{"id":7004,"date":"2021-08-04T22:25:59","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T21:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7004"},"modified":"2021-08-04T22:25:59","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T21:25:59","slug":"hellions-14-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7004","title":{"rendered":"Hellions #14 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Unknown.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7005 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Unknown.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"181\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a>HELLIONS #14<br \/>\n&#8220;Don&#8217;t Look Back Part II: The Judgment of Angels&#8221;<br \/>\nby Zeb Wells, Rog\u00ea Ant\u00f4nio &amp; Rain Beredo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong> Tarn holds the Hellions in his hand.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGE<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>2.\u00a0<\/strong>Opening quote from Tarn, the mad sadist. Tarn is obviously a counterpart of Mr Sinister as Arakko&#8217;s mad scientist. That said, Tarn seems to be a scientist for the purposes of sadism, while Sinister seems more of an amoral scientist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGES 3-4.<\/strong> <em>The Great Ring of Arakko.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Great Ring are Arakko&#8217;s equivalent of the Quiet Council, first described in a data page in\u00a0<em>X-Men <\/em>vol 5\u00a0#16.\u00a0They&#8217;re meant to sit in groups representing Dawn, Dusk and Day. There&#8217;s also a hidden &#8220;Night&#8221; grouping who don&#8217;t appear here, but the room layout shown in\u00a0<em>X-Men<\/em> #16 suggested that they might not sit at the table, in which case they could be behind the camera in page 3 panel 2. From left to right, these characters are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sobunar<\/strong>, standing beside his chair for some reason. Identified as a member of the Day group in\u00a0<em>X-Men<\/em> #16, he appeared in\u00a0<em>Planet-Size X-Men<\/em> #1.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Storm<\/strong>, apparently appointed to the Ring after becoming regent of Arakko\/Mars in\u00a0<em>S.W.O.R.D.\u00a0<\/em>vol 2 #6. Since there are Day members either side of her, she&#8217;s apparently taken one of the Day seats. (The name of the third Day member was blanked out in\u00a0<em>X-Men<\/em> #16.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lactuca the<\/strong> <strong>Knower<\/strong>, another Day member, and also seen in\u00a0<em>Planet-Size X-Men.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Isca the Unbeaten<\/strong>, from the Dawn group, who appeared extensively in\u00a0&#8220;X of Swords&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Idyll<\/strong>, the prophet who was mentioned occasionally in &#8220;X of Swords&#8221; and its lead-in. Another Dawn member.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tarn the Uncaring<\/strong>, also in the Dawn group.<\/li>\n<li>What seems to be an empty chair.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Xilo the First Defender<\/strong>, the caterpillar. Xilo appeared in\u00a0<em>Planet-Size X-Men<\/em> #1, and is apparently sitting as a Dusk member. However, the Dusk members listed in\u00a0<em>X-Men<\/em> #16 were Ora Serrata, Stulgid and Lodus Logos, so apparently something has happened to one of them.<\/li>\n<li>Someone with blue skin in a white robe, who isn&#8217;t named, and is presumably one of the aforementioned Dusk members, making their debut.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;The one who stole the sacrilegious blood of myself and my followers.&#8221;<\/strong> Tarn is referring to Mr Sinister&#8217;s mission to Arakko in\u00a0<em>Hellions<\/em> #6, under the cover of &#8220;X of Swords&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The final gag with Tarn feigning surprise that Idyll doesn&#8217;t trust his word is very much a parallel with\u00a0<em>Hellions<\/em>&#8216; version of Mr Sinister.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGE 5.<\/strong> <em>Tarn gets a blade fish.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is the same one that Mother Rapture uses on page 13.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGE 6.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Recap and credits.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGES<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>7-9.\u00a0<\/strong><em>The Locus Vile stand off against the Hellions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From left to right in page 7 panel 2, the Locus Vile are Hex Butcher, Sick Bird, the hulking Amino Fetus, Mother Rapture and Mudgear.