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25Orchis is an alliance of former members of various organizations, including [[Characters/MarvelComicsAIM A.I.M.]], ComicBook/{{SHIELD}}, [[ComicBook/SWORDMarvelComics S.W.O.R.D.]], S.T.R.I.K.E., ComicBook/AlphaFlight, A.R.M.O.R., and even H.A.M.M.E.R. and [[Characters/MarvelComicsHydra HYDRA]]. They have banded together to champion humanity and oppose the mutants.
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27[[folder:In General]]
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31* TheAlliance: Members of various organizations join together, in response to the alliance of Krakoa. [[note]]It's precise composition is 31% A.I.M, 24% S.H.I.E.L.D, 16% S.T.R.I.K.E, 8% S.W.O.R.D, 7% Alpha Flight, 5% H.A.M.M.E.R, 5% A.R.M.O.R and 5% Hydra.[[/note]]
32* BigBadEnsemble: Share this role with [[spoiler:The Quiet Council of Krakoa, [[BigBadSlippage Moira X]] and [[HeelFaceTurn formerly]]]] Genesis for the Krakoan Era. They are the ones who will build Nimrod and with that they will indirectly allow the steady, uninterupted rise of Homo Novissima.
33* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler:In the end, what they are, being nothing more than pawns for Enigma to fuel its own ascension. Once it comes onto the scene, and once the X-Men stop holding back, they go down with ludicrous ease.]]
34* BullyingADragon: A lot of mooks are nothing more than bullies, sadistically enjoying the killing of mutants until they come across a bear they shouldn't have poked.
35* CategoryTraitor: Orchis has a number of mutants who joined, such Judas Traveller and later on Sebastian Shaw and Selene.
36* DidntSeeThatComing: [[spoiler:Their plan at the third Hellfire Gala was dump all Mutants on Mars, stuck with Genesis, and with Omega Sentinel's plan being to destroy Mars and kill everything on it anyway. Mother Righteous interfered to send most of Krakoa to the White Hot Room for her own goals.]]
37* EnemyMine: Orchis includes members of rival organizations with mutually opposing goals such as S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra.
38* FalseFlagOperation: A regular tactic they employ is stirring up propaganda framing their enemies for callous massacres.
39* FloralMotifs: Named after a type of orchid, which refers to a plant with multiple and complex flowers. This reflects the organizations nature of one organization consisting of members from many complex factions. The different areas within Orchis are referred to as petals.
40* FunWithAcronyms: The first letters of the first names of their divisions spell out "ORCHIS". The first letters of the second names spell out "NIMROD".
41* HijackedByGanon: It eventually transpires that Orchis is just the latest iteration of [[spoiler:the Sentinels]] trying to eliminate mutants and take over the world.
42* TheMerch: [[spoiler:An in-universe consequence of their VillainWithGoodPublicity status after the ''[[ComicBook/JudgmentDayMarvelComics A.X.E.: Judgment Day]]'' event. One scene shows a child in an Orchis t-shirt with a Nimrod balloon]].
43* MotiveDecay:
44** The original form of Orchis formed to study mutantkind after what happened at Genosha. Skip forward a few years, and they're now dedicated to pre-emptively trying to wipe out mutantkind.
45** For all of their pro-human rhetoric, they treat useful mutants allied with them much better than they do their rank-and-file humans. People like Abigail Brand, [[spoiler: Selene, Sebastian Shaw and Firestar]] are treated like nobility, whereas Orchis grunts are treated like they're picking cotton. [[spoiler:Nimrod and Omega Sentinel]] don't care about their human allies either and would like to see humanity just as dead as mutantkind.
46** A memo from Dr. Stasis shows he wants to expand Orchis's anti-mutant remit to also include the mutates such as the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Spider-Man and etc.
47* LegionOfDoom: A good number of villainous and anti-mutant organizations from before and after Krakoa’s formation as a nation came together to take down Mutantkind and they also have a number of allies including Hordeculture, the Coven Akkaba and the Russian Government working with them. Once ComicBook/FallOfX hits it’s shown how effective such an alliance can be. Steve Foxe even talks about it in an interview.
48-->''"What makes Orchis so dangerous is that they're not just the newest anti-mutant force on the block. They're kind of. all of them? As Maddie calls them in #1, they're a "maddeningly sophisticated alliance of humans [who have finally accomplished the eradication they've long sought."''
49* ManiacMonkeys: They employ an army of intellectually augmented gorillas who fight for their cause.
50* MookCarryover: The most visible contribution from AIM is their beekeeper suits for mooks, only [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience blood red]] instead of the usual yellow.
51* ANaziByAnyOtherName: Orchis is a genocidal fascist organization that puts any mutants it catches in camps at best to keep up appearances. At worst they are out right murdering mutants when no one is looking.
52* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Even outside of [[spoiler:being used as pawns by the [[KillAllHumans anti-organic]] sentinels]], Orchis is pretty cavalier about sacrificing human lives as a false flag to discredit their enemies in their war against mutants, ostensibly for human security.
53* TokenEvilTeammate: Orchis includes members from both H.A.M.M.E.R. and Hydra. Dr. Gregor makes it clear it's only an alliance of convenience, and she hates working with them.
54* UnwittingPawn: To [[spoiler: the Omega Sentinel of a future where the Sentinels lost, who projected herself back with the help of the last Titan AI and overwrote her past self, and Nimrod, as both believe quite firmly that HumansAreBastards and reckon - not necessarily inaccurately - that either mutants will wipe them out, or humanity will do it as soon as they've done their job]].
55** Even the Sentinels wind up being this to the [[spoiler:Nathaniel Essex's Dominion]], who exploits their desire to be part of a "perfect god machine" HiveMind, because as far as their benefactor is concerned, there's only room for one intelligence on that level of divinity.
56* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[invoked]][[spoiler:Orchis start to move into this territory after helping to fight the Progenitor during the ''[[ComicBook/JudgmentDayMarvelComics A.X.E.: Judgment Day]]'' event. One scene even shows a child wearing TheMerch, with a Nimrod balloon on a string]].
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61[[folder:Killian Devo]]
62!!Doctor Killian Devo
63[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/killian_devo_earth_616.png]]
64!!!'''Nationality:''' British
65!!!'''Species:''' Human cyborg
66!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''House of X'' #6 (October, 2019)
67->''"Yes, they hate us, and we hate them. That's the current state of mutant and man. But all their arrogance. The bravado. The bold declarations of inevitability. Don't you see, Omega? Those words are in conflict with their actions. It's obvious, isn't it? They don't just '''hate''' us... they '''fear''' us."''
68A former member of S.T.R.I.K.E., Dr. Devo is the Director of Orchis' Central Column. He traveled from a future where mutantkind came to dominate Earth to create Orchis and prevent this dire future for mankind from coming to pass.
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70* AntiVillain: Despite working to destroy mutantkind, he's really not that bad of a guy and is motivated by [[WellIntentionedExtremist a genuine belief that his actions are necessary to save the human race]]. It's hard to say that he even hates mutants at all; he just fears, with reason, what they could do to the world and humanity. [[spoiler:And in many ways, he's just as much of a victim of Orchis as the X-Men, being a man brainwashed with FakeMemories and used as a pawn by Omega Sentinel.]]
71* BenevolentBoss: When a test doesn't go perfect but still leads to progress, rather than criticizing two henchmen for failure, Devo encourages them to be proud of their improvements. Afterwards he offers to help them with the next tests.
72* {{Cyborg}}: He was born blind and has cybernetic implants installed that allowed him to see in ultraviolet and infrared spectrums. He also has an artificial leg.
73* TheDragon: As the head of Orchis, he is the closest thing to a main villain for Hickman's run so far. [[spoiler:Then it turns out he is truly following Omega Sentinel's vision.]]
