Uncanny X-Men # 700 Spoilers – What Happens to Krakoa at the end of the Krakoan Age?
As we go down to the “From the Ashes” era of the X-Books, we have to ask this important question – What Happens to Krakoa at the end of the Krakoan Age? Well Marvel gave us an answer that signifies hope for the future. Uncanny X-Men # 700 Spoilers inbound!
This is actually X-Men # 35 in the current volume but Marvel continues to stick with their lamebrain idea of renumbering and going on another volume from time to time which honestly sucks.
Anyway less of that and more of the explanation.
So what happens in this is that the X-Men who resisted Xavier’s mental manipulation to step into the gateway to nowhere are gathered in Krakoa after a new Krakoa materialized out of nowhere. It’s actually the mutants who were sent to parts unknown during the Hellfire Gala. While it’s only been weeks (or months) since the Hellfire Gala, the mutants established a new nation of Krakoa in the Phoenix’s turf aka the White Hot Room. The same place where we see these…
And you see that little boy with wings that looks like a butterfly? Well that mutant’s name is Kafka and by the time he returns to his native dimension of Earth, he looks grown up.
The lost mutants actually made it safe and they were able to live peacefully for 15 years in the White Hot Room. The only reason they returned was to give some closure to the millions or so mutants that they have revived that died during the attack on Genosha.
And since their deaths were sudden, they never did get to say goodbye to their human loved ones. New Krakoa and the new Quiet Council gave them the opportunity to do so. It just took them 15 years inside their dimension to revive everybody. The Krakoa mutants also had 24 hours to stay in this dimension which allowed for 616 Krakoa to work with WHR Krakoa.
Now during this time Exodus chooses to throw a fit because he doesn’t want the mutants to return to Krakoa. Apocalypse shows up and kicks his ass…
And when En Sabah Nur finds out that his legacy has been revised a little bit and his life didn’t mean that much for the future mutants, he flips and returns to being the classic “heel” Apocalypse prompting every mutant in the island to fight including a “corporate synergy” fight with Deadpool and Wolverine.
It takes Jean Grey, now clutching the powers of the Phoenix once more, to make Apocalypse stop by showing him the minds of the new Krakoan mutants and how they have felt peace and not know the feeling of being scared of things like ORCHIS and Sentinels.
Apocalypse stops, retreats and thinks of getting an heir which leads to Heir of Apocalypse storyline.
Meanwhile the mutants that returned to Krakoa after 24 hours say bye to the X-Men and we see this glorious one page of Krakoa dematerializing.
So basically this was Marvel telling us that the Krakoa stuff is shelved and could be used at anytime and that whatever good they established is frozen in place. It’s convenient that the X-Men and some bad guys stay on Earth and continue to live miserably but they did make sense that staying in this world means that they can fight to ensure that the mutants who will be born will still have a world to live in and all that.
Not thoroughly happy but it makes some sense.
What do you think?
