There is no such thing as a Xavier’s Faculty for Gifted Kids on this world. “Final X-Males” by Peach Momoko is about in Japan, following teen ladies who uncover they’re mutants and are focused by a cult referred to as the Kids of the Atom. A few of the acquainted “X-Males” characters have been displaying up, although.
Evil variations of Colossus and Magik rule Russia, with Logan brainwashed into their Winter Soldier. Roberto DaCosta, who in basic Marvel Comics is the hero Sunspot, can be a part of the Maker’s Council and the Black King of the Hellfire Membership for international oligarchs. “The Ultimates” #14 reveals the Membership’s White Queen: Emma Frost. The basic Earth-616 Emma has lengthy shed her evil methods and joined the X-Males, however this one seems to nonetheless be a conniving Hellfire Membership member. She runs Frost’s Faculty for Wayward Kids, the place younger mutants are skilled into company assassins.
The problem follows Cap and Hawkeye attacking a plant owned by vitality conglomerate Roxxon as 5 CEOs sit in a board room, discussing how the Ultimates are slowly ripping their energy out from below them. Emma deploys two of her star pupils, Pietro and Wanda. (“I discovered them in a Eurasian weapons lab. Bred like canines and residing like them,” Emma explains.)
Quicksilver, who takes on Cap, nonetheless has his traditional powers of super-speed. Wanda, who fights Hawkeye, has her authentic hex” powers of manipulating in all probability so issues go unhealthy. She does, although, enhance herself off the bottom with purple vitality blasts like Elizabeth Olsen’s Scarlet Witch.
The ultimate web page of the problem is the defeated Maximoffs mendacity unconscious as Cap and Hawkeye marvel what to do with them. If I needed to guess, they are going to try to deprogram and recruit them.
The Maximoffs at all times start as villains, together with within the MCU, the place they first helped out Ultron (James Spader) in “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Pietro and Wanda had been launched in “X-Males” #4 as members of Magneto’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Magneto was later retconned into the twins’ delivery father about 20 years later, a connection so apparent it is weird it took that lengthy (and that Marvel retconned it once more in 2015). They joined the Avengers in “Avengers” #16, forming “Cap’s Kooky Quartet” with, you guessed it, Captain America and Hawkeye. There’s been no signal of Magneto on Earth-6160 but, and extra particulars of the Maximoffs’ previous stay to be seen. Their future, although, nearly definitely lies with the Ultimates.
