{"id":7138,"date":"2021-09-17T22:23:27","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T21:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7138"},"modified":"2021-09-17T22:23:27","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T21:23:27","slug":"x-men-the-trial-of-magneto-2-annotations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.housetoastonish.com\/?p=7138","title":{"rendered":"X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #2 annotations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

\"\"<\/a>X-MEN: THE TRIAL OF MAGNETO #2<\/strong>
\n“Welcome to Krakoa”<\/strong>
\nby Leah Williams, Lucas Werneck & Edgar Delgado<\/strong><\/p>\n

COVER \/ PAGE 1.<\/strong> Magneto fights the Avengers.<\/p>\n

PAGES 2-4.<\/strong>\u00a0Professor X and Hope try to read Magneto’s mind.<\/em><\/p>\n

They’re trying to put him at ease, presumably to lower his psychic defences in order to make it possible to scan his memories. Obviously, this is trying to close the potential plot hole of “how can there by a mystery when you can just read the subject’s mind”?<\/p>\n

Despite what Hope says, this process is quite plainly not torture. Torture would be extracting a confession by inflicting, or at least threatening, pain and suffering. What Professor X is trying to do here is the exact opposite. That may be an invasion of privacy or an unacceptable violation of the right to silence, but it isn’t torture. In fact, if Hope has ethical problems with this, she should really have problems with most of the telepaths on Krakoa.<\/p>\n

PAGES 5-6.<\/strong>\u00a0The X-Men greet the Avengers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Strictly speaking, this\u00a0isn’t<\/em> actually the newly elected X-Men, but rather Cyclops and Phoenix (who are on the team) and Wolverine (who isn’t). But they’re a natural trio to act as ambassadors to the superhero establishment. It’s also a somewhat retro-classic Avengers group, rather than the current regular line-up: Captain America, Iron Man, the Vision and the Wasp.<\/p>\n

Note that Hope asked on page 4 why Jean and Emma hadn’t been asked to help with the psychic search. Xavier claimed that they were both “busy with an urgent matter of diplomacy”, but that seems to be true only of Emma. It also doesn’t really explain why Xavier is turning to the relatively inexperienced Hope in place of, say, one of the Stepford Cuckoos – or indeed Exodus. Is there some reason why he wants to carry out this scan without the rest of the Quiet Council knowing?<\/p>\n

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The mutants watching from the trees seem to be generics, though one of them is obviously Glob Herman.<\/p>\n

Krakoa sure seems to have a lot of fir trees today.<\/p>\n

PAGE 7.<\/strong> Recap and credits.<\/p>\n

PAGES 8-9.<\/strong>\u00a0The Avengers receive their tour of Krakoa.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Avengers’ tour is a callback to the scene in House of X\u00a0<\/em>#1 where Magneto gives various ambassadors a tour of Krakoa; the same locations appear.<\/p>\n

Wolverine (Logan) has gone, to be replaced by Synch and Wolverine (Laura) from the current X-Men line-up.<\/p>\n

The main point of this scene is just to establish that the Krakoans are very sensitive about concealing resurrection.<\/p>\n

PAGE 10.<\/strong>\u00a0X-Factor chronoskim Magneto’s home.<\/i><\/p>\n

We\u00a0did<\/em> see Prestige use this power last issue to view the murder, if you’re wondering, and it’s not exactly clear why that didn’t show us who the killer was.<\/p>\n

PAGE 11.<\/strong> A data page, sort of – but without the standard font, and with a mock folded paper effect. Wanda (presumably) tells us about magic as a force that can be used but not ultimately controlled. A similar design of circle and arrows appeared on the final page of the last issue.<\/p>\n

PAGE 12.<\/strong>\u00a0Wanda in limbo.<\/em><\/p>\n

Last time, we saw Wanda appear in a white costume, get killed by a hooded figure with a knife, and then apparently bleed flower petals. This version adds white wings to the iconography.<\/p>\n

