Comics:X-Men Vol 2 2
From Marvel Database
Appearing in "Firestorm"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Villains:
- Acolytes
- Matsuo Tsurayaba
- Hand assassins
- Omega Red - Inside a casket
Other Characters:
- Tam Anderson (on video screen)
- Alexyev - Russian agent
- General Akhronayev (Death)
- Ambassador Kamanev (Russian ambassador)
- Alpha the ultimate mutant (Appearance in flashback only)
- Eric the Red (Appearance in flashback only)
Locations:
- Hammer Bay, Genosha
- United Nations Headquarters
- X-Mansion
- Star City Cosmodrome, Baikonur, Russia
- Asteroid M
- Sakhalin Islands
Items:
Vehicles:
- X-wing glider
Synopsis for "Firestorm"
Magneto and the Acolytes defeat the Blue team of the X-Men and take them aboard Asteroid X. While Xavier tries to get through to Moira, they are both kidnapped by Magneto as well. Turns out that while Magneto was an infant and in Moira’s care, she manipulated his genetic structure, attempting to cure a possible instability of his central nervous system, suspecting that this condition had turned him into a villain. Magneto gets mad, having now to question his every decision since the procedure, angrily he makes Moira brainwash the Blu team into joining his Acolytes. The other half of the X-Men wonder how to help. The situation gets even more tense when Nick Fury reports that the US and Russia have decided to lauch a plasma cannon against Asteroid X.
Notes
- This was Chris Claremont's final comic with Marvel until 1998, when he returned to Marvel as editorial director and the regular writer of Fantastic Four.
- Last appearance of Delgado, Chrome and Anne Marie Cortez alive.
Trivia
- No trivia.
See Also
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- Cover gallery for the X-Men series
Recommended Reading
- Defenders #16 - Magneto is reduced to an infant.
- (Uncanny) X-Men #104 - Magneto is returned to an adult.
