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This article contains spoilers for Excalibur # 12 and X - Men # 12 .
Marvel’sX - Mencomics have introduced Genesis , the long - lost married woman of Apocalypse . Jonathan Hickman ’s X - Men relaunch has been a tremendous success , and the ten - Men comics are about to launch the first major event of the Hickman era - " X of Swords . " This will see ten champions of Krakoa maintain ten fabled swords in defense of their island land , but they will be fiercely oppose by the ten Swordbearers of Arakko .
Marvel has been trying to keep the secret plan of " X of brand " under wraps , but it ’s not been too hard to put the clues together . Millennia ago , Apocalypse sacrifice his First Horsemen to drive back a demonic encroachment . This seem to be an enactment he ’s always regretted , and"X of Swords " is essentially his end game plan to reverse it . Revelation seems unusually dedicated to his First Horsemen , and consequently , there ’s been some speculationthe First Horsemen are actually Apocalypse ’s children . That would also explicate why , like Apocalypse , they seem to be immortal .
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These theories were finally sustain in this week’sExcalibur#12 andX - Men#12 . These two issues are prelude to " X of Swords , " and the first sees Apocalypse get down opening the portal to a upstage kingdom . X - Men#12 then serves as a primer , giving readers all the basic information they need to know to make good sense of " X of Swords . " It confirms that Apocalypse did indeed send his children through the hepatic portal vein to engage eternal war against the force out of Amenth - and that he also sacrifice his wife , Genesis .
This is the first metre Apocalypse ’s married woman has been referenced in the X - Men cartoon strip , and she look to be every moment as redoubtable asthe so - call first mutanthimself . Apparently she and the First Horsemen established a mutant community on Amenth , and they became legendary for their battle against the demonic armies . Genesis fare to trust she and her mutant armies were unbeatable , but War ’s Word - a mutant precog named Idyll - foretold licking . Genesis refused to live with this , and for 20 years she led a successful pre-emptive campaign , but ultimately even she was amaze . visualize no other recourse , Genesis gainsay the god of Amenth , Annihilation , personally - and was believed killed .
Of course , it ’s reasonable to assume there ’s a twist in the tale . There is sure a understanding the god of Amenth , Annihilation , wears a masquerade party ; it may well be the animate being is a chthonian entity that possess others , and has now possessed the consistence of Apocalypse ’s married woman . If so , Apocalypse ’s quest in " X of sword " is pop off to prove a whole heap more personal than the first mutant expect .
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