True Believers: What If Legion Had Killed Magneto? #1

(December 2018)

What If Legion Had Killed Magneto? One Dream (Table of Contents: 1)

Legion / comic story / 27 pages (report information)

Script

Benny Powell (credited) (story); Warren Ellis (credited) (dialogue)

Pencils

Hector Gómez (credited)

Inks

John Livesay (credited); Mike Halbleib (credited)

Colors

Sam Parsons (credited)

Letters

Richard Starkings (credited); Comicraft (credited)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Deep in the wintry grasp of World War Two.

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.

Reprints

• from What If...? (Marvel, 1989 series) #77 (September 1995)

Indexer Notes

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