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What really draws me to the Onslaught storyline though is the familiar trope of trauma, part and parcel of every superhero origin story, turned on its head a bit here.
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And the outcome of the battle against Onslaught results in a series of heroic sacrifices that was more of an editorial mandate, resulting in the very uneven "Heroes Reborn," where a collection of the industry's top creators, like fan favorites Jim Lee and Rob Liefeld, restarted titles like Iron Man, Avengers, Fantastic Four and Thor. "Onslaught" gets a lot of flack for its outrageousness, and that's fair as the combination of the X-universe's two most powerful characters, he's too powerful for the X-Men to handle alone, and so the efforts of the Avengers, Fantastic Four and the Hulk all have to come to their aid as Onslaught's tirade threatens New York (of course), but also all of reality. With the emergence of Onslaught though, at first appearing in a series of powerful glimpses and cameos with characters to vet how strong he is, there's the extended mystery of who he is too, and it's not until X-Men #54 that his true identity is revealed. For years, there had been a dangling plot thread in the X-Universe about a traitor in their midst, shown in a looping, broken video footage of Jean Grey - broken and battered from a battle - warily looking over her shoulder before an offscreen energy blast kills the scene.