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* JerkassHasAPoint: Issue one finally clarifies why, out of all enhanced human flavors in the Marvel universe, mutants are given special exception to be targeted by FantasticRacism. Lydia Nance explains in a news report that they're the only group where a PersonOfMassDestruction could spontaneously develop from anyone at anytime.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Issue one finally clarifies why, why after decades of Fans wondering,Why out of all enhanced human flavors in the Marvel universe, mutants are given special exception to be targeted by FantasticRacism. Lydia Nance explains in a news report that they're the only group where a PersonOfMassDestruction could spontaneously develop from anyone at anytime.



* UngratefulBastard: True to form, after rescuing a skyscraper of people the X-Men are met with bitter stares from them. A little girl is admonished by her mother for responding to [[ItIsDehumanizing "it"]] when asked if anyone's okay.

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* UngratefulBastard: True to form, after rescuing a skyscraper of people the X-Men are met with bitter stares from them. Although actually has a decent reason fot this.It's is because the public view of the X-Men has been darken after the events of ComicBook/{{Inhumans vs. X-Men}} A little girl is admonished by her mother for responding to [[ItIsDehumanizing "it"]] when asked if anyone's okay.
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* WeddingDay: Issue #30 is set on Kitty and Piotr's wedding day [[spoiler: but it ends up becoming ''Gambit and Rogue's'' wedding]].

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* WeddingDay: WeddingEpisode: Issue #30 is set on Kitty and Piotr's wedding day [[spoiler: but it ends up becoming ''Gambit and Rogue's'' wedding]].
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* LiteralMinded: If only because English is his 800th language or so, an alien General does not understand how he can "give someone the room".
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Literally, when Mojo refers to them as X-crements.
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The series ended, along with the rest of the "coloured" series, with the ''ComicBook/Extermination2018'' event.

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* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Lydia Nance's father was a mutant who regularly hit her. This was what drove her to hate all mutants.]]



* GodsNeedPrayerBadly. Uovu, the god of death, draws part of his strength from the belief of his followers. When Prestige telepathically knocks out Zuberi, the most faithful among them, his power drops enough that Storm can use Stormcaster to finish him.
* GodOfEvil: Uovu is a god of death, and his EvilPlan is to raise the dead of Storm's former village as an army, with which he can conquer the world.
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: The people of Storm's old village. Most of them have become loyal to a new religion revolving around Uovo, despite the fact that (as Storm points out) "Uovu" is the swahili word for "Evil".



* TheReveal: The "Godwar" story arc finally explains why Stormcaster returned to Storm after all this time: [[spoiler:Ainet, Ororo's adoptive mother, who was about to be killed by Uovu's followers, prayed for Ororo to gain true divinity. That prayer awakened Stormcaster, which made its way back to Ororo]].



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** Rather than them be hastily resurrected for the story, Avalanche and Pyro are filled in on Mesmero's new brotherhood with mutants with similar powersets.
** Lydia Nance shares character traits with Graydon Creed; both are viciously anti-mutant politicians [[spoiler:who are actually the human offspring of mutants]].



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** Rather than them be hastily resurrected for the story, Avalanche and Pyro are filled in on Mesmero's new brotherhood with mutants with similar powersets.
** Lydia Nance shares character traits with Graydon Creed; both are viciously anti-mutant politicians [[spoiler:who are actually the human offspring of mutants]].



* WorkingWithTheEx: Kitty has made it clear to Colossus that while she will always care about him she has moved on and is not interested in resuming their old romance. As of issue #11, [[spoiler:Kitty and Peter appear to have reconciled. #20 ends with Kitty asking Piotr to marry her.]]

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* WorkingWithTheEx: Kitty has made it clear to Colossus that while she will always care about him she has moved on and is not interested in resuming their old romance. As of issue #11, [[spoiler:Kitty and Peter appear to have reconciled. #20 ends with Kitty asking Piotr to marry her.]] Unfortunately, Kitty gets cold feet and calls the wedding off. Shortly after, Colossus decides to leave the team, stating that it will be too painful to keep working alongside Kitty.]]
* WreckedWeapon: [[spoiler:In defeating Uovu, Storm expends all of Stormcaster's power, causing the hammer to crumble to dust shortly afterwards.]]
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Following Uovu's defeat, Storm apologizes to her adoptive mother Ainet for "abandoning" her village. Ainet [[spoiler:(just before perishing for good along with all the others Uovu resurrected)]] tells her that she didn't abandon the village, but rather, she gave herself to the world, and that [[SoProudOfYou she could not possibly be prouder of her for it]].

