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* AntiHeroSubstitute: The premise of the book is Madelyne -- of ''ComicBook/Inferno1988'' and ''ComicBook/DarkWeb'' infamy -- realizing the world needs the X-Men and deciding to make her own team with Alex, who has had history of being BrainwashedAndCrazy. Who do they recruit for their team? Monet's psychotic bone-marrow-eating brother Emplate, Nightcrawler's demon-lord "father" Azazel, android-EvilKnockoff-of-Wolverine Albert, and MadArtist ''Manga/{{Akira}}''-{{Expy}} Zero, with X-Men members Archangel, Gambit, and Maggot roped along for the ride.

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* AntiHeroSubstitute: The premise of the book is Madelyne -- of ''ComicBook/Inferno1988'' and ''ComicBook/DarkWeb'' infamy -- realizing the world needs the X-Men and deciding to make her own team with Alex, who has had history of being BrainwashedAndCrazy. Who Whom do they recruit for their team? Monet's psychotic bone-marrow-eating brother Emplate, Nightcrawler's demon-lord "father" Azazel, android-EvilKnockoff-of-Wolverine Albert, and MadArtist ''Manga/{{Akira}}''-{{Expy}} Zero, with X-Men members Archangel, Gambit, and Maggot roped along for the ride.



* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: All other X-Men connected heroes still currently in action avoid both the Embassy and the Dark X-Men, except for Rogue having a rendezvous with Gambit just outside, and later Talon and Synch to receive Gambit and Feint when they part ways from Maddie.

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* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: All other X-Men connected X-Men-connected heroes still currently in action avoid both the Embassy and the Dark X-Men, except for Rogue having a rendezvous with Gambit just outside, and later Talon and Synch to receive Gambit and Feint when they part ways from Maddie.



* TeleFrag: Azazel kills [[spoiler: Vallens this way by teleporting her halfway into a wall.]]

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* TeleFrag: Azazel kills [[spoiler: Vallens [[spoiler:Vallens this way by teleporting her halfway into a wall.]]
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* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Pryor expresses this at Gambit when he calls her "Red", likely since her ex-husband sometimes called her that.

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* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: Pryor expresses this at Gambit when he calls her "Red", "Red"; likely since because her ex-husband sometimes called her that. that.[[note]]Likely also because Jean Grey went by the name "Redd" [[ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfCyclopsAndPhoenix while adventuring in a distant future]] (which Madelyne would've learned all about when Jean shared memories with her); but also John Greycrow called her "Red" when he tried to murder her back when he was one of Sinister's Marauders.[[/note]]
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** Havok speaks over the phone with ComicBook/LukeCage, the current New York mayor (in the Marvel Universe).

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** Havok speaks over the phone with ComicBook/LukeCage, the current New York mayor (in in the Marvel Universe).Universe. Also, [[ComicBook/SheHulk2022 She-Hulk]] is the Embassy's hired attorney.
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* SnubByOmission: Inverted case; Gambit, Maddie, and Alex seem concerned about only Carmen's safety instead of any of the other mutants sheltering in the Embassy [[spoiler:when Orchis and the alt-Goblin Queen invade and are killing everyone they find inside]].

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* ChekhovsGun: Madelyne Pryor's Mercy Crown and Havok's photo of her from during their Outback Era.

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* ChekhovsGun: Two of these here; Madelyne Pryor's Mercy Crown Crown, and Havok's photo of her from during their Outback Era.Era. [[spoiler:The alt-Goblin Queen wants to seize the Crown and weaponize it. Carmen takes Maddie's look from the photo when dissuading her from joining in her variant's plans.]]



%%* TokenNonHuman: Most of the team pictured in the initial cover art promo, even Azazel, are human mutants. Albert however is an android.

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%%* AntiHeroSubstitute: The very premise of the book is Madelyne -- of ''ComicBook/Inferno1988'' and ''ComicBook/DarkWeb'' infamy -- realizing the world needs the X-Men and deciding to make her own team with Alex (who has had history of being BrainwashedAndCrazy). Who do they recruit for their team? Monet’s psychotic bone-marrow-eating brother Emplate, Nightcrawler’s demon-lord father Azazel, android-EvilKnockoff-of-Wolverine Albert, and MadArtist ''Manga/{{Akira}}''-{{Expy}} Zero. Sure Archangel and Gambit are core X-Men, but both have been the "Horseman of Death" to Apocalypse. These are supposed to be the X-Men that the world needs.

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%%* * AntiHeroSubstitute: The very premise of the book is Madelyne -- of ''ComicBook/Inferno1988'' and ''ComicBook/DarkWeb'' infamy -- realizing the world needs the X-Men and deciding to make her own team with Alex (who Alex, who has had history of being BrainwashedAndCrazy). BrainwashedAndCrazy. Who do they recruit for their team? Monet’s psychotic bone-marrow-eating brother Emplate, Nightcrawler’s demon-lord father "father" Azazel, android-EvilKnockoff-of-Wolverine Albert, and MadArtist ''Manga/{{Akira}}''-{{Expy}} Zero. Sure Archangel and Gambit are core X-Men, but both have been the "Horseman of Death" to Apocalypse. These are supposed to be the Zero, with X-Men that members Archangel, Gambit, and Maggot roped along for the world needs. ride.


