Comics:X-Men Vol 1 61

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Thank you for musing aloud that you are a mutant, girl! Dr. Karl Lykos thanks you...and so does...Sauron!!

-- Sauron (Karl Lykos)

Appearing in "Monsters Also Weep"

Featured Characters:

• The X-Men
  • Cyclops (Scott)
  • Marvel Girl (Jean "Jeanie")
  • Angel / Avenging Angel (Warren)
  • Beast
  • Iceman ("Bobby")

Supporting Characters:

• Lorna Dane
• Havok (Alex Summers) - (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Tanya Anderssen - (Appears in flashback and main story)

Villains:

• Sauron (Karl Lykos) - (Appears in flashback and main story)

Other Characters:

• Dr. Anderssen - (Appears in flashback and main story)
• Various pterosaurs - (Appearance in flashback only)
• Jager the dog - (Appearance in flashback only)

Locations:

• New York

• Westchester County

• Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters

• New York City

• Dr. Lykos Office

• Antarctica - (Appears in flashback and main story)

• Dr. Lykos Cabin in Tierra del Fuego - (Appears in flashback and main story)

Items:

• Cyclops' Visor, version 1

Vehicles:

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Synopsis for "Monsters Also Weep"

Angel comes eye to eye with Sauron, warping his perceptions so that he sees monsters. Shortly, he realizes the monsters are merely illusory, and dispels them by flying through them. Sauron starts to lead him on a chase when the other X-Men arrive, and Cyclops blasts Sauron. They battle, but Sauron shrugs off their efforts. However, he's running low on juice, and ducks out of sight with Angel following him. There he grabs Angel and hypnotizes him to carry him off - now reverted to his human form Dr. Lykos. Angel returns Lykos home (though he remembers nothing of this), where he finds Tanya waiting for him. Soon the X-Men (in civvies and missing Angel) arrive to check on Alex Summers, and are shortly followed by Doctor Anderssen, Tanya's father, who forbids Karl and Tanya to marry. The X-Men return to Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters and find Angel hypnotized with Lorna Dane taking care of him. He freaks at the mention of Lykos. Later, while Alex and Lorna are looking through Prof X's notebooks for information on Dr. Lykos, Lorna discovers that Lykos is a non-mutant variant. Before she can communicate this to anyone, Lykos ambushes her and absorbs her energy, turning back into Sauron, and then he goes to confront Tanya and Dr. Anderssen. Tanya recognizes Sauron as Lykos just before the X-Men show up to drive him off, and then realizing that his actions would be repulsive to Tanya, he flies off to Tierra Del Fuego. Tanya finds him there, and Karl, himself in great despair, hurls himself off a cliff...

Notes

• Karl Lykos hops off the cliff into the Savage Land, as seen next issue.
• Despite Dr. Anderssen's objections in this issue, Karl and Tanya do eventually become a long term couple, though it ends tragically. (See X-Force #5).
• This issue is reprinted in many other comics and books, see references for more info.^[1]
  

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Recommended Reading

• This concludes a two-issue storyline that started last issue.
• The ending of this issue leads directly into the next storyline in X-Men #62 - #63.

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