365 Days of Defiance, Day 24: I hope the Russians love their spiders too

He may have the proportionate strength of a spider and the brilliant science mind of an elastic engineer, but I've always said that Spider-Man's most dangerous weapon is his sarcasm. (Also: dramatic irony, metaphor, bathos, puns, parody, litotes and satire.) Watch him defeat Colossus and Magik, both possessed by the Phoenix Force, armed only with a sonic screwdriver his wits!

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Panels from Avengers vs. X-Men #9 (October 2012); (deep inhale) plot by Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Jonathan Hickman, and Matt Fraction; script by Jason Aaron; pencils by Adam Kubert; inks by John Dell; colors by Laura Martin and Larry Molinar; letters by Chris Eliopoulos

A Supposedly Human Thing Xavier'll Never Do Again

So, Professor Charles Xavier, what do you want on your Tombstone? And by that, I don't mean pizza, I mean how do you want to die?


Panel from The First X-Men #1 (October 2012), script by Neal Adams and Christos Gage, pencils and inks by Neal Adams, colors by Matthew Wilson, letters by Clayton Cowles

Yeah, well, we can't always get what we want. Because Charles Xavier pretty much went out like a chump.:


Panels from Avengers vs. X-Men #11 (November 2012), plot by Jason Aaron, Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, and Jonathan Hickman; script by Brian Michael Bendis; pencils by Olivier Coipel; inks by Mark Morales, colors by Laura Martin; letters by Chris Eliopoulos

Ooooh, that's gotta hurt. Well, at least we can all say that even though he went out like a chump, it took five of Marvel's top writers to kill him. I'd like to think that would have been a comfort to him, but it probably wasn't, huh, Professor X? Let's try that first panel again, huh? This time with an additional image:


Second panel from X-Men: Prelude to Schism #1 (July 2011), script by Paul Jenkins, pencils and inks by Roberto de la Torre, colors by Lee Loughridge, letters by Rob Steen

Ah well. There's always your third death to try again, Charley.