Warning! SPOILERS ahead for A.X.E: Judgment Day #5
In the latest issue of Marvel Comics' X-Men's formation of Krakoa in the Marvel Universe, it's been stated that only mutants can be brought back to life using their resurrection protocols. However, that's all changed following this new issue and the return of Captain America.
Previously in Judgment Day from Kieron Gillen and Valerio Schiti, the majority of the Eternals decided to go to war with the X-Men, discovering that mutants share DNA with the Deviants. Hoping to end the war, the Progenitor Celestial that had been Avengers Mountain was awoken by a collection of Avengers, X-Men, and defecting Eternals. Unfortunately, the Progenitor made plans of its own, promising to judge the world both individually and collectively. Having largely failed, the world faced the Progenitor's sentence, seeking the burn all life from the face of the Earth.
Now, Judgment Day #5 has seen the surviving heroes doing their best to come up with a solution before all is lost, having suffered major casualties already. However, Captain America chose to speak out against the Progenitor directly with the X-Men's psychics linking him to every mind across to globe for all to hear. While the Celestial promptly killed Steve Rogers right after, his words helped calm the world and prepare its heroes for a renewed attack that spectacularly failed (resulting in the death of Thor). This culminated in the major twist with Nightcrawler deciding to break the X-Men's protocols at the issue's end, choosing Captain America to be one of the first humans to be resurrected via Krakoan methods.
Apparently, it seems as though all bets are off when it comes to the X-Men's prior rules about resurrection. Extrapolating from the simple fact that Captain America is now back among the land of the living, anyone else could theoretically be brought back as well such as Thor or the countless who've already been lost due to the Progenitor's sentencing. While it was always assumed that it was a matter of mutant genes and their evolved biology, Captain America being brought back implies that it was simply a rule that only mutants could be brought back (casting a pretty bad light for mutants given humanity's public outcry when the world recently learned about the protocols).
Unless it's revealed that Captain America has secretly been a mutant all this time or that the Super-Soldier serum allowed his resurrection to happen, Nightcrawler has just opened up a major can of worms for the X-Men. However, it also lessens the stakes for this new crossover which is somewhat unfortunate. Once the Celestial is beaten, who cares how many have died if everyone can be brought back once the event is over? Marvel's Judgment Day #5 is on sale now.
