Legion
Legionpulled a fast one on its audience , as it easy build to the Apocalypse that David Haller - Charles Xavier ’s biologic boy - is the scoundrel of his own story .
David crossed the point of no return in theseason 2 finalewhen he altered the memory of his girlfriend , fellow mutant Syd Barrett , removing any anamnesis of their family relationship problems , then slumber with her . Rather than take responsibility for his transgression , David abandoned Division 3 and began a cult ; he would finally recruitSwitch , a mutant sentence traveler , in an attack to rewrite the past tense and restore what he perceives to be the proper timeline , where he and Syd are still in dearest and he ’s still the grinder .
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How could the offspring of the most iconically charitable variation become such a delusional goliath ? The response begins in David ’s infancy , when Amahl Farouk - the brawny mutant telepath have it off as theShadow King- had a showdown with Xavier , which he would at last lose . Assumed dead , his consciousness survived and attach itself to Xavier ’s babe boy - designate to be a powerful mutant in his own right field - as retaliation . We do n’t yet bonk the exact details of David ’s early days possessed by the Shadow King , but he would finally be impart up for adoption by either one or both of us his parents and weather a unmanageable life , with his unhinged mutant abilities and constant torment at the hands of the malevolent entity being treated as a serious mental sickness for most of his life .
David would eventually discharge himself of Farouk with the helper of Melanie Bird and her team of sport , including Syd , who switches body with anyone she touch . David and Syd had an unusual but sweet romance that blossom out as David attempted to shake the Shadow King . But David - in control of his own brain for the first fourth dimension in his life - had somehow exchange . The low but charming military personnel was slow replaced by an self-important , self - serving pretender who wielded almost impossible mogul in increasingly worrisome ways . Rather than feel grateful that he was lastly free , David frame himself as a eonian victim , justifying any action by virtuousness of the universe owe him for his troubled lifetime . Assaulting Syd was the moment he made the terminal step from amorality to open criminalism , and he has no interest in apologise for it .
This is setaceous philosophic territory forLegion , a show seemingly about superheroes . It ’s out of the question to recognise if David was irreparably damaged by sharing a creative thinker with the Shadow King for so many geezerhood , if he was already susceptible to genial illness , or if on some horizontal surface he was always drop dead to end up as a toxic crawling . For David the answer is clear - this is all Farouk ’s shift , and the human beings is below the belt judging him , the true victim . That wit - along with a pitiless time travel strategy - could lead David to take the variety of deadly actions he ’s been loth to so far .
We knowXavier will finally debutonLegionthis season - played byGame of ThronesandCounterpartstar Harry Lloyd - and given Lloyd ’s age and the nature of David ’s design , it will in all likelihood be in flashback . Whether Professor X makes a proper present - day appearance is still an open question , but one matter is for certain - he ’d be horror-stricken to see what ’s become of his son .
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