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Orchis is an alliance of former members of various organizations, including A.I.M., S.H.I.E.L.D., S.W.O.R.D., S.T.R.I.K.E., Alpha Flight, A.R.M.O.R., and even H.A.M.M.E.R. and HYDRA. They have banded together to champion humanity and oppose the mutants.

In General

• The Alliance: 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.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Share this role with The Quiet Council of Krakoa, Moira X and 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.
• Big Bad Wannabe: 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.
• Bullying a Dragon: 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.
• Category Traitor: Orchis has a number of mutants who joined, such Judas Traveller and later on Sebastian Shaw and Selene.
• Didn't See That Coming: 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.
• Enemy Mine: Orchis includes members of rival organizations with mutually opposing goals such as S.H.I.E.L.D. and Hydra.
• False Flag Operation: A regular tactic they employ is stirring up propaganda framing their enemies for callous massacres.
• Floral Motifs: 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.
• Fun with Acronyms: The first letters of the first names of their divisions spell out "ORCHIS". The first letters of the second names spell out "NIMROD".
• Hijacked by Ganon: It eventually transpires that Orchis is just the latest iteration of the Sentinels trying to eliminate mutants and take over the world.
• The Merch: An in-universe consequence of their Villain with Good Publicity status after the A.X.E.: Judgment Day event. One scene shows a child in an Orchis t-shirt with a Nimrod balloon.
• Motive Decay:
  • 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.
  • 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, Selene, Sebastian Shaw and Firestar are treated like nobility, whereas Orchis grunts are treated like they're picking cotton. Nimrod and Omega Sentinel don't care about their human allies either and would like to see humanity just as dead as mutantkind.
  • 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.
• Legion of Doom: 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 Fall of X hits it’s shown how effective such an alliance can be. Steve Foxe even talks about it in an interview.
  "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."
• Maniac Monkeys: They employ an army of intellectually augmented gorillas who fight for their cause.
• Mook Carryover: The most visible contribution from AIM is their beekeeper suits for mooks, only blood red instead of the usual yellow.
• A Nazi by Any Other Name: 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.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Even outside of being used as pawns by the 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.
• Token Evil Teammate: 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.
• Unwitting Pawn: To 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 Humans Are Bastards 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.
  • Even the Sentinels wind up being this to the Nathaniel Essex's Dominion, who exploits their desire to be part of a "perfect god machine" Hive Mind, because as far as their benefactor is concerned, there's only room for one intelligence on that level of divinity.
• Villain with Good Publicity: invokedOrchis start to move into this territory after helping to fight the Progenitor during the A.X.E.: Judgment Day event. One scene even shows a child wearing The Merch, with a Nimrod balloon on a string.

Members

Killian Devo

Doctor Killian Devo

Nationality: British

Species: Human cyborg

First Appearance: House of X #6 (October, 2019)

"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."

A 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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• Anti-Villain: Despite working to destroy mutantkind, he's really not that bad of a guy and is motivated by 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. And in many ways, he's just as much of a victim of Orchis as the X-Men, being a man brainwashed with Fake Memories and used as a pawn by Omega Sentinel.
• Benevolent Boss: 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.
• 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.
• The Dragon: As the head of Orchis, he is the closest thing to a main villain for Hickman's run so far. Then it turns out he is truly following Omega Sentinel's vision.
• Evil Counterpart: To Professor X, being a bald and disabled Non-Action Guy who leads his team in a fatherly manner, just one that is human and fights against mutants. For added Foil points, where Xavier is working towards benevolent ends but can be a ruthless manipulator, Devo is an Unwitting Pawn and Nice Guy being manipulated into working towards an evil end. Oh, and they both have a powerful woman behind their actions (Moira for Charles, Omega Sentinel for Devo).
• Fake Memories: 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.
• A Father to His Men: He genuinely cares about the men and women under his command and is heartbroken when any of them die fighting the X-Men.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Volta Doom impales him, ending his life.
• Out of Focus: Did basically nothing between 2022's Inferno and his death in April of 2024.
• Set Right What Once Went Wrong: What he thinks he's doing, returning from a Bad Future to save humanity. The truth is more complicated. For one thing, he's not even really a time traveler.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He truly believes that he's doing the right thing, and every action he takes is in the name of saving humanity from a Bad Future where mutants have embraced the ideals of men like Magneto and decimated mankind. Unfortunately, the cause he's fighting for is a lie, and he's an Unwitting Pawn of Omega Sentinel and Nimrod.

