Krakoan Age#Mutant resurrection protocols

After Jonathan Hickman completed his run on Avengers and New Avengers with the 2015 crossover "Secret Wars", he stepped away from Marvel Comics for a time to focus on creator-owned projects. His return was announced in March 2019.{{Cite web |date=20 March 2019 |title=Marvel Comics Announces Jonathan Hickman's Return |url=https://www.cbr.com/marvel-comics-jonathan-hickman-return/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190330071524/https://www.cbr.com/marvel-comics-jonathan-hickman-return/ |archive-date=2019-03-30 |access-date=2019-07-29 |website=CBR}} It was then revealed that he would write two interlocking miniseries called House of X and Powers of X (HOX/POX), with penciling by Pepe Larraz and R. B. Silva respectively.{{Cite web |date=23 March 2019 |title=Marvel Unveils Jonathan Hickman's New X-Men Projects |url=https://www.cbr.com/marvel-jonathan-hickman-x-men-house-of-x-powers-of-x/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331074511/https://www.cbr.com/marvel-jonathan-hickman-x-men-house-of-x-powers-of-x/ |archive-date=2019-03-31 |access-date=2019-07-29 |website=CBR}} This miniseries also marked a company-wide relaunch of the X-Men. To this end, all ongoing X-Men comics – Uncanny X-Men, Mr. and Mrs. X, X-Force, X-23, and the Age of X-Man miniseries – were cancelled.{{Cite web |date=14 May 2019 |title=Hickman Explains Why He Convinced Marvel to Cancel the Entire X-Men Line |url=https://www.cbr.com/hickman-explains-marvel-x-men-line-cancellation/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190723164526/https://www.cbr.com/hickman-explains-marvel-x-men-line-cancellation/ |archive-date=2019-07-23 |access-date=2019-07-29 |website=CBR}} It was subsequently announced in July 2019 at San Diego Comic-Con that there would be six new X-titles as part of Marvel's Dawn of X campaign;{{cite web |date=July 20, 2019 |title=Marvel announces the future of the X-Men with six new titles at SDCC 2019 |url=https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/20/20702170/house-of-x-men-marvel-comics-excalibur-marauders-new-mutants-fallen-angels-x-force-sdcc-2019 |website=Polygon |access-date=June 5, 2024 |archive-date=May 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230516182148/https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/20/20702170/house-of-x-men-marvel-comics-excalibur-marauders-new-mutants-fallen-angels-x-force-sdcc-2019 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |author=Samantha Puc |date=2019-07-20 |title=SDCC '19: DAWN OF X titles revealed! Hickman, Brisson, Howard, Duggan, To, Yu, Kudranski & more creators tackle Marvel's new X-Line |url=https://www.comicsbeat.com/sdcc-19-dawn-of-x-titles-creative-teams-revealed/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220107060856/https://www.comicsbeat.com/sdcc-19-dawn-of-x-titles-creative-teams-revealed/ |archive-date=January 7, 2022 |access-date=2019-09-25 |newspaper=The Beat}} Hickman wrote the flagship title, X-Men (vol 5), during this storyline.{{cite web |date=April 20, 2020 |title=Welcome to the Dawn of X |url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/welcome-to-the-dawn-of-x |access-date=May 10, 2020 |publisher=Marvel Comics |vauthors=Belt R |archive-date=May 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505175019/https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/welcome-to-the-dawn-of-x |url-status=live }} Entertainment Weekly highlighted that the Krakoan Age marked a shift in the X-Men mission statement – "the X-Men stopped being superheroes, and became nation-builders".{{Cite magazine |last=Holub |first=Christian |date=August 17, 2021 |title=Long live the 'House of X': Jonathan Hickman, X-Men collaborators discuss the Krakoa era |url=https://ew.com/books/x-men-comics-writers-highlights-house-of-x/ |access-date=June 6, 2024 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |language=en |archive-date=April 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240418171222/https://ew.com/books/x-men-comics-writers-highlights-house-of-x/ |url-status=live }} On creating a new society, Hickman stated:

I think one of the interesting things about taking all the mutants and making a culture out of it is that a lot of the pre-culture roles that were defined by external forces have to be revisited when the whole thing gets rejected, or replaced, by new ones. Some people who the world called monsters would reveal themselves not to be, and some who were angels would turn out to eventually do the devil's bidding.

In February 2022, Micheal Foulk of The Beat commented that while Hickman was called "Head of X" that he insisted the "new era of X-Men was not his vision alone. The X-Office introduced a human 'power circuit' where writers, editors, and artists worked collectively on every aspect of the new launch, including the direction and execution of the full X-line. The 'X-slack' where writers and artists discussed story arcs and traded characters for books became a common topic in interviews". Following the X of Swords (September – November 2020) crossover event which concluded Dawn of X campaign, the Reign of X publishing initiative was launched in December 2020.{{cite web |title=The 'Reign of X' Brings New X-Men Series From Jonathan Hickman, Gerry Duggan, and More |url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/reign-of-x-xmen-series-jonathan-hickman-gerry-duggan-announcement |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=Marvel Entertainment |language=en |archive-date=September 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230924005157/https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/reign-of-x-xmen-series-jonathan-hickman-gerry-duggan-announcement |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=November 2020 |first=George Marston 25 |date=25 November 2020 |title=Reign of X era to begin in X-Men comics at Marvel |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/reign-of-x-era-to-begin-in-x-men-comics-at-marvel/ |access-date=2020-11-26 |website=Newsarama |language=en |archive-date=November 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129014221/https://www.gamesradar.com/reign-of-x-era-to-begin-in-x-men-comics-at-marvel/ |url-status=live }} Hickman characterized Dawn of X's theme as "foundation" with Reign of X characterized as "expansion".{{Cite web |last=Hassan |first=Chris |date=December 7, 2020 |title=X-Men Monday #86 - Jonathan Hickman & Tini Howard Answer Your X of Swords & Reign of X Questions |url=https://aiptcomics.com/2020/12/07/x-men-monday-86-jonathan-hickman/ |access-date=June 6, 2024 |website=AIPT |language=en-us |archive-date=May 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523105904/https://aiptcomics.com/2020/12/07/x-men-monday-86-jonathan-hickman/ |url-status=live }} X-Men Group Editor Jordan D. White stated that "'Dawn of X' was the start of something big for the mutants, they stopped playing the game the way the humans said they had to play. [...] During 'Dawn' there was still a bit of the shock of 'Is this really happening?' and now in 'Reign' the reality of it has set in and the scope of it can be realized. They have big plans and the resources to carry them out".{{Cite web |last=Arrant |first=Chris |date=February 10, 2021 |title=Inside 'Reign of X' and the future of the X-Men with Marvel editor Jordan D. White |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/reign-of-x-interview-x-men-editor/ |access-date=June 6, 2024 |website=GamesRadar+ |publisher=Newsarama |language=en |archive-date=March 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240302142815/https://www.gamesradar.com/reign-of-x-interview-x-men-editor/ |url-status=live }} The Reign of X phase saw the line come together for the Hellfire Gala (June 2021) event,{{Cite magazine |date=June 23, 2021 |title=Rating the X-Men's high-fashion Hellfire Gala outfits |url=https://ew.com/books/rating-the-best-and-worst-outfits-x-men-hellfire-gala/ |access-date=June 5, 2024 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |language=en |archive-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231014222752/https://ew.com/books/rating-the-best-and-worst-outfits-x-men-hellfire-gala/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Marston |first=George |date=July 23, 2021 |title=X-Men creators want to hold a new Hellfire Gala - and a new X-Men team election - every year |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/x-men-creators-want-to-hold-a-new-hellfire-gala-and-a-new-x-men-team-election-every-year/ |access-date=June 5, 2024 |website=Newsarama |language=en |archive-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231014222752/https://www.gamesradar.com/x-men-creators-want-to-hold-a-new-hellfire-gala-and-a-new-x-men-team-election-every-year/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Kolb |first=Lia |date=June 16, 2021 |title='Planet-Size X-Men' #1 review |url=https://aiptcomics.com/2021/06/16/planet-size-x-men-1-review/ |access-date=June 5, 2024 |website=AIPT |language=en-US |archive-date=May 30, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240530113445/https://aiptcomics.com/2021/06/16/planet-size-x-men-1-review/ |url-status=live }} as well as Jonathan Hickman's departure from the line with the miniseries Inferno (September 2021 – January 2022).{{Cite web |date=2021-08-17 |title=Inferno will be Jonathan Hickman's last X-Men comic for now |url=https://ew.com/books/inferno-jonathan-hickman-last-x-men-comic/ |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=EW |language=en-US |archive-date=August 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210817173733/https://ew.com/books/inferno-jonathan-hickman-last-x-men-comic/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Secundus |first=Robert |date=2021-09-29 |title=Inferno stands to become yet another era-defining X-Men book |url=https://www.polygon.com/comics/22700689/marvel-x-men-inferno-1-review |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=Polygon |language=en-US |archive-date=December 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201160847/https://www.polygon.com/comics/22700689/marvel-x-men-inferno-1-review |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Polo |first=Susana |date=2022-01-05 |title=Inferno puts a button on the X-Men's most riveting era in decades |url=https://www.polygon.com/22867355/x-men-inferno-moira-mactaggert |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=Polygon |language=en-US |archive-date=June 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605180404/https://www.polygon.com/22867355/x-men-inferno-moira-mactaggert |url-status=live }} Following Hickman's departure, X-Men continued as the flagship title but was relaunched as new volume written by Gerry Duggan with art by Larraz.

