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The Uncanny X-Men #500

Marvel · Series began 1981 · September 2008

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Dates

Cover date: September 2008
On sale: July 23, 2008
Pages: 52

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Editions and covers (12)

Copies of #500 are not all the same book. Here is how to tell each one apart.

Alex Ross Standard Cover

Barcode 75960602461250011 · shared with another edition
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2nd printing

Second Printing

Marked as a later printing on the cover or in the indicia.

Barcode 75960602461250091
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Greg Land Standard Cover

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Michael Turner Variant Cover

Barcode 75960602461250031
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Terry Dodson Variant Cover

Barcode 75960602461250041
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Dynamic Forces Online Variant
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Alex Ross Canadian Fan Expo Variant

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Newsstand edition$3.99 cover

Greg Land Newsstand Cover

A UPC barcode in the cover's corner box.

Barcode 00928102461309
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Story arc: Manifest Destiny

This is part 2 of 36. Reading order by cover month and on-sale date; arc records can be incomplete.

Creators

pencils: Alex Ross, Michael Turner, Terry Dodson, Greg Landinks: Alex Ross, Rachel Dodson, Jay Leistencolors: Alex Ross, Justin Ponsorscript: Ed Brubaker, Matt Fractionletters: Joe Caramagna

Stories

SFX Part One: Prologue: The Extraordinary Dream of Kingo Sunen · 1 pages
Kingo Sunen, writer/director/producer/editor/actor of samurai movies, decides to cast ex-mutant Freddie Dukes in his first ever science fiction film, set in San Francisco against the backdrop of the Dreaming Celestial.
SFX Part One: Prologue 2: The Extraordinary Cargo of Guy DeMondue · 2 pages
Artist Guy DeMondue unloads a Sentinel at the docks in the dark of night with Simon Trask.
SFX Part One: Chapter One: The Mayor and the Queen in Exurbia · 5 pages
The X-Men give the Mayor a tour of their new headquarters and mutant embassy in the Marin Headlands. The Mayor warns them that Guy DeMondue is planning a "confrontational" art exhibit involving Sentinels.
SFX Part One: Chapter Two: Superstars of the Spandex Scene · 8 pages
The X-Men attend the opening of Guy DeMondue's "Celebration of Mutant Kitsch" installation in Yerba Buena Gardens. Most of the crowd has dressed up like X-Men, or approximations thereof. There are also protesters due to the Sentinels being part of the installation. Suddenly Magneto, his powers apparently restored, attacks the X-Men, chucking Colossus through the big round window in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and somehow activating the two Sentinels.
SFX Part One: Chapter Three: The Exploding Plastic Inevitable · 7 pages
The X-Men fight the Sentinels, but Emma notices that the Sentinels strangely do not attack Magneto.
SFX Part One: Chapter Four: The Fix Is In...! · 7 pages
The X-Men defeat the last Sentinel and subdue Magneto. They learn that his powers were generated by his extremely high-tech suit. Magneto berates them as unworthy to save the mutant race, and teleports out. Storm spots strange lights at the Dreaming Celestial and we see the High Evolutionary doing something with it, helped by a mesmerized Kingo Sunen. She arrives too late to do anything, but somewhere in space we see the Evolutionary, Magneto, and Fred Dukes discussing plans on the bridge of a starship.
SFX Part One: Epilogue One: Vox Populi · 3 pages
With Emma broadcasting his thoughts to all known mutants, Scott announces that the X-Men are alive and that San Francisco is a mutant sanctuary.
SFX Part One: Epilogue Two: Exit the Artist · 1 pages
Logan visits Guy DeMondue in his studio, only to find him dead.
SFX Part One: Epilogue Three: Enter the Pixie · 3 pages
Simon Trask uses the fact that both he and a bouncer appear to be Prime Sentinels to talk his way into a club. Pixie and her date are leaving a Dazzler concert amazed that she's back and has put on a great show. A group of men in a van see her and put on masks similar to those worn by Hellfire Club guards. They get out of the van with baseball bats and other weapons and prepare to attack Pixie.

Publisher’s description

The X-Men are setting up shop in San Francisco...and Magneto wants to join?

Characters

Scott SummersCyclopsOroro MunroeStormHank McCoyBeastJean GreyPiotr RasputinColossusKurt WagnerNightcrawlerBobby DrakeIcemanWarren Worthington IIIRogueCharles XavierAnna MarieProfessor XKitty PrydeErik LehnsherrMagnetoMarvel GirlAngelGambitRemy LeBeauEmma FrostBetsy BraddockAlex SummersHavokShadowcat

Reprinted in

Uncanny X-Men: Manifest Destiny (2009), Uncanny X-Men: Manifest Destiny (2009), Essential X-Men (2010), Uncanny X-Men by Matt Fraction: The Complete Collection (2013), X-Men: The Adamantium Collection (2014)