Alia Gregor

Doctor Alia Gregor

Nationality: American

Species: Human

First Appearance: House of X #1 (July, 2019)

A 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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• Big Bad Wannabe: When she comes face-to-face with Cyclops to gloat, he just straight up ignores her and asks And Then What? to the other person in the room, Omega Sentinel. Alia doesn't realize this until he points it out.
• Drowning Their Sorrows: 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.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: 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.
• Evil Genius: 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.
• It's Personal: After her husband's death attempting to stop the mutant attack on the Forge, the conflict with mutantkind becomes deeply personal for her.
• Meaningful Name: Her surname is the given name of biologist Gregor Mendel, whereas her husband shares Mendel's surname.
• Moral Myopia: 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.
• Neck Snap: This is how Nimrod kills her after she finds out the truth about Sentinel City.
• Out of Focus: She becomes less and less prominent after succesfully creating Nimrod. She later on appears in Fall of the House of X, where she is killed by Nimrod.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: She succeeds in resurrecting Erasmus in the Nimrod body… only for him to die again almost immediately after to save her, leaving behind a purely robotic Nimrod without her husband's soul.

Erasmus Mendel

Captain Erasmus Mendel / Nimrod

as Nimrod

Nationality: American

Species: Human

First Appearance: House of X #1 (July, 2019)

Erasmus 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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• Badass Normal: Despite being a normal guy, he takes out two X-Men and nearly derails their whole Mother Mold strike mission with his sacrifice.
• Brain Uploading: His wife resurrects him by uploading his mind and soul into a Data Crystal engram that she installs in Nimrod. Unfortunately, thanks to Mystique, he swiftly gets a Mind-Reformat Death, leaving a completely robotic Nimrod whose growth into sentience/sapience is easily manipulated by Omega Sentinel.
• The Brute: He’s Orchis’s muscle and delivers a series of brutal killings at the Hellfire Gala.
• Canon Character All Along: He's really Nimrod. Or rather, Nimrod is the end result of his wife resurrecting Erasmus in a robot body.
• Heroic Sacrifice: 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 he sacrifices his second life to save his wife from Mystique. The second one ends up having some very bad consequences for everyone.
• The Juggernaut: Partially due to being Crazy-Prepared at the Hellfire Gala, nobody can even put a dent on him. He kills several mutants, tanks two Omegas and worfs Cain Marko, a man literally named the Juggernaut, to drive it home.
• Laughably Evil: After becoming Nimrod, he becomes quite amusing for a terrifying mutant killing machine.
• Killed Off for Real: He's revived as Nimrod after his first, human, death. But he's then killed off when he has to sacrifice a Nimrod body to save Orchis from Mystique, leading to a Mind-Reformat Death because the remaining Nimrod didn't have time to copy his memories first.
• Meaningful Name: Fittingly for a scientist, his first name derives from the scholar and philosopher Erasmus, and his surname is shared by biologist Gregor Mendel, a key figure in the study of genetics (and therefore particularly apt for a character fighting the next step in human evolution).
• Mind-Reformat Death: After his mind is successfully uploaded into the newly activated Nimrod, he 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.
• Nice Guy: 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.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: By sacrificing himself again (and permanently this time) to save his wife, he ends up leaving Nimrod 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.

Omega Sentinel

Karima Shapandar / Omega Sentinel

Year 10

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Notable Aliases: Sentinel, X-Girl, Cybergirl

Nationality: Indian

Species: Human/Sentinel hybrid

First Appearance: X-Men Unlimited #27 (June, 2000)

" I don't know whether to pity you or despise you, Doctor Palance. For me, humanity is an aspiration!"

Karima 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. She is also the true founder of Orchis.

