please share your thoughs about the episode and here are the spoilers for it.We open up to a funeral. The X-Men are grieving a serious loss: Hellion's screentime. For he hasn't appeared on the show yet, while Glob freaking Herman has. Also, they're sad Remy is dad, so they bury him too. Nobody even bothers mentioning Magneto. Rogue's not at the funeral, as she's busy going on a rampage at a secret US government facility. She wants to know where Gyrich and Trask are.Meanwhile, Scott is begging the UN for help. They've gone a week without finding a new survivor, but even one more could give people hope. But the gubmint guy said that that racial tensions are high, and they can't keep helping the mutants because it's He says it'sbad opticsGet it? Because he's talking to Cyclops. Haha. Anyway, Cyclops hangs up on him. He vents to Jean, saying how he let his guard down. Jean tries to tell him that no one could have predicted this, though Scott points out that Magneto did. He warned them repeatedly. And now he's gone, and so is Madelyne. Jean sympathizes, talking about how, after losing Storm, having something like a sister felt comforting. (And just like sisters, they both banged the same guy and one tried to continue an affair while the other dehumanized her as an "it.")The team head to Genosha to help. Amelia Voght is one of the staff helping out at triage. Beast talks with her a bit before ditching her to hang with Trish, that reporter lady. Trish shoos away the camera so she can speak to the grieving Hank alone.
Meanwhile, Rogue meets with Captain America at a secret base in the snowy mountains. What appears to be a cabin is actually a secret facility with a large work station underneath. Caps explains that the Avengers are waiting for Hellion to appear, too; they want to recruit him. In the meantime though, they're trying to appeal to the mutant demo by helping with the Gyrich situation. He'd been tracking the guy, but a covert division of the UN had him secretly transferred out. This was their base before they fled, leaving only "OZT" on their computer screens. Cap was at least able to track Gyrich's location to a facility in Mexico City, so once he gets the clearance, he and the Avengers are going after him.Rogue points out that the covert division should be dealt with before they disappear again, so they should go now. Captain America wants to go through proper channels, since a guy dressed as an American flag rushing into a facility, immediately busting heads and breaking the law sends a bad message. Rogue says that the message is that he stands with mutants! But Cap still wants to do things by the book. An enraged Rogue takes his shield, flies out of the building and throws it into the mountains.Back on Genosha, Jubes and Sunspot are helping out with the recovery. Strong Guy tells them that a war is coming, which spooks Sunspot. Jubes says that her parents are worried, and tells Sunspot that he should tell his mom. What if he'd been on Genosha during the attack? What if, instead of hearing that he's a mutant from her own son, she hears about it from the news when he's listed as a fatality? She'd be left burying a stranger. This finally convinces Sunspot to come out to his mom, albeit with Jubilee's help.Meanwhile, Trish and Beast debate the merits of mutants rioting in the streets as a form of protest. (Get it?) Beast is pro, Trish is con. Beast says that Hellion would be pro. Trish has no idea who that is. Beast dismisses her because she doesn't get it.
Anyway, Gyrich is being held in a "facility," which is basically a glorified resort where he seems to have free reign. She busts some heads and finds Gryich. He has telepathy protection now, and they won't work on their upcoming enemy. Rogue instead opts to use her powers to suck the life out of him and get information that way. Then she passes out.Back on Genosha, Jean and Cyclops go through the ruins of the big temple. They hope to find even one survivor, with Scott hoping to find Madelyne. Jean's left reeling with the psychic echoes left by all the pain, suffering, unfulfilled dreams, lost futures, missed opportunities and lack of closure - all of which are on repeat. Seeing Scott apologizes to Jean. Not for this, but for everything with Madelyne. The two talk a bit before Jean falls to her knees, sensing some sort of telepathic presence.It's Maddy!Actually no, it's Emma. She underwent secondary mutation and entered her diamond form to keep herself alive.Morph calls the gang back to the Blackbird. He got a message from Trask, who is remorseful for what has happened. He tells them that Sinister is behind this. They should meet him at the UN Peace Legion in Madripoor, which will be cleared out for them.Meanwhile, Jubes and Sunspot ignore the mission to go to Brazil and see Sunspot's mom. Sunspot comes out to her. She's relieved, and states that she always knew her baby was a mutant. Mother's intuition. Also, four of their homes burned down after his 16th birthday, and he lost a yacht. She and his father agreed not to force him out, but to let Sunspot tell his secret when he was ready to share it. They're glad he could share it now, and that he had someone like Jubilee to help him. They love and accept him.Well, "accept" him - they still want him to stop hanging out with the X-Men and stay in the closet while in public, since all the mutant/human tensions make having a mutant son a PR nightmare. Anyway, anyone want spritzers?
