A little Genosha & X-men Q & A

[GrizzlyBearTalon]

So I'm reading some old issues of X-men & Astonishing X-men, and they got to the remnants of the fairly recently obliterated island of Genosha. I got to wondering a few things about that country that supposedly boasted a mutant population of 16 million or so.

Question 1
Did the giant skyscraper big daddy wild sentinels leave any survivors or did EVERYONE there die? If there were survivors who were they? Did any really important or remarkable characters die?

Question 2
Now, before Decimation there was somewhere in the neighborhood of what 20 - 30+ million total mutants worldwide and climbing correct? From what I saw most them say 90-99% are simple low level physical mutations leaving them basically defenseless against a Sentinel even in large numbers. What was the point of hyping mutant fear if the majority of them aren't that dangerous?

Question 3
House of M wasn't what I would call great literature but it did remove the whole "way too many mutants" problem Marvel had developed for itself. Do you think Marvel should have kept the massive mutant population or that it was indeed better to trim it down? Do you think they overdid it and that these coming events "Messiah Complex" and current "Endangered Species" story lines were planned or simply a quick fix for going too far? I.E. by nearly wiping out the mutant population and the possibility of any new mutants being born.

[Podmark]

I'll give you a couple of answers:

1. Remarkable character to survive: Emma Frost (via her diamond form), I think Polaris (I can't recall prefectly if she was still there or not, but thats why she went nuts for a while). I think some of the Acolytes survived.
Major characters to die: Magneto (debatable, but was clearly there went things went boom), most of the Acolytes.

2. I don't have a specific answer for this.

3. I'm split on the mutant question. I really liked the idea of a growing mutant species that would very clearly takeover eventually. Plus Morrison's ideas on mutant culture was quite good, and I enjoyed the Institue actually being a real school.
That said I think most of the plots have been tighter and more interesting post decimation and the general direction much more interesting.

My major belief about the results of Messiah Complex is that new mutants will once again be born, but the that majority of depowered mutants will remain that way. So that's bad news for Jubilee, Richtor, and Prodigy fans etc.

[GrizzlyBearTalon]

Ah ok thanks for the reply Podmark!

:gbtclaw

I just now noticed your sig, I started reading New X-men recently. That is probably the reason I noticed it as before well... I had no idea who any of those people in it were.

[Podmark]

Yeah it's New X-Men alright, Murs made it for me.

[murs47]

1. Unus and Callisto also survived, not big name mutants but they've been around forever. Pod pretty much covered the rest.

2. I'll attempt to answer this one. Tension, if there's no tension then things wouldn't be very exciting. Basically an editorial decision. I could be completely wrong though.

3. Other then Grant Morrison, prior to this Carey-Bru-David-Kyle-Yost-Whedon era, the writing for x-men has been average to sometimes above average at best. Which I think is ultimately why the X-titles suffered, not because there were so many mutants. Like Pod said, Morrison made things very interesting. Not really an answer, sorry. :(