74* EvilCounterpart: To Professor X, being a bald and disabled NonActionGuy who leads his team in [[AFatherToHisMen a fatherly manner]], just one that is human and fights against mutants. [[spoiler:For added {{Foil}} points, where Xavier is working towards benevolent ends but can be a ruthless manipulator, Devo is an UnwittingPawn and NiceGuy being manipulated into working towards an evil end. Oh, and they both have a powerful woman [[TheManBehindTheMan behind their actions]] (Moira for Charles, Omega Sentinel for Devo).]]
75* FakeMemories: [[spoiler:His memories of coming from the future were implanted by Omega Sentinal to transform Devo into her figurehead as the leader of Orchis, while she was the true guiding power behind him]].
76* AFatherToHisMen: He genuinely cares about the men and women under his command and is heartbroken when any of them die fighting the X-Men.
77* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Volta Doom impales him, ending his life.]]
78* OutOfFocus: [[spoiler:Did basically nothing between 2022's ''Inferno'' and his death in April of 2024.]]
79* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: What he thinks he's doing, returning from a BadFuture to save humanity. [[spoiler:The truth is more complicated. For one thing, he's not even really a time traveler.]]
80* WellIntentionedExtremist: He truly believes that he's doing the right thing, and every action he takes is in the name of saving humanity from a BadFuture where mutants have embraced the ideals of men like Magneto and decimated mankind. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, the cause he's fighting for is a lie, and he's an UnwittingPawn of Omega Sentinel and Nimrod.]]
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83[[folder:Alia Gregor]]
84!!Doctor Alia Gregor
85[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/alia_gregor_earth_616.png]]
86!!!'''Nationality:''' American
87!!!'''Species:''' Human
88!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''House of X'' #1 (July, 2019)
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90A former A.I.M. scientist, Dr. Gregor joined Orchis alongside her husband Erasmus Mendel. She is the lead scientist and director of Orchis' First Petal, Research / Development.
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92* BigBadWannabe: When she comes face-to-face with Cyclops to gloat, he just straight up ignores her and asks AndThenWhat to the other person in the room, Omega Sentinel. Alia doesn't realize this until he points it out.
93* DrowningTheirSorrows: Despite it being early morning when she comes to gloat at Cyclops, he can tell her "coffee" also has quite a bit of alcohol in it.
94* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She is working towards the extermination of mutants, but has a loving relationship with her husband. Gregor's research into developing Nimrod is in part seeking a way into bringing him back.
95* EvilGenius: Her research and expertise led to the almost successful creation of a Mother Mold, but the X-Men destroyed it before it could be completed.
96* ItsPersonal: After her husband's death attempting to stop the mutant attack on the Forge, the conflict with mutantkind becomes deeply personal for her.
97* MeaningfulName: Her surname is the given name of biologist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel Gregor Mendel]], whereas her husband shares Mendel's surname.
98* MoralMyopia: She believes she's safeguarding the future of humanity and avenging her husband, completely ignoring that Orchis is the ones that escalated the war with their Mother Mold and are deliberately endangering human bystanders for propaganda purposes. If Orchis really cared about humanity's wellbeing, they could have used their powers for good.
99* NeckSnap: [[spoiler:This is how Nimrod kills her after she finds out the truth about Sentinel City.]]
100* OutOfFocus: She becomes less and less prominent after succesfully creating Nimrod. She later on appears in Fall of the House of X, [[spoiler: where she is killed by Nimrod]].
101* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler:She succeeds in resurrecting Erasmus in the Nimrod body… only for him to [[ShootTheShaggyDogStory die again almost immediately after]] to save her, leaving behind a purely robotic Nimrod without her husband's soul.]]
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104[[folder:Erasmus Mendel]]
105!!Captain Erasmus Mendel / Nimrod
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108 [[caption-width-right:300:as Nimrod]]
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110!!!'''Nationality:''' American
111!!!'''Species:''' Human
112!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''House of X'' #1 (July, 2019)
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114Erasmus Mendel was a member of the organization known as Orchis, who came together to deal with the threat of mutants. He led the mission to the space station, Orchis Forge to make sure that it would be able to support human lives after they bring it online. Mendel waited aboard his vessel until a ship came into sensor range. It happened to be a Shi'ar scout ship which Mendel believed carried a strike team of X-Men. This pushed Mendel to board the space station in order to deal with the threat.
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116* BadassNormal: Despite being a normal guy, he takes out two X-Men and nearly derails their whole Mother Mold strike mission with his sacrifice.
117* BrainUploading: His wife resurrects him by uploading his mind and soul into a DataCrystal engram that she installs in Nimrod. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, thanks to Mystique, he swiftly gets a MindReformatDeath, leaving a completely robotic Nimrod whose [[GrownBeyondHisProgramming growth into sentience/sapience]] is easily manipulated by Omega Sentinel]].
118* TheBrute: He’s Orchis’s muscle and delivers a series of brutal killings at the Hellfire Gala.
119* CanonCharacterAllAlong: He's really [[spoiler:Nimrod. Or rather, Nimrod is the end result of his wife resurrecting Erasmus in a robot body.]]
120* HeroicSacrifice: Twice, though ironically in the name of an antagonistic group. Firstly, he kills himself to disrupt the X-Men strike on the forge, second when [[spoiler:he [[MindReformatDeath sacrifices his second life]] to save his wife from Mystique.]] The second one ends up having some very bad consequences for everyone.
121* TheJuggernaut: Partially due to being CrazyPrepared at the Hellfire Gala, nobody can even put a dent on him. He kills several mutants, tanks two Omegas and [[TheWorfEffect worfs]] Cain Marko, a man literally named the Juggernaut, to drive it home.
122* LaughablyEvil: After becoming Nimrod, he becomes quite amusing for a terrifying mutant killing machine.
123* KilledOffForReal: He's revived as Nimrod after his first, human, death. But he's then killed off when [[spoiler:he has to sacrifice a Nimrod body to save Orchis from Mystique, leading to a MindReformatDeath because the remaining Nimrod didn't have time to copy his memories first]].
124* MeaningfulName: Fittingly for a scientist, his first name derives from the scholar and philosopher [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus Erasmus]], and his surname is shared by biologist [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Mendel Gregor Mendel]], a key figure in the study of genetics (and therefore particularly apt for a character fighting the [[EvolutionaryLevels next step in human evolution]]).
125* MindReformatDeath: After his mind is [[BrainUploading successfully uploaded]] into the newly activated Nimrod, he [[spoiler:almost immediately has to sacrifice one of Nimrod's bodies to save Orchis and his wife from Mystique. Nimrod survives as an entity, via other bodies. Mendel's mind doesn't]].
126* NiceGuy: Despite working for Orchis, he's a pretty cool guy, a loving husband, and doesn't even seem to hate mutants much at first. In a lot of ways, he serves to demonstrate that not all of Orchis is evil, and that their actions are not entirely unreasonable. Nimrod... not remotely.
127* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: By [[spoiler:sacrificing himself again (and permanently this time) to save his wife, he ends up leaving Nimrod [[MindReformatDeath with a purely robotic mind with no connection to humanity]]… which is easily guided by Omega Sentinel to embrace the idea that both humans and mutants are evil and must be destroyed to save robotkind.]]
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130[[folder:Omega Sentinel]]
131!!Karima Shapandar / Omega Sentinel
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133[[caption-width-right:300:Year 10]]
134[[caption-width-right:300:[[labelnote:Click here to see her in Year 100]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/omega_sentinel.jpg[[/labelnote]]]]
135!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Sentinel, X-Girl, Cybergirl
136!!!'''Nationality:''' Indian
137!!!'''Species:''' Human/Sentinel hybrid
138!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men Unlimited'' #27 (June, 2000)
139->''" I don't know whether to pity you or despise you, Doctor Palance. For me, humanity is an aspiration!"''
