#Abidemi

[umbrarosecafe]

The mean kids of the multiverse!

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[wakandas]

"whack em for me, my x-men"

[nitpickrider]

Gentle you gotta, you GOTTA X Men Unlimited Infinity 55

[rei-ismyname]

Ororo tries to kill mutants

Jean Grey and her 'change the world' squad are laying low in Wakanda after it appears Jean exploded the UK security council member's head. Ororo suddenly goes buckwild and starts frying people and spouting anti-mutant words.

I have to imagine Jean was protecting everyone and struggling, because if Ororo wants you dead then you are fucked. Then again, she is very strong-willed, so perhaps she's resisting whatever's controlling her and holding back. That Sentinel is team mutant btw.

Yeah, Ororo is definitely resisting. Everyone would be dead otherwise, Jean or no Jean. You can't hold the weather in your hands. Jean is certainly trying to get through to her, but that only seems to make things worse. She's even trying to kill herself.

Fortunately Gentle has his wits about him and shields Ororo with his body. He is incredibly strong with Vibranium stuff all over his body, but that's gotta hurt. Gabby manages to sneak in and knock her out. See Logan, non-lethal neutralizing of a very dangerous threat. Kurt doesn't do a lot.

After Ororo is subdued the team plus Wakanda's finest minds are trying to figure out what happened. T'challa's science, Jean's telepathy + telekinesis, and Trinary's technopathy identify the issue - a nano sentinel that stokes mutant hate - and remove it. Someone out there is attempting genocide with sentinels and telepathy (it's Cassandra Nova.)

It's certainly a deadly threat that seems near impossible to defeat, but it's multiple past threats mashed together with a single bad guy (who's back again right now.) Maybe I'm being unfair. One demagogue spouting hate can go a long way and we haven't solved the systemic issues that enable in real life, so maybe expecting Marvel Comics to figure it out is foolish expectations.

Same goes for troll farms and bots, influencing elections and spreading misinformation. Rich assholes like the Hellfire Club are both neoliberal kings and kingmakers. The US government and others have been building sentinels for ages with no sign of stopping. Replace mutants with 'Muslim wedding party' or brown civilians and drones sentinels have been with us all along. Through that lens the cycle of mutant oppression looks more true to life, and for all I think the mutant metaphor has dulled drastically over the decades, there's definitely something there.

I do think it needs a fresh perspective, but comics reflect society not influence it.

[howhow326]

Mutants I would like to see in the Storm Sanctuary ASAP

1. D.K. / Georgia Dakei

Mutation: Moisture Manipulation

2. Feint / Carmen Cruz

Mutation: Metamorph

3. Gentle / Nezhno Abidemi

Mutation: Muscle-Mass Expansion

4. Triage / Christopher Muse

Mutation: Life-Force Manipulation

5. Threnody / Melody Jacobs

Mutation: Necroplasmic Energy Vampire

[psikonauti]

Abimbade Abidemi (Nigerian)

The Perfect Gentleman, 2023

Acrylic, oil pastel, charcoal and marker on canvas

[fridka]

I was working on a Comic back in autumn but ran out of steam with it. I redrew one of the panels as a standalone illustrations;

[racefortheironthrone]

Why aren’t there seemingly any Krakoa era-esque stories based in Wakanda, where the creator goes deep on the world-building for the nation and it’s relationship with the wider Marvel universe? Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems like most Black Panther books are basically always just “who is T’Challa if he isn’t King” or “why T’Challa is the worst” type stories. They’re boring and uninspired, give me my nerdy shit Marvel!!!

I think you've missed some key issues, because there's definitely been some that cover world-building about Wakanda's relationship with Krakoa.

From the beginning of HOXPOX, Hickman established that Wakanda had a unique relationship with Krakoa - while most human nations signed trade deals with the mutant nation-state, some did not due to ideological or geostrategic opposition. Alone in the world, Wakanda (and its protectorates in east Africa) didn't sign a trade deal with Krakoa because it was so technologically advanced that it simply didn't need anything Krakoa was selling.

This was a source of consternation for the Krakoan government, so they went to some lengths to try to bring Wakanda into their diplomatic-economic orbit - as we see in X-Men #4. These efforts were politely rejected, as the Wakandans preferred a more arms-length relationship in which Krakoan-Wakandan relations would be managed through bilateral monarchical negotiations between T'challa and Ororo Monroe, leveraging their personal connections to promote a friendly policy of non-interference.

This status quo broke down during the Arraki-Amenthi invasion of Otherworld, which threatened the very existence of Krakoa and indeed the survival of the whole world. As part of Saturnyne's scheme to foil the invasion through a tournament of sword-bearers, Storm was tasked with retrieving the Wakandan blade Skybreaker. This vibranium weapon was uniquely suited to Storm's powers, amplifying her omega weather control powers even further, but it was also sacred to Wakanda as it was also the weapon forged by the founder of their nation and the Black Panther cult.

Thus, when Ororo traveled to Wakanda to ask for the sword in Marauders #13, T'challa did not want to give it to her - but rather than refuse her outright, he attempted to stall negotiations and avoid the confrontation. With a literal deadline for Krakoa, Otherworld, and Earth itself breathing down her neck, Storm was unwilling to wait and broke into the royal vaults to steal Skybreaker. While T'challa ultimately let Ororo leave with the weapon, trust between the two of them and their respective nations was broken - and Wakanda cut ties with Krakoa, although it never declared formal enmity with the mutant nation.

