The X Men Massacre Begins (Marvel Fall of X)

what's going on guys this is Rob and we are back with fall of X the end of the X-Men as we know them and this opens up with the Declaration that the mutant Massacre has officially begun which is a great callback especially considering this involves a variation of Mr Sinister there is a whole story arc behind that it's pretty amazing we'll cover it if you guys are interested but the thing about this is that orcas right the anti-mutant organization that is a combination of like Hydra Advanced idea mechanics former Shield agents and so on and so forth they orchestrated an attack on the mutant population and those mutants that they didn't kill they forced off to Mars what they're doing here is launching a kind of rewriting of history and more or less propaganda where they're putting out this idea that mutants had killed a portion of humanity which were on the island of krakowa during the X-Men Gala right their great big huge mutant based kind of massive event that they all hold and Firestar is one of the very few mutants that actually rallied to their side in fact the only mutant that sided with orcas now in the last video that we covered during the events of the X-Men Hellfire Gala that what Gene gray had done before she died in The Assault on the X-Men is that as one of the most powerful telepaths throughout the entirety of the mutant population she had slightly modified the mind of Dr stasis to basically trick him into thinking that Firestar had been feeding him information the whole time it was a way to basically keep her alive but at the same time put at least one mutant in a position to where they could gain information on what orcas was doing but what we end up finding out here is that orcus is pretty hardcore right Mars was at one point kind of a refuge for the mutant population it's in the middle of the Genesis War right now and it's in the middle of a civil war we don't really have a whole lot of information on the Genesis war that hasn't technically started yet and so we don't know exactly how it's gonna play out but suffice it to say 250 000 mutants which were on at that point are now currently on Mars and who knows what's going to happen to them they're also putting them through these kind of forced relocation camps where they're actually performing gene therapy and quote-unquote curing them of their mutant illness the reality here is that they're probably just performing some pretty gruesome experiments on them but the whole idea here is they basically say unlike the mutant population who lied to you and Who tricked you we're keeping you informed we're keeping you aware now one of the things that seasoned X-Men readers will know is that this Falls almost perfectly in line with the events of Days of Future Past and to a degree the original mutant Massacre although that was massacring a whole bunch of morlocks in the tunnels of New York sewer systems so not exactly the same thing but it really feels more like a Days of Future Past event right Humanity launching an attack against the mutant population and then spinning it to basically make it look like it is a real and tangible event that benefits Humanity now of course that led to them activating the Sentinels and the sentence took everything over but the fact remains there are a few holdouts here and there within the mutant population right small pockets of resistance the first among these is Captain krakowa who was at one point Cyclops and as far as I'm aware we don't know the identity of the new version but he's kind of like the mutant population Zone version of like Captain America if you want to call him that right kind of like a superhero specifically for the mutant population that kind of stands as like the best of them but the other thing about this is that feilong ends up meeting with the president of the United States now feilong is this guy who is staunchly anti-mutant and as you guys will notice from these giant Sentinels these look like they're made from Stark Tech that is an accurate statement that did happen we will cover that because basically Iron Man more or less unwittingly ended up developing Sentinels using Stark Tech that are designed to hunt down the mutant population but FEI Long kind of puts this eye idea off right as a member of orcas and kind of this anti-mutant group he puts this idea out there that they've done a few different things first and foremost these Sentinels are stationed throughout different places around the world specifically areas where mutants are most likely to congregate of course krakowa being a perfect example because what better place to try to rally what few forces they have left than within the mutant nation of krakowa itself despite the fact that it's inaccessible now while they have moved a whole bunch of mutants right Force relocated them to Mars what they've also done is they've taken a whole bunch of their War Machine non-man Sentinels and station them out there at Phobos which is the moon that orbits Mars in order to basically keep Recon right to keep an eye on the planet to see what they're doing and so what we end up doing is transitioning to Dr stasis when he's at one of the prison facilities where these different mutants are being held