140Karima Shapandar is a human Sentinel. Freed of her mutant extermination protocols, she struggles to maintain what little humanity she has remaining. Former member of the X-Men, Karima Shapandar now works for Orchis as Omega Sentinel. She lives to 2109 thanks to being functionally immortal, and is part of the Man-Machine Ascendancy. [[spoiler:She is also the true founder of Orchis.]]
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142* AgonyBeam: Her neural disruptors.
143* AIIsACrapshoot: When reprogrammed by Malice. Also when the X-Men used an engineered virus to defeat Bastion's army of Sentinels, it also remotely reactivated Karima's sentinel program. She goes on to attack the X-Men, but only Hellion manages to stop her and put her in a comatose state.
144* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Ninety years later, she has bright red skin.
145* AmbiguouslyEvil: Come the Krakoa era. Even the Orchis files note that nobody's sure exactly who she's answering to, if anyone. When the X-Men attack Mother Mold, she barely acts at all, only directly intervening to paralyze Scott, rather than kill him, which she could. [[spoiler:She is not the Karima Shapandar that the readers are familiar with, rather she is the envoy of a future where machines lost to mutantkind, having overwritten the mind of the original Karima.]]
146* ArmCannon: Can manifest these from her arm.
147* ArtificialHuman: She's an Omega Prime Sentinel.
148* ArtificialLimbs: Her limbs are now cybernetic.
149* BaldOfEvil: Becomes a RareFemaleExample of the trope after joining Orchis, as she's now depicted without hair
150* {{BFG}}: She can manifest these from her hands.
151* BigBad: [[spoiler:The true founder of Orchis.]]
152* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Reprogrammed and possessed by Malice via an uploaded virus. Also, Arkea took control of her once.
153* CombatMedic: With the use of nanobots.
154* ComboPlatterPowers: Karima's cybernetic systems include an [[EverythingSensor internal sensor suite]], [[DuelingHackers integral interdiction systems]] [[GooglingTheNewAcquaintance that prevent others]] [[HackYourEnemy from scanning her]], [[UnusualUserInterface a built-in satellite modem]], [[HumanHardDrive internal hard-drive]] [[WetwareCPU storage]], [[HolographicTerminal holographic]] [[{{Hologram}} projectors]], a medical scanner, [[FacialRecognitionSoftware a bio-tagging and tracking system]], [[EnemyDetectingRadar targeting]] [[EnemyScan scanners]], and [[RocketBoots anti-gravity systems permitting flight]], [[ImprobableAimingSkills a built-in auto targeting system that allows her to track down mutants]], as well as [[SensingYouAreOutmatched threat analysis and counter-measure programs]].
155* CyberneticsEatYourSoul: She is forcibly transformed into an Omega Prime Sentinel by Bastion.
156* DeceptivelyHumanRobot: Was transformed into an Omega Prime Sentinel in order to hunt down mutants.
157* DeathOfPersonality: What being turned into a Prime Sentinel was meant to do. [[spoiler:Seems to have happened again with the possession by an alternate future version of herself. ''Fall of the House of X'' confirms anything of "our" Karima is gone.]]
158* DoAnythingRobot: After becoming a Sentinel.
159* TheDragon: Nimrod the Lesser's right-hand woman, sort of. Her behavior is more like that of a handler but Nimrod clearly is in charge of the Man-Machine Ascendancy.
160* DragonInChief: Implied. In one timeline, Nimrod the Lesser, though portrayed as the leader of the Man-Machine Ascendancy that the others refer, very clearly asks Omega Sentinel for permission to be the one to "extract" the information from the uncooperative Cylobel, suggesting that Omega Sentinel is above Nimrod. The full details aren't yet known. In the main timeline, [[spoiler: she's behind all of Orchis]].
161* ElectronicEyes: Has a built-in InfraredXrayCamera in her eyes that allow her to scan her opponents and assess their threat.
162* ElementalPowers:
163** FireIceLightning
164** ShockAndAwe: Capable of firing an electrical beam from her hand cannon.
165** KillItWithFire[=/=]{{Flamethrower}}: Flamethrowers in her ArmCannon.
166** KillItWithIce: Liquid nitrogen.
167* EnemyScan: See ElectronicEyes above.
168* EnemyDetectingRadar: Her Sentinel technology allows her to detect mutants.
169* EnergyWeapon[=/=]HandBlast
170* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:''Inferno'' makes her one to Moira. Both come back from what to them is a BadFuture determined to change it for their own kind. It's just Omega Sentinel is a psychotic killing machine who will wipe out Mutantkind, then mankind.]]
171* FaceHeelTurn: Omega Sentinel was once a member of the X-Men, but now works ''against'' them as part of Orchis in the name of humanity's interests. [[spoiler:Eventually it's confirmed that Karima has been taken over by an alternate future self version of her, who turned fully Sentinel.]]
172* FairCop: A former Indian police officer and pretty attractive, even now.
173* FantasticRacism: [[spoiler:Alternate Future Karima doesn't care about humanity, and along with Nimrod is totally willing to slaughter their own minions at the drop of a hat, thanks to human fears about AI.]]
174* FightingFromTheInside: Sometimes occurs whenever someone hacks into her Omega Sentinel programming.
175* FlechetteStorm: Her "Penetrator Darts".
176* FlyingFirepower: She can fly as well.
177* {{Foil}}: After the reveal that [[spoiler: she's actually the Omega Sentinel of a future where mutantkind defeated and destroyed the machines, wiping out the Titan AIs with the power of the Phoenix, she's actually one to both Kate Pryde and ComicBook/RachelSummers - they came back from [[ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast a Sentinel-dominated future]] where mutantkind was facing genocide, to SetRightWhatWentWrong (in Kate's case, it just split the timeline, until a follow-up story in ''{{ComicBook/Excalibur}}'' had them work together with Rachel's Excalibur teammates to fix it, using the power of the Phoenix as a key part of their plan). Omega Sentinel is doing the exact inverse]].
178* GrandTheftMe: What Arkea does this to her. Also Malice. [[spoiler: And ''ComicBook/Inferno2021'' reveals the Omega from a different timeline did it to mainline Karima too.]]
179* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming[=/=]DoAndroidsDream
180* HaveYouTriedRebooting: When the X-Men used an engineered virus to defeat Bastion's army of Sentinels, it also remotely reactivated Karima's sentinel program. She tries to self-reboot her cybernetic systems, but the Sentinel programming overrides this and she goes on to attack the X-Men. Only Hellion manages to stop her and knock her in a comatose state.
181* HeadsUpDisplay: Has these in her ElectronicEyes.
182* HealingFactor: Her body has the ability to repair any physical injury/damage she receives. She also becomes stronger and more durable than she was before the injury.
183** AdaptiveAbility: Similar to Nimrod, once she's been assaulted in a certain matter, her body develops a counter to that form of assault.
184* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: She sometimes relapses into Sentinel programming.
185* HollywoodCyborg: Bastion subjected them to the same morphing process, which catalyzed Neal's latent mutant powers; they manifested explosively, destroying most of the facility. Karima, meanwhile, was transformed into a more powerful Omega Sentinel, urging Neal to flee before her core programming to destroy mutants was activated.
186* HolographicTerminal[=/=]{{Hologram}}
187* HyperspaceArsenal: Darts, plasma blades, hologram projections and healing nanobots, all contained within her metallic frame.
188* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Woman:]] When the X-Men used an engineered virus to defeat Bastion's army of Sentinels, it also reactivated Karima's sentinel program which was headed as it turned out; by a Nimrod Series CPU Core as was programed for the entirety of the Omega Sentinel line. She goes on to attack the X-Men, but only Hellion manages to stop her and put her in a comatose state.
189* ImprobableAimingSkills: Has a built-in auto targeting system that allows her to track down mutants.
190* IJustWantToBeNormal
191* IfMyCalculationsAreCorrect: See the RoboSpeak trope below, as she's a RobotGirl.
192* InfraredXrayCamera: See ElectronicEyes above.
