Appearing in "Kidnapped!"
Featured Characters:
- X-Men
- Reserve X-Men
Supporting Characters:
- Stevie Hunter
- ⏴ Beast (Henry "Hank" McCoy) ⏵ (Appears on screen)
- Sprite (Kitty Pryde)
- Scott Summers
- Captain Lee Forrester
Antagonists:
- Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) (Main story and flashback)
- Miss Locke
- Arcade (Main story and flashback)
- Toadworld goons
- Vincenzo (First appearance)
- Numerous unnamed others
- Doom Squad
Other Characters:
- Numerous unnamed New Yorkers
- Edward (First appearance)
- Dr. Moira MacTaggart (Only in recap)
- Amanda Sefton (Only in recap)
- Elaine Grey (Only in recap)
- John Grey (Only in recap)
- Illyana Rasputin (Only in recap)
- Jean Grey (Illusion or holographic simulation)
- Magneto (Magnus) (Behind the scenes)
- Death (Referenced)
- Toad (Mortimer Toynbee) (Mentioned)
- Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom) (Mentioned)
- Candy Southern (Mentioned)
- Phoenix (Referenced)
- Empress Lilandra Neramani (Referenced)
- Jahrmarkt (Mentioned)
- Margali Szardos (Mentioned)
- Avengers (Mentioned)
- U.S. Coast Guard (Mentioned)
- FBI (Mentioned)
- Fantastic Four (Mentioned)
- White Wolf (Dazhbog) (Invoked)
- Goddess (Ma'at) (Invoked)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and flashback)
- Mutants (Main story and recap)
- Doombots (Main story and flashback)
- Cats (Referenced)
- N'Garai (Mentioned)
- Demons (Mentioned)
- Lions (Mentioned)
Locations:
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- New York City
- Manhattan
- Upper West Side
- Midtown
- Central Park South
- Amanda Sefton's Apartment
- Central Park South
- Murderworld, Coney Island, Brooklyn (Mentioned)
- Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, Queens (Referenced)
- Manhattan
- Adirondack Mountains (Main story and flashback)
- Castle Doom (Main story and flashback)
- Annandale-on-Hudson
- Grey's House
- Bard College (Referenced)
- Westchester County
- North Salem
- Salem Center
- Graymalkin Lane
- Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
- Danger Room (Wreckage, ruins, debris, fragments)
- Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters
- Graymalkin Lane
- Salem Center
- North Salem
- Hudson River (Referenced)
- New York City
- New Mexico
- Rio Diablo
- Rio Diablo Research Facility
- Rio Diablo
- New York (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Atlantic Ocean
- Europe (Mentioned)
- Great Britain (Referenced)
- Latveria (Mentioned)
- Ireland (Referenced)
- Russia (Referenced)
- North America (Main story and flashback)
- Heaven (Invoked)
Items:
- X-Uniforms
- Holempathic Matrix crystal
- Wolverine's Suit
- Adamantium (on Wolverine's claws)
- Battle-suits "designed to trash the Fantastic Four"
- Metabolic Transmuter (First appearance)
- Neural Disruptor
- Technology To Turn Storm Into a Chrome Statue
- Ruby-Quartz Sunglasses (Referenced)
- Doctor Doom's Armor (Mentioned)
Vehicles:
- X-Men Blackbird
- Professor Xavier's Rolls Royce (Referenced)
- Arcadia (Referenced)
Synopsis for "Kidnapped!"
Stevie Hunter and Ororo go to see Britain's Royal Ballet. While watching the ballet, Miss Locke enters their box and touches them with a fatal contact poison, a poison she has the antidote to. The poison is merely to buy their undivided attention as Miss Locke relates how and why Doom captured Arcade,[1] that she would like the X-Men to rescue Arcade, and that many of the X-Men's family and friends had been captured to ensure that they would. Ororo falls unconscious, and when she awakes, Stevie and Miss Locke are gone. She checks on Amanda Sefton and the Greys, but they are all missing. She returns to the mansion.
The X-Men contact Beast to get information about Dr. Doom from the Avengers. Wolverine argues that they can't submit to blackmail, they have to nail Murderworld so hard no one would attack their loved ones and friends again. Ororo agrees, and has a plan. Professor X telepathically contacts former X-Men Havok, Polaris, Iceman, and Banshee to provide extra manpower for the two-pronged assault. Team 1 (Storm, Angel, Colossus, Wolverine, Nightcrawler) would rescue Arcade from Dr. Doom, buying time for Havok, Polaris, Iceman, and Banshee to rescue their friends from Murderworld.
Professor X is unable to contact Cyclops. That may be because he is just waking up on an unknown Caribbean beach where he and Lee Forrester may be the only inhabitants. Lee has been tossed overboard by a freak storm, and Scott dove in after her, and now they are stranded.
Meanwhile at Doom's Castle, the Adirondacks, Storm makes a dramatic entrance and demands to speak with Dr. Doom. Dr. Doom emerges and consents to discussing Storm's demand (that he release Arcade) over dinner. Meanwhile the other X-Men in her team infiltrate the castle to rescue Arcade. Unfortunately for them, they find Arcade's cell empty, and are then set upon by men in battle-suits. A fierce battle ensues with the X-Men victorious. In the dining room, Doom is monitoring the battle while engaging Storm in conversation. When it becomes apparent the battle-suits have lost, Doom presents another of his guests, Arcade. Realizing it is a trap, Storm attacks Doom, but he withstands the assault and hits Storm with a weapon that turns her into a statue. The other X-Men arrive seconds too late, only to be laid low by energy weapons. Colossus emerges unscathed, but Dr. Doom paralyzes him with a neural disruptor and emerges victorious.
Notes
- Oddly, Cyclops repeatedly refers to Aleytys Forrester in this issue as "Al", rather than "Lee" – her previously established preferred common name.
Trivia
- The Doctor Doom in this issue is later confirmed to be a Doombot (see next issue's Trivia section).
- Havok's name is misspelled throughout as "Havoc".
- Aleytys' name is misspelled as "Aleytis" throughout.
- Printing Error: The first time Marvel Two-In-One #68 is cited, 68 is accidentally omitted, although space was clearly left for it, and the # sign is there.
- Iceman's dorm room includes a poster for Space Cruiser Yamato, as well as Star Wars and KISS comics.
See Also
Recommended Reading
- This is the first in a storyline that continues in Uncanny X-Men #146 and Vol 1 147.
- X-Men #122–124 - Arcade's first attempt on the X-Men.
- Uncanny X-Men #143 - Kitty's battle with a N'Garai demon that trashed the mansion.
- Marvel Two-In-One #68 - Arcade's run-in with Doom.
- Fantastic Four #200 - Dr. Doom deposed as ruler of Latveria
Links and References
- The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators - accessed on 07/12/2009
- Official Marvel Index to the X-Men (Vol. 2) #3 - See for further referencing
References
- ↑ See Marvel Two-In-One #68.