Behind The Scenes Controversy
Scott Lobdell's original outline and drafts of the "Eve of Extinction" had the story as a large-scale epic focusing not only on the threat of Magneto, but also with a callback to one of the most popular X-Men stories of the 1990s, in the form of baby versions of Apocalypse and his minions from the "Age of Apocalypse" storyline.
However, changes internally at Marvel in the form of the ascension of Joe Quesada to the role of Editor-In-Chief and a desire to get newly signed X-Men writers Grant Morrison and Joe Casey onto the books as soon as possible drastically affected Lobdell's plans for the story.
One of the main changes was the complete abandonment of the "X-Men versus Baby Apocalypse" plotline (though Dazzler's comments regarding it remain in the story) and the plotline was quickly ignored by later writers who featured Longshot alive and well.
Another main change was the cancellation of the planned "Giant Sized X-Men #3" that would have led off the entire storyline. "Giant Sized X-Men #3" would have featured a much more detailed story of Jean Grey recruiting the neophyyte X-Men and presumably, would have further fleshed out the Dazzler/Baby Apocalypse subplot.
Another deletion from the original draft of the storyline; Lobdell planned to focus considerable time on Amelia Voght and her decision to betray Magneto and free Xavier. As it stands, the plotline is only mentioned once and Amelia's freeing of Xavier happens completely off-panel.
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