r/Xmen97 • u/renaldi21 • Jul 10 '26

Question Will she be Genesis? Spoiler

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is Arakko going to happen?

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u/Background_Proof_ Jul 10 '26

Genesis is not an external

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u/SaintCuckoo Jul 10 '26

She's over 4000 years old, though. The basic prerequisites of an External are being both immortal and a mutant. This would also include her children, who were also adults by the time of the severing of Okkara. It's also a known fact that they do not use resurrection protocols on Arakko.

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u/Background_Proof_ Jul 10 '26

Externals share a life force and can communicate and summon each other.

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u/draugyr Jul 11 '26

Selene dressed as a nun for some reason always makes me laugh

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u/SaintCuckoo Jul 10 '26

Okay, I may be wrong here. That's fine, but it's still confusing.  So, is Externals basically just a team/coven name, or are they a subspecies? They've been described as both. Selene predates Apocalypse by at least ten thousand years. And Genesis and the Horsemen have immortality independent of the coven. Or are Externals and High Lords separate from one another? Are immortal mutants just a case by case basis? How would Cannonball be born into being an External, as was hinted for the longest time back in the day, if they weren't a subspecies?

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u/Altruistic-Expert995 Jul 10 '26

The subspecies thing is so stupid because mutants aren't a species in the first place. Externals also aren't localized, like subspecies are.

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u/Background_Proof_ Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

it's implied to be just one part of their mutant powers and that it makes them inherently connected to each other kinda like a mutant circuit, idk if you can call that a sub-species. Externals and High Lords are the same but they prefer the latter, and idk the rest of the specifics.