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2023 broke theX - Menlike never before , and no - one tolerate more than the team ’s five founding heroes , Cyclops , Jean Grey , Iceman , Angel and Beast . Withthree drained , one facing executing , and one now formally a villain , Charles Xavier ’s first class of mutant enter 2024 at perhaps their lowest point in Marvel story .
2023 saw the showtime of the Fall of X - a chapter in which the new mutant body politic of Krakoa was toppled bythe bigoted Orchis groupand the X - Men ’s greatest heroes were aim for end . Orchis ' attack on the Hellfire Gala kicked off this fall from grace , seeingJean Grey fatally stabbed by Moira MacTaggert and Iceman melted alive by the Super - Sentinel Nimrod . Meanwhile , Scott Summers ' water flea was captured by Orchis and had his oculus stitch close to counterbalance his powers .
While other go - workforce kept fighting for freedom , the Fall of X has been stern on the rest of the original five . Beast betray X - Force after his slide into evil was uncovered , and Angel was translate into a killer and slaughtered by his own squad . Now , as Cyclops hold up on trial for his life sentence , the X - Men ’s loss leader faces the death punishment in the noesis that his oldest allies ca n’t or wo n’t help oneself him .
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2023’s Fall of X Destroyed the X-Men
As an Era Ends, Precious Few Founding Members Are Left
Since 2019 , the X - human race have been in their ' Krakoan Era , ' as all the enfranchisement ’s heroes and scoundrel collect on the island of Krakoa , forge a state where they can finally hold up in peace . Starting in 2024 , the Twin Falls seriesFall of the House of X(Gerry Duggan , Lucas Werenck ) andRise of the Powers of X(Kieron Gillen , R.B. Silva ) will institute this era of Marvel ’s mutant heroes to an end . However , that final chronicle begins with the original five in a terrible place .
X-Men’s Jean Grey, Angel & Iceman Died in 2023
At Least Bobby Drake Is Back - But Without a Body
The founding go - Men ’s three major death show how Orchis absolutely prepared to undertake its enemies . Jean Grey was assassinated immediately as the radical ’s unattackable hero . While Louise Jones Simonson and Bernard Chang ’s 2023Jean Greyminiseries has get a line Jean attempting to find a way to take back to life ( while trammel outside realism in the White Hot Room ) , it notably ends with her still beat , albeit having reconciled her relationshipwith the godlike Phoenix Force .
Meanwhile , Dark X - Men # 3- from Steve Foxe and Jonas Scharf - see Warren Worthington III ( aka Angel ) turned into a demonic predator by Orchis , with Gambit blowing his former friend to pieces to save mutant lives . Steve Orlando and Vincenzo Carratù’sAstonishing Icemanminiseries bring Iceman back after the Hellfire Gala just to evaporate him again , however it does stop on a note of Bob Hope . In the final panel , Bobby Drake ’s Inhuman ally Romeo detect a message imply thatIceman ’s consciousness is capable of returning , but ca n’t yet reconstitute a permanent body .
Beast Became a Villain in 2023
The Original X-Men Hero Is Being Permanently Replaced
However , it ’s Beast ’s shift into villainy that is perhaps the darkest fall of 2023 . All through the Krakoan era , Beast has become more and more immoral - attacking and experimenting on inexperienced person in his role as drawing card of X - Force . After cloning Wolverine for a fatuous death squad , X - Force finally turned against him , and upcoming issues of Benjamin Percy and Robert Gill’sX - Forcewill see the team trace down and undertake to execute their former loss leader . Indeed , it ’s all but certainBeast will be for good replaced , as the franchise has introduced a younger ringer who seems set to take his place .
2024 Begins with Cyclops on Trial
Framed for Orchis' Crimes, Scott Summers Is the Last Mutant Standing
With Jean and Angel still bushed , Iceman without a body , Beast a villain , andCyclops framed for Orchis ' crimesand heading for a show trial , the founding X - Men have been dead eviscerate by Orchis . Hopefully , 2024 mark a major rejoinder for at least some of the iconic heroes , however even if some of the originalX - Menfind a direction to last , the cicatrice of 2023 will mark the founding five for year to hail .
pin of the House of X # 1is coming January 3 , trace byRise of the Powers of Xon January 10 andX - violence # 48January 24 , all from Marvel Comics .