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• Agony Beam: Her neural disruptors.
• A.I. Is a Crapshoot: 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.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Ninety years later, she has bright red skin.
• Ambiguously Evil: 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. 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.
• Arm Cannon: Can manifest these from her arm.
• Artificial Human: She's an Omega Prime Sentinel.
• Artificial Limbs: Her limbs are now cybernetic.
• Bald of Evil: Becomes a Rare Female Example of the trope after joining Orchis, as she's now depicted without hair
• BFG: She can manifest these from her hands.
• Big Bad: The true founder of Orchis.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Reprogrammed and possessed by Malice via an uploaded virus. Also, Arkea took control of her once.
• Combat Medic: With the use of nanobots.
• Combo Platter Powers: Karima's cybernetic systems include an internal sensor suite, integral interdiction systems that prevent others from scanning her, a built-in satellite modem, internal hard-drive storage, holographic projectors, a medical scanner, a bio-tagging and tracking system, targeting scanners, and anti-gravity systems permitting flight, a built-in auto targeting system that allows her to track down mutants, as well as threat analysis and counter-measure programs.
• Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: She is forcibly transformed into an Omega Prime Sentinel by Bastion.
• Deceptively Human Robot: Was transformed into an Omega Prime Sentinel in order to hunt down mutants.
• Death of Personality: What being turned into a Prime Sentinel was meant to do. 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.
• Do-Anything Robot: After becoming a Sentinel.
• The Dragon: 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.
• Dragon-in-Chief: 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, she's behind all of Orchis.
• Electronic Eyes: Has a built-in Infrared Xray Camera in her eyes that allow her to scan her opponents and assess their threat.
• Elemental Powers:
  • Fire, Ice, Lightning
  • Shock and Awe: Capable of firing an electrical beam from her hand cannon.
  • Kill It with Fire/Flamethrower: Flamethrowers in her Arm Cannon.
  • Kill It with Ice: Liquid nitrogen.
• Enemy Scan: See Electronic Eyes above.
• Enemy-Detecting Radar: Her Sentinel technology allows her to detect mutants.
• Energy Weapon/Hand Blast
• Evil Counterpart: Inferno makes her one to Moira. Both come back from what to them is a Bad Future 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.
• Face–Heel Turn: 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. Eventually it's confirmed that Karima has been taken over by an alternate future self version of her, who turned fully Sentinel.
• Fair Cop: A former Indian police officer and pretty attractive, even now.
• Fantastic Racism: 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.
• Fighting from the Inside: Sometimes occurs whenever someone hacks into her Omega Sentinel programming.
• Flechette Storm: Her "Penetrator Darts".
• Flying Firepower: She can fly as well.
• Foil: After the reveal that she's actually the Omega Sentinel of a future where mutantkind defeated and destroyed the machines, wiping out the Titan A.I.s with the power of the Phoenix, she's actually one to both Kate Pryde and Rachel Summers - they came back from a Sentinel-dominated future where mutantkind was facing genocide, to Set Right What Went Wrong (in Kate's case, it just split the timeline, until a follow-up story in 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.
• Grand Theft Me: What Arkea does this to her. Also Malice. And Inferno (2021) reveals the Omega from a different timeline did it to mainline Karima too.
• Grew Beyond Their Programming/Do Androids Dream?
• Have You Tried Rebooting?: 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.
• Heads-Up Display: Has these in her Electronic Eyes.
• Healing Factor: 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.
  • Adaptive Ability: Similar to Nimrod, once she's been assaulted in a certain matter, her body develops a counter to that form of assault.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: She sometimes relapses into Sentinel programming.