At the same time, neither country could totally isolate themselves from the other - especially after Krakoa terraformed Mars at the first Hellfire Gala and turned it into a new homeland for Arrako and her people. Through the joint efforts of S.W.O.R.D and Storm, Arrako would become the diplomatic nexus for intergalatic politics and Krakoa the new foundation of intergalactic monetary policy - something that had enormous ramifications for the Intergalatic Empire of Wakanda.

This ushered in something of a cold war between the two nations, who had to maintain formal diplomatic and economic channels, but who secretly engaged in espionage against the other in order to gain intelligence as to what their counterparts were up to, since they no longer trusted the other to give them an honest answer directly. This caused a great deal of tension for Wakandan citizens who were mutants, as they became the obvious candidates to spy on Krakoa and Arrako for Wakanda.

As depicted in Black Panther #3 and X-Men Red #4, the former X-Man Nezhno Abidemi, aka Gentle, was recruited by T'challa to be one of his sleeper agents. Using the very real anti-mutant prejudice Abidemi experienced growing up in Wakanda as cover, Gentle spied on Ororo Monroe in her capacity as the new Regent of Arrako and Voice of Sol on behalf of the Intergalactic Empire of Wakanda.

Because Storm isn't an idiot, she quickly uncovered Gentle as an agent, but left him in place as a backchannel between their two countries, although the deception further strained the personal ties between her and T'challa. As both of them are professionals, this didn't stop Arrako and Wakanda collaborating diplomatically to forestall a Shi'ar civil war.

When Krakoa fell, ORCHIS attempted to take advantage of the situation and Wakanda's presumed anti-mutant sympathies. In Wolverine #39, we see that the ORCHIS operative Jun Wei was dispatched to Wakanda to work out a Vibranium-for-Sentinels agreement. When Prime Minister Folasade rejected the offer, Jun Wei turned to the criminal gangs of Birnin T'chaka to get ORCHIS' hands on rare earth metals - only to be foiled by the joint efforts of Logan and T'challa.

[celadons-penultimate]

Well, I made one post where I told y'all about one of my weird, random X-Men / mutant ships (Polaris X Colossus), but then I remembered Tumblr doesn't have as restrictive a character limit as Twitter, so why not fit multiple ships into one post? So here goes, a few more (unranked) non-canon mutant pairings I'm in favor of, for no reason at all:

1) Bishop × Frenzy

2) Prodigy × Gentle × Trinary (YES, a polycule, I said wtf I said)

3) Dazzler × Ruckus (if Kwannon / Psylocke & Greycrow, a former Marauder, can find love worth rooting for, this is also possible)

4) Thunderbird × Bei the Blood Moon (with ALL disrespect, Cypher & Bei still feels like a joke pairing; Doug, John & Bei ALL deserve better)

5) Spyke × Tag (iirc, each was PLANNED to be gay in their respective stories, but neither was confirmed, some X-Men writer needs to get on that)

[lovecatsys]

god i love these kids so much

[zonedelicious]

Weird thing I just thought of but wouldn't it make more sense for Gentle's name to be Nezhnyy and not Nezhno?

Don't speak Russian but in Bosnian Nježan is the masculine form of nježno, as slavic languages are heavily gendered. Nježno is a neutral term and isn't referring to a person like nježan, nježna or nježni.

From what I see the Russian equivalent to refer to a man as gentle would be Nezhnyy.

[demon64]

So... I'm probably the only person who thinks that the New X-Men would work well with SOME Horrorcore. These are teenagers who live the crazy Marvel Universe, some would probably love the dark, morbid, and macabre lyrics that some of these would. Or maybe it would work better with a Circle of Four adaptation. Either one, I think it Horrorcore could work.

And I mean that. I do think for either Horrorcore could work, help give it a different feel than some others soundtracks in other superhero media. Horrorcore is a subgenre of Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop, at least from what I've commonly seen and heard, loves comics. I do think if it were in a New X-Men adaptation, the characters that would listen to this exactly would probably been Rockslide, X-23, and maybe Anole and Prodigy.

I know for the most part, Ghost Rider has more of an association with Rock & Metal, but I do think if you want to make Alejandra feel different, sort of like how Robbie Reyes supposedly has more of an association with Techno music, at least from what I've read and somewhat judging on appearance, then maybe give Alejandra an association with Horrorcore. Or maybe like I said in a previous post, give Robbie the Horrorcore association, give him something to feel different than other Ghost Riders.

You like these ideas? Got any others?

[wakandas]

my x-men gold (from that one ask)

[nitpickrider]

Ok one of the things about this Krakoa premise that's niggling at me is that by splitting the X Men into these stratas and generations and having the X Men be a cordoned off team chosen by election is It ignores the fact that 99% of the mutant characters we see and know in these stories are or were long standing members of mutant super teams. Gentle, Armor, Surge and Bling! weren't exactly front liners since the old days but they've gotten into more than enough scrapes to take this seriously. X Men Unlimited Infinity 51

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