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* BadassInDistress: Professor X, Cyclops, and Storm are captured by the Purifiers early on, the former of whom is brainwashed into attacking other mutants.
* {{Determinator}}: The X-Men fight to free Xavier even though they're so close to Stryker's machine, they're literally dying on their feet.
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* DiesWideOpen: Mark. Magneto later closes Mark's eyes for him.
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* TheDragon: Anne, to Stryker. It doesn't work out well for her.
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* DiesWideOpen: Mark. Magneto later closes Mark's eyes for him.
DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:Anne is thrown a considerable distance over Stryker's podium and lands on her neck.]]
* TheDragon: Anne, toStryker.Stryker as the leader of his paramilitary group the Purifiers. It doesn't work out well for her.
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''X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills'' is a GraphicNovel published by Creator/MarvelComics in 1982, one of the most famous ''Franchise/XMen'' ''ComicBook/XMen'' stories from writer Creator/ChrisClaremont's long run on the comics. Writing in the midst of the rise of televangelists of TheEighties, Claremont and artist Brent Anderson presented a story with a new foe for the X-Men who stood out from previous villains: the Reverend William Stryker, a SinisterMinister who believes mutants are demons from hell that must be completely eradicated.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Kitty uses [[NWordPrivileges The N Word]] to make a point to her African-American dance teacher why the slur Mutie is unacceptable to her.
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* PrecisionFStrike: Kitty uses [[NWordPrivileges The N Word]] to make a point to her African-American dance teacher why the slur Mutie is unacceptable to her. It's uncensored in the original, but gets a CensorBox in some reprint editions.
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* PrecisionFStrike / NWordPrivileges: The above-mentioned ArmorPiercingQuestion was considered highly controversial for its time thanks to Kitty's language.
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* PrecisionFStrike / NWordPrivileges: PrecisionFStrike: Kitty uses [[NWordPrivileges The above-mentioned ArmorPiercingQuestion was considered highly controversial for its time thanks N Word]] to Kitty's language.make a point to her African-American dance teacher why the slur Mutie is unacceptable to her.
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* DiscriminateAndSwitch: PlayedForDrama: The comic opens with a black boy and girl being hunted and killed by the Purifiers because they're Mutants.
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* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: The trio of Purifiers caught by the X-Men refuse to talk, so Magneto decides to handle the interrogation. What he does to them isn't pretty, but the Purifiers had previously killed children just for being born mutants, and were working on a plan of genocide.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: The trio of Purifiers caught by the X-Men refuse to talk, so Magneto decides to handle the interrogation. What he does to them isn't pretty, but the Purifiers had previously killed children just for being born mutants, and were working on a plan of genocide.
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* OffModel: In the one critical panel where Stryker points at Nightcrawler and denounces his "inhumanity", Brent Anderson forgets to draw his tail - a point which he specifically mentions in the notes for the re-release.
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* HidingBehindReligion: What Stryker's really doing underneath the claim that mutants are demonic abominations to justify his excuse for killing them.
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''X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills'' is a GraphicNovel published by Creator/MarvelComics in 1982, one of the most famous ''Franchise/XMen'' stories from writer Creator/ChrisClaremont's long run on the comics. Writing in the midst of the rise of televangelists of the 1980s, TheEighties, Claremont and artist Brent Anderson presented a story with a new foe for the X-Men who stood out from previous villains: the Reverend William Stryker, a SinisterMinister who believes mutants are demons from hell that must be completely eradicated.
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* {{Bowdlerise}}: Kitty's use of "nigger" as an example in her angry argument against racial slurs and FantasticRacism is censored in the 2020 expanded edition.
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* GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion: The 2020 reprint adds a new framing sequence, with Kitty visiting Kate, a girl Magneto met in ''X-Men Black: Magneto'', and telling her the story. Warden, an antagonist from ''X-Men Black'', also appears in the new framing pages.
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* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: Stryker is aiming a gun at Kitty Pryde, his words indicating he intends to kill her. A whole panel is filled with the sound effect "Bang!" [[spoiler: Next, we see a policeman holding a smoking gun, and a bystander yells: "That cop shot the reverend!" The scene currently provides the trope's page image.]]
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* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: Stryker is aiming a gun at Kitty Pryde, his words indicating he intends to kill her. A whole panel is filled with the sound effect "Bang!" [[spoiler: Next, we see a policeman holding a smoking gun, and a bystander yells: "That cop shot the reverend!" The scene currently provides the trope's page image.]]reverend!"]]
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* InspiringSermon: Reverend William Stryker, a SinisterMinister who is very anti-mutant. He makes impassioned speeches to crowds of his followers about his belief that mutants are the spawn of the devil, and need to be killed. He frequently engages in AsTheGoodBookSays, often by cherry picking quotes out of context and ignoring others that would condemn his actions.
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* EnemyMine: William Stryker's crusade against Mutants provides the need for Magneto to team up with the X-Men to confront him. This was the first instance of an alliance between Magneto and the team, which would later lead to bigger repercussions down the road, including becoming a regular event on ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' animated series in the 1990s.
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* EnemyMine: William Stryker's crusade against Mutants provides the need for Magneto to team up with the X-Men to confront him. This was the first instance of an alliance between Magneto and the team, which would later lead to bigger repercussions down the road, including becoming a regular event on ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' animated series ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'' in the 1990s.
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