Reign of X concluded with the twin event series X Lives of Wolverine and X Deaths of Wolverine (January – March 2022), written by Benjamin Percy with X Lives artwork by Joshua Cassara and Federico Vicentini; the majority of the line (aside from X-Men, New Mutants, and Sabretooth) was put on pause during this event.{{Cite magazine |last=Holub |first=Christian |date=September 16, 2021 |title=How the next big X-Men comic event brings a reckoning for Wolverine |url=https://ew.com/books/x-lives-of-wolverine-x-deaths-of-wolverine-comic-benjamin-percy-interview/ |access-date=June 5, 2024 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |language=en |archive-date=June 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605184056/https://ew.com/books/x-lives-of-wolverine-x-deaths-of-wolverine-comic-benjamin-percy-interview/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Diaz |first=Eric |date=November 18, 2021 |title=Benjamin Percy Explores the X LIVES and X DEATHS OF WOLVERINE |url=https://nerdist.com/article/benjamin-percy-wolverine-x-lives-x-deaths-interview-marvel/ |access-date=June 5, 2024 |website=Nerdist |language=en-US |archive-date=November 18, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231118163711/https://nerdist.com/article/benjamin-percy-wolverine-x-lives-x-deaths-interview-marvel/ |url-status=live }} This event served as the foundation of the next phase titled "Destiny of X".{{Cite web |date=2021-11-23 |title=Marvel Hypes a Mysterious New Era for the X-Men in Spring's Destiny of X |url=https://www.cbr.com/marvel-x-men-destiny-of-x-teaser/ |access-date=2021-11-29 |website=CBR |language=en-US |archive-date=April 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420102208/https://www.cbr.com/marvel-x-men-destiny-of-x-teaser/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Schlesinger |first=Alex |date=November 23, 2021 |title='Biggest Wolverine Story of All Time' Promises To Change X-Men Forever |url=https://screenrant.com/x-lives-deaths-wolverine-change-x-men-krakoa/ |access-date=June 5, 2024 |website=ScreenRant |language=en |archive-date=December 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211227084835/https://screenrant.com/x-lives-deaths-wolverine-change-x-men-krakoa/ |url-status=live }}{{cite web |title=The X-Men Enter 'Destiny of X' with New Titles, Team Shakeups, and More |url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/x-men-destiny-of-x-new-titles-team-shakeups-and-more |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=Marvel Entertainment |language=en |archive-date=September 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230921225518/https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/x-men-destiny-of-x-new-titles-team-shakeups-and-more |url-status=live }} This phase included the crossover event A.X.E.: Judgment Day (July – November 2022) which focused on humanity's discovery of the mutant resurrection protocols and the subsequent conflict between the Avengers, the X-Men and the Eternals. This event was written by Kieron Gillen with art by Valerio Schiti.{{Cite web |date=June 29, 2022 |title='Judgment Day' writer Kieron Gillen explains how to build a Marvel crossover worth reading |url=https://ew.com/books/judgment-day-kieron-gillen-how-to-build-a-marvel-crossover/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231004020542/https://ew.com/books/judgment-day-kieron-gillen-how-to-build-a-marvel-crossover/ |archive-date=4 October 2023 |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=EW.com |language=en}} X-Men Red by writer Al Ewing, with art by Stefano Caselli, focused on the terraformed Mars now known as Arrako which became the home of millions of mutants freed during the X of Swords crossover.{{Cite web |last=Liu |first=Narayan |date=2022-01-06 |title=Marvel Mutants Explore Their Very Own Planet in X-Men Red |url=https://www.cbr.com/marvel-x-men-red-mutant-planet/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=CBR |language=en |archive-date=February 12, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220212181927/https://www.cbr.com/marvel-x-men-red-mutant-planet/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Canham |first=David |date=2024-03-13 |title=X-Men: Red by Al Ewing Vol. 4 review |url=https://aiptcomics.com/2024/03/13/xmen-red-by-al-ewing-vol-4-review/ |access-date=2024-06-08 |website=AIPT |language=en-us |archive-date=June 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240608012254/https://aiptcomics.com/2024/03/13/xmen-red-by-al-ewing-vol-4-review/ |url-status=live }} Additionally, Gilleon began writing the Immortal X-Men series with artist Lucas Werneck which focused on the Quiet Council of Krakoa;{{cite web |author=Blum, Jeremy |date=December 8, 2021 |title=New Immortal X-Men Series Brings Kieron Gillen Back to Marvel's Mutants |url=https://www.cbr.com/immortal-xmen-new-marvel-series-2022-gillen-werneck/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221231020206/https://www.cbr.com/immortal-xmen-new-marvel-series-2022-gillen-werneck/ |archive-date=31 December 2022 |access-date=January 2, 2023 |work=CBR}}{{Cite web |author=Adams, Timothy |date=December 8, 2021 |title=Marvel Announces Immortal X-Men Creative Team, Focus on Krakoa's Quiet Council |url=https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/immortal-x-men-creative-team-krakoa-quiet-council/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230519105955/https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/immortal-x-men-creative-team-krakoa-quiet-council/ |archive-date=19 May 2023 |access-date=January 2, 2023 |work=Comicbook}} this series built plot points for the Sins of Sinister (January – April 2023) event which concluded the phase.{{cite web |author= |date=December 8, 2022 |title=Secrets From Mutant History Are Unleashed and Vicious Betrayals Threaten Krakoa's Future in Immortal X-Men |url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/immortal-x-men-kieron-gillen-lucas-werneck-full-announcement |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230320224806/https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/immortal-x-men-kieron-gillen-lucas-werneck-full-announcement |archive-date=20 March 2023 |access-date=January 2, 2023 |work=Marvel}}{{Cite web |author=Lovett, Jamie |date=December 7, 2022 |title=X-Men: Kieron Gillen Sets the Stage for Sins of Sinister (Exclusive) |url=https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/x-men-sins-of-sinister-kieron-gillen-interview-marvel/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231223140536/https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/x-men-sins-of-sinister-kieron-gillen-interview-marvel/ |archive-date=23 December 2023 |access-date=January 2, 2023 |work=Comicbook}}

