We Have To Talk About The Latest Crazy Reveals On Legion

We Have To Talk About The Latest Crazy Reveals On Legion

Legion is getting all the pieces in place for next week’s season finale, and in the latest episode we got a couple of pieces of shocking news, including one that confirms David’s ties to the X-Men.

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We Have To Talk About The Latest Crazy Reveals On Legion

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We Have To Talk About The Latest Crazy Reveals On Legion
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= SHADOW KING!!

So yeah, the Yellow-Eyed Demon is actually Amahl Farouk, the Shadow King. If you read our spoilers reveal earlier this week, this didn’t come as a surprise, but it’s a really big deal. Farouk is a real threat to David (in the comics, he put David in a years-long coma), and judging from the final shots from the episode, he isn’t going down without a fight.

However, that’s not the only major thing we learned this week. We also know that Charles Xavier is actually David’s father, as revealed through a combination of David’s chalkboard recreation of his origin story and Professor X’s wheelchair in Lenny’s psychotic visions. This isn’t a big reveal for fans of the comics, since it’s a key part of his story, but it’s still freaking cool. Could it mean Professor X makes an appearance in a future episode of Legion? Fingers crossed Patrick Stewart walks back his whole “


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