The X-Men Return To The Age of Apocalypse To Save a Despicable Villain
The X-Men will travel to the past to save a dreadful villain from one of Marvel's most successful storylines, the Age of Apocalypse. The Marauders team led by Kate Pryde will try to rescue Nemesis, the son of Apocalypse from a grim future timeline where mutants are the dominant species.
After the mutant-exclusive nation of Krakoa was established, the woman formerly known as Kitty Pryde was given command of the Marauders, a group tasked with liberating mutants trapped inside hostile countries and unable to reach Krakoa. The newly-founded mutant utopia is «open to all,» which also includes former villains, who can benefit from the complete amnesty they're given just for being mutants. The Marauders themselves have accepted into their ranks Cassandra Nova, who is responsible for the genocide of sixteen million mutants in Genosha. Nemesis (formerly known as Holocaust) is another ferocious villain who hails from Earth-295, a reality where the early murder of Charles Xavier instigated the rise of Apocalypse and the rise of the mutants as the master race. Nemesis was killed by Hyperion in his last known appearance but in an upcoming issue of Marauders he will be rescued from the past.
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The ongoing Marauders series sees Kate's team trying to unravel a mystery that is two billion years old, while also dealing with Cassandra Nova, who revealed that the «first generation» of mutants are prisoners of the Shi'ar, the powerful alien empire ruled by the daughter of Professor X. It is still unclear how this will connect to the Age of Apocalypse, but Marvel's solicitation for Marauders #5 by Steve Orlando and Andrea Broccardo shows that the team's primary
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