X-Man #35

Publisher
Marvel
Year
1998
Month
2
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2/3/2024 1:30:19 AM
Messiah Complex

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Summary

  Jam takes Nate to a women's basketball game, to thank him for fixing her arm. One of the Destabilizers appears: they are terrorists against nationalism. Nate reads his mind, realizes he has accomplices, shorts out all the electronics with a psi-burst, then picks them off one by one. He gets good press on TV and in the Bugle, over Jameson's objection.

  He finds Roust in the loft, and tells him he can't resurrect his brother. He watches the reports about him and sees a mother whose son he couldn't cure, so he blows up the TV. Dr. Arlington says Nate read his mind to cure Jam and offers to teach him to do more. He refuses this "calling", until Bux leads a parade to the loft, and the crowd changes his mind.

  Flag Smasher promised the Destabilizers promised they'd never go to jail: he rigged them to blow up as they are taken in. His ally, the Purple Man, is displeased and makes him jump off a cliff. Then he has his chauffeur, Bux, drive on.