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bigskydreaming · 3 years ago

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My wishlist of dead mutants I still hope to see brought back or written about:

Scaleface, Rusty Collins, Chrome and Alchemy, Sara Grey and her kids, Jamila St. Croix, Kurt’s literal horde of half-siblings, the mutant members of the Trask family (Larry and Tanya), Adrienne and Cordelia Frost (last we saw of Cordelia she was alive, but apparently she died off-panel since then, wtf, ugh), Shard, Tyler Dayspring, Chris Bradley, Namorita, Siena Blaze, Johnny Dee, Gamesmaster, Trevor Chase, the Hayes (Molly Hayes’ parents from Runaways), Clan Akkaba and the various past Horsemen of Apocalypse because I want their reactions to Apocalypse having gotten what he was after all along and it NOT being what he told them, the Apocalypse Twins, Alexei Kravinoff, Haven, Lukas, Lucid, the Monroe siblings, Mulholland Black, Delphi, Persephone, Quiet Bill, Meme and Antonio Agazzis, and lastly......have some thoughts on Externals and how much they could be fleshed out as a concept now.

So:

1) Scaleface. I loved her and I'd also randomly like to see that one Morlock killed by Harpoon, Zeek....his outfit was so extra lol, but we have no idea what his power is or anything and I mostly just want a story about a random, one appearance dead mutant we never knew anything about before like, becoming a major player in mutant politics or superheroics or something upon their resurrection. 2) Rusty Rusty Rusty Rusty Rustyyyyyy - I've been on an original X-Factor kick lately and I miss this dork and so does Skids 3) Chrome as I've mentioned before, and also Alchemy. Transmutation powers are great and have so much potential, I think there's also a random background Academy X kid who was depowered named Collider who also had powers like that.....I wanna see the mutant alchemists back and what they can add to different mutant circuits 4) Sara Grey and her kids. There's a really powerful story waiting to be told about a woman whose previous only connection to mutantdom was advocating for it on her dead sister's behalf, but never with much connection to it beyond that.....and who was murdered before she ever had a chance to find out her sister rose from the grave. Then cut to a decade later, Sara Grey wakes up in a strange tree-cave with her believed dead sister before her, and for a second she thinks THIS is the afterlife before Jean tells her no, this is LIFE life, she's really back and now Sara is too because she was a mutant who just died before her power manifested....as did her kids, but before she panics, Jean assures her they can and will bring them back too, but they just wanted to bring Sara back first so she had a chance to acclimate to life and all the changes since her death before resurrecting her kids, so that Sara could be better prepared to help them through that confusion and ordeal as well.

Also, on a related note I would love to see Jamila St. Croix (the mother of Marius, Monet, Nicole and Claudette) brought back and revealed to have been a latent mutant. She was killed by Emplate who we know famously only ‘hungers’ for the life energies of other mutants, so.....

Plus, I imagine Monet and Emplate’s mother has to be a force of nature personality wise, and I would love for resurrection to be used to give rise to major players among mutantkind with the implication that they WOULD have been big names alongside Xavier, Shaw, Exodus and others by now, if not for their deaths.

