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Everett Thomas / Synch
Nationality: American, Krakoan
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: X-Men (Vol. 2) #36 (September, 1994)
Synch's mutant power gives off a bio-energetic aura that allows him to duplicate the effect of the powers of any superpowered being in his vicinity, and sometimes the power itself, essentially becoming "in synch" with that person. When Synch uses his powers, a multi-colored aura appears around his body.
For tropes regarding Synch, see the Generation X page.
Laura Kinney / Talon
Nationality: American, Krakoan
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: NYX #3 (February, 2004)note , X-Men (2019) #18 February, 2021) note
When Laura Kinney went into the Vault with Synch and Darwin, they ended up spending centuries in there fighting for their lives while only a short time had elapsed on the outside. She and Synch eventually fell in love and became a Battle Couple, but Laura had to sacrifice herself so Synch could escape. With Laura thought dead they fast-tracked her resurrection and there was now a young Laura who did not remember her time in the Vault due to her Cerebro backup only having updated up to before she entered. A year later Forge entered the Vault on a mission to rescue Darwin, only to find that the elder Laura had in fact not died and was being held in stasis by the children of the Vault. She was subsequently rescued, happily reunited with Synch and placed on the X-men team as Talon.
For the main Laura as she originally was and is see here
- Character Death: Her body is destroyed by the High Evolutionary, Synch takes his mind into his to preserve her and in the very next issue her mind is erased because Synch's body can not take the strain of maintaining it.
- Depending on the Artist: Depending on the artist she either looks like a very fit woman in her 40s or she can look like a woman in her 20s who just happens to have some white streaks, a la Rogue.
- Duplicate Divergence: While this Laura is technically the original, Duggan treats them both as Laura that diverged at a point. While Young Laura is pretty much the same as she was before she entered the Vault, this Laura is somewhat grumpy and short with others such as Jubilee, with whom the whole younger Laura is very close. This Laura is much more like Logan than the outgoing Laura we’ve come to know.
- Eternal Love: She and Synch became a Battle Couple while fighting in the Vault for centuries. They both stayed relatively young due to her healing factor.
- Grumpy Old Man: She’s not as patient as her younger self and has a small circle of who she can deal with.
- The Leader: She and Synch are promoted to co-leaders of the X-Men when Jean and Scott step down at the 3rd Gala. They still lead the X-Men when Krakoa falls.
- Older Than They Look: Due to her time in the Vault she’s several hundred (if not thousand) years old but looks like a very fit woman in her 40s or 50s.
- Other Me Annoys Me: She had a talk with her other self and made it short, but was clear with the latter that she didn’t want to know her.
- Satellite Love Interest: Basically served as this to Synch. She did nothing on her own.
- Stuffed into the Fridge: Is basically killed to motivate Synch through tragedy to take the war to Orchis, even though they have nothing to do with her death.
- Wolverine Claws: Well of course. She is the clone of the original.
- You Are in Command Now: She and Synch look genuinely shocked when Jean and Scott step down from the team and leave them as leaders at the third Hellfire Gala. Nonetheless, after Orchis destroys Krakoa as a nation, she takes up the mantle.
Kamala Khan / Ms. Marvel
Nationality: American, Krakoan
Species: Human Mutant-Inhuman Hybrid
First Appearance: Captain Marvel (Vol. 7) #14 (September, 2013)note ; All-New Marvel NOW! Point One #1.NOW (March, 2014)note
An established superhero from New Jersey who died and was resurrected by Krakoa, only to discover that she was a mutant as well as an Inhuman. Unfortunately Krakoa didn’t last long after that as it was surged and destroyed by Orchis. Being the hero she is, Ms. Marvel decided to not walk away from the fight and joined the X-Men.
For tropes regarding Ms. Marvel, see her page.
Rasputin IV
Nationality: Krakoan
Species: Human mutant Chimera
First Appearance: Immoral X-Men #2 (March, 2023)
A refugee from the Sins of Sinister timeline who joined the X-Men after Krakoa was destroyed by Orchis.
- All Your Powers Combined: Colossus's steel form, Shadowcat's intangibility, Unus's nigh-unbreakable forcefields, Quire's Omega-level telepathy and Laura Kinney's healing factor. That being said, as X-Men 27 points out, some templates give her more than others. She gets more from Colossus than Quire for example. From most to least it goes Colossus > Unus > Shadowcat > Quire > Laura Kinney.
- Barrier Warrior: Thanks to Unus's DNA. Oddly, she can use her force fields offensively, while Unus can only use them to protect himself. It's possibly she also has some telekinesis from Quire.
- The Captain: She was specifically bred to be this, albeit one genetically brainwashed into being a puppet serving a horrible mutant-supremacist regime. This is lampshaded: Sinister notes that the figurehead of their army needs to be both a genuinely heroic and inspirational figure who can rally others around her to serve the cause while also being unflinchingly loyal enough to said cause to not get the idea to rebel against her masters, as she is too powerful to control otherwise. For his own purposes, he removed the genetic brainwashing, meaning that she became this for real.
- Captain Patriotic: Sinister designed her personality to be unflinchingly and sincerely dedicated to Krakoa (and in a surprisingly prescient move for him, to make sure she didn't get any ideas like overthrowing everyone else).
