Recap / X-Men S3 E8 "No Mutant Is an Island"

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• 10-Minute Retirement: The departure of Jean has left Scott so broken that he leaves the X-Men of his own will.
• Art Shift: Due to being delayed thanks to problems animating, this episode was released during season 5, and as a result has a different art style from the episodes around it.
• Busman's Holiday: Invoked - Scott originally set out on an aimless sabbatical that just happens upon his old orphanage, where he learns that with all the bigoted humans and mutants needing his help, there's still evil mutants (Kilgrave) as much as good humans (Sarah) out there, and he'll never really be away from it all.
• The Chains of Commanding: One of Scott's grievances when he finally reaches his breaking point is just being fed up with being in charge of the team.
• Child Soldiers: A huge chunk of Kilgrave's plan involves adopting the mutant kids from Sarah's orphanage and turning them into his army.
• Creepy Monotone: Happens to all the kids once Kilgrave's got them brainwashed.
• Heroic Fatigue: Scott points out that fighting for still bigoted humans as well as mutants is wearing him thin.
• Innocently Insensitive: A kid on the bus is running around with a toy gun playing "Shoot the Mutant" and decides Cyclops is a mutant needing to be shot, much to his mom's exasperation.
• New Old Flame: Sarah, another orphan just like Scott, and now running the place.
• Noodle Incident: A Dartboard of Hate of Daredevil can be seen in Kilgrave's office, suggesting some history between the two; in the comics, Purple Man has traditionally been one of Daredevil's rogues.
• Once More, with Clarity: Scott's memories of when his optic blasts started looks very different from Sarah's - likely because Scott's vision was partially impaired.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: While Scott's optic blasts were pretty hard to cover up, he never knew that Sarah had known about it all this time.
• Villain with Good Publicity: Zebediah Kilgrave, a prominent philanthropist dedicated to enriching the region around Scott's old orphanage - comic fans will recognize him as the Purple Man, a supervillain with a Compelling Voice, which pretty much explains how he's kept up that facade, even before the reveal.
• You Have to Believe Me!: The only one who seems to know the truth about Kilgrave is one of the orphans, Rusty (aka Firefist from the comics). Unfortunately, his history of acting out means no one believes him.

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