I’m just saying, Jamila St. Croix for Quiet Council Seat Number 12. 5) Similarly, I kinda want Kurt's horde of half-siblings back and Kurt adjusting to the reality of HAVING all these familial connections that for the most part only existed as abstract ideas for him in the past. His family has always just been his sister Rogue and his estranged mother Mystique, and his even more estranged and detested father Azazel.....but now throw in a repowered Abyss, Kiwi Black, and even the various half-siblings we only briefly glimpsed in the Draco. As Azazel just to be a petty bitch (because its not like he even cares about his kids), like, makes a whole truckload of noise about "oh the Quiet Council insists we were all given amnesty for past deeds before Krakoa, but how many of its deceased enemies have benefitted from resurrection yet? We've all heard the rumors by now, of how they tried to keep Destiny from returning...let them prove their amnesty isn't just for the handful of mutant enemies of theirs who happened to be lucky enough to still be alive when Krakoa was founded!" 6) This could also lead to the return of controversial figures on Krakoa like the mutant members of the Trask family, Larry and Tanya, or Adrienne and Cordelia Frost despite Emma's attempts to keep them out of resurrection. I'm gonna keep harping on Adrienne's return, because of how good a foil she is for Emma, but also because now that Everett's in his Glow-Up Era and a possible omega on the rise, I want him to have a chance to confront the woman responsible for his death and make her live with the awareness of how thoroughly the student of her sister's that she disdained as a teenager has fucking lapped her and will always be more important in the eyes of other mutants than Adrienne could ever aspire to be. 7) Shard neeeeeeeds to come back somehow, I don't care how, and Greystone too, but like look it may be tricky but you can't tell me they can't find a way, and that Bishop doesn't have the desire to see her resurrected. I mean, his next storyline is going to involve TIME TRAVEL, yeah its to the past, but its just a further reminder there's gotta be SOME way to get back to his original timeline and nab a DNA sample and Cerebro back-up of her. 8) Would also love to see Tyler Dayspring back, for the potential drama and ethical implications of like, say.....maybe its not even Cable who pushes for his resurrection because Tyler by the time he died was so twisted from the boy Nathan once raised and already grieved that Nate's like....let the past stay buried, he has a different perspective on resurrection perhaps, idk. But point being like, it doesn't even HAVE to be Cable who pushes to bring Tyler back because one of the Five just so happens to be Tyler's adopted sister who has grown up AWARE of Tyler and the impact his life and death had on their shared father. Imagine a story where Hope with the best intentions gets the rest of the Five to help her resurrect the adopted brother she'd never known, but deliberately only ages him to like, how old he was as a teenager BEFORE Stryfe got his hands on him, and similarly only back him up to that point, so its a teenage Tyler even younger than her who returns....idk. Possibilities. 9) Chris Bradley aka Bolt. Said it before and I'll say it again, I want him back and I want his surrogate older brother Iceman to find out it was Maverick who accidentally killed Chris after Bobby had trusted him with Chris on Logan's say so....especially given Maverick's 'man without a country' status in regards to Krakoa, over in his appearances in Wolverine. Also add in the fact that Chris at the time of his death had no way of knowing it was Maverick who was killing him, and had only set out in Maverick's guise in order to AVENGE his mentor.....Chris struggling to adjust to the reality that his trusted mentor was the very reason he'd died, and now he's persona non grata in the eyes of the country that just brought Chris back to life.....there's drama for days in that story! FOR DAYS!

10) And if bringing back Chris, for sure bring back Namorita too, who as far as I know is still dead since the Stamford incident. I honestly loved those issues of New Warriors where she and Chris were totally platonic roommates, and as much as I also want to see both of them interacting with Firestar, Silhouette and Timeslip on Krakoa, and Vance too if he ever comes check it out or even just gets told 'hey come see who's back'....there's a really interesting story to be told, I think, in Namorita and Chris both coming back after dying at very different times and being like, let's room together again as we try and adjust to what the FUCK all has happened since we checked out.

11) Siena Blaze and Johnny Dee are two villains who were extremely effective at times and could be so again. Also Gamesmaster - not sure what his status is, whether he died, ended up depowered, or just has been in comic book Limbo, but I think he'd be a fascinating character to play with in the current era, because the only reason he gave up his game of killing the remaining New Mutants and Hellions is Paige Guthrie pitched him a NEW game....that for twenty five years, we've never seen followed up on but could be more relevant now than ever before. Basically, Paige sold him on a new challenge....she pointed out how many new mutants were being born in the 90s era, the future New Mutants and Hellions of the next generation....and who would of course be susceptible to being led or influenced by their elders like Magneto and Xavier and Emma Frost had influenced the New Mutants and Hellions. Paige challenged Gamesmaster to get to these new emerging mutants before Xavier and the others, 'win' a new game of being the one to influence the next generation of mutants the most, be the 'new Xavier/Magneto/Emma' of a rising generation....and then we like. Literally never ever saw that followed up on a little.

