The Origin of Amora the Enchantress (8-12 issues) to revamp/improve her.
A story that always I wanted to know.
The Origin of Amora the Enchantress (8-12 issues) to revamp/improve her.
A story that always I wanted to know.
At least one Imperial Guardian permanently assigned to Earth makes some sort of sense, as so many threats to the Empire originate there, and the Empire does have interests on the planet. Smasher seems the obvious choice, since she and her smash-buddy are from there.
I wonder if she's an Aesir or a Vanir. She seems more Vanir-like. And regardless, could she be related to Freyja? It could be funny to learn that she gets away with so much trouble-making in Asgard for the same reason that Loki did for so long, because she's got family on the throne... (And it would make her flirtations with Thor all the more delicious, if he's her sister's step-son, not in any way biologically related to her, but still, oh so scandalous.)
That is something that could be added, maybe playing with ambiguity and all that, but the reality is that it would be a way of showing someone different from their people with more ties to the human race than it would seem (young Sylvie Lushton would enter there and the involuntary act that Loki caused in creating her transforming a young teenage girl into something else), perhaps adding to the confusion characters such as Immortus due to a thing that happened in the early days of the Avengers of Lee and Kirby. Skurge the Executioner, Lorelei, the Valkyrie, Hela, Karnilla, Thor ... All that and something else, especially a lot of magic and knowledge about who Amora and Lorelei's parents are.
Also a way to see a different Asgard from what we know and also even a younger Odin before being King.
Declaring war on what is now a sovereign nation-state with all the rights (and responsibilities) that entails would be a suicidal course of action for the Avengers. It's not like Ultimates where they were explicitly superpowered tools of the American military-industrial complex, or the original Avengers vs. X-Men where the mutants' Utopia wasn't recognized as a nation-state by the rest of the world, so they could afford to ignore the Avengers storming the place. Complicating things even more for the Avengers is that with T'Challa/Black Panther as their chairperson and it being known that Wakanda isn't necessarily on good terms with Krakoa, it'll be easier to argue, in-universe, that they're waging war on Krakoa for Wakanda's benefit, at the expense of the rest of the world. Anybody feel like seeing Wakanda get declared a rogue state because the Avengers jumped the gun and went after Krakoa? At least the Fantastic Four in their current miniseries with the X-Men aren't necessarily affiliated with any particular government, so they can't be accused of being agents of a state power trying to take down Krakoa. Would the Avengers be able to say the same, especially given the forces in their own comics looking for anything they could use to undermine and discredit them?
The spider is always on the hunt.
A story set in a zoo or circus where Jackpot finally hits the tiger!
A Sentry story that isn't "Oh noes teh Voidz!!" Redux.
Annihilation Scourge undid his last mini and it was infuriating. I get that most people don't care for the character, but darn it, he is my favourite.
I see a lot of Dawn of X ideas here and someone suggested the mutants in their own universe. But what if that happened and all the mutants on Earth just vanished over night. Every single one, even the ones not on Krakoa.
What if after resurrecting Destiny and Blindfold it is proven beyond any shadow of doubt that if the mutants stay on Earth they will fall in a genocide to the human/machine ascendancy no matter what. That there is no way to escape that fate, as long as they actually stay on Earth.
So they choose to leave. They take the merged Krakoa and Arakko and using a combination of mutant abilities they transplant the entire Pangaea island to another place in the Universe and they take all the mutants with them. Upon leaving the Earth, the X-Gene is magically erased from humanity, fully closing the door on human evolution and leaving humans the only option of merging with machines to survive. The removal of the mutant genome literally causes problems throughout the human world, and removal of the mutants causes a disruption in natural and magical forces across the planet.
It would be interesting if there were actual real world consequences to remove all of those beings with powers who were connected to the energy fields of the Earth, and then suddenly every single one of them is just gone. It would be interesting if that creates an imbalance in nature and magic that causes chaos all over the Earth.
After the mutants!
Doom tries to cast a spell and almost dies from the explosive energies released when he tried to tap into magic.
Dr Strange is fighting a magical battle and his powers keep intermittently dropping on him, but so do the powers of his enemy.
The Avengers are investigating a disturbance in the ocean and find a massive destructive whirlpool in the place where Krakoa/Arakko used to be
Several months down the road, it's discovered that the human potential to have children is gone, that removing the mutants and the X-Gene has stopped human evolution, but it has a side effect in causing the human race to become sterile because all of their future potential has been removed.
The scientists of the world in desperation try to find a way to restore the X-Gene before mankind goes extinct, finally realizing that the mutants represented the human potential to evolve and grow beyond themselves, removing the mutant genome and lifeforce from the Earth has doomed humanity!
We are MUTANT..Krakoa, FOREVER!!! “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité”
Maybe, though I personally see it as an extension of mutants as a metaphor for persecuted and marginalized groups in real life, in that said groups turn out to be far more essential in the course of everyday life and human society's ability to function than those who would persecute and marginalize them want to believe.
The spider is always on the hunt.
Stories where the Serpent Society are used like they were in Gruenwald's 80's heyday and not as common mooks who get treated as jokes.
They could call the event "No More Mutants" and explore the repercussions of that.
I think for those who mentioned why it would impact natural forces and magic, because mutant energies were deeply connected to natural forces and magic, and when you remove the mutant energy from the entire planet, the entire lifeforce potential that was inside mutants, then the world is suddenly left with no lifeforce energy reserves, and magic is diminished because of the removal of mutant magic from the entire world!
We are MUTANT..Krakoa, FOREVER!!! “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité”
Sharon Ventura deThinged.
Lazerfist, whatever happened to him.
El Aguila made over with a new costume, codename , and mutant powers restored.
Marrina in GotG.
A new Tbolts minus Sofen and Zemo who are irredeemable.
Alpha Flight ongoing.
American Eagle
Let's not forget the mutant civil war that starts. A small but vocal and powerful group are pissed that Krakoa took them away without their consent. When the Quiet Council tried to put them in the dirt alongside Sabretooth they get more supporters and a brutal civil war starts. One of the rebels first targets is to take out The Five...killing 3 of them preventing cloning and destroying Cerebro wiping out the database of minds. The war rages for years and by the end of it it does not matter who wins because there is not enough genetic diversity left among mutants to keep the race going. Within 4 generations they are all breeding with siblings and cousins. Eventually all that is left are a bunch of inbred drooling morons with less intellect than the neanderthals...but with dangerous powers.
In effect mutants leaving dooms not just the human race but mutants as well.