The true identity of Captain Krakoa raises some serious questions in X-Men #6 - larkinswerat1964

The true identity of Captain Krakoa raises some serious questions in X-Work force #6

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X-Men fans have been wondering WHO is low-level the mask of the latest member of the mutant squad, Police captain Krakoa, since his impending introduction to the team was proclaimed with the closed book of his true identity operator central to his story.

Right away, in X-Manpower #6 from writer Gerry Duggan, artists Pepe Larraz and Marte Gracia, and letterer Clayton Cowles, Senior pilot Krakoa's surreptitious identity operator is revealed - and it's a mutant we know quite well, though in a very different circumstance.

Read on to find out about the secret identity of Captain Krakoa, and what the truth could mean for the X-Men going guardant.

Spoilers ahead for X-Men #6

X-Workforce #6 opens with a scene Seth "half-dozen years from now," in the future day of the current Wonder Universe. The scene shows Captain Krakoa rescuing a cat from a tree for a bit girl, immediately embodying one of the most classic superhero tropes to demonstrate his rank as the X-Men's room newest Heron, and showing away his Krakoan plant-based powers.

He then returns to the X-Men headquarters, traveling to Krakoa to meet with the Quiet Council - and in the process revealing that Captain Krakoa is actually Cyclops in a new costume, using Krakoa tech-based powers.

As for why Cyclops has usurped on a new codename ostensibly divested of his actual mutant powers, it all comes down to the Krakoan power of Resurrection.

Obviously, or s time in the sextet-day gap between the 'naturally occurring day' Marvel Universe and the 'six days later' setting of X-Men #6, Water flea died in battle - only instead of both dying and being resurrected on the Q.T., Cyclops' death was public and violent, leading people to witness his demise.

This means that Cyclops toilet't be brought back without informatory the secret of mutant resurrection - something the Quiet Council refuses to allow, forcing Water flea to take on a new dress up and codename to enshroud the secret.

At the equivalent time, connected Mars' moon of Phobos, Sunfire confronts Feilong, who has strike the moon to terraform and colonize it even as mutants wrong-side-out Mars into Planet Arakko - though with the implication that he's planning to transform Mars itself next.

Finally, low that he can't merely be himself, Cyclops tries to set a merging with newsman Phil Urich WHO has been investigation mutation Resurrection of Christ, though Urich cryptically turns him away, leaving Water flea ostensibly lonely and sad, gone from the perch of the team.

The story continues in January 26's X-Men #7, which promises to reveal "the origin of Captain Krakoa."

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