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\"\"<\/a>X-MEN vol 7 #15<\/strong>
\n“Twin”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Jed MacKay<\/strong>
\nPencillers, co-inkers: Ryan Stegman & CF Villa<\/strong>
\nCo-inkers: JP Mayer & Livesay<\/strong>
\nColourist: Erick Arciniega<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Clayton Cowles<\/strong>
\nEditor: Tom Brevoort<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Cyclops<\/strong> does his usual team leader routine, and Temper\u00a0<\/strong>spends the issue trying to save Piper from her twin.<\/p>\n

Magik\u00a0<\/strong>summons up demons from Limbo to help the search operation. We’ve seen her randomly call up demons in the past, despite the fact that Madelyne Pryor is meant to be running Limbo now. On this occasion, she makes the demons an “offer of minionship, short-term”, and lets them drink her blood as the price; she doesn’t seem to have any particular concerns about consequences for this. Perhaps she has to make a more explicit deal if she wants the demons to do something actually useful, instead of just turning them loose and hoping that they cause chaos.<\/p>\n

Xorn describes these creatures as “imps”, and there’s nothing to suggest that they aren’t making a sincere effort to carry out their instructions. The imps call Magik “dread mistress”, but it’s not clear whether that’s because of the deal or because of her former status in Limbo. In addressing her demons, she refers to mutants as “witchbreed”, consistently with how they were described in Otherworld during the Krakoan era.<\/p>\n

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She seems to have a lot less sympathy for the twin than anyone else, and calmly teleports Juggernaut in to try and destroy its body. To be fair, she has every reason to think that it can reconstitute itself.<\/p>\n

The Juggernaut.<\/strong> He finds Magik’s dealings with the imps “gross” because of the blood, but has no real answer to her comeback that his own powers arise from a demonic pact. As shown in flashback in X-Men<\/em> #12 (1965), he originally gained powers by grabbing a gem empowered by Cyttorak. Okay, he didn’t read the inscription, but it was there on display.<\/p>\n

Psylocke.<\/strong> She tries to make psychic contract with the twin and give it a normal heroic pep talk, though she talks about knowing “more than anyone” that lashing out at people won’t help anything. Cassandra mocks her as a “queen of killers” with “bloodstained fingerprints”, evidently aware that it’s likely to get under her skin.<\/p>\n

Kid Omega<\/strong> remains missing after last issue’s explosion, and doesn’t appear.<\/p>\n

The X-Men still have the Quinjet that we saw in X-Men: From the Ashes Infinity Comic<\/em> #15.<\/p>\n

SUPPORTING CHARACTERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Piper Cobb.<\/strong> She’s 13. We established last issue that she had a mutant twin who had apparently been consumed by her in the womb, and continued to live inside her. A flashback establishes that the disappearance of the other twin was noticed, but was attributed to resorption (which is indeed a real thing)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once her twin departs her body, she regains her senses, with no memory of how she got there.<\/p>\n

Rose Ellen Cobb.<\/strong> Piper’s mother appears in the flashback to her pregnancy.<\/p>\n

Xorn.<\/strong> He can sense deaths. He can’t sense Quentin’s death but doesn’t seem to regard that as conclusive – this might be because the power itself is unreliable or simply because he isn’t sure that the body would have been in range of his power.<\/p>\n

Jen Starkey.<\/strong> She’s nervous at the thought of being sent to scout the big monster and protests that she can’t fight. Beast also thinks that she’s not ready for this job. Psylocke disagrees, and thinks that everyone has been “coddling her” since rescuing her from the Upstarts in issue #4. In Psylocke’s view, Jen has been encouraged to hide away from the world rather than getting over her fears.<\/p>\n

Magneto<\/strong> has some sort of “prosthetic” for use in emergencies, which the Beast<\/strong> has to help him to get ready.<\/p>\n

VILLAINS<\/strong><\/p>\n

The twin.<\/strong> They have no name, since nobody knew they existed. They regard themselves as having been trapped for 13 years, so apparently they’ve either only just developed their powers to the point of being able to make a body of their own, or they needed an enormous body like the dead Acanti to work with. They remake the Acanti into a sort of giant reptilian monster thing. Her powers are described as “biokinesis” and “flesh manipulation”. The Beast cites two other characters with similar powers: Lionel Jeffries (Scramble from mid-1980s Alpha Flight<\/em>) and Kenji Uedo (Zero, last seen in\u00a0Dark X-Men<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The twin regards Piper as “a sister who took everything from me” and her mother as “a mother who would hate me” – we saw in issue #7 that Rose was an anti-mutant conspiracist. Even though none of this was intentional, she initially seems to want to avenge herself by killing Piper, but Cassandra Nova’s intervention seems to persuade her that Merle is a more deserving target, due to its history of Sentinel manufacture.<\/p>\n

Cassandra Nova. <\/strong>She tries to persuade the twin that Temper is deliberately luring it away from town (probably true in the sense that she’s hardly likely to deliberately head for town with a giant monster in tow). She blocks Psylocke’s attempts to talk to the twin telepathically and persuades her that Cyclops’ entreaties are lies.<\/p>\n

The Chairman<\/strong> of 3K wears a vaguely Cerebro-like helmet. It’s a bit reminiscent of Dr Stasis.<\/p>\n

Wyre.<\/strong> He regards the twin as “the new recruit”. He leads a team who are said to have performed badly in Santo Marco – this would be the six 3K-created mutants that we saw with AIM in issue #1, and who were transported away by 3K at the end. They’re apparently the six fake X-Men who show up on the last page. The characters in issue #1 did indeed seem to have similar powers to what we see here, as far as it’s possible to tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

X-MEN vol 7 #15 “Twin” Writer: Jed MacKay Pencillers, co-inkers: Ryan Stegman & CF Villa Co-inkers: JP Mayer & Livesay Colourist: Erick Arciniega Letterer: Clayton Cowles Editor: Tom Brevoort THE X-MEN Cyclops does his usual team leader routine, and Temper\u00a0spends the issue trying to save Piper from her twin. Magik\u00a0summons up demons from Limbo to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-annotations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11009,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11007\/revisions\/11009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}