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* ChekhovsGun: Madelyne Pryor's Mercy Crown and Havok's photo of her from during their Outback Era.
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* LeftHanging: Each character prominent in the series have their parts in it concluded by the ending, except for Havok and Chasm.
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* StudentAndMasterTeam: Carmen/Feint forms this with both Pryor and Gambit separately.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Krol puts Albert and Elsie Dee to use as weapons for Orchis. [[spoiler:When the androids are reunited they turn on and slaughter Krol.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Orchis is driven out of the Limbo Embassy, but Maddie's team is disbanded -- Archangel and Azazel are killed, Emplate runs off for parts unknown, Albert is reunited with Elsie Dee, and Gambit returns to the X-Men]].

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Orchis is driven out of the Limbo Embassy, but Maddie's team is disbanded -- Archangel and Azazel are killed, Emplate runs off for parts unknown, Albert is reunited with Elsie Dee, and Gambit returns to the X-Men]].X-Men with Carmen joining]].



* MoralityPet: Carmen becomes Pryor's.



* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Because of her past actions, the X-Men don't trust Madelyne at all, and only work with or even tolerate her out of desperate necessity.

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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Because of her past actions, the X-Men don't trust Madelyne at all, and only work with or even tolerate her out of desperate necessity.

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%%* HeelFaceTurn: Maddie at least seems to be trying to do so putting an X-Men team together. Time will tell for Kenji, Marius, Azazel, and Albert.


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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Because of her past actions, the X-Men don't trust Madelyne at all, and only work with or even tolerate her out of desperate necessity.

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Orchis is driven out of the Limbo Embassy, but Maddie's team is disbanded -- Azazel is killed, Emplate runs off for parts unknown, Albert is reunited with Elsie Dee, and Gambit returns to the X-Men]].

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Orchis is driven out of the Limbo Embassy, but Maddie's team is disbanded -- Archangel and Azazel is are killed, Emplate runs off for parts unknown, Albert is reunited with Elsie Dee, and Gambit returns to the X-Men]].



* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: After only two missions alongside Pryor's group both go sideways [[spoiler:and costs the life of Archangel]], Maggott quits and goes elsewhere.

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* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: ScrewThisImOutOfHere:
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After only two missions alongside Pryor's group both go sideways [[spoiler:and costs the life of Archangel]], Maggott quits and goes elsewhere. elsewhere.
** Emplate runs off, proclaiming his debt fulfilled and his hatred of everyone else leaving him no reason to stick around and help, after [[spoiler: Azazel is killed by the Bamf dragon.]]


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* TeleFrag: Azazel kills [[spoiler: Vallens this way by teleporting her halfway into a wall.]]

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** Carmen Cruz, codename Feint (formerly Gimmick), the only real mutant from the ComicBook/ChildrenOfTheAtom group, is rescued from Orchis and is reluctantly with the Dark X-Men for protection and to assist them in saving other mutants.

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** Carmen Cruz, codename Feint (formerly Gimmick), the only real mutant from the ComicBook/ChildrenOfTheAtom group, is rescued from Orchis and is reluctantly with the Dark X-Men for protection and to assist them in saving try to help save other mutants.


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* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: All other X-Men connected heroes still currently in action avoid both the Embassy and the Dark X-Men, except for Rogue having a rendezvous with Gambit just outside, and later Talon and Synch to receive Gambit and Feint when they part ways from Maddie.

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Orchis is driven out of the Limbo Embassy, but Maddie's team is disbanded -- Azazel is killed, Emplate runs off for parts unknown, Albert is reunited with Elsie Dee and Gambit returns to the X-Men]].

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Orchis is driven out of the Limbo Embassy, but Maddie's team is disbanded -- Azazel is killed, Emplate runs off for parts unknown, Albert is reunited with Elsie Dee Dee, and Gambit returns to the X-Men]].X-Men]].
* BodyOfBodies: Zero merges himself with Albert into a two-headed monstrosity, [[spoiler:then Orchis brings Elsie Dee to use as a weapon inside the Embassy, only for Zero and Albert to also assimilate her and so briefly becomes a three-headed one.]]
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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Azazel is killed by the Bamf Dragon, the alternate universe version of his "son", Nightcrawler.]]

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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Azazel [[spoiler:Soon after casually killing his son Abyss, then Azazel is killed by the Bamf Dragon, the alternate universe version of his other "son", Nightcrawler.]]
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Orchis is driven out of the Limbo Embassy, but Maddie's team is disbanded -- Azazel is killed, Emplate runs off for parts unknown, Albert is reunited with Elsie Dee and Gambit returns to the X-Men]].


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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Azazel is killed by the Bamf Dragon, the alternate universe version of his "son", Nightcrawler.]]
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* HistoryRepeats: Each encounter Warren has with Callisto and the Morlocks goes badly for both parties. During Callisto and the Morlocks [[ComicBook/FromTheAshes debut in 1983]], Callisto tried to make Angel her slave, and she got nonfatally knifed by Storm for it. During the ''ComicBook/MutantMassacre'', trying to help the Morlocks against Sinister's Marauders lost Angel his wings which led to him being changed into Archangel. [[spoiler: Now Archangel's been turned into "Death Angel" by Orchis, slashed Callisto (nonfatally) and killed other Morlocks, so Gambit has to kill Warren.]]

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