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\"\"<\/a>X-MEN vol 7 #16<\/strong>
\n“X-Men”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Jed MacKay<\/strong>
\nPenciller: Netho Diaz<\/strong>
\nInkers: Sean Parsons, JP Mayer & Livesay<\/strong>
\nColourist: Fer Sifuents-Sujo<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Clayton Cowles<\/strong>
\nEditor: Tom Brevoort<\/strong><\/p>\n

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

Cyclops. <\/strong>He immediately recognises the “X-Men” as the Santo Marco Six from issue #1, presumably going by their powers and the fact that there’s six of them.<\/p>\n

Magik. <\/strong>On learning that these are the group she fought in issue #10, she attacks without instructions and declares that she’s going to cut off Schwarzchild’s other\u00a0<\/em>arm. In issue #1, she somehow managed to lop it off with the Soulsword (which isn’t really meant to affect non-magical things). Schwartzchild was trying to pin her down using his gravity powers, and she teleported behind him. It was still a surprisingly violent move, and to be honest, you can see why Schwartzchild isn’t happy about it. It also plays into 3K’s efforts to tell the Santo Marco Six that the X-Men have turned on their fellow mutants.<\/p>\n

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It might just be artistic licence, but her eyes are glowing demonically when she attacks.<\/p>\n

The Juggernaut. <\/strong>He’s also triggerhappy, and seems remarkably unbothered by Magik’s threats to maim the opposition. Mind you, nobody seemed to be bothered in issue #1 either. And Juggernaut tore off Maggott’s arm in Storm <\/em>#6, though I’d kind of written that off as the sort of weirdness you get in Storm. <\/em><\/p>\n

Psylocke. <\/strong>Timebomb dismisses her as “the team’s second-banana psychic” (and indeed, Kid Omega is still missing throughout this issue), but her mind-reading is still good enough to fight a speedster because she can read her thoughts.<\/p>\n

Temper\u00a0<\/strong>is also there.<\/p>\n

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

Magneto. <\/strong>The “prosthetic” mentioned last issue is the Sentinel that’s been looming over Merle since issue #1. Beast has developed a drug to temporarily restore Magneto’s control of his powers, but it seems to be unreliable and limited – hence relying on the Sentinel to fight the kaiju Twin. Once injected, Magneto stands up from his wheelchair, though if the issue is simply control of his powers, it’s not entirely clear why he needs the wheelchair in the first place. It can’t be a general decline of physical coordination because he has no apparent problems with his upper body.<\/p>\n

He claims to be “very good with children”, perhaps ironically. Beast responds that “yours have turned out so well” with apparent irony, which is a slightly odd comment – presumably he means Lorna, Wanda and Pietro (the latter two being at least figuratively his children in current continuity), but all of them are in a pretty good position right now.<\/p>\n

The Beast<\/strong> and Glob Herman<\/strong> contribute exposition.<\/p>\n

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

3K<\/strong> are represented by a whole bunch of characters here. Starting with the core characters…<\/p>\n