But cut to the current era, which has specifically been critiqued both out of universe and IN universe like in Ayala's New Mutants book, for being sort of aimless when it comes to the younger generations of mutants and no real guidance being offered for them or idea what to do with them....and have Gamesmaster either arrive on the island or be resurrected if dead (perhaps without anyone really realizing just WHO they're resurrecting, as the Gamesmaster always kept his true identity well hidden, and it doesn't seem like when downloading back-ups into the new host bodies that telepaths actually have the time or inclination to skim through everything contained in that consciousness)....and bam. You have the IDEAL antagonist for the New Mutants going forward, the very people most associated with the Gamesmaster in his previous stories....as they fight for the future zeitgeist of their people. 12) The Chases - another deep cut centered around Irene Adler's reality warping grandson Trevor Chase. We haven't seen him in decades and no idea if he died or was depowered after M-Day, but he was just a kid last we saw him, as Mystique was watching over his family in Irene's name. I'm pretty sure it was Justine Chase, Trevor's mother, who was Irene's daughter from a period when she and Raven weren't together, but it was never really hinted that she was a mutant herself....so either the X-gene skipped a generation or maybe Justine was just a latent mutant. Either way, I could see post-Inferno and after reuniting with Rogue, Irene looking into what happened to her other child and grandchild.....and thus bringing Trevor into relevancy that way (he should be a teenager now if still alive) or using her pull as a Council member to get Trevor and possibly his mother or father brought back as well. 13) The Hayes - Molly Hayes' mutant parents. They could be extremely interesting characters moving forward as we know very little about their powers but we DO know that they don't lack for ambition.....not only could their resurrection give Molly actual emotional conflict about going to Krakoa when she really isn't interested otherwise....it could be a great way to introduce two new antagonists that are blank slates in mutant stories but already with a strong conceptual foundation. 14) Clan Akkaba - Apocalypse's hand-picked clan of descendants and worshippers has numbered in the hundreds of thousands at some points, with most (other than the few random outliers like Frederick Slade, Blink's great-granddad or something like that) having been killed by the Apocalypse Twins after being depowered during M-Day. But now they should all be in the resurrection queue due to be reborn with their original powers, and I'm totally down to meet a new character who's introduced as an ambitious Clan Akkaba resurrectee who spent their entire life dedicated to pushing Apocalypse's agendas....and then came back to life to find out not only was Apocalypse's grand design NOT what they'd expected, he'd seemingly fulfilled it in their absence and peaced out a la 'I got mine, bitches' - leaving hundreds of thousands of future resurrectees without purpose and potentially feeling let down or betrayed, like their lives were wasted or pointless.....which is a hell of a recipe for new antagonists. 15) The Apocalypse Twins - similar to Tyler Dayspring, they were once upon a time innocent babies who got hijacked by Kang's twisted agenda, and he literally raised them with deliberate methods of abuse, indoctrination, etc, specifically TO shape them into the villains they became. I'd like to see Warren at least show some 'what if' feelings about them even though he's emotionally distanced from their very existence due to how fucked up his head was when they were even born, like, all of that had very little to do with the character and persona that is Warren as he is when not being manipulated - BUT the very fact that Warren himself knows better than just about anyone what its like to be constantly manipulated and twisted into a boogeyman of someone else's deliberate design, like, I can see that as being the basis for Warren feeling drawn to his kids that he never really got the chance to know and wonder what they could have been if they'd just ever been given the chance to just BE on their own terms. 