X-Men: Deadly Genesis
| X-Men: Deadly Genesis | |
|---|---|
| File:Deadlygenesis01.jpg Cover to X-Men: Deadly Genesis #01, by Marc Silvestri. The cover is a homage to the cover of Giant Size X-Men #01. | |
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Schedule | monthly |
| Format | 6 issue Limited Serie |
| Publication date | ? 2005 – present |
| Main character(s) | X-Men |
| Creative team | |
| Written by | Ed Brubaker |
| Penciller(s) | Trevor Hairsine and Marc Silvestri (covers) |
About
X-Men: Deadly Genesis is the name of a miniseries from Marvel Comics starring the X-Men, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Giant-Size X-Men #1. The plot deals with the X-Men looking for Professor Xavier, who went missing after House of M, as well as the appearance of a new, incredibly powerful mutant threat.
Plot
Deadly Genesis opens with the mansion surrounded by Sentinels. Hank McCoy, the Beast shares his concern about the sudden massive shift in energy from the events of the House of M with Cyclops, citing the Law of Conservation of Energy. that is, energy can neither be created or destroyed, only change forms. What happened to all of the bioenergy from the depowered mutants is a mystery, although Hank Pym has also voiced his concern.
Meanwhile, in space the remains of a space craft called Prospect drift helplessly, until a massive flux inenergy occurs, bringing to life a disoriented male, who uses a form of psychometric retrocognition to reveal that the space craft and it's operators were destroyed by some form of brilliant green energy.
Back on Earth, Emma Frost suddenly picks up a massive mutant power signature, deeming it "omega level at least." As her mind is overloaded by the power, she uses her abilities to show Kitty Pryde what she is seeing: the destroyed shuttle Prospect, rocketing toward upstate New York, more than likely being held together by the mysterious mutant signature, a form of psychokinesis.
Kitty rushes to Cyclops and tells him what happened. Cyclops assembles a small team: himself, Wolverine and Marvel Girl, aka Rachel Summers to investigate the crash site before the government can. They evade the Sentinel guard and race off toward the crash site. In upstate New York, Cyclops, Wolverine and Marvel Girl reach the crash site and find the Prospect smoldering in the grip of a giant hand, made out of the Earth. Upon landing, the three find a cave and venture in, finding a decomposing body of Jean Grey, Rachel's surrogate mother and Cyclops dead wife. Rachel charges after the vision while Wolverine remarks "that ain't Jeanie." As they follow Rachel into the cave, Wolverine and Cyclops come face to face with the Omega-Level mutant, holding the unconscious Marvel Girl by the neck. Wolverine attacks the mystery mutant and is manhandled, thrown via telekinesis into Cyclops. Cyclops uses his optic blasts, but they are redirected back toward the two and Wolverine catches the full brunt of the blast. The mystery mutant seemingly uses some pyrokinesis to burn Wolverines body, and walks toward Marvel Girl, commenting that it's "not any Marvel Girl I've ever heard of." Cyclops tries to protect her, and the man says "Ah, Scott, at least you haven't changed." Cyclops clearly does not know who the man is, and the man takes pleasure in that. He carries Wolverine's body outside, where the Office of National Emergency later finds Wolverine's badly burned body, showing up with helicopters and Sentinels.
At the mansion, Kitty tries to recompose herself after the ordeal. While washing her face, she looks into the mirror to see her lover, Piotr Rasputin, Colossus dead and decomposing. She screams, turns around quickly, and sees that Colossus is fine: healthy and alive. Kurt Wagner, the Nightcrawler takes a walk through the woods on the grounds, when he stumbles upon the same murderous mob Professor Xavier saved him from years ago in Germany. Kurt performs a series of teleports to try to evade them, but ultimately cannot escape, and runs toward the mansion. He trips and falls and when he looks back, the mob is gone, as if they were never there.