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* ItsAllMyFault: Illyana feels this way after [[spoiler:Kitty backs out of the wedding. The night before, Illyana, when pressed, suggested to Kitty that if she and Peter were meant to be together, it would have happened long before. She is guilt-ridden after Kitty cancels the wedding, believing she ruined her brother and best friend's chance at happiness]].



* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Alpha. [[spoiler:After an attempt to free the imprisoned Lydia Nance ends with his avatar frozen by Iceman, he choses to depart rather than try again.]]



* MoralMyopia: Lydia Nance. Despite [[spoiler:trying to wipe out every mutant on Earth during the 'Til Death Do Us Part" storyline]], she claims the X-Men (heroes dedicated to protecting others) should try being "humane" sometime.



* StagParty: The Wedding Special follows Kitty and Colossus through their respective bachelor and bachelorette parties.


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* SmugSnake: Lydia Nance. Despite the fact that the X-Men are all super-powered beings, she constantly mocks and talks down to them, convinced they can't do a thing to stop her.
* StagParty: The Wedding Special follows Kitty and Colossus through their respective bachelor and bachelorette parties.
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*ShirtlessCaptives: When Colossus is Kidnapped by Lydia Nance and the advanced Sentinel Alpha from his bachelor party. He is taken to her base in the savage land, where he is placed in restraints and stripped of his shirt.
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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Kitty Pryde's mother is surprised by Kitty's request that she walk her down the aisle at Kitty's wedding to Piotr, saying that this is a man's job. In real-life Jewish weddings, [[https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/04/22/are-x-mens-kitty-pryde-and-colossus-not-planning-a-jewish-wedding/ both parents walk the bride and the groom down the aisle]]. While the wedding might not be a Jewish one (Kitty is not very devout and Piotr is an atheist), it's still unrealistic for Kitty's mother ([[CaptainObvious who is Jewish]]) to be surprised.

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* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Kitty Pryde's mother is surprised by Kitty's request that she walk her down the aisle at Kitty's wedding to Piotr, saying that this is a man's job. In real-life Jewish weddings, [[https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/04/22/are-x-mens-kitty-pryde-and-colossus-not-planning-a-jewish-wedding/ both parents walk the bride and the groom down the aisle]]. While the wedding might not be a Jewish one (Kitty is not very devout and Piotr is an atheist), it's still unrealistic for Kitty's mother ([[CaptainObvious who (who is Jewish]]) Jewish) to be surprised.

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* AIIsACrapshoot: Shortly after its creation, Alpha started targeting not only mutants, but a baldness clinic, a reality TV star who was colorblind, and anyone who deviated een slightly from the standard "human" template.
* AuthorTract: Indonesian artist Ardian Syaf, a public supporter of the movement to have the Christian governor of Jakarta province removed on blasphemy grounds, inserted references to the movement in the form of the number 212[[note]]Referencing the protests themselves[[/note]] and the Qur'an verse [=QS5:51=][[note]]A controversial statement with multiple translations, but used by the movement to claim Muslims should not be governed by Christians or Jews[[/note]] in the artwork of issue 1. Syaf later confirmed the intent of these references on social media, leading to immediate backlash. [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor He was sacked.]]

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* AIIsACrapshoot: Shortly after its creation, Alpha started targeting not only mutants, but a baldness clinic, a reality TV star who was colorblind, and anyone who deviated een even slightly from the standard "human" template.
* AuthorTract: Indonesian artist Ardian Syaf, a public supporter of the movement to have the Christian governor of Jakarta province removed on blasphemy grounds, inserted references to the movement in the form of the number 212[[note]]Referencing the protests themselves[[/note]] and the Qur'an verse [=QS5:51=][[note]]A controversial statement with multiple translations, but used by the movement to claim Muslims should not be governed by Christians or Jews[[/note]] in the artwork of issue 1. Syaf later confirmed the intent ArmorPiercingQuestion: Kitty gives one of these references to Lydia Nance in #14, to which Nance provides no response:
-->"I manage to get up in the morning, get dressed, do my job, try to figure out what's going
on social media, leading between me and this guy I've got history with. Occasionally, I help save the world. Y'know, live my life. And I do it all without feeling the need to immediate backlash. [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor He was sacked.]]demonize another group of people. I just... '''don't care''' that people are different from me, because '''people are different'''. So I'm genuinely curious... what is so '''broken''' inside people like you that you have to target anyone who's different?



* AuthorTract: Indonesian artist Ardian Syaf, a public supporter of the movement to have the Christian governor of Jakarta province removed on blasphemy grounds, inserted references to the movement in the form of the number 212[[note]]Referencing the protests themselves[[/note]] and the Qur'an verse [=QS5:51=][[note]]A controversial statement with multiple translations, but used by the movement to claim Muslims should not be governed by Christians or Jews[[/note]] in the artwork of issue 1. Syaf later confirmed the intent of these references on social media, leading to immediate backlash. [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor He was sacked.]]



