Spoilers: At X-Man’s hideouts in Canada, Kitty Pryde tells Nate he can’t end wars just by taking away guns. Apocalypse thinks she’s naïve and suggests Nate to just cleanse Earth of its delusions of holiness. X-Man takes his suggestion seriously and simply erases monuments of worship and religion all around the globe. This doesn’t sit well with Kitty, and Nate Grey says that she, as well as Apocalypse, has a place in his council, so she should respect his decisions as he’s trying to listen to all sides. Meanwhile, at the Gulf of Mexico, Jean’s team finishes saving all the oil rig workers. Blob and Omega Red make the oil platform burst into a wild nature environment and disappear. Back at the Xavier Institute, Beast checks the surveillance cameras to detect who has stolen the vaccine from his lab. Glob Herman brings Madrox back to the school’s ruins. Though Madrox still has some reservations, the students lead Legion to Cerebro so he can look for Nate Grey, which he does. David asks the kids to help him save the world. Elsewhere, in Chernaya, Storm’s team is caught up in a civil war while Magneto and Angel watch. Polaris confronts her father and asks about X-Man’s whereabouts. Magneto orders her to stand down and leave. Lorna is fed up and destroys the metal tribute Magneto has created for Nate Grey. Storm and Polaris fight Magneto, while Psylocke has come up with a plan to deal with Angel. Cannonball takes Warren down back to the ground. Betsy tries to reason with Angel, who, in turn, asks her to be by his side again in this new world. Psylocke apologizes and manifest her psychic sword, which she uses to strike down Angel. Her sword somehow reverts X-Man’s manipulations and Warren shifts back into Archangel. Warren blames Betsy for taking away the only peace he’s ever known and prepares to fight.
“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.
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...So Warren prefers to lose his free will to have inner peace? If he really tries to attack Betsy, she has my full support to kick his ass without any mercy.
But it's interesting to see that Nate's intentions are really the best. The problem is in his methods (and in him accepting advice from Apocalypse, of all people). And while there are conflicts caused by religions (actually by people who distort religious teachings to fit their agenda; I'm pretty sure no religion actually advocates for violence), attacking religions themselves is a huge disrespect to their followers and to their free will.
Nevertheless, while this relaunch isn't the best story the X-Men ever had (it's far from being the worst, either), I like the idea of an antagonist that isn't evil and is trying to bring peace to the world. Nate may be the most interesting antagonist the X-Men have had in years...
FSaker,
I have to respectfully disagree. Plenty of religions advocate for violence. Violence isn’t always physical. I typically point to the three Abrahamic religions for evidence, but for today I will usually an Eastern religion. Let’s look at Hinduism and its caste system. The caste system is glorified, systemic racism that subjugates huge swaths of people and is often tied to skin color. To me that is extremely violent and leads to tons of psychological trauma generationally.
And if we get into the Abrahamic religions (Judaism,Christianity,Islam), there is a ton of violence/atrocities against humans in their doctrines.
I do know that you are correct that it's about what people do with belief systems. Religion can be used for great community, but I think we are deluding ourselves if we think that all the actual tenets of them are inherently good. Many of the tenets are inherently toxic and destructive to people. And that is, because all religions are social constructs designed by flawed, biased people. Usually, to govern with their self-interest as the primary goal.
Yasss preach. Maybe Betsy's sword will be used to break people's mind control from religion. That would be interesting and controversial.
@Unknown, that would be dope.
That would really be “The Key Thay Breaks The Locke.” -Uncanny No. 256
Hehe. Yes.
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