In which Warren Kenneth Worthington III is a terrible teacher; we are all Magneto’s children; Sooraya Qadir deserves a better origin story; teenagers have a lot of feelings; and we meet one of the modern age’s most controversial mutants.

X-PLAINED:

The destiny of Quentin Quire
New X-Men #131-134
An underattended funeral
How to fly? Kinda? I guess?
A kiss
A friendship
Another bit of ruby quartz marginalia that will never be mentioned again
A somewhat ill-founded psychic metaphor
Emma Frost’s Dark Phoenix costume
Some kind of weird affair
Echoes of 9/11/2001
Genosha, a year later
Ghosts
Polaris’s paternity
Shocker (the mutant one)
The last words of Genosha
Islamophobia post 9/11
Sooraya Qadir (Dust)
An attempted hijacking and the aftermath thereof
Some Shi’ar nonsense
X-Corporation Mumbai
Jumbo Carnation
Telepathy class
An artist’s interpretation of the fate of mankind if mutants are not driven out, as predicted by Bolivar Trask
Accountability
Professor X’s weird little paintings
X-adjectives
Best and worst X-Men with whom to share a psychic rapport

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