#Hellions (2020)

[summerstrash]

currently fixated on the persistent theme of objectification and weaponization in alex's arc in the krakoan era, the way he's reduced to his body and his powers' utility to others, and how every time he asserts himself as an individual with desires and interiority and opinions, he is immediately either mocked, condescended to, narratively punished, or physically brutalized.

and like, this is specifically noteworthy in a gender way because alex often tries to express personhood via displays of heroism and/or masculinity, and he is punished both for failure to achieve these ideals, and for even trying in the first place —

and then there's the fact that alex has not had a single issue or even scene where we're directly in his head, and even when the focus is on him, his implicit thoughts and feelings, and his explicit words and actions are predominantly related to humanizing (& relating to) maddie, barring the argument he has with scott in x-men and his first scene with emma in hellions.

alex is constantly filtered through the contempt, pity, and condescension of the people around him, rather than being allowed by the narrative to express himself without pain and horror mediating the proceedings.

emma's weapon, manuel's plaything, forge's petty revenge, maddie's zombie helpmeet — alex has spent the entire past four years being used and used and used.

and people still have the gall to say he needs to "figure out what he wants" and "grow/get some spine" —

as if the second he does that, he won't just get his back broken for it.

[xmencovered]

Hellions v1 1-18 / Published: May 2020 - February 2022 / Artist: Stephen Segovia

[comicsgallery-marvel]

Hellions (2020) #15

[evilhorse]

NYX (Volume 2) #4

[neveranatural]

I only wanted them to know that I was a real girl 😭

yes, we need a cherik shaped treat for this

wtf was that xmen episode????

NO LIKE LITERALLY!!!!!! i was in distress basically the entire time and madelyne being there hurts my greysummers stanning heart!!!!!!!!

and i KNEW they were gonna do the genosha genocide i just didnt think it would happen so fast 😭😭😭

but my girl pixie was there and it made me feel a little better

[mxrvellous]

Hellions (2020) #4

[deathdefyinglifeleaps]

He's such a dick; I love him so much.

Hellions (2020) #12

[kwxnnxn]

Kwannon (Revanche / Psylocke) Reading Guide

Were Kwannon's body is well known she herself had been dead for decades after her time with The X-Men as Revanche. Coming back to life Kwannon took the name Psylocke and has joined an array of teams using her lethal fighting skills alongside her telepathy and telekinesis. This reading order follows her appearances throughout the years.

Bolded: she's a main character/part of the team or it is an important issue for her. Italic: she's not necessarily a main character but still has interesting moments. Normal: She appears but it is not entirely important to her character.

Introduction + Body Swap

X-Men (1991) #17, #18, #20-#24

X-Men (1991) Annual #2

X-Men (1991) #25-#28

X-Men (1991) #31 [Death]

Resurrection

Hunt for Wolverine: Mystery in Madripoor (2018) #4 [only in one panel]

Uncanny X-Men (2018) #16-#20

Krakoa

Fallen Angels (2020)

Hellions (2020) #1-#11

Excalibur (2019) #18-#20

Hellions (2020) #12-#15

Inferno (2021) #1 [brief appearance but she becomes a war captain]

Hellions (2020) #16-#18

Marauders (2019) Annual #1

Marauders (2022)

Love Unlimited Infinity Comic (2022) #34-#36

Captain Marvel (2019) #43-#49

Fall of X

Hellfire Gala (2023) [only appears briefly but this story is important for context]

Uncanny Avengers (2023)

[blushingphoenix]

Interesting way to argue with yourself. Only Sinister would do this.

Do me a favor and lightly pepper yourself before I eat your face.

[bloodinthegutter]

Hellions (2020) as vines because I miss them ;)

I need to reread this series, it's been a while

[nightmareinfloral]

Mercury- Where to Read?

Cessily Kincaid, also known as Mercury, is an Irish-American mutant whose entire body is composed of a non-toxic metallic substance. She can alter her shape according to her will and often uses it to create different weapons or “melt” into a liquid form. Below the cut is a list of Cessily’s appearances updated as of April 2024.

