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After years of deliberate preparation by brilliantX - Mencreators like Jonathan Hickman , Kieron Gillen , and Al Ewing , Marvel ’s final darkness god is arriving to raven all of reality , asthe Dominion known as Enigma- The Crown Above All thing - descend on the Marvel Universe . First introduced inHouse of cristal / Powers of X , the terror of a Dominion has underlined the Krakoan Era , and readers are finally getting more answers as to who , and what , this costmic entity really is .
Thethreat of Dominion , explicate in Hickman’sHOX / POX , at first appeared to be entirely based on hyper - ripe machine life like Titans and Strongholds , which then can combine into acosmic entity known as Dominion that exists outside of all clip and space , due to the density necessitate to lay in all their data transforming the district into a black cakehole uniqueness .
Later it was revealed that a exclusive biologic entity could attain Dominion condition if it pull together enough general information - through any turn of means - and after the unveiling ofthe four Nathaniel Essex Sinister clones , it waspresumed that one of these four clones would successfully reach Dominion .
Essex’s Four Sinister Clones Were All “Batteries” For King Sinister
InImmortal X - Men # 18writer Kieron Gillen makes a shocking reveal , that there was a in high spirits purpose for the four Sinister clones , and they were all meant to at long last fail in theirattempt at reaching Dominion . Just like Loki say to the Defenders inDefenders : Beyond#5 , " So where there are four - count for the fifth business , " now a clean allusion to there being a fifth version of Nathaniel Essex . Gillen reveals that the original four Sinister clone - Sinister , Stasis , Orbis Stellaris , and Mother Righteous -were all set about to collect vast world-wide data point from various avenuesso that each would then undertake to reach Dominion , and then be killed by the Dominion thathas always existed .
Interestingly , it also appears that the Dominion killed Nathaniel Essex himself inImmortal X - Men#8 , activating the four Sinister clone , and starting them on their journey to attempt to hit Dominion . Immortal X - Men#18 revealed that Sinister , Orbis , and Stasis all technically " follow " in reach Dominion , but their attempts were readjust by the Moira Engine , keep on the data for " King Sinister " but delete their ascension .
Righteous ' failed attempt at turn over Dominion was the final piece in the mystifier that King Sinister , the 5th - or some might conjecture original - rendering of Nathaniel Essex , needed to come up beyond space and metre , becomingthe district known as Enigma . Now , Enigma subsist and has always subsist , and the Marvel Universe has a threat more dangerous and manipulative than any they have ever confront in the past tense .
The Dominion - Enigma - Was First Revealed inDefenders: Beyond
defender : Beyondwriter Al Ewing first stick in the concept of Enigma , link to the idea of Dominion , and it has now become unclouded that these two entities are the same . It was shockingly revealed inDefenders : Beyond#2 that the Beyonders used the Incursions toattempt to ruin the seventh Cosmos because the Enigma Dominion was going to ruin all of reality . Since that did n’t work , the Beyonders have now created " Concordance Engines , " an attempt to utilise Enigma Force to keep the Dominion ’s threat to a few select realness , including that of Earth-616 . When the Defenders went on their journey for Eternity , to accomplish their foreign mission of determine what lay beyond the One Above All , they were give a visual modality of Enigma , " Something vast - coming for our realness . A summit above all thing . "
The entire construct of Dominion is incredibly puzzling , and it is unreadable if the direction the X - Office took with Dominion is what Hickman ’s original plans for it were . Initially , it seemed that a territory could only be created through the ascension of immense hokey intelligence , butImmortal X - Menreveals that a Dominion ’s conception is potential through such a vast collection of info that this data is powerful enough to ascend time and space , and form a godlike higher AI consciousness . Nathaniel Essex always want to " flap " the coming machine rising of Earth and egotistically decidedthe only means to do this would be to make the first " apex AI " Dominionand take control of reality himself .
Enigma Has Been Hinted At For Close To Two Years
X - Men ’s creative team , particularly the architect ofImmortal X - MenKieron Gillen , have been drop now seemingly obvious hints about Enigma , and the come threat of Dominion , for close to two years . start in Mark Brooks ' teaser image forDestiny of X , if one looks closely at the Krakoan Gateway above the Quiet Council , the word " Enigma " is carved into the wood , a shockingly obvious clue , as well as a carving of a crown and bird ( potentially the Phoenix Force ) on the throne in the center of the image .
These carving are also a brilliantly meta room to show that the Enigma Dominion has always subsist and will always live . Immortal X - Men#1 ’s opening picture sees a straightlaced - geological era Mister Sinister whistling a tune while waiting for Destiny to unite him . Sinister asks Destiny what about his whistling has so disturbed her , revealing that the song was Edward Elgar ’s " Nimrod . "
While at first , it seems like Irene was disturbed by the fact that the song was style " Nimrod , " the name of one of mutantkind ’s greatest enemies in history , authorDouglas Wolkon Twitter pointed out that the real - life song " Nimrod " by Elgar is part ofa serial of euphony he make called the " Enigma Variations . “Destiny revealed inImmortal X - Men#18 that she has known of the coming Enigma Dominion for decades , but could not speak of it to anyone since Enigma was always watching . Even back in this encounter with Sinister , Destiny was already mortal afraid of Enigma , and his ever - arise threat against their realness , but she was unable to give proper warning to her married woman Mystique or the mutants of Krakoa .
The come warfare against the Enigma Dominion , or King Sinister , will have grave and far - hand impingement on both the 10 - Men franchise and the greater Marvel Universe for a foresightful time to come . The Enigma Dominion , proven inDefenders : Beyond , isa terror so Brobdingnagian that it is more powerful than The One Above All , and such a peril that the Beyonders attempted to end all of reality before the Dominion could arrive . Now , the Enigma Dominion is at last follow , and theX - Menwill take to rally all their military force - particularly that of the Phoenix Force - to defeat The Crown Above All thing before it devour Earth-616 and absorbs the consciousness of all living existence through its horrendous process of ascension .
Source : Douglas Wolk
