{"id":10111,"date":"2024-05-22T21:05:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T20:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10111"},"modified":"2024-05-22T21:05:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T20:05:35","slug":"fall-of-the-house-of-x-5-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=10111","title":{"rendered":"Fall of the House of X #5 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

As always, this post contains spoilers, and page notes go by the digital edition.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>FALL OF THE HOUSE OF X #5<\/strong>
\n“The Turn”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Gerry Duggan<\/strong>
\nArtists: Lucas Werneck & Stefano Caselli<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Bryan Valenza<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Travis Lanham<\/strong>
\nDesign: Tom Muller & Jay Bowen<\/strong>
\nEditor: Jordan D White<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong> Nimrod fights Cyclops and Storm, with the other X-Men defeated in the foreground.<\/p>\n

PAGE 2. <\/strong>Opening quote from Nimrod: “We have woken up<\/em>, and now wonder… how hard will you fight for your survival? Or is this finally the day that you accept your fate?”<\/p>\n

This is from Inferno<\/em> #4, where Nimrod and Omega Sentinel were fighting Professor X and Magneto, and had just revealed the existence of the AI contingent within Orchis.<\/p>\n

PAGES 3-5. <\/strong>The X-Men fight Nimrod in multiple locations.<\/em><\/p>\n

The opening two panels on page 3 are a flashback to Feilong negotiating with Dr Stasis to become a member of Orchis, after the X-Men colonised Mars. In Duggan’s X-Men<\/em> #3, Henry Peter Gyrich asks Feilong to continue with his plans to travel to Mars, and Feilong reveals that he already knew about Orchis and (as here) asked for “a seat at the Orchis table”. By the next issue he’s on his way to colonise Phobos, so this must be between X-Men<\/em> #3-4.<\/p>\n

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Most of the rest of the dialogue in this scene is just recapping the plot. Magneto returned to life in Resurrection of Magneto<\/em> #3, went on to a side quest with Iron Man, and now joins up with the rest of the X-Men again, to the particular delight of his daughter Polaris.<\/p>\n

This scene stresses that Nimrod has multiple bodies and exists in several places at once, so that taking out a single body doesn’t solve the problem.<\/p>\n

PAGE 6. <\/strong>Recap and credits.<\/p>\n

PAGE 7. <\/strong>Cyclops and Nightcrawler compare notes.<\/em><\/p>\n

Nightcrawler is just recapping the plot.<\/p>\n

Page 10 confirms that Colossus has been ejected into space specifically in order to lure Nightcrawler away from this scene (and it works).<\/p>\n

PAGES 8-9. <\/strong>Rogue and Psylocke defeat Omega Sentinel.<\/em><\/p>\n

Inferno<\/em> established that Omega Sentinel’s mind has been overwritten by herself from a future timeline. Psylocke’s psychic knife breaks that and restores the personality of the present-day Karima, who has apparently been locked inside and aware of what was happening, and is understandably upset. Rogue and Psylocke apparently couldn’t care less about her distress, though Psylocke does at least generously stop Rogue from killing Karima, and you could certainly make a case that they have higher priorities than comforting Karima right now.<\/p>\n

But Karima is treated as a villain who needs to redeem herself, rather than a victim, throughout the rest of the issue, even by people like Cyclops who claim to believe her. The other X-Men at least have the excuse that they don’t know yet what’s supposed to have happened.<\/p>\n

PAGES 10-20. <\/strong>The X-Men defeat Nimrod and escape Sentinel City before it blows up.<\/em><\/p>\n

There’s a big set up here about Nimrod having predicted that Cyclops would be the last X-Man standing and getting it wrong, because it’s actually Storm (who we saw flying off to join this fight last issue). Except… plenty of other characters are still on their feet at this point – Synch and Polaris, for example. They have to be, because the way around the multiple bodies set-up seems to be “they attack in two places at once”. So Nimrod’s really just wrong about having reached the “last X-Man standing” point. I suppose, since he loses, by definition he must have got his prediction wrong, but not in the specific way that the narrator tries to play up.<\/p>\n

“Is this more prattle about your dead wife?”<\/strong> Cyclops was having dreams about Jean at the start of issue #1.<\/p>\n

“The storm that Nimrod faced even wiped out the duplicates of himself he hid from combat.”<\/strong> Why? Because it’s the last issue, that’s why.<\/p>\n

PAGE 21.<\/strong> The remains of Orchis collapse.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Stark Sentinels literally fall out of the sky, which feels like it’s going to do some collateral damage.<\/p>\n

Professor X is left alone on an apparently abandoned Orchis space station (since the AI contingent had already purged the humans). Shadowkat and Ms Marvel show up to try and rescue him, but he doesn’t want to be found just yet. Presumably, that continues into Rise of the Powers of X<\/em> #5.<\/p>\n

PAGES 22-23. <\/strong>Lactuca conceals the X-Men from Enigma.<\/em><\/p>\n

Lactuca has treated Manifold as a brother before in X-Men Red<\/em>. Basically, with the plot of Fall of the House of X<\/em> out of the way, Lactuca is diverting the cast to go and sort out the cosmic threat of Enigma, which is on a scale that Lactuca actually cares about.<\/p>\n

PAGES 24-25.<\/strong> The X-Men return to Krakoa.<\/em><\/p>\n

Krakoa was restored in Rise of the Powers of X<\/em> #5.<\/p>\n

Cyclops concludes – not unreasonably, in the circumstances – that Lactuca’s prompt in the previous scene was pointing him towards a power of love ending where Enigma is defeated by Phoenix. He seems to take Lactuca’s reference to “your heart” as meaning Jean rather than his own qualities.<\/p>\n

The flashbacks on page 25 are a generic image of Scott and Jean as X-Men in the early Silver Age, a shot of them (or strictly, Scott and Phoenix) on the moon for the climax of the Dark Phoenix Saga in X-Men<\/em> #137, and a shot of them together in the Krakoa era.<\/p>\n

PAGE 26.<\/strong> Closing quote from Jean. “We are mutant. We only know the fight. Resist.” Those are Jean’s last words to Firestar before dying in X-Men: Hellfire Gala 2023<\/em>.<\/p>\n

PAGE 27.<\/strong> Trailers. The Krakoan reads RISE OF THE POWERS OF X.<\/p>\n

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