#{feilong}

[rei-ismyname]

Magneto arrives to save Iron Man

He's back and he's even hotter!

I LOVE his shit eating grin, rippling cape and muscles, and most of all his cunty posture. 'Hello Stark, check out these thighs.' It's true that his wife (Emma Frost, it's a sham thing but Tony catches feelings) sent Mags to rescue his dumb ass as he makes a huge mess in the Australian Outback, but this is a newly resurrected, kinder Magneto. I suspect he'd have done it anyway. For drama, if nothing else.

Tony only knew that one singular mutant was coming to bail him out. He didn't expect his 'nemesis' (citation needed) mainly because Tony was there when Magneto died on Arakko during Judgement Day. He's surprised, but not unhappy about it. Maybe. See, Mr Stark just had his shit kicked in, and he had hallucinations of the Master of Magnetism while knocked out.

T-Bag is feeling guilty about the whole Stark Sentinel situation (as he should. Not the first time Stark Sentinels have been made for genocide.) That guilt manifests with the face of Magneto, here to judge him. In a petulant reply to this most recent charge, Stark brings up some old shit ( X-Men #1 from 1963) but Mags has a zinger for him. Considering Stark's subconscious is doing all the talking, some part of him thinks he's just as bad as Silver Age Magneto. It's not a competition, but I think he's worse. Mr Military Industrial Complex Billionaire over here can fuck right off.

'The world doesn't need arms merchants' is both true and relevant. Tony has changed, he's been redeemed! Yet engines of death bearing his name are stalking the planet yet again and plan to purge it, having already carried out mutant genocide. Tony will never see any legal or social consequences for this, but perhaps he believes he deserves this judgement. I don't really care about Tony Stark, to be honest. I'm here for Magneto, and this is the war in Tony's subconscious when Max Eisenhardt arrives.

Mags isn't here to point fingers - he's here to save an ally. Red Elon Musk Feilong has a grudge over Arakko, and his fucking face when Mags doesn't know who he is delights me. I don't think Mags is being truthful - he SHOULD know who this ORCHIS clown is, but they've never met. He's been through a lot lately. Besides, they've got bigger fish to fry. Feilong has realised that the AI leopards are eating his face too, so they're on the same side for now and are stuck in a giant Iron Man suit without power.

Luckily, 'I am power.' Mags revitalises the monstrosity and rides to war with two billionaires. After he fucks up a ton of sentinels (a continuity error but whatever,) Nimrod sends one of his bodies (Madrox should sue) to stop them.

Mags is much more effective than the his last Nimrod fight, though he doesn't remember it. Nimrod is weak to Mysterium somehow so he makes the very problematic move of gassing Mags with Terrigen. WTF did he get that from? It's good to know Tony could have easily prevented IvX at any time. I'm sympathetic to everyone who had to deal with the rushed production schedule Fall of X received, but this is Looney Tunes shit.

Nimrod, you chump. You set yourself up for the 'awful lot of metal around here' Magneto classic. Speaking of metal, Mysterium just keeps getting better. SWORD did steal it from the Phoenix's clothes line, so whatever, it can do new stuff if it wants. It's alive, it loves Magneto, it hates Nimrod, and could take or leave Tony Stark. That's relatable. ORRRR, Jean is in the White Hot Room right now, after Moira stabbed her with a blightswill knife. She could be affecting the metal to get this Nimrod jerkoff. Sounds kinda silly - moving on.

Looney Tunes or not, I'm a sucker for Magneto hovering and saying dramatic shit. Preferably hurling vehicles around, but magic metal and a dickhead robot is close enough. Let it be known that Mags is the Mysterium Whisperer. Pretty obvious when you think about it, though his relationship with the miracle metal wasn't explored deeply.

Yes! Haha. Get Magneto'd, idiot! This Nimrod body is dead, as is the Mysterium and Tony's giant robot. Damn, they would have been useful. Anyway, bye losers! Mags has more fascist robots to kill in his wonderful cape. Thanks for fucking everything up only to help at the last minute. Enjoy the Outback (they don't, and Tony leaves a huge mess.)

