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4''Battle of the Atom'' is a 10-part BatFamilyCrossover published by Creator/{{Marvel}} that debuted on August 28th 2013 and ran through the ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'', ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'', ''ComicBook/WolverineAndTheXMenMarvelComics'' and ''ComicBook/XMen2013'' books until October 30th 2013. In publication dates, the event lasted from November to December, 2013.
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6The story begins with Magik traveling to the future and witnessing a group of mutants fighting Sentinels. In the present, after Teen Cyclops is nearly killed in a Sentinel attack, which almost rewrites history and results in the modern Cyclops disappearing for a moment, the modern X-Men decide to send the time-displaced X-Men back to their own time. However, before they can, a future team of X-Men, consisting of Kitty Pryde, [[{{ComicBook/Runaways}} Molly Hayes]], Xorn, ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}, Beast, Xavier (Legion's son and the grandson of Charles Xavier) and Ice Hulk (Iceman), appear to do the same, as the presence of the original X-Men in the current timeline will result in disastrous consequences. However, they do not tell anyone what these consequences actually are, thus making it hard for some to trust them. Also, they shield themselves from telepathy, making it even harder to discern if they are being truthful. Needless to say, all is not what is seems, and conflict ensues between various factions of X-Men, some believing that the original five X-Men should be sent back, some believing they should make the choice themselves, and some not believing the future X-Men.
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9!!''Battle of the Atom'' contains examples of:
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11* AHouseDivided: Virtually all teams are divided:
12** Not an even divide, mind you, but the combined group of modern X-Men and future X-Men has Kitty Pryde and Rachel Grey opposing sending the original X-Men back to their own timeline against their will.
13*** This would also count as being a split with the X-Men of the adjectiveless X-Men book, as Storm is all for sending them back. Rogue and Psylocke appear in the story after a choice has already been made.
14** The original five X-Men already lost Angel in ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'', and now, [[spoiler:Jean and Teen Cyclops are on the run]]. [[spoiler:Teen Hank]] just wants to watch what happens, but seems willing to go back to [[spoiler:his]] own timeline.
15** Cyclops's team of X-Men is divided, with Scott and Eva Bell wanting to help [[spoiler:Jean and Teen Cyclops]], Emma Frost and the Stepford Cuckoos and Magneto wanting to send them back, and [[spoiler:Magik]] going off on [[spoiler:her]] own.
16** The [[spoiler:real future X-Men]] had a vote to decide if they would help Magik drag the team that went to the past back, with [[spoiler:Kymera and Piotr]] for, [[spoiler:Jubilee]] against, and the rest unknown. They [[spoiler:came to the past]] so one side won at least.
17* AffirmativeActionLegacy: [[spoiler:Future!Jubilee is codenamed Wolverine.]]
18* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Future!Deadpool confesses his love for Psylocke. This being Deadpool, it can be debated whether or not he was being serious.
19* AndThenWhat: Said by Future!Beast after the death of [[spoiler:President Dazzler.]] It seems to be his DespairEventHorizon or StartOfDarkness.
20-->'''Future!Beast:''' It's never different. Two steps forward, seven steps back. We're fools. We're absolute fools.\
21'''Future!Colossus:''' We'll find who did this. We'll find them.\
22'''Future!Beast:''' And then what?
23* AntagonisticOffspring: [[spoiler:Raze is son of ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} and Mystique from the future. And just like Wolvie's [[ReallyGetsAround many children]], Raze wants his dad dead, too]].
24* AxeCrazy: Raze, who likes any plan that involves fighting or killing.
25* BackToBackBadasses: In Part 9, if a character has a version of themself on their team, they fought alongside them.
26* BadFuture: The future X-Men came from one. [[spoiler:But not really. Rather, a ''same'' future, as the X-Men still exist, and while they've come a long way (namely, a mutant President), it's still not enough (since the mutant president, Dazzler, is killed), and mutant persecution is apparently still in force. Bad things still happened though, which is blamed on both the presence of the O5, and the schism between Wolverine and Cyclops.]]
27* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor:
28** The Original X-Men, who had been transported to the future because Iceman wished Scott could see himself and Beast thought it was a brilliant idea, decide Wolverine and his X-Men are actually worse and join adult Cyclops' side.
29** Related to the above, Wolverine had wished someone took young Scott from his hands. He got his wish.
30* BrotherSisterTeam: Magik and Future!Colossus, complete with matching Soulswords.
31* ButForMeItWasTuesday: Triage accuses Scott and the other X-Men of having this worldview when they don't seem to understand why he's so freaked out that [[spoiler:he brought Young!Scott back from the dead]]. It's not flattering.
32* CallBack:
33** Nick Lowe confirmed on Twitter that the [[spoiler:Jean Grey School]] seen at the end of Part 5 is the same one from [[spoiler:''Wolverine and the X-Men'' issue 29]].
34** This isn't the first time [[spoiler:Beast]] has [[ComicBook/NewXMen turned]] [[ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse evil]] in a future or alternate timeline.
35* DespairEventHorizon:
36** [[spoiler:The fake]] future X-Men seem to have had one when [[spoiler:Future!Dazzler]] died. Or at least Future!Beast.
37** Played with near the end with [[spoiler:the present X-Men, after the reveal of the Sentinels S.H.I.E.L.D has manufactured, as Psylocke openly questions the purpose of the X-Men and Iceman desperately asking Ice Master if there was anything to look forward to in the future.]]
38* DistractedByTheSexy: Jean when Teen Scott takes off his shirt.
39* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The present and past X-Men survive, but a couple of the future X-Men are killed in battle with the new Brotherhood. On top of that, it comes out that someone at S.H.I.E.L.D is manufacturing ''Sentinels.'' Several of the new Brotherhood members survive and are loose in the present. The schism that divides the team is widened further as Kitty and the O5 X-Men join Cyclops's side due to Kitty being unable to trust the JGS.]]
40* EvilCripple: [[spoiler:Future!Xavier becomes one, thanks to Future!Colossus]].
41* EyepatchAfterTimeskip: Future!Maria Hill sports one.
42* FaceHeelTurn: The [[spoiler:former future X-Men]], who, after the death of President Blaire, became [[spoiler:the Brotherhood of Mutants.]]
43* FutureBadass: Sentinel-X is actually [[spoiler:Shogo as an adult]]. [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/{{Runaways}} Molly Hayes]], Quentin Quire, and [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Wiccan]]]] are also examples. Additionally, [[spoiler:Wiccan]] has also become ComicBook/DoctorStrange's successor as Sorcerer Supreme.
44* FutureMeScaresMe:
45** Teen and Modern Iceman are both disturbed by their future counterpart, Ice Hulk.
46*** And Teen Iceman is also confused about how he [[spoiler:turns into a wizard]], and about how [[spoiler:Ice Hulk]] is apparently a result of a development in his powers. [[spoiler:Ice Master]]'s dodging of questions doesn't help.
47** Kitty Pryde is mildly off put by how she's aged and how she's acting, while her older counterpart isn't too thrilled about how she was either.
48*** [[spoiler:Averted in that Future!Kitty is the disguised son of Wolverine and Mystique.]]
49** Teen and Modern Beast are more fascinated by their future counterpart's changes rather than disturbed.
50** [[spoiler:Future!Jean is less than pleasant when dealing with her younger self.]]
51* GoodScarsEvilScars:
52** [[spoiler:Future!Jubilee]] has a scar over her left eye, but is one of the good guys.
53** Sentinel-X has one over his eyebrow, but is also a good guy.
54* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Ice Hulk, who is a construct of Ice Master's.
55* HumongousMecha: It was revealed that the government had manufactured a new batch of [[spoiler:Sentinel robots]] in secret as anti-mutant weaponry for S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier. X-Men are understandably unhappy when they know about this.
56* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler:Kymera, who stays at the [=JGS=] to hunt down the Future Brotherhood.]]
