I am Clarity. For the last three hundred years I have used my ability to assimilate massive quantities of visual and auditory information to track trends and patterns in history. In this Current Events class you will learn to do the same for the recent happenings in the X-Men Universe. Links to individual title reviews are now listed for the last four weeks. For all other summaries/reviews, you must also enroll in Course c1407x: "Historical Archiving."

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Due to the tardy nature of reviews on this site and the generally redundant nuisance that it is, the X-Thoughts/Current Events class will undergo a revision shortly. Based on a comment on the message board requesting recaps of what's going on across the X-Universe(s), this is what I would like to do, and I'm looking for help!

Each ongoing series (and possibly the LSs, but that is not a priority) will have a one- to two-sentence writeup on the page, stating in the most basic terms the who and what of the last storyline. Another sentence can give the basic setup of the current storyline. I would like this to be as current as possible, which means that if you volunteer to help out I would like any updates to be in by late Wed./ early Thurs. Given that we are talking about a sentence or so per book per month, that's not so hard.

I will then archive the content of the page as storylines change to begin to build another course package I've been contemplating, which is the "Short History of..." class, as I have already done with Excalibur Vol I. Help on those would also be appreciated, especially for the Cancelled Titles.


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| Astonishing X-Men | Cable & Deadpool | New Excalibur | Exiles | New X-Men | Uncanny X-Men | Ultimate X-Men | Ultimates II | Wolverine II | Wolverine Origins | X-Factor II | X-Men |


Astonishing X-Men:
Previously: Flashback: Cassandra Nova contacts Emma in Genosha and warns her of the impending Wild Sentinel attack, then "creates" her secondary mutation to protect her. Present: Emma makes her move, taking Scott on a tour of his subconscious and telling him that his leadership role was given to him out of pity. Kitty and Colossus finally consummate their relationship. Suddenly, Cassandra Nova appears to Beast. Emma finds a buried memory of Scott choosing not to control his powers, and Cyclops is left comatose. Emma sends the other X-Men to help, and the new Hellfire Club attacks. Colossus beats on Shaw until Shaw gets powered up enough to defeat him. Cassandra devolves Beast and returns Logan to his childhood persona. Negasonic Teenage Warhead causes Shadowcat to phase uncontrollably. Hisako confronts Beast and temporarily scares him off. As Kitty recovers her control deep within the Earth, the Club plots their next phase.
Current Events: Kitty gets back to the Mansion and takes out Emma Frost, only to be confronted by Perfection, who reveals herself as the White Queen, looking exactly like Emma! Yeahbuhwhat? Meanwhile, Ord escapes SWORD with Danger's help, as the destroyer of the Breakworld is revealed to be Colossus. Lockheed sees Danger and Ord approaching the Mansion, and contacts SWORD. Kitty is mind-controlled into an illusion of the future and tricked into cracking into a secret chamber in the sub-basement, from which she removes Stuff, the alien containing Cassandra Nova's mind (which Kitty thought was her imprisoned son). As Cassie and the White Queen gloat, Scott wakes up and shoots "Emma..."

Cable & Deadpool:
Previously: Deadpool is hired to stop Flag-Smasher from retaining control of Rumekistan, and Domino is hired to see what Deadpool's reasons are. Eventually they discover Citizen V masquerading as the rebel leader, but Deadpool beats him. Domino then lets V go, and ends up killing Flag-Smasher. Cable then descends to claim his leadership over the country. Things move along well but Domino's not convinced, and she attacks Cable, successfully demonstrating her ability to kill him. She leaves Cable heart-broken that his best friend doesn't trust him...
Current Events: CIVIL WAR: Deadpool signs up as a registered bounty hunter (after a failed attempt to apprehend the already-registered Great Lakes Champions), while Cable tries to convince Captain America to flee to Providence. Deadpool tracks down the Secret Avengers but gets his butt whupped and remains tied up for the duration of a deadly battle between sides. Cable releases Wade and takes him along to see the President, whom Cable tries to convince not to implement the Fifty States Initiative. The President orders Deadpool to arrest Cable, and Wade ends up tied up again...

