Everything You Thought You Knew About Mutants & X-Men Is A Lie
This article contains spoilers for Marauders #4.
Everything you thought you knew about mutants and the X-Men was a lie all along. Mutants have been traditionally portrayed as the next step in human evolution. In the Marvel Universe, evolution does not just happen at a gradual speed; sometimes it accelerates, and dramatic change can happen within a generation. The Further Adventures of Cyclops & Phoenix rooted this idea in Marvel history, with Darwin's contemporary Nathaniel Essex — destined to become the villainous Mr. Sinister — predicting a sudden "boom" in evolution towards the end of the twentieth century. That boom materialized, explaining the sudden growth in the number of mutants, and Grant Morrison's New X-Men run suggested mutants would inevitably supplant humans as Earth's dominant life-form.
It's long been clear Jonathan Hickman's X-Men era has rewritten mutant history. Mutants seem to have existed in large numbers for millennia, and anti-magic violence throughout history was in part directed against them. Mutants are simply more common now as a logical result of explosive population growth in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; if a certain proportion of children are always born mutant, then naturally higher population numbers means more mutants. Jason Aaron's Avengers run has doubled down on this, revealing an actual mutant community that existed 1,000,000 years ago, one tied to the first Phoenix host.
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Marauders #4, by Steven Orlando, Eleanora Carlini, and Matt Milla, has taken things one step further. The issue sees Kate Pryde and her band of Marauders discover the greatest secret of an alien race known as the Shi'ar — an
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