#Isca the Unbeaten

[mr-foods]

long live krakoa

[illyanarasputinfan]

Christopher Fokken

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[rei-ismyname]

X-MEN RED Highlights 2

Part 1 ended with Vulcan challenging Tarn the Uncaring for the Seat of Loss. They waste no time getting into it.

Importantly, almost everyone HATES Tarn. Isca the Unbeaten is a rare exception. After they depower each other, Tarn grabs the advantage with his face tentacles and beats Vulcan to death.

Tarn gloats, asking 'who would dare challenge me now?' Motherfucking Magneto, that's who.

Isca, whose power is to never lose, is shocked as Sunspot introduces sophistry to Arakko. Then she snaps his neck. That's two dead Krakoans.

Fortunately, Mags doesn't fuck around, using his helmet to block Tarn's ability.

He brings the hammer down and Arakko has a new hero. The crowd goes wild for this hot old man in a cape. His retirement is over.

Mags' first Great Ring meeting is an eventful one. The first half boils down to a fundamental difference between Krakoa and Arakko - resurrection. To represent a people you need to live with the same risk they do. Mags and Storm agree and blow up their Cerebro backups. No extra lives for them.

The second half of the meeting is unfortunately the announcement of Judgement Day, as Uranos the Undying comes to kill them all. Worse, Isca's power forces her to switch sides - she cannot lose. She decapitates Idyll and Nightcrawler teleports her into the ocean.

Storm is away on Krakoa so they're down to 6 Omega Mutants plus various allies.

They slow Uranos down a bit but it's not enough. Hundreds of thousands die and Magneto has his heart torn out. Yikes, he even had a pun to go with it.

Uranos leaves but his machines of death remain. Mags is probably regretting torching his Cerebro backup, but the old man has one trick left - stimulating the iron in his blood to keep oxygen flowing to his brain for a little while. Long enough to make sure Arakko survives. Next time, 🔥🚨🚨THE HOUR OF MAGNETO BEGINS🚨🚨🔥

[ffverr]

Thinking of the Battle Of Otherworld again.... How despite getting used to resurrection everybody went into the fight with barvery and recklessness. Knowing they had to defend their own no matter what.

Absolutely epic. X of swords is still a highlight of this era to me.

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X-Men: Red (2022-2023) #13 art by Jacopo Camagni

[karmirage]

isca the unbeaten

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Can Isca the Unbeaten from X-Men Defeat Saitama?

Rules: a character can only defeat Saitama if they

1: Can avoid getting punched, AND

2: It is funnier for them to win. Do not apply powerscaling logic to this poll.

Vote under the cut if you read the rules

[rael-rider]

There's definitely some stuff to discuss about Orrdon that has to do with Rich Rider and Sam Guthrie.

Also Isca finally shows up.

From X-Men Red #14

[heckcareoxytwit]

Everyone at Arakko are tense since Genesis (Apocalypse's wife) came along and manipulated half of the council to her side, Storm and the remaining Arakki Council members are in the room trying to figure out what to do. Kobak Never Held and Lodus Logos are arguing until Sunspot comes into the room looking battered and disheveled. Sunspot informs Storm and the Arakki mutants about the murders at the Hellfire Gala such as Frenzy, Dazzler, Jubilee, Prodigy and mainly, his best friend, Cannonball. Sunspot claims that everyone at the Gala is dead. He also mentions Jean Grey and he believes Cyclops is dead too because the X-Treehouse is on fire. He presumes Captain America might be dead as well. However, Sunspot wasn't there and he only heard the rumors about it while he was on earth at a secret meeting. He tells her about having to resist Xavier and almost being forced through a gate. Storm realizes that this was all orchestrated by Orchis for both the downfall of Krakoa and Arakko at the same time. Xilo says Genesis has Sobunar at her side and that the people will listen to him. If they oppose Genesis it will cause a civil war. Xilo asks Storm what they should do and after a pause, she declares that they have to go to war.

Cue to battle at the Valley of the Fallen where the Arakki mutants are having a civil war. Nova the non-mutant human rocket is leading the charge, calling out war commands and maneuvers on the aerial mutants. Sunspot joins him in the air and Nova tells him that this site is the choke point of the Western front. Suddenly, in the distance, they see a new character rocketing at them, Orrdon the Omega Rocket. Nova says he'll plow through their forces like a bullet if they don't head him off, but Sunspot notices he's flying over Isca's territory. Orrdon boasts he's "fully invulnerable while blasting" until he gets an unexpected arrow up into his mouth and out the top of his head. Isca, holding her bow, watches him continue to rocket out of sight and he plummets to his death. When Nova and Sunspot get surrounded by Genesis' aerial Arakki mutants, Storm comes in to blow them away before summoning her lightning to strike at the statues of Genesis and Apocalypse to block more of Genesis' army from coming through.

X-Men Red v2 #14, 2023

[ms-ladylaur]

Isca vs Monet

[comicwaren]

From X-Men: Before the Fall - Heralds of Apocalypse #001, “Genesis and Revelations”

Art by Luca Pizzari, Stefano Landini, Raphael Pimento and Ceci De La Cruz

Written by Al Ewing

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With our new entry for this purpose, you can now vote for Kabam to add any Swordbearer of Arakko to Marvel Contest of Champions

There were too many to add individually, but together they seem like an important moment in recent mutant history.

(On fair use basis these images were grabbed from here and compiled for reference purposes only. All rights belong to original owners.)

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[eshueshueshu]

Doing a reread for Genesis to make sure Im not being unfair about how shes been handled and tell me why I realized Isca is literally using her power for her benefit and the ones she loves; which clashes with all previous depictions of her where it was her power controlling her and she felt ruled by it. Unless Im completely misunderstanding sumn here then this makes her whole arc in XMR really pointless because its something she should already be aware of.

[earth-1218designate]

This works. Now Isca has a suitable mate :