Wednesday, April 22, 2009

X-Men - The Twelve



The Twelve unfolded (in January & February 2000). Supposedly lost diaries of the mutant seer Destiny surfaced, telling of twelve beings of fantastic power that could defeat Apocalypse once and for all. The Twelve legend, however, was a ruse created by Apocalypse himself; once the Twelve were assembled, he planned to use them to transform himself into a godlike entity beyond the Celestials. The Twelve, chosen not only for their mutant powers but also for the Jungian quasi-archetypes they represented, consisted of:

* Magneto and Polaris, representing opposing magnetic poles;
* Storm, Sunfire and Iceman, representing elementals;
* Cyclops, Phoenix and Cable, representing family (Father, Mother, Child),
and chosen for the power of the Summers-Grey bloodline;
* Bishop and Mikhail Rasputin, representing time and space, respectively
* Professor X, representing the mind; and
* The Living Monolith as the core.



X-Men - The Twelve

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