Appearing in "Dazzler"
X-Men #130
Featured Characters:
- X-Men (Main story and recap)
- Cyclops (Scott Summers)
- Phoenix (Jean Grey)
- Storm (Ororo Munroe) (Main story and recap)
- Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)
- Wolverine (James "Logan" Howlett) (Main story and recap)
- Colossus (Peter Rasputin) (Main story and recap)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Main story and recap)
Supporting Characters:
- Kitty Pryde (Main story and recap)
- Dazzler (Alison Blaire) (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Hellfire Club
- Jason Wyngarde
- Black King (Sebastian Shaw)
- White Queen (Emma Frost) (Main story and recap)
- Unnamed Hellfire troops
- Hellfire Knights
- Rodi (First appearance)
- Unnamed members (Main story and flashback)
Other Characters:
- Carmen Pryde (Only in recap)
- Terri Pryde (Only in recap)
- Unnamed New Yorkers
- Black Queen (Lady Jean Grey) (Vision or hallucination)
- Avengers (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Mutants (Main story and recap)
- Abstract Entities
Locations:
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- New York
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Delano Street (First appearance) disco
- Upper East Side
- Lenox Hill
- 66th Street and Fifth Avenue
- Hellfire Club Mansion|The Hellfire Club (First appearance)
- 66th Street and Fifth Avenue
- Lenox Hill
- Manhattan
- New York City
- Illinois (Main story and recap)
- Chicago
- Frost International facility
- Deerfield (Only in recap)
- Family Pryde's Home (Only in recap)
- Chicago
- Massachusetts (Mentioned)
- Massachusetts Academy (Mentioned)
- New York
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- North America
Items:
- Ruby-Quartz Sunglasses
- Cyclops' Visor, ver. 2
- Hellfire Knights armor
- Remote Cerebro watch-unit
- Mutant Sedation Cage (First appearance)
- X-Uniforms (Main story and recap)
- Wolverine's Suit (Only in recap)
- Image Inducer (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
Synopsis for "Dazzler"
X-Men #130
Continued from last issue.
Cyclops, Phoenix and Nightcrawler investigate a Manhattan dance club to seek out the mutant detected by Cerebro. Cyclops orders Nightcrawler to stay outside and remain on the lookout from the shadows for trouble, while he and Jean search the nightclub for the new mutant. They are all unaware that they are being watched by minions of the Hellfire Club, who have been sent out to capture the new mutant as well.
Entering the club, Scott and Jean find the club and its patrons to be extremely decadent. As they canvass the room to find the mutant, Jean can't help finding the sordid thoughts among the crowd somehow attractive.
At the Hellfire Club's headquarters, Jason Wyngarde and the Hellfire Club's leader Sebastian Shaw receive a report from the soldiers surveying the night club. Jason tells Shaw that he will personally see to Jean Grey.
Shaw then checks in with the White Queen in Chicago. Emma reports back showing that she has captured Wolverine, Storm, Colossus (whom she holds in cages) and Professor X (who is being held in a comatose state). The young mutant named Kitty Pryde has escaped, however - for the time being. Unbeknownst to Emma, Kitty has used her phasing ability to sneak into Emma's industrial complex. Approaching Storm, she discovers that something about the cage has dulled Ororo's mind. However, Storm rallies and manages to rip a tag off her costume to provide Kitty with a phone number to call. Kitty is spotted by one of Emma's guards and she escapes using her phasing powers.
Back in New York, Jean continues to search through the crowd when she is confronted by Jason Wyngarde and instantaneously finds herself experiencing another "timeslip", seemingly living the past life of an ancestor once more. She finds herself in a burnt-out church in the middle of a wedding ceremony between her and Jason, with Sebastian Shaw presiding. After they have exchanged vows, Wyngarde removes Jean's wedding dress to unveil her as the Black Queen. As the assembled guests (members of the Hellfire Club) cheer, she lustily kisses Jason.
Just as suddenly as it began, Jean finds herself back in the present but kissing the modern day Wyngarde right in front of Scott. Before Jean can even begin to explain (or comprehend) what happened, the club's musical act takes the stage amid an amazing pyrotechnic light show. She is a singer known as Dazzler. Cyclops' mini Cerebro unit indicates that she is the mutant they are seeking.
Outside, the X-Men's car phone rings and Nightcrawler answers: Kitty is calling for help. Before Nightcrawler can learn any more, he is attacked by a Hellfire Club soldier in a suit of armor specially designed to combat his powers. The soldier attacks him with a sonic device that is strikingly similar to a Danger Room device that stopped him once before.
Two more soldiers burst through the club's skylight above the stage. Jean uses her powers to change her and Scott's street clothes into their X-Men uniforms, shocking Scott at her display of power. The armored soldiers have also been specially fashioned to combat their mutant abilities as well, including one who lobs a glop of ruby quartz material onto Scott's visor, preventing him from firing his optic blasts, and one who attacks Phoenix with a psionic distorter (which Cyclops notes would require her attackers knowing her specific brainwave patterns). The soldiers hadn't anticipated Dazzler entering the fight, distracting them with her light powers. Dazzler’s power renders one of the soldiers catatonic, something that surprises even Dazzler herself. This allows Jean to free Cyclops and the two switch opponents, easily defeating them.
The last soldier and Nightcrawler crash through the skylight while mixing it up. Phoenix easily dispatches the third opponent. Nightcrawler explains to Cyclops and Phoenix that the X-Men in Chicago were ambushed. Cyclops very quickly explains to Dazzler that she is a mutant and that they need her help in saving their friends. Dazzler is surprised by all this, but agrees to help. As soon as they have departed, the the club explodes, destroying all evidence of the battle. (Obviously the soldier's armor was detonated in the same manner as the White Queen's lackeys last issue.)
As Cyclops drives away, he sees Wyngarde looming beneath a streetlamp and wonders what he was doing kissing Jean. As the car passes by, Cyclops vaguely notices that the shadow Wyngarde casts does not match his body, but he is too distracted to reflect on the fact. After the X-Men have gone, Wyngarde laughs over the progress he is making with Jean Grey.
This story is continued next issue.
Appearing in "Outside In"
Featured Characters:
Other Characters:
- Proteus (Kevin MacTaggert) (Corpse, skeleton or other remains)
- Joe MacTaggert (Photo)
- Havok (Alex Summers) (Mentioned)
- Polaris (Lorna Dane) (Mentioned)
- Jamie Madrox (Mentioned)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Photo)
Races and Species:
Locations:
Synopsis for "Outside In"
After the Proteus incident, a grief-stricken Moira contemplates cloning her son to give him a second chance at life. After some struggle against her emotional barriers, Sean convinces her to let Kevin rest in peace and to move on.