[scottxlogan]

[ashidotcom]

Happy Family of Orchis

[why-i-love-comics]

Invincible Iron Man #19 - "If I Only had a Heart" (2024)

written by Gerry Duggan art by Andrea Di Vito & Bryan Valenza

[kingnd]

Been looking at some Marvel stuff I missed out on for awhile & this has got to be the most humiliating thing I've seen happen to a villain. Feilong here Is basically Elon Musk of Marvel obsessed with Mars & butthurt over Both the Avengers abandoning it, & The X-men colonizing it so much that he rallied with Orchis & bought Stark Unlimited to build Sentinels & kill god knows how many people & Magneto the biggest Mutant out there just hits him with a "Who?"

Just.....oof.

[kellymagovern]

Feilong kick.

[studyofx]

As told by the man himself, X-Men under Gerry Duggan is set to focus on its villains and raise them up to combat the rising Nation of Krakoa. In X-Men (2021) #1 we even get a look at three of them! Introducing Cordyceps Jones, Dr. Stasis, & Feilong.

[juststeveandtonythings]

Hellfire Gala... 2022! I thought I was done with X-books for the Fall of X event, but then I remembered that one of the IIM books had a flashback to 2022's Hellfire Gala, so I read it to see if it was relevant, and actually it was. Also, we get to see Tony and Steve in their (admittedly not great) Hellfire Gala outfits. Anyway! Having now read all the relevant parts of Fall of X, I can conveniently just highlight the stuff that I know is important. So! This is the Hellfire Gala that came BEFORE Fall of X's Hellfire Gala. We open with the world learning that mutants are able to resurrect their own. This news is of great interest to many people, including Steve and Tony, apparently, so everyone wants to go and I guess see drama happen. (For those who don't know, the Hellfire Gala is held on the X-Men's island nation of Krakoa, and it's used both for PR purposes and to also elect the new X-Men team. Though don't quote me on any of that; this is just what I've gleaned from context.)

Steve has a little subplot in which he encourages Emma to make amends with Firestar, because they have bad blood for reasons I don't know. So Emma nominates Firestar to join the X-Men. Steve is proud. (Also worth mentioning: Firestar was an Avenger back in Avengers Vol 3, which I'm guessing is why Steve and later Tony have interactions that involve her.) Also yes, that's Tony standing between Steve and Firestar in the fourth panel above. I like to imagine Steve and Tony spent most of the gala together.

Tony has a meatier role (when he's not hanging out with Steve). He has a testy interaction with Feilong, who crashed the party, and also speaks to Reed, who tells him that Xavier and Magneto took knowledge out of his head. Tony is concerned.

He slides in next to Emma and starts talking at her. She's like, do I know you? Tony's like, you know who I am. She apologizes for not recognizing him out of his suit and he says suits aren't even what he does best, at which point Feilong crashes the card game too and is like, that's right, Tony's thing is that he's a futurist. Tony leans into it, saying that this resurrection technology is going to spell trouble for the mutants. Emma brushes off his concerns and leaves; Tony snarkily tells her thanks for letting him remember this conversation, referencing his and Reed's earlier exchange about Xavier and Magneto.

Also, the above happens: foreshadowing for Feilong becoming Tony's primary antagonist in the Invincible Iron Man Vol 5 run.

Anywho, after Firestar is elected to be an X-Man, Tony congratulates her and tells her that if there's anything she thinks the Avengers need to know, she's got his number. Then he says his goodbyes to Emma, who begrudgingly appreciates him trying to warn her about things, and says he won't be back for the next gala. (And indeed, neither he nor Steve are in attendance next time - did Steve decide not to go when he found out Tony wasn't going? That is certainly what I'll tell myself!)

The rest of the issue has some other X-subplot stuff, and we also run into other familiar characters who will be prominent during Fall of X, including Doctor Stasis and Moira, plus plenty of mentions of Orchis... but yeah, clearly I was mostly here for Steve and Tony. :p

- X-Men: Hellfire Gala Vol 1 #1 (2022)