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\"\"<\/a>UNCANNY X-MEN vol 6 #28<\/strong>
\n“Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed?, part three: And It Shall Come To Pass”<\/strong>
\nWriter: Gail Simone<\/strong>
\nArtist: Luciano Vecchio<\/strong>
\nColour artist: Matthew Wilson<\/strong>
\nLetterer: Clayton Cowles<\/strong>
\nEditor: Tom Brevoort<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER:<\/strong> Gambit, holding the Left Eye of Agamotto, and with dragon wings growing from him.<\/p>\n

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

Gambit<\/strong>‘s own search for the Outliers goes nowhere, though he seems genuinely grateful to the Vig for making the effort. When the fake “Cannonball” flies off with Rogue, he suddenly reveals that he can use the Left Eye of Agamotto to grow dragon wings, and gives chase.<\/p>\n

Rogue, Wolverine, Nightcrawler\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Jubilee<\/strong> deal with the weird fake “New Mutants”, but otherwise don’t do a great deal. The X-Men themselves are only in about four pages of the issue.<\/p>\n

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

Jitter.\u00a0<\/strong>She’s the first to clearly point out that the Outliers are in a fake world, since although she can’t remember her history with any of her teammates, she still feels an emotional connection to them – specifically, that she reacts to Ransom as a leader and that she’s in love with Calico. She doesn’t say anything in particular about Deathdream. Deathdream also pointed out last issue that he still had emotional connections with the others, but nobody really paid attention to him.<\/p>\n

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She has an epileptic fit during the fight with the “Sentinels”, which seems to be the first mention we’ve had of this. The other Outliers don’t know that she’s epileptic, which might be because their memories are being interfered with – however, they don’t seem to recognise the symptoms of epilepsy either, which would tend to suggest they were unaware even in the real world.<\/p>\n

Calico.\u00a0<\/strong>Like Jitter, she felt that the two of them were in love, but she didn’t have the confidence to say it. When she thinks Jitter is in trouble, she takes on a warrior form, and literally threatens to kill anyone in her way. Mutina suggests that Calico might be more disturbed than she is, and she may have a point.<\/p>\n

Ransom.\u00a0<\/strong>Jitter emotionally relates to him as the leader role, and he reverts to that role once things start to become clearer to everyone.<\/p>\n

Deathdream.\u00a0<\/strong>He starts reciting his “X is home, X is family” line (which he started doing after “Dark Artery”). We find out this issue that the Outliers are in an AI environment created by Perimeter. Curiously, the inhabitants of this scenario – or at least the Sentinels – seem to register to Deathdream’s powers as real, as they did in the previous issue. Yet Mutina says that her psychic powers can tell that they have no minds. Curious.<\/p>\n

M.<\/strong> Monet is still at Greymalkin, but gives the distinct impression that she’s only there to deal with Inmate X once Scurvy is no longer able to contain him. In issue #20, she claimed that Corina’s brother Oscar was her\u00a0 “friend”, and that his last words were to ask Monet to watch over her. However, it now turns out that Inmate X actually\u00a0is<\/em> Oscar, and that Monet already knew this.<\/p>\n

Once Oscar emerges, she show up in her regular costume to deal with him, but first she tries to talk him into returning to his cell. She claims that he’s so powerful that “they” will kill him if he doesn’t allow himself to be contained – though she might just be feigning concern to appeal to him, since if he’s that powerful then it’s hard to see what “they” might do about him. Curiously, immediately after telling him to go back to his cell, she asks him to “come with me” – maybe she just means that she’s going to personally lead him to the cell. While she tries to reason with Oscar, she obviously views him as extremely dangerous.<\/p>\n

Siryn, Fawn<\/strong> and Blob<\/strong> all have cameos in the prison.<\/p>\n

Waffles\u00a0<\/strong>can be seen at Haven House.<\/p>\n

The Vig\u00a0<\/strong>seems to be making a genuine effort to locate the missing Outliers, though without any results.<\/p>\n

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

Inmate X \/ Perimeter.\u00a0<\/strong>He’s Oscar Ellis, the brother of Corina Ellis who was first mentioned back in issue #8. She claimed in that issue that he had “died because of trash just like [the X-Men], and Monet also referred to his “last words” in issue #20. Nonetheless, he’s apparently alive in the Inmate X cell. Corina suggested at the end of issue #8 that Oscar was also one of the “Avian” telepaths mentioned by Scurvy earlier in that issue – if so, Oscar ought to be dying of a brain tumour.<\/p>\n

As foreshadowed in issues #20 and #27, as soon as Scurvy dies, Oscar’s psychic powers are no longer contained, and he’s able to possess Scurvy’s brother. He seems to be a psychopath, as he immediately kills the doctors who are treating Scurvy’s body – there’s no suggestion that this is simply revenge for being part of the Graymalkin organisation that imprisoned him. According to Corina, Oscar also has reality-warping powers, which he used to torment her as a child. He apparently killed his own parents by turning them into giant rats. Oscar seems to confirm at least the broad strokes of this account.<\/p>\n

