Kevin Simler

43. The Hunt For Xavier, 1998. The X-Men... hunt for Xavier. After they find him, they together save the world from an insane, sentient, nanotech-empowered Cerebro.

44. The Magneto War, 1999. Magneto returns (again) to use the Earth's magnetic field to hold the world hostage (again). The U.N. eventually capitulates (?), and grants him rulership of the sovereign nation of Genosha (?!).

45. Apocalypse: The Twelve, 1999. Apocalypse collects twelve powerful mutants to power a celestial machine that will grant him god-like power, then steals Cyclops's body.

46. Ages of Apocalypse, 2000. Apocalypse fucks with timelines to try and repeat the above because he needed Cable's body instead of Cyclops's. But he fails, the timeline resets, and he flees, still possessing Cyclops.

47. Maximum Security, 2000. The Kree trick the pangalactic council into quarantining Earth and dumping their worst prisoners there. Earth's heroes wreck their jailers and expel the alien prisoners while the pangalactic council fights a costly war to contain the resurgent Kree.

48. Eve of Destruction, 2001. Moira MacTaggert and Colossus die in the course of curing the Legacy virus (mutant AIDS), leaving Magneto with an army of healthy mutants with which to conquer the world. Magneto is outsmarted and defeated by the X-Men, then executed by Wolverine.

49. Avengers Disassembled, 2004. Scarlet Witch loses her mind and unleashes horrors upon the Avengers. Hawkeye, Scott Lang, and the Vision are killed, and the mansion is destroyed. Dr. Strange gives Scarlet Witch a magic lobotomy. The band breaks up.

50. House of M, 2005. Quicksilver persuades his sister to rewrite reality into a world where Magneto is king and mutants oppress humans. Two mutants remember the old timeline, assemble a team, and show the Scarlet Witch she messed up. She fixes things but depowers most mutants.