Mutantkind's unparalleled growth and prosperity on the island nation Krakoa was then threatened by the human supremacist organization Orchis during the Fall of X phase.{{Cite web |title=Everything Revealed About 'Fall of X' at MegaCon 2023 |url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/fall-of-x-everything-revealed-at-megacon-2023 |access-date=2023-04-02 |website=Marvel Entertainment |archive-date=June 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240611011408/https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/fall-of-x-everything-revealed-at-megacon-2023 |url-status=live }} At New York Comic-Con 2022, Duggan commented that "the X-Men have been winning for a long time. How long did you think the villains were going to leave them alone".{{Cite web |last=Lapin-Bertone |first=Joshua |date=2023-07-31 |title=The Marvel U has just changed the future of the X-Men |url=https://www.thepopverse.com/x-men-xmen-marvel-universe-u-hellfire-gala-2023 |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=Popverse |language=en |archive-date=February 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223205652/https://www.thepopverse.com/x-men-xmen-marvel-universe-u-hellfire-gala-2023 |url-status=live }} The final phase was kicked off in the third annual Hellfire Gala (July 2023) which drastically altered the status quo of series;{{Cite web |last=Schedeen |first=Jesse |date=2023-07-26 |title=How X-Men: The Hellfire Gala 2023 Overturns the Mutant Status Quo |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/how-x-men-the-hellfire-gala-2023-overturns-the-mutant-status-quo |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=IGN |language=en |archive-date=June 2, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240602202347/https://www.ign.com/articles/how-x-men-the-hellfire-gala-2023-overturns-the-mutant-status-quo |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=July 27, 2023 |title=The X-Men's Dream Has Died In Fire Again |url=https://gizmodo.com/marvel-x-men-hellfire-gala-2023-spoilers-fall-of-x-1850683260 |access-date=June 6, 2024 |website=Gizmodo |language=en |archive-date=April 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240416232642/https://gizmodo.com/marvel-x-men-hellfire-gala-2023-spoilers-fall-of-x-1850683260 |url-status=live }} this event was written by Duggan, with art by Adam Kubert, Luciano Vecchio, Matteo Lolli, Russell Dauterman, Javier Pina, R.B. Silva, Joshua Cassara, Kris Anka, and Pepe Larraz. This phase then culminated in the dual interconnected miniseries Fall of the House of X and Rise of the Powers of X (January 2024 – May 2024);{{Cite web |date=September 19, 2023 |title=Catch a Glimpse of Marvel's Next Big Thing Ahead of New York Comic Con 2023 |url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/nycc-2023-marvels-next-big-thing-teasers-logos-x-men |access-date=October 10, 2023 |website=Marvel |archive-date=October 17, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231017004802/https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/nycc-2023-marvels-next-big-thing-teasers-logos-x-men |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Schedeen |first=Jesse |date=2024-05-30 |title=Rise of the Powers of X Finale: This Is How the X-Men's Krakoan Age Ends |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/x-men-krakoa-era-ending-explained-powers-of-x |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=IGN |language=en |archive-date=June 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605180935/https://www.ign.com/articles/x-men-krakoa-era-ending-explained-powers-of-x |url-status=live }} Duggan wrote Fall of the House of X with art by Werneck.{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Jim |date=October 14, 2023 |title=NYCC: Marvel Announces New X-Men Titles, Confirming End of Krakoa Era |url=https://www.cbr.com/nycc-marvel-confirms-krakoa-era-end-x-men/ |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=CBR |language=en |archive-date=October 15, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015182507/https://www.cbr.com/nycc-marvel-confirms-krakoa-era-end-x-men/ |url-status=live }} Gillen continued as a main writer on multiple series in this phase such as Rise of the Powers of X with artist R.B. Silva, the ongoing Immortal X-Men conclusion and the limited series X-Men: Forever (March 2024) with artist Luca Maresca.{{Cite web |last=Richards |first=Dave |date=2024-01-05 |title=Rise of the Powers of X Writer Says Goodbye to X-Men's Krakoan Age |url=https://www.cbr.com/x-men-forever-rise-of-powers-of-x-kieron-gillen-interview/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240119144334/https://www.cbr.com/x-men-forever-rise-of-powers-of-x-kieron-gillen-interview/ |archive-date=19 January 2024 |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=CBR |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Jonathan |date=2023-02-03 |title=X-Men's Epic New FALL OF X Era Begins This Spring With BEFORE THE FALL One-Shots |url=https://screenrant.com/xmen-before-fall-one-shots-fall-of-x/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230420194952/https://screenrant.com/xmen-before-fall-one-shots-fall-of-x/ |archive-date=20 April 2023 |access-date=2024-02-27 |website=ScreenRant |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Jonathan |date=2023-11-14 |title=The Final Mysteries of X-Men's Krakoa Era Revealed in X-Men: Forever |url=https://screenrant.com/xmen-forever-final-mysteries-krakoa-era-answers/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231114164603/https://screenrant.com/xmen-forever-final-mysteries-krakoa-era-answers/ |archive-date=14 November 2023 |access-date=2024-02-28 |website=ScreenRant |language=en}} Ewing concluded the ongoing X-Men Red with artist Yildiray Çinar.{{Cite web |last=Cronin |first=Brian |date=2023-09-07 |title=EXCLUSIVE: The X-Men Plot Out the Battle for the Fate of Arakko in X-Men Red |url=https://www.cbr.com/x-men-red-genesis-war-battle-arakko-exclusive/ |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=CBR |language=en |archive-date=September 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230925033529/https://www.cbr.com/x-men-red-genesis-war-battle-arakko-exclusive/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Jonathan |date=2023-12-13 |title=X-Men: Red #18 review |url=https://aiptcomics.com/2023/12/13/x-men-red-18-review/ |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=AIPT |language=en-us |archive-date=June 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240608012253/https://aiptcomics.com/2023/12/13/x-men-red-18-review/ |url-status=live }} The Marvel solicitations for May 2024 showed that every X-Men series would conclude with that month billed as "the 'penultimate' month of the Krakoan Age".{{Cite web |last=Lovett |first=Jamie |date=February 17, 2024 |title=Marvel Cancels All X-Men Comics Ahead of Upcoming Relaunch |url=https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-cancels-all-x-men-comics-ahead-of-upcoming-relaunch/ |access-date=June 10, 2024 |website=ComicBook.com |language=en |archive-date=April 25, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240425233817/https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-cancels-all-x-men-comics-ahead-of-upcoming-relaunch/ |url-status=live }}

Popverse highlighted that the Krakoan Age, from the conclusion of HOX/POX to the last issue X-Men #35 (June 2024), consists of "more than 500 issues" which were released over 56 months "across more than 80 different series. As with Hickman's core ideas for the Krakoa-era relaunch, much of this material remixed existing ideas, tropes, and titles, reusing titles like 'X-Men: Red,' 'Inferno,' and 'Exiles' to new ends, all while advancing the set-up Hickman had created; even when Hickman himself moved on from the franchise midway through the Krakoa era, the line continued as if nothing had changed, thanks to the creative hive mind of writers including Gerry Duggan, Kieron Gillan, Al Ewing, Tini Howard, Si Spurrier, and editor Jordan White".{{Cite web |last=McMillan |first=Graeme |date=June 4, 2024 |title=Marvel's X-Men Krakoan Age 2019 - 2024: An Obituary |url=https://www.thepopverse.com/marvels-x-men-krakoan-age-2019-2024-an-obituary |access-date=June 6, 2024 |website=PopVerse |language=en |archive-date=June 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605034624/https://www.thepopverse.com/marvels-x-men-krakoan-age-2019-2024-an-obituary |url-status=live }} On the change in editorial direction with the next publishing phase, X-Men: From the Ashes, White compared it to Marvel's hard pivot after Grant Morrison's New X-Men run and that ideas from that era "came back around" when "people who loved it started writing comics. And that is where my hope for the future of Krakoa lies – that the people who love it are going to share that love in the future".{{Cite web |last=Hassan |first=Chris |date=June 10, 2024 |title=X-Men Monday #255 - The Jordan D. White X-It Interview |url=https://aiptcomics.com/2024/06/10/x-men-monday-255-jordan-d-white-exit/ |access-date=June 10, 2024 |website=AIPT |language=en-us |archive-date=June 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240610135940/https://aiptcomics.com/2024/06/10/x-men-monday-255-jordan-d-white-exit/ |url-status=live }}

