Immortal X-Men (2022-) #1

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Dramatic Irony: The Mutants of Krakoa remain blissfully unaware Mother Righteous is another Sinister, and in issue #17 it turns out even the "main" Sinister has no idea she even exists. Switching P.O.V.: Each issue showcases a different Quiet Council's internal POV as they react to the events happening around them, the cast lists highlight this by coloring in the profile of the issue's character lead. Anti-Magic: Hope Summers uses a bullet made of the fancy new metal Mysterium to counter Selene's famously potent regeneration. Hypocrite: In issue #11, Ororo is at one point unsettled by Rasputin's rather aggressive (if understandable) self-righteousness towards the Quiet Council members infected by Sinister in Sins of Sinister. Her own self-righteousness throughout the issue is rather bluntly punctured by Emma towards the end, who points out that Ororo really has less cause to be getting high and mighty towards Xavier, herself and the others than she thinks considering that, in the Bad Future, things only got as bad as they did in large part because Ororo failed to notice anything was wrong for five years, until it was far too late. And that, for all her claims about "no thrones on Arakko", in that timeline she appears to have gotten rather comfortable with her people regarding her as some kind of god-monarch. What also goes unsaid, but is also a factor, is that it is also revealed in the main event that the only reason the timeline lasted as long as it did was because Ororo secretly refused to reset it when she had the opportunity because of a hope that things might get better; they didn't, meaning that despite her best intentions Ororo also has some inadvertent but nevertheless direct responsibility for perpetuating the thousand years of horror everyone in that timeline suffered. Marvel Comics March 2022 comics revealed". GamesRadar+. December 23, 2021 . Retrieved January 2, 2023.

Lovett, Jamie (December 7, 2022). "X-Men: Kieron Gillen Sets the Stage for Sins of Sinister (Exclusive)". Comicbook . Retrieved January 2, 2023.

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Negus, M.N. (June 26, 2022). "Does The Quiet Council of Krakoa or The Great Ring of Arakko Have The Advantage?". CBR . Retrieved January 2, 2023. As part of her pitch for membership in the Quiet Council, Selene brings up that time she tried resurrecting the population of Genosha herself, as happened in Necrosha. Kate tries pointing out Selene wasn't exactly doing that out of the kindness of her own heart. Marnel, Blair (October 2, 2019). "How 'House of X' #6 Establishes a New Mutant Nation". Marvel . Retrieved January 2, 2023. Hope lobbying for the Five to have a representative on the Quiet Council once Magneto's seat opens. This is the culmination of the Five becoming increasingly discontented with the Council and their questionable stances on resurrection policies throughout Reign of X (especially in Vita Ayala's New Mutants and Leah Williams' X-Men: The Trial of Magneto). Serial Killings, Specific Target: Mister Sinister's murder of Hope is the spree-killing variant. He wants to kill at least three other members of the Quiet Council at the same time, hiding the essential murder of Hope (and he has some preferences as to which ones die), but she's the victim who's "10/10" essential. It's not until Sins of Sinister that Sinister's reasoning is explained.

Before IMMORTAL X-MEN became IMMORAL X-MEN, the title offered up a stunning reveal: Mister Sinister had corrupted Professor X, a pinnacle member of the Quiet Council. Even though Sinister himself was banished to the Pit of Exile for the crime of killing Hope Summers, a critical member of the Five, his plan can continue with his proxy at the helm… but not even Sinister can predict where that will leave him in ten years' time. Mr. Sinister sat on a crystal throne; next to him Jean Grey and Emma Frost, and on the foreground Cyclops and Wolverine wearing a red diamond on their heads. This refers to the Sins of Sinister crossover. Groundhog Day" Loop: Issue #9 sees Sinister repeatedly attempting to assassinate the Quiet Council, resetting the timeline every time he fails. He has ten attempts for this point in time, as the Moira clone he's using can only reset ten times. The last one mostly succeeds. Issue #14 shows that Sebastian Shaw's scheming before the start of Fall of X hasn't gone to plan. Shaw gets ownership of Krakoa but fails to get its liquid assets, he loses control of the Hellfire Club to Wilson Fisk (who is now White King) and his attempt to strip mine Krakoa is hindered by Xavier, who is staying on the island as penance for what he did. Even Evil Has Standards: During issue #6, Destiny sees that Mystique is more willing to go for a vote if it harms or kills humans. Privately, Irene notes how sometimes her wife's sociopathic tendencies unnerve her.Misery Poker: When Ambassador Mingyu confronts Emma about Krakoa's revival technology, presses for more information, and points out how this could be used for humans as well, Frost tries to shut him up by throwing the Genoshan Genocide in his face in a "mutants suffer worse then humans so we don't have to share or be nice to you" way. Mingyu is not impressed, pointing out that ranting about hate crimes committed against mutants (least of all one that wasn't even committed by humans) and who has it worse won't magically make criticisms and problems go away, and that Krakoa is going to have to be willing to make concessions and engage with humans as equals if they want to actually survive as a nation long-term. Heroism Motive Speech: Xavier's running narration in the prelude issue to Sins of Sinister talks about how he constructed the teams over the years to specific ends. It admits that people have a valid reason to fear mutants compared to every other demographic, especially people like him who could psychically compel everyone to kill themselves if they were so inclined, and that it takes tremendous personal ethics to never do so. That the issue ends with the reveal that Xavier has become corrupted by Sinister's personality, it becomes a Heroic Heelization Speech. Destiny is trying to navigate between many possible bad futures. The one we see most of in the third issue is "the eXpanse", where Exodus, powered by a trillion-strong mutant church-empire with Phoenix imagery, hunts down Sinister. However, Destiny is also motivated by the fact that for her, any bad future is one where Mystique isn't alive. And she can't see any future where Mystique lives. Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Bizarrely, Selene, who is otherwise a total sociopath, cares for the External Mutants and is quite pissed Apocalypse killed them and used their bones to make the External Gate. While initially this might seem like BS, her inner monologue in issue #14 confirms that she is quite genuine.

Prepare for sinister secrets to be revealed and learn that some secrets are more sinister than others... The ending of issue #16. After Shaw tells him that he's been killing Orchis soldiers, Xavier doesn't understand what he means. He goes down to Sinister's old lab and is guided to a mirror, where a bloodied message reads "Don't kill yourself please" with a Sinister diamond positioned where Xavier's forehead is, suggesting Xavier is still connected to Sinister.Human Resources: Sinister views other mutants as raw material, as always. Early issues refer to a gun based on cloned eyes from Cyclops, a bank of clones of Moira used to research and reset the future and, in one possible Bad Future, cloned meat from Sebastian Shaw used to store kinetic energy for a starship. Kieron Gillen Sets Up the Avengers, the X-Men, and the Eternals for 'Judgment Day' ". Marvel. June 29, 2022 . Retrieved January 2, 2023.