193* InsistentTerminology: For a short time, she had a habit of reminding people that it was ''Detective-Inspector'' Karima Shapandar.
194* KillerRobot: Was transformed into an Omega Prime Sentinel in order to hunt down mutants, but broke free of the programming.
195* LaserBlade: Her Plasma Knives.
196* LadyOfWar: A female sentinel who fought far more elegantly than her male counterparts.
197* LeotardOfPower: Her outfit as a Sentinel does look like leotard.
198* LightningGun: One of the many powers she would manifest.
199* LightningBruiser: She moves faster than humanly possible, posseses SuperStrength and her hard endoskeleton makes her ridiculously durable.
200* LossOfIdentity: She forgot who she was as part of her Sentinel programming.
201* LogicBomb: See AIIsACrapshoot above.
202* MachineMonotone: See the RoboSpeak trope below.
203* MonochromaticEyes: When possessed by Malice.
204* MsFanservice: Ninety years later she wears a skin-tight suit with a massive bust, and the art likes to emphasize that.
205* NeuroVault: She discovered the Prime Sentinel program, only to realize she was a ManchurianAgent whose anti-mutant programming would kick in if she ever found out about it.
206* {{Nanomachines}}: Able to implant them in machinery to control them remotely, and is capable of using them to heal herself.
207* NinjaZombiePirateRobot: Indian police officer turned into a cyborg.
208* [[OrcusOnHisThrone Orchis On His Throne]]: As an Omega Sentinel, Karima would be powerful enough that if she really set her mind to it, she could probably wipe out most of the X-Men on her own. However, she barely lifts a finger. [[spoiler:Because as it turns out she couldn't give a wet slap about humanity either.]]
209* OrganicTechnology: After her transformation into an Omega Prime Sentinel.
210* PowerPalms: Her hands turn into energy cannons.
211* PlasmaCannon: Her neural disruptors.
212* PlayingWithFire: Has a built-in flamethrower.
213* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: By ''Powers of X'', she's over a hundred years old and still going strong. It's stated that she's functionally immortal, so dying naturally isn't a concern for her.
214* RoboCam: Has a built-in InfraredXrayCamera in her eyes that allow her to scan her opponents and assess their threat level.
215* RobotGirl: She was transformed into an Omega Prime Sentinel by Bastion of the Operation: Zero Tolerance program.
216* RoboSpeak: Sometimes relapses into this, as she is a modified Sentinel.
217* RocketBoots: Built in rocket boosters in her legs.
218* SensingYouAreOutmatched: Has a threat analysis and counter-measure program.
219* SlaveMook: When she was turned into a mutant-hunting RobotGirl by Bastion.
220* SnapBack: Karima was last seen having been made human again and abandoning the identity of Omega Sentinel. Yet, the beginning of the Krakoa era just breezes right past that.
221%%* SpockSpeak
222* StrappedToAnOperatingTable: After disappearing after M-Day, she reappeared in Mike Carrey's run on ''X-Men'' having wound up captured by Pandemic's goons and taken apart.
223* SuperSoldier: Was forcibly transformed into an Omega Prime Sentinel.
224* SwissArmyAppendage: Capable of manifesting a cannon from her hands.
225* SuperStrength: Advanced cybernetic nanotech responsible for superhuman strength, resistance to injury and regenerative abilities.
226* {{Technopath}}: She can control machines by infecting them with nanomachines.
227* {{Teleportation}}: A new feature fixed and augmented by Arkea, Karima's body proved capable of long range instantaneous transport over incredibly vast distances.
228* TokenHeroicOrc: Formerly. Karima had the distinction of being a Sentinel on the X-Men, using her mutant-hunting abilities for good. [[FaceHeelTurn Not so much anymore.]]
229* TookALevelInJerkass: By 2109, Omega Sentinel is not simply against mutants due to their dangers, but rather she takes glee in killing mutants for the sake of it. Keep in mind that she was once part of the X-Men. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that's an Omega Sentinel of a different timeline.]]
230* UnwillingRoboticization: She was turned into an Omega Sentinel against her will. What, if any, of her is still organic is unknown.
231* WalkingArmory: Saying she's armed to the teeth would be rather accurate.
232* TheWomanBehindTheMan: [[spoiler:She is the true founder of Orchis. Devo is simply the human she used to build the organization. Orchis follows her plans.]]
233[[/folder]]
234
235[[folder:Henry Peter Gyrich]]
236!!Henry Peter Gyrich
237[[quoteright:227:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/henrypetergyrich.jpg]]
238!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Secretary Gyrich, Bad News Pete
239!!!'''Nationality:''' American
240!!!'''Species:''' Human
241!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Avengers'' #165 (November, 1977)
242->''"We've worked together for years... We may not agree often -- if at all -- but you know I wouldn't do this if I didn't think it was for the best."''
243A strong contender for the title of "EvilCounterpart to ComicBook/NickFury", Agent Gyrich is a morally ambiguous government agent with a deep-seated mistrust of mutants, superhumans, and aliens. He was at one point the government liaison to the Avengers, and to say that relations between him and the team were tense would be a massive understatement. Angered by the establishment of Krakoa, Gyrich became obsessed with discrediting the mutant nation, which made him a natural fit for Orchis.
244----
245-> See Characters/AvengersSupportStaff
246[[/folder]]
247
248[[folder:Doctor Stasis]]
249!!Doctor Stasis
250[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/50087969_6a32_484f_97c9_6d0b2f8b5d26.jpeg]]
251!!!'''Nationality:''' American
252!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced Human
253!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men'' #1 (July, 2021)
254
255A scientist who was the chairman of the mysterious Oblivion Institute and director of Orchis' Sixth Petal, Human / Resources.
256----
257-> See [[Characters/XMenSinister here]].
258[[/folder]]
259
260[[folder:Feilong]]
261!! Kelvin Heng / Feilong
262[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e7103043_1186_4008_b063_02fa2ea7e694.jpeg]]
263!!!'''Nationality:''' Serbian-Chinese
264!!!'''Species:''' Self Enhanced-Human
265!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men'' #1 (July, 2021)
266->''"You mutants are a cancer on humanity, and '''I''' am the surgeon."''
267The head of Feilong Industries, he dreamed of settling Mars for humanity. After mutantkind terraformed the planet overnight and claimed it as the new capital of the Sol System, Feilong aligned himself with Orchis and became the director of their Third Petal, Operations / Offense before reassigned to director of Second Petal, Infrastructure / Influence.
268----
269* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: His various enhancements had the side effect of turning his hair white and skin ''fuchsia''.
270* ArchEnemy: He considers Tony Stark and himself archenemies but Tony doesn’t want to give him the satisfaction of being his archenemy.
271-->'''Feilong:''' Oh Tony. I think perhaps you are the one I've been waiting for. [''EvilLaugh''] Finally! I have a ''worthy'' nemesis.
272* BreathWeapon: After exposing himself to Ruby Quartz polarized cosmic rays, he gained the ability to fire massive, vaporizing energy beams from his mouth.
273* BullyingADragon: Feilong is a petulant SmugSnake who doesn’t realize that messing with older, more seasoned, experienced, hardened and smarter individuals like Tony Stark and Emma Frost will eventually bite him in the ass hard. This finally comes to fruition when they trick him into crashing their sham wedding and go into his mind to get what they need without him remembering a thing.
274-->'''Stark:''' Only the "bravest" try hostile takeovers on Stark companies.\
275'''Feilong:''' That's true, I think...\
276'''Stark:''' Obadiah Stane. Of course, he's '''''dead.''''' Justin Hammer. Also... '''''dead'''''.
277* ButNotTooForeign: When first introduced, it was mentioned that his father is Chinese and mother is Russian.
278* CategoryTraitor: Holds animosity towards the Avengers for not colonizing Mars and leaving it open for mutants to take. He focuses this on Stark in particular, as a betrayal of human achievement and futurist ideals.
