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By Mark Rodriguez After an epic battle against the Red Skull that had control over Xavier's mind, all the heroes and villains involved had their personalities changed from good to evil and vice versa. In the final battle to stop the evil X-Men and Avengers, Steve Rogers has a plan to turn things back to normal. Iron Man sends the new Captain America, Sam Wilson, to finish him off and is surprised to find Steve in an armored version of the Captain America outfit holding onto a weakened Red Skull. What will happen now? This issue opens with a flashback of Wolverine trying to talk Sabertooth out of killing someone, and how Xavier can help find the good in him. Creed says there is no good in him and kills his victim. Now in current times, Steve laments how he has to protect his worst enemy, the Red Skull from a kill-crazed Sam Wilson. Steve tries to put up the good fight, but without the super soldier serum, he's aged and Sam is eager to to finish both him and ...

By Mark Rodriguez Due to fighting the Red Skull with the mind of Professor Xavier, all the heroes and villains in the area were mentally affected, their alignment of being either good or evil being changed. The Avengers want to rule the world while the X-Men, now led by Apocalypse, want to eradicate the human race to make room for mutantkind. The X-Gene bomb has been set and it's ticking to its final seconds. What will happen now? The issue opens with Spider-Man trying to defuse the bomb while everyone else is fighting. When trying to crack the code fails, he tries to just rip out the wires instead. Carnage shows up and tells him that brute force won't do any good against a bomb. Spidey suggests they both web it up, but Carnage suggests to cover the entire bomb with himself. Spider-Man tells him this will kill him, but Carnage says the world is better off without him anyway. He makes Spidey promise to make a memorial of him and the webhead leaves before the bo...

By Mark Rodriguez The Marvel universe has gone crazy due to an epic battle against the Red Skull that had taken the form of Onslaught. Most of the heroes and villains involved during this battle had their personalities and alignments switched. Villains like Carnage and Hobgoblin are now heroes, the Avengers want to rule the world and the X-Men want to eradicate the humans to make room for the mutants. Several heroes like Spider-Man and Steve Rogers have gathered together with the reformed villains, and Sabertooth tells the group that the X-Men are developing an Gene bomb that will wipe out humanity if they don't stop it. What's gonna happen? The issue opens with the Summers brothers watching the Wasp, locked up in a cell. Havok talks about how much he loves her and asks Cyclops if the X-Gene bomb could spare at least one human, and Cyclops says 'it doesn't work that way'. Havok asks if he would allow his wife to die and Cyclops said he would if it...

By Mark Rodriguez The Red Skull used Xavier's mind to spread hate across the world. Magneto saw it fit to kill him, but instead of dying he was turned into Onslaught. In the epic battle to take him down, Rogue discovered that Xavier still existed within Red Skull's mind. While trying to make Xavier's personality dominate Red Skull's mind, everyone involved got their basic alignments switched. Now evil, Captain Falcon America is paranoid that someone helped the Red Skull escaped their clutches, and he captured all the Avengers, except Spider-Man and Nova that escaped. Magneto and Steve Rogers tell them that the X-Men are also evil, now bent on wiping out humanity with Apocalypse leading the charge. Meanwhile Kluh, the evil version of the Hulk, is calling out the heroes, and Nova took his challenge. Let's see what happens next. The issue begins with Apocalypse spreading his message, warning humans to leave Manhattan for the mutants or they will be s...

By Mark Rodriguez The Red Skull used Xavier's mind to spread hate across the Marvel Universe. After a huge battle, the Red Skull is defeated, but he showed signs of Xavier's consciousness which led to the X-Men and Avengers to argue over who gets custody of him. The Avengers take him and prepare for retaliation from the X-Men. Captain America (Falcon) decides to flat out kill Red Skull. Seeing the Avengers acting this way made Hulk sad that unleashed a stronger more evil sadistic form called Kluh who escapes. The Avengers also find out that the Red Skull has escaped.... The issue opens with Spider-Man meeting up with the younger newer Nova as they both attend an 'All Avengers get here now!!!' kind of meeting. Nova is excited to be a part of this and Spider-Man shows him around the huge gathering of super heroes. He pokes fun of Hawkeye's costume and he jabs back. Spidey says it's costume envy since his outfit is timeless but Hawkeye changes h...

By Mark Rodriguez The Red Skull has gained the powers of Xavier's mind and is using them to instill hatred upon the Marvel Universe. Magneto opted to flat out kill the Red Skull but this somehow turned him into the Red Onslaught. Avengers and X-Men teamed up in a 3-issue battle until the Red Skull was finally defeated and turned back to normal. The Avengers want to take him into custody.... but now that the possibility exists that Professor Xavier is somehow alive somewhere within the Red Skull's mind, the X-Men want him as well. The teams argue and the Avengers take the Red Skull which sparks another divide between the teams. Now what will happen? The comic starts in one of SHIELD's Helicarriers as the Avengers discuss with Fury on how they defeated Red Skull and stopped World War Hate. Maria Hill says they're here to take Red Skull into custody but Captain America says they have him securely locked down. The Hulk says maybe SHIELD is right, but Cap ...

By Mark Rodriguez Magneto killed the Red Skull after he was trying to brainwash captured mutants in his reeducation camps. Since the Red Skull was using Xavier's mind and powers, his death transformed him into the giant sized Red Onslaught. He attacks the heroes with 2 Adamantium Sentinels created by Iron Man's designs. As the heroes go down, Iron Man is the last one left.... but Magneto arrives to continue the fight alongside a slew of super villains including Dr. Doom, Loki and Carnage! Now what will happen? The issue opens with Deadpool dragging Iron Man away from the battlefield, while talking his ear off and making fun of Hobgoblin and Carnage. The bad guys attack the Red Skull while throwing quips about saving the world. Carnage remarks that normally he'd be into the Skull's plans, but not if it means having to bow to him. Carnage, Loki, Doom and Magneto succeed in destroying one of the Sentinels and now focus their thoughts on the Red Skull. ...

By Mark Rodriguez After Cyclops killed Professor Xavier during the Avengers VS X-Men storyline, the Red Skull gained access to his mind and powers. When he started capturing mutants to brainwash them, Magneto took it upon himself to kill him. However, killing him unleashed a surge of psychic energy and it turned the Red Skull into the Red Onslaught. Now with his new powers, he is spreading hatred telepathically, causing riots to break out around the world. As the Avengers and X-Men face off against him, Red Skull reveals he saw into Iron Man's mind and saw his Civil War plans. He unleashes two Stark Sentinels made out of Adamantium! The issue opens with Iron Man in a daze, apparently having been knocked out during the battle against the Stark Sentinels. Captain Falcon wakes him up and asks him how to stop them, but Tony doesn't know. Tony only remembers thinking about creating them and how he would do it, but not actually making them. He figures out they mus...

By Mark Rodriguez There's been several changes in the Marvel Universe by the time we got this far. Captain America had lost his powers and started showing his natural age, so Falcon is the new Captain America. Thor has lost his hammer (and his arm) and now there is a female Thor. Wolverine is dead and Old Man Logan takes his place, and the Fantastic Four comic is cancelled. Now that we got some of that explained, this is a cool saga where characters gets their good and evil alignments shifted around, which also means that this major Marvel Event will also focus on the villains and not just the heroes fighting each other all the time. Let's check it out. The comic recaps how the Phoenix-Powered Cyclops killed Xavier during the Avengers VS X-Men story. Captain America enlisted Havok, Cyclops' brother to recruit some of the X-Men as fellow Avengers so the world can see that human and mutant superheroes can work together. However the Red Skull has Xavier's brain,...