of Storm and Wolfsbane brings the consequences right into the teams. Rahne is changed physically and mentally, and getting her away from the people who did it doesn't immediately undo everything. That's one of the things...
8/12 By X-Tinction Agenda, Genosha is coming after the X-teams again. The Magistrates take Storm and members of the New Mutants, and Hodge is now deeply involved in what the government is doing. Havok being among the Magistrates adds anothe...
7/12 Chief Magistrate Anderson is part of that original operation too. She oversees the pursuit and detention of the escapees, and she's working alongside Moreau while this system is functioning exactly as intended. That's important to reme...
6/12 Philip Moreau is important because he's the Genegineer's son. He's grown up inside this country, and Jenny is the woman he loves. Then he has to confront what his father's work actually means for her. That removes a lot of the distance...
5/12 Wipeout handles another part of the control. His ability to suppress mutant powers lets Genosha take people who would normally be incredibly difficult to imprison and make them vulnerable. Wolverine and Rogue both experience that. Wolv...
4/12 Then there's the Genegineer, David Moreau. The Magistrates bring people in, and his work determines what the state is going to make out of them. The term “mutate” in this story refers to people who have been put through Genosha's proce...
3/12 The Press Gang shows how far that goes. Hawkshaw, Punchout, and Pipeline pursue people outside Genosha, including going into Australia after Jenny Ransome. The X-Men get involved when that operation catches Madelyne Pryor up in it as w...
2/12 When Genosha comes into the story in Uncanny X-Men #235, it presents itself as a successful, prosperous country. Then you start seeing what that prosperity depends on. Mutants are being used as slave labor. The government takes their a...
1/12 Spoilers through the end of the Muir Island Saga. That's where I'm at in my X-Men reading, so I'm keeping this to what we've seen up to that point. The Genoshan Magistrates deserve their own discussion, separate from just going through...
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20/ The New Mutants take young Illyana home to Russia in New Mutants #77. By the point I've reached, at the end of Muir Island, I've been missing teenage Magik for a while. She had one of my favorite character arcs in everything I've read s...
19/ In New Mutants #73, they find the young Illyana inside the armor. After everything we've just gone through with her, she's a child again. I had spent all this time following teenage Illyana. The way she fought, her friendships, her humo...
18/ Inferno brings all of this into the open. S'ym and N'astirh exploit her connection to Limbo, and the demonic invasion makes her private problems everybody else's emergency. The more she's pushed, the further the Darkchilde transformatio...
17/ Uncanny X-Men #231 gives her another encounter with Piotr, but she thinks she's summoned his ghost. He gets to help and comfort her while she still believes he's dead. Afterward, she considers using the spell again to keep him with her....
16/ Then Doug dies, and she believes Piotr and the X-Men are dead after Dallas. She wants Forge to pay for what happened to her brother. In New Mutants #65, she goes to Kitty for help. Kitty won't support what Illyana wants to do, and Illya...
15/ By New Mutants #50, even her control of Limbo is falling apart. S'ym and the demons have been changed by the Magus, and they're rebelling against her. There's a chance for Limbo to be restored while the Soulsword remains planted in the...
14/ New Mutants #36 takes it in another direction. The Beyonder offers Illyana freedom from her dark side, but the power and its problems pass to Kitty. Demons are coming through, and Kitty is the one who has to deal with it. Illyana takes...