New Excalibur:
Previously: Dazzler sings a show in London and afterwards, is killed by the Dark X-Men. Captain Britain is visited by Psylocke, Nightcrawler, Marvel Girl, Shadowcat, Nocturne, and Juggernaut but is interrupted by Pete Wisdom, who tells them Dazzler has been murdered. Dazzler is found not dead and they fight the Dark X-Men at the hospital. Sage and Courtney Ross arrive to help. Eventually they beat Dark X-Men with Wisdom beating Xavier while he was distracted in Nocturne’s mind with Marvel Girl. Wisdom wants to reform Excalibur but Captain Britain declines. Wisdom vows to get Brian to join. Mysterious deaths occur over the world while the Warwolves exhibit is oddly closed. Juggernaut is put on trial for public damage. She-Hulk defends him but Wisdom ends the trial with a note from the Prime Minister. Courtney and Captain Britain bond a bit when they are attacked by Lionheart. Warwolves attack Nocturne, Dazzler, and Juggernaut and ambush Sage. While the team subdues the Warwolves, Captain Britain fights Lionheart and gains the upper hand until Albion joins. The fight ends in Albion's retreat. Captain Britain decides to join Excalibur.

Current Events: Excalibur assists in search-and-rescue at a train station blown up by a mutant whose family died due to M-Day. Black Tom assists Black Air in freeing the Dark X-Men, and kills Dazzler, who comes back to life. Sage puts Dark Xavier in a coma after he tries to corrupt her. Juggernaut convinces Tom to turn himself in and release his hostage. Black air manages to get the other Dark X-Men, but leave Xavier. However, brain-dead Xavier makes the guards kill themselves and calls for Psylocke, who finds that he's possessed by the Shadow King. Psylocke's attack makes them both disappear. Meanwhile, Wisdom tries to recruit the de-powered Chamber, but Jono's abducted by Clan Akkaba and his body is regenerated to look like Apocalypse, his ancient ancestor! Jono rejects the Clan's offer and is allowed to leave, and he tells off Excalibur when they try to "rescue" him.

Exiles:
Previously: The Exiles try to stop Proteus on the Maestro's world, but Mimic is possessed when Proteus knocks out his metal implant. Blink re-takes control of the team and has them steal brainwashing technology from Earth 712. They go to Counter-Earth, where Proteus slaughters the Atlanteans and forces the judgment of Chaos and Order. The Timebreakers say that Counter-Earth is to be destroyed. However, Blink teleports the brainwasher into Proteus's crown and he reverts to Morph, as the device was programmed to only access Morph's memories. Afterwards, the Exiles return all the dead team members to their respective worlds for burial, including Mimic.
Current Events: The Exiles return to their homeworlds, and the Timebreakers seize the opportunity to remove the Tallus from Sabretooth and recruit a team made only of Wolverines. They fail again and again to stop Brother Mutant on Earth 127, until Logan (from or similar to DoFP) forces the bugs to re-contact the original Exiles, who clearly were more successful at fixing realities. Together the Wolvies and the Exiles defeat Brother Mutant, and the Exiles return to fixing the wrongs of the multiverse...

NXM: Academy X:
Previously: David remains at the Institute, even though he is powerless. Laurie is killed by a sniper. Jay lures Dust to Stryker's HQ, where she is shot. Jay is shot by Stryker after seeing the Nimrod unit that the Reverend was using to see and change the future. Dust was X-23 in disguise and she takes out Stryker's men, then heads back to the Institute while Stryker's Purifiers are attacking. Many X-Men and kids are shot, but only one fatally: Quill. Josh finds out that Stryker ordered Laurie's death and uses his power to kill Stryker. Josh turns black and falls comatose. Nimrod finds Forge in Eagle Plaza...
Current Events: Forge tries to stall, but meanwhile, the New X-Men were en route to Dallas, having deduced a partial message left by the dying Icarus and having received a distress signal via Surge II's Forge-designed gauntlets. However, the main X-Men team did not believe that Nimrod was really there. Nimrod attacks the Blackbird, Forge shows Nimrod an anti-Sentinel unit he had just completed, to which Nimrod transfers his programming. Nimrod takes over all of Forge's prototypes and has them attack. Forge activates a secret protocol that makes his unit protect mutants. "Nimrod" gets attacked by the New X-Men, and Nimrod's program re-asserts itself and re-creates Nimrod. The New X-Men are nearly killed, Rockslide is shattered but re-forms and eventually they manage to overload his time device, causing Nimrod to disappear. Hellion gets Emma to remove his power blocks and speeds home with X-23, then forces Elixir to heal her. Josh turns gold again.