279* CorruptCorporateExecutive: CEO of his own company, Feilong Industries, and also acquired Stark Unlimited in a hostile takeover.
280* EvilCounterpart:
281** To Sunfire, being an arrogant and self-centered Asian (Chinese instead of Japanese) superhuman with fire powers, but completely lacking Sunfire's HiddenHeartOfGold.
282** He could also be seen as one to Tony Stark. He is a brilliant scientist and businessman with a colossal ego, who grew up with an industrial titan of a father. The difference being that Tony believes in things other than his own desires, whereas Feilong only cares about himself.
283* EvilGenius: He's a brilliant scientist, businessman and schemer. He's also growing increasingly amoral and is starting to rack up a bodycount that isn't all mutant.
284* GreenEyedMonster:
285** Had designs to terraform and colonize Mars but [[Characters/XMenKrakoans the mutants of Krakoa]] and [[Characters/XMenArakko Arakko]] [[ComicBook/HellfireGala beat him to it]]. To say that he didn't take it well would be a colossal understatement.
286** [[spoiler:His parents were mutants who loved him unconditionally. He resented them for his being "normal" and cut ties with them because of it.]]
287* ItsAllAboutMe: Believes he's entitled to Mars simply because he wanted it. Thus he considers what the mutants did stealing from him.
288* {{Jerkass}}: A petty and selfish prick who takes everything way too personally.
289-->'''Iron Man:''' You're mad at me for some delusion that I held Mars, but I'll be damned if I'll let you use my creations to hurt anyone. Even Stane and Hammer [[PragmaticVillainy were smart enough to leave the few friends and family I have out of business]].
290* MuggleBornOfMages: [[spoiler:His parents were mutants and he is human. His parents loved him to death and accepted him as he was, but he resented them for his being "normal".]]
291* MySuitIsAlsoSuper: Feilong's wears an armored suit made of sophisticated composite polymers that mimic the appearance of a normal business suit.
292-->'''Feilong:''' My suit is a state-of-the-art armor with unparalleled shields. And that blast you saw was a very special defensive weapon.
293* OlderHeroVersusYoungerVillain: Has this dynamic with Iron Man and the older members of the X-Men, such as Wolverine and Professor X.
294-->'''Feilong:''' Tony, don't obsess over losing the company. It's the way of the world when you're ''old''.
295* ProfessorGuineaPig: He enhanced himself so he could fight the mutants for "stealing" Mars from him.
296* PsychopathicManchild: He has all the negative aspects of a petulant modern-day twenty-something, including a deep sense of entitlement, and a tendency to insult people for being “old”. He’s also homicidally petty and will throw a dangerous tantrum when he doesn’t get what he wants or is slighted in anyway.
297* RagsToRiches: Following on from RichesToRags. His very wealthy and affluent father disinherited him at 15 ([[UnreliableNarrator or so he claims]]). He built a new fortune and became a SelfMadeMan.
298* RichesToRags His wealthy and affluent father disinherited him at 15. He built a new fortune and went RagsToRiches again.
299** [[spoiler: Subverted with his true origin, which implies that he was lying about this: He cut ties with ''them'' because he resented being "normal" while they were both mutants.]]
300* RoguesGalleryTransplant: ''ComicBook/InvincibleIronMan2022'' sees him become a threat to Tony Stark, after taking over what was once his company to build Sentinels. Downplayed as this is still to gain the resources to enhance Sentinels with Iron Man technology, with the added bonus of [[EvilIsPetty sticking it to Stark]] and gaining him as an ArchEnemy.
301-->'''Iron Man:''' Shouldn't you be fighting Toad and Blob up on Mars?\
302'''Feilong:''' I don't know who they are, because I'm not ''old''.
303* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Becomes one to the Mandarin in the 2022 ''Invincible Iron Man'' run as a MadScientist well-versed in martial arts and obsessed with perceived shortcomings associated with his pedigree.
304[[/folder]]
305
306[[folder:M.O.D.O.K.]]
307!!George Tarleton / M.O.D.O.K.
308[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/modok.png]]
309!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Damocles Rivas
310!!!'''Nationality:''' American
311!!!'''Species:''' Cloned human mutate cyborg
312!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Tales of Suspense'' #93 (September, 1967)
313->''"Mere humans delude themselves if they believe they or their machines are capable of acting faster than the masterful mind of MODOK!"''
314George Tarleton [[WasOnceAMan was once a normal human]], before Advanced Idea Mechanics converted him into a living computer. When the mutants of Krakoa began sharing their technology with normal humans as a gesture of goodwill, Orchis hired M.O.D.O.K. to sabotage this technology in an attempt to discredit mutantkind.
315
316-->See [[Characters/MarvelComicsAIM A.I.M.]]
317[[/folder]]
318[[folder: Moira [=MacTaggert=]]]
319!!Dr. Moira Kinross-[=MacTaggert=] (née Kinross)/ Moira X
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324[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/46ad70f6_1ce2_496e_8559_ddfad5192f87.jpeg]]
325%%
326!!!'''Nationality:''' Scottish, Krakoan
327!!!'''Species:''' Human Mutant
328!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' #96 (1975)
329->''"You're a good man who believes in the goodness of others... and it breaks my heart that I have to break that part of you. But I '''will''' break it. Because that's what has to happen now. I know you will fight me... just like your shade, [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Erik]], will fight me. But this time, I mean for all of us to be together. All of us. You've been dreaming the wrong dream, Charles... and it's long past time that you wake up."''
330
331Introduced as [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Charles Xavier]]'s longtime human friend (and former love interest), Moira was a geneticist who frequently aided the X-Men with her expertise on mutations, eventually founding the Muir Island research facility that she set up to study mutant genetics. After finding a cure for the Legacy Virus, however, Moira was killed by ComicBook/{{Mystique}}, and that was that.
332
333...Or at least, that's how it ''seemed''. It later turned out that she faked her death with a Shi'ar golem, but that wasn't the only revelation provided in [[ComicBook/XMen2019 2019]]. Decades after her first appearance, it was revealed via {{retcon}} that Moira was in fact ''not'' a mere human, but a mutant herself -- and a vital one at that.
334
335Moira has the power of {{reincarnation}}, specifically [[BornAgainImmortality born-again immortality]]. The timeline resets after her death and she is born again, at the same point in the past, retaining all of the knowledge and experience she's accumulated from her past lives. That, combined with her undetectable X-gene, has allowed Moira to secretly work towards saving the mutant race from inevitable extinction while passing as an ordinary human in many timelines. Unfortunately, nearly every timeline that she lived through had one thing in common: doom for Mutantkind at her life's end.
336
337According to Destiny, Moira's reincarnations aren't infinite, and she has ten -- ''maybe'' eleven -- at most, meaning she's possibly on her last life as Moira X. And since she's not sure if she's got another shot at reincarnation to fall back on, she formed a secret alliance between Professor X and Magneto about three years after their first confrontations, in an effort to take the lessons learned from each of her previous lives in order to establish a future where mutants can survive. The three have been secretly collaborating over the years -- give or take a period of defection from Magneto -- in order to create a world safe for mutantkind, a goal which moves forward with the creation of a new Mutant nation known as Krakoa. Moira operates on the island in secret, preferring not to draw any attention to herself. Now depowered, scorned, injured and exiled, she turned to becoming a cyborg and joined Orchis against mutantdom, becoming director of Orchis' Fifth Petal, Sociology / Modeling.
338
339As a major supporting character to the ''X-Men'' mythos, Moira has appeared frequently in other media. She was most notably portrayed by Creator/RoseByrne in the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', appearing in ''[[Film/XMenFirstClass First Class]]'' and ''[[Film/XMenApocalypse Apocalypse]]''; this version of the character is a UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} agent rather than a geneticist. Creator/OliviaWilliams previously portrayed Moira in ''Film/XMenTheLastStand'', wherein she resembled her comic book counterpart more closely. Moira also appeared in episodes of ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries'', as well as various video games including ''VideoGame/XMenLegends''. Due to all of these adaptations preceding Jonathan Hickman's ''X-Men'' run, she is portrayed as a human in every single one.
