Stryfe is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics , most commonly in conflict with the superhero team X-Force . He is a clone of Cable from Cable's alternate future timeline.
64-491: The character was created by Louise Simonson and Rob Liefeld , and first appears in The New Mutants #86 (February 1990), a cameo appearance in which his head cannot be seen. His first full appearance was in the following issue, The New Mutants #87 (March 1990). A clone of Cable, Stryfe is the main antagonist in the 1990s crossover X-Cutioner's Song , the 2009 X-Force / Cable crossover Messiah War , and
128-658: A "cameo" in New Mutants #21, drawn in as a slumber party guest by artist Bill Sienkiewicz . During this period, she also edited Marvel's Star Wars and Indiana Jones comics. In 2017, she edited the graphic novel Son of Shaolin for Image Comics. At the end of 1983, Jones quit her editing job at Marvel to try her hand at full-time writing as Louise Simonson . She created the Eagle Award -winning Power Pack . The title, which debuted in August 1984, featured
192-577: A clinic. He also confronts and defeats Kane , and eventually declares his enmity for Apocalypse. Stryfe later battles Cable who learns that Stryfe is actually his double. Stryfe sows chaos in the ranks of the X-Men, posing as Cable and shooting Professor X with an infected bullet, and taking Cyclops and Jean captive. He bests the Dark Riders and Apocalypse, making him leader of the Dark Riders. As
256-530: A final insurance, Stryfe gives Mister Sinister a canister that he claims holds genetic material from two-thousand years worth of the Summers bloodline; in truth, it holds the deadly Legacy Virus . Stryfe battles Cable until the latter opens a temporal rift by detonating a self-destruct system, destroying his body. Stryfe's consciousness enters Cable's mind, in which he stays until he voluntarily leaves. While physically dead, Stryfe attempts to return to life through
320-490: A global catastrophe that wiped out most of the people on Earth, Stryfe was able to step in and fill the leadership void. Together, Stryfe and Bishop traveled to 2963 A.D., where their combined efforts attacked Apocalypse while the latter slept in a rejuvenation chamber and defeated, assuming they killed Apocalypse. Stryfe stole the Celestial Ship and technology and used it to raise an army that gave him total control over
384-698: A host body. Stryfe grows into a murderous, bored and lonely child only raised by Apocalypse and Ch'vayre (Apocalypse's second in command). Years later, as Apocalypse is about to transfer his essence into Stryfe, Apocalypse discovers that he's unfit because Stryfe is a clone and can't house Apocalypse's essence. The teenage Nathan and the time-traveling Scott Summers and Jean confront Apocalypse while Apocalypse's essence to discorporate to which Ch'vayre raises Stryfe afterwards. Stryfe grows up to be an embittered madman, wanting vengeance on both what he thought were his real parents (Cyclops and Jean) and his spiritual parent Apocalypse. He becomes an anarchist and terrorist rebel in
448-486: A messy and non-selective process that resulted in a condition akin to a fast-replicating cancer . This is the version that infected Illyana "Magik" Rasputin , sister of Piotr "Colossus" Rasputin . Legacy-2 was much closer to Stryfe's original template and more in tune with his desire to stir a species war between non-mutant humans and mutants. Its attacks were selective, working only on the X-factor genes. The net result
512-543: A new host body. Stryfe is able to prevent Apocalypse from using his body as a new host and travels back in time to the present in the Cable and X-Force and Uncanny X-Force crossover "Vendetta". Upon discovering that Bishop has returned to the present, Hope tries to kill him in an act of vengeance. Stryfe appears and kidnaps both and brings the two to an old, abandoned Mutant Liberation Force base. There, he attempts to manipulate Hope into killing Bishop who has come to realize
576-604: A personal existential crisis and becomes depressed at the futility of his efforts over the years after the X-Men finally manage to cure the Legacy Virus, which Stryfe considered to be his life's work and the one permanent victory he had against Cable, his parents (Scott and Jean), and the rest of the X-Men. He hunts down Bishop who is possessed by the entity Le Bete Noir, whose power rivals the Phoenix Force and threatens to consume Bishop's body and unleash its evil upon
640-402: A target organism's "X-factor," the sequence of mutant genes that gave a mutant their superpowers. If it did not find an activated X-factor in the target, the viroid would die off, leaving the person completely unaffected. If, however, it did detect the X-factor, it would begin inserting introns into the transcription codings of the victim's mutant RNA , the process commonly being triggered after