Ultimate X-Men:
Previously: Storm is in Alberta, Canada looking for the missing Wolverine. She finds the hairy Canuck but soon falls into a heap of trouble when an old ghost from her past strikes: Lady Deathstrike. Wolverine defends Storm and is nearly killed, but they manage to stop both Deathstrike and the former Weapon X agents who rebuilt her from re-capturing Wolverine. Storm and Wolverine return to the Mansion.
Current Events: Wolverine discusses his relationship to Nick Fury with Xavier, as Kitty discovers Iceman's emails to Rogue and dumps him. In Chicago, Roberto DaCosta visits Emma Frost's school. Emma's students try to help the Chicago firemen, but Lorna's powers go haywire and kill the humans. SHIELD locks Lorna in with Magneto in his plastic prison. Havok rounds up some of his classmates to break Lorna out, and Charles sends the X-Men to stop them, fearing that Magneto will escape as well. Meanwhile, Forge and Mystique prepare to break Magneto out as well. The X-Men are trounced by Northstar and Havok, possibly due to Cyclops's lingering feelings for his former girlfriend. The rest of the X-Men are confronted by the Ultimates, but Northstar and Havok's arrival set the teams at odds. Meanwhile, Mystique and Forge free Magneto, which also opens the Triskelion's cell block, allowing Deathstrike to stab Dazzler, who had snuck in with Angel (without permission).

Ultimates, Vol. II:
Previously: One year after stopping the Chitauri invasion, Cap is dating Janet, Tony is in love with Natasha, and someone leaked Hulk's identity to the media, forcing SHIELD to give up Bruce Banner for trial. He is convicted to death, and the Ultimates drop a nuclear bomb on him. However, possibly due to a serum given him by Hank Pym, Banner secretly survives and disappears into the crowds of Earth.
Current Events: Thor is accused of leaking Hulk's identity, and the Ultimates are sent to bring him in. Thor believes Loki is setting him up. Meanwhile, Tony makes armor for Natasha and proposes to her. The Ultimates manage to bring Thor down and he is imprisoned in the Triskelion. Giant-Man joins the loser team the Defenders and sleeps with Valkyrie, as someone reveals to Hank that a plot is in place to use the Ultimates to take over the world. Meanwhile, a whole squad of superhumans is revealed, and Fury takes out an assassin. Someone breaks into Hawkeye's apartment and kills him and his family. Then Fury finds out that Cap is behind the attack and has him subdued and brought in for questioning...

Uncanny X-Men:
Previously: Jamie Braddock arrives and begins to reveal his plan for Psylocke. His old friends, now super-powered, attack, trying to raise the First Forsaken, an entity that is the opposite of the Phoenix. The X-Men are sucked into the Forsaken's world, a place of eternal peace. Psylocke realizes that the Forsaken will destroy the Earth by putting it in stasis, and attacks, her newfound immunity to any outside control allowing her to succeed. Jamie sacrifices himself to send her and the X-Men home.
Current Events: With Vulcan in space ready to destroy the Shi'ar, the now-human Professor X recruits a new team to help him steal a Shi'ar ship and try to stop his mad former student. After getting the old ship from Eric the Red's abandoned base, the team uses the near-Earth Stargate to jump, but are trapped afterwards, because Vulcan destroyed all the other Stargate he found, until he commandeered a ship to take him to Throneworld. The X-Men find a Shi'ar starbase and put in for some repairs, and are attacked by cyborged Shi'ar. They beat them, only to find that the crew are really Warskrulls! After a pitched battle, they liberate the surviving Shi'ar crew, who recognize Xavier but keep silent. On Chandilar, the Chancellor sends Korvus, the last descendant of Rook'shir, the Shi'ar Phoenix host of 400 cycles past, to kill the X-Men, and specifically Marvel Girl III. When he arrives, his Blade of the Phoenix dispatches the X-Men, but Rachel drains its portion of the Phoenix into herself, and also mindlinks with him and they discover much in common.