He says that he’s “playing two games remotely”. One is clearly the Outliers’ scenario, parts of which start glitching when his attention is spread too far – though it’s not entirely clear that he realises this. The other is presumably the New Mutants at Haven House, although there’s a bit more leeway on that one. Still, it’s not like there are any other plot threads in this arc that he could be referencing. He’s presumably able to do engage in this because Scurvy’s ability to contain him started failing before he died, as suggested last issue.<\/p>\n

Quite what Oscar is trying to achieve by his “games”\u00a0 isn’t clear – they don’t seem to be exercises in pure sadism, despite his back story. Mutina theorises that it’s an experiment.<\/p>\n

Oscar takes the name Perimeter, which was hitherto suggested to be some sort of AI within the Graymalkin complex. Oscar seems to be saying that he’s somehow integrated himself into it, though it’s not entirely clear yet. According to Mutina, the environment he’s created for the Outliers is an AI creation.<\/p>\n

He doesn’t seem to take seriously Monet’s warnings that “they” will kill him unless he agrees to be contained. Monet, who seems familiar with him, acts as if she’s reasonably confident that she could handle him, but there’s probably a degree of show going on there.<\/p>\n

Once he possesses Scurvy, something about his appearance seems to be very disturbing, particularly to Ezra. Ezra calls him an “abomination” and claims that he can’t look at him.<\/p>\n

Corina Ellis.\u00a0<\/strong>The general suggestion is that her anti-mutant stance has been prompted by the torture she suffered at Oscar’s hands as a child, which doesn’t seem to have done wonders\u00a0 for her mental health. She describes herself as an “overachieving narcissist”.\u00a0 There’s also a definite implication that her interest in Scurvy was at least part because Scurvy had the ability to contain Oscar, and that the Greymalkin project exists at least in part as a way of controlling him. Her narration claims that she’s spent her life trying to avoid this showdown with Oscar.<\/p>\n

As Scurvy dies, she starts telling Ezra about her history with him, in a way that comes across as fishing for sympathy, although she immediately rejects it when he offers it. She claims that “Everyone I care about dies, so I don’t care about anyone.” She seems to mean her parents.<\/p>\n

Ezra specifically asks her for authority to shoot Oscar, but she doesn’t give it. She seems to view this as some sort of reckoning that she’s been due for a while – as Monet suggested in issue #20 – though she also makes an attempt to talk to her brother.<\/p>\n

Scurvy. <\/strong>Corina recaps her relationship with him, in broadly similar terms to his own account from issue #8. She claims that she nicknamed him “Scurvy” simply because he was allergic to citrus. He dies, and is immediately possessed by Inmate X. Despite his appearance, he’s 24.<\/p>\n

Captain Ezra. <\/strong>As usual, he’s a reasonable professional who stands by Corinna’s side. He tries to offer emotional support and encourage her to be with Scurvy as he dies, but gets rebuffed. Despite being freaked out by Oscar, he won’t shoot without authority.<\/p>\n

Sarah Gaunt\u00a0<\/strong>has a cameo as a prisoner.<\/p>\n

Mutina.\u00a0<\/strong>Not even really a villain in this story, but in the absence of an explicit face turn, I’m not moving her to the supporting cast section just yet. She says that she can read emotions, or specifically fears, and that she can tell that the “X-Men” around her are an AI projection of some sort. Presumably this was also the case last issue, and she was playing along to some extent. It also confirms that, despite her pretence last issue, she\u00a0did<\/em> know that the “Moon Boy” she beheaded was a robot. As noted above, Deathdream seems to experience this world differently, but on this score Mutina’s perception seems to be more accurate. Possibly the idea is that Oscar didn’t allow for Mutina’s psychic ability because he didn’t know about it. (The Outliers have all been to Greymalkin before, during the “Raid on Greymalkin” crossover.)<\/p>\n

Although she keeps up a facade of being hostile and distant, what she actually does <\/em>is consistently helpful in this story. Unlike the Outliers, she knows what an epileptic fit looks like, and gives reasonable advice on what to do about it.<\/p>\n

“The New Mutants” (Cannonball, Sunspot, Karma, Psyche and Wolfsbane).\u00a0<\/strong>They believe that the X-Men recruited them as assassins and seem confused that anyone is suggesting otherwise. When asked basic questions about themselves, they get defensive and hostile, presumably because the AI doesn’t have any answers. They’re a weird combination of one-dimensionally in-character (Cannonball remains polite and apologetic even while trying to kill Rogue) and randomly out of character (teen Wolfsbane drinks beer).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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