The data pages in each issue contain in-universe "insider information" on "different organizations, teams and characters".{{Cite web |last=Schlesinger |first=Alex |date=March 13, 2022 |title=X-Men Fans Just Found a Way to Reveal the Comics' Secret Redacted Text |url=https://screenrant.com/xmen-orchis-secret-message-marvel-comics/ |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=ScreenRant |language=en |archive-date=April 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409101033/https://screenrant.com/xmen-orchis-secret-message-marvel-comics/ |url-status=live }} They also "include small hints and teases in code-like formatting on the tops and bottoms of the pages".{{Cite web |last=Schlesinger |first=Alex |date=February 28, 2022 |title=X-Men's Relaunch Officially Confirms Corner Boxes Are Returning to Marvel |url=https://screenrant.com/x-men-relaunch-confirms-corner-boxes-returning/ |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=ScreenRant |language=en |archive-date=March 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220309053634/https://screenrant.com/x-men-relaunch-confirms-corner-boxes-returning/ |url-status=live }} Data pages are a trademark design choice of Hickman which he brought to the series in House of X and Powers of X; these pages would then appear throughout the Krakoan Age.{{Cite web |last=Jenkins |first=Zachary |date=January 1, 2021 |title=Exclusive: Jonathan Hickman Talks About Charts |url=https://comicsxf.com/2021/01/01/exclusive-jonathan-hickman-talks-about-charts/ |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=ComicsXF |language=en-US |archive-date=June 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240607231532/https://comicsxf.com/2021/01/01/exclusive-jonathan-hickman-talks-about-charts/ |url-status=live }} Tom Mullers worked with Hickman on "creating the design approach, page layouts and defining the typefaces" used in the Krakoan Age.{{Cite web |last=Dinh |first=Christine |date=October 5, 2020 |title=Tom Muller on Designing the Evolution of X |url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/tom-muller-designing-evolution-x-logo |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=Marvel |archive-date=September 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230926034357/https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/tom-muller-designing-evolution-x-logo |url-status=live }} The pages are mostly black and white to keep a clear "contrast against the art pages", however, each data page also includes a single accent color "to focus readers' attention on content that needs highlighting".{{Cite web |last=Forsythe |first=Dana |date=August 7, 2019 |title=Inside House of X, Powers of X, and graphics that are reshaping the Mutant world |url=https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/inside-house-of-x-powers-of-x-and-graphics-that-are-reshaping-the-mutant-world |access-date=August 4, 2024 |website=SyFy Wire |language=en-US |archive-date=September 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230929042234/https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/inside-house-of-x-powers-of-x-and-graphics-that-are-reshaping-the-mutant-world |url-status=live }} In October 2020, Mullers commented that "Jonathan is very well known for his design and use of data in his storytelling as well – so the lines blur when it comes to say where my work stopped and his began. Safe to say that all the amazing diagrams and stats you see in the Data pages are of Jonathan’s hand". In a January 2021 interview, Hickman stated that he thought data pages "should reflect the particular book and the particular creator". He highlighted that "everyone's data pages are all put together by the bullpen who are working from templates we’ve created. If someone has a special design, like a map or something like that, then the bullpen will give it a shot. Occasionally, I do some of that".

For decades, no firm definition for Omega-level mutant was offered in the Marvel Comics and that term was used whenever a writer wanted audience to know that the character was a big deal, which led several conflicting opinions and debates among fans on who qualified as omega-level. In July 2019, Jonathan Hickman provided an official definition with the help of data page in House of X #1 and listed 14 Omega-level mutants (depicting as the assets of Krakoan Age) alongside their respective power.{{Cite web |last=Jenkins |first=Zachary |date=2022-03-25 |title=One change turned X-Men's Omega Mutants debate into Marvel's greatest asset |url=https://www.polygon.com/22989921/marvel-x-men-all-omega-level-mutants-powers |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=Polygon |language=en-US |archive-date=September 28, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230928202424/https://www.polygon.com/22989921/marvel-x-men-all-omega-level-mutants-powers |url-status=live }}{{cite web|author=Bacon, Thomas |url=https://screenrant.com/xmen-omega-mutants-marvel-comics/ |title=X-Men Finally Defines The Most Powerful 'Omega Mutants' |website=Screen Rant |date=July 26, 2019 |access-date=October 21, 2024}}