704-830: A title she wrote for eight years until #86 in 1999. She contributed to such storylines as "Panic in the Sky" in 1992. Later that year, Simonson (along with Carlin, Dan Jurgens , Roger Stern and others) was one of the chief architects of " The Death of Superman " storyline, in which Superman died and was resurrected. It was during that storyline, in The Adventures of Superman #500 (June 1993), that Simonson and Bogdanove introduced their character Steel , who graduated to his own title in February 1994, with Simonson as writer until #31. The character went on to feature in an eponymous feature film starring Shaquille O'Neal in 1997. Simonson
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#1732783780462768-595: A twelve-part webcomic tie-in to The Death of Superman animated movie. In 2019, she contributed two stories to DC Primal Age #1 and teamed up with June Brigman again for the one-shot Power Pack: Grow Up . In 2020 she scripted the comic adaptation of Leigh Bardugo 's novel Wonder Woman: Warbringer as well as a comic tie-in to the movie Wonder Woman 1984 . Simonson revisited her runs on X-Factor and New Mutants with new stories for X-Men Legends , pencilled by her husband Walt and published in 2021 and 2022. In April 2022, Simonson and her husband were reported among
832-540: Is a former CIA man turned mercenary) to get back a stolen nuclear briefcase . Stryfe is later killed by Deadpool. Stryfe makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in the X-Men: The Animated Series episode "Beyond Good and Evil" (Part 4). Louise Simonson Louise Simonson ( née Mary Louise Alexander ; born September 26, 1946 ) is an American comic book writer and editor. She is best known for her work on comic book titles such as Conan
896-543: Is actually a con man, working with Fenris to promote mutant unrest so they can sell Sentinels to the government. In Ultimate X-Men , when Cable returns from the future with Xavier they both don armor; Xavier's resembling Onslaught and Cable's resembling the mainstream Stryfe. In the Deadpool Pulp timeline, a General Stryfe is introduced. Stryfe is a younger, corrupt General who, alongside Cable and J. Edgar Hoover , hires Wade Wilson (who in this timeline
960-426: Is because Stryfe was never infected with Apocalypse's techno-organic virus like Cable was. Therefore, he does not have to constantly expend his abilities to keep the virus from consuming his body, which apparently was a huge drain on Cable's capabilities. Stryfe can use his psionic abilities in a variety of ways such as moving large objects with his mind, reading minds, mind control, telepathically negating and activating
1024-558: Is highly impervious to damage. He has used various advanced weaponry and technology from the 39th century of his alternate future. In Ultimate X-Men , Ultimate Stryfe is also the leader of the Mutant Liberation Front. He appears to be a mutant supremacist convinced that Professor X was killed by the United States government and that mutants should fight against the government. His mutant power manifests as
1088-415: Is shackled and refuses to fight back out of remorse. Cable and both teams of X-Force soon intervene and combat Stryfe. Hope sees that Stryfe is trying to undo the lessons which Cable taught and refuses to kill Bishop, but Hope severely injures him. Stryfe is defeated by Cable and both X-Force teams, but before escaping, he telepathically forces Hope to mimic his vast and nearly uncontrollable psionic power with
1152-513: Is strongly suggested to be an allegory for the AIDS epidemic . Although all strains of the Legacy Virus were more dangerous than HIV , they shared similar symptoms such as skin lesions, fever, fatigue, and coughing. In addition, comics featuring the Legacy Virus illustrated the similar social impact of the further isolation of a stigmatized group. The Legacy Virus first appeared in X-Force #18. It
1216-564: Is to later be Stryfe's virus, or merely engineering a new one with a similar purpose. In X-Force #7, the Vanisher is seen to be in possession of a mutated strain of the Legacy Virus. It was later destroyed by Elixir in X-Force #10. During the Skrull Invasion of Earth, Beast discovers that the Legacy Virus can infect Skrulls as well. Beast ponders whether to use it against the invading aliens. Cyclops decides to use it to get
1280-583: The X-Cutioner's Song crossover, the villain Stryfe gave Mister Sinister a canister that he claimed contained 2,000 years worth of genetic material from the Summers bloodline. When Gordon Lefferts, a scientist working for Sinister, opened the canister after Stryfe was apparently killed by Cable , they found nothing inside. Far worse than that, the canister actually contained a plague, Stryfe's "legacy" to
