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So What Exactly Did Cyclops Do That Was So Bad Anyway? (Death Of X Spoilers)

Okay, so we know Cyclops did something bad in the Marvel Universe.

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Really bad.

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And paid the price.

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In today's Death Of X #2, we get an inkling.

image-5a A psychic message to the whole world warning them of the Terrigen Mists and their affects on mutants.

image-6 Raising fear, inciting action against Inhumans and generally causing mass worldwide panic. But that's not all.image-7  Bringing out the bad guys. And the Inhumans know the significance of this.

image-5 Except, from past issues of the X-Men, it looks like the battle will be won, not on the land, not in the skies, but in propaganda.

Somehow, Cyclops will die. And in his absence, the Inhumans will find a way to reverse the PR strike against them. So that people are no longer afraid of the Terrigen mist…

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… but of its effects on mutants and possibly that it may be contagious.

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Did Karnak find the weak spot in Cyclops' campaign of fear and exploit it?

Death Of X #1 by Charles Soule, Jeff Lemire and Aaron Kuder is published by Marvel Comics today.


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