Wolverine, Vol. II:
Previously: Following M-Day, Wolverine regained all of his original memories. Around the world, high-level official quake at the thought. Logan rips through guards in Japan, trying to attack a key minister, and runs into the Silver Samurai, who stabs him, but Logan literally dis-arms him. Dum Dum Dugan has Pentagon officials locked up in Leavenworth for their own protection. Meanwhile, Logan follows his leads back to Weapon X in Canada, but doesn't find much. He leaves word that he's looking for the Winter Solider (AKA Bucky), and gets shot when he goes to meet. The Winter Soldier now remembers his past, and uses all his skills to disable Logan, then apologizes for killing his wife and unborn child. Wolverine now recalls moving to a peaceful community in Japan, getting married to Itsu and then finding her dead. He approached the community's rival, Muramasa, and asked for his revenge. Muramasa gave him a sword!
Current Events: CIVIL WAR: Logan goes after Nitro, but is stopped by Iron Man. He joins the strike team but they are all incinerated. Logan heals really quickly and confronts the perpetrator of the Stamford massacre. He finds out that Nitro is hopped up on MGH (mutant growth hormone), which is what caused his powers to increase, only to be interrupted by people who turn out to be undercover Atlanteans. Then Namor arrives, and after some physical and moral sparring, Namor takes Nitro back to Atlantis. Wolverine follows in an Iron Man suit and asks for Nitro. Namor again reiterates his superior legal and moral position as the guardian of Namorita, one of the victims, and Logan realizes he can't justify killing Nitro. Back on the surface, Namor comes to tell Wolverine that Nitro's dealer of MGH was the CEO of Damage Control, the superhuman insurance and cleanup company. Wolverine goes after Damage Control's assets and property until he's confronted by souped-up assassins with armored suits and weapons!

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X-Factor:
Previously: Powerless Rictor contemplates suicide, then is pushed into it by a mad dupe of Madrox's. M saves Rictor but he leaves. Siryn and M have joined X-Factor, as does Layla Miller, who shows up and "knows stuff." Siryn's client is murdered, and Layla prompts Rictor to save a life at a gas station, so he joins up too. Meanwhile, Singularity Investigations is identified as a threat, and a client convinced her sister is controlled by an evil mutant is disappointed to find that she was just sleeping with a movie star. However, when the client shoots her sister, but she can't remember doing it. Rahne and Guido quell a riot in Mutant Town, and Layla sets up a bathtub leak that eventually saves Rictor's life from a Singularity assassin. Cyclops tells Siryn about Banshee's death, but she's in denial, then she is attacked by Damien Tryp of Singularity and left for dead. Rictor rescues her from the mad ex-mutant who found her.

Current Events: CIVIL WAR: Layla tries to get Pietro killed by ex-mutants to keep him away from X-Factor, but he evades the trap. Jamie Madrox, agent of SHIELD registers Rictor and M, while Jamie of X-Factor struggles with what to do about the SHRA. Layla prompts Jamie to take a walk, which brings him to helping Aegis escape the Feds. X-Factor, though registered, comes out against the SHRA in a press conference. Quicksilver comes back to X-Factor, confronts Layla and then establishes himself in Mutant Town to help ex-mutants regain powers. Madrox has Siryn discover what caused M-Day and they realize the X-Men lied to them. The X-Men come looking for Quicksilver, but X-Factor opposes them, and the X-Men leave Pietro as Jamie's responsibility.

X-Men:
Previously: Apocalypse threatens the United Nations and the Avengers plus new Sentinel models attack his Sphinx. Sunfire's programming is broken and he flies to the battle. Apocalypse tries to open a doomsday weapon but he is stopped by Pulse, and is sucked in. Sunfire escapes with Gambit. Polaris is saved by Havok, who gives her mouth-to-mouth. Later, Emma secretly gives Havok some of Apocalypse's blood to cure the illnesses he contracted. In the other dimension, Apocalypse is confronted by the Celestials. Sunfire and Gambit attack the mansion to free Polaris, who wakes from her coma and manifests her old powers in a more uncontrollable way. Sunfire and Gambit leave and are met by Sinister...
Current Events: Rogue recruits a new strike team after the X-Men find a clinic operating on mutants, including Lady Mastermined. They also find Karima Shapandar. Meanwhile, Sabretooth is on the run from the Children, who destroy a Mexican town he visited and get a local girl to blame it on the X-Men. Rogue adds Mystique, Iceman and Cannonball to her squad, as Sabretooth requests asylum. The Children recruit Northstar and Aurora to attack the X-Men, and Cable arrives to help deal with Creed and the threats.

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