Spoilers: The Shadow King reclaims his physical form and faces
the X-Men, spilling his vile poison and spreading his darkness. One by one, the
X-Men fall, except Psylocke whose powers allow her to resist his onslaught.
Bishop’s database confirms this is the Mindkiller Apocalypse it had warned about
before. The reality gardens Proteus had seeded are now being used by Farouk to
spread his filth all over the world. Bishop, Gambit, Archangel, Rogue, Mystique
and Logan are overwhelmed by emotional breakdowns, and soon Psylocke follows
suit and falls. X who had been watching the battle refuses to give up and heals
himself, standing up to face the Shadow King. X asks for Betsy’s help to defeat
Farouk, but she thinks they’re not enough. X says they won’t be alone, and
together they create another psychic network linking every psychic in the
world, including Emma Frost, Quentin Quire, Rachel Grey, the Cuckoos, Synapse
and many others. Psylocke channels the power of every psychic and unleashes it
against the Shadow King, shrinking him into a small, measly spider. X steps on
the spider, ending Farouk, and Psylocke purifies the filth that had taken over
the world and the other X-Men. X thanks Psylocke for saving the world and reassures
her he is still X, not Charles Xavier, because he has changed. The other X-Men are
suspicious about X, but Betsy vouches for him, telling them the Shadow King is
gone. As a reward, X gives them all gifts:
• For Archangel: the choice of being Angel, Archangel
or just Warren as he needs.
• For Gambit: the purpose of finding Fantomex and paying
his debts.
• For Mystique and Rogue: understanding of being
everyone on the outside, but always being Raven and Anna on the inside.
• For Bishop: the permission to be part of the world
and set his mission aside for a change.
• For Logan: the vision to see all the good he does.
• For all of them: oblivion; they all will forget what
has happened.
X then gifts Betsy the gift of memory for only she
will remember and know that X has returned. He wants her to watch him and make
sure the Shadow King is truly gone. Psylocke suggests he brings all those
psychics to the school. X says he won’t return to the school for he is not
Xavier, he is X and has a new dream now.
“For so long, my life has been out of control. Chaos and serendipity, wrapped in insanity. I have suffered, I have lost. Not just my life, but my very soul, my self. But no more. Now I know who I am.” – Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Braddock, daughter of Otherworld, mutant, telepath, telekinetic, defender of the realm and, above all, X-Man.
5 comments:
"telling them the Shadow King is gone"
Oh, Betsy... I love you, but you should know better by now; the Shadow King always comes back (as does every other classic comic book villain).
Nevertheless, it's nice that Soule managed to make the connection between Shadow King's actions and Proteus's ones being tied to each other, rather than just two bad guys taking random actions. And Xavier's new life as X can be interesting, as the changes he provided to these X-Men.
One of them is kinda weird, though...
"• For Gambit: the purpose of finding Fantomex and paying his debts."
...I thought X was using Fantomex's body and that his mind is stored inside X's. Is that not the case? Couldn't he just ask Betsy to take him to the Astral Plane and meet Fantomex? It shouldn't be that hard.
Very disappointing last edition.
Soule just wrote his version of Joe Kelly's Psy-War.
Very dull. Whatever happened to the village taken over by Proteus? For a crazy astral plane dreamscape... There are no backgrounds!! And they defeat Shadow King just by trying a bit harder...?
Disappointing as the first six issues were a real rollercoaster!
Weird. If Psylocke had channeled the psychics in the first round this second arc wouldn't even have happened???
I was waiting for her to use the giant butterfly the Shadow King made her attack London with in the beginning.....
What Psyloco said is exactly what happened. Yawn.
Post a Comment