The X-Men's Krakoa Reboot is So Big, Marvel Can Never Undo it
Jonathan Hickman's monumental relaunch of the X-Men in 2019 with the House of X/Powers of X series has created such a massive shift in the popularity and trajectory of the mutants in Marvel Comics, that no matter what happens to Krakoa itself, mutants in the Marvel Universe will never be the same. Unless there was a cosmic rewriting of history or the mutants are fully wiped out—two things Marvel Comics will almost certainly not do—there is absolutely no way to go back to how the X-Men and mutantkind used to exist.
What makes the Krakoan Age so different from any other time in mutant history is that there is not just one single faction of mutants living on the island. Instead almost every single mutant in existence, as well as ones being resurrected, are all living together in some form of peace and collaboration. The new status quo around mutant government, developing culture, immortality, and forgiveness of past enemies has made it so that mutants and their relationship with the rest of the Marvel Universe have been indelibly changed forevermore.
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Of course there is a chance that Marvel Comics could pull something in 20 or 30 years like a new Age of X-Men that rewrites current continuity, or a convoluted timeline plot that resets the mutants' history. But Marvel has not had a fan response in years that has been as overwhelmingly positive as the reaction to the Krakoan Age. Never before in mutant history, except perhaps the time when Magneto ruled the mutant nation of Genosha, have mutants gathered in such a way, and Genosha not only ended in a mass genocide of mutants but also had much less focus than Krakoa has had since 2019. While the
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