(Image Credit: Marvel Comics)This issue also raises some interesting concerns about the potential ramifications of this cloning technology. He's been using it to gradually and artificially rebuild the mutant population, with the hope of one day restoring every mutant life lost on Genosha.Īrt by Pepe Larraz. It seems Xavier has even more ambitious plans for his new resurrection machine. And now we know the truth behind that strange opening flash-forward sequence way back in House of X #1. Cyclops and his team may have died on Sol's Hammer, but they're quickly resurrected and greeted by a grateful mutant nation. He can imprint those memories into the clone bodies, effectively bringing the original versions back to life. The reason Xavier has been wearing his Cerebro helmet constantly is that he's been using it to copy and record the minds of every single mutant on Krakoa. (Image Credit: Marvel Comics)The only trick is cloning mutants with their old memories intact. When those eggs are energized by Proteus, rendered genetically ripe by Elixir, incubated by Tempus and topped off by Hope's power of mutant synergy, they can be transformed into pods capable of producing cloned mutant bodies.Īrt by Pepe Larraz. This issue reveals that the "balls" Fabio shoots from his chest are actually eggs. He and four other mutants (Proteus, Elixir, Tempus and Hope) are the key to a process that can bring dead mutants back to life. Professor Xavier, Magneto and Moira MacTaggert may have finally succeeded in preventing mutantkind's Sentinel-dominated future, but only thanks to the sacrifice of Cyclops, Jean Grey, Wolverine, Nightcrawler and several others. It's only a matter of time before it happens, and with that, Krakoa's greatest miracle could become an endless nightmare of death and rebirth for Charles Xavier and the X-Men.House of X #5 follows up on a tragic development for the X-Men, as Cyclops and his entire team were killed during a mission to destroy the Mother Mold Sentinel factory. Krakoa will likely fall just as Genosha did before it. As history has repeatedly demonstrated, there are no happy endings for mutants. But that doesn't make it any less horrible. The Joker did it to Batman once just as Kindred is doing it to Spider-Man now. The process of constantly being killed and brought back to life isn't a new one in comics. There's a potential for Kindred's torture of Spider-Man to be applied on a massive scale. With that in mind, it's only a matter of time before ORCHIS or any of the other groups that stand against Krakoa gain access to The Five. As it has in Moira X's 9 previous lives, mutantkind has a knack for meeting tragedy. There are already nefarious forces who have gone after the island's many bounties, like the Flower Cartel, who made way with Krakoa's powerful flora to produce a drug. It's a mortifying form of torture with damning implications for the X-Men's newfound form of immortality.īeing the new home to mutants, Krakoa automatically has a giant target drawn on it. Using his own abilities to bring the dead back to life, Kindred begins the agonizing process of brutally murdering and then resurrecting Spider-Man. Namely, what would happen if it fell into the wrong hands? In Spider-Man #54 by Nick Spencer and Mark Bagley, the mysterious villain Kindred takes sadistic pleasure in answering that question. Related: The X-Men Just Repeated Their Greatest SinĪs transcendent as The Five's process is, there are some deeply consequential questions that must be asked about it. A scan of the deceased's consciousness is taken in the moments leading up to their death is then imprinted into the clone body, resulting in a surefire method to cheat death. Hope Summers, Egg (formerly Goldballs), Proteus, Elixir, and Tempus use a culmination of all their powers to create perfect clones of any fallen mutant. While there is one exception to the rule, as long as any of their genetic material remains, any dead mutant can be brought back to life by The Five.
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