Appearing in "The Shadow Within"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
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- Black Rook (Friedrich von Roehm) (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- Jahrmarkt (Referenced)
- Lord (Yahweh) (Mentioned)
- Madonna (Invoked)
- William Lonestar (Voice only)
- Peg Lonestar (Voice only)
- Dani Moonstar's pony (Mentioned)
- Unnamed workers for von Roehm
- Unnamed Hellfire Club maids and a tailor
- Rumblebun and several wilderness animals (In Rahne's fairy tale)
- (In Rahne's fairy tale)
- (In Rahne's fairy tale)
Races and Species:
- Demons (Referenced)
Locations:
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- Colorado (Mentioned)
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- Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe (Referenced)
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- Heaven (Invoked)
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Synopsis for "The Shadow Within"
The New Mutants are training. Cannonball is getting instruction from Nightcrawler on acrobatics. Rahne is still scared of him. Colossus and Sunspot are sparring when Sunspot somehow injures Colossus. Professor X and Moira are examining Warlock. Elsewhere in New York, Selene appears and gets directed towards the Hellfire Club, and Emmanuel Da Costa gets initiated into said club. Rahne writes a fairy tale, and she shows signs of possessing Dagger's powers by the end.
Notes
- 's attitude and odd appearance, as well as Rahne's dream, are explained in New Mutants #23.
- This issue included three bonus pin-ups, presented as notes from Charles Xavier's private journal.