X-Men's Revolutionary Approach to Villains Has One Huge Flaw
Warning: contains mild spoilers for Sabretooth #3!
The X-Men's new policy of giving any mutant, no matter how villainous, full amnesty on their new nation of Krakoa is stupid at best, and truly evil at worst. Perhaps no «former» villain embodies this sentiment more than Arkady Rossovich, the Russian mutant known as Omega Red, a literal child serial killer who was a certified monster before he ever became a mutant super-solider.
When Magneto, Professor X, and Moira X founded the nation of Krakoa, they decided that it would be a land free to all mutants, regardless of their pasts, which at the time sounded like a profound and compassionate idea; a way to let any mutant have a «fresh start» in a land where they don't need to fear for their life. However, the way that this policy has played out is ridiculous, and how the Quiet Council has been using the Pit, Krakoa's prison, makes the policy even more hypocritical.
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Omega Red is a Russian-born mutant with a long and horrible history as a violent and predatory enemy of the X-Men and all of humanity. During the Krakoan Era, in the pages of X-Force and X-Lives of Wolverine, Omega Red has been used by X-Force and the Quiet Council as a triple agent against Dracula and Mikhail Rasputin, but he has still proved to be a brutal killer with no conscience. Arkady was first introduced in 1991's X-Men #4 as a Russian super-soldier with carbonadium bones and tentacles, as well as mutant «death spores» which kill anyone upon contact, but it was not until 1996's Maverick and 2018's Weapon X that fans got a full picture of the deadly villain. Growing up in Russia he was feared by his parents and brother because
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