Dana Forsythe of SyFy Wire called the inclusion of the data pages "a very Hickman move" and that while "it's been done before (including by Hickman himself in his acclaimed Avengers run)", the "use of non-traditional comics storytelling techniques feel especially intriguing for a Big Two comic". Zachary Jenkins, for ComicsXF, viewed the data pages as a "staple of the Krakoan era" serving as "scene breaks" that "often [recontextual] what readers just saw, or [provide] exposition for what readers are about to see". Alex Schlesinger of Screen Rant highlighted that data pages are used "to convey complex information that couldn't reasonably be put into conversation bubbles on page. These data pages have ranged from Sage's internal analysis of the Krakoan islands operations, to information about the secrets of Moira X's expansive 10 lives, as well as deep dives into the inner workings of one of the X-Men's main enemies, the mutant-hating Orchis". A data page on the Summer House in Hickman's X-Men #1 (vol. 5) drew widespread attention as Jean Grey's bedroom was directly between the bedrooms of Cyclops and Wolverine with internal connecting doors unlike all the other bedrooms in the house.{{Cite web |last=Foulk |first=Micheal |date=2022-03-31 |title=HEROES OF X - 'I Believe In Adaptation' - The Beginnings of the Krakoa Era with Hickman's X-Men |url=https://www.comicsbeat.com/heroes-of-x-i-believe-in-adaptation-the-beginnings-of-the-krakoa-era-with-hickmans-x-men/ |access-date=2024-08-04 |website=The Beat |language=en-US |archive-date=August 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240805001314/https://www.comicsbeat.com/heroes-of-x-i-believe-in-adaptation-the-beginnings-of-the-krakoa-era-with-hickmans-x-men/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Polo |first=Susana |date=2019-10-16 |title=X-Men #1 might have solved the longest-running mutant love triangle |url=https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/16/20916145/x-men-1-wolverine-cyclops-jean-grey-love-triangle-hickman |access-date=2024-08-04 |website=Polygon |language=en-US |archive-date=February 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210218053545/https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/16/20916145/x-men-1-wolverine-cyclops-jean-grey-love-triangle-hickman |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Rich |author-link=Rich Johnston |date=2019-10-17 |title=Cyclops, Wolverine and Jean Grey - Marvel Comics' First Throuple? |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/cyclops-wolverine-jean-grey-marvel-comics-first-throuple/ |access-date=2024-08-05 |website=Bleeding Cool |language=en |archive-date=November 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221117203814/https://bleedingcool.com/comics/cyclops-wolverine-jean-grey-marvel-comics-first-throuple/ |url-status=live }} Critics highlighted further subtext that appeared in the Krakoan Age which implied a throuple between these characters.{{Cite web |last=Schedeen |first=Jesse |date=2019-10-17 |title=X-Men 3-Way? The Internet Thinks Wolverine, Jean Grey and Cyclops Are in a Relationship |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/17/x-men-3-way-the-internet-thinks-wolverine-jean-grey-and-cyclops-are-in-a-relationship |access-date=2024-08-04 |website=IGN |language=en |archive-date=March 14, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314200417/https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/10/17/x-men-3-way-the-internet-thinks-wolverine-jean-grey-and-cyclops-are-in-a-relationship |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Schlesinger |first=Alex |date=2023-11-23 |title=New X-Men Cover Highlights The Sexiest Throuple In Marvel History |url=https://screenrant.com/x-men-cover-highlights-sexiest-throuple-in-marvel-cylops-jean-wolverine/ |access-date=2024-08-04 |website=ScreenRant |language=en |archive-date=August 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240805001222/https://screenrant.com/x-men-cover-highlights-sexiest-throuple-in-marvel-cylops-jean-wolverine/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Stewart |first=Brenton |date=2020-02-27 |title=Scott, Jean & Wolverine: The Poly X-Men Relationship May Have a Queer Twist |url=https://www.cbr.com/scott-jean-wolverine-poly-x-men-relationship-queer-twist/ |access-date=2024-08-04 |website=CBR |language=en |archive-date=March 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311154533/https://www.cbr.com/scott-jean-wolverine-poly-x-men-relationship-queer-twist/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Zaragoza |first=Alex |date=2020-03-03 |title=Wolverine Might Be a Sexually Fluid Mutant in a Throuple—Deal With It |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/akw4pj/wolverine-might-be-a-sexually-fluid-mutant-in-a-throupledeal-with-it |access-date=2024-08-04 |website=Vice |language=en |archive-date=March 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240306042526/https://www.vice.com/en/article/akw4pj/wolverine-might-be-a-sexually-fluid-mutant-in-a-throupledeal-with-it |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Rich |author-link=Rich Johnston |date=2024-05-29 |title=One Last Time For The Cyclops/Wolverine/Jean Grey Throuple (Spoilers) |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/one-last-time-for-the-cyclops-wolverine-jean-grey-throuple-spoilers/ |access-date=2024-08-04 |website=Bleeding Cool |language=en |archive-date=August 1, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240801154134/https://bleedingcool.com/comics/one-last-time-for-the-cyclops-wolverine-jean-grey-throuple-spoilers/ |url-status=live }} Tom Brevoort, the X-Men group editor in the subsequent X-Men: From the Ashes publishing era, stated in 2024 that the throuple did not occur because it was not explicitly stated during the Krakoan Age.{{Cite web |date=2024-05-28 |title=No, Wolverine is not a swinger. At least, according to Marvel's top X-Men editor |url=https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-xmen-wolverine-cyclops-jean-grey-throuple-tom-brevoort/ |access-date=2024-08-05 |website=Popverse |language=en |archive-date=August 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240805001228/https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-xmen-wolverine-cyclops-jean-grey-throuple-tom-brevoort |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Rich |author-link=Rich Johnston |date=2024-05-20 |title=Cyclops, Jean Grey & Wolverine Were Never An X-Men Throuple, Official |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/cyclops-jean-grey-wolverine-were-never-an-x-men-throuple-official/ |access-date=2024-08-05 |website=Bleeding Cool |language=en |archive-date=June 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240616095156/https://bleedingcool.com/comics/cyclops-jean-grey-wolverine-were-never-an-x-men-throuple-official/ |url-status=live }}

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Krakoa is a fictional living island with its main body in the Pacific Ocean not far from Australia; other parts of its landmass are located off the coast of Africa in the mid-Atlantic Ocean. The House of X and Powers of X storyline transformed Krakoa into a sovereign nation state for the entire mutant race.{{Cite journal |last=Butler |first=Brett |date=2020-08-16 |title=The Mutant Land: How the Island Krakoa Dictates the Mutant Society in House of X |url=https://publish.lib.umd.edu/?journal=scifi&page=article&op=view&path[]=519 |journal=MOSF Journal of Science Fiction |language=en |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=75–85 |issn=2474-0837 |access-date=June 5, 2024 |archive-date=May 16, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240516034654/https://publish.lib.umd.edu/?journal=scifi&page=article&op=view&path[]=519 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Polo |first=Susana |date=2019-07-24 |title=Professor X's House of X plan is big, weird, and very, very 'X-Men' |url=https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/24/20701262/house-of-x-marvel-x-men-professor-xavier |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=Polygon |language=en-US |archive-date=August 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230807030811/https://www.polygon.com/2019/7/24/20701262/house-of-x-marvel-x-men-professor-xavier |url-status=live }} Krakoa created additional "Habitat" structures which are self-sustaining environments that are part of its interconnected consciousness. Some of this structures served as embassies around several countries on Earth; Krakoa also expanded to the Blue Area of the Moon, the Green Area on Mars and beyond the solar system, all the while remaining connected to its hive mind via Gateways, which provided ways to instantly travel from one part of Krakoa to another. The gateways can only be accessed by mutants but if a mutant brings a human with them voluntarily, that human must ask for permission from Krakoa to use the gateway.{{Cite web |last=Schlesinger |first=Alex |date=2021-12-23 |title=X-Men's Inferno Finally Reveals How Krakoan Gateways Were Created |url=https://screenrant.com/x-men-inferno-krakoa-gateways-explained-cypher-flowers/ |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=ScreenRant |language=en |archive-date=October 22, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022020544/https://screenrant.com/x-men-inferno-krakoa-gateways-explained-cypher-flowers/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Webber |first=Tim |date=2019-10-16 |title=The X-Men Just Took Over One of Marvel's Most Important Places |url=https://www.cbr.com/x-men-took-over-blue-area-of-the-moon/ |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=CBR |language=en |archive-date=January 13, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210113215920/https://www.cbr.com/x-men-took-over-blue-area-of-the-moon/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Rivera |first=Joshua |date=2021-06-16 |title=The X-Men just made a new planet-sized mark on the Marvel Universe |url=https://www.polygon.com/comics/22537362/x-men-planet-size-marvel-comics-universe |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=Polygon |language=en-US |archive-date=April 10, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240410175231/https://www.polygon.com/comics/22537362/x-men-planet-size-marvel-comics-universe |url-status=live }}

