Warning! This article contains spoilers for X-Men Legends #10
A Magneto taking a firm stance against the idea of coexistence. A new bombshell settles that debate once and for all. While the current landscape of X-Men comics sees the mutants completely separate from humanity on their island nation of Krakoa, another ongoing series, X-Men Legends, takes fans back in time to the events of X-Men as they were in the ‘90s. In that storyline, fans get a chance to see events that weren’t fully realized as they were written, including one revelation that could have changed the landscape of X-Men comics forever.
In X-Men Legends #10 by Fabian Nicieza and Dan Jurgens, Mr. Sinister is hosting a dinner party with a few influential X-Men characters to get greater insight into the final, perfect stage of mutant and human evolution. The guest list included Professor X, Magneto, Beast, Moira MacTaggert, and Amanda Mueller. While everyone was revealed to be clones created by Mr. Sinister, including Mr. Sinister himself, to simulate this conversation, the group comes to an astounding breakthrough that tragically was lost upon their deaths.
As the temporary clones begin to break down, Amanda Mueller tells Mr. Sinister of a stage in human and mutant evolution called Homo unitus. That evolutionary stage is the perfect combination of humans and mutants that together become beings of a higher level than their current stage of existence. Ifcurrent landscape of X-Men comics, all mutants would now be proven wrong by Sinister’s discovery.
Magneto is no longer alone in his belief that humans and mutants should live separately in the world, proven true by the establishment of Krakoa. Mutants have isolated themselves on the island and not only are they no longer living with humans, but they refuse to fight for them as well. In Devil’s Reign #1, the Kingpin launches a full strike against the heroes of New York, and when asked to comment on this development, the X-Men said they would not interfere as it doesn’t pertain to Krakoa. The X-Men are willing to let their fellow heroes be hunted by villains and possibly die just to maintain their separation from humanity. Not only is this immoral and goes against everything the X-Men once stood for, but it actually keeps both humans and mutants from coming together as one and ascending into a Homo unitus.
Magneto was wrong by pushing for the separation of mutants and humans, and now all of the X-Men are wrong in their decision to become what they always fought against. If the X-Men stayed the course on Professor X’s initial ideology, then everyone on planet Earth would evolve into something greater than what they are now together. Though just as Mr. Sinister’s clone was unable to present his findings to his real self before he died, that hope is as good as lost as things currently stand in X-Men lore. An X-Men bombshell was right once and for all, and it turns out he was wrong.
