Captain Krakoa’s Origin Story Is All About How Cyclops Got Played

Ever sincemutantkind became ascendantin the Dawn of X — and the establishment of the mutant nation state Krakoa — opposition of the kid of the atom have been lying in wait to strike out at mutants all over the place . But one with sinister connections to mutantkind ’s greatest foe has been expose , and now inadequate Scott Summers has been put on quite the back fundament .

The current electric discharge of Gerry Duggan , Pepe Larraz and Marte Gracia , Clayton Cowles , and Tom Muller ’s 10 - Men serial has seen the arrival of a new Heron on the first official X - Men squad of the Krakoan years , Captain Krakoa , a dissemble bomber to give mutant their own nationalist response to the likes of Captains America , Britain ( herself , Betsy Braddock , presently also a mutant of course ) , and so on . Well … more of a “ raw ” hero , really , as it was revealed that Captain Krakoa isnone other than Cyclops , Scott Summers — forced to adopt a raw public identicalness in orderliness to keep the arcanum of mutantkind ’s power to resurrect its fall citizen .

Why ? Because Scott die , very publicly . How ? Well , as we get hold out in cristal - human race # 7 this calendar week , very , very messily — and because he and the ten - humankind have been played by someone near to expose the big mutant closed book this side of the live island nation . X - man # 7 gives Captain Krakoa an “ beginning storey ” in so much that it shows the fallout of , and build up to , Scott ’s fated death . We get to see his mill about foiling with the Quiet Council — which hasmuch to be concerned aboutlately , having never been peculiarly supportive of Scott and Jean Grey ’s re - establishment of the X - Men as a public - facing mutant team — in the wake of his rebirth . But most importantly , we get to see how Scott fall in battle .

Scott Summers has an uneasy awakening.

Scott Summers has an uneasy awakening.Image: Pepe Larraz, Marte Gracia, and Clayton Cowles/Marvel Comics

Or rather , got murdered by a key designer behind the X - Men ’s other concern : that investigative reporter Ben Urich got his hands on evidence lead him toward exposing mutant resurrection . When New York finds itself assaulted by enraged animate being chimeras , Scott and the X - Men race into engagement , despite being understaffed at the arcminute ( variation are very engaged these days ) . Scott , ever the hero , finds himself badly spite defending a child from one of the chimeras , but his injuries are n’t fatal … until a paramedic on the vista quickly walks up to him and slice afford his carotid artery . The Paramedic is revealed as none other than Doctor Stasis , a extremity of the pro - human , anti - mutant science collective known as ORCHIS , the organization behind the endeavor to create the next generation of anti - Mutant automaton AI — the major terror forseen since the very beginning of House and Powers of X as thedownfall of all mutantkind .

But this is n’t Stasis ’ first pass with trying to expose mutant resurrection — he was behind leaking information about autopsies lead on Scott and several other 10 - Men after their initial ravishment on ORCHIS ’ sun - revolve Mother Mold stationin House of X , give Urich the come of his report in the first place . But now Urich has , for reasons still unknown , mysteriously bury that story — and Stasis publicly moving against the cristal - Men in an attempt to pick them off is just a more violent way to expose mutant Resurrection of Christ . After all , not every X - Man can just simply get into a Krakoan uniform and pretend to be someone else , can they ?

Stasis ’ move into publically expose the X - military man and their fellow sport creates a volatile situation for Krakoa — one that is n’t buy the farm to be resolved by deliver Cyclops pretend to be someone else behind another masquerade party for a while . And Scott knows that too , end X - Men # 7 wrestling with his roiling frustration that someone ’s ahead of him and his squad . For now , Stasis ’ architectural plan has cost the X - Men its drawing card , but Captain Krakoa ’s going to try their damndest to check that that mutantkind wins the state of war .