Line #13 ComicBook/AstonishingXMen2017


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3	''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' is a comic launched in 2017, initially written by Creator/CharlesSoule, with a rotating line-up of artists.
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5	After winning [[ComicBook/InhumansVsXMen their war]] against ComicBook/TheInhumans, the ComicBook/XMen have led mutantkind to its healthiest status in quite some time. Though Professor [[ComicBook/ProfessorX Charles Xavier]] is still dead, they're no longer in danger of extinction. But they aren't safe, either.
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7	When an ancient evil attacks the world's telepaths and psychics, a group of X-Men past, present, and future --ComicBook/OldManLogan, ComicBook/{{Psylocke}}, ComicBook/{{Rogue}}, ComicBook/{{Gambit}}, Bishop, Fantomex, Archangel, and ComicBook/{{Mystique}}-- band together to stop it before it can bring the apocalypse.
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9	But little do they know, a familiar face is using them as pawns in a high-stakes game that will have substantial ramifications for the X-Men moving forward...
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11	Soule's ''Astonishing'' is notable for featuring Rogue's return to the X-Men, following a years-long run in ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers'', as well as the return of Charles Xavier to the land of the living.
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13	After the conclusion of Soule's run, ''Astonishing'' continues with a new creative team (writer Creator/MatthewRosenberg and artist Greg Land) starting with issue #13. This iteration of the title features ComicBook/{{Dazzler}} (also making her return to the X-Men after brief stints with ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} and ComicBook/AForce), Havok, ComicBook/{{Beast\|Marvel Comics}}, ComicBook/{{Colossus}}, and Warpath. The Reavers have returned with a new weapon, and it's up to this new team to stop them.
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15	Rosenberg's run serves as a sort of lead-in to ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen2018''
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17	!! "Tropes of X":
18	* ArtShift: A result of the series' rotating art team.
19	* TheAtoner: Alex feels very guilty for the crimes he committed and tries to redeem himself by immediately jumping right back into superheroics.
20	* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:The final page of issue #1 apparently features a revived Xavier, albeit one trapped in the Shadow King's astral plane. He later inhabits Fantomex's body after beating the Shadow King]].
21	* CameBackWrong: There's clearly something wrong with Banshee. If he's not fighting he just stands in place like a statue, completely unresponsive.
22	* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: The Shadow King is defeated in "Life of X"]].
23	* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Psylocke knows the only way to defeat [[spoiler:the Shadow King]] is to attack them from inside their mind.
24	* {{Foil}}: Beast to Havok. Both X-Men have done terrible things and have lost the trust and respect of everyone they cared about as a result. However Alex was BrainwashedAndCrazy while Hank was in his right mind. Also, Alex wants to make amends by being a superhero again while Hank just [[IJustWantToBeNormal wants to get away from it all.]]
25	* ForgivenButNotForgotten: Havok isn't trusted by the superhero community, which is somewhat justified considering he was a villain the last time any of them saw him. [[UnintentionallyUnsympathetic Though, it becomes more grating as they keep treating him like shit]].
26	* FromBadToWorse: After [[spoiler: defeating the Shadow King and stopping his plans]], Bishop reveals [[spoiler: it's the same day Proteus went on a massacre as the mutant himself reconstitutes]].
27	* GrandTheftMe: [[spoiler:Wanting to be remembered for something other than simply being an X-Men, Fantomex allowed ComicBook/ProfessorX to return in his body]].
28	* HeelFaceTurn: Havok was one of the many heroes whose personalities were inverted during ''ComicBook/{{Axis}}'', making him evil as well as one of the few who remained in that state. In ''[[ComicBook/XMenBlue X-Men: Blue]]'', Emma Frost, with help from Polaris, was able to telepathically restore Alex's original, heroic personality.
29	* {{Hypocrite}}: Tony Stark judges Havok for his actions, conveniently forgetting that he himself was inverted and had committed various atrocities as well. In fact, Havok only remained inverted due to the actions of Inverted!Tony.
30	* {{Jerkass}}: Tony goes out of his way to spite Havok by bending the truth on national television, making Alex sound like a dim-witted coward. His only saving grace is not using Alex's name specifically.
31	* JerkassHasAPoint: Tony may be a self-righteous dick-head, but he was right about Alex jeopardizing a sensitive diplomatic mission by rashly attacking the kaiju the Avengers were transporting for Mole Man.
32	* HesBack: [[spoiler:The Shadow King returns after a very long hiatus]].
33	* IntimateLotionApplication: While [[LotusEaterMachine stuck in the Astral Plane]], one of the romantic interactions Mystique and Fantomex have there is a scene where Fantomex is romantically applying lotion on her back while they're at a secluded beach.
34	* TheKirk: Rosenberg described Havok as being this.
35	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The second issue has an extended riff against those who want a regular status quo comic masquerading as the characters watching a movie.
36	* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Fantomex makes a proud declaration that he'd never abandon his friend Gambit! Well... until Gambit pays him. He may or may not be lying.
37	* TheSpock: Rosenberg described Beast as being this.
38	* ThoseTwoGuys: Fantomex and Gambit, who've been rivals to one another since ''ComicBook/CivilWarII''.
39	* RealityIsOutToLunch: Once freed Proteus plans to make the physical world like the Astral Plane, meaning people can reshape the landscape purely through thought. Unfortunately, making reality truly subjective [[RealityWarpingIsNotAToy goes about as well as you expect]] [[HumansAreBastards when people are involved]]. The first thing seen being done is a man killing his wife because he wants to be with another woman.
40	* RidiculouslyAliveUndead: [[spoiler: The best way to describe Banshee - he's in full possession of his faculties and is capable of strategy and teamwork. However, he is still technically a well preserved corpse.]]
41	* TragicMonster: [[spoiler: Proteus]] tries to dissuade the heroes from attacking him, citing that their previous encounters were with him as a child, a child who'd spent his entire life up to that point imprisoned by his own mother, and that he'd just shrugged off being used yet again by villainous people and just wants to live in peace. Unfortunately he plans to make sweeping changes to reality that makes him impossible to ignore.
42	* TrailersAlwaysSpoil:
43	** Though she appears on the cover of issue #1, Mystique's presence on the team is played as a twist in the second issue, when it's revealed she was masquerading as Beast until that point.
44	** Solicitations for later issues also revealed that [[spoiler:Shadow King is the big bad of the first arc]].
45	** Completely averted by [[spoiler: Xavier, whose presence in the plot was avoided entirely by the marketing]].
46	* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about the plot of this series without mentioning that [[spoiler: the Shadow King and Xavier are crucial to the plot]].
47	* WhamShot: The first issue ends with [[spoiler: Shadow King talking to Xavier]].
48	* WorkingWithTheEx: A few cases, funnily enough:
49	** Rogue and Gambit are working with each other again after a long time apart. The two broke up a long while ago, but seem to be on okay terms.
50	*** In fact, they get on so well that in ''ComicBook/XMenGold'' #30, [[spoiler:after Kitty Pryde dumps Colossus at the altar, Gambit proposes to Rogue and they marry there and then.]]
51	** Fantomex and Psylocke, on the other hand, '''hate each other'''. They only dated for six months, but they don't even try to ''hide'' the contempt they have for each other.
52	** Wolverine and Mystique dated each other in the 1800s and have never stopped hating each other.

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