Current Events > Should the MCU introduce the X-Men, based on the House of X relaunch series?

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The entire premise of both comics was to yank out everything X-Men fans devout and casual knew about the X-Men, all through an expanded role for the previously underused character Moira MacTaggart. In just a handful of issues, writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Pepe Larraz established that after she dies, Moria has the power to reset herself and her own timeline back to the day she gains consciousness (as a fetus), while holding onto all the knowledge, memories, and experience of the life she just lived. The catch is Moira only has up to 11 lives, according to a pre-cog mutant named Destiny, to use this power and to shape mutantkind.

And now, as of issue five, Moira is either on her last or second-to-last life. During her previous nine lives (including a mysterious sixth one that Hickman and Larraz havent told us about yet), Moira achieved some lofty goals: Earths mutants are united and now live on their own sentient country called Krakoa. Theyve seemingly eliminated a future threat, the rise of mutant-killing machines, too. Yet, as House of X has flexed in its previous issues, its when everyones comfortable that we should start getting scared.
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One of the best things about House of X is how Hickman and Larraz have continually embraced some of the least-known and strangest X-Men characters in recent memory. They did that by focusing on Moiras power and have done it again in the most recent issue.

Thanks to Moiras sacrifice and knowledge gleaned from her ninth life, the X-Men know that humans have started to develop an AI system that will eventually, in the distant future, be an all-powerful mutant-hunting machine. After figuring out when this system goes online, Professor X and Magneto assemble a team of X-Men to go into outer space and destroy the AI (which is out in space) by launching it into the sun. The mission goes south, resulting in the deaths of Jean Grey, Archangel, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Monet, Husk, Mystique, and Wolverine but they do, after sacrificing their lives, end up destroying the AI before it goes online.
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And yet, Hickman took one of the X-Mens best, dumbest superpowers and finessed it into one of their most powerful. In Hickmans interpretation of Goldballss powers, the gold balls are actually viable biological mutant eggs that can sustain life. Thats much more useful than plain gold spheres.

Add in a mix of healing powers from a mutant named Elixir, time travel from Eva Bell, reality warping from Proteus, synergy from Hope Summers, and some identity and consciousness transplants from Professor X, and the X-Men have essentially figured out how to rebirth the mutants who died in that final mission and any who could die in the future:



There is still a feeling of unease, however. Remaking new mutants after old ones die cant be the status quo of storytelling. Future issues cant just be about the mutants waiting for these gold eggs to hatch. Something has to happen to make this process a bit more complicated, and it feels like it will which is a remarkable way to set up intrigue going forward.

With House of X, Hickman shows that he is constantly thinking of news ways to think about these dead-end beings. Like he did with Moira, Hickman has turned Goldballs and his crew of forgotten X-Men into full-fledged characters with intriguing powers. He and his cohort, along with other forgotten mutants, have seemingly become more powerful, but not to the point where their existence breaks storytelling. To do what Hickman did with these esoteric characters offers fidelity to the larger X-Men canon.