- Chrome Champion: She's always in her organic steel form, and was intended to be a hero of Krakoa.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: She spends 900 years in a Crapsack Universe that has perverted the promise of Krakoa in every conceivable way and beyond, all the while following a liar who promised to restore the universe and Krakoa, but was actually just using her in his goal to Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence. She fought tooth and nail against everyone around her as they all had their own agenda and had to watch as Sinister killed Trillions of mutants in his goal. When the Moira engine is reset, she is redirected in the past and gets to experience Krakoa in all its glory. She can’t hide her joy when she sees it. As a bonus, she gets to deliver Sinister to the Quiet Council. Unfortunately, not long after Krakoa falls to Orchis.
- Fatal Flaw: She's overall too trusting. To wit, she trusts Sinister and works with him, thinking that he wished to save the universe. Additionally, when she reappears once the timeline has been reset, she trust Mother Righteous who almost certainly does not have the best intentions. Of course, she's been specifically bred to be trusting to others, especially those in authority over her and who are (supposedly) working in the best interests of Krakoa.
- Gone Horribly Right: Sinister designed her to be his best creation. As he admits in the end, he did too good a job, not even including a self-destruct mechanism (just in case anyone else managed to use it).
- Horrible Judge of Character: Understandable since she's a force-grown clone who has specifically been bred and raised to trust anyone who she is told is an authority with Krakoa's best interests in heart, but she takes Sinister as entirely sincere on account of not having had any experience with him, and since he's her creator has no reason not to trust him. Once she realises he's a self-serving Godhood Seeker, not The Atoner he claims to be, she almost immediately allies with Mother Righteous - not realising that she's another equally villainous Sinister clone.
- In Spite of a Nail: A version of her had previously existed in one of the alternate timelines Moira experienced. Apparently Rasputin is just the inevitable result of Sinister's tinkering.
- Long-Lived: Sinister creates Rasputin 100 years into the future. 900 years later she's exhausted by her ceaseless mission, but has barely aged. Laura Kinney's healing factor presumably helps in that regard, as it's been established that she also ages very slowly.
- No Social Skills: To be fair she spent the first 900 years with a lying Mr. Sinister as her only companion and Kamala is her first actual friend. So when she hears Xavier took memories from Reed Richards it’s all she needs to go into fight mode when the team visits the Fantastic Four. And it takes a good bit to calm her down.
- Restraining Bolt: Initially designed to be conditioned as utterly loyal to Krakoa, Sinister undoes this when he goes rogue, and takes her with him in his escape.
- Rule of Cool: Sinister admits in his notes that while it was difficult getting the Soulsword for her, the end result is worth it.
- Sole Survivor: Due to escaping the timeline, she appears to be the only survivor, with Ironfire and Moira being the only ones left behind.
- Wide-Eyed Idealist: Somehow, nearly a thousand years wandering the nightmare reality Sinister's actions have made does nothing to blunt her unshakable belief everything will work out. Until she realises Sinister's not telling the truth - and even when she does, the equally villainous Mother Righteous is able to manipulate her just as easily
David Alleyne / Prodigy
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: New Mutants (Vol. 2) #4 (October, 2003)
- "I know what The Beast knows about science. I know what Wolverine knows about where limbs snap. Even stuff I can't use, I know. I'm a black belt in psychic warfare. And there's the rest. Oh, the rest. I know how Emma Frost and Scott Summers like to kiss each other. I know how all major X-Men like to wipe themselves. I know lots of stuff."
David had a power to unconsciously copy the knowledge of every person around him for limited amount of time. He lost his abilities during M-Day but would stay at Xavier's and serve as New X-Men's tactician. Later he regained all knowledge he already copied before losing his powers, and become the head of the X-Men's youth division after Schism. During Marvel NOW! he joined the Young Avengers - you should also see his entry on that team's character page to see what he got up to with them. With the founding of Krakoa, David has returned to the mutant fold, having died and regained his powers. He joined the newest iteration of X-Factor, which is dedicated to searching for missing mutants to confirm their deaths for resurrection protocols and hunt down their killers.
For tropes regarding Prodigy, see the New X-Men: Academy X page.
Woofer
Nationality: American
Species: Human Mutant
First Appearance: X-Men #22 (May, 2023)
A mutant from Chicago who was rescued from Orchis by the X-Men. When Orchis destroyed Krakoa and framed Mutantkind, leaving them criminals in the eyes of the law, he was deported to Arakko. Unfortunately Arakko was in the middle of a civil war and not welcoming to their “cousins from Earth”. He was inducted into the X-Men by Kate Pryde as an informant, collecting information of who’s on Arakko and what goes on there.
- Make Some Noise: Emphasis on the word “some”. He’s somewhat of a reversal of Dazzler’s powers in that he can convert light into sound, but they aren’t very strong sounds so he can’t really weaponize it.
- Non-Action Guy: He’s not on the team to fight, he’s on the team to gather information on Arakko.
- Power Incontinence: His power seems to always be on, so he can’t control it very much. Shown when two New Yorkers take pictures with him using the flash. Cue the sound effects.
- Written Sound Effect: The sound his powers make a written as “Pok”.
Carmen "Carm" Maria Cruz
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Children of the Atom #1 (March, 2021)
Carmen Cruz is a member of the Children of the Atom that patterned her look on the X-Men's Gambit.
For tropes regarding Prodigy, see the Children of the Atom page.
