Who are the Utopians in All-New X-Men #40 ?
The tease for the next arc (after The Black Vortex crossover) by Brian Michael Bendis has us intrigued and reminiscing about the recent past.
Utopia was the island nation Cyclops established off the coast of San Francisco but destroyed by the Phoenix Five in Avengers vs. X-Men.
Will this the mean the return of some mutants who played role in this Nation X off the California coast?
Here are the most wanted mutants we’d like to see resurrected as possible Utopians?
The X-Club (Beast, Box, Dr. Kavita Rao, Danger and Dr. Nemesis) were the brilliant, sharp witted science unit who actually raised Magneto’s sunken asteroid and made it the island nation. The team within a team even starred in their own limited series by Si Spurrier (X-Force.)
Evangeline (aka Vange) Whedon If you’re ever heard of a lawyer being called a shark in the courtroom…imagine a dragon? Vange was the X-Men’s attorney and a mutant metamorph. The presence of blood could transform Whedon into a giant red dragon.
Pyro (St. John Allerdyce) The mutant manipulator of fire first appeared as part of Mystique’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants in the classic Days of Future Past story. Pyro would later contract the Legacy Virus and tried to find a cure but eventually died because of the contagion. Pyro’s first appearance was in the attack on Senator Robert Kelly. One of Pyro’s final appearances was saving Kelly from a new Brotherhood and it had an impact on Kelly’s stance on mutants. Pyro was among the mutants resurrected by Selene and the transmode virus in the Necrosha story in which an army of undead mutants attacked Utopia.
The Lights (Hope, Primal, Transonic, Oya, Velocidad) Who could forget after the tragic and brutal fight in Second Coming when the first new mutants surfaced in the world since M-Day.
After fearing Hope Summers could be the end of mutantkind she helped ignite the race.
These brand new mutants popped up as the first lights on cerebro and later starred in a short-lived (but loved by us) Generation Hope. Oya (Idie) became the focal point of the Schism between Logan and Scott Summer and continues to be part of the Jean Grey School.
Hope has reunited with her “father” Cable in X-Force. I love the new mutants Bendis created (Tempus, Triage, Morph, Goldballs and Hijack) but I still miss these kids who represented a new beginning but soon fell way off the grid.
What lost mutants of the Utopia or any era do you want to see again?
Who are the Utopians? We’ll find out in April.
By Editor