8 Times the X-Men Were Nearly Wiped Out Forever

It ’s a toilsome life , being a Marvel mutant . sure enough , you get rad tycoon ( possibly ) , but also get the rest of the earth hating your guts for only existing . On top of that , you and your fellow mutants are almost always look revelatory scenario . Here ’s just eight times Marvel have threatened all Mutant - sort with obliviousness .

8) All-New, All-Different Marvel

Marvel has recently rebooted its integral output of cartoon strip with an “ All - New , All - Different ” bank line up , judder up the status quo of many heroes and teams in a fresh mankind created after the effect of this twelvemonth ’s Secret Wars redux — and with it , they ’ve created a Modern doomsday scenario for the ex - Men to endure through . This time , it ’s at the hands of thesimilarly disenfranchised Inhumans .

This unexampled status quo , in a move thatprobably has nothing to do whatsoeverwith the fact that an Inhumans moving picture is come up , see the worldwide release of Terrigen mist , the strange gas that transforms people with latent Inhuman genes into Inhumans . The newfangled twist is that the gas , which has awoken Inhumans all over the world in immense numbers , now also poisons mutation , both giving them a disastrous , near - incurable disease and sterilizing them , extend to the Mutant universe slowly but steadily dying out . The miserable things .

7) The Mutant Massacre

The Mutant Massacre was scarcely the biggest extinction event the Mutants have faces in the funnies — and the fact that you could even say that speaks to how many metre Marvel has used this idea . It represent a major role in the company ’s decision to do annual 10 - Men crossover outcome , making it authoritative to the comics out of doors of the internal tale , and although the advertizement fluff that the massacre would directly target the X - military man , the event itself mainly dealt with the racial extermination of the Morlocks , a mutant sub - wash that lived under the priming .

The crossover saw much of the Morlock population below New York pass over out by Mister Sinister and his villainous crew of Marauders , a group created for the sole use of practice mass murder on sport . The event was vastly democratic when it first launched , which might be responsible for why Marvel thinks threatening the vast legal age of variation - kind with death is oftentimes such a good story idea .

6) E Is for Extinction

Ironically , despite having Extinction decently there in the deed , “ E Is for extinguishing ” was another extinction event that did n’t quite doom all variation . It was , however , creditworthy for wiping out the mutant public of the long prison term mutant nation of Genosha . Cassandra Nova , the evil unborn twin of Charles Xavier ( it ’s … a long story ) opens Grant Morrison ’s test on the New tenner - Men in 2001 by marshal the Mutant - killing giant robots called Sentinels to attack the island nation as a response to a sudden resurgence in Mutant populations across the world at the fourth dimension .

Although the decade - Men defeat Cassandra , they ’re too late to stop the genocidal approach , and moderately much all of Genosha is wiped out in the mental process . The storyline returned for Secret Wars to begin with this year , but with a whirl that , for once , balanced things in the Mutant ’s favor . It was fix in a part of the mishmash land of Battleworld called Mutopia where , for once , the prevailing coinage was Mutant rather than human .

5) Operation: Zero Tolerance

The most iconic raw material of X - Men storytelling is their uneasy back - and - forth relationship with human beings . Sometimes that extend to a mutual , peaceable discontentedness ; in others , it leads to humankind require to kill all mutants . Just another day in the X - Men ’s extinction docket !

Operation Zero Tolerance spun off out of the major 1996 crossover case Onslaught Saga , which ended when seemingly the vast majority of superheroes were pour down to stop Onslaught , the psychic merging of Magneto and Professor X , from destroy the universe — except formutants , who could n’t fight Onslaught due to his ability to absorb their business leader . The domain was indignant at the Mutants ’ survival at the expense of so many heroes , and when an anti - Mutant U.S. Presidential candidate gets assassinated , the government activity reply with the nominal operation : Enslave or wipe out all mutants . The mutant - destroying scout are deploy once more , and SHIELD had to ultimately step in to stop the X - men from being wipe out .

4) The Legacy Virus

As if facing multiple extinction events over the years was n’t enough , at one point Marvel basically give mutants the equivalent of a superpowered AIDS virus .

Yup .

The Legacy virus was a major plot of ground point in almost a ten ’s worth of X - Men comics . Created in the futurity , the disease specifically targeted and infected Mutants , and destroyed their autoimmune systems the moment they used their force . Thousands of mutants succumbed to the disease , which evolve from an airborne genus Cancer into an autoimmune disease before finally developing itself into a interlingual rendition that could vote down normal human race as well . A cure would eventually be found in 2001 , but its deployment ask the sacrifice of farsighted - fourth dimension X - Man Colossus to work .

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3) X-Tinction Agenda

As if an AIDS / Mutant parallel was n’t enough , in the other ‘ XC Marvel used the Adam - piece as a metaphor for South African apartheid in in a crossover event called X - Tinction Agenda . Although mutant racial cleansing was not needfully at the forefront of the write up , which witness the Mutant Carry Amelia Moore Nation of Genosha being ruled over by exploitative human magistrates that conquer and torture several X - Men heroes in a eldritch BDSM - esque scenario , it was a heavy undercurrent throughout the portrayal of the mutant Genoshan ’s predicament in the outcome . X - Tinction Agenda was another write up where Extinction was in the name , but not necessarily the actual stress of the narrative . ( Also , Storm gets retrovert into a small fry ’s body with all of her grownup memories at some point . It ’s really uncanny . )

2) Basically Every Alternate Marvel Future

Time traveling and the X - adult male go hand in handwriting . There ’s so many future - found story , and you even have unconstipated characters showing up in the modern Clarence Shepard Day Jr. that are fourth dimension - displaced zep from the time to come , like Cable . But what ’s the running theme of pretty much every alternate hereafter in these stories ? That the futurity really , really sucks for the X - Men .

Sagas like Days of Future Past , the follow - up ( and uproariously named ) Days of Future Present , Cable ’s own dystopic future , the macrocosm of Sublime in New decade - man and innumerous other future - set story all portray horrendous , nightmarish humankind where Mutant - kind is either amply wipe out or on the threshold of oblivion altogether . As if the X - Men ’s own present was n’t presently mess up up enough for them , there pretty much is n’t a future scenario where Mutant - kind really does well for itself , either .

1) M-Day

With a individual utterance of “ No more mutant ” at the remnant of the 2005 storyline House of M , Scarlet Witch depowered the vast majority of mutants — the identification number has fluctuated between 90 % and 99 % of the roughly 15 million Mutants in existence at the time — wrick them into powerless man . Initially only 198 mutation retained their baron and genetic make-up , but that figure slowly grew over the next seven year , until the powers of many lost sport were restored in 2012 .

Shame they only had three years of relative normalcy before Marvel decided to work the extinction bill again , is n’t it ?

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