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Four scans from X-Men: Second Coming #2, and four from Heroic Age: Uncanny X-Men #1: "Second Coming" ends.

"Second Coming" proper ends with an epilogue issue by the various writers that sets up where some of the titles will be going next, etc.; there are various significant vignettes (a great Hope/Magneto scene that I regret not having room for, but there you go), with the main event being Cable's funeral. Hope provides the main eulogy here:

Later, at issue's end, there's a big bonfire at the end of the island. Hope is watching, while Emma watches Hope (in her diamond form; she tells Scott things were a bit emotionally turbulent for a while). Then...

That bit there is a callback to Jean/Phoenix's appearance to Emma way back in the "Sisterhood" arc.

The subsequent arc establishes that there are five new mutant signatures extant (given that M-Day was heavily motivated by the, in my opinion, false belief that the mutant population was too large, this is actually quite a clever rollout of more mutants returning).

Anyway, Heroic Age follows various characters, so it's sort of a secondary epilogue. Hope goes to the Baxter Building for an examination from Reed, who pronounces her basically healthy (though, he notes, in need of dental work and a massive schedule of vaccinations that she never got as a child; I liked that detail). He also asks the obvious question of who her parents were, which the X-Men don't know and seemingly never bothered to look into, and are like "duh, that's probably something worth finding out" (Hope, in particular, wants to go to Alaska to look).

Meanwhile, Cyclops goes to the Savage Land to kill some dinosaurs (I guess that's his idea of relaxation); Steve Rogers shows up. They talk for a bit, and Steve asks where the X-Men are going to go (figuratively speaking) now. Cyclops really doesn't know, but Steve thinks that after saving San Francisco, the X-Men are heroes.

"I know I've been sitting on my ass re: mutants for, like, ever, but..."

MU!Obama must have some Two Face-style scarring or something, given how much he avoids being scene.

The issue closes out with Cyclops talking with Hope, who isn't attending the festivities in San Francisco. Cyclops wants her and Rogue to form a team to go look for the "five lights" on Cerebro, but Hope says she doesn't want to, and she's tired of all the expectations. Cyclops asks what she does want, and she says she wants to find out about her family. Cyclops ponders this for a moment, while looking at the medal.

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foxhack

OMGWTFBBQ A CHILANGO MUTANT AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

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darkknightjrk

I like to think the thing that really cinched Scott getting the Metal of Freedom was bringing some goddamn lightbulbs for Obama's side of the Oval Office.

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icon_uk

The M-Day argument about too many mutants would have been much more powerfully made by a proportionate depowering of X-Men, but that ship has sailed.

I'm not sure I get the significance of Scott throwing the medal away, he seemed to be accepting it on behalf of the mutant population in general, and his throwing it away seems desperately disrespectful to those who died in his cause.

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colonel_green

Earlier in the conversation, Hope asks him what he got it for, and he says "Ah--saving lives." She then looks kind of sad. So that's what it's a reference to (though, yeah, it's still kind of weird symbolism).

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Second Coming: Chapter 14: The Future

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