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X-Manson Annotations Chapter 2 - Part One - JEAN GREY
The first hints towards the past of Jean Grey. She first fell into a coma in 1969. In the comics, Jean fell into a coma at a younger age, right after her friend, Annie was struck by a car. This caused her to manifest her powers and link with her as she died. You will have probably seen this scene in the recent X-Men '97 cartoon.
Here we see another hint. She was covering for Jean when Jean was twelve onward. So, perhaps the incident with Annie still happened, but Jean didn't fall into a coma immediately after. The drug use kicked it in later.
In the rest of her speech, I'm reminded of an attitude common in small towns all around the United States. As long as you maintain appearances and pretend that everything is hunky dory, your family will remain willfully ignorant. This is a fairly common occurrence among the WASP-y population.
Notice how short Sarah and Jean's parents' responses are to the interviewer's questions, especially in comparison to Sarah's. They're deliberately holding themselves back with short and clean answers. Meanwhile, Sarah's are long and detailed, but riddled with chunks of missing information. this isn't to say that Sarah is lying or withholding anything. She just probably isn't aware of the full context of everything around Jean. They all are.
We see the first instance of Telepathic types in the form of slang:
Read: Meaning seeing and comprehending other's thoughts.
Write: Meaning the ability to insert memories. Communicate telepathically and alter memories.
Here are a few more details:
Warren is a prick. Warren's father is bankrolling the school. He's also one of the members who survives the ordeal unscathed like Hank. Warren is possibly more willingly involved in the cult/school than the text shows.
Scott, shy as hell. Autistic king even in this shitty au.
They were "In Love" I don't know how much of that is true in this au. Scott and Jean are being set up to create a kind of mutant messiah by this cult. I don't know if them falling in love came first or if they were set up to be together by Xavier. This is before Cable is introduced when that plot point really falls into place.
X-Manson Annotated Chapter Two - Part Seven - CAPE CITADEL
The following section discusses the Cape Citadel incident as portrayed in the X-Manson AU. It's something of a retelling of the events of X-Men #1 (1963). By this point, The Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters and the cult surrounding it have existed for a year.
Okay, here he's placing it after the death of Kennedy. In our universe, John F. Kennedy died on November 22, 1963, meaning the incident most likely took place in December. Below is a list of presidents in chronological order provided by Doctor Benway's notes.
This section doesn't merit its own post, but I will bring this up as details become relevant. Here we notice two things:
1. JFK's death resulted in Johnson becoming president as per usual.
2. The Vietnam War ended in 1964. Earlier on Erich mistakes the year this took place as being in '64.
I mean, You all saw the cover of X-Men #1, you know they don't not look like bumblebees a little bit. The whole thing would be incredibly goofy if they weren't actively doing a terrorism to Erich.
You'll notice in the next section that the entire o5 are intact and Henry is with them. So his statement of not being close with them often is a lie. A great, big, goddamn lie.
Right here, Erich makes an error in his internal continuity. He ended the war in 1964, the year he mistook it for initially.
If Xavier was influencing their minds, maybe the version of the events in X-Men #1 that play out are what the military men believed themselves to be experiencing.
1. Jean attacking with psionics.
2. Scott attacking with force beams.
3. Bobby attacking with ice.
These are three now that we can say definitively were at the scene of the attack.
Bobby is dead, Jean has had her mind hollowed by Xavier, and Scott was executed by the state.
I think that that perhaps Erich doesn't recall Warren or Hank is either because he genuinely doesn't remember them or because they're the only ones alive who could pursue legal action for unverifiable claims. Then again, the documentary doesn't seem all too worried about being sued by Hank, so it's possible that his ass wasn't too useful in the attack.
This is the real USS Philadelphia. I'm not entirely sure why it was used in this story like this, because it wouldn't have existed at the time of the story. But, maybe this is just a minor example of the timeline being far different from our own.
I like that John is surprised by this. it paints the picture of a well-meaning, but kind of stupid liberal. John's failure to recognize how this, coupled with America already not trusting Erich as a foreigner would inflame people's prejudice.
Xavier hoping it would cause anti-mutant backlash is interesting, it serves two purposes:
1.It promotes his insane idealogy of believing that there's going to be a race war between humans and mutants where mutants will come out on top.
2. This will draw more mutants to his school, hoping to find refuge from the resulting bigotry. The soldiers for his race war and a farm of mutant organs to harvest and study. This is where the Manson aspect of the title really comes into full display.
