New X-Men
Jean Grey confronts Magneto in a devastating final battle as the Phoenix Force rises one last time and the cost of Morrison's vision becomes clear
The twist that split fandom in half. Xorn is Magneto — or Morrison's version of him: a drug-addled, aging terrorist whose revolution is pathetic and brutal. Jean Grey dies. Manhattan burns. It is a deliberate deconstruction of the romantic revolutionary that fans worshipped, and people are still arguing about it twenty years later
The twist that divided fandom. Xorn is revealed as Magneto — or is he? Morrison's Magneto is a drug-addled, aging terrorist who conquers Manhattan and destroys it in a nihilistic rage, a deliberate deconstruction of the romantic revolutionary fans had turned him into. Jean Grey dies. Again. But this time, it matters differently