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word of advice ! This article contains spoilers for Magneto vol . 4 # 1 - 4Magnetohas always been a booster of mutantkind , even to the most uttermost degree , as he ’s made it readable throughout his many class ofX - Menpublication history that all he wants is a future tense where mutants can boom and live in peace . However , upon coming face - to - face with the so - called Neo - Mutants who were animate byMagneto ’s nefarious legacyof mutant superiority , Magneto take in that his attempt to bolster mutantkind in the face of hardship and persecution may have just doomed them all .

As the leader of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants , Magneto set up a turn of satellite lairs all over the world from which he could organize any given scheme . One such lair in reality held technology that could replace one ’s organic body parts with machinery , convert them into superpowered cyborg .

While Magneto never really used this technical school , he had admittance to it . And when he step down from the Brotherhood to become the drawing card of the X - Men , that technology fell into the hands of someone who ’d use it to create a new stock of variation the likes of which Magneto had never dreamed of , even in his worst incubus : Neo - Mutants .

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X-Men’s Neo-Mutants Are Actually Grotesque Human Cyborgs

In the four - part miniseriesMagnetovol . 4 by J.M. DeMatteis and Todd Nauck , readers are given key insights intoMagneto ’s life during his time as the leader of the X - Menand master of Xavier ’s School for Gifted Youngsters under the alias Michael Xavier . This tale reveals Magneto has another ‘ daughter ’ name Elena Perez , whose villainous sobriquet is Irae , Queen of Wrath . Irae assault the school , abduct Magneto , and brings him back to her lair . Which , as Magneto quickly learn , is one of his honest-to-goodness satellite den .

In essentially every style that matters , Irae , Queen of Wrath became her own version of ' Silver Age ' Magneto . From her trend of costume and nefarious docket , to the fact that she led her own group of ‘ mutants ’ dubbed the Sisterhood of Evil Mutants , the Queen of Wrath took great aspiration from her adoptive Father of the Church . The only job was , Irae’sNeo - Mutants were n’t actually mutants at all , they were human bionic man . Irae get hold of in youthful girls in need , and release them into superpowered cyborgs using Magneto ’s abandoned tech . Irae then anticipate her creations Neo - Mutants , as they were the hereafter she is oppose for with the same ferocity Magneto had while push for mutantkind .

Neo-Mutants Weren’t Defeated, & Could Spread Across X-Men Canon

At the end of this miniseries , the Neo - Mutants were n’t tucker out . Sure , they were driven to pull back with their fall drawing card after they proved to be outstrip by the X - Men , but that in no way mean they just roll over and died . The Neo - Mutants are Irae ’s sight for the hereafter , after all , so she is n’t going to give up on them after a individual defeat . In fact , now is actually the perfect prison term for the Neo - Mutants to prove . While this plot line takes office geezerhood before Krakoa was even established , the current state ofX - Mencanon just evince the fall of the mutant country by the hand of Orchis . With most of mutantkind now crumbled , the Neo - Mutants are devoid to prove from the ash of this defeat and claim their position as the true legacy of mutantkind , a bequest unknowingly install by Magneto himself .

While there ’s no warranty reviewer will ever see the Neo - Mutants again after this storyline , all the pieces are there to bring them back into modern persistence . Plus , the fact thatMagneto- someone who was willing to level the major planet for the interest of mutant prosperity - would be creditworthy for these unspeakable ‘ mutants ’ claiming the superiority meant for his own variety , would be the utter model of tragical satire , and would bring to fruition the mind ofX - Men ’s new Neo - Mutants as the terrorise end game for mutantkind .

Magneto vol . 4 # 1 - 4by Marvel Comics are available now .

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