What is The Fall of the Kingdoms?
A mystical showdown in this week’s Extraordinary X-Men #7 could be a big clue as to what’s ahead for the supernatural forces and heroes of the Marvel Universe.
Someone is killing Sorcerer Supremes and The Last Days of Magic are happening in Doctor Strange. Witchcraft is broken and Wanda Maximoff is on a global search for answers in Scarlet Witch.
Magik is a mutant but a powerful sorceress, the Queen of the Limbo realm and has grown more powerful under the tutelage of Doctor Strange.
Is a Magik encounter the latest hint that Marvel is conjuring a huge event involving all their supernatural heroes and books?
Before we break down here’s a SPOILER ALERT!
If you have not be been reading Extraordinary X-Men especially this week’s issue 7 stop reading now.
Seriously.
OK.
Here it comes.
The search for a plane full of lost mutants led Magik, Colossus, Iceman and Old Man Logan to Weirdworld. While the X-Men protected mutant refugees from attacking ghosts, Magik went to the source and a confrontation with an ancient wizard.
As the wizard attacked he declared, “I see you! I see what you are and what you will be!” before Illyana drove her sword into him.
“The WAR IS COMING…The lattice will break and your arrogance will be the end of you,” said the wizard.
When Magik followed up with her opponent he said, “The Fall of the Kingdoms” as he turned to smoke and went deeper into the cavern then left her with an image of the girl rescued in issue one, “not even this little girl will be able to save you it begins.”
The little girl is Sapna that Magik rescued from India in the first issue after the child mutant was infected with the M-Pox, the term for mutants infected by the Terrigen Mists.
Writer Jeff Lemire has started several intriguing story threads (the fate of Cyclops, Mister Sinister’s plan to save the mutants, the possible resurrection of Professor Xavier) but is The Fall of the Kingdoms an X-Men story of part of a greater Marvel Universe crossover?
The X-Men fought a demon invasion in Inferno, have taken on Dracula, Conan villain Kulan Gath, Belasco, N’Garai and often teamed up with Doctor Strange, Ghost Rider and Blade in their adventures. Illyana and Nightcrawler are tied to supernatural forces. Way back in an X-Men Annual, Stephen Strange joined the mutants in Hell to rescue the soul of Nightcrawler.
With a Doctor Strange film in the fall and the success of Weirdworld, and events in Doctor Strange, Scarlet Witch, the Marvel creative retreat may have spawned a major magical crossover later in 2016.
Watch for more clues as to what “The Fall of the Kingdoms” may be in the X-books and beyond.
By Editor