Various pharmaceuticals could also only be produced from flowers grown on Krakoa such as special pills that extend human life by five years, a "universal" antibiotic and a cure for "disease of the mind, in humans" – these pharmaceuticals were only available to nations that recognized Krakoa's sovereignty.Powers of X #4. Marvel Comics.{{Cite web |last=Webber |first=Tim |date=August 3, 2023 |title=The History of Krakoan Medicine, Explained |url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/krakoan-medicine-explained-x-men |access-date=June 5, 2024 |website=Marvel |archive-date=September 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230925174004/https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/krakoan-medicine-explained-x-men |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Sonneville |first=Ryan |date=January 17, 2020 |title=X-Men Foreign Policy #2: How might Krakoa's natural resources guide foreign policy? |url=https://aiptcomics.com/2020/01/17/x-men-foreign-policy-2-how-might-krakoas-natural-resources-guide-foreign-policy/ |access-date=June 5, 2024 |website=AIPT |language=en-us |archive-date=June 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605205433/https://aiptcomics.com/2020/01/17/x-men-foreign-policy-2-how-might-krakoas-natural-resources-guide-foreign-policy/ |url-status=live }} Oliver Sava of The A.V. Club highlighted that "Krakoa's big play for international influence comes via its main exports, miracle drugs for humans"; however, "not every country is interested in these drugs or letting their oppressed mutants escape to Krakoa. Enter: the Marauders, a team of mutant pirates that take these super-drugs into anti-Krakoa countries and pull mutants out".{{Cite web |last=Sava |first=Oliver |date=February 15, 2020 |title=Marauders dominates Dawn Of X with action, treachery, and humor on the high seas |url=https://www.avclub.com/marauders-dominates-dawn-of-x-with-action-treachery-a-1841682023 |access-date=June 6, 2024 |website=The A.V. Club |language=en |archive-date=June 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606013115/https://www.avclub.com/marauders-dominates-dawn-of-x-with-action-treachery-a-1841682023 |url-status=live }} Academic Brett Butler in the Journal of Science Fiction viewed Krakoa as "an integral part of the narrative" commenting that while "Xavier has established the mutant society on Krakoa, the island itself actually controls all of the major aspects of that society".{{rp|76–77}} Butler highlighted that "Hickman and other writers show how mutants declare independence through exclusive trade, create laws and punishment, establish mass transit routes, identify a national language, and negotiate property rights—none of which would be possible without the island of Krakoa providing the means and/or permitting them to do so".{{rp|77}}

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The Quiet Council of Krakoa is a fictional council of mutant superheroes and supervillains which governed mutantkind during the Krakoan Age.{{Cite web |last=Webber |first=Tim |date=February 23, 2023 |title=X-Men: Krakoa's Quiet Council, Explained |url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/x-men-krakoa-quiet-council-members-explained |access-date=June 5, 2024 |website=Marvel |archive-date=March 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329191421/https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/x-men-krakoa-quiet-council-members-explained |url-status=live }}{{cite web |date=December 23, 2021 |title=Marvel Comics March 2022 comics revealed |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/marvel-comics-march-2022-solicitations/ |access-date=December 29, 2022 |website=GamesRadar+ |archive-date=December 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229053852/https://www.gamesradar.com/marvel-comics-march-2022-solicitations/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Sonneville |first=Ryan |date=January 1, 2020 |title=X-Men Foreign Policy #3: What will Krakoa's leadership say about its direction as a state? |url=https://aiptcomics.com/2020/01/24/x-men-foreign-policy-3-what-will-krakoas-leadership-say-about-its-direction-as-a-state/ |access-date=June 5, 2024 |website=AIPT |language=en-us |archive-date=June 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605203930/https://aiptcomics.com/2020/01/24/x-men-foreign-policy-3-what-will-krakoas-leadership-say-about-its-direction-as-a-state/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Zachary |first=Brandon |date=2023-07-13 |title=The X-Men's Nation Has Turned Against its Leaders -- Literally |url=https://www.cbr.com/x-men-immortal-quiet-council-krakoa-turn-marvel/ |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=CBR |language=en |archive-date=September 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230920135327/https://www.cbr.com/x-men-immortal-quiet-council-krakoa-turn-marvel/ |url-status=live }} The twelve-member governing body was divided up into four sections (with three seats each) along with an adjunct section.{{cite web |author=Puc, Samantha |date=September 25, 2019 |title=This page in POWERS OF X #5 might reveal major spoilers for the upcoming DAWN OF X |url=https://www.comicsbeat.com/powers-of-x-5-dawn-of-x-spoilers/ |access-date=December 29, 2022 |work=Comics Beat |archive-date=December 29, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221229051923/https://www.comicsbeat.com/powers-of-x-5-dawn-of-x-spoilers/ |url-status=live }}

The House of X and Powers of X storyline also introduced the mutant resurrection protocols.{{Cite web |last=Outlaw |first=Kofi |date=September 18, 2019 |title=Marvel Has Basically Made the X-Men Immortal |url=https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/marvel-x-men-house-x-5-spoilers-mutant-resurrection-process/ |access-date=June 10, 2024 |website=ComicBook.com |language=en |archive-date=March 3, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303083012/https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/marvel-x-men-house-x-5-spoilers-mutant-resurrection-process/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Schlesinger |first=Alex |date=2021-11-14 |title=X-Men's Resurrection Protocols: How Dead Mutants Are Revived On Krakoa |url=https://screenrant.com/xmen-resurrection-protocols-krakoa-five-dead-mutants-comics/ |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=ScreenRant |language=en |archive-date=September 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230920162003/https://screenrant.com/xmen-resurrection-protocols-krakoa-five-dead-mutants-comics/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=September 18, 2019 |title=The Dead X-MEN Have Returned, Changing Marvel Forever |url=https://screenrant.com/xmen-alive-cloned-house-x-marvel-comics/ |website=ScreenRant |access-date=June 7, 2024 |archive-date=December 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210143649/https://screenrant.com/xmen-alive-cloned-house-x-marvel-comics/ |url-status=live }} A group of mutants known as The Five (Hope Summers, Elixir, Proteus, Egg, and Tempus) working in tandem could resurrect any fallen mutant.{{Cite web |last=Blackwood |first=Anthony |date=October 16, 2019 |title=The 5 Mutants Everyone Is Talking About After 'House of X' and 'Powers of X' |url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/the-5-mutants-everyone-is-talking-about-after-house-of-x-and-powers-of-x |access-date=June 5, 2024 |website=Marvel |archive-date=November 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129002916/https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/the-5-mutants-everyone-is-talking-about-after-house-of-x-and-powers-of-x |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |date=September 21, 2019 |title=House of X: The Five X-Men Behind the Mutant Resurrection Machine |url=https://www.cbr.com/house-of-x-five-x-men-resurrection-machine/ |website=CBR |access-date=June 7, 2024 |archive-date=January 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230126151614/https://www.cbr.com/house-of-x-five-x-men-resurrection-machine/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Abad-Santos |first=Alex |date=2019-09-24 |title=House of X's game-changing twist proves it loves the X-Men as much as fans do |url=https://www.vox.com/2019/9/24/20879975/marvels-house-of-x-5-review-xmen |access-date=2024-06-10 |website=Vox |language=en-US |archive-date=February 24, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240224185730/https://www.vox.com/2019/9/24/20879975/marvels-house-of-x-5-review-xmen |url-status=live }} Susana Polo of Polygon explained that "the Five prepare a viable egg, imbue it with a fallen mutant's DNA – as collected by Mister Sinister's mutant genetic database – and accelerate the growth of the new mutant body to the age the person was when they died. Then Professor X steps in and uses Cerebro to imbue this mutant husk with a 'backup' mind. Apparently he's been creating a backup copy of every mutant mind on the planet every week".{{Cite web |last=Polo |first=Susana |date=2019-09-18 |title=House of X #5 reveals a huge part of Xavier's plan — the secret behind those pod people |url=https://www.polygon.com/2019/9/18/20872315/house-of-x-5-professor-xavier-mutant-x-men-resurrection-marvel-comics |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=Polygon |language=en-US |archive-date=October 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003235940/https://www.polygon.com/2019/9/18/20872315/house-of-x-5-professor-xavier-mutant-x-men-resurrection-marvel-comics |url-status=live }} Alex Abad-Santos of Vox commented that the reinterpretation of the mutants in The Five shows that Hickman "is constantly thinking of news ways to think about these dead-end beings. Like he did with Moira, Hickman has turned Goldballs and his crew of forgotten X-Men into full-fledged characters with intriguing powers. He and his cohort, along with other forgotten mutants, have seemingly become more powerful, but not to the point where their existence breaks storytelling. To do what Hickman did with these esoteric characters offers fidelity to the larger X-Men canon".

