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** Issue #64 is the last part of the X-Men/Shang-Chi team-up: the team is en route to the United States, when Bastion's Super Sentinels intercept them midflight and a battle ensues (issue #65).
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* ImmediateSequel:
** Issue #53, when Jean Grey goes shopping and Onslaught drags her to the astral plane, leads directly into ''Uncanny X-Men'' #334. Issue #54 also follows immediately after the ''Uncanny'' issue, wherein Jean reads Juggernaut's mind on his request and learns Onslaught's identity: [[spoiler:Professor Xavier!]]

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** In issues #71-72, Cyclops and Jean Grey leave the team to take a sabattical in Alaska.

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** In issues #71-72, issue #71, Cyclops and Jean Grey leave the team to take a sabattical in Alaska.Alaska.
** In issue #73, Joseph [[spoiler:(Magneto's younger clone)]] quits the team to go with Sabra to learn more about his past misdeeds.
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* ShipTease: It's in this title that Rogue and Gambit become a couple, beginning with some light flirtation at first, like a motorbike ride in #4 and a picnic in #8.

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* ShipTease: It's in this title that Rogue and Gambit become a couple, beginning with some light flirtation at first, and some initial dates, like a motorbike ride in #4 and a picnic in #8.
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* OfficialCouple: The title both teases and officializes the Rogue/Gambit pairing.


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* ShipTease: It's in this title that Rogue and Gambit become a couple, beginning with some light flirtation at first, like a motorbike ride in #4 and a picnic in #8.
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The Hellions' deaths were Fitzroy's plot in Uncanny, not Adjectiveless.


** Almost immediately after Claremont left, the Hellions, long-standing rivals to the New Mutants, were slaughtered almost to a man to make the Upstarts look dangerous.

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* TheBusCameBack: Karima Sharpandar returns during Mike Carrey's run, having last been seen in Chris Claremont's ''Excalibur'' a few years before.

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* TheBusCameBack: TheBusCameBack:
** Issue #80 brings back Shadowcat, Colossus and Nightcrawler, after more than a decade away from the main team (and titles).
** In issue #84, Professor X returns to the X-Men.
** Issue #85 is the prologue to the ''Magneto War'' 1999 BatFamilyCrossover, bringing back Magneto as the main X-villain for the foreseeable future.
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Karima Sharpandar Shapandar returns during Mike Carrey's Carey's run, having last been seen in Chris Claremont's ''Excalibur'' a few years before.

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* ContinuityOverlap: Issues #77-78, "Psi-War" two-parter, deals with Shadow King causing a feedback that affects several psychic mutants, who feel the consequences in their respective titles: Jean Grey (in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #358), Emma Frost (in ''Generation X''), Nate Grey (in ''X-Man''), and Cable (in ''Cable'').

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* ContinuityOverlap: ContinuityOverlap:
** Issues #4-5 happen almost immediately before ''Uncanny X-Men'' #281: the Gold Team wears fancy outfits to attend a Hellfire Club gala on Emma Frost's invitation, while Forge plays chess with Professor Xavier.
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Issues #77-78, "Psi-War" two-parter, deals deal with Shadow King causing a feedback that affects several psychic mutants, who feel the consequences in their respective titles: Jean Grey (in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #358), Emma Frost (in ''Generation X''), Nate Grey (in ''X-Man''), and Cable (in ''Cable'').
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** In issue #100, Kitty Pryde dates a Neo, who tells his boss, Domina, Kitty is a Neo. Kitty then puts on a green and purple armour, helps her teammates escape on a rocket back to Earth, and vanishes somewhere else. She reappears in issue #110 to take Colossus's cinerary urn to spread is ashes over his farm in Russia, and neither Chris Claremont (who penned her vanishing) nor Scott Lobdell (who wrote issue #110) explained her sudden return.

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** In issue #100, Kitty Pryde dates a Neo, who tells his boss, Domina, Kitty is a Neo. Kitty then puts on a green and purple armour, helps her teammates escape on a rocket back to Earth, and vanishes somewhere else. She reappears in issue #110 to take Colossus's cinerary urn to spread is his ashes over his farm in Russia, and neither Russia. Neither Chris Claremont (who penned her vanishing) nor Scott Lobdell (who wrote issue #110) explained her sudden return.
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** In issue #100, Kitty Pryde dates a Neo, who tells his boss, Domina, Kitty is a Neo. Kitty then puts on a green and purple armour, helps her teammates escape on a rocket back to Earth, and vanishes somewhere else. She reappears in issue #110 to take Colossus's cinerary urn to spread is ashes over his farm in Russia, and neither Chris Claremont (who penned her vanishing) nor Scott Lobdell (who wrote issue #110) explained her sudden return.
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* AbortedArc:
** In issue #71, Sebastian Shaw is having tea, when someone stops time and gives him a letter sealed with some sort of Mayan/Aztec design, In issue #73, Shaw accepts the voice's invitation during a Hellfire Club festival in Rio de Janeiro, the letter burns in his hands, and a shadow presence appears behind him, telling him "the end of his world was near". This has not been explored any further.
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** Issues #72-76, a strange package is posted in Germany, addressed to Ororo Munroe in New York. This is by her adoptive mother Ainet, and will be dealt with in the "Psi-War" two-parter.

