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

\"\"<\/a>X-MEN vol 7 #11<\/strong>
\n“Live Capture”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Jed MacKay<\/strong>
\nPenciller: Netho Diaz<\/strong>
\nInker: Sean Parsons<\/strong>
\nColourist: Fer Sifuentes-Sujo<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Clayton Cowles<\/strong>
\nEditor: Tom Brevoort<\/strong><\/p>\n

THE X-MEN:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cyclops.<\/strong> He takes the X-Men to intercept an approaching spacecraft before it reaches Merle, not because he assumes it must be a threat but because he doesn’t want to unnecessarily aggravate the locals even more. When it turns out to be Corsair, he greets him warmly and hugs him, but immediately wants to know what Corsair’s current scheme is.<\/p>\n

When alien mercenaries show up in pursuit of Corsair, Cyclops’ first reaction is to blame his dad for leading them to the X-Men’s doorstep and expecting the X-Men to bail him out. This is a more muted version of how their relationship was played in Phoenix<\/em> (where Corsair was wildly out of character). In this version, however, Cyclops’ distrust of Corsair turns out to be a disastrous error, since the mercenaries are actually after Cyclops, and Corsair was just trying to get there first in order to warn him. To be fair to Scott, it also doesn’t seem to occur to him that aliens would have any interest in him, rather than Corsair.<\/p>\n

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Kid Omega.<\/strong> Cyclops says he “stole” the Marauder from Kate Pryde, who doesn’t know about it yet; Kid Omega insists that he “salvaged” it, and claims that he’s using the term in a legally accurate way. All of this is new – the X-Men already had the Marauder in issue #1 of this series, and its previous appearance was in Marauders<\/em> vol 2 #12, when nothing had happened to it. Obviously the X-Men didn’t have access to it during “Fall of X”, but we don’t have any details of how it wound up in Quentin’s hands. Given that Kate has been trying to live a normal life over in\u00a0Exceptional X-Men<\/em>, she wouldn’t have wanted it anyway, and it’s unlikely that she would have taken any calls trying to explain what had happened to it.<\/p>\n

If Kid Omega is serious about claiming that he “salvaged” the vessel – and he actually knows what the term means – then he’s implying that he saved it from some sort of physical peril. As he points out to Corsair, the Marauder is psychically controlled (this was indeed established in Marauders<\/em>), so it makes sense that he would be particularly well placed to pilot it.<\/p>\n

Psylocke.<\/strong> She seems to be getting on better with Kid Omega these days – her jokes at him seem to be in good spirits.<\/p>\n

Magik.<\/strong> She’s cheerful and ironically bratty while playing cards with Juggernaut on the Marauder, but she hasn’t forgiven Corsair for abandoning the New Mutants in New Mutants<\/em> #1 (2019), and decks him on sight. In that issue, the New Mutants hitch a lift to the Shi’ar Empire with the Starjammers. They wind up screwing up an attempted heist by the Starjammers, who do indeed abandon them to the Shi’ar authorities.<\/p>\n

Juggernaut<\/strong> and Temper<\/strong> are there, but don’t contribute much to the plot.<\/p>\n

SUPPORTING CAST:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Corsair.\u00a0<\/strong>As noted, he’s come to Earth to try to warn Cyclops that aliens are after him. His relationship with Cyclops here is much as it was shown in Phoenix<\/em> – where Cyclops didn’t trust him an inch – but in this version it’s undeserved. As far as we can tell, Corsair has no ulterior motive here beyond helping his son against the mercenaries.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Starkey. <\/strong>She’s actually a shapechanger with the power to change between at least two (and almost certainly more) forms. She took a fish-like form on her first appearance because she was near water when the Upstarts attacked her, but by thinking about flying she can also turn into a bird-like form. Her first reaction to this news is to ask whether she can change back to her original form, but Beast isn’t sure whether that’s even possible.<\/p>\n

The Beast. <\/strong>He instinctively thinks of Jennifer as a scientific puzzle rather than a person, and she has to prompt him to call her by her first name. But he’s making some progress in understanding her.<\/p>\n

Magneto<\/strong> appears in the background of page 12 panel 4.<\/p>\n

Alpha Flight<\/strong> show up at the end, working for Department H. We last saw Alpha Flight in the “Fall of X” Alpha Flight<\/em> miniseries, where they were trying to sabotage the pro-Orchis Canadian government from within, and ultimately wound up going to jail. Presumably they were released after the fall of Orchis. The team members seen here are mostly unnamed, but they appear to be:<\/p>\n