![]() MacTaggart seeks Xavier's advice on mutation, and takes Xavier and Raven to the CIA to convince the chief that Shaw is a threat. Shaw takes the grenade and pulls the pin himself, and absorbs the blast - Shaw is a mutant, and absorbs energy, which also keeps him young, then taps Hendry, expelling the grenade's energy into the Colonel, destroying him. Shaw later meets with Colonel Hendry on his yacht, and refuses to give Hendry his money, at which point Hendry pulls out a grenade and threatens to pull the pin and kill himself and everyone on the boat's deck. Convinced, Shaw has Azazel teleport Hendry to the President's War Room, where he supports the missile placement in Turkey. When Hendry refuses, Shaw has Riptide demonstrate his power to conjure tornadoes from thin air and hurls Hendry into a wall. install nuclear missiles in Turkey, a move the government had previously avoided so as not to provoke war with the Soviet Union. Shaw calmly threatens Hendry, telling him that the Colonel should reverse his position on advocating that the U.S. ![]() Army Colonel Hendry into the Hellfire Club, where she sees Shaw, Emma Frost, Riptide and Azazel. Simultaneously in Las Vegas, Nevada, CIA agent Moira MacTaggart follows U.S. Meanwhile, in England, Xavier has graduated from Oxford and is publishing his thesis on mutation Raven is now his foster sister and works as a waitress. In a tavern there patronized by former German soldiers, Lensherr kills three men as he learns that Shaw owns a yacht in Florida. In 1962, Lensherr goes to Switzerland and forces a banker (by ripping out one of the metal fillings in his mouth) to trace a bar of Nazi gold to Shaw's address in Argentina. Overjoyed to meet someone else "different" like him, Xavier invites her in. Raven shifts back to her normal, blue-skinned form. Using his mind to talk to Raven, Xavier accuses his "mother" of being an imposter, and asks what it has done with his real mother, as she would not make him a sandwich or hot chocolate. He heads down to the kitchen and finds a young, shape-shifting girl named Raven Darkhölme, disguised as his mother, who is looking through the fridge for food. ![]() Around this same time, in a Westchester County, New York, mansion, young Charles Xavier is awoken when he thinks he hears a burglar break in. Shaw tells Lensherr that they will "have fun" developing the boy's power. In his rage, Lensherr's out-of-control magnetic power kills the two guards and destroys two rooms, to Shaw's delight. When Lensherr cannot, despite his best efforts, Shaw shoots and kills Lensherr's mother in front of him. Placing a metal coin on a desk, he orders Lensherr to use his power to move it. Scientist Sebastian Shaw, who has observed this incident through a window, calls Lensherr up to see him. The child's desperate mind remarkably bends a metal gate until a guard knocks Lensherr unconscious (a recreation of the opening scene of the first X-Men movie). At a German concentration camp in occupied Poland during 1944, young Erik Lensherr is separated from his parents by Nazi guards.The synopsis below may give away important plot points.
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