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Everything You Need to Know About Cassandra Nova, Deadpool & Wolverine’s Surprising X-Villain
Deadpool & Wolverine’s new trailer yesterday didn’t really give fresh details on what the film’s going to be about, beyond the vague threat of multiversal shenanigans and Wade and Logan’s team-up. But it did give us our first really good look at one of the several villains the movie is playing with—and one of the…
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Moira MacTaggert Is Doing Her Damndest to Make Sure the X-Men Always Lose
Wolverine has been a very important part of the X Lives and X Deaths of Wolverine event — after all, he is Wolverine, and he’s in the title of both books — but the post-Inferno story explored in Deaths has explicitly not made him the focal character. Instead, that side of the duology has seen…
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X Deaths and X Lives of Wolverine Are Digging Into the Messy Aftermath of Inferno
The ending of Inferno — Jonathan Hickman’s farewell to direct writing involvement in the Krakoan age of X-Books — upended the secret status quo of the way the sovereign nation of Krakoa was governed by, well… making it not so secret. You might have thought the books might take a little break from all the…
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Inferno Has Burned a Shocking Path to the X-Men’s New Destiny
Charles Xavier, Magneto, and Moira MacTaggert’s dream for mutant civilisation in this reborn era of ascendance has always been predicated on something of a lie — a hopeful lie, perhaps a naïve one, but a powerful lie nonetheless. It’s been a lie well maintained ever since Powers and House of X revealed it to the…