X-Nation 2099
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| X-Nation 2099 | |
 Cover to X-Nation 2099 #2 Art by Humberto Ramos |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
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| Creator(s) | Tom Peyer (writer) Humberto Ramos (pencils) |
X-Nation 2099 was a comic book series created by Marvel Comics for their Marvel 2099 imprint. It depicts the course of events in a team of young mutant lives. The series only lasted six issues.
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[edit] Fictional team biography
In the year 2099, Victor Von Doom approached Cerebra of the X-Men with a proposition. He told her that he had heard of a prophecy that there would be a mutant Messiah that would be coming soon, and he offered her the position of finding it for him. Cerebra agreed and left the X-Men in search of this figure who would lead all of mutantkind into a golden age. She set up camp at Halo City and with the help of Morphine Somers, began to track down these children who all had a possibility to be the Messiah.
They collected a team together and Cerebra began trying to teach them how to act differently from the humans in order to survive, but she could not do it alone. She asked her old teammate Xi'an Chi Xan for help, but he refused. An unlikely—and unwanted—aid came in the form of Exodus who had been recently resurrected. He wanted the children for himself and kidnapped them.
Before this, the kids had escaped the city (and the watchful eyes of Sister Nicholas of the Sisters of the Howling Commandments) on a number of occasions. One such outing found the kids under attack from a man named Avian who wanted to capture Willow. Willow disappeared in the ensuing fight, leading the kids to believe that she had been captured and needed their rescue, which only resulted in their own capture. Willow showed up to free them, adding Metalsmith to their ranks. When they returned home, they found that the city had been sacked, demolished, and was in the process of being flooded by an angry Atlantean army. They are captured by Exodus and taken to the final Refuge.
[edit] Members
| Character | Real Name | Joined in | Notes |
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| Clarion | Hayes Isaacs | 2099 A.D. Genesis | Able to absorb sound from his environment and converts it into energy blasts. Hayes died in X-Nation 2099 #6 trying to protect his friends from Exodus. His name is, of course, a nod to soul musician Isaac Hayes |
| December | Winter Frost | 2099 A.D. Genesis | Generates intense blasts of cold from her hands to freeze the air around her into arctic gale winds, allowing her to flash freeze or freeze dry objects in her surroundings. It was hypothesized that December was a future relative of Emma Frost. |
| Metalsmith | X-Nation 2099 #2 | Total control over ferrous metals, allowing him to reshape, liquify, and magnetically levitate metal objects. Died in 2099, World of Tomorrow #7. | |
| Nostromo | 2099 A.D. Genesis | Technological mutation gives him the ability to interface with and restructure technological devices with his arms (which fuse to the technology), instant wound healing by covering it with metallic plating, home for the Phalanx template form. Nostromo later became the ruler of Latveria in 2099, World of Tomorrow #8, and successor of Doctor Doom. | |
| Twilight | 2099 A.D. Genesis | Able to bend reality in a contained area dubbed her "sphere of influence" which allows her to do numerous things including alter her body to produce flight, intangibility, cause things to burn, disintegrate, change in size, melt, or reform in various ways, and teleportation of herself and others. Died in 2099, World of Tomorrow #7. | |
| Uproar | 2099 A.D. Genesis | Increase his body's size, mass, height, strength, and density. | |
| Willow | 2099 A.D. Genesis | Able to shapeshift her body to match the exact genetic signature (and, inexplicably, the clothes) of whoever she is duplicating, except for the mark above her eye. | |
| Wulff | X-Men 2099 #30 | Animal-like physiology grants him enhanced speed, strength, stamina, reflexes, senses, healing ability, as well as sharp claws and teeth. He was formerly a member of the villainous group the Wild Boys but reformed. He further mutated in 2099, World of Tomorrow #2. |
[edit] Supporting cast
- Cerebra – asked by Dr. Doom to locate the mutant Messiah, acted as a mentor to the children.
- Morphine Somers – protectorate of Halo City, acted in some capacity as an advisor to Cerebra on her quest and helped her in gathering some of the children (namely Wulff).
- Sister Nicholas – a militaristic nun who lived in Halo City with her cloister the Sisters of the Howling Commandments, a pun on Nick Fury's Howling Commandos.
[edit] Notes
There were plans to add two more members to X-Nation 2099, but the plans were scrapped when Tom Peyer and Humberto Ramos left the book within the first three issues. Despite both appearing on the cover of the first issue and the Warren Ellis special 2099: Genesis, the characters were never formally introduced within the book's storyline and thus are apparently non-canon. Only one of them was named—an Indian mutant named Caravan—but his powers were never explained. Given his name and X-Nation's notable lack of transportation, he was probably intended to be a teleporter.