1344-462: The Brotherhood of Mutants ' attack on Muir Island and did not live to complete the cure. Professor X did manage to telepathically retrieve the critical information before Moira died. With this information, Beast was able to synthesize the cure a few weeks later, though one that had a price; the virus had first been released by the death of the first victim, and the release of the cure would have
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#17327837804621408-540: The Marvel Universe , killing hundreds, as well as mutating so that it affected non-mutant humans as well. The Legacy Virus, contrary to the name, was a viroid and was released by Stryfe , a terrorist (and clone of Cable raised by Apocalypse ) from approximately 2,000 years in the future. It originally existed in two forms, Legacy-1 and Legacy-2 , but later mutated into a third form, Legacy-3 ; all were airborne agents. Legacy-1 and Legacy-2 searched for
1472-490: The New Mutants who thwart his attempt to poison the water supplies of major cities. Stryfe abandons the Antarctic Mutant Liberation Front base during an invasion by X-Force (a team composed of Cable and several former New Mutants). Stryfe then has the Mutant Liberation Front free the captive mutants Hairbag and Slab , and turns them over to Mister Sinister before ordering an MLF attack on
1536-428: The 2014 Cable & X-Force/Uncanny X-Force crossover "Vendetta". Stryfe appears as the main villain of the 2018–2019 run of X-Force . Askani appears to Cyclops and Jean Grey from the distant future after their son Nathan Summers is infected with a techno-organic virus by Apocalypse and tells the two that the child can be saved in the future. Nathan then arrives in the future to which Mother Askani clones
1600-760: The Barbarian , Power Pack , X-Factor , New Mutants , Superman: The Man of Steel , and Steel . She is often referred to by the nickname " Weezie ". Among the comic characters she co-created are Cable , Steel , Power Pack , Rictor , Doomsday and the X-Men villain Apocalypse . In recognition of her contributions to comics, ComicsAlliance listed Simonson as one of twelve female comics creators deserving of lifetime achievement recognition. In 1964 while attending Georgia State College , Louise met fellow student Jeffrey Catherine Jones . The two began dating and were married in 1966. Their daughter Julianna
1664-639: The Justice League cartoon. She wrote an adult Batman novel and the non-fiction DC Comics Covergirls . Legacy Virus The Legacy Virus is a fictional plague appearing in American comic books featuring the X-Men published by Marvel Comics . It first appeared in an eponymous storyline in Marvel Comics titles, from 1993 to 2001, during which it swept through the mutant population of
1728-522: The Legacy Virus. Dark Beast is also rumored to have a sample of the Legacy Virus. Listed below in alphabetical order are the characters infected by the Legacy Virus: (Revealed in House of X #2 that she was secretly a mutant, and that the infected Moira was actually a "Shi'Ar golem") The Ultimate Marvel universe version of the Legacy Virus is created by Nick Fury , in an attempt to replicate
1792-454: The Mutants ," " Inferno ", and " X-Tinction Agenda ". She ended her run on the title with #64 in 1991. In 1987, beginning with issue #55, she became the New Mutants scripter. Similarly to X-Factor , she was originally brought in as a fill-in writer so that Chris Claremont could launch two other titles, but ended up writing the series for three and a half years, ending with #97 in 1991. It
1856-625: The Nor-Am Pact region 3783–3806 in his alternate future. He raises an army and for years became a fierce opponent of both Cable and the Clan Chosen, as well as the New Canaanites , a despotic regime that replaced Apocalypse's. Stryfe reveals to Cable much later in the present era that during this period in their life, he raped Aliya Dayspring (Cable's wife who Stryfe had grown to desire) at one point by pretending to be Cable and so
1920-624: The Skrulls to surrender. The Legacy Virus has returned once more as it turned out there were other samples that fell into the hands of Bastion . Samples have been injected into Beautiful Dreamer and Fever Pitch by the Leper Queen in order to cause their powers to go berserk and kill themselves and thousands of humans during an anti-mutant rally held by the Friends of Humanity . It was later revealed that Hellion and Surge were also injected with
1984-406: The X-Men spin-off X-Factor , was running late on a deadline, and Simonson was called in to write a fill-in issue of X-Factor . This story was never published, since Layton ultimately turned his story in on time, but while writing it Simonson found herself inspired by the characters, to the point where she brought a list of her ideas to editor Bob Harras in the hopes that Layton might use them for