• Hollywood Cyborg: 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.
• Holographic Terminal/Hologram
• Hyperspace Arsenal: Darts, plasma blades, hologram projections and healing nanobots, all contained within her metallic frame.
• 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.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Has a built-in auto targeting system that allows her to track down mutants.
• I Just Want to Be Normal
• If My Calculations Are Correct: See the Robo Speak trope below, as she's a Robot Girl.
• Infrared Xray Camera: See Electronic Eyes above.
• Insistent Terminology: For a short time, she had a habit of reminding people that it was Detective-Inspector Karima Shapandar.
• Killer Robot: Was transformed into an Omega Prime Sentinel in order to hunt down mutants, but broke free of the programming.
• Laser Blade: Her Plasma Knives.
• Lady of War: A female sentinel who fought far more elegantly than her male counterparts.
• Leotard of Power: Her outfit as a Sentinel does look like leotard.
• Lightning Gun: One of the many powers she would manifest.
• Lightning Bruiser: She moves faster than humanly possible, posseses Super-Strength and her hard endoskeleton makes her ridiculously durable.
• Loss of Identity: She forgot who she was as part of her Sentinel programming.
• Logic Bomb: See A.I. Is a Crapshoot above.
• Machine Monotone: See the Robo Speak trope below.
• Monochromatic Eyes: When possessed by Malice.
• Ms. Fanservice: Ninety years later she wears a skin-tight suit with a massive bust, and the art likes to emphasize that.
• Neuro-Vault: She discovered the Prime Sentinel program, only to realize she was a Manchurian Agent whose anti-mutant programming would kick in if she ever found out about it.
• Nanomachines: Able to implant them in machinery to control them remotely, and is capable of using them to heal herself.
• Ninja Zombie Pirate Robot: Indian police officer turned into a cyborg.
• 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. Because as it turns out she couldn't give a wet slap about humanity either.
• Organic Technology: After her transformation into an Omega Prime Sentinel.
• Power Palms: Her hands turn into energy cannons.
• Plasma Cannon: Her neural disruptors.
• Playing with Fire: Has a built-in flamethrower.
• Really 700 Years Old: 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.
• Robo Cam: Has a built-in Infrared Xray Camera in her eyes that allow her to scan her opponents and assess their threat level.
• Robot Girl: She was transformed into an Omega Prime Sentinel by Bastion of the Operation: Zero Tolerance program.
• Robo Speak: Sometimes relapses into this, as she is a modified Sentinel.
• Rocket Boots: Built in rocket boosters in her legs.
• Sensing You Are Outmatched: Has a threat analysis and counter-measure program.
• Slave Mook: When she was turned into a mutant-hunting Robot Girl by Bastion.
• Snap Back: 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.
• Strapped to an Operating Table: 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.
• Super-Soldier: Was forcibly transformed into an Omega Prime Sentinel.
• Swiss-Army Appendage: Capable of manifesting a cannon from her hands.
• Super-Strength: Advanced cybernetic nanotech responsible for superhuman strength, resistance to injury and regenerative abilities.
• Technopath: She can control machines by infecting them with nanomachines.
• Teleportation: A new feature fixed and augmented by Arkea, Karima's body proved capable of long range instantaneous transport over incredibly vast distances.
• Token Heroic Orc: Formerly. Karima had the distinction of being a Sentinel on the X-Men, using her mutant-hunting abilities for good. Not so much anymore.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: 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. Then it turns out that's an Omega Sentinel of a different timeline.
• Unwilling Roboticization: She was turned into an Omega Sentinel against her will. What, if any, of her is still organic is unknown.
• Walking Armory: Saying she's armed to the teeth would be rather accurate.
• The Woman Behind the Man: She is the true founder of Orchis. Devo is simply the human she used to build the organization. Orchis follows her plans.