16) Alexei Kravinoff - Kraven the Hunter's mutant son, who could be an extremely capable antagonist for Wolverine or similar characters, a rival mercenary like the role Maverick and Solem play in his solo title. Also, he's the kind of character who IMO would be drawn to Arakko and could be potentially very interesting to build up in stories there. 17) Other former Horsemen of Apocalypse - these were some of the 'biggest guns' in mutant history, so it'd be very interesting to see them as like....a kinda lost, aimless group unto themselves who are like, at the top of everyone's Rolodex whenever mass destruction is called for and omegas are busy. Decimus Furius, Sanjar Javeed, Plague, Autumn Rolfson, Jeb Lee, Abraham Kieros, Ichisumi, Phantom Bats of the Twelve Minds....collectively, they're one hell of a wrecking ball. Yeah, some of them are nasty assholes, so don't give them redemption arcs, just write the story of what do you do with the Horsemen of the Apocalypse after the Apocalypse has LITERALLY come and gone? 18) Clay, Marcus Tsung, Armageddon Man, Switch, King Bedlam, Paradigm, Dirtnap - like with Siena Blaze, Johnny Dee, Kravinoff and the Horsemen, in the interest of building up more mutant villains who aren't wrapped up in mutant political plot armor, these are all potential A-listers with the right focus....Clay was a hitman with Jamie Madrox's powers, a literal army of assassins unto himself. Marcus Tsung had a power called 'telekinetic bullets,' basically a specialized blast of telekinetic energy that hit like a bullet and was basically impossible to guard against and left zero trace evidence linking back to him. Devon Alomar aka Switch might not be dead, but hasn't been seen in ages....regardless, his power is to switch minds with anybody he locks eyes with, jumping them into his body and himself into theirs, which he used for many a frame-job while his partners watched his literal back as long as someone else was stuck in it, until he was ready to hop back into his own body. King Bedlam, one half of the depowered Bedlam brothers with his brother having been a member of X-Force briefly.....had the power to psychically throw anyone's mind into total confusion, like a psychic hand grenade that just blew apart their ability to concentrate, focus their power, form logical thoughts or speech, etc. (His brother, in contrast, could wreck the same havoc but on technology instead of psyches). The Armageddon Man was a nameless, powerful mutant who was kidnapped by a government agency and forced into hibernation from an early age as they feared his power....which was essentially that he acts as a lightning rod for natural disasters. Unlike Magma, Storm, Iceman and other elementals, he's not a powerful alpha or omega capable of using natural forces to cause mass destruction.....he's ONLY capable of mass destruction because he doesn't control or use these natural disasters....he basically just triggers them. Also Paradigm was a powerful technokinetic infected with the Phalanx virus from a young age, but we never really got a glimpse of either his personality or the Armaggedon Man's, and they both were more 'used as tools by people' characters so they could actually go the nonvillain route or be rightfully pissed off about their past treatment, there's grounds for both. But Clay, Tsung, King Bedlam, Switch - they LIKE being assholes. Oh yeah, and Dirtnap. He was a messed up dude who could absorb people into his body and then shapeshift into them. He got stuck as a rat for a long time. Long story. But then he died so he wouldn't be a rat anymore when he came back, just a fucked up dude, so there's that. Oh and basically Mountjoy could kinda do the same thing, and he was always an interesting antagonist to Bishop, if someone came up with a reason to bring him back. And he never got himself stuck as a rat, so. Probably makes him a better villain.

