#fall of x

[rei-ismyname]

Firestar frees Juggernaut

It's Fall of X and everything is shit. Shadowkat is waging a one woman war vs ORCHIS, as she's the only one who can use the gates. She's reconnoitring the Bloom when she comes across a surprising prisoner - Juggernaut. She'd free him, but his chains are connected to someone else.

This poor bastard - Cyclops. They haven't heard anything about either man and it was assumed that they were dead. So good news, but also bad news. Cain is doing okay but Cyke is fucked. Worse, they're on a dead man's switch. If Juggernaut escapes Cyke blows up. It's odd, as they definitely need him alive, but fascists are cruel and disorganised.

Firestar is the mole on the inside and Juggernaut is scheduled to be dissected tomorrow. So instead of freeing Scott she has to switch up her plan and take the risk with Cain. This Morse code business gets her point across and Cyke sells it.

At that moment, Juggernaut made his move. It wasn't subtle, as is his way. Firestar has to keep up the act but as she says she won't have to fake losing a fight to Juggernaut.

Cain says the obvious - that they'll kill her too eventually. So he may as well do it first. Highlighting how awful her undercover stint is, she's okay with it, though she stuffs a flash drive in his gob.

'I'm a spy, dude. Take these secrets and beat the shit out of me, please.' He does exactly that and does the unstoppable thing - smashing a huge hole in all the walls and escaping with style.

Firestar took a huge gamble to make this happen, entering the same facility twice in a day to setup a risky defence. The AI trio - Nimrod, Moira and Omega Sentinel - are onto her, pointing out that Juggernaut happened to escape while she was there. Angelica decides to push it by insulting them, calling these terrifying fuckbots lazy and stupid.

She blames it on Mystique, heh, and points out that they fucked up. Firestar slaps Moira's knife out of her hand with a threat and says she's going to pop painkillers.

They believe her, but openly talk about killing her anyway. I really wish Firestar stayed in the the X-books, or at least kept in touch with some mutants. Over in West Coast Avengers she's self medicating her PTSD with alcohol and has no friends because everyone thinks she's a traitor. It makes Emma, Scott, Kate, Jean, Juggernaut - the people who know what she went through willingly - look like callous assholes. She's under the Avengers purview and it's a period of disconnectedness, but still.

[vertigoartgore]

2024's Fall of the House of X Vol.1 #3 Colossus Virgin Variant by artist Miguel Mercado.

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Hi!! Your Cherik is so good and gorgeous 🤩🤩 If you don't mind wanna try to draw some Fall of X Cherik please?

thank you so much !!

i have a couple of ideas relating to the fall of x period specifically since theres. A Lot i wanna play with, so i hope this lil thing may be a satisfactory start :]]

and the obligatory bonus:

[sinistermusings]

X-Men 35 (2024) by Gerry Duggan, Kieron Gillen, Al Ewing & Phil Noto

[ale-chii]

MAGNETO & POLARIS

|| Fall of the House of X #5

[hyde-n-h]

Fuck yesh CHERIK REAL

[90dookie]

i am currently reading the krakoa comics and i must say that this pages have destroyed me...❤️‍🩹

[pacing-er]

Put Charles Xavier showing ass on your tumblr

[thatcrazymind]

I’m in Krakoa Cherik mood, anyone knows any good fics??? Let me know 🥹❤️

[evilhorse]

That’s why we got to look after each other.

(X-Force #47)

[karenxmenfan]

Kate Pryde, Shadowcat (25/x)

[rei-ismyname]

Cyclops sex dreams

It's Fall of X and Scott has been a prisoner of ORCHIS for six months - six months of constant torture and darkness. He's narrating a recurring dream he's having - with Scott and Jean fucking in the treehouse a constant through the periods of planting, creating, loving and then fire - a Fisher Kingdom of sorts. A visorless Scott is atop Jean telling her 'everything's gone wrong.'

Dream Jean insists that it's going to be okay but Scott has doubts. He felt her die, but he's been having this dream - or dreams much like it - the whole time. Their world is very much burning and he asks if this is real. If Jean is real. For you and I our neurons fire during REM sleep and produce all kinds of imagery, but Scott is a protagonist with a God for a wife. He has narratively significant dreams.

Of course Jean's real. She might be discombobulated and dissembled in the White Hot Room, but she knows he's been tortured and assures him the burning works both ways. 'I am the fire,' she says with glowing eyes and a smile on her face.

Heh. We then find out that the narration wasn't just for the reader - he's describing it to a psych in an ORCHIS black site ahead of his trial. Clearly the psych hasn't read many X-Men comics because it's not a dream if it's real. 'You're wrong, doc. My wife and I have been having interdimensional psychic fire sex. It really helps with the torture.'

The bait and switch is something I find morbidly funny. There's zero reason ORCHIS would do anything for his benefit, so Scott is sharing detailed description of his sex dreams with an enemy. Total power move.

On the bright side, his broken back has healed up. It shouldn't be surprising that Scott is traumatized AF right now and having mental health issues. Six months of this presided over by the spitting image of your childhood tormentor, without any information from the outside world. Put on trial in front of the world and very nearly executed, only to escape and learn that Chuck had joined ORCHIS.

I do love to see him suffer, but woof. This is hectic shit.

[farsight-the-char]

Amy Reeder's cover for Jean Grey #2

Fire and Life Incarnate

Now and Forever.

...

"The Dark Phoenix has haunted Jean Grey since it emerged from Jamaica Bay. But what if the Phoenix had chosen…someone else?" it reads. "The love story of Cyclops and Jean Grey is one of the most beloved in Marvel Comics' history. Now witness a legendary creator break their hearts – and their minds. But this is no 'what if.' Jean Grey is not where she is meant to be…and neither is the rest of mutantkind. Stunning secrets will be revealed as Jean Grey lays the groundwork for her next shocking appearance in 'Fall of X'!"

[verycoolpersonyes]

They still need to let marvel zombies go but I liked this

[sinistermusings]

X-Men 27 (2023) by Gerry Duggan & Phil Noto

Cover: David Nakayama (variant)

Hellfire Gala

[nickfuryagentofsword]

Iron Man 16 (2024) by Gerry Duggan & Juan Frigeri

Cover: Kael Ngu