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imagine you discover something about yourself... say, like, where ever you go, everything organic withing a certain radius of you gets incinerated.

and you cannot control it.

you are not a bad person.

you do not wish this on anyone.

you do not want to be the cause of this pain.

but the simple fact is:

you are.

Ultimate X-Men has reimagined the X-Men line and taken it to a darker, and arguably, more realistic (or maybe more cynical) level.

I quite enjoy the series - of which, to date, I have a complete run. But as I am letting my subscriptions run out, there will be 3 more books until I completely stop buying comics forever.

maybe.

:-P

in any case, in this last issue, we find a boy whose mutant abilities manifest themselves and essentially annihilate a large part of his town.

all the trees, all the plants, all the animals, all the people, within his abilities range of contact, combust from the toxins released by his body.

talk about getting the short end of the stick.

Wolverine, in all his healing factored glory, is the only one who can get close to the boy - which he does, only to eliminate him.

Big picture. humans versus mutants. bad for image if mutant kills entire town. etc., etc.

It was not his fault.

But what can he do?

What could anyone do?

Could anyone help him?

If it were me...

what would I do?

Suicide is bad.

But to give your life for another is a great act of virtue.

But to take your life for another...

Then to take a life for another...

or many others...

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I am certainly glad I do not have to make a decision like this.

I pray that I would never have to.

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in the end, he conceded to the fact that he was about to be killed because of someone else's idea of the bigger picture.

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it just got me thinking, is all...