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Warning : SPOILERS forExcalibur#10
TheX - Men ’s Kate Pryde is dead , and even mutant skill ca n’t play her back - but why is she in this week’sExcalibur#10 ? Death has always been something of a revolving doorway for the X - work force , to the extent almost every major sport has break down and been upraise - at least once . Jonathan Hickman has lampshaded that fact in his X - Men relaunch , demonstrate the so - call " resurrection protocols . " Now , by synergizing mutant powers and Cerebro technology , the X - Men have finally conquer death .
Except for the rummy case of Kate ( formerly Kitty ) Pryde . For unidentified reason , Krakoan biotech just would n’t work for Kate , and in fact it short her powers . The X - Men reverence this would think she could n’t be resurrected . Sebastian Shaw make up one’s mind to test that hypothesis , andmurdered Kate Prydein an attempt to strengthen his hold on the Hellfire Corporation . Tragically , Marauders#10 confirmed all the X - Men ’s worst fright were correct , and Kate really is beyond the help of Krakoa .
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Which , naturally , meant reader were more than a little bewildered when she turned up in this week’sExcalibur#10 . The take opens with outright war breaking out between Krakoa and London , and Captain Britain conduct her team to the Krakoan gateway ; she intends to travel to Krakoa and find out what ’s give-up the ghost on . unluckily the gateways are destroyed , stranding the mathematical group of mutants in a hostile body politic . Fortunately , that ’s when the Marauders turn up , their gravy boat hold aloft in the sky by Rachel Grey . And the skipper of the Marauders … is still Kate Pryde .
It ’s easy to miss , but from the moment Jonathan Hickman kicked off the ten - Men relaunch , he ’s been playact games with readers ' nous . House of XandPowers of Xwere arrange six calendar month after the last previous X - Men book , and most of the events from that period of time still have n’t been disclosed . Since then , the different X - Men tale have been scattered around the timeline , a measured deed that hold back the gradual human body - up of key patch points . In fact , Excalibur#9 corroborate that entire serial is set before the unification of the island of Krakoa and Arakko , which readers take in inX - Men#2 . Until now the author had been pernicious about all this , but the Marauders cameo inExcalibur#10 makes it somewhat explicit . note that Kate Pryde is hold out her earliest Marauders costume , which she ditch shortly afterbecoming the Red Queen inMarauders#2 .
And then , as the consequence comes to an destruction , reader learn another reason Kate is there ; because this is n’t the real world at all . The totality ofExcalibur#10 is set in a pocket dimension created by Omega grade mutantJamie Braddock . That neatly explain all the irregularities and oddities , the strange adaptation of the mutants ' normal business leader - Gambit suck energy rather than releasing it , Rictor communing with the Earth , and even Kate and Rachel hinted at being in a relationship . It ’s a arresting curveball , and it fix thisX - Mencomic workplace tremendously efficaciously . No wonder Kate ’s comeback leaves us off - balance as reviewer ; the entire issue is designed to do just that .
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