57* IdenticalGrandson: Future!Xavier looks just like his grandfather.
58* ItsPersonal: [[spoiler:After telling a masked Future!Jean (whose identity she did not know at the time) where Teen Scott and Jean are, and letting her knock out Jean, Emma decides to fight Future!Jean, with no reason other than that she ''is'' Jean]].
59* KidFromTheFuture:
60** [[spoiler:Kymera is daughter of ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}} from the future. Judging from her pet panther, it's implied that her dad is ComicBook/BlackPanther]].
61** From the villain's side, [[spoiler:there's Raze, son of Wolverine and Mystique]].
62* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler:In the future, Jubilee adopts the title of Wolverine, Wiccan becomes the Sorcerer Supreme, Quentin Quire becomes the Phoenix and Future!Jean takes the identity of Xorn.]]
63* MythologyGag:
64** A throwaway line that non-Runaways readers wouldn't really pay attention to.
65--->'''Molly Hayes:''' Trust me, guys, you have to stop running.
66** Storm's daughter has a pet [[Comicbook/BlackPanther panther]].
67** The pose the O5 make in Part 10 [[spoiler:against Future!Jean]] is the same pose they made on the cover of the very first issue of ''The X-Men''.
68** Raze, the child of [[spoiler:Wolverine and Mystique]] from the future, is a reference to the Comicbook/HouseOfM storyline. In that alternate universe, they were a couple.
69* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:Future!Xavier's]] mindrape of Bling tips the X-Men off that something is definitely off.
70* PoweredArmor: Sentinel-X sports ComicBook/IronMan-esque armour, to the point where Teen Iceman actually ''calls'' him "not-Iron Man".
71* PowerIncontinence: [[spoiler:Future!Jean, which is why she wears the mask.]]
72* PsychicNosebleed: [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/emma_frost_jean_grey_and_the_stepford_cuckoos_vs_future_xorn_1.jpg Emma Frost and the Stepford Cuckoos]], courtesy of [[spoiler:Xorn!Jean]].
73* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Wolverine and Cyclops both attempt to give each other one at different points, but in the last part, [[spoiler:Xorn!Jean]] gives them ''both'' one about how ''Schism'' lead to the X-Men becoming a mess and that they need to get over themselves.
74* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Wolverine's son, Raze,]] attempts this on [[spoiler:Wolverine. A lot more possible, since at this point, Wolverine has lost his HealingFactor.]]
75* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The future X-Men's ([[spoiler:or rather, the future Brotherhood]]) goal, which is to send the original five back in time. [[spoiler:Though in fact, it turns out that it was because Xorn!Jean has seen so much pain that she's decided she wants to erase her own existence, not because any of them do anything wrong.]]
76* ShamingTheMob: Deadpool, of all people, to stop the fighting between them all in Part 5. [[spoiler:He admits he was lying.]]
77* ShoutOut: The presidential inauguration in Part 6 has the slogan "[[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Yes We Did]]" all over the place.
78* StartOfDarkness: The death of President Blaire is played up as being [[spoiler:Future!Beast's]].
79* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:Future!Colossus' Soulsword]], given that Future!Jean revealed that [[spoiler:Magik killed herself in their timeline]].
80* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Future!Xavier]] suffers one when [[spoiler:he]] learns that [[spoiler:Teen Iceman and Teen Beast left the Jean Grey School]]. [[spoiler:He]] proceeds to [[spoiler:MindRape Bling for their whereabouts]].
81* VoluntaryShapeshifting: [[spoiler:Raze disguises himself as Future!Kitty.]]
82* WhamLine: A few:
83** In Part 5, there are two:
84--->[[spoiler:'''Sentinel-X:''' Leave this to the X-Men.]]\
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86[[spoiler:'''Deadpool:''' It was a good speech. It's a shame it was all a lie.]]
87* WizardClassic: For some inexplicable reason, in the 25 year interim, future Iceman ended up looking like a bearded wizard in robes that focuses his powers through a staff made of ice.
88* WolverineClaws: Raze and Future!Jubilee.
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