19) Glow Worm - we saw his 'partner in crime' Bulk in the background in Marauders Annual, but I'd like to see their resurrections expanded upon because they were always tragic figures. They were two mutants from the original X-Factor run who stayed away from humans and mutants alike because they were literally radioactive, but NOT because of their powers, just from being steeped in radiation for so long that it was gradually killing them and killed everyone they came into contact with. They just happened to be more resistant to it, but it ultimately DID kill them. So I imagine being able to bring them back, sans radiation and not forced to isolate themselves from all other mutants, might make for a cool story about the original X-Factor having had a chance to finally 'make right' one of their earliest failures and one that at the time had weighed quite heavily on them. Along similar lines, another of X-Factor's past failures that haunted them was the death of Michael Nowlan - he was a mutant who could boost other mutants' powers but in the process made them kinda dependent on him like a drug. Apocalypse used him to boost his Alliance of Evil henchmen like Tower, Stinger, Frenzy and Timeshadow. X-Factor were unable to stop Nowlan from being killed in a fight with the Alliance.....definitely would impact them to have him back.

20) Lowballing this one because I honestly don't expect to see it happen given how complicated it would make things, but people like Amanda Mueller and Fiona Knoblach would be really interesting to see on Krakoa as they're like....literally Scott and Jean's ancestors. Amanda of course is Scott's grandfather's grandmother, with a longevity power that means technically she might still be around somewhere though we haven't seen her in ages (other than X-Men Legends), and Fiona is Jean's many times removed grandmother, a precognitive mutant with telepathic abilities she used to hop herself from one body to the next and survive all the way up until Messiah Complex, when she was one of the precogs Sinister had his Marauders take out.

21) DELPHI - I would looooove if she came back, she was a super obscure Genoshan mutant of Nigerian descent I believe, who had the real unique ability to extract memories and skills from people and then store them externally in objects and artifacts that would then 'transmit' the memories to whomever picked up the object it was stored in. In her like, one appearance, she used her powers to help X-Force on a mission by giving them various items from her shop that contained different memories or knowledge that they'd need. Like Warpath's box gave him a mapmaker's memories of the city layout, Dani's artifact contained the medical expertise of a doctor, Tabitha got a box that contained some scientist's memories of access codes to a specific facility. Idk, I always thought she was cool and had a really unique power that could be used all kinds of ways in the current era, for like, new kinds of mutant art or whatever where an artist's memory of what inspired a work could be 'contained' in the art itself, or like, to help teams with various missions and expertise like she did with X-Force that time.

22) Genus - Tim Rhodes would be an interesting resurrection to explore, as his power was biological transmutation. He basically could gene graft one species onto another, thus changing people into animals....but with it also theorized that he could literally GIVE humans mutant genes and turn them into mutants....or turn mutants into humans, which was why Namor advocated for killing him when Xavier was trying to recruit him.

23) Guardian (Derek Morgan) and Mach II, as well as Jimmy Hudson if he's died off in space, would be interesting to see resurrected just because of the differences in the Ultimate Universe mutants and the regular one....are they compatible? Were they still considered mutants by Cerebro (I'd say yes since the X-Men Blue team used Cerebro to find them), and as long as they have back-ups, can't they still be brought back via DNA samples even though they're not 616 mutants, since technically the process doesn't REQUIRE you be a mutant to work, even, the main issue is just that Cerebro is a mutant detection system so only backs up mutant consciousnesses.... (honestly I don't really care if they never acknowledge again that Ultimate mutants are technically different, I just liked these three and would like them around).

24) Haven (Radha Dastoor) - Honestly her storyline was fucked up, and she was an interesting character and her pocket dimension was really cool in application. Also I'd like to see her brother Monsoon back too though I think he's actually still alive. But yeah I think 'hey remember when this character literally got ripped in half by the Adversary when birthing itself after she'd carried its new body to gestation believing it to genuinely be her baby' is reason enough to give a character a do-over. That story was fucked up. Plus, she was powerful as fuck, we could always use more desi characters, and the Adversary is back to being relevant again so I say Radha's got a score to settle, let her balance the books.

25) The Monroe kids - Flashback aka Gardner Monroe's son and daughter Malcolm and Jenny inherited his ability to pull other versions of themselves from different points in time, and then died in Secret Warriors after Fury blackmailed them into joining up. Waste of some great characters - they were basically like Madrox, but their 'dupes' were from elsewhere in their timeline meaning they could be any age and allowed them to pull various 'shape-shifting'-esque tricks, by using versions of themselves who looked different than expected due to being much older or younger than the person they were trying to fool knew them to actually be.