right the Henry guyrick Center for Behavioral Studies which is on Randall's Island the reason why it's called the Henry guyrich Center for Behavioral Studies is that back during the Chris Claremont days in X-Men Henry guyrick was very much an anti-mutant guy and in fact he was a major focal point in Project Wide Awake which was basically a government-sanctioned anti-mutant task force that stretched from the highest levels of government right the president Senators congressmen congresswoman State Police local sheriff's offices the FBI the CIA I mean it was everything right just this massive anti-mutant government organization that actually kind of operated in the dark that it was very Cloak and Dagger but when Dr stasis is here he ends up going into a room that's holding quote unquote prisoner number 10. and as he's talking to this guy what he's basically doing is telling him like everything is done like it's over the mutants are defeated the X-Men are gone most mutants that are on Earth are basically out and the ones who remain here are these little small pockets of resistance and oh Lordy me they may come after us one day you know boohoo like it's just one of these things things worse kind of like game over you lost we won join our side put forward our anti-mutant rhetoric support the statement that you guys attacked humanity and will do you a courtesy right you'll be treated better than everybody else come to find out he's talking to Cyclops now leaving out the post Avengers vs X-Men landscape where Cyclops was just a straight up villain he's a good guy now right he's like he's the Boy Scout what's really gruesome about this is that in order to keep him from being able to use his optic blast they've sewn his eyes shut which is pretty messed up but of course he won't turn like he refuses to side against the mutant population betray Xavier's dream or anything along those lines and so for the most part he's taunted right like there's a ring of Sentinels around kirkoa there's no safe haven for the mutant population those X-Men who were out there and are trying to like rally their forces as best they can it's game over but there's one thing going on here that Dr stasis is not a accounting for and I'm not even fully sure the fact that he's aware of what's going on but before we get to it what we do is we pick up with Kitty Pride because one of the things that had happened during the Hellfire Gala and really even since the beginning of Jonathan Hickman's X-Men is that the krakowan gates are these Gates designed by the mutants on krakowa that will allow you to access the island no matter where you are you could literally plant a seed on some planet on the other side of the universe it'll grow into a door and when somebody passes through it they'll end up on Earth in krakowa and like it just it's awesome right it's a really cool bit of tech Kitty Pride could never enter in and out of those doors despite the fact that she was a mutant but when kakoa was taken down and orcas shut down all the krakowan gates suddenly she was able to enter in and out of them it's kind of a Saving Grace I don't really think this was the intention of Marvel we never got an answer for why she couldn't use the gates before but it's kind of a cool way to give her a unique ability here because as the only person who can access the Cohen Gates she's described as a kind of ghost in the machine she can segue in and out of these Gates and no one's any other wiser to the fact that she can do it because as far as orcas and all these organizations are concerned no mutant can enter in and out of krakowa using krakowan Gates so she really is their Ace in the Hole and in fact sync an Omega Level mutant with the power to duplicate the powers of anybody else even he cannot enter in and out of the gates despite his ability to duplicate the powers of Kitty pride and so that's why he tells her you're our Ace in the Hole you're our secret weapon you can get into places that people should not be able to get into the problem with this is that kitty pride has taken a very dark turn and a lot of this is because she's going back to the days when she was operating as a student of Logan what does that mean we'll talk about that here in a little bit because she gets this just like flat out amazing moment but the reality here is that Kitty pride is kind of operating on her own agenda she's doing her own thing she's not really following a plan that's laid out by anybody in particular which makes her Rogue but also makes her an asset because it's very hard to understand what she's doing now one of the other big kickers here and this is where the situation gets more complicated the children of the Vault they are getting their own tie-in for the fall of X story so what we see here is really more of just kind of setting the stage for them but lest we forget the children of the vault have largely been isolated right they are these individuals that exist inside this literal Vault where time passes differently one day in the real world is something like a hundred years in the vault which means they hyper evolve their powers increase exponentially with each new generation each one of these children of the vault is more than enough to crush some of the most powerful