History ComicBook / UncannyXMenChuckAusten

* WholePlotReference: The arc ''She Lies With Angels'' has been derided as a ''Romeo and Juliet'' adaptation, only this time featuring two feuding families from Appalachia (one being the Guthries' clan of mutants and an normal non-mutant family) and mutant-hunting robots.

* LukeIAmYourFather: Issues #429-434, plus the prologue in #428, introduce demonic mutant Azazel and his troops of fallen angels. Azazel then claims to be Kurt's father, which would explain Nightcrawler's demonic appearance.

* BackFromTheDead: Issue #423 begins with the X-Men finding some former students crucified on their lawn by the Church of Humanity: Magma (Amara Aquilla), Jubilee, Skin (both from Generation X) and Bedlam (Jesse Aaronson, a member from X-Force). Angel's healing blood manages to save Jubilee and Magma, Skin is declared dead and buried (in issue #427) and Bedlam is unaccounted for.

* WeddingEpisode: Issues #425-426 were ''supposed'' to be Alex and Lorna's big day, since her proposal back in #421, but he says no to her on the altar, she has a breakdown and chases after him and Nurse Annie to kill them for ruining her wedding day.

''Uncanny X-Men'' was the original X-Men series, a LongRunner launched in 1963. However, in 2001 it became the secondary X-Men title, with Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/NewXMen'', a radical reimagining of the franchise, replacing it as the flagship. Creator/JoeCasey initially wrote ''Uncanny X-Men'' during this era, but left the title in 2002, with Austen replacing him as of issue #410.

-->'''Nick Fury:''' [[spoiler:''Terrorists like Magneto]] don't deserve a funeral! They deserve to be cut up and fed to dogs!''

* WomanScorned: Alex Summers has to learn the hard way that it is a profoundly ''stupid'' move to dump a traumatised woman on her wedding day, ''at the altar''. Especially when that woman has magnetic powers. Polaris goes on a rampage.

* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: The first arc, "Hope”, introduces Sammy, young mutant whose only power is to breathe underwater. The arc ends with the Juggernaut, his powers weakened, falling into the sea and at risk of drowning. Sammy's powers mean that he's the only one able to dive in, find him, and save him.

Austen remained as ''Uncanny X-Men'' writer until the ''[=X-Men: ReLoad=]'' relaunch in 2004, after Grant Morrison left the books, at which point he moved over to write ''X-Men'', the retitled ''New X-Men'' title.

The first issue of the Chuck Austen run was #410, released October 1, 2002. The last issue of Austen's run was #443, released April 7, 2004.

''Uncanny X-Men'' was the original X-Men series, a LongRunner launched in 1963. However, in 2001 it became the secondary X-Men title, with Creator/GrantMorrison's ''ComicBook/NewXMen'', a radical reimagining of the franchise, replacing it as the flagship. Creator/JoeCasey initially wrote ''Uncanny X-Men'' during this era, but left the title in 2002, with Austen replacing him.

** Nightcrawler is at best a laicized priest, though the story more or less states he was never validly ordained in the first place. While in theory any baptized and confirmed Catholic male who fits the requirements for ordination can be elected Pope, in practice you need to be a Cardinal to have any realistic chance of election. Unless the villains planned to get Nightcrawler a cardinal's hat in short order, their plan was going to come to naught.
** The group involved, the "Church of Humanity", is pretty clearly schismatic, taking orders from their own "Pope". How they thought they would even rate a seat in the Art/SistineChapel at a conclave beggars belief. This also means that Nightcrawler's ordination was likely invalid, as it would have needed the consent of the local Bishop ([[ComicBook/XMen not that one]]) or Archbishop as well as the Vatican. In RealLife, Archbishop [=LeFebre=] was excommunicated for performing ordinations without Vatican approval, so consider this SeriousBusiness.

''Uncanny X-Men'' was the original X-Men series, a LongRunner launched in 1963. However, in 2001 it became the secondary X-Men title, with Grant Morrison's New X-Men, a radical reimagining of the franchise, replacing it as the flagship. Joe Casey initially wrote ''Uncanny X-Men'' during this era, but left the title in 2002, with Austen replacing him.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Nightcrawler's priesthood already had elements of this, but the "Holy War" takes this to another level, as the villains' plot involves making him UsefulNotes/ThePope. There are a number of problems with this, from least problematic to most:
** Nightcrawler, according to the story was at best a laicized priest, though the story more or less states he was never validly ordained in the first place (more on this below)
** While in theory any baptized and confirmed Catholic male who fits the requirements for ordination can be elected Pope, in practice you need to be a Cardinal to have any realistic chance at being elected. Unless the villains planned to get Nightcrawler a cardinal's hat in short order, their plan was going to come to naught.

** The rest of the plot involved placing nanobots in Communion hosts that would dissolve those who consumed them, and unveiling Nightcrawler as a "demon" and "Antichrist", thereby making Catholics believe that the Rapture had come. [[CriticalResearchFailure Catholics do not believe in the Rapture.]], a belief that only became current in Evangelical circles at the end of the 19th Century.

** While in theory any baptized and confirmed Catholic male who fits the requirements for ordination can be elected Pope, in practice you need to be a Cardinal to have any realistic chance at being elected. Unless the villain was planning on getting Nightcrawler a cardinal's hat in short order, [[spoiler:her]] plan was going to come to naught.

** The rest of the plot involved placing nanobots in Communion hosts that would dissolve those who consumed them, and unveiling Nightcrawler as a "demon" and "Antichrist", thereby making Catholics believe that the Rapture had come. ''[[CriticalResearchFailure Catholics do not believe in the Rapture.]]'' That was a belief that only became current in Evangelical circles at the end of the 19th Century.

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