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Appearing in "Crossroads"
Uncanny X-Men #274
Featured Characters:
- Magneto (Magnus) (Main story and flashback)
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Deathbird (Cal'syee Neramani)
- Manacle (First appearance)
- Savage Land Mutates
Other Characters:
- Trish Tilby (Appears on screen)
- Anya Eisenhardt (Referenced)
- Isabelle (Referenced)
- Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Referenced)
- Adolf Hitler (Referenced)
- Magneto's father (Referenced)
- Magneto's sister (Referenced)
- Russian soldiers
- Avengers (Mentioned)
- President George Bush, Sr.
- Swamp Men
- Shanna the She-Devil (Shanna O'Hara) (Mentioned)
- Lorna Dane (Mentioned)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
- Mutants
- Humans
- Dinosaurs
- Cyborgs
- Mutant Human-Otherworlder Hybrids
- Shi'ar
- Smilodon
- Neanderthals
- Pterosaurs
Locations:
- Earth
- South America
- Argentina
- Punta Arenas (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Argentina
- Antarctica
- Vostok 3 Russian Research Station (Mentioned)
- Palmer Peninsula
- Savage Land
- Magneto's Citadel
- Savage Land
- North America
- United States of Americ
- Washington, D.C. (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- New York
- United States of Americ
- Europe
- Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, Germany (Referenced)
- Leningrad, Russia (Referenced)
- South America
Ítems:
- Magneto's Helmet
- X-Uniforms
- Banshee's Wings
- Adamantium (on Wolverine's claws)
Vehicles:
- S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier
- U.N. supply planes & helicopters
- Russian gunships
- Leningrad submarine (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "Crossroads"
Uncanny X-Men #274
Zaladane has erected six towers in the Savage Land and is now in sync with Earth’s magnetic field. With her magnetic powers, she has scrambled all communication within the Savage Land, and the effects of her mad quest for power are already felt far away, as Argentina was hit by a massive earthquake. S.H.I.E.L.D. has sent in Nick Fury and a team of agents, but most of them perished when their choppers are downed because of the electro-magnetic pulse neutralizing all electronics, and then rocks hurled from an air-cavalry of pterosaurs. Magneto and Rogue have allied with Ka-Zar but they don’t fare much better. Apparently something went wrong when Magneto reintegrated her bio-matrix, as she is only a shadow of her former self. Her absorption power doesn’t work and she is only slightly stronger than an average person. Magneto finds himself in a moral conflict, he knows that there is only one way to stop Zaladane, but killing her would surely end his beginning relationship with Rogue. Meanwhile the X-Men have been teleported to Shi'ar space by Lila Cheney. Immediately they get captured by Deathbird who wants them to kill Charles Xavier.