The First X-Men Team Was Formed A Billion Years Earlier Than Fans Thought
Warning: Spoilers forMarauders #4 ahead!
With Marauders #4 finally revealing the dark secret behind Marvel's billions of years old mutant ancestors, it has become clear that the first-ever X-Men team was actually formed millennia ago. With the introduction of Threshold, a thriving mutant society that existed on Earth before humanity ever formed, Marvel has introduced a whole new cast of potential mutant characters to explore, including Threshold's official X-Men team.
Mutants have always been assumed to be an evolutionary offset of humanity, hence why they have been called Homo superior in Marvel stories for decades, but the reveal of Threshold has completely retconned that history, changing everything fans know about the history of mutants at Marvel. The reveal of Threshold also unveils a dark secret from ancient Shi'ar history, namely the fact that the Shi'ar wiped out all of the ancient mutants of Threshold out of fear and humiliation, altering the long history between the Shi'ar Empire and mutantkind ever further.
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In Jason Aaron's recent run on Avengers it was established that there were mutants a million years ago, during the height of the 1,000,000 BC Avengers team, which already retcons the long-established Marvel fact that Selene was the oldest mutant born on Earth. The reveal of Threshold is a truly shocking revelation, one that will reverberate across Marvel history for years to come, but it is also encouraging to know that there have always been mutants, and where there are mutants there is always an X-Men team. Marauders #4,= by Steven Orlando, Eleanora Carlini, and Matt Milla, finally shows a glimpse at what the society of Threshold
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