It was 21 years ago, if it was a day, and the man who birthed a franchise was returning home. Instead of using the same old adversaries that he spent decades cultivating, he decided to do something NEW, and created the NEO, who was composed of several different clans. We have the War Clam, the Guardian Clan, the Shockwave Riders, MindClan, etc. there were a lot of frigging clans, okay? Anyway, the Neo represent the next evolution of mutants, who were content waiting for the earth’s humans to go eff themselves into oblivion. Until one day the High Evolutionary and Mr. Sinister decided to eff around and found out, turning off the mutant gene in all of Earth’s mutants. Well, that killed a lot of Neo. Including their leader, Domina’s daughter. Clearly that put the rest of the world on their **** list, especially the X-Men, and Mr. Sinister. So all out war was declared, and we get to meet all kinds of new evolutionary offshoots, including Tullamore Voge, and the Crimson Pirates, who will forever be in my head canon as inter dimensional pirates who are also Neo—(I don’t care if you think they are or not, this is my story). We go about a decade without any mention of them, until Chris Yost decides to use them in his Giant Size X-Men…just to kill them. I should have expected that. It’s the guy who did the world a favor by blowing up the New Flotsam on a bus.

Anyway, I’ve made this thread to celebrate these under appreciated relics until I move on to my next obsession, which could happen by the end of business day. *Shrug*