* CharacterWitness: The ungrateful woman that dismissed and dehumanized the X-Men after they rescued her in issue 1 comes back in the finale, having learned better after seeing them risk themselves to save New York as the only doctor willing to operate on a mutant whose uncontrolled powers risk the entire hospital.

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* CharacterWitness: The ungrateful [[spoiler:ungrateful woman that dismissed and dehumanized the X-Men after they rescued her in issue 1 comes back in the finale, having learned better after seeing them risk themselves to save New York as the only doctor willing to operate on a mutant whose uncontrolled powers risk the entire hospital.hospital]].



* FreudianExcuse: Lydia Nance turns out to hate mutants because her abusive father was a mutant.

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* FreudianExcuse: Lydia Nance turns out to hate mutants because her [[spoiler:her abusive father was a mutant.mutant]].



* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Colossus' response to Lydia Nance's plot [[spoiler: to kill mutantkind by recreating the Legacy Virus]] is short but sweet:

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Colossus' response to Lydia Nance's plot [[spoiler: to kill mutantkind by recreating the Legacy Virus]] is short but sweet:



* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Rather than them be hastily resurrected for the story, Avalanche and Pyro are filled in on Mesmero's new brotherhood with mutants with similar powersets.
* ScaryDogmaticAliens: Kologoth's army follow the teachings of an ancient prophet, teachings that most of their kind had abandoned before Kolgoth brought them back into focus.

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Rather than them be hastily resurrected for the story, Avalanche and Pyro are filled in on Mesmero's new brotherhood with mutants with similar powersets.
** Lydia Nance shares character traits with Graydon Creed; both are viciously anti-mutant politicians [[spoiler:who are actually the human offspring of mutants]].
* ScaryDogmaticAliens: Kologoth's army follow the teachings scriptures of an ancient prophet, teachings ancient, fallen deity, scriptures that most of their kind had abandoned before Kolgoth brought them back into focus.



* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Lydia Nance shares character traits with Graydon Creed; both are viciously anti-mutant politicians [[spoiler:who are actually the human offspring of mutants]].



* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: Kologoth was originally believed to be a new mutant. After the X-Men captured him, they learned he was actually an alien that Mesmero was passing off as a mutant.

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* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: Kologoth was originally believed to be a new mutant. After the X-Men captured him, they learned he was actually an alien mutant that Mesmero was passing off as a human mutant.
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* AIIsACrapshoot: Shortly after its creation, Alpha started targeting not only mutants, but a baldness clinic, a reality TV star who was colorblind, and anyone who deviated een slightly from the standard "human" template.


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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Kologoth's army, specifically the officers, wear black uniforms with red armbands featuring a black and white symbol.


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* {{Hypocrite}}: [[spoiler:Colossus's uncle. He has the nerve to claim Peter has abandoned his nationality, in spite of the fate that he helped bring back Omega Red to terrorize his countrymen.]]


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* MeaningfulRename: Rachel Summers takes on a new superhero name: ''Prestige''.


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* ScaryDogmaticAliens: Kologoth's army follow the teachings of an ancient prophet, teachings that most of their kind had abandoned before Kolgoth brought them back into focus.


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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Lydia Nance shares character traits with Graydon Creed; both are viciously anti-mutant politicians [[spoiler:who are actually the human offspring of mutants]].


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* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: Kologoth was originally believed to be a new mutant. After the X-Men captured him, they learned he was actually an alien that Mesmero was passing off as a mutant.

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* CrossesTheLineTwice: In the second annual, a fourteen-year-old Kitty learns that her friends aren't as tolerant as she hoped.
-->'''Madison''': Oh my god, Kitty, you're not… you're not a mutant-sympathizer, are you? I mean, being Jewish is one thing…


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* InnocentBigot: In the second annual, a fourteen-year-old Kitty learns that her friends aren't as tolerant as she hoped.
-->'''Madison''': Oh my god, Kitty, you're not… you're not a mutant-sympathizer, are you? I mean, being Jewish is one thing…
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See also: ''ComicBook/XMenRed'', another color-based team title of this era, led by the resurrected ComicBook/JeanGrey, and ''X-Men Black'', an {{anthology}} series about several X-Men antagonists.

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See also: ''ComicBook/XMenRed'', another color-based team title of this era, led by the resurrected ComicBook/JeanGrey, and ''X-Men Black'', ''ComicBook/XMenBlack'', an {{anthology}} series about several X-Men antagonists.
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* CharacterWitness: The ungrateful woman that dismissed and dehumanized the X-Men after they rescued her in issue 1 comes back in the finale, having learned better after seeing them risk themselves to save New York as the only doctor willing to operate on a mutant whose uncontrolled powers risk the entire hospital.
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* Lampshading: in issue #34, when Kitty and Illyana discuss what happened at [[spoiler:Kitty's wedding]].

