True Believers: What If Legion Had Killed Magneto? #1
In *True Believers: What If Legion Had Killed Magneto? #1*, writer Benny Powell and Warren Ellis explore a chilling alternate timeline where Legion’s fatal strike against Magneto in the past unravels the mutant movement’s foundation. Without Magneto’s influence, the X-Men fade into obscurity—until Apocalypse’s arrival forces Scott and Jean to return, leading to a devastating Phoenix-powered tragedy. Hector Gómez’s bold interior art, with inks by John Livesay and Mike Halbleib, brings this fractured world to life, while Sam Parsons’ colors and Richard Starkings’ lettering heighten the tension. The cover by Gómez and Livesay captures the weight of this shattered reality.
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Legion succeeds in killing Magneto in the past (thus negating his own existence as Maggie once saved his mother's life before he was born). Without the polarizing threat of Magneto to make the X-Men strong, they become little more than pro-mutant media figures. Thus, when Apocalypse and his forces attack, the X-Men are ill equipped to deal with the threat. Scott and Jean come out of retirement to join the fight but Jean ends up killing 100,000 people with the Phoenix force. As a result, the world now hates and fears mutants and Scott opens X-Mansion as a school to help repair the rift.
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