Fatal Attractions (comics) - Aftermath

Aftermath

• This story leads directly into the Avengers/X-Men crossover "Bloodties".
• In wiping out Magneto's mind, Professor X unleashed an evil psychic entity, Onslaught, that festers in his own mind, leading to the Onslaught Saga of 1996.
• The mind-wiped Magneto did not return until 1999.
• In the story's most noted event, Wolverine lost his adamantium skeleton (and subsequently left the X-Men). He did not get it back until 2000, when Apocalypse rebonded it to his skeleton, shown through flashback sequences during Wolverine (vol. 1) #145, a tie-in of the "Apocalypse: The Twelve" story line.
• With the team in shambles, the three remaining members of Excalibur (Nightcrawler, Shadowcat, and Phoenix) decide to remain on Muir Island, abandoning their operations in Britain.
• After the destruction of Avalon, Colossus would later join Excalibur as part of his rehabilitation.
• The story line was the basis for the arcade game X-Men: Children of the Atom.
• According to Peter David, the idea of Magneto pulling out Wolverine's adamantium came from the plotting of the X-Cutioner's Song crossover. He had sarcastically suggested the removal when they were considering bringing Magneto back, and supposedly it was never meant to be taken seriously.