History ComicBook / WorldTour

* SurprisinglyGoodForeignLanguage: Cyclops and team learn that Wolverine understands Japanese.

The World Tour is the name of an X-Men storyline that occurred in ComicBook/UncannyXMen #111-121 written by Chris Claremont and drawn by John Byrne and Terry Austin.

* GetAholdOfYourselfMan: Wolverine slaps Jean/Miz Destiny to break her free from the personality Mesmero forced on her. It works, but not before the enraged Phoenix knocks him to the wall.

* HostileWeather: Shaman manipulates the weather to force the X-Men to travel to Calgary Canada. Unfortunately this warps the weather patterns, causing a dangerous blizzard that threatens the populace. Storm has to enter the weather’s nexus to restore things back to normal.

* FloatingBubblr: Magneto encases the wagon carrying him and the X-Men in a magnetic bubble that protects them in their flight near the stratosphere to his base inside a volcano. Magneto emits this protection to enter or leave his Space station or Volcano base.

* HumanSacrifice: Garrok captures Cyclops, Banshee, and Colossus and has puts them up to be sacrificed.

* WeirdWeather: Garokk’s city is warping the weather patterns of the Savage Land, causing the Antarctic cold to come through.

* ShirtlessScene: Issue 114 could apply, with Cyclops, Wolverine, Banshee, and Colossus all lacking a top.

* AssholeVictim: Angus MacWhirter breaks into Moira’s Lab in Muir Isle intent to blow it up (as payback to the X-Men for taking his boat in UXM#104). He becomes Proteus’ first victim.

* {{Brainwashing}}: The first story is devoted to this, with Mesmero putting the X-Men under this: he turns them into carnival people with no memory or personality traits of their real selves. Wolverine and Nightcrawler become wild freaks. Banshee is a Carnival barker with no Irish accent. Phoenix and Storm become showgirls. After a few weeks, Wolverine is able to break his brainwashing via a primal urge of personality. He subsequently frees Phoenix, who then telepathically restores the others.

* DePower: Banshee loses his mutant power of sonic scream from injuries sustained in stopping Moses Magnum’s effort to destroy Japan. He will remain powerless until the final storylines of Claremont’s run.

* Brainwashing: The first story is devoted to this, with Mesmero putting the X-Men under this: he turns them into carnival people with no memory or personality traits of their real selves. Wolverine and Nightcrawler become wild freaks. Banshee is a Carnival barker with no Irish accent. Phoenix and Storm become showgirls. After a few weeks, Wolverine is able to break his brainwashing via a primal urge of personality. He subsequently frees Phoenix, who then telepathically restores the others.

* FlyingBubble: Magneto encases the wagon carrying him and the X-Men in a magnetic bubble that protects them in their flight near the stratosphere to his base inside a volcano. Magneto emits this protection to enter or leave his Space station or Volcano base.

* PetsonalitySwap: Cyclops and Wolverine in the Canada story. The stoic Cyclops is aggressive to Alpha Flight stalking and fighting them. Wolverine is the calm one, at one point stopping Cyclops from punching Northstar.

Mesmero kidnaps the X-Men and hypnotizes them into circus freaks. The team breaks free, only to encounter a worse adversary: Magneto. The Master of Magnetism takes the team to his base (inside a volcano), defeats them one by one, and imprisons them. Again the team free themselves and fight Magneto to a standstill. Unfortunately, the battle damaged the base’s shields, causing Lava to tear through. Separated from the team, Phoenix and Beast make it to surface, believing the other X-Men were killed. They return to Professor Xavier to tell him the sad news.

However the X-Men did survive by tunneling to the nearby Savage Land. Thus starts a World Tour as the Mutant team go from Antarctica to Japan to Canada, encountering future Allies & adversaries like Zaladane, Mariko Yashida, and Alpha Flight.

* ArtisticLicenseGeology: In truth, the lava seeping through Magneto’s base would have emitted enough heat to fry the X-Men without contact.
* AssholeVictim: Angus MacWhirter breaks into Moira’s Lab in Muir Isle intent to blow it up (as payback for the X-Men for taking his boat in UXM#104). He becomes Proteus’ first victim.

** Of course, Colossus and Wolverine are the most vulnerable.

** In Canada, Banshee spots Vindicator (whom he remembers accidentally injured Moira). He attempts his Sonic Cry, but breaks down.

** The Savage Land story has the team and Ka-Zar defeat Garokk and Zaladane and save the environment, but Storm is unable to prevent Garokk’s DisneyDeath.

* TheShadowKnows: In Muir Isle, Jean encounters a gentleman named Jason Wyndgarde. His shadow reveals his true form.

* WierdWeather: Garokk’s city is warping the weather patterns of the Savage Land, causing the Antarctic cold to come through.