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* Lampshading: in issue #34, when Kitty and Illyana discuss what happened at [[spoiler:Kitty's wedding]].
-->'''charging robot:''' This is hardly the time to talk about your feelings.
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* ArtisticLiccenseLinguistics: At one point Kurt addresses his friends as "mein freunds" instead of the "meine freunde", which is what you get if you apply German grammar to that phrase.

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* ArtisticLiccenseLinguistics: ArtisticLicenseLinguistics: At one point Kurt addresses his friends as "mein freunds" instead of the "meine freunde", which is what you get if you apply German grammar to that phrase.
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* ArtisticLiccenseLinguistics: At one point Kurt addresses his friends as "mein freunds" instead of the "meine freunde", which is what you get if you apply German grammar to that phrase.
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* CrossesTheLineTwice: In the second annual, a fourteen-year-old Kitty learns that her friends aren't as tolerant as she hoped.
-->'''Madison''': Oh my god, Kitty, you're not… you're not a mutant-sympathizer, are you? I mean, being Jewish is one thing…
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See also: ''ComicBook/XMenRed'', another color-based team title of this era, led by the resurrected ComicBook/JeanGrey.

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** Also, the rabbi apparently has no problem [[spoiler: marrying Gambit and Rogue, a lapsed Catholic and a Southern Baptist she barely knows.]]
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** Issue #1 reveals they'll be encountering the original ComicBook/GenerationX.
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* ImpossibleTheft: In issue 30, Comicbook/{{Gambit}} [[spoiler:steals a ''wedding'']].[[note]]After Kitty leaves Colossus at the altar, he proposes to Rogue at the would-be reception and they take advantage of having everything there to get married themselves.[[/note]]

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* RealityEnsues: In the first issues of Prime, Kitty had Illyana move the X-Mansion into Central Park. Come the first issue of Gold, after signing phone books of paperwork, she's later given an invoice for ''18 million dollars'' to stay as it is the most valuable real estate in New York after all.

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* RealityEnsues: In the first issues pages of Prime, Kitty had Illyana move the X-Mansion into Central Park. Come the first issue of Gold, after signing phone books of paperwork, she's later given an invoice for ''18 million dollars'' to stay as it is the most valuable real estate in New York after all.


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* RunawayBride: [[spoiler: Kitty gets cold feet about her wedding to Colossus, and their wedding is canceled]].


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* StagParty: The Wedding Special follows Kitty and Colossus through their respective bachelor and bachelorette parties.
* TheyDo: In issue #30. [[spoiler: But rather than Kitty and Colossus, it's Rogue and Gambit]].


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* WeddingDay: Issue #30 is set on Kitty and Piotr's wedding day [[spoiler: but it ends up becoming ''Gambit and Rogue's'' wedding]].
* WhyWasteAWedding: [[spoiler: After Kitty gets cold feet, Gambit swoops in and asks for Rogue's hand in marriage, followed by their swift exchanging of nuptials]].
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Rather than them be hastily resurrect for the story, Avalanche and Pyro are filled in on Mesmero's new brotherhood with mutants with similar powersets.

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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstituthem Rather than them be hastily resurrect for the story, Avalanche and Pyro are filled in on Mesmero's new brotherhood with mutants with similar powersets.

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* SerialKiller: The villain of the ''Secret Empire'' tie-in arc is a serial killer who targets mutants.

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* FrameUp: When the X-Men are fighting the Brotherhood at the beginning of the ''Cruel and Unusual'' arc Mesmero manipulates the minds of onlookers to see the Brotherhood as police officers. Result? The X-Men go to jail.



* PrisonEpisode: The ''Cruel and Unusual'' arc, where the X-Men are mind-controlled into fighting the police and end up in jail for three issues (imprisoned alongside some of their old enemies who obviously want a piece of them).

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* PrisonEpisode: The ''Cruel and Unusual'' arc, where the X-Men are mind-controlled into framed for fighting the police and end up in jail for three issues (imprisoned alongside some of their old enemies who obviously want a piece of them).
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* BarredFromTheAfterlife: Nightcrawler is revealed to be immortal because his lack of a soul keeps him from passing on (this is the result of things that happened in ''The Quest for Nightcrawler'' the first arc of ''Amazing X-Men'').

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* BarredFromTheAfterlife: Nightcrawler is revealed to be immortal because his lack of a soul keeps him from passing on (this is the result of things that happened in ''The Quest for Nightcrawler'' Nightcrawler,'' the first arc of ''Amazing X-Men'').

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