Uncanny Avengers Spoilers: Delusions of Future Past

In today’s issue of Uncanny Avengers, Rick Remender and John Cassaday’s Avengers vs. X-Men spinoff Avengers title, Havok and Scarlet Witch took center stage and were treated to horrifying psychic visions of a Days of Future Past-flavored future.Among other things, Remender brings back the social undertones of the X-Men in a big, bad way, suggesting that under his regime, he’ll target ostensibly universal rights and strip them from mutants–rights like marriage, voting and shared public utilities. While the “public utilities” bit is a bit dated, both the marriage rights and the right to vote are very much in the headlines as things being denied to segments of the populace.That’s not the only thing he brings back, though, and the other will turn a few heads in comic book circles.As anyone who’s been reading the book knows, the longtime Captain America villain has turned in his Cosmic Cube lust for an interest in Charles Xavier’s brain. Having stolen it out of the mutant leader’s corpse, he’s been using it to approximate Xavier’s powers, including but not limited to telepathy, mind control and the ability to detect mutants.