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2048-407: The ability to cause "strife" within people's minds, causing them to voice whatever is bothering them. However, when Psylocke scans his mind she senses that he has no real conviction in what he says, suggesting that much of his mutant supremacist attitude is an act, meaning his real motives are unknown. At his side is the ultimate version of Zero , a young mutant teleporter. It is revealed that Stryfe
2112-474: The adventures of four pre-teen superheroes. Simonson wrote the majority of the title's first forty issues, even coloring one issue (#18). Her other Marvel writing work included Starriors , Marvel Team-Up , Web of Spider-Man , and Red Sonja . Louise helped her husband Walt Simonson color his " Star Slammers " story in Marvel Graphic Novel #6 (1983). In 1986 Bob Layton , writer of
2176-598: The anthology. In 2023, she wrote a four-issue Jean Grey mini-series for Marvel Comics. In 2024, the five-issue retro series Power Pack: Into the Storm by Simonson and June Brigman, with a story that takes place during their original run, was published by Marvel. From 1993 through 2009, she wrote five picture books and eleven novels for middle-readers, many of which featured characters from DC Comics. Two YA novels, Justice League : The Gauntlet and Justice League: Wild at Heart , published by Bantam Books , were based on
2240-468: The baby as a back up plan. The clone's growth is greatly accelerated until he's the same age as Nathan himself while the Askani succeed in halting the spread of the tehno-organic virus, thereby saving Nathan's life. However, Apocalypse's forces attack the Askani's hiding place and steal the cloned infant. Apocalypse takes the child as his own, raising him himself and naming him "Stryfe", intending to use him as
2304-412: The body of Warpath . However, his attempt is avoided by the arrival of X-Force and Warpath is sent back to the living by Blackheart. By unknown means, Stryfe revives and attempts to subjugate Latveria . Stryfe is opposed by Cable and Nate Grey , and at first beats them easily, even going as far as to siphon off all of Nate's power. Madelyne Pryor appears to join forces with Stryfe, but secretly steals
2368-538: The body of the mutant woman Infectia . Her powers allowed her to scan and visualize the genetic structure of a living being, then alter it according to her own whims. When Infectia was infected with the Legacy-2 Virus, her powers caused a replication error that removed the viroid's conditioning to infect individuals only if the X-gene was present. Legacy-3 was capable of infecting any hominid . The Legacy Virus
2432-515: The comic World of Warcraft , based on the multi-million player internet game, for Wildstorm, and a manga story, based in the Warcraft universe, for Tokyopop . In 2011, DC hired Louise Simonson to write DC Retroactive : Superman - The '90s , pencilled by her Man of Steel -collaborator Jon Bogdanove. Simonson wrote the "Five Minutes" chapter in Action Comics #1000 (June 2018) and
2496-404: The company at the end of 1979. In January 1980, Jones joined Marvel Comics , where she initially worked again as an editor, most notably on Uncanny X-Men , which she edited for almost four years (#137–182) and Conan the Barbarian (#114–148 ). Simonson (as "Louise Jones") edited another X-Men spin-off, The New Mutants , at its debut in 1983. After leaving the series, she had
2560-424: The creators gave the character, Angel , blue skin and metal wings in a process which led to his being renamed as "Archangel". It was at Simonson's suggestion that X-Men writer Chris Claremont's " Mutant Massacre " story idea was turned into a crossover through all the "X-books", the first of its kind. Her run on X-Factor included the relevant installments of "Mutant Massacre", and the subsequent crossovers " Fall of
2624-408: The error of various past mistakes. Stryfe explains to Bishop how he wants him to suffer after he betrayed him during Messiah War and claims that he was imprisoned and tortured by Apocalypse for years until he planned a successful escape and killed him. Stryfe tries to corrupt Hope by making her give in to her feelings of hatred towards Bishop, convincing her to take revenge and murder Bishop, although he
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2688-652: The father of Tyler Dayspring could be Stryfe and not Cable. He later kills Aliya as well as kidnapping and brainwashing Tyler. In 3806, the New Canaanites take full control of the planet, but Stryfe manages to travel back in time two-thousand years. He forms a mutant terrorist group, the Mutant Liberation Front (MLF), alongside many powerful mutants including Tamara Kurtz . Stryfe orders his Mutant Liberation Front to capture Rusty Collins and Skids . In Japan, he fights Cable and clashes with