Henry Peter Gyrich

Henry Peter Gyrich

Notable Aliases: Secretary Gyrich, Bad News Pete

Nationality: American

Species: Human

First Appearance: Avengers #165 (November, 1977)

"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."

A strong contender for the title of "Evil Counterpart to Nick Fury", 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.

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See Avengers: Support Staff

Doctor Stasis

Doctor Stasis

Nationality: American

Species: Enhanced Human

First Appearance: X-Men #1 (July, 2021)

A scientist who was the chairman of the mysterious Oblivion Institute and director of Orchis' Sixth Petal, Human / Resources.

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See here.

Feilong

Kelvin Heng / Feilong

Nationality: Serbian-Chinese

Species: Self Enhanced-Human

First Appearance: X-Men #1 (July, 2021)

"You mutants are a cancer on humanity, and I am the surgeon."

The 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.

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: His various enhancements had the side effect of turning his hair white and skin fuchsia.
• Arch-Enemy: He considers Tony Stark and himself archenemies but Tony doesn’t want to give him the satisfaction of being his archenemy.
  Feilong: Oh Tony. I think perhaps you are the one I've been waiting for. [Evil Laugh] Finally! I have a worthy nemesis.
• Breath Weapon: After exposing himself to Ruby Quartz polarized cosmic rays, he gained the ability to fire massive, vaporizing energy beams from his mouth.
• Bullying a Dragon: Feilong is a petulant Smug Snake 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.
  Stark: Only the "bravest" try hostile takeovers on Stark companies.
  Feilong: That's true, I think...
  Stark: Obadiah Stane. Of course, he's dead. Justin Hammer. Also... dead.
• But Not Too Foreign: When first introduced, it was mentioned that his father is Chinese and mother is Russian.
• Category Traitor: 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.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: CEO of his own company, Feilong Industries, and also acquired Stark Unlimited in a hostile takeover.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • To Sunfire, being an arrogant and self-centered Asian (Chinese instead of Japanese) superhuman with fire powers, but completely lacking Sunfire's Hidden Heart of Gold.
  • 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.
• Evil Genius: 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.
• Green-Eyed Monster:
  • Had designs to terraform and colonize Mars but the mutants of Krakoa and Arakko beat him to it. To say that he didn't take it well would be a colossal understatement.
  • His parents were mutants who loved him unconditionally. He resented them for his being "normal" and cut ties with them because of it.
• It's All About Me: Believes he's entitled to Mars simply because he wanted it. Thus he considers what the mutants did stealing from him.
• Jerkass: A petty and selfish prick who takes everything way too personally.
  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 were smart enough to leave the few friends and family I have out of business.
• Muggle Born of Mages: 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".
• My Suit Is Also Super: Feilong's wears an armored suit made of sophisticated composite polymers that mimic the appearance of a normal business suit.
  Feilong: My suit is a state-of-the-art armor with unparalleled shields. And that blast you saw was a very special defensive weapon.
• Older Hero Versus Younger Villain: Has this dynamic with Iron Man and the older members of the X-Men, such as Wolverine and Professor X.
  Feilong: Tony, don't obsess over losing the company. It's the way of the world when you're old.
• Professor Guinea Pig: He enhanced himself so he could fight the mutants for "stealing" Mars from him.
• Psychopathic Manchild: 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.
• Rags to Riches: Following on from Riches to Rags. His very wealthy and affluent father disinherited him at 15 (or so he claims). He built a new fortune and became a Self-Made Man.
• Riches to Rags His wealthy and affluent father disinherited him at 15. He built a new fortune and went Rags to Riches again.
  • 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.
• Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Invincible Iron Man (2022) 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 sticking it to Stark and gaining him as an Arch-Enemy.
  Iron Man: Shouldn't you be fighting Toad and Blob up on Mars?
  Feilong: I don't know who they are, because I'm not old.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Becomes one to the Mandarin in the 2022 Invincible Iron Man run as a Mad Scientist well-versed in martial arts and obsessed with perceived shortcomings associated with his pedigree.

M.O.D.O.K.

George Tarleton / M.O.D.O.K.

Notable Aliases: Damocles Rivas

Nationality: American

Species: Cloned human mutate cyborg

First Appearance: Tales of Suspense #93 (September, 1967)

"Mere humans delude themselves if they believe they or their machines are capable of acting faster than the masterful mind of MODOK!"

George Tarleton 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.

See A.I.M.

Moira MacTaggert

Dr. Moira Kinross-MacTaggert (née Kinross)/ Moira X

Nationality: Scottish, Krakoan

Species: Human Mutant

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #96 (1975)

"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, 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."

Introduced as 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 Mystique, and that was that.

...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 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.

Moira has the power of reincarnation, specifically 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.

According 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.

As a major supporting character to the X-Men mythos, Moira has appeared frequently in other media. She was most notably portrayed by Rose Byrne in the X-Men Film Series, appearing in First Class and Apocalypse; this version of the character is a CIA agent rather than a geneticist. Olivia Williams previously portrayed Moira in X-Men: The Last Stand, wherein she resembled her comic book counterpart more closely. Moira also appeared in episodes of X-Men: The Animated Series, as well as various video games including X-Men Legends. Due to all of these adaptations preceding Jonathan Hickman's X-Men run, she is portrayed as a human in every single one.