During the X-Men: Trial of Magneto (August – December 2021) storyline,{{Cite web |last=Spinelli |first=Dan |date=2022-03-09 |title='X-Men: The Trial of Magneto' is a fascinating, if flawed, Scarlet Witch story |url=https://aiptcomics.com/2022/03/09/x-men-the-trial-of-magneto-is-a-fascinating-if-flawed-scarlet-witch-story/ |access-date=2022-10-08 |website=AIPT Comics |language=en-us |archive-date=October 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231011174032/https://aiptcomics.com/2022/03/09/x-men-the-trial-of-magneto-is-a-fascinating-if-flawed-scarlet-witch-story/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Tabu |first=Hannibal |date=2022-01-02 |title=X-Men: The Trial Of Magneto #5 Review: This Book Is Bad |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/x-men-the-trial-of-magneto-5-review-this-book-is-bad/ |access-date=2022-10-08 |website=Bleeding Cool News And Rumors |language=en |archive-date=February 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240223223029/https://bleedingcool.com/comics/x-men-the-trial-of-magneto-5-review-this-book-is-bad/ |url-status=live }} Scarlet Witch worked with the mutants Polaris, Legion, and Proteus to increase the capabilities of the resurrection protocols. She was able to create a pocket dimension "Waiting Room" which now allows all mutants to be resurrected, including those who never manifested their X-gene and those whose minds were not able to be copied to the computer Cerebro. This added twenty million mutants to the queue, including everyone who died on Genosha. Learning this, the mutants of Krakoa who once referred to Wanda as a "Pretender" have forgiven her for the M-Day incident and Exodus himself has given her the new title of "The Redeemer".X-Men: Trial of Magneto #1-5 (Marvel Comics). The protocols remained a secret from the world until X-Men #12 (June 2022), during the Destiny of X phase, when reporter Ben Urich broke the news of the mutant resurrection in the Daily Bugle.{{Cite web |last=Johnson |first=Jim |date=June 28, 2022 |title=The X-Men's Biggest Secret Was Just Revealed to the Marvel Universe |url=https://www.cbr.com/x-men-mutant-resurrection-secret-revealed-ben-urich/ |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=CBR |language=en |archive-date=November 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105181257/https://www.cbr.com/x-men-mutant-resurrection-secret-revealed-ben-urich/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Dodge |first=John |date=June 27, 2022 |title=The X-Men are About to Relive Their Worst Nightmares All Over Again |url=https://www.cbr.com/x-men-resurrection-public-knowledge-human-fears-marvel/ |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=CBR |language=en |archive-date=October 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010074757/https://www.cbr.com/x-men-resurrection-public-knowledge-human-fears-marvel/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Cacciatore |first=Francesco |date=June 27, 2022 |title=The X-Men Reboot's Big Secret Has Been Exposed (And Will Destroy Them) |url=https://screenrant.com/xmen-immortal-secret-revealed-marvel-comics/ |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=ScreenRant |language=en |archive-date=February 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203174032/https://screenrant.com/xmen-immortal-secret-revealed-marvel-comics/ |url-status=live }} Following the Hellfire Gala (July 2023), The Five were trapped in the White Hot Room which effectively ended the mutant resurrection protocols on Earth.{{Cite web |last=Schlesinger |first=Alex |date=2024-05-20 |title=X-Men Can Die Again - After 5 Years, Marvel Strips the X-Men of Their Resurrection Powers |url=https://screenrant.com/x-men-can-die-again-marvel-removes-resurrection-protocols-five-hope/ |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=ScreenRant |language=en |archive-date=May 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240526214424/https://screenrant.com/x-men-can-die-again-marvel-removes-resurrection-protocols-five-hope/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Lapin-Bertone |first=Joshua |date=June 5, 2024 |title=Marvel: X-Men Krakoa Era ending explained from X-Men #35 / Uncanny X-Men #700 |url=https://www.thepopverse.com/marvel-x-men-35-uncanny-700-krakoa-era-ending-explained |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=Popverse |language=en |archive-date=June 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240607043328/https://www.thepopverse.com/marvel-x-men-35-uncanny-700-krakoa-era-ending-explained |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Rich |date=June 5, 2024 |title=Krakoan Era Of Resurrection Has Ended For Mutants (X-Men #35 Spoilers) |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/krakoan-era-resurrection-ended-mutants-x-men-35/ |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=Bleeding Cool |language=en |archive-date=June 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240607113906/https://bleedingcool.com/comics/krakoan-era-resurrection-ended-mutants-x-men-35/ |url-status=live }} During the subsequent X-Men: From the Ashes relaunch in 2024, Resurrection Linked Degenerative Sickness (R-LDS) was introduced as a negative consequence resulting from the use of the mutant resurrection protocols.{{Cite web |last=Adams |first=Tim |date=November 6, 2024 |title=X-Men Reveals Why Magneto Is in a Wheelchair, and It Ties Back to the Krakoan Era |url=https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/x-men-magneto-wheelchair-krakoa-resurrection-protocols-sickness/ |access-date=November 6, 2024 |website=ComicBook.com |language=en-US}}

{{See also|Phalanx (comics)}}

Dominion are the highest fictional forms of "interstellar intelligence within the Marvel Universe"{{Cite web |last=Webber |first=Tim |date=March 22, 2023 |title=X-Men: What Is Dominion? |url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/x-men-dominion-explained |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=Marvel |archive-date=June 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606175655/https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/x-men-dominion-explained |url-status=live }} which have "ascended to a plane that is beyond both space and time"{{Cite web |last=Dodge |first=John |date=2024-02-08 |title=What is the Shocking Truth About the X-Men's Dominion? |url=https://www.cbr.com/x-men-dominion-ai-mutants-resurrection-of-magneto/ |access-date=2024-06-07 |website=CBR |language=en |archive-date=February 25, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240225135627/https://www.cbr.com/x-men-dominion-ai-mutants-resurrection-of-magneto/ |url-status=live }} – Dominionhood has mostly been achieved by machine-based artificial intelligence. Ascension allows it to exist "in its most advanced state across all points in time simultaneously" with "seemingly divine powers". POX showed both the might and the threat of Dominion in the various timelines Moira Mactaggart lived through.{{Cite web |last=Outlaw |first=Kofi |date=January 10, 2024 |title=Marvel's X-Men Officially Reveals New God-Level Villain Enigma |url=https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvels-x-men-villain-enigma-explained-dominion-ai-nathaniel-essex/ |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=ComicBook.com |language=en |archive-date=February 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240209022614/https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvels-x-men-villain-enigma-explained-dominion-ai-nathaniel-essex/ |url-status=live }} Throughout the Krakoan Age, Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex) is obsessed with achieving Dominionhood before machine life. During Immortal X-Men and Sins of Sinister,{{Cite web |last=Webber |first=Tim |date=April 26, 2023 |title=How 'Sins of Sinister' Changed the Marvel Universe |url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/x-men-how-sins-of-sinister-changed-marvel-universe |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=Marvel |archive-date=July 13, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230713005958/https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/x-men-how-sins-of-sinister-changed-marvel-universe |url-status=live }} the knowledge of various Sinister clones "about mutant genes, human augmentation, alien/A.I. potential, and mystical power were all compiled into a master A.I. entity based on Nathaniel Essex himself"; it was later revealed that this entity becomes the Dominion known as Enigma.{{Cite web |last=Webber |first=Tim |date=January 4, 2024 |title=What You Need to Know for 'Fall of the House of X' and 'Rise of the Powers of X' |url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/fall-of-the-house-of-x-rise-of-the-powers-of-x-what-you-need-to-know |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=Marvel |archive-date=March 28, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240328230130/https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/fall-of-the-house-of-x-rise-of-the-powers-of-x-what-you-need-to-know |url-status=live }} Enigma emerges as a major threat across multiple timelines while the X-Men are simultaneously at war with Orchis.{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Rich |date=April 24, 2024 |title=Forget About Orchis, What About All The Dominions? (X-Men Spoilers) |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/forget-about-orchis-what-about-all-the-dominions-x-men-spoilers/ |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=Bleeding Cool |language=en |archive-date=May 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240529125541/https://bleedingcool.com/comics/forget-about-orchis-what-about-all-the-dominions-x-men-spoilers/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Rich |date=March 20, 2024 |title=Today's X-Men Fighting Orchis & Dominion Across Time, Space & Reality |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/todays-x-men-fighting-orchis-dominion-across-time-space-reality/ |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=Bleeding Cool |language=en |archive-date=June 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606175653/https://bleedingcool.com/comics/todays-x-men-fighting-orchis-dominion-across-time-space-reality/ |url-status=live }}