26) Lucid was the little girl who died of M-Pox in Limbo during IvX, she had X-Ray vision and was a huge X-Men fan, so her human sister yelled at the X-Men to visit her on her deathbed because all she ever wanted in life was to be an X-Man like them. Like, there's so much focus on the negative aspects of Krakoa, just give me a heart-warming story about Storm showing up at the house of Lucid's mother and sister and asking them to just trust her and come with her, there's something they need to see....and bringing them to Krakoa for Lucid's resurrection ceremony. Show us more humans integrating into Krakoa, Lucid's family were ride or die for their mutant family member so why shouldn't they be like Kyle and like I say Mrs. Guthrie should be, more than welcome to live with their child/sister on Krakoa where she's safe and happy, and enjoying her second chance at growing up to someday still become an X-Man if she still wants to.

27) Lukas was a Genoshan mutant with a power that like Dani's allowed him to sense fears....but instead of making illusions based on them, he shapeshifts into a physical embodiment of that fear. Like the Avengers Initiative kid Trauma - I always liked him and his power and how he used it but I don't care enough about Avengers to read books he makes the occasional appearance in, so I say do all that with Lukas over in the X-books lmao.

28) Mulholland Black - I reeeeeeally want to know what her powers would work like if on Krakoa or Arakko instead of in LA.

29) Persephone - Her zombie powers were kinda cool, particularly with the range she had in how fully she resurrected someone or not, and I wonder if she could sub in as part of the Five's circuit.

30) Quiet Bill - I just think he's neat. LOL, a scryer able to open viewing portals to other timelines and realities, and cross over at will. Like, he could be Krakoa's Guy in the Chair just channel-surfing through various realities to see what they're doing in other timelines and get ideas. Idk. I just want all the precogs and clairvoyants Sinister killed off in Messiah Complex to come back and start a We Really Hate This Dude and Here's Why If You're Gonna Kill Off The People You're Scared Know Too Much, You Should Really REALLY Make Sure It Sticks.

31) Saint Anna, Triage, etc - I've heard Triage was seen in a background panel somewhere so presumably is already back and repowered, but make it official. Literally my only reasoning here is I'm sick of how 'small' they make the island feel when Krakoa's supposed to be a nation of 200,000 mutants by now with more resurrected every day. Its ridiculous to act like the Healing Gardens are staffed by a grand total of the Morlock Healer and Cece Reyes - not that they're not great at their jobs and sure it makes sense Elixir is busy, but there's SO MANY HEALING MUTANTS you could have running around in the background there just easily establishing that like....this island's got resources. Its not staffed by a skeleton crew of the same five characters across every book.

32) Lastly:

Externals.

So Burke, a precog who represents Fortitude, was recently reborn to parents in Canada a few years back, after Gideon killed him. Some people have pointed out that theoretically Externals are outdated now since all mutants are immortal, but I think its worth noting that Externals are still unique in that they don't need to rely on the Five to come back. Part of their nature is that as long as they're not trapped in some mystical way, like by the External Gate, or as long as they're not all killed off by one single External who absorbs the power of all the rest, they CAN die, but they'll always be reborn on their own....though they have to grow up all over again.

Its that last part that's potentially really interesting to me, because as has often been noted.....pretty much all the Externals we know of are assholes, even if they represent concepts that aren't inherently evil like with Burke and Fortitude, or Saul and Patience, Nicodemus and Wisdom. BUT....what if it turns out that all along, there have always been plenty of other, more benevolent Externals, like ones representing Innocence, Joy, Justice, etc......but these particular Externals throughout history have opposed the worst Externals and been their enemies......to the extent that when some of them like Selene, Gideon, Krule, etc, have managed to kill these other Externals at various points in the past.....they then came up with ways to track when and where each of these Externals were reborn.....and then made sure to kill them all over again when they were still young, before they had a chance to age up into adulthood and become threats to them once more?