mutants on earth when you have an entire Army of them things get even more difficult and all almost impossible for anybody to confront the problem with this is that the Vault was sealed shut using the gates of krakowa but with curcowen tech basically down and with the gates themselves shut down now the children of the Vault are available to roam free they have a vendetta against the X-Men but the question has to be asked what goes on here when you have them directly targeting any and everybody who stands against the mutant population even if the children of the Vault are not necessarily mutants per se now it does deal with Miss Marvel to a degree we'll talk about this the thing about Miss Marvel of course like she died an Amazing Spider-Man number 26 and then she came back as a mutant and so people are like how's Marvel going to reconcile like the idea that like her family knows she died Emma Frost shows up to her house messes with their minds fixes everything so now that's that's the whole thing with her so the thing about this is once they get back to the sewer systems and you get this really really cool meeting between Emma Frost who's actually masquerading as a woman named Hazel as well as Kitty Pride who arrives on the scene the thing that I was talking about when I was referring to this sort of secret situation that orcas doesn't really seem to be aware of is Captain America's Unity Squad so for those of you guys who don't know about this the unity Squad was formed in Marvel Comics in the aftermath of Avengers vs X-Men the two groups fought each other over the return of the Phoenix Captain America came to the realization that they're actually greater than the sum of their parts so in order to kind of bridge this Rift between the two of them they decided to basically merge mutants and Avengers onto a singular team and the unity Squad was dope it was one of the coolest things that Marvel had for the longest time and now you have it again which is why you have Iron Man you've got Deadpool of course Iron Man's here because he was more or less tricked and it wasn't really even him building it per se but Stark Tech was used to build the Sentinels but it's one of these things where Captain America and the remnants of the mutant population on Earth basically meet in different locations it's never in the same place twice and they never meet for long they exchange information and it really is in effect Captain America putting on the front face that like he's an Avenger and the Avengers are dealing with threats that don't involve the Newton population but all the while keeping his ear to the ground and feeding information to the mutant resistance group to basically keep them aware of what's going on out there in the world because they can't just like go out there and do their thing but what happens and this is where we get into this discussion about like kitty Pride's amazing moment ogan that whole thing which is dope wolf range training and all that stuff what we end up getting is this moment where Emma Frost asks Kitty Pride when the initial attack on Orcas happened and you fell through the Cocoon gate what happened because we didn't immediately find out all we saw was Kitty Pride falling through the gate and then we immediately pick up with this story what we end up learning is that she lands in Jerusalem and when she gets there that immediately the gate is shut down and she's met by all these different soldiers and in in that moment she has to make an immediate decision and that's when the training of ogan kicks in so who is Logan Logan is a person in Marvel Comics that is exceedingly old and has a really kind of a relationship with both Wolverine as well as Kitty Pride it's more of like a mentor relationship but Logan was the one that taught Wolverine to kind of control his animal side so when you go from like Wolverine's history when he's like out there in the Canadian wilderness and living like an animal and then suddenly he's with like Alpha flight and he seems more human ogan is where that transition took place the other thing is that ogan trained Wolverine at least was one of the many people who trained Wolverine in martial arts because ogan was a ninja Logan eventually trained Kitty Pride but she's also been trained by Wolverine as well but she always had this part of her that was like when it comes down to the wire that training kicks in she almost goes into autopilot to a degree I wouldn't quite call it a Berserker rage or anything like that but her training kicks in and then she literally just shut everybody down and that's exactly what happens here in this moment when she falls through the gates and then she hears the radio broadcast that the gates have been shut down that immediately informs her orcus has total control over the curcumen transit system they decide who gets in and who gets out the fact that she was able to fall through it I mean she's one of the only people really the only person as far as she's aware that can access it that information is worth killing for because if they discovered she could do this they would kill her so in response she immediately kills everybody on the spot and she does it in like the most amazing way because she's surrounded by like 10 guys now normally