Uncanny X-Men #273

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[tcampbell1000]

Waid and Lobdell were working on the X-books at the same time, and it quickly became apparent who was more willing to complicate things up Claremont-style. And that was what editorial wanted. It was apparent in the differences in their writing styles, but also...

Waid: Onslaught is the manifestation of every dark thought Professor X has repressed! Here's a panel from Stan and Jack's X-Men #2 that shows him thinking wildly inappropriate thoughts about Jean! See, thoughts like that! We all have 'em, even if they're only the briefest flickers in our minds, and that's what makes this idea relatab--

Lobdell: Onslaught happened because Professor X got tainted that time he tried to kill Magneto in my X-Men #25, soaking up the bad parts of Magneto into himself and merging them with his own suppressed urges! So this is kind of both Xavier AND Magneto's fault! Psychics, am I right?

[zylly]

That doesn't surprise me; Waid's style has always been entertaining, but very straightforward and reasonably quick to resolve any mysteries or questions that pop up. Pretty much the antithesis of what Claremont's X-Men were built on.

Waid's version of Onslaught makes a lot more sense, when you consider that had already happened once before in the X-Men/Micronauts miniseries.

[scelestus]

Nobody ever remembers or acknowledges the Micronauts/X-men crossover. Possessed Xavier's ...interaction with Dani Moonstar in that crossover should've had lasting (and damning) repercussions.

[zylly]

Granted, it's a little harder to reference these days, since a lot of the Micronauts characters are no longer capable of being used, but still. It's an important piece of X-Men history.