New X-Men: Academy X #10-11 (2005)
Prodigy gets a spotlight issue. His power is that he can “absorb” knowledge from people nearby, but that knowledge fades fairly rapidly. This leaves him feeling like a temporary hero. Emma Frost tells him she can remove a psychological block that causes that knowledge to fade, but suggests that it may have unintended consequences.
From there, we see Prodigy become President and kill all the X-Men. Obviously, that doesn’t really happen—it was all a psychological trick to teach him a lesson about seeking too much power too soon.
I liked these issues. That doesn’t mean I agree with Emma and Dani that manipulating David with traumatic psychic imagery was the best strategy to solve this issue and teach this lesson. I recognize that education isn’t Emma Frost’s strength and Dani is young, so the instruction and methods of the teachers at Academy X should realistically be evolving and not always as good as they need to be.
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