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Oooook… Apocalypse basically breaks apart like tinfoil when Cyclops shoots him now. Seems legit! I’m sure that was the real Apocalypse. No reason to check the debris and make sure he’s dead.
Studying him my ass. (X-Factor #68 – July 1991)
Double oof. This is absolutely heart wrenching to see X-Factor forced to give up their kid. This had me legitimately stressed out, thinking about holding a dying child and having to decide in an instant whether to give him up to a stranger from the future who may or may not be telling the truth, not knowing if you’ll ever see the kid again or even if you’ll ever know what happens to them. And then I remembered that we do find out what happens to him. He turns into Cable. And then I stopped caring so much. Cyclops sure doesn’t seem to care. Take a second to think about how you would feel after doing this, and then compare it to how he behaves.
He doesn’t give a shit! “Well I guess it’s back to Earth then. Gonna have a lot more free time on my hands now that I don’t have to care for that baby. Maybe I’ll start watching Frasier.” (X-Factor #68 – July 1991)
This comic is told from Cyclops’s perspective, complete with an agonizing narration from him (agonizing for me, not him), in which he waxes about the insidious chess match he’s played against Apocalypse over the years, and how he’s spent so much time “studying Apocalypse . . . trying to learn as much as possible about how he thinks.” Psssh ok, Kasparov. On the previous page you couldn’t even be bothered to listen to Apocalypse when he was DIRECTLY ADDRESSING YOU.
Does Cyclops really fancy himself as being locked in some kind of complex stalemate with a villain he is even close to being on the same level with??? Give me a freaking break. (X-Factor #68 – July 1991)
Why! Whhhhhhhhhhhhyyyy is this happening to Cyclops!! I ask thee, cruel fates, hasn’t Cyclops sacrificed enough?? How much more must he sacrifice to sate your perverse and disturbed proclivities!! How much more must he suffer! He has already suffered . . . so . . . so much. (X-Factor #68 – July 1991)
Oof I gotta tell ya, as much as I hate Cyclops, and as much as I hate Cable, it’s hard to hate Nathan-Christopher, because he’s just a baby, and it sure is hard watching him die at the end of this comic. Like he gets infected with some kind of techno-organic virus that starts eating him alive. Pretty creepy. I don’t really understand why Apocalypse is doing this, when he could just kill him, and all of X-Factor, just by punching them, but I suppose it’s got something to do with absorbing their powers and making himself stronger. But if not, seriously this is a convoluted way to kill a baby. (X-Factor #68 – July 1991)