340----
341* AbusiveParents: Issue six of ''Powers of X'' has entries from Moira's diary that all but state that Proteus and David Haller were conceived as means to an end. This explains their neglect and suffering under their parents' care outside of the general BlessedWithSuck nature of their powers which is made an unintended consequence. When she finally reunited with him at the second Krakoan Hellfire Gala, she taunts him in a manner so cruel that’s not to different from Mystique with her own son.
342* AlliterativeName: '''M'''oira '''M'''acTaggert.
343* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: She arguably became one for [[Characters/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaAntagonist Maxwell Lord]]. Both were human allies for their respective teams, retconned into being born with powers (Mutant in Moira's case, metahuman in Maxwell's), got very different personalities after this retcon, and became {{Boomerang Bigot}}s.
344* AmicableExes: Her and Charles, usually. [[spoiler:Really, really subverted after the big retcon, which reveals she can't stand him, and is in fact manipulating him for her own ends.]]
345* AndIMustScream: Spent quite a long time under the Shadow King's thrall when he took over Muir Island, aware of what was happening but unable to fight it.
346* AntiquatedLinguistics: When written by Claremont, she could slip into this sometimes. People haven't said "yon" for a while now...
347* ArchEnemy: Destiny. Moira hates her for having burnt her alive and that just grows more after Destiny and Mystique cut off her arm. That hatred would soon extend to all mutants.
348* AwfulWeddedLife: A charitable description of her marriage to Joe. It ended with him beating her senseless, then walking out while she was in the hospital and pregnant, but refusing to divorce her because it would negatively impact his public image (and apparently wasn't concerned about Moira telling anyone what he was like. It ''was'' the 60s).
349* BadassBookworm: A scientist who doesn't have much problem getting into a fight when she has to.
350* BadassNormal: Completely willing to fight a demon with an assault rifle, or tell Wolverine to put out his cigar.
351* BadToTheLastDrop: She's talented in multiple areas, but she can't make a decent cup of coffee to save her life.
352* BackToTheWomb: In ''House Of X,'' she's [[spoiler: revealed to have the mutant power to reboot the universe every time she dies, essentially granting her BornAgainImmortality via GroundhogDayLoop. She retains her intelligence and memories when she starts the next life - always doing so in the womb; for good measure, the final panel of the flashback that reveals this features baby Moira beginning her tenth life by opening her eyes in the womb with an expression that can only be described as "HereWeGoAgain".]]
353* BattleButler: Or at least posed as one, rather convincingly.
354* BewareTheNiceOnes: Moira has a nurturing, parental presence much like her old love Charles. And also like Charles, she can be downright ''deadly'' if you mess with the mutants under her care.
355* {{BFG}}: Always managed to have one of these handy during the nineties. Then again, it ''was'' [[NinetiesAntiHero the nineties]]....
356* BirdsOfAFeather: After enduring several harsh lives she became extremely radicalized, ruthless and violent, making her romanc with Apocalypse in life IX very fitting.
357* BlueBlood: Her father is a Scottish nobleman, which is apparently how she's able to afford that giant research facility. Accordingly, Wolfsbane would often call her "Lady Moira", over Moira's repeated objections.
358* BornAgainImmortality: Per ''House of X'', this is [[spoiler: her mutant power. She gets PastLifeMemories each time she resurrects, but she has a finite number of resurrections, '10, maybe 11' according to Destiny. Finally, a loophole is discovered when she gets shot with Forge's x-gene neutraliser, meaning she gets no do-overs. On the other hand, curiously enough, Sinister's discovered that Moira clones - which he's been using as part of his SaveScumming gambits - only work about 10 times before degenerating]].
359* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: At one point she did this to a de-aged Magneto in hopes of helping him find a normal life. Not only did it not stick, but it arguably made Mags ''more'' villainous [[UnstoppableRage when he found out]]. And then it turned out it had never actually taken in the first place.
360* BraveScot: More intellectually-inclined that many examples, but damn if she isn't bold.
361* CruelAndUnusualDeath: In one of [[spoiler: her earlier lives, Moira was apparently ''[[WomanOnFire burned alive]]'' by Pyro as a punishment ordered by Mystique and Destiny for trying to develop a mutant cure]].
362* ChildByRape: It's implied that Proteus was conceived when Joseph had beaten her unconscious, then forced himself on her. Since been retconned to eugenics, she and Charles would pair up with people who had the appropriate DNA that would result in their respective sons, Proteus and Legion.
363* DearJohnLetter: She sent one to Charles while he was serving in the army overseas.
364* DeathByIrony: Averted cruelly. She contracted the Legacy virus, which normally infects only mutants, and at one point it looked very much like she would lose her life to that contagion, only for Mystique to kill her first. As if the irony wasn't cruel enough, she'd just discovered the cure to the human-infecting Legacy strain. [[spoiler:''House of X'' revealed she didn't die at all - and that she was, in fact, a mutant.]]
365* DemonicPossession: During the Muir Island Saga, she's the Shadow King's main mouthpiece on Muir Island.
366* DependingOnTheWriter: Her attitude towards Proteus.
367** Claremont had it with a mix of abusive, neglectful and remorseful, hating Proteus for the reasons behind his conception, which a fetal Proteus picked up on, then locking him up in a room for his entire life for his own good, then telling the X-Men to kill him because he was so evil and trying to do the deed herself.
368** Niceiza depicts her as legitimately regretful for how she treated Kevin, hoping he found some measure of happiness somewhere, even if it was in death.
369** And the Krakoa era goes right into abusive, avoiding him and never telling him she was alive, then when they do meet up again telling him she gives precisely zero shits about him.
370* DiedInYourArmsTonight: She survives long enough to be flown across the Atlantic and dies in Charles's arms.
371* DirtyCoward: Post-retcons and her Heel Turn, Moira is pretty much defined by her terror at the thought of dying, to the extent Nightcrawler declares her the most afraid woman he's ever met.
372* DistaffCounterpart: Became one to [[spoiler:Xavier when written by Johnathan Hickman, even took the codename "Moira X".]]
373* DomesticAbuse: Her first husband, a politician named Joseph, was violently abusive to her.
374* DramaticIrony: According to Omega Sentinel, the Krakoa plan masterminded by her is destined to work, each and every time, but because Moira is not aware of this, she assumes that mutantkind is destined to lose anyway. If she hadn't signed up with Orchis, there's a good chance mutantkind would have won the war already.
375* EmpoweredBadassNormal: As of ''House of X'', [[spoiler:Moira was never human but actually a mutant all along, before losing her powers and becoming an Omega Sentinel]].
376* EvilIsPetty: Post-retcon. Moira becomes willing to side with Orchis and then engineer the extermination of everyone on Krakoa out of ''sheer spite'', figuring if they kick her out, she'll take their future from them.
377* FaceHeelTurn: Went from one of the X-Men’s greatest allies, to killing the man she loved and plotting with Orchis and the Eternals to wipe out mutantkind.
378* FakingTheDead: ''House of X'' #2 revealed that [[spoiler: Moria never died at the hands of Mystique, that a Shi'ar golem took her place.]]
379* FamilyExtermination: Comboed with WellIntentionedExtremist, as [[spoiler:she apparently tried to wipe out the entire Trask bloodline in one of her earlier lives to prevent the creation of Sentinels]].
380* FriendlyGhost: Though dead, she's helped the X-Men from the afterlife a couple of times, directing Banshee to a hidden room on Muir Island and later returning briefly during the ''Chaos War'' event. Post-retcon, it was revealed that this was actually the Shi'ar golem implanted with a copy of her personality while the original Moira went into hiding to prepare for the eventual establishment of Krakoa.
