History ComicBook / HouseAndPowersOfX

* AGodAmI: Magneto’s god complex is as strong as ever. He puts Krakoa’s embassy in Jerusalem specifically for the religious symbolism of it (he claims it’s because humans like it) and bluntly says that mutants will be humanity’s new gods.

** Various types are explained about in ''Powers of X'' #2. It's hinted that Xavier's grand plan is to turn mutantkind into one. Humankind eventually created a hive mind called Nimbus housed in Nimrod the Lesser that is similar to the Supremor Kree AI intellligence. This is called the [[{{ComicBook/Nova}} Worldmind]]. One step above the worldbuild is a Phalanx which is a galactic level intelligence that drinks Worldminds like milkshakes. ''Powers of X'' #5 takes this up to eleven with the Titans: Civilizations of such size and complexity that their combined intellect [[TechnologicalSingularity collapsed spacetime]]; And with the Strongholds and Dominions: Higher forms of thought that use Titans as "building units". These sentiences only fear threats on the level of Galactus and the Phoenix Force.

* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: After all that she’s suffered and seen over her many lifetimes, Moira is a deeply cynical and misanthropic woman who believes that Xavier’s idealism and AllLovingHero status is what allowed everything to go wrong in her previous lives. So she’s spent the past decades of this life wearing him down, trying to prove that HumansAreBastards and make him see things her way. And by doing so, she may have created ComicBook/{{Onslaught}} in the process, thanks to the obvious negative effects this had on Xavier’s emotional and mental health.

* TechnologicalSingularity: Taken to a literal level in ''Powers of X #5'' where the Titan theory is discussed; it proposes that there are galactic civilizations that grew to develop technology from manipulating fundamental particles and became so advanced that their society collapsed spacetime. To the rest of the universe they appear to be black holes. Even further, it's stated that the Phalanx, who consume worldminds, are descended from these civilizations as proxies for assimilating information and that there may be a level where multiple black holes are these beings networking.

** ''Powers of X'' #2 has another huge one: Professor X and Magneto have always been allies, and many of the conflicts between them and their respective allies occurred to help enact a larger plan. Though given Magneto said he would be checking every moment of weakness it could be some of their fights was a result of Xavier wavering. ''Powers of X'' #3 indicates that there was still a schism in ideologies between the two of them and Moira, although it seems like the plan came back together by the time of ''House of X'' #1.

** It is also true that past events have shown tha anti-mutant hate groups who are bigots plain and simple seem to have an inordinate amount of influence in society. Even before Krakoa mutants have been living in a world where they experienced genocide more than once and kids become targets in a racial war the moment their x-gene activates. This doesn't even take into account the times where mutants have been enslaved to be exploited for their abilities.

** Namor's response to Xavier precedes the revelation that Xavier, despite what his words and actions suggested, hadn't come around to Moira and Magneto's way of thinking after all.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Something's up with Professor Xavier; not only has he seemingly abandoned his philosophy of integration and equality in favor of isolationism and looking down on normal humans, but he's suddenly willing to work with villains like Mystique, Sabretooth, and Toad to get things done. One of the first things we see him do is send them to steal valuable data from Damage Control, seemingly not caring when Sabretooth kills several innocent security guards in the process. This is due to the fact that, in ''this'' version of the timeline, Moira decided that the only way to ensure the survival of mutants is to wear down Xavier’s idealism and push him into breaking all the rules he followed in her previous lives.

* AntiHero: This iteration of the X-Men as a whole. While they're still for maintaining peace between humans and mutants and protecting the world, there's something deeply unsettling about how underhanded they are in the name of acting in the interests of Krakoa. Storm is behaving like a cult leader, Emma Frost outright uses mind control to give Krakoans diplomatic immunity in most nations, the populace of Krakoa has a fanatical sense of nationalism and seem to be increasingly dismissive of humanity, and our heroes are willingly working alongside villains who accept amnesty -- including Apocalypse, who tells Charles Xavier that he's '''proud''' of the nation that they are building. It doesn't help that both X and Magneto have effectively agreed with Moira that mutants need to overtake humans as the dominant species.

* DisproportionateRetribution: What sets Moira against mutants in her third life is a distate for her own abilities and what she felt was Charles Xavier's god complex. He ''is'' rather arrogant, but Moira decides to develop a cure for him rather than, say, see if he grows out of it after graduating from Oxford which previous comics shown he largely had. She also seemed to have no problem with it in her later lives as in her journals Moira all but admitted to exacerbating Xavier's worst tendencies, and may even caused some of them (for example Xavier can't be a neglectful parent if there's no kid to parent), to get him to a point where he would go all in on founding an all mutant nation that bans all non-mutants in addition to scaring the hell out of them to hopefully deter threates.

** It is also true that anti-mutant hate groups frequently seem to have an inordinate amount of influence in society. Even before Krakoa mutants have been living in a world where they experienced genocide more than once and kids become targets in a racial war the moment their x-gene activates. This doesn't even take into account the times where mutants have been enslaved to be exploited for their abilities.

** The mutants in turn act this way to the humans. Upon the discovery that mutantkind will outstrip humankind as the dominant species in the years to come, this has been the uniting point for why mutants are seen as superior, living in isolation on Krakoa, as they prepare to become the new superpower. It's made clear that ''no one'' that isn't a mutant can live there. Magneto makes it clear when he refers to the mutants as being humankind's new gods. Nobody on the mutant side acts otherwise, as they all view themselves as the superior species, painting humankind as uniformly bad, and look out for each other in their own land where no one else can be.

* DisproportionateRetribution: What sets Moira against mutants in her third life is a distate for her own abilities and what she felt was Charles Xavier's god complex. He ''is'' rather arrogant, but Moira decides to develop a cure for him rather than, say, see if he grows out of it after graduating from Oxford which previous comics shown he largely had. She also seemed to have no problem with it in her later lives as in her journals Moira all but admitted to exacerbating Xavier's worst tendencies to get him to a point where he would go all in on founding an all mutant nation.

* DisproportionateRetribution: What sets Moira against mutants in her third life is Charles Xavier's god complex. He ''is'' rather arrogant, but Moira decides to develop a cure for him rather than, say, see if he grows out of it after graduating from Oxford.

** ''Powers of X'' #2 has another huge one: Professor X and Magneto have always been allies, and many of the conflicts between them and their respective allies occurred to help enact a larger plan. ''Powers of X'' #3 indicates that there was still a schism in ideologies between the two of them and Moira, although it seems like the plan came back together by the time of ''House of X'' #1.