Is Hickman’s X-Men An Alternate Reality? | Krakin' Krakoa #57

Since the launch of House of X and the Hickman era of X-Men, and certainly throughout my Krakin' Krakoa exploration of X-Comics, the possibility of Krakoa as an alternate reality is a popular and potentially exciting theory. The ambition and vision of Professor X, Magneto, Moira MacTaggert and mutantkind is grand enough that it begs the question whether all this change is really happening in Marvel’s core Earth-616 timeline.

Today I'll answer:

Is the Krakoa Era an Alternate Reality?
Who are the Omega Level mutants most likely to play a role in a Hickman era alt universe?
If there is an alternate reality in play, what should it look like?

Spoilers for discussed comics may follow!

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I can at least see the reasons people might think Hickman’s X-Men is already an alternate reality. For starters, House of X is a callback to the 2005 Marvel event House of M in which Scarlet Witch (at the urging of brother Quicksilver) created an alternate reality in which Magneto ruled the world, mutantkind was generally dominant, and Wanda tried to give literally everybody what they wanted (for example, Peter Parker is happily married to Gwen Stacy, and Uncle Ben’s doing great). Likewise, Hickman makes considerable callbacks to Wanda’s famous “No More Mutants,” which led to the Decimation of mutants, and Wanda’s newfound status as “The Great Pretender.”

Similarly, there remains broad skepticism that the X-Men’s behavior is aligned with the heroes we’ve known them to be in the Marvel Universe. I don’t necessarily prescribe to this theory – as Cyclops says in House of X #1 “Did you think we were just going to take it?” – but an alternate reality would offer an easy out here, and allow for the “return” of the real X-Men by run’s end (again, I highly doubt this outcome).

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