And it had immediate consequences for Colossus.
At the time, it did signal that anyone could die of the Legacy virus, even classic villains like Mastermind or former New Mutants like Illyana. Granted it was years before anyone used that door, but it does make her death feel less consequential. In retrospect, it's now clear that when Louise Simonson de-aged Illyana, she did it with a backdoor allowing for this to be an alternate universe version of the character. To him it was further evidence that Marvel didn't know what the hell they were doing with the X-characters (and/or he did a good job of reading us and acting accordingly, because that was certainly our opinion and he reinforced it). I mentioned on the review of Uncanny X-Men #185 that i went with my friends to a Claremont signing event at a comic store in our state, and we told him about the death of Illyana, which he wasn't aware of (or did a good job of pretending not to be). Kitty Pryde had heard that Illyana was sick, so she came from Britain to visit, and she helped facilitate the conversation between Jubilee and Illyana (who only speaks Russian). It's told in flashback from the perspective of Jubilee and Jean Grey after the death of Illyana. I don't know if it's a coincidence that JRJR is not on art for this one, but Richard Bennett provides less stylized, more human art. It's said that due to his injuries Fitzroy is handed over to "Federal authorities" and based on a skim of his next appearance in X-Force #32 he was probably immediately released after that.Īnyway, issue #303 is the important one.
I agree with them in principle, but the problem is what you do with villains like this once they're defeated. Jean Grey and even Bishop have to calm him down and tell him he's going too far. When Fitzroy does indeed turn out to be playing possum, Colossus joins in and starts pounding on him, blaming mutant villains and "even Professor Xavier in his fashion" for perpetuating mutant wars. Forge assumes that Bishop is trying to kill Fitzroy while Bishop really just knows that Fitzroy is dangerous and deceitful. (Also not sure if that reference to Cap being in Dallas is meant to be anything specific.)Īfter Fitzroy is seemingly defeated, we go through a few rounds of the lethal/non-lethal debate. Terrifying a world that hates and fears them.
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