Bid farewell to the farmboy, sonny... you're a "hero" now-- the hardest life of all-- you'd best get used to it. Go back to the X-Men, Colossus. That's where you're needed... where you can best serve your true Rodina. Lad, that's where you belong! 
Appearing in "Listen -- Stop Me if You've Heard It -- But This One Will Kill You!"
X-Men #123
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Arcade
- Miss Locke
- Mr. Chambers
- Unnamed members of Arcade's gang
- Alexei Vazhin (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Unnamed New Yorkers
- Mariko's butlers
- Chris Claremont
- Roger Stern
- Bonnie Wilford
- Terry Austin
- Glynis Wein
- Len Wein
- Cissy Ironwood (Referenced)
- Jean Grey (Mentioned)
- John Grey (Mentioned)
- Elaine Grey (Mentioned)
- Steel Serpent (Davos) (Mentioned)
- Lords of Light and Darkness (Referenced)
- Misty Knight (Mentioned)
- Iron Fist (Danny Rand) (Mentioned)
- Captain Britain (Brian Braddock) (Referenced)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Mentioned)
- Soviet Union (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
Items:
- Spider-Man's Suit and Web-Shooters
- Ruby-Quartz Sunglasses
- Cyclops' Visor, Ver. 2
- X-Uniforms
- Wolverine's Suit
- Adamantium (on Wolverine's claws)
Vehicles:
- Arcade's sanitation trucks
- Arcade's helicopter
Synopsis for "Listen -- Stop Me if You've Heard It -- But This One Will Kill You!"
X-Men #123
The Amazing Spider-Man is swinging through New York's Greenwich Village when he recognizes Colleen Wing and Scott Summers and briefly stops in to say hello. Scott and Colleen are unaware that they are being watched by one of Arcade's minions, Mr. Chambers, who uses a specially rigged garbage truck to capture them. Overhearing this, Spider-Man recognizes the noise[3] and realizes Arcade must be after his friends and arrives too late to stop the kidnapping. Considering the fact that the Arcade might be after the X-Men, Spider-Man decides to try to get in touch with them.
Nightcrawler, Colossus, and their dates Amanda Sefton and Betsy Wilford are all gassed and taken prisoner by Miss Locke. When Wolverine ends a date with Mariko, he too is captured by Mr. Chambers. Arcade personally takes care of Banshee and Storm by breaking into the X-Mansion and taking them out with tranquilizer darts. When Spider-Man calls into the school, Arcade answers the phone and tells him that he's too late to warn his friends.
When the X-Men come around, they find themselves in uniform and placed in giant glass pinballs. Arcade introduces himself and sends them off through his gigantic pinball machine. After bouncing off a number of electrified bumpers, each ball goes down a separate slot, sending each X-Man into a different room.
Cyclops lands in a room where he has to make a choice between three doors, with only one leading to safety. In order to force him to make a decision, a moving wall threatens to crush him. Colossus ends up in a room where he is confronted by an android disguised as a KGB agent named Alexi Vazhin who begins interrogating him over his loyalty to Russia while powerful hypnotic lights confuse him. Wolverine ends up in a hall of mirrors that create distorted robotic duplicates of him to battle.
Somewhere else in the Murderworld, Nightcrawler is trapped in a room where remote control cars chase after him with cutting buzz saws. Banshee (who is still unable to use his mutant powers) has to make it through a holographic simulation of a World War II battle, where some of the model jets are real. And lastly, Storm finds herself trapped in a dark room that is filling with water. As her claustrophobia sets in, she tries to blast her way through the roof with a lightning bolt onto to have it reflected back at her.
Cyclops decides not to choose any of the doors and instead blasts through one of the walls with his optic blast. This clears a passage into the hall of mirrors and damages the replicating mirrors. After helping Wolverine dispatch of the last of them, the two X-Men head for the exit door only to be attacked by Colossus who has been brainwashed into thinking that he is a Russian loyalist called the Proletarian.
In Arcade's control room, Colleen, Amanda, and Betsy are being restrained in present-shaped harnesses and can only watch helplessly from the control monitor. Arcade howls with laughter, exclaiming that with Colossus under his control, the X-Men are finished.
This story is continued next issue.
Appearing in "Motherland"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Soviet Militia
- Alyosha (First appearance)
- Unnamed soldiers
Other Characters:
- X-Men (Mentioned)
- Cyclops (Scott Summers) (Drawing)
- Wolverine (Logan) (Drawing)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Mentioned)
- Mikhail Rasputin (Mentioned)
- Sasha (Deceased)
- Stefan Goroviev (Deceased)
- Several unnamed villagers
- Ronald Reagan (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth
- Asia
- USSR
- Siberia
- Lake Baikal
- Ust-Ordynski Collective
- Lake Baikal
- Moscow (Mentioned)
- Siberia
- Afghanistan (Mentioned)
- USSR
- Antarctica (Drawing)
- Palmer Peninsula (Drawing)
- Savage Land (Drawing)
- Palmer Peninsula (Drawing)
- Asia
Vehicles:
- Tanker (Destruction)
Synopsis for "Motherland"
- Synopsis not yet written
Appearing in "untitled"
Featured Characters:
Synopsis for "untitled"
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