The X-Men Reboot Finally Delivers The Twist Fans Have Been Waiting For
Warning: Major spoilers for X-Deaths of Wolverine ahead!
The finale of Marvel Comics most recent X-Men event, X-Lives/X-Deaths of Wolverine, has finally delivered the major plot twist that fans have been waiting for since Jonathan Hickman's 2019 House of X relaunch. The former mutant Moira MacTaggart, who was first reintroduced as the secret savior of mutantdom and true founder of Krakoa, has now fully embraced her selfish, evil desire to wipe out the mutants, becoming a cyborg-like supervillain.
In Hickman's Powers of X it was revealed that Moira X is a mutant with two major abilities, one is that she is undetectable as a mutant by anyone, and the other is that anytime she dies the entire universe resets, with only her retaining the memories of her past lives. It was established that Moira had lived 9 lives, and the current Marvel continuity that all fans know is her 10th life, with the mutant precognitive Destiny warning her that she would only have 10, potentially 11, lives. While early in her days as a resurrecting mutant she had some hateful views towards other mutants, it seemed that by her 10th life she had found out a way to dedicate her life to creating a mutant paradise, Krakoa, with Xavier and Magneto.
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X-Deaths of Wolverine — written by Benjamin Percy with art by Federico Valentini and Dijo Lima — spins directly out of the explosive Inferno event, which saw Destiny and her wife Mystique discover that Moira had been lying to Xavier and Magneto the whole time, and was actually getting all the mutants to Krakoa so she could find a way to remove the X-Gene from them all, and any future babies born to them, effectively ending the mutant
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