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* ContinuityOverlap: Issues #77-78, "Psi-War" two-parter, deals with Shadow King causing a feedback that affects several psychic mutants, who feel the consequences in their respective titles: Emma Frost (in ''Generation X''), Nate Grey (in ''X-Man''), and Cable (in ''Cable'').

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* ContinuityOverlap: Issues #77-78, "Psi-War" two-parter, deals with Shadow King causing a feedback that affects several psychic mutants, who feel the consequences in their respective titles: Jean Grey (in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #358), Emma Frost (in ''Generation X''), Nate Grey (in ''X-Man''), and Cable (in ''Cable'').''Cable'').
* TheCorrupter: In issue #78, the Shadow King tries to give "their heart's desire" to the three recent additions to the X-team: Marrow, Cecilia Reyes and Maggot. Cecilia wants to be a famous and brilliant medical doctor; Marrow wants to look normal and be loved, and Maggot wants to be a great superhero.
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* ContinuityOverlap: Issues #77-78, "Psi-War" two-parter, deals with Shadow King causing a feedback that affects several psychic mutants, who feel the consequences in their respective titles: Emma Frost (in ''Generation X''), Nate Grey (in ''X-Man''), and Cable (in ''Cable'').


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* IronicEcho: During the "Psi-War" two-parter, Shadow King tries to seduce Psylocke to be his consort, telling her she looks "ravishing entombed in darkness". After defeating the villain, Psylocke seals him inside a black ball, concluding that, in this state, he "looks ravishing entombed in darkness."
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* PutOnABus: The title has a revolving door for X-Men members, just like its sister series, ''Uncanny X-Men''.
** In issues #71-72, Cyclops and Jean Grey leave the team to take a sabattical in Alaska.
** In issue #79, Cannonball leaves the team.
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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits:
** During the ''Operation: Zero Tolerance'' crossover (issues #66-69), Iceman allies himself with doctor Cecilia Reyes, Morlock (and former minor antagonist) Marrow, and secret Israeli agent Sabra, in their fight against Bastion and his operation.
** Issues #71-79, the X-Men roster includes veterans like Cannonball, Storm, Rogue and Wolverine, and newcomers Cecilia Reyes (a medical doctor and reluctant hero), Marrow (formerly a minor antagonist) and Maggot (a South African teenager).
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At the beginning of the series, the X-Men's massive ensemble cast was split evenly between two central X-Men titles, with each one focused on a different field team. The new ''X-Men'' series featured the "Blue Team" of [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]], ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, [[Characters/MarvelComicsRogue Rogue]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsGambit Gambit]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsBeast Beast]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsPsylocke Psylocke]] and [[Characters/XMen90sMembers Jubilee]] (while ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' featured the "Gold Team").

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At the beginning of the series, the X-Men's massive ensemble cast was split evenly between two central X-Men titles, with each one focused on a different field team. The new ''X-Men'' series featured the "Blue Team" of [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]], ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsRogue Rogue]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsGambit Gambit]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsBeast Beast]], [[Characters/MarvelComicsPsylocke Psylocke]] and [[Characters/XMen90sMembers [[Characters/MarvelComicsJubilee Jubilee]] (while ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' featured the "Gold Team").
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** Issues #60-61 acts as {{Sequel}} to a previous Storm story in ''X-Men Unlimited'' Vol. 1 #7.
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** In issues #62-64, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Cannonball and Wolverine join forces with Shang-Chi to stop a plot by the Kingpin (at this time, an American expatriate) and Sebastian Shaw in Hong Kong.
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** Issues #42-44, just after ''Age of Apocalypse'', deal with interdimensional refugee Holocaust being found by the Acolytes. The monster awakens, destroys the Avalon space haven, killing some Acolytes, and Cyclops leads the survivors to another safe place.

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** Issues #42-44, just after ''Age of Apocalypse'', ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'', deal with interdimensional refugee Holocaust being found by the Acolytes. The monster awakens, destroys the Avalon space haven, killing some Acolytes, and Cyclops leads the survivors to another safe place.
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** Issues #42-44, just after ''Age of Apocalypse'', deal with interdimensional refugee Holocaust being found by the Acolytes. The monster awakens, destroys the Avalon space haven, killing some Acolytes, and Cyclops leads the survivors to another safe place.
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* WeddingEpisode: Issue #30 is the Jean Grey and Cyclops's wedding. No clones, no cosmic entities, no battles. Just a single, solemn ceremony on the mansion's grounds with the assembled X-teams (in formal wear, mind you).

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