History YMMV / Inferno1988

** Marvel created ''Inferno'' just [[MurderTheHypotenuse to get rid of Pryor]] because StatusQuoIsGod makes it sacred that Grey and Cyclops exclusively belong together. Decades later, Marvel decides to imply that [[EpilepticTrees both Grey and Cyclops are casting aside monogamy and are embracing]] {{Polyamory}}.

* HarsherInHindsight: Pryor got retconned as being a clone of Grey (one of the most popular X-Men) to turn Pryor [[ExpendableClone worthless and to kill her off]]. Years later Marvel brought in [[ComicBook/{{X23}} Laura Kinney (X-23)]], a ''female'' clone of Wolverine (the most popular of all the X-Men), and she has been [[ClonesArePeopleToo thriving as a supporting X-Men character]] and even made a character in [[Film/{{Logan}} a movie]].

* EvilIsSexy: Madelyne as compared to Jean.

%%* EvilIsSexy: Madelyne as compared to Jean.

* SpiritualAdaptation: ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'''s season-5 finale episode, [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS5E22TheGift "The Gift"]], is suspiciously similar in plot to Marvel's ''Inferno'', but subverts and inverts Marvel's storyline by (temporarily, of course) killing Buffy instead of Dawn Summers, who in several details is nearly an {{Expy}} of Madelyne Pryor. (The episode's title is also the same as an X-Men story in which Pryor is a main character.)

** A [[Film/TheIsland 2005 film]], whose [[Creator/ScarlettJohansson lead actress]] would later be starring in the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU films]], is about clones being manufactured to be killed to provide organs for the people from whom they were cloned, with all the clones being the heroes and innocent victims, and most of the "normal" human characters being various levels of [[HumansAreBastards monsters, bastards, or indifferent]]. Briefly included in the film is a pregnant woman who is murdered after giving birth, and the baby then handed to a joyful woman from whom the birth mother was cloned.

** Numerous mutant children ''besides'' the babies abducted by the demons are depicted in the orphanage secretly run by Mister Sinister, are rescued after the event, and were never seen again.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: The demon [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]] N'Astirh is introduced, and killed, in this story arc. Given that he's just another magic-user, fans who think Belasco, the sorcerer who turned Illyana into Magik in the first place, should have returned for this instead consider his introduction to be this.

* BadExportForYou: The 2015 trade paperback contains numerous excerpts of the events' subplots and leadups in other comics and includes all of the issues of ''X-Terminators'' and relevant issues of ''New Mutants'', but cuts off its ''X-Factor'' reprints '''two issues'' before the actual confrontation between the X-Men and Madeleyne, meaning the story isn't actually complete!

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Decades later, many folks only remember ''Inferno'' for Pryor's outfit, [[ComicBook/XMenGrandDesign barely remembering or acknowledging]] anything else about ''Inferno'', including that [[DemotedToExtra Illyana and the New Mutants]] even had anything to do with it.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Decades later, many folks only remember ''Inferno'' for Pryor's outfit, barely remembering or acknowledging anything else about ''Inferno'', including that Illyana and the New Mutants even had anything to do with it.

* AuthorsSavingThrow: A lot of fans had previously complained that the retcon that the Jean in ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'' was actually the Phoenix Forces negated her sacrifice at the end of the story. This storyline explains that the Phoenix Force had actually absorbed a piece of Jean's soul when she became Phoenix, thus making her Jean for all intents and purposes. Furthermore, this story has Jean reclaiming the piece of her soul borrowed by the Phoenix Force along with all of her memories from her time as Phoenix.

* AllForNothing: ''Inferno'' and Pryor being killed off, in Hindsight. 1) Everyone has seen how things went between Cyclops and Jean Grey. 2) Cyclops' reputation keeps re-sinking, even though Marvel keeps on trying to re-float him. 3) Grey's parents would later end up getting slaughtered... by space aliens.

* EvilIsSexy: Madelyne as compared to Jean.

* IdiotPlot:
** ...So, nobody thought to check out Madelyne's DNA to see if it matched Jean's?
** Why didn't Sinister just use Cyclops and Jean's DNA to create the baby instead of going to such convoluted extremes? Made even worse because ''that's exactly what he does'' in the AlternateUniverse crossover, The ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse. Though the original comics implied that there was some wild-card component to the pairing he wanted that he couldn't just copy in a lab.
** Chalk it up to being written in the 1980s before "CSI" made everyone an inexpert forensic scientist. DNA testing was advanced significantly in the 1990s, which coincides with its appearance in many crime shows. Also, it would've been kind of a jerkish thing to do to Madelyne--"Please let me draw some of your blood, I want to DNA-test you to see you aren't a clone of my late wife" would sound rather creepy even in a superhero comic. [[NoSocialSkills Reed Richards]] might just possibly do that, but it's totally in character for Cyclops ''not'' to.

* SpiritualAdaptation: ''[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'''s season-5 finale episode, "The Gift", is suspiciously similar in plot to Marvel's ''Inferno'', but subverts and inverts Marvel's storyline by (temporarily, of course) killing Buffy instead of Dawn Summers, who in several details is nearly an {{Expy}} of Madelyne Pryor. (The episode's title is also the same as an X-Men story in which Pryor is a main character.)

* BestKnownForTheFanservice: Decades later, most folks only remember ''Inferno'' for Pryor's outfit. Most barely remember or acknowledge anything else about ''Inferno'', including that Illyana and the New Mutants had anything to do with it.

** Many years after resorting to this massive and hyped crossover -- which came about because Jean Grey had been brought back, and to clear the path for Cyclops and Grey's relationship and eventual marriage -- Marvel then decides that in order to attract new generations of kids to their comics, their lead characters, including Cyclops with the notable exception of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards and Sue Storm]], must all be unmarried and single ([[ComicBook/OneMoreDay Spider-Man being the most notorious example of this policy]]). Also, Jean Grey's increasing redundancy of storylines and character arcs lead Marvel to have her sentenced to the ''DroppedABridgeOnHim'', not returning again for more than a decade.

** Many years after resorting to this massive and hyped crossover -- which came about because Jean Grey had been brought back, and to clear the path for Cyclops and Grey's relationship and eventual marriage -- Marvel then decides that in order to attract new generations of kids to their comics, their lead characters, including Cyclops, must all be unmarried and single ([[ComicBook/OneMoreDay Spider-Man being the most notorious example of this policy]]). Also, Jean Grey's increasing redundancy of storylines and character arcs lead Marvel to have her sentenced to the ''DroppedABridgeOnHim'', not returning again for more than a decade.

* AllForNothing: ''Inferno'' and Pryor being killed off, in Hindsight. 1) Everyone has seen how things went between Cyclops and Jean Grey. 2) The reputation of Cyclops keeps re-sinking, even though Marvel keeps on trying to re-float him. 3) Grey's parents would later end up getting slaughtered... by space aliens.

** A [[Film/TheIsland 2005 film]], whose [[Creator/ScarlettJohansson lead actress]] would later be starring in the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU films]], is about clones being manufactured to be killed to provide organs for the people from whom they were cloned, with all the clones being the heroes and innocent victims, and most of the "normal" human characters being various levels of [[HumansAreBastards monsters, bastards, or indifferent]]. Briefly included in the film is a pregnant woman who is killed after giving birth, and the baby then handed to the joyful woman from whom the birth mother was cloned.

* NightmareFuel: Many instances, but particularly when Madelyne tries to kill her own baby.