What If...? #77

(September 1995)

What If Legion Had Killed Magneto? One Dream (Table of Contents)

Legion / comic story / 27 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Benny Powell (Story); Warren Ellis (Dialogue)

Pencils:

Hector Gomez

Inks:

John Livesay; Mike Halblieb

Colors:

Sam Parsons

Letters:

Richard Starkings; Comicraft

Content Information

Genre:

superhero

Characters:

Legion; Magneto; X-Men [Professor X; Forge; Cyclops; Jean Grey; Storm; Colossus; Beast; Dazzler; Kitty Pryde]; Trish Tilby; Apocalypse (Villain); Hellfire Club Incorporated [Sebastian Shaw (Villain); Angel (Villain); Iceman (Villain); Gideon (Villain); Candra (Villain); Harry Leland (Villain); Donald Pierce (Villain); Black Tom Cassidy (Villain); Juggernaut (Villain)]; Sabretooth (Villain); Pyro (Villain); Vanisher (Villain); Polaris (Villain); Magda Lehnsherr (Cameo, Flashback); Psylocke (Cameo, Flashback); Bishop (Cameo Flashback); Gabrielle Haller (Cameo, Flashback); Nathan Christopher Summers (Cameo); Rachel Summers (Cameo); Iron Man (Cameo); Generation X [Banshee (Cameo); M; Skin (Cameo); Husk (Cameo); Jubilee (Cameo); Blink (Cameo)]; Guido (Cameo); Fabian Cortez (Cameo); Unus (Cameo); Avalanche (Cameo); Callisto (Cameo); Psylocke (Cameo); Wolverine (Cameo); Sunspot (Cameo); Caliban (Cameo)

Synopsis:

Legion succeeds in killing Magneto in the past (thus negating his own existence as Maggie once saved his mother's life before he was born); Without the polarizing threat of Magneto to make the X-Men strong, they become little more than pro-mutant media figures; Thus, when Apocalypse and his forces attack, the X-Men are ill equipped to deal with the threat; Scott and Jean come out of retirement to join the fight but Jean ends up killing 100,000 people with the Phoenix force; As a result, the world now hates and fears mutants and Scott opens X-Mansion as a school to help repair the rift.

Indexer Notes

Story is based on X-Men (Marvel, 1991 series) #41 and Uncanny X-Men, the (Marvel, 1981 series) #322.