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• Abusive Parents: 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 Blessed with Suck 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.
• Alliterative Name: Moira MacTaggert.
• Alternate Company Equivalent: She arguably became one for 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 Bigots.
• Amicable Exes: Her and Charles, usually. Really, really subverted after the big retcon, which reveals she can't stand him, and is in fact manipulating him for her own ends.
• And I Must Scream: 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.
• Antiquated Linguistics: When written by Claremont, she could slip into this sometimes. People haven't said "yon" for a while now...
• Arch-Enemy: 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.
• Awful Wedded Life: 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).
• Badass Bookworm: A scientist who doesn't have much problem getting into a fight when she has to.
• Badass Normal: Completely willing to fight a demon with an assault rifle, or tell Wolverine to put out his cigar.
• Bad to the Last Drop: She's talented in multiple areas, but she can't make a decent cup of coffee to save her life.
• Back to the Womb: In House Of X, she's revealed to have the mutant power to reboot the universe every time she dies, essentially granting her Born-Again Immortality via "Groundhog Day" Loop. 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 "Here We Go Again!".
• Battle Butler: Or at least posed as one, rather convincingly.
• Beware the Nice Ones: 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.
• BFG: Always managed to have one of these handy during the nineties. Then again, it was the nineties....
• Birds of a Feather: After enduring several harsh lives she became extremely radicalized, ruthless and violent, making her romanc with Apocalypse in life IX very fitting.
• Blue Blood: 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.
• Born-Again Immortality: Per House of X, this is her mutant power. She gets Past-Life Memories 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 Save Scumming gambits - only work about 10 times before degenerating.
• Brainwashing for the Greater Good: 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 when he found out. And then it turned out it had never actually taken in the first place.
• Brave Scot: More intellectually-inclined that many examples, but damn if she isn't bold.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: In one of her earlier lives, Moira was apparently burned alive by Pyro as a punishment ordered by Mystique and Destiny for trying to develop a mutant cure.
• Child by Rape: 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.
• "Dear John" Letter: She sent one to Charles while he was serving in the army overseas.
• Death by Irony: 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. House of X revealed she didn't die at all - and that she was, in fact, a mutant.
• Demonic Possession: During the Muir Island Saga, she's the Shadow King's main mouthpiece on Muir Island.
• Depending on the Writer: Her attitude towards Proteus.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: She survives long enough to be flown across the Atlantic and dies in Charles's arms.
• Dirty Coward: 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.
• Distaff Counterpart: Became one to Xavier when written by Johnathan Hickman, even took the codename "Moira X".
• Domestic Abuse: Her first husband, a politician named Joseph, was violently abusive to her.
• Dramatic Irony: 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.
• Empowered Badass Normal: As of House of X, Moira was never human but actually a mutant all along, before losing her powers and becoming an Omega Sentinel.
• Evil Is Petty: 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.
• Face–Heel Turn: 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.
• Faking the Dead: House of X #2 revealed that Moria never died at the hands of Mystique, that a Shi'ar golem took her place.
• Family Extermination: Comboed with Well-Intentioned Extremist, as she apparently tried to wipe out the entire Trask bloodline in one of her earlier lives to prevent the creation of Sentinels.
• Friendly Ghost: 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.
• Funetik Aksent: 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.
• Genocide from the Inside: 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. 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.
• Gone Horribly Right: It's also been retconned that both Legion and Proteus were deliberate attempts by Moira and Xavier to create powerful reality warping mutants. Well, they certainly got that.
• "Groundhog Day" Loop: Her 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.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Her abusive first husband Joe MacTaggert convinced her to write Charles a "Dear John" Letter 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.
• Immortal Genius: House of X reveals that she's actually a mutant blessed with Born-Again Immortality by way of "Groundhog Day" Loop. 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.
• Lethal Chef: 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:
  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.
  Professor X: No, Moira. It's your coffee that makes you sick.
• Like a Son to Me: 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.
• Living a Double Life: For reasons currently unrevealed, Moira spent decades pretending to be a baseline human when she was in fact a mutant all along.
• Logical Weakness: 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 Born-Again Immortality won't trigger to save her. As Destiny points out, sooner or later, her immortality will end.
• Mama Bear: Do not mess with her students if you value your life. Subverted in her relationship with her supervillain mutant son Proteus, though.
• The Maiden Name Debate: Kept her ex-husbands last name to spite their marriage being unloving and abusive.
• Mental Time Travel: Mechanically speaking, her power is to send her mind back in time at the moment she dies.
• No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: 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.
• Offing the Offspring: Tries to kill her son Proteus at one point, after he's already murdered at least two people. Cyclops interrupts at the last minute.
• Older Than They Look: 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).
• Old Flame: Her and Chuck nearly got married, a lifetime ago.
• Organization with Unlimited Funding: 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.
• Parental Substitute: To Rahne Sinclair (Wolfsbane). Also, to a limited extent, to 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 Hair-Trigger Temper, 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.
• Prophecy Twist: 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". During her tenth life, she gets depowered by Mystique, implying she could have potentially been resurrected indefinitely had Mystique not done so. At the end of said life, Moira gets her mind transferred to an Omega Sentinel body, thus granting her an "eleventh" life.
• Rape as Drama: When recounting how Proteus was conceived, it's implied Joseph had raped her after beating her unconscious.
• Really 700 Years Old: 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.
• Reincarnation Romance: Per House of X, the reincarnated Moira has struck up one of these with none other than Apocalypse.
• The Reveal: House of X #2 reveals that she's a mutant, and has influenced Charles Xavier's long-term goals, culminating in the foundation of Krakoa and she's still alive.
• Same Character, But Different: Her return in Dawn of X changed her personality so much she isn't recognizable. Moira used to be a friendly Team Mom 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 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 Retroactive Idiot Ball, 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.
• Story-Breaker Power: 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 Mental Time Travel 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 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 Inferno she was depowered, and just to make sure she doesn't get her powers back, she was killed in 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.
• Team Mom: To the Excalibur team.
• Token Human: 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. House of X retcons this entirely, revealing that she was actually a mutant the whole time.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Several, after Inferno, dedicating herself to annihilating Mutantkind out of petty spite.
• Walking 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 Really 700 Years Old she has now had a far more important (yet currently ambiguous) influence over the history of the X-Men universe.
• What the Hell, Hero?: 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 With Great Power Comes Great Insanity 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.