New Mutants (2003) 2, 7, 9-10, 13

New X-Men (2004) 2-6, 14

New X-Men: Hellions (2005) 1

New X-Men (2004) 15-19

New X-Men: Hellions (2005) 2-4

New X-Men: Academy X Yearbook Special (2005) 1

New X-Men (2004) 20-21

X-Men: The 198 Files (2006) 1

New X-Men (2004) 22

Astonishing X-Men (2004) 13

New X-Men (2004) 23-29

X-Men (1991) 190

Civil War Files (2006) 1

New X-Men (2004) 30-31

X-Men (1991) 192

New X-Men (2004) 32-39

X-Men: Endangered Species (2007) 1

World War Hulk: X-Men (2007) 1-2

New X-Men (2004) 40

X-Men (1991) 201

New X-Men (2004) 41

X-Men (1991) 202

World War Hulk: X-Men (2007) 3

X-Factor (2005) 23

New X-Men (2004) 42

X-Men: Messiah Complex (2007) 1

New X-Men (2004) 43

X-Factor (2005) 25

New X-Men (2004) 44

X-Men (1991) 205

Uncanny X-Men (1981) 493

X-Factor (2005) 26

New X-Men (2004) 45

X-Men (1991) 206

X-Factor (2005) 27

New X-Men (2004) 46

X-Men (1991) 207

X-Men: Divided We Stand (2008) 1-2

Secret Invasion: X-Men (2009) 1-2

X-Men: Manifest Destiny (2009) 2, 4

Marvel Digital Holiday Special (2009) 1

Secret Invasion: X-Men (2009) 4

X-Infernus (2008) 1-4

New Mutants (2009) 1

Runaways (2008) 10

Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia (2009) 1

Uncanny X-Men (1981) 513

Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Exodus (2009) 1

X-Men: Legacy (2008) Annual 1, 228

Deadpool (2008) 16

Psylocke (2009) 1

Deadpool (2008) 17

Uncanny X-Men (1981) 517

Nation X (2009) 1

X-Men: Legacy (2008) 230

X-Force (2008) 22-23

X-Men: Pixie Strikes Back (2010) 1

Psylocke (2009) 4

Nation X (2009) 3

X-Men: Pixie Strikes Back (2010) 2-3

X-Men: Legacy (2008) 234

New Mutants (2009) 13

X-Men: Pixie Strikes Back (2010) 4

X-Men: Hellbound (2010) 2

X-Men (1997) 162

X-Men (2010) 5, 11

X-Men: Giant-Size (2011) 1

Uncanny X-Men (1981) 541-542

X-Men: Schism (2011) 5

X-Men: Regenesis (2011) 1

Wolverine and the X-Men (2011) 4

Wolverine and the X-Men: Alpha & Omega (2012) 1-3

X-Men: Legacy (2008) 261

Wolverine (2010) 305-306, 308

Wolverine and the X-Men (2011) 5, 15, 17

Uncanny Avengers (2012) 1

Wolverine and the X-Men (2011) 18, 21

All-New X-Men (2012) 10

Wolverine and the X-Men (2011) 29

Scarlet Spider (2012) 17

X-Men (2013) 1

Uncanny Avengers (2012) 11

Young Avengers (2013) 11

X-Men: Battle of the Atom (2013) 2

Young Avengers (2013) 12-13

X-Men (2013) 7-8

Young Avengers (2013) 14

X-Men (2013) 10-12

Nightcrawler (2014) 1, 3-4

X-Men: No More Humans (2014) 1

X-Men (2013) 16

Nightcrawler (2014) 5, 8

Storm (2014) 1, 10

Uncanny X-Men (2013) 600

Star-Lord (2016) 1

Generation X (2017) 8-9, 87

Uncanny X-Men (2018) 9-10

Age of X-Man: The Amazing Nightcrawler (2019) 2, 4-5

New Mutants (2019) 1

Fallen Angels (2019) 1

X-Force (2019) 9

X-Factor (2020) 5

Hellfire Gala Guide (2021) 1

Way of X (2021) 2

X-Force (2019) 20

Wolverine (2020) 13

Way of X (2021) 3

Marvel’s Voices: Pride (2021) 1

X-Men: The Onslaught Revelation (2021) 1

Free Comic Book Day 2022: Marvel’s Voices (2022) 1

Legion of X (2022) 1

Marvel’s Voices Infinity Comic (2022) 1

Love Unlimited Infinity Comic (2022) 43

Marvel’s Voices: X-Men (2023) 1

[summerstrash]

thinking about the flesh and the machine in Hellions (2020) again and the interplay between love and violence and kinship and the fact that john greycrow, an at-least-double amputee who wears his prostheses as weapons and as armor, is unambiguously the emotional heart of the team.

like, he's the one who reaches out, who physically and emotionally supports his teammates when they need someone. he's the man who walked into the dream-desert for kwannon, subverting the nightmare-desert of Inferno (1988) and contrasting the way alex is abandoned by the nightmare robot maddie. they can only reunite, as a team, because john heard kwannon's call and came, no matter how long it took.

and it's john's perspective from which we see a lot of issue #13, where kwannon tries to pull away from him, and he comforts and spends time with peter as he feels abandoned by nanny, and he calls alex out for ignoring the team at the first hellfire gala.

he's also kyle's friend, willing to take him as he is post-arakkification, and he's the first one to get to alex when hex butcher cuts off his hands, the first to comfort him as he lays bleeding in the dirt.

and this is a book that in large part hinges on the conflict between the mutant and the machine, and the way both are malleable and subject to manipulation by people with institutional power (sinister and emma on the council, tarn on the great ring and as cult leader and "father" to the locus vile, the hodge robot & the right in general)

and I just think it's really neat that john, the most visible fusion of mutant and machine in the book, a man who, despite several resurrections, remains an amputee with big fuckoff metal prostheses, is the one whose engagement with the rest of the team forms one of the big emotional cores of the book.

[xmencovered]

Hellions Vol 1 #7 / Published: December 2020 / Artist: Kael Ngu

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Hellions (2020) #5

[evilhorse]

Welcome to die.

(NYX Volume 2 #4)

[xmenuniverse]

Kwannon and John Greycrow in Hellions (2020-2022). - requested by @calsyee