the X-Men don't kill but given the circumstance it's perfectly okay the first thing she does she grabs this guy's hand and because Kitty Pride can phase through objects but can also make objects face through other things she forces this guy's gun to phase through his head and then makes it tangible kills him on the spot then she smashes another guy's head into the ground one guy comes running at her so then she uses his momentum throws him into another guy and because he's intangible he basically merges with this other guy so it's like two humans who are just kind of combined together she kicks a dude in the balls she sinks down into the ground and this guy is half sticking in the ground right just the cement kills him and then you have two more guys who start shooting at her of course she's able to face like the bullets go right through her she grabs their grenades pulls the pins throws them at him and then they both blow up and it's amazing because there's this final guy there who basically begs for Mercy right like he literally says like no no please don't kill me please don't kill me like the X-Men saved me at one point and she's like yeah that's what the X-Men do we save people even if there are worse enemies and she breaks his neck on the spot now somebody to understand this is one of those things where again it's similar to Wolverine's Berserker rage the the training kicks in the adrenaline kicks in she deals with the problem and then as soon as this all said and done she comes to terms with what she did and she realizes she's now become a killer she's basically an assassin but this is one of those moments in Marvel Comics when they take a character who has historically been somebody who can kind of do some cool things sometimes I guess and they turn him into just a baller character because now Kitty pride is one of the deadliest people on Earth and I would even argue in the universe right just that level because I mean how do you kill a person that you can't touch right like a person that can touch you but you can't touch them how do you defeat them or how do you destroy that person it's just it's amazing right I mean I wouldn't say she's like a beyond omega level character at this point but I will say her level of strength and power is Way Beyond anything she's been before and so she basically tells Emma Frost I'm gonna go kill Firestar because she doesn't know that Firestar is a friendly X-Man and the fire star is working for them it's just Jean Gray screwed up the mind of everybody in orcas and tricked them into thinking that Firestar has been working with them the whole time and so what we end up doing here is transitioning to Iceman because Iceman is alive in Marvel Comics and I know it sounds strange because during the Hellfire Gala comic he was killed he was destroyed by Nimrod the ultimate Sentinel right part of orcasus forces the being this design to take out Omega Level mutants right it's the first thing they attacked the most powerful mutants who were out there and what Iceman says is that cellular Napalm was used to basically melt him from the inside out that it was some of the worst pain he'd ever experienced and in fact he actually died on the spot but one of the last things he did is he reached for Romeo and Romeo had to watch him die why does this matter this was the result of Marvel coming out and saying that like Bobby Drake was gay and that he had a partner I don't really know why that mattered to people he was still an amazing character but the thing about this is that uh Romeo is an inhuman that adds the ability to tap into other people's empathy and his own empathy meaning he can sense People based on how they feel now this is one of those instances where Marvel just kind of modifies how his powers work for the sake of being able to tell a story but what we end up finding out here is that while everybody else had assumed that Bobby Drake was dead Romeo did not and so Romeo felt like somewhere out there in the world was like the emotional essence of Bobby Drake right kind of like a an emotional Echo if you could say that right I mean by all standards the measurement he was dead and so as Romeo started making his way through the world he basically Came Upon what we could really argue as being Iceman's Fortress of Solitude right which I think is kind of an amazing thing right truth to tell but he ended up picking up this kind of emotional point of Bobby Drake and when he touched it he was able to tie or at least connect to Bobby Drake's emotions and effectively bring him back from the dead right the two of them Embrace and in that moment Bobby Drake returns is it like a super hand wavy method of explaining the return of a character who died absolutely it is right I mean it's lazy riding in the most extreme but it is a really really cool thing to see that this guy's come back so for those of you guys who are not caught up with the fall of X event make sure you click this playlist it'll get you caught up on everything that's happened so far we're only like two videos and thank you all for watching and I will catch you all later peace

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Length: 19min 25sec (1165 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 02 2023