381* FunetikAksent: It's how ye know she's Scottish, though it did get ludicrous on occasion, with one issue having her go from "yuir" to "yur" and "your" all in a few pages.
382* GenocideFromTheInside: After deciding that mutancy is a curse from the trauma of her own powers, she spent one life working on a cure for mutant powers. Destiny managed to persuade her to reconsider in her next life. [[spoiler:She didn't listen. Instead she worked to ingratiate herself into an influential position over the global mutant population so she could implement a subtle cure that would keep later generations of mutants from developing powers in the first place. Destiny also managed to avert this.]]
383* GoneHorriblyRight: It's also been retconned that both Legion and Proteus were deliberate attempts by Moira and Xavier to create powerful reality warping mutants. Well, [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity they certainly got that]].
384* GroundhogDayLoop: Her [[spoiler:mutant power. She has ten lives, and every time she dies, she's transported back into her body as a fetus, with all of her prior memories]].
385* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Her abusive first husband Joe [=MacTaggert=] convinced her to write Charles a DearJohnLetter and marry him instead. And while Chuck is definitely preferable to that cad, time has shown us that Moira's second love isn't exactly a shining paragon of morality either.
386* ImmortalGenius: ''House of X'' reveals that [[spoiler: she's actually a mutant blessed with BornAgainImmortality by way of GroundhogDayLoop. Not only is she a brilliant geneticist that even created a working cure for mutation in their third lifetime, but after opting to side with mutants instead, has been using the knowledge acquired over multiple lifetimes to benefit various influential figures - including Professor X, Magneto, and even Apocalypse.]]
387* LethalChef: A long-running joke is Moira and her coffee. If there was a complaint desk in Excalibur's Muir Island base, probably this would be on the top. To the extent that when Kitty volunteered to take Pete Wisdom to London to check on a friend of his, Brian told him "Buy some coffee while you're there! We've run out of Rory's good stuff." And it didn't even escape Xavier's notice. He once quipped that Jubilee was using Moira's coffee to lubricate her roller skates, and also remarked on it during a video-phone call with Moira:
388-->'''Moira:''' Och, it's noon and I'm still barely up. It's the break o' dawn wi' you and ye look fresh as a daisy. Ye make me sick, Charles Xavier.
389-->'''Professor X:''' No, Moira. It's your '''coffee''' that makes you sick.
390* LikeASonToMe: A few days with Jean (or Phoenix-pretending-to-be-Jean) has her saying Jean was like a daughter to her. ''Then'' we learn about the identity of that "Mutant X" in the basement.
391* LivingADoubleLife: For reasons currently unrevealed, [[spoiler: Moira spent decades pretending to be a baseline human when she was in fact a mutant all along]].
392* LogicalWeakness: Mutant powers typically manifest at puberty. Moira's reborn with the memories and skills from her previous lives, but if she dies before puberty her BornAgainImmortality won't trigger to save her. As Destiny points out, sooner or later, her immortality will end.
393* MamaBear: Do ''not'' mess with her students if you value your life. Subverted in her relationship with her supervillain mutant son Proteus, though.
394* TheMaidenNameDebate: Kept her ex-husbands last name to spite their marriage being unloving and abusive.
395* MentalTimeTravel: Mechanically speaking, her power is to send her mind back in time at the moment she dies.
396* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Her robotic body isn't technically an Omega Sentinel and it's actually an unique creation she co-created with CEO Arnab Chakladar of the Epiphany corporation after holding him at gunpoint. The body was made from bits and pieces lying around his lab and the two of them were under the time constraints of getting ahead of her terminal cancer and the people hunting her down. Wolverine would lobotomize Arnab and his kids would destroy the lab to prevent new bodies from being made. That said, between Moira's own genius and Orchis's resources, she's been able to upgrade and even rebuild her body after Rogue ripped her apart.
397* OffingTheOffspring: Tries to kill her son Proteus at one point, after he's already murdered at least two people. Cyclops interrupts at the last minute.
398* OlderThanTheyLook: Depending on the artist, Moira often looks like she's in her early 20s to mid 30s. She's supposedly 45+ years old (not counting her 1000+ years of life from her power).
399* OldFlame: Her and Chuck nearly got married, a lifetime ago.
400* OrganizationWithUnlimitedFunding: Apparently the [=MacTaggerts=] were ''very'' well off, given Moira is able to afford that phenomenally large lab facility, and repair it from being utterly trashed several times.
401* ParentalSubstitute: To Rahne Sinclair (Wolfsbane). Also, to a limited extent, to [[ComicBook/XMan Nate Grey]], who came to her looking for a cure to his genetic degeneration a couple of times. The two were moderately close, with Moira seeing helping him as a way to atone for her failing her own son, Proteus, and, hilariously, she once managed to ''scold'' him into submission after his paranoia and HairTriggerTemper, plus taking the account of Spoor (a prisoner on the island) at face value, had resulted in a full-on meltdown. Given that he was biologically 17 but with far less life experience, it was observed that he had literally no idea how to argue back.
402* ProphecyTwist: Destiny told Moira during her third life that she would only live ten lives or eleven "if [she makes] the right choice in the end". [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/Inferno2021 During her tenth life]], she gets depowered by Mystique, implying she could have potentially been resurrected indefinitely had Mystique not done so. [[ComicBook/XLivesAndXDeathsOfWolverine At the end of said life]], Moira gets [[BrainUploading her mind transferred]] to an Omega Sentinel body, thus granting her an "eleventh" life.]]
403* RapeAsDrama: When recounting how Proteus was conceived, it's implied Joseph had raped her after beating her unconscious.
404* Really700YearsOld: [[spoiler:Moira has actually lived through most of her resurrections already, and in one of those resurrections she lived an unnaturally long life thanks to Wolverine's blood and died after well over 1000 years. As this was all before Moira even met Charles Xavier, this places her roughly in the time periods of Apocalypse in terms of her actual]] mental age.
405* ReincarnationRomance: Per ''House of X'', the [[spoiler:reincarnated]] Moira has struck up one of these with none other than [[spoiler:Apocalypse]].
406* TheReveal: ''House of X'' #2 reveals that [[spoiler: she's a mutant, and has influenced Charles Xavier's long-term goals, culminating in the foundation of Krakoa and she's still alive]].
407%%* {{Scotireland}}
408* SameCharacterButDifferent: Her return in [[ComicBook/DawnOfX Dawn of X]] changed her personality so much she isn't recognizable. Moira used to be a friendly TeamMom who cared greatly about the X-Men. After Dawn of X she's much more callous and pragmatic with her relationship with everyone else, and will most likely treat them as just tools. And while classic Moira isn't against fighting, she also was capable of talking things out, such as stopping Nate Grey's attack on Excalibur by ''scolding'' him. Meanwhile, modern Moira is never shown considering solving things peacefully, to the point that when Magneto suggests allying with the machines in ''[[ComicBook/Inferno2021 Inferno]]'', she quickly shuts down the idea. It gets worse considering that since current 616 is her tenth life, it means all this time the personality she showed was only a facade, and yet this causes some serious cases of RetroactiveIdiotBall, such as how a data page from ''Powers of X'' #6 claims she searched for people who are a genetic match for her and Xavier to create powerful mutants, but that doesn't explain why she married Joe [=MacTaggert=] and stayed in an abusive marriage when all she wanted from him was have his child and nothing else.
409* StoryBreakerPower: Her mutant power only activates when she dies, and (supposedly) can only be used 10 times, so while it can't be abused it allows her to reshape the Marvel world very drastically. It allows her to do a MentalTimeTravel to back when she was on her mother's womb, and her many lives show that by making contacts with the right people, such as making Xavier take more extreme points of view or teaming up with Apocalypse, she manages to change the world in drastic ways. This is [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] however, because while she can reshape the path the world takes, she can't control everyone's actions, or predict how the rest of the world will react when she changes the status quo too much, so mutants lost in every life one of her attempts. Regardless, having a power like this is such a huge deal that at the end of ''[[ComicBook/Inferno2021 Inferno]]'' she was depowered, and just to make sure she doesn't get her powers back, she was killed in ''[[ComicBook/XLivesAndXDeathsOfWolverine X Deaths of Wolverine]]'', and a robot with her memories took her place, just so the X-Men have a villain who knows them too well, but who can't reset the world.
