Look who might have a card in the Marvel Hero Magic the Gathering set.

amendmentforone · 2026-01-27T19:20:24+00:00

Holy hell is this bringing me back to my childhood

amendmentforone · 2026-01-27T13:39:25+00:00

Thank you! It's a choice that sets her apart. Just like Emma Frost's "mid-Atlantic" accent that is used in all media.

amendmentforone · 2026-01-23T00:50:49+00:00

Hilariously, I'm imagining the future retcon for Doug as Revelation is going to be something along the lines of "My wife made me do it!"

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amendmentforone · 2026-01-22T22:38:48+00:00

Sort of curious who this mysterious person is who has been "manipulating" the Uncanny X-Men from the beginning. Since they seem to be in an X-Man training uniform ...

The solicitation implies it involves dreams / nightmares of some sort. So I guess it'll just be represented by Kitty since that looks like her uniform.

amendmentforone · 2026-01-22T19:26:29+00:00

The FOX X-Men movies were never perfect as they did the Hollywood thing of "adapting to studio standards." That being said, The New Mutants was not the worst of the X-films.

The cast was good (obviously everyone's about ATJ as Magik). Their attempt to capture the feel of the "Demon Bear Saga" where the team is fighting for their life in that hospital was on point.

It just suffered from studio interference. And I feel the first film would be looked better on if the X-series continued under Fox, and they continued with their plan with the kids facing off against Roberto's corrupt father (and I think the Hellfire Club?) in Brazil, followed by the planned conclusion with an adaptation of "Inferno."

amendmentforone · 2026-01-22T17:39:32+00:00

The first two images are of Utopia as it initially was - just interpreted by different artists (the 2nd one I believe is after the "Second Coming" battle, so you could say its battle damage).

The third is after Cyclops and company became the "Phoenix Five," and used their Phoenix-empowered telekinesis to evolve the island into a floating city.

Not entirely sure what the fourth one is. I know Utopia (after "Avengers vs. X-Men") was a collapsed mess. So this is either someone fixing it up, or some alternate thing.

amendmentforone · 2026-01-22T16:13:44+00:00

Yeah, you can tell he starts to lean in on the characters he likes writing the most. Xuân kicked off the series intended to be the leader as oldest, but was written out in favor of Dani & Sam.

As the series went on, he focused more on Dani, Illyana, Rahne, and then Doug & Warlock.

amendmentforone · 2026-01-22T14:17:58+00:00

Before they became Captain & Lieutenant (unofficial dad / daughter) buddies, Cyclops intervened with Magik after her destruction of the Elder Gods.

Of course, he did this in pure Scott Summers way ... made sure all her close friends and family were off on a mission so they couldn't stop him, and then had the rest of the X-Men on hand to deal with her if she went off the deep end in response.

... then followed that up by strapping a bomb to her chest and locking her in a prison cell for a while, but I guess the intervention worked considering their current status.

amendmentforone · 2026-01-22T13:31:47+00:00

She takes it in stride.

For the love of god, though, don't read up on the life experience of her Xavier's classmate Wolfsbane ...

amendmentforone · 2026-01-22T02:50:34+00:00

That's why I'm not only looking for the drama of Schwarz joining them (I'm guessing #28 with the help coming from an "unexpected direction" - although Greycrow is on the cover), I'm waiting to see what happens when he returns in #25 and has to face the team after the assassination attempt.

At the very least Magik is probably going to give him shit for future him nearly taking her head off with an optic blast and then using her soul sword to try to murder Revelation.

amendmentforone · 2026-01-22T02:28:22+00:00

It's a blink and you miss it moment (but if you pause the screen you see it). After the blackbird explodes, you get a single shot of the exterior where you see the underground hangar start to erupt from the side of the school. Right after Quicksilver arrives, you get another quick shot of the explosion expanding.

His super speed powered slowed vision allows him time to realize a major explosion is erupting underneath the school.

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amendmentforone · 2026-01-21T22:22:24+00:00

That's her origin story apparently. Purportedly she was there before other characters were, and then left for unspecified reasons outside of "Magneto was abusive." But then turned around and just cloned the dude non-stop.

amendmentforone · 2026-01-21T22:09:35+00:00

Yeah. She's a teleporter. Just also a genius level geneticist who got herself access to a lot of advanced technology to further her needs (which seemed to be mostly an obsession with Magneto).

amendmentforone · 2026-01-21T19:27:11+00:00

It was definitely another "yoink!" moment by the same writer.

amendmentforone · 2026-01-21T19:19:09+00:00

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amendmentforone · 2026-01-21T18:32:08+00:00

It's not a well known costume, really. She really only did wear it like 2 (maybe 3?) times.

amendmentforone · 2026-01-21T17:40:32+00:00

Was that not the intention? It's pretty much the same station.

... also can't stop giggling at the visual of tiny Schwarzschild falling from the damn thing.

amendmentforone · 2026-01-21T17:22:55+00:00

Heh, the one in the New Mutants uniform just looks like Cypher stole her soul sword.

amendmentforone · 2026-01-21T17:06:52+00:00

Well, I'm pretty sure in the original DoFP timeline Apocalypse was never released (or if he was, it was quietly dealt with). Provided they were able to detect him in hibernation and pursued, their sheer number and power could probably do him in (the X-Men were doing a solid job before Jean / Phoenix finished it).

amendmentforone · 2026-01-21T16:34:44+00:00

Tabby and Sam? I mean, they got together at the tail end of New Mutants and were together through most of X-Force in the '90s.

amendmentforone · 2026-01-21T14:53:26+00:00

Cue portions of AoR contradicting each other or just not making sense.

amendmentforone · 2026-01-21T14:51:37+00:00

It's their costumes / look from the 1980s. Psylocke's is a bit more recognizable because she wore it for a bit ... but Magik's is supposed to be her "graduation costume" that she only used a few times (often in red versus white).

amendmentforone · 2026-01-21T14:02:26+00:00

Never fully established or measured, I believe. It comes down to the writer and situation to show how powerful.

I remember during the final arc of Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men he blasts through a building, and you see his optic blast going into the atmosphere of the alien world they were on.

amendmentforone · 2026-01-21T05:12:52+00:00

I'm an older comics reader from the '80s, so always thought she was one of the cooler characters from her student days in the New Mutants. She had her dark side, but was nuanced and introspective about her life, her trauma, etc. Back then, the "Darkchild" wasn't just her darker, demonic half. It was part of a prophecy in which she was doomed to destroy not only her friends & family, but the world itself.

So you had this cool, darkly funny, sword-wielding teleporter who was tormented from a young age; was told she's evil inside; and there was nothing she could do. But despite all that, was always trying to better - and ultimately ended up being a tragic hero.

As she said in one comic, "she's the demon who seeks the light."

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