Back in Mexico City, Rogue has been saved by Nightcrawler. Rogue is feeling down, but Nightcrawler is there to support her during her grief, and remind her that Gambit and Magneto's deaths wasn't her fault.Meanwhile, Gyrich is recovering from his attacks, barely breathing and in requiring an oxygen masks. He's greeted by a pink-skinned man, who is annoyed that Gyrich nearly ruined his surprise. The man smothers Gyrich to death.The team (with Rogue, sans kids), head to the UN building in Madripoor, where they find that all the guards were knocked out by sleeping gas. Using a clue Trask gave them, they discover a secret passageway that leads them into a lab. A lab full of high-tech cybernetic robots on display - far, far more advanced than anything they've seen before. There are more unconscious guards. Rogue notes how they all have the same "OZT" logo as the guards in the facility in Mexico, and on the screens in that mountain facility. They spot Trask on the roof, about to jump. He laments about how he only meant to protect normal people, but he have become death. Rogue wants to know what OZT stands for. Morph realizes that the people behind these robots are building a new type of Sentinel - Trask confirms this, and says that it will be worse than what they saw in Genosha.Trash doesn't want Sinister to make him even more of a monster than he already is, so he attempts to jump to his death. Rogue saves him, saying that if he really wants to help, they can still use any information he can provide. But Trask apologizes, for he has nothing else he can share with them. He has nothing. Rogue says, "same, sugah."
And then she drops him. His body descends through the air until he hits the ground. The X-Men are horrified and disapprove. Except Wolverine, who says that they all wanted to do it. And maybe Jean approves too - she didn't even try to stop Rogue from doing it. But Rogue is unrepentant.Anyway, Trask's body was made into a super-Sentinel/corpse hybrid. Robot programming now takes over, and he immediately starts whaling on the X-Men. They're only saved by Cable, who uses an electromagnetic cluster grenade to shut him down. The others are confused as to how Cable got here. Jean reads his mind and sees that he's actually Nathan. Cable dismisses her, as she's not his mom. He's also not here for a tearful reunion - they need to act. Sinister is involved, but he's working for someone bigger.Bastion.We cut to Sinister and Bastion discussing things. Bastion dismisses the X-Men enemies of old for failing since '92. Sinister reminds Bastion that he was one of those villains once. Bastion agrees, but states that unlike them, he evolved. Also, his guys recovered an alien satellite that the X-Men used to chat with the Shi'ar. They have footage of Lilandra announcing her engagement with Xavier. Now, the Xavier the world thought dead? Who's assassination lead to all the recent mutant sympathy in the first place? Yeah, revealing this to the world would make the mutants out to be big liars selling an even bigger lie. The last scene shows that Bastion has Magneto tied up to a chair and wearing an inhibitor collar. Bastion starts shaving him.Overall, good ep, good ep. end of spoilers.
>>143332542Is the pink-skinned man a disguised Hellion? That's my personal headcanon for this episode
Use the catalogue dumbfuck.
>>143333237but thread already exists anon.
>>143333431Exactly. No reason to make this one at all, but he does every week. With typed up "spoilers" of an episode that is already out. Without spoilertags of course. This is unironically a shill.
>>143333476That thread is a talkback for the clip of the episode thought not the episdode iteslf anon.
>>143333509And then people talk about the episode anyway. Nobody cares about a clip once the episode is out.
i want to get into xmen comics. where should i start?
>>143333953From the beginning, reading the Epic Collwctions and stopping around 1986
>>143333978Oh come ton he modern books are not that bad either he should get the books with the krakoa era also.
>>143333476It's the same fake-ESL shitposter who ruins Spider-Man threads. I don't know why he's moved over to poorly trying to troll your X-threads, but I'd recognise his purposefully dumb writing style and tactics anywhere
