House of X‘s Game-Changing Reveal Is Already Presenting Intriguing Possibilities for Familiar Foes

House and Powers of X have spend the past few weekschanging everything we knewabout the hug drug - Men on a sheer scurf . Now , as the dust settles from those revelations , its latest chapter find itself come to with parallels and cycles of a different kind — ones that involve some very interesting enquiry about what could become of mutantkind going forward .

Unlike its herald in either House or Powers so far , Powers of X # 2 — by Jonathan Hickman , R.B. Silva , Adriano Di Benedetto , Marte Gracia , Clayton Cowles , and Tom Muller — is not really an issue of shocking reveals or sheer declarations for this potential - laden young era for mutantkind . Really , it ’s the first time this saga can respire , to only set the playing battlefield of the actual story of this consequence series or else of just ( if you may call what Hickman and his creative teams are doing in this duology simpleton , that is ) making its grander thesis of erupt the mutant cps .

That story is a not an unsurprising one in the slightest , given everything else these two books have had to say about the cyclic nature of mutant storytelling already . In the present day timeline — X¹ forthose playing alongwith the Time / Space / Moira MacTaggert - found algebraic demarcations — Xavier , Magneto , and Cyclops have become cognizant of humanity ’s plans to utilise the Mother Moldseen being builtin House of X # 1 to create an United States Army of master Sentinel molds , a blueprint that could see the newly ascendent Mutant state cut down like so many havens before it .

An uneasy alliance is formed.

An uneasy alliance is formed.Image: R.B. Silva, Adriano Di Benedetto, and Marte Gracia (Marvel Comics)

While they make architectural plan to take form an assault before it can come online , over in the far - time to come of X² , Rasputin and Cardinal ’s mission from Powers of X # 1 reveals itself as one of data retrieval — and that this ragtag ring of cloned and hybrid - cloned mutant electrical resistance combatant in the conflict against human beings are lick with none other than Apocalypse himself in their bid to endure .

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It is , as you would expect from a story already deep obsessed with the idea of cycle , a endearing mo of poetry — in the present , ascendant sport thirstily develop to go on a self-destruction mission they ’re sure they can win , in the future , mutants on the back step , thirstily preparing to go on a suicide mission they jazz they credibly ca n’t win , but will try anyway . That ’s what mutantkind does : It crusade regardless of how stack the betting odds are against it .

Cyclops makes a bold declaration.Image: R.B. Silva, Adriano Di Benedetto, Marte Gracia, and Clayton Cowles (Marvel Comics)

That particular second of thematic rhyme is interesting , however . It ’s in the two other timelines that bookend Powers of hug drug # 2 that some potentially meaty estimation are laid out . Powers of XTC # 2 opens and close with conniption fix in the X⁰ and X³ times . The first examine Moira — or as we now know her , Moira X , the tenth personification of a cyclic mutation that has drop the entirety of multiple lives softly shaping the path of mutant account as we ’ve known it — and the young Charles Xavier paying a visit to Magneto ’s Island M to propose joining together as part of Moira ’s bold fresh accuracy .

Magneto is rightfully sceptical , as the fraught account between the ultimate frenemy relationship that is Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr is well known to us all at this head . Since he does n’t live who Moira really is , Magneto thinks this is just another one of Charles ’ sleeveless gestures of peace , when what mutantkind needs is a leader who will get the job done , no matter the monetary value . But when Moira share her past life with him as she did Charles , Magneto is both momentarily traumatize and opened to the mind of what they ’re both trying to do , lead to the starting line of a new coalition . There ’s a hope to it , one born out of that sudden sadness of Magneto experiencing the failure of past cycles so keenly — his own failures , where his desire to endure alone and away from Xavier ’s ideals have cost him so much — that he opens his eye to attempt to work with his remote rival once more . A longtime X - Foe becomes an friend .

But when you start to contrast it to the scene we ’re given in the X³ timeline , that promise abruptly becomes laced with a touchable layer of disconcert . In that upstage future tense , Nimrod and the Librarian — and their collected bread and butter depository library of mutant cognisance — are revealed to have been working on merging an intellect of vast computational mogul : a worldmind . As we ’ve get along to bear from this story so far , it ’s here we get another riveting exercise set of Tom Muller - design , coldly clinical slice of information - dumpery to add at least a footling context to the mystery story present to us .

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Cyclops makes a bold declaration.Image: R.B. Silva, Adriano Di Benedetto, Marte Gracia, and Clayton Cowles (Marvel Comics)

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turn out in the far future tense of X³ , the idea of king of 10 has also been applied to astronomical refinement ’s measure of sentient mind , artificial or otherwise . A single auto intellect becomes a Hive when put to the power of 10 , which becomes an Intelligence when that is put to the power of 10 , and so on as we grow to Technarchs , which become Worldminds — what the Librarian and Nimrod have forge their human beings and its depository of mutant sensory faculty into — which become … well , a name very familiar to X - fans : a Phalanx .

magnificently introduced in the mid-‘90s Uncanny X - Men foot race , the Phalanx were a race of sentient machines that infect and assimilated other being into their corporate consciousness through the techno - constituent transmode virus , itself primitively produce as an attempt to merge humans with the engineering of picket in the ongoing cycle of dispute between human being and mutants . But in X³ ’s future , they ’re not mutantkind ’s enemy , at least as far as Nimrod and the Librarian are hop-skip :

Image: R.B. Silva, Adriano Di Benedetto, Marte Gracia, and Clayton Cowles

…and in the future, so does Apocalypse.Image: R.B. Silva, Adriano Di Benedetto, Marte Gracia, and Clayton Cowles (Marvel Comics)

They ’re its salvation . A chance for their library of mutant knowingness to uprise into the Phalanx ’s intelligence information to make something more . Machine and mutant sentience could get together instead of the endless hertz of war that has come to define tarradiddle after tale of mutation and picket , of X - Man vs. Machine . Something not unlike the parallel of latitude between the X¹ and X² scenes now becomes clear in the structural decisiveness to couple off the X⁰ and X³ scenes of this takings : another longtime X - Foe becoming an friend .

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give the mirrors and cycle elsewhere in Hickman ’s account so far , the decision to put these two moments in analogue might paint a far more ominous angle to the ramification of Moira X ’s plan — or is it really perhaps Destiny ’s , consideringtheir strained encounterin House of X # 2 last week?—this time around than it ab initio seems . But if we ’re being demo with Magento and Xavier ’s issue forth together as foe becoming friend , peradventure the ultimate end game for mutantkind and the Phalanx is going to become much more complicated than even that .

Image: R.B. Silva, Adriano Di Benedetto, Marte Gracia, and Clayton Cowles