2752-435: The intention that Hope will destroy her own friends. Bishop helps Hope to disperse Stryfe's massive energy and the two come to an uneasy truce. Stryfe is a clone of the mutant Cable and, as a result, possesses Cable's abilities of telepathy and telekinesis. However, these abilities are far more powerful than the ones Cable has generally displayed, sufficient to block the use of Cyclops and Jean Grey 's superhuman powers. This
2816-482: The more than three dozen comics creators who contributed to Operation USA 's benefit anthology book, Comics for Ukraine: Sunflower Seeds , a project spearheaded by IDW Publishing Special Projects Editor Scott Dunbier , whose profits would be donated to relief efforts for Ukrainian refugees resulting from the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine . Simonson teamed up with artist June Brigman to produce an original story with new characters created specifically for
2880-433: The name Louise Jones for several years afterward. Louise met the comic book writer and artist Walt Simonson in 1973, began dating in August 1974, and married in 1980. They collaborated on X-Factor from 1986 to 1989. In 1974, Jones started her professional comic book career at Warren Publishing . She went from assistant to senior editor of the comics line ( Creepy , Eerie , and Vampirella ) before leaving
2944-445: The patient used their powers for the first time after contracting the disease. The result was a major compromise of the replication and transcription process so disruptive that it eventually rendered the body incapable of creating healthy cells, ultimately resulting in the death of the victim. Prior to death, the viroid causes its host's powers to flare out of control. Legacy-1 attacked general transcription and replication of all cells,
3008-619: The people, save for a small rebellion. Stryfe tyrannically ruled over his subjects, the Stryfetroopers, with Bishop as his right-hand-man for nearly a decade. Stryfe placed the Ship in Westchester County, New York and renamed the city, New Celestial City. Shortly after building his empire, Stryfe employed Deadpool as security and imprisoned Kiden Nixon who was used to create a chronal net, preventing anyone from jumping out of
3072-432: The press conference, Moira MacTaggert has an insight that the virus worked as a "designer gene". The virus raged on for some time in the mutant population, until Mystique , in an effort to make the world safe for mutants, modified the virus to affect only humans. When Moira found out about this strain of the virus, she finally grasped what the key to the cure was. Unfortunately, she was mortally wounded by Mystique during
3136-564: The psionic energy from Stryfe and gives it back to Nate. Madelyne, Nate and Cable join forces to defeat Stryfe. Stryfe reappears, controlling the activation sequence for the Prime Sentinels . He uses them to hunt down Lady Deathstrike who holds the complete codes for all the Sentinels via cybernetic systems. Lady Deathstrike is forced to turn to the X-Men, and together they defeat Stryfe who teleports away. Stryfe later experiences
3200-531: The publisher Ibooks, Inc. In 2007, Simonson wrote a one-shot starring Magik of the New Mutants as part of a four-issue event known as Mystic Arcana . In 2009, she wrote two issues of Marvel Adventures featuring Thor . The next year, she scripted the five-part limited series X-Factor Forever and reunited with June Brigman for a new Power Pack story in Girl Comics #3. Simonson also co-wrote
3264-465: The same effect. Colossus, who did not want any more people to suffer his sister's fate, snuck into McCoy's lab and injected the cure into himself and activated his mutant powers, transforming his body into organic steel. This "supercharged" the Legacy cure, simultaneously killing him and stopping the spread of the Legacy virus, instantaneously curing even those dying of the virus at that moment (Although it
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#17327837804623328-425: The series. Instead, Layton ended up dropping X-Factor shortly after, and at Chris Claremont and Ann Nocenti 's suggestion, Harras chose Simonson as his replacement. In #6, her first issue, she and artist Jackson Guice introduced Apocalypse , a character who would go on to make repeated appearances in the X-Men franchise. From #10 of the title, she was joined by her husband, Walt Simonson, on pencils. In #25,
3392-487: The time. The instant cure gave Magneto a vast army overnight and allowed him to begin carrying out his plans for world conquest in the Eve of Destruction crossover. In X-Factor vol. 3 #10, it was revealed that Singularity Investigations was creating a virus designed to kill mutants. While Jamie Madrox referred to this as the Legacy Virus, it is unclear whether Singularity is actually recreating Stryfe's virus, creating what