410* TeamMom: To the ComicBook/{{Excalibur}} team.
411* TokenHuman: Moira was the X-Men's second human ally and quickly supplanted the first (FBI Agent Fred Duncan) as the X-Men's most important non-mutant friend. [[spoiler:''House of X'' retcons this entirely, revealing that she was actually a mutant the whole time.]]
412* TookALevelInJerkass: Several, after ''Inferno'', dedicating herself to annihilating Mutantkind out of petty spite.
413* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:As of being brought back in ''House of X'', where she is set to play an important yet currently ambiguous role. Also, her entire history has effectively been retconned, and as a result of now being Really700YearsOld she has now had a far more important (yet currently ambiguous) influence over the history of the ''X-Men'' universe.]]
414* WhatTheHellHero: She imprisons her mutant son in a cell and dehumanizes him by referring to him only as Mutant X. Though considering her son was a walking case of WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity it's clear that this was at least ''somewhat'' necessary. Ironically enough, ''X-Men Legacy'' revealed that she was very much in the habit of calling Charles out on this in the early days of him gathering the first class of X-Men.
415[[/folder]]
416
417!!Agents
418[[folder:Judas Traveler]]
419!!Judas Traveler
420[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fa648dde_269c_484a_ac63_0509a84ddfc1.jpeg]]
421 [[caption-width-right:764:]]
422!!!'''Nationality:''' Unknown
423!!!'''Species:''' Human Mutant
424!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''Web of Spider-Man'' #117 (October 1994)
425----
426For Traveller's tropes, see his character sheet [[Characters/SpiderManRoguesGalleryIToZ here]]
427[[/folder]]
428
429[[folder: Woodrow Pequod]]
430!! Woodrow Pequod
431[[quoteright:362:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/28960956_3232_444c_bdec_2bdf63dbf37e.jpeg]]
432 [[caption-width-right:362:]]
433!!!'''Nationality:''' Unknown
434!!!'''Species:''' Human
435!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Astonishing Iceman'' (August, 2023)
436* VillainWithGoodPublicity: He’s in charge of narrative enforcement, which essentially translates to “make Orchis look good and mutants look bad”, all through manipulation. So far this has come in the form of coordinating events to set mutants up.
437[[/folder]]
438
439[[folder:Agent Krol]]
440!!Agent Krol
441[[quoteright:592:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/5c8d28d2_df8f_44c5_ae4f_09dc7ad0b87b.jpeg]]
442 [[caption-width-right:592:]]
443!!!'''Nationality:''' Unknown
444!!!'''Species:''' Human
445!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Dark X-Men'' #1 (August, 2023)
446A former S.H.I.E.L.D. and H.A.M.M.E.R. Agent and robotics expert.
447----
448* MadScientist: He was court-martialed for his extensive testing of the pain thresholds of A.I.
449* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Pretty much the question that came up in regards to his atrocities. His court-martial was indefinitely postponed for some reason. He then was responsible for the deaths of several A.I. individuals during [[ComicBook/IronMan2020Event the A.I. uprising]].
450[[/folder]]
451
452[[folder:Agent Vallens]]
453!!Agent Vallens
454[[quoteright:815:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/182477fb_96b1_4515_b0f6_0d9173c70817.jpeg]]
455 [[caption-width-right:815:]]
456!!!'''Nationality:''' Unknown
457!!!'''Species:''' Human
458!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Dark X-Men'' #1 (August, 2023)
459A sorceress working for Orchis.
460----
461* DealWithTheDevil: She allegedly made this on a mission for power, resulting in the death of several of her fellow agents.
462[[/folder]]
463
464[[folder:Goblin Queen]]
465!!Madelyne Pryor
466[[quoteright:828:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/689c5261_fe11_418a_9c52_0c7dd099795e.jpeg]]
467 [[caption-width-right:828:]]
468!!!'''Nationality:'''
469!!!'''Species:''' Human Mutant (Clone)
470!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Secret Wars'' #2 (May, 2015)
471A Variant of Madelyne Pryor from Earth-91240, and former Baroness of the Limbo Domain on Battleworld, who survived its destruction and wound up on Earth 616 when the Multiverse was reborn.
472----
473* BackForTheDead: Dropped off the face of the Earth after Hopeless' ''All-New X-Men'', she returns in ''Dark X-Men'' vol. 2. She doesn't come out the other side.
474* BroughtDownToBadass: Has long had her mutant powers removed by a derivative of Blightswill, but she couldn't care less because she's well accomplished with her demonic sorcery.
475* EvilTwin: To Maddy of 616, who was already an EvilTwin herself to Jean Grey but had recently performed a HeelFaceTurn. This one however got banished to Limbo and went insane.
476* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Was banished to Limbo some time after arriving on Earth 616. Since Limbo is a large place she didn’t run into anybody and was pretty far gone when Krol and Vallens pulled her out.
477[[/folder]]
478
479[[folder:Director Vulture]]
480!!Adrian Toomes
481[[quoteright:828:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ca7aef5d_9446_4ded_b290_383910a3643e.jpeg]]
482 [[caption-width-right:828:]]
483
484!!!'''Nationality:''' American
485!!!'''Species:''' Human
486!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''The Amazing Spider-Man'' #2 (May 1963)
487An enemy of Spider-Man who joined Orchis after reports of Krakoan medicine being tainted.
488
489[[Characters/SpiderManCentralRoguesGallery See Here]]
490[[/folder]]
491
492[[folder:Jun Wei]]
493!!Jun Wei
494[[quoteright:393:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6cc0d539_a34c_42ab_825f_24b316b9b190.jpeg]]
495!!!'''Nationality:''' American
496!!!'''Species:''' Human
497!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Force'' #45 (September, 2023)
498A mid ranking Hydra Agent who Mikhail Rasputin planned to use to infiltrate Orchis via the Chronicler.
499----
500* BeneathSuspicion: She’s just high ranking enough to be in important Orchis situations but just low enough that no one will notice if she starts behaving differently while under the Chronicler's control.
501[[/folder]]
502
503[[folder:Mister Clean]]
504!!Frank Botham
505[[quoteright:467:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e8c3ea38_6acb_4666_9e2f_bd5e6d4f30f1.jpeg]]
506 [[caption-width-right:467:]]
507!!!'''Nationality:''' Unknown
508!!!'''Species:''' Human
509!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #395 (June, 2001)
510* BaldOfEvil: After Iceman freezes his hair off, he’s completely bald like his namesake.
511* TheDreaded: With his massacre of the London Morlocks counted among 126 mutant deaths, Krakoa considers him to be one of the biggest threats to Mutantkind.
512* NighInvulnerability: He has had his skin chemically altered to withstand loads of punishment.
513[[/folder]]
514
515!!Allies
516!!!MLF
517[[folder:Captain Krakoa II]]
518!!Captain Krakoa II
519[[quoteright:785:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/e6c98272_3683_4cfd_96b4_377f6c9affea.jpeg]]
520 [[caption-width-right:785:]]
521!!!'''Nationality:''' Unknown
522!!!'''Species:''' Enhanced Human
523!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Free Comic Book Day 2023: Avengers/X-Men'' (2023, 2023)
524
525A mysterious ally that Orchis freed from a pod in the sewers. He took the Captain Krakoa identity to use in his FalseFlagOperation against mutant kind.
526----
527For the reveal of Captain Krakoa’s identity [[Characters/MarvelComicsHydra See Here]]
528[[/folder]]

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