PAGE 13.<\/strong>\u00a0Hope wakes Magneto.<\/em><\/p>\n

Apparently Hope has decided that the Five are just going to resurrect Wanda anyway, and they want Magneto to cover for them while they do it. Plainly, Wanda’s return at this stage is going to be pretty difficult to explain… but stranger things have happened.<\/p>\n

Hope’s decision here is foreshadowed in\u00a0New Mutants<\/em> #21, where the Five resurrect Scout without permission (in breach of the rules about clones). Chronologically speaking, both of those stories seem to take place on the day after the Hellfire Gala, so it’s been a busy day of rebellion for Hope. There’s maybe a bit more scope to push\u00a0Trial of Magneto<\/em> a little further back, but not by much.<\/p>\n

PAGES<\/strong> 14<\/strong>-24.<\/strong>\u00a0Magneto attacks the Avengers, and the Scarlet Witch returns.<\/em><\/p>\n

“We met at the Hellfire Gala, actually.”<\/strong> Captain America spoke to Kyle Jinadu – very briefly – in\u00a0X-Factor<\/em> #10.<\/p>\n

Quicksilver<\/strong> has always been written as protective of his sister; in the Silver Age X-Men stories, that was to an unhealthily obsessive degree, though it was partly a reflection of how feeble Wanda was in her early appearances.<\/p>\n

“Shields up, mom!”<\/strong> Rachel isn’t Jean’s daughter, but she\u00a0is<\/em> the daughter of Jean’s counterpart from her world. Or possibly Phoenix impersonating Jean. Stories conflict on that.<\/p>\n

“Is this what you were doing instead of finally finishing your geophysics degree?”<\/strong> That is indeed Lorna’s established field of study, which she was supposed to be working on after leaving the X-Men in\u00a0X-Men<\/em> vol 1 #94. Apparently she finally completed her doctorate while on Krakoa.<\/p>\n

“Chain of custody.”<\/strong> It’s not obvious that Krakoa’s rudimentary legal system (if it even merits the term) would care about such things, but chain of custody is the term used for (basically) proving that the evidence you have at the trial is indeed the same stuff that was collected at the crime scene. Needless to say, it’s especially important when it comes to things like forensic samples. It’s not\u00a0exactly\u00a0<\/em>about just protecting the evidence from being destroyed, as Aurora seems to think. But Prodigy’s use of the term is at least consistent with him using it correctly.<\/p>\n

“He’s Krakoan!”\u00a0<\/strong>The question of why exactly Kyle is on Krakoa – and why nobody else is allowed to bring their loved ones with them, or at least chose not to – remains conspicuously unanswered, despite Captain America asking it directly in\u00a0X-Factor<\/em> #10. Implicitly, Northstar is claiming here that you can be Krakoan without being a mutant, which Magneto would obviously disagree with.<\/p>\n

Magneto<\/strong> wears his Silver Age villain costume here – obviously a conscious decision since he was in black last issue. He’s playing for time, of course, and wants to drag out the fight for as long as he can.<\/p>\n

Mystique<\/strong> finds all this “interesting” because her primary motivation is to get her beloved Destiny resurrected. She knows that the Quiet Council voted against resurrecting the Scarlet Witch in the previous issue – she was there. So she can probably connect the dots to figure out that the Five have done this on their own initiative. That opens the door to getting Destiny back without Xavier’s approval.<\/p>\n

The Scarlet Witch<\/strong> has been resurrected on the basis of a back-up that was taken back in the days when she was believed to be a mutant. But from the look of her behaviour here, and Vision’s surprised reaction, her memories have been reset to a time when she was still married to the Vision. If so, that’s long, long before she was exposed as a non-mutant, which is weird.\u00a0Needless to say, it’s going to be very difficult to explain this away without revealing the resurrection system. It would also mean that Wanda doesn’t know about M-Day or about her status as a hate figure on Krakoa.<\/p>\n

The fact that Wanda is alive again doesn’t mean that there’s no trial to be had. The title never said it was a\u00a0murder<\/em> trial. Magneto could still be tried for attempted murder or simply assault.<\/p>\n

PAGE 25.<\/strong> Trailers. The Krakoan reads NEXT: HOW ARE YOU HERE.<\/p>\n

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