3456-469: The timeline. But when Stryfe was reminded by Wolverine that he already "died a hero" to just be a villain again, Stryfe claims to not know what Wolverine is talking about. Cable, Deadpool, the time-displaced X-Force and Apocalypse join forces to defeat Stryfe and Bishop. Cable and Hope travel further into the future, the X-Force return to the present, and Apocalypse drags Stryfe away, intending to use him as
3520-525: The universe. However, Stryfe ultimately regrets the path he took and the choices he has made in his life (stemming from his perpetual identity crisis as a clone), frees Bishop from the entity and sacrifices himself to save the Earth by absorbing Le Bete Noir into himself, shattering his body from the power overload. Gambit , however, is suspicious that Cable may have telepathically forced Stryfe to sacrifice himself. It's revealed during Messiah War that Stryfe
3584-578: The use of other's powers, telepathic camouflage, telekinetic flight, telekinetic force fields, mind transference and telekinetic blasts. Stryfe also has far more control over his massive psionic abilities than Cable or Nate Grey, apparently from having a whole lifetime of experience of learning how to use his powers which his alternate counterparts never had. Stryfe also possessed other abilities through genetic manipulation similar to those that Cable achieved through cybernetic augmentation, including superhuman strength and durability. Stryfe wears battle armor that
3648-473: The world. When Colossus ' sister Illyana fell ill and died of the Legacy Virus in The Uncanny X-Men #303 (Aug. 1993), he left the X-Men and joined Magneto 's Acolytes. Eventually, reporter Trish Tilby, Beast's former lover, reported to the general public the existence of the Legacy Virus. Later, Xavier and Beast call a press conference to assuage fears in the general populace. While watching
3712-513: Was able to transport himself into the future instead of dying where he is discovered by Bishop, who has been traveling through time in an attempt to kill Hope Summers . This was confirmed by the writer Christopher Yost to be the same character that had previously plagued the X-Men, mentioning in particular his survival of his fight against Nate and Cable. Bishop propositioned a chance to kill Apocalypse, if Stryfe aided him in killing Cable who Stryfe said he no longer cared about. After Bishop initiated
3776-402: Was based on a virus created by Apocalypse in the distant future, which was intended to kill the remaining non-mutants. At the time that this alternate version of Apocalypse was killed, the virus had not been perfected, and much like Legacy-3, it targeted all humans indiscriminately. As a result, this virus was never deployed, until Stryfe acquired it and altered it for his own purposes. During
3840-407: Was born the following year. After graduation, the couple moved to New York City. Louise modeled for artist Bernie Wrightson 's cover of DC Comics ' House of Secrets #92 (June–July 1971), the first appearance of Swamp Thing , and was hired by McFadden-Bartell, a magazine publisher and distributor and worked there for three years. She and Jones split up during this time but she continued to use
3904-487: Was during this run that she and artist Rob Liefeld introduced Cable , another important character in the X-Men franchise. In 1988–89, she and her husband co-wrote the Havok and Wolverine : Meltdown limited series painted by Jon J Muth and Kent Williams . In 1991, Simonson began writing for DC Comics . She, artist Jon Bogdanove , and editor Mike Carlin launched a new Superman title, Superman: The Man of Steel —
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#17327837804623968-400: Was later revealed Colossus had been resurrected by alien technology and was being used as a test subject for an experimental formula that would reverse mutations before he was rescued by the X-Men ). Unfortunately, this rapid cure had unforeseen geopolitical effects. Thousands of Legacy-infected mutants had been quarantined on the island nation of Genosha , which was controlled by Magneto at
4032-582: Was one of the many creators who worked on the Superman: The Wedding Album one-shot in 1996 wherein the title character married Lois Lane . In 1999, Simonson returned to Marvel to write a Warlock series, which featured a character from her previous New Mutants run. That same year, she wrote a miniseries, Galactus the Devourer , in which Galactus died temporarily. In 2005, she wrote stories featuring Magnus, Robot Fighter for
4096-425: Was that a victim would eventually lose control of his superhuman powers. In addition to developing at a far slower rate than Legacy-1, victims of Legacy-2 developed skin lesions, fever, cough and overall weakness (symptoms displayed by the telepathic X-Man Revanche ). The slow nature of Legacy-2 is why St. John "Pyro" Allerdyce survived for years following his initial infection. Legacy-3 was accidentally created in
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