After all, back when the Externals believed that Sam Guthrie was the newest External to be born, the embodiment of Hope, they went back and forth between first blackmailing him into staying out of all External business or they'd kill all his friends, and then trying to woo him to their side when they felt they needed his help. Now, eventually Marvel retconned the idea that Sam was an External and said all the people who claimed that were just lying, even though its still canon that Sam returned from the dead on his own just like an External (to clarify, Externals can die, but normally if they're not killed by another External, they resurrect right away.....whereas its only if they're killed by an External that they're reborn elsewhere as a baby). But the retcon about Sam was for the same reason Marvel killed most of the Externals at that time and said the remaining ones like Apocalypse and Selene weren't technically Externals....the TV show Highlander threatened to sue over similarities in the concept. But given that they no longer are concerned about that ever since they brought back the Externals five or six years ago, even pre-Krakoa....its possible that Sam being the External of Hope is once again back on the table.

Point being, what if how the Externals approached Sam was something they've actually done with multiple other 'good' Externals in the past, and its only when those ones have all refused to play ball that the others killed them and kept making sure they stayed dead or never had a chance to regrow to full power?

Imagine if each of the 'known' Externals like Selene and Gideon have their own personal hitlists of various 'good' Externals....but now that the Five can resurrect any mutant as they were when they died....including ones who might possibly be Externals....suddenly, the remaining Externals might be VERY worried because their old approach of killing off their rivals in childhood is no longer an option. Any day now, the Five could resurrect various External enemies of theirs as full grown adults already possessing their full powers and knowledge....and Selene, Gideon and the rest can't really object without revealing that all along there have been benevolent Externals who only wanted to help other mutants.....but Selene and the others have been keeping that from happening for the sake of their own personal agendas.

ALSO, add to that the fact that we know at least a few Externals went with Arakko to fight Amenth - the White Sword is stated to be an External (possibly embodying Valor, or maybe Mercy given his healing powers, and he could just happen to have a particularly harsh personal view of what Mercy entails).....and Isca is hinted to be an External given that the sword she made for her brother-in-law Apocalypse was said to be 'imbued with External Sadness' making me think perhaps she's the External embodiment of Sorrow (a nod to the way her power makes her betray her chosen side if the odds are too stacked against them). And its possible Genesis might also be an External (Cultivation perhaps? A nice counterpart to her husband's embodiment of Evolution), and there could be other Externals who went with them to fight Amenth, or Externals who were born in that dimension over the past 4,000 years.

Anyway, all this is just to say that I always loved the possibilities in the Externals, and a series showcasing their fights and squabbles throughout history could literally be EPIC....but also, with the return of various Externals from Amenth, the addition of new ones born to the Arakki over the past 4,000 years, and potentially the resurrection of Externals that the others have ensured stayed dead for centuries......imagine something like War of the Externals, as these ancient conflicts erupt in the modern day, due to these confluences of factors?

(Also my personal headcanon is the whole embodiment of various concepts thing could be because Externals are literal incarnations of mutant zeitgeists. Like the whole notion of gods are created by the myths and belief of their people....well mutants as a people are beings possessed of all kinds of psychic powers and energy manipulating abilities, etc. What if every so often, the collective zeitgeist of all living mutants takes form from all that ambient psychic, creative energy that mutants pump out into their environment and atmosphere....and THIS is what results in the birth of a brand new External, a mutant inherently tied to a concept or emotional state expressed by thousands or millions of mutants....to such an extent that this External is tied to mutantkind as a whole and fueled by how much energy and focus mutants pour into that particular External's 'embodiment'? Thus if Selene was born of all the existing mutants of her time accidentally birthing Corruption incarnate....the more mutants engage in acts of Corruption, the more power it feeds her. Which could explain why Externals are so intent on eliminating rivals that could erode their own powerbase....someone like Selene has a vested interest in making sure an External of Innocence or Justice never gains a foothold allowing them to influence mutant society as much as Selene herself does).

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