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From Marauders slaughtering the Morlocks on:
In the Morlock massacre, Nightcrawler, Kitty, and Colossus are critically wounded. Rachel Summers was also wounded badly by Wolverine just before this event because she hunted down Selene and Wolvie didn't approve. Immediately after the massacre, Psylocke joins. Over the next year, Dazzler, Longshot, and Havok join. in a story a year later, the X-Men (with Colossus back in the fold) fake their deaths and move to Australia with Madelyne Pryor (Cyclops' estranged wife) in tow. Around this time, Nightcrawler, Kitty, Rachel Summers, with Captain Britain and Meggan form Excalibur in London. Nothing interesting happens with them for a looooooooong time. Nothing really interesting happens in Australia til the first Genosha storyline, which is explained somewhere else in this thread. then comes the Inferno storyline where Madelyne becomes the Goblin Queen, is revealed to be the Marauder's boss Mr. Sinister's clone. Sinister created the clone to fuck with Cyclops, who he has been obsessed with since Cyclops was a kid. He wants to create the ultimate mutant from Scott and Jean's DNA, that's why he created Madelyne when Jean was presumed dead. In this story, X-Factor (the original X-Men) learn that the X-Men are alive, and the X-Men learn that Jean Grey is alive. Madelyne Pryor dies at the end of the story, and Magik from the New Mutants reverts to being a child again. The X-Men, still in Australia then go through a big series of downer events...Longshot for some reason gets fucked up and leaves (can't remember why), Storm appears to die, same goes for Rogue, the rest of the X-Men go through the Siege Perilous (I will not explain this. it's too contrived) and end up reborn throughout the world. The next year is full of boring stories about Forge and Banshee looking around for the X-Men, and the X-Men popping up all over the globe. During this year, Psylocke is reborn as an Asian ninja, Rogue has a romance with Magneto in the Savage Land, Jubilee joins the X-Men, and so does Gambit. Around this time, Cable takes over the New Mutants. After this, the X-Tinction Agenda occurs, and the X-Men, New Mutants and X-Factor fight Cameron Hodge in Genosha. Then there is a big story in which they go off into space, and Professor X rejoins the team. then the X-Men and X-Factor go fight the Shadow King on Muir Island, and the teams merge as the X-Men again...(END OF CLAREMONT's ORIGINAL RUN)
(NOW ENTERING THE SCOTT LOBDELL with Jim Lee and Fabian Nicieza ERA)
the line up is divided into two groups: Blue (Cyclops, Wolverine, Beast, Gambit, Psylocke, Rogue, Jubilee) and Gold (Storm, Colossus, Iceman, Archangel, Jean Grey, and Bishop who joins around that time). This is where everything gets shitty, honestly: there's a lot of things that go down over the next few years (X-Cutioner's Song, Legacy Virus, etc) but it's all shit. Pretend it didn't happen. It's too confusing to get into. In one story called Fatal Attractions, Magneto rips out Wolverine's adamantium, and Prof X erases Magneto's mind. The Age Of Apocalypse is a storyline that happens halfway through the 90s...it takes place in an alternate world where Prof X dies young, Magneto forms the X-Men as a good guy (Sabretooth is one of them...he's a good guy too) and Apocalypse rules the world. It's pretty good, and it's been recycled to death ever since, a la Days Of Future Past. Moving right along...Onslaught happens the next year, this evil creature of omnipotent power is created by Prof X by the evil of Magneto's mind, which is somehow trapped inside of him or something like that. Onslaught causes a lot of trouble, "killing" the Avengers and Fantastic Four, and when the story is done, Xavier is taken in by the government. The year later, the US gov't puts together Operation Zero Tolerance and reinstates the Sentinels. The operation is spearheaded by Bastion, who it turns out is the Master Mold and Nimrod made into a human after going through the Siege Perilous with Rogue waaaay back in the Australian stories. Operation Zero Tolerance ends with the X-Mansion being stripped of all of its technology and assets, and three new X-Men joining the ranks: Dr. Reyes, Marrow (a morlock teenager), and Maggott. Meanwhile, half of the X-Men are trapped in outer space...in this storyline, Bishop is written out of the comic, Rogue and Gambit finally get it on, and at the end it is revealed that Gambit is responsible in part for the Mutant Massacre waaaaaaay back at the beginning of this explanation. Gambit is abandoned by the X-Men and left for dead in Antarctica.
(NOW ENTERING THE JOE KELLY/STEVE SEAGLE ERA)
The X-Men mostly just hang out and try to figure out what to do. Not a lot happens for a while, which is cool. A lot of issues go on with the X-Men just arguing and soul searching. They fight the Shadow King, temporarily wiping out most of the telepaths on earth, but that is later reversed. the era is cut short due to editorial interference, which comes down to the editorial mandate that nearly all of the characters currently in the comic MUST be suddently written out, and the team must now be Storm, Wolverine, Gambit, Rogue, Marrow, and Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Kitty who are available now that Excalibur has been cancelled. The next two years of stories suck ass...Xavier returns in a convoluted story, Joseph--a mysterious clone of Magneto from the Lodbell era--is killed, and the real Magneto attacks and for some reason is given the presidency of Genosha by the UN. In this story, Alan Davis starts as the writer/artist of the X-Men comics.
ALAN DAVIS ERA
Alan Davis goes through a bunch of boring retro stories, he takes the X-Men through outerspace, blah blah blah, and then his era ends with The Twelve storyline. This storyline exists primarily due to a dangling plotline from the early Lobdell era that was abandoned, but eternally speculated on by fanboys. In this story, Apocalypse tries to take over the world by capturing and absorbing the powers of 12 key mutants. This doesn't work out, and at the end Apocalypes merges with Cyclops, 'killing' Cyclops. Later on, in a miniseries, Cyclops gets back to normal, I don't know how. In this story, Wolverine is turned into Apocalypse's horseman Death and gets his metal back, but Wolvie ends up being plain old Wolverine again shortly afterwards.
NOW ENTERING CLAREMONT'S SECOND ERA.
Claremont's second era starts six months after the Twelve story in Marvel time. there are two teams: Gambit, Cable, Jean Grey, Storm and Beast, and Rogue, Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Kitty, Psylocke, Thunderbird (a new guy with an old name), and Dr. Reyes. Everything during this run is incomprehensible shit. Nothing of note occurs, it is mercy killed, and Claremont is given X-Treme X-Men to please him and his fans, and to get the shit characters out of the comic (though he does get Rogue, Storm, Kitty, and Gambit)
Then Lodbell comes back, kills Colossus and cures the Legacy virus, Kitty quits the X-Men, Cyclops comes back, the X-Men free Genosha, and Magneto is gutted by Wolverine.
then Casey and Morrison start, and you can just go buy those comics for yourself. |
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