Wednesday, October 30, 2013

X-Men: Battle of The Atom #2 Spoilers

Spoilers: Quentin Quire notices it's Xorna and Kid Xavier controlling S.H.I.E.L.D.'s missiles. Future Beast explains they've made their way back to the past to break the cycle and stand against the humans. S.H.I.E.L.D. regains control of their ships, but not before they drop all their bombs on the X-Men, including Sentinels, which shoot at Future Beast and kills him. While they fight Sentinels, some X-Men question what's the point of fighting if the hatred will never end. Xorna easily overcomes Quire. In the midst of the battle, a Sentinel kills Future Jubilee and Kid Xavier kills Colossus. Xorna blames Cyclops and Wolverine for ruining Xavier's dream and their future with their ridiculous schism. Xorna says she'll never be the Jean they knew because she couldn't send herself to the past. The O5 face her, but Xorna's powers overloads, blowing her into pieces. Magik teleports everyone to the Jean Grey School, before Maria Hill could approach them. Wolverine says the O5 can't stay at the present and Beast promises to find other ways to send them back. Wolverine and Cyclops agree that S.H.I.E.L.D. having its own Sentinels is a bigger problem and that they have to deal with it, but each follow their own path again. Kymera decides to stay in the present to hunt whoever is left of the Brotherhood (Xavier, Raze, Ice Hulk and Molly), while Sir Iceman, Wiccan, Future Shogo and Quire go back to the future. Kitty quits the school because her fellow X-Men didn't trust her when she needed them the most. The O5 also quit. Kitty and the originals are welcomed by Cyclops to the new Xavier School.

3 comments:

FSaker said...

Wait... that's all? Was the mystery of Dazzler's assassination in the future explained? Did someone show why the O5 couldn't return to the past? And as much as I hate the way the schism between Cyclops and Wolverine has been handled, how could they even be guilty of ruining the X-Men in the future if the X-Men were shown TOGETHER in the future (before Dazzler was killed)??

Maybe I'm too old, but I miss the days when an event used to tell a whole story, instead of just setting the stage with questions and vagueness for the next event (which will do the same for the next event, and so on). So much was teased, and so little was revealed to the readers in this event. Such a shame, because it could have been brilliant if it wasn't so vague.

Oh, and Kitty joined Scott's team, huh? I hope Emma puts her in charge of serving meals or cleaning toilets.

Matt L said...

Yeah, not likely. http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_super/6/62721/1163662-sneakattack.jpg

Anonymous said...

yep, that was it. just setting us up for 2014....