Professor X's Son Created a Mutant Utopia Better Than Krakoa in Every Way
Warning: Spoilers for Legion of X #1 ahead!
A new preview for the highly anticipated Legion of X, a continuation of Si Spurrier's acclaimed Way of X series, shows that Legion, the son of Professor X of the X-Men, has finally created a true mutant utopia. Legion has a long and complex history as a villain-turned-hero, and he has long attempted to get out of his father's massive shadow, something that is finally happening in the pages of Legion of X.
Legion, or David Haller, is the son of Charles Xavier and Gabrielle Haller, a wildly powerful mutant with severe mental illness, which has usually taken the form of a dissociative identity disorder where hundreds of different «altars» live within David's head that each have their own mutant ability. In Jonathan Hickman's beloved 2019 relaunch of the X-Men franchise House of X it was established that Legion is an Omega-level mutant whose «power manifestation» ability has no recorded upper limit, meaning he is one of the most powerful mutants of all time.
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Legion has been a major part of several X-Men events over the last few decades, including Legion Quest and Age of Apocalypse, as well as being responsible for creating the pocket reality that was Age of X, all of which led up to his run in X-Men Legends: Legion, which saw David attempt to finally take control of his powers and help mutants in the same way his father had, after Xavier was killed by Scott Summers. Legion of X — written by Si Spurrier with art by Jan Bazaldua — follows Nightcrawler and his team of «not police» peace-keepers, as they attempt to "keep the peace, keep the law, keep the spark" of Krakoa, all the while operating inside of
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