<\/p>\n<p>The Locus Vile cultists are apparently offended that three Hellions who died fighting them in Arakko (Wild Child, Nanny and Orphan-Maker) have been resurrected. Presumably the Arakkans don&#8217;t have resurrection &#8211; it certainly doesn&#8217;t seem like the sort of thing they&#8217;d be particularly interested in. Then again, Mother Rapture says later on that &#8220;The Locus Vile do not fear death as we know Tarn.&#8221; Does she mean that death is not the end for them, or simply that they&#8217;re a death cult?<\/p>\n<p>The Hellions don&#8217;t remember what happened in <em>Hellions<\/em> #6 because Sinister killed the survivors as soon as they made it back to Krakoa, meaning that they were resurrected from their last Krakoan memory backup, with no knowledge of what happened on the mission.<\/p>\n<p>The clone Sinister led the Locus Vile here and seems to think that he has some sort of influence over them, but they show no sign of having any interest in what he has to say, despite his claims.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGE 10.<\/strong> Data page from &#8230; some scientist or other, most likely the Beast. The claim here is that when Nanny, Wild Child and Orphan-Maker were resurrected following their deaths in Amenth, they weren&#8217;t merely changed by being more focussed, but rather &#8220;evolved&#8221; so that their new bodies and lives would be better prepared to defend themselves against what happened to them last time &#8211; i.e., the Locus Vile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGES 11-12.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>The reincarnated Hellions fight the Locus Vile.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The clone Sinister suggests that if you get too close to Amino Fetus then your powers are lost (presumably temporarily). It&#8217;s an odd comment to make about Orphan-Maker, since he doesn&#8217;t use his powers at all &#8211; his armour is designed in part to prevent him from reaching puberty and having his powers emerge, due to their supposedly dangerous nature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGES 13-17.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Tarn arrives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tarn is able to summarily reverse Wild Child&#8217;s transformation, restoring him to the previous state of dependency on Psylocke. Presumably he can also reverse what happened to Nanny and Orphan-Maker. It&#8217;s less likely that he can restore Rockslide or Gorgon, who died in Otherworld proper, since their issues are rather different. Tarn is clear, though, that the changes to Wild Child and co were not intentional on his part.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGES 18-20.<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Tarn reveals to the Hellions what happened.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is the Hellions learning the ending of\u00a0<em>Hellions<\/em> #6. It&#8217;s not as if they trusted Sinister that much to start with, but the Hellions understandably draw the line at this. Assuming they all get out of this alive, where does that leave them in terms of going to the Quiet Council and demanding to be reassigned away from Sinister?<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGES 21-24.<\/strong> <em>Sinister unveils his other clones, then flees with the original clone Sinister.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So the Hellions will have to fight the Locus Vile after all. Or take their chances with Tarn.<\/p>\n<p>Sinister is taking his patchwork clone to the facility he seized from Arcade in issue #11. Mastermind reported last issue that the &#8220;payload&#8221; there had nearly finished incubating. Sinister describes his creation here as &#8220;chimera&#8221;. In\u00a0<em>Powers of X<\/em>, the chimeras were hybrid mutants with traits of multiple characters who had apparently been lab-grown in one of Moira&#8217;s previous lives (her ninth, to be exact). In\u00a0<em>Powers of X<\/em> #6, Moira said that the mutant-gene version of Sinister&#8217;s own body was already his first chimera, and that he had produced it decades early. If Sinister has produced other chimera at this point, then history is accelerating &#8211; whether that&#8217;s in line with Moira&#8217;s plan is another matter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PAGE 25.<\/strong> Trailers. The Krakoan reads NEXT: BITTER BETRAYAL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As always, this post contains spoilers, and page numbers go by the digital edition. HELLIONS #14 &#8220;Don&#8217;t Look Back Part II: The Judgment of Angels&#8221; by Zeb Wells, Rog\u00ea Ant\u00f4nio &amp; Rain Beredo COVER \/ PAGE 1. Tarn holds the Hellions in his hand. PAGE\u00a02.\u00a0Opening quote from Tarn, the mad sadist. 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