Agents

Judas Traveler

Judas Traveler

Nationality: Unknown

Species: Human Mutant

First Appearance: Web of Spider-Man #117 (October 1994)

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For Traveller's tropes, see his character sheet here

Woodrow Pequod

Woodrow Pequod

Nationality: Unknown

Species: Human

First Appearance: Astonishing Iceman (August, 2023)

• Villain with Good Publicity: 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.

Agent Krol

Agent Krol

Nationality: Unknown

Species: Human

First Appearance: Dark X-Men #1 (August, 2023)

A former S.H.I.E.L.D. and H.A.M.M.E.R. Agent and robotics expert.

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• Mad Scientist: He was court-martialed for his extensive testing of the pain thresholds of A.I.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: 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 the A.I. uprising.

Agent Vallens

Agent Vallens

Nationality: Unknown

Species: Human

First Appearance: Dark X-Men #1 (August, 2023)

A sorceress working for Orchis.

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• Deal with the Devil: She allegedly made this on a mission for power, resulting in the death of several of her fellow agents.

Goblin Queen

Madelyne Pryor

Nationality:

Species: Human Mutant (Clone)

First Appearance: Secret Wars #2 (May, 2015)

A 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.

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• Back for the Dead: 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.
• Brought Down to Badass: 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.
• Evil Twin: To Maddy of 616, who was already an Evil Twin herself to Jean Grey but had recently performed a Heel–Face Turn. This one however got banished to Limbo and went insane.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: 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.

Director Vulture

Adrian Toomes

Nationality: American

Species: Human

First Appearance: The Amazing Spider-Man #2 (May 1963)

An enemy of Spider-Man who joined Orchis after reports of Krakoan medicine being tainted.

See Here

Jun Wei

Jun Wei

Nationality: American

Species: Human

First Appearance: X-Force #45 (September, 2023)

A mid ranking Hydra Agent who Mikhail Rasputin planned to use to infiltrate Orchis via the Chronicler.

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• Beneath Suspicion: 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.

Mister Clean

Frank Botham

Nationality: Unknown

Species: Human

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #395 (June, 2001)

• Bald of Evil: After Iceman freezes his hair off, he’s completely bald like his namesake.
• The Dreaded: With his massacre of the London Morlocks counted among 126 mutant deaths, Krakoa considers him to be one of the biggest threats to Mutantkind.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: He has had his skin chemically altered to withstand loads of punishment.

Allies

MLF

Captain Krakoa II

Captain Krakoa II

Nationality: Unknown

Species: Enhanced Human

First Appearance: Free Comic Book Day 2023: Avengers/X-Men (2023, 2023)

A mysterious ally that Orchis freed from a pod in the sewers. He took the Captain Krakoa identity to use in his False Flag Operation against mutant kind.

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For the reveal of Captain Krakoa’s identity See Here

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