Meanwhile, Banshee, while searching through his former lover, Moira MacTaggert's files for some clue as to Xavier's whereabouts, sees standing in the rain the form of Moira. Spooked, he runs outside and chases her into a room containing a file marked "Charles Xavier's Notes: Important." Upon viewing the notes, he is surprised to find a video of Moira saying to herself "you need to remember what a total and utter bastard Charles Xavier is."
Later, after the O.N.E. has taken Wolverine into custody, Kitty Pryde and the Beast show up to lend support to their teammates, but cannot get anywhere with the government, who have Wolverine is custody and will not release himi, thinking him responsible for the shuttle crash. Kitty, frustrated, remarks it is time for Plan B, and has Emma Frost, sitting aboard the Blackbird manipulate the soldiers into releasing Wolverine. At the mansion, they attempt to use Cerebra to locate Cyclops and Marvel Girl, to no avail. Havok, Cyclops' younger brother, walks out of Cerebra is frustration and almost instantly is plagued by visions of Polaris, his one-time girlfriend and fiancee and Iceman making plans to be with eachother behind his back. Both are in earlier versions of their costumes, seemingly indicating that this is a repressed nightmare, the same way all of the hallucinations have thus far been.
Now moved from the cave, the Mystery Mutant has both Cyclops and Marvel girl hung onto giant horizontal pneumatic presses, both of their mutant abilities neutralized. Marvel Girls comments that she can feel the Professors shadow in the cave, that clearly he had been there before, but a long while before. "A Jumble of pride, and fear, and theory," she says. "He used this place for something." Cyclops disagrees saying he has no idea where they are, when the Mystery Mutant enters and remarks that he does know, he just doesn't realize he's down there. "I;ve seen you upstairs," he says, "you and your little friends. I was just watching you." The Mystery Mutant comments that Cyclops is chained to the wall as punishment for his own crimes, and to witness somebody else's, which is why Marvel Girl is here, and "not dead like your friend with the claws." Scott comments a moment later to Marvel Girl that "He thinks he killed Wolverine, which means he's go not idea who he is. . .but he knows me?"
Banshee has boarded an international flight to New York, to the X-Men. He is talking on the phone to Nightcrawler,giving his flight deatils. while the Mystery Mutant listens in, apparently sitting in the cockpit of the Blackbird.
Hours later, Nightcrawler and Wolverine leave the mansion to pick Banshee up from the airport, and discuss all of the weird occurances on the way. When they get to the airport, they see the Blackbird suddenly and inexplicably bearing down on Bashee's flight. Banshee exits his airplane in his costume, hoping to use his sonic screams to disable and stop the Blackbird. His attempts fails, and he looks horrified as the Blackbird runs into him, into the approaching airliner, and promptly explodes. Nightcrawler and Wolverine look on in horror.
Facts and Theories
One of the central mysteries in this series is the identity of the Mystery Mutant. A brief discussion of facts currently known about this individual will follow, as well as some theories as to the identity of the Mystery Mutant.
- A mutant, Omega-level or even higher, with some sort of psychokinetic powers.
- A male.
- Apparently a former member of Moira's team. Also supporting this are the facts that he knows Cyclops, and assumedly knows the only other Marvel Girl, Jean Grey.
- Wears a red and blue uniform, and has black hair. Is seen in some sort of brown cloak.
- Has glowing yellow eyes and a yellow energy signature.
- His essence is pulled together in near Earth orbit, assumedly as a result of the massive energy transfer from the House of M.
- The nightmares the individual members of the team experience are being caused by the Mystery Mutant, more than likely a form of telepathy
- Code name is Vulcan
- Related to the mission to rescue the orignal X-men From Krakoa
- Several interviews have mentioned that a big part of the story will be the "third Summers brother". Many speculate the antagoist is this third brother.
The identity of this Mutant is set to be revealed in March, in issue #5. Marvel's March solicitations offers us this image as the cover to Deadly Genesis #5. File:XDEADLYG005 COV.jpg
Trivia
- The title Deadly Genesis is a homage to the title of Giant Size X-Men #1.