Summary

• In X-Men #29, Doctor Doom unleashes his powerful Legion of Mutants to keep the X-Men out of Latveria, and they prove to be a formidable group with impressive powers.
• The Legion includes mutants with abilities such as dream entry, invulnerability, super-strength, and electricity powers, making it a difficult task for the X-Men to separate them from Doom's clutches.
• Despite their initial hostility, there is potential for an alliance between Doom's Legion and the X-Men, with some of the Legion expressing willingness to help and even suggesting that Doom may grant asylum. This alliance could greatly benefit the X-Men.

Warning: Contains spoilers for X-Men #29!!

X-Men are experiencing his wrath first-hand, as he unleashes his personal Legion of Mutants to keep them out of Latveria. They’re a formidable group with impressive powers, and their allegiance could make a major impact on the future of mutantkind.

Doctor Doom's Latverian Legion of Mutans roster contains all new characters, including: the Dreamer, Ironcloak, Nerium, Slag, and Volta Doom.

In X-Men #29 – by Gerry Duggan, Joshua Cassara, Marte Gracia, and Clayton Cowles – Wolverine, Shadowkat, and Ms. Marvel head into Latveria, attempting to extract the nation's mutants. They’re immediately met with hostility, and a fight breaks out, making it clear that this is no ordinary rescue or recruitment mission. Doom has filled his Legion’s heads with ideas that they’ll be kidnapped, that the mutants from the now-defunct Krakoa are the enemy.

Unfortunately for Wolverine and the others, Doom’s mutants are powerful, boast dreaming abilities, super-strength and incredible resilience, and even a vibranium Doom spear, making far from an easy task to separate them from Doom’s clutches.

Doctor Doom’s Legion of Mutants Roster is Stacked

In total, there are seven mutants in the Legion, though Doom has only managed to indoctrinate and begin training five of them. However, they are already a formidable group, as becomes clear when they confront the X-Men. The mutants known as Dreamer and Ironcloak are twins, with the Dreamer boasting the ability to “enter dreams” once properly trained, while Ironcloak can bestow invulnerability with a touch. Combined, the twins’ powers would make a fantastic system for the team, though Doom keeps them back from the first fight. His squadron is still largely untested and have only been training under Doom for a year by the time the X-Men arrive.

Doom’s real powerhouses appear to be Nerium, Slag, and Volta Doom. Nerium is “Latverian land in mind and body” while Slag is made of Latverian rock and bleeds lava. Yet despite their strength, Volta Doom, with her electricity powers, is the favored mutant. Doom even considers her to be a possible heir, and she is the first to lead the charge against the X-Men. Meanwhile, X-Men #29's data page reveals that the Latverian dictator questions Nerium’s loyalty, while the remaining two mutants names are redacted, and they clearly don’t answer to Doom, making them wildcards, both in of their potential impact on Latveria and the X-Men.

The Legion Could Be Vital Allies For The X-Men

Following the teams' initial interaction – a fight wherein both Slag Ms. Marvel to believe that Doom may fight at their side, if they ask “the right way.” If that’s the case, Doctor Doom and his Legion of Mutants could seriously turn the tides in the X-Men’s favor - and reap the benefits alongside them.

X-Men #29 is available now from Marvel Comics.