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word of advice : hold mollycoddler for Immortal ecstasy - Men # 18Since Jonathan Hickman ’s iconic 2019 reboot of theX - man , House of X / Powers of X , the heavenly hokey intelligence information know as Dominion has been anever - present terror against mutantkind and all of Earth . in conclusion , inImmortal disco biscuit - Men#18 , Marvel revealsthe dark secret of Enigma , the entity who has ascended to become the cosmic god Dominion , setting up the X - Men ’s net confrontation of the Krakoan Era .
Immortal X - Men#18 - the last issue in the dear series - from writer Kieron Gillen and artists Juan José Ryp and David Curiel sees the terrible Mother Righteous fail in her bid toascend to Dominion , finallyending her remorseless manipulation of the ten - Men .
Meanwhile , Xavier and Sinister discover the obscure trueness behind the fourNathaniel Essex Sinister clones … they were all created to occupy datum , leading to the parentage of a 5th " tike " of Nathaniel Essex , an " vertex AI " called Enigma , who may have already been introduced in Al Ewing’sDefenders : Beyond .
Meet Enigma:Nathanial Essex’s Apex AI Who Is Becoming Dominion
There have been many theory over the retiring few months about which Sinister would become Dominion , with many fans guessing it would either be Mother Righteous or even Xavier - with Sinister still stuck inside his head - butall these hypothesis have been proven wrong . Immortal X - Men#18 sees Mother Righteous using Jean Grey ’s vessel to enter the privileged heart of the White Hot Room , attempting to rewrite realism and ascend to Dominion . At first , it seems like she has succeeded until , just like Sinister inSins of Sinister , the real Dominion let on itself and give Righteous a brutal world check .
It is revealed that the four Nathaniel Essex clones - Sinister , Righteous , Orbis , and Stasis - were all just " sponge , " created to attempt to reach Dominion through four separate modality , collecting data from the universe of discourse , and unknowingly sending that datum back to Essex ’s lab . Years ago , Essex decided the only fashion to defeat the coming machine supremacy was to conjoin them , create hisownall - herculean artificial word , which is where Enigma comes in . Enigma - using a Crown symbolic representation standardized to a card deck ’s King - is the 5th " child " of Essex , an AI that was able-bodied to give Dominion outside time and outer space after all four dead ringer attempted , got unbelievable close , and then failed to uprise .
The Crown Above All Things Is Coming For The Multiverse
While it has not been canonically confirm , it is more than potential thatEnigma fromImmortal X - Menis the same Enigma fromDefenders : Beyond#5 , uncover to be a " Crown Above All Things , " a " huge entity " coming for all of realness . The symbolic representation for Essex ’s Enigma is also a crown and a Dominion is a cosmically monumental entity outside of reality whose intact end is to assimilate all of reality into itself . Kieron Gillen and Al Ewing have been major parts of the Krakoan Age , and both work within the Marvel Cosmic quite often , so it is no surprise that the ending of Gillen’sImmortal X - Menwould tie in so attractively with Ewing’sDefenders : Beyond .
The reveal of Enigma , the true " god " of mutantkind and the final shaver of Nathaniel Essex , shakes Marvel ’s cosmic mythos to its burden , proving it will take incredible ethereal powers like that of the Phoenix to demolish the Dominion before it devours all of Marvel ’s realism . Now that Marvel ’s concluding boss - the Enigma - has ascended to Dominion , no one in the Marvel Universe is safe , and theX - Menwill need to fight harder than ever before to save their futurity .
Immortal X - Men # 18from Marvel Comics is available now in stock .