{{see also|Orchis (comics)}}

Orchis is a fictional organization created by writer Jonathan Hickman and artist Pepe Larraz; the organization first appeared in House of X #1 (July 2019). They are a human supremacist group that has antagonized the X-Men at the time when they settled on Krakoa.{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Jonathan |date=September 16, 2023 |title=Who Are Orchis? - Deadliest Villains in X-Men History Explained |url=https://screenrant.com/orchis-xmen-villain-explained-history-fall-x/ |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=Screen Rant |language=en |archive-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231014204544/https://screenrant.com/orchis-xmen-villain-explained-history-fall-x/ |url-status=live }}House of X #1. Marvel Comics.{{Cite web |last=Jackson |first=Sierra |date=November 2, 2023 |title=An X-Men Threat From The Krakoa Era Could Be The New MCU Villains |url=https://www.cbr.com/xmen-orchis-next-mcu-villains/ |access-date=2023-11-14 |website=CBR |language=en |archive-date=June 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240611010930/https://www.cbr.com/xmen-orchis-next-mcu-villains/ |url-status=live }} Throughout the Krakoan Era, Orchis worked towards ending mutantkind which culminates in a devastating attack during the third Hellfire Gala (July 2023) – this launched the final Krakoan Era phase, Fall of X.{{Cite web |last=Schlesinger |first=Alex |date=2024-05-18 |title=X-Men's Era-Defining War Finally Gets an Official Name, Cementing {{as written|I|t's [sic]}} Place In History Books |url=https://screenrant.com/x-men-era-defining-official-name-world-war-orchis-history/ |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=ScreenRant |language=en |archive-date=May 18, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240518164229/https://screenrant.com/x-men-era-defining-official-name-world-war-orchis-history/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Harth |first=David |date=2023-09-29 |title=Orchis Is Not The X-Men's Worst Villain As Fall of X Teased |url=https://www.cbr.com/xmen-comics-orchis-not-worst-villain/ |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=CBR |language=en |archive-date=September 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230930120814/https://www.cbr.com/xmen-comics-orchis-not-worst-villain/ |url-status=live }} Alex Schlesinger of Screen Rant commented that the end of the Fall of X storyline "revealed to the X-Men, Avengers, and the human cohorts within Orchis that the AI faction of Orchis has been working against both humanity and mutantkind all along, attempting to reach ascension through a Dominion. Now, the X-Men, Avengers, and parts of Orchis – like Dr. Alia Gregor and Feilong – are all fighting a multi-front war against the remnants of Orchis. [...] What sets World War Orchis apart is that this war is completely shifting the future of mutantkind, destroying the mutant nation of Krakoa and forcing the mutants of Earth to recalibrate their entire existence".

The White Hot Room is a fictional dimension within the M'Kraan Crystal; it "debuted in a Classic X-Men (1986) #8 story by Chris Claremont, John Bolton, and Glynis Oliver, and it was named for the first time in New X-Men (2001) #152 by Grant Morrison, Marc Silvestri, Joe Weems, and Billy Tan. A dying Jean Grey bonded with the Phoenix Force for the first time in the White Hot Room, which serves as a kind of afterlife and astral waiting room for all past and future hosts of the Phoenix".{{Cite web |last=Webber |first=Tim |date=October 6, 2023 |title=The White Hot Room, Explained |url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/white-hot-room-explained-jean-grey-phoenix-force |access-date=June 6, 2024 |website=Marvel |archive-date=June 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606041747/https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/white-hot-room-explained-jean-grey-phoenix-force |url-status=live }}

During the third Hellfire Gala (July 2023), the mutants of Krakoa were forced through Gateways and initially thought to be lost.{{Cite web |last=Schlesinger |first=Alex |date=2024-06-05 |title=X-Men Concludes Epic 5-Year Reinvention with the Best 2 Words We Were Ever Going to Get |url=https://screenrant.com/x-men-concludes-epic-krakoa-era-best-2-words/ |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=ScreenRant |language=en |archive-date=June 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605152210/https://screenrant.com/x-men-concludes-epic-krakoa-era-best-2-words/ |url-status=live }} However, "Hope Summers, Destiny, Exodus, and thousands of other mutants landed in an arid wasteland. They wandered through the desert until they found Mother Righteous, an ambitious clone of Mister Sinister's late wife". Unbeknownst to them, Mother Righteous had transported Atlantic Krakoa into the White Hot Room which allowed the surviving mutants to rebuild.{{Cite web |last1=Turetsky |first1=Mark |last2=Gorton |first2=Austin |last3=Gorton |first3=Mark Turetsky and Austin |date=2023-11-27 |title=No one else was in the White Hot Room where it happened in Immortal X-Men #17 |url=https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/27/immortal-xmen-17/ |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=COMICSXF |language=en-US |archive-date=June 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606050125/https://comicsxf.com/2023/11/27/immortal-xmen-17/ |url-status=live }} The X-Men trapped in the White Hot Room managed to escape back to Earth and defeat Orchis due to the efforts of Cypher and Rachel Summers. Additionally, Hope Summers sacrificed herself in X-Men: Forever (March 2024 – May 2024) "to rebirth Jean Grey and the Phoenix Force, and while this saved the universe from destruction at the hands of Enigma, it also meant the stranded mutants remained stuck".

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X-Men #35 (June 2024), legacy Uncanny X-Men #700, marked the official end of the Krakoan Age with a brief opening to the White Hot Room. Fifteen years had passed for the mutants within and during this time jump, they flourished in "New Krakoa" while continuing the vision of the original mutant nation.{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Rich |date=June 5, 2024 |title=X-Men Get A Time Jump, No Going Back For Krakoa (X-Men #35 Spoilers) |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/x-men-get-a-time-jump-no-going-back-for-krakoa-x-men-35-spoilers/ |access-date=June 5, 2024 |website=Bleeding Cool |language=en |archive-date=June 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605100532/https://bleedingcool.com/comics/x-men-get-a-time-jump-no-going-back-for-krakoa-x-men-35-spoilers/ |url-status=live }} During this time, "approximately 15 million" mutants were resurrected, including all of the mutants who died at the Hellfire Gala and all of "the Genosha mutants that were slaughtered back in New X-Men #115 (2001)". After briefly visiting Earth, New Krakoa and the majority of its inhabitants return to the White Hot Room permanently. White commented that Gillen pitched changing "the nature of what Krakoa would be" and then "it took a little while to land on it living in the White Hot Room". Bleeding Cool highlighted that in the post-Krakoan Age, the mutants on Earth will mostly be "the fighting X-Men and other hangers-on".{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Rich |date=June 5, 2024 |title=These Mutants Are Confirmed As Staying On Earth (X-Men #35 Spoilers) |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/mutants-confirmed-staying-earth-x-men-35-spoilers/ |access-date=June 5, 2024 |website=Bleeding Cool |language=en |archive-date=June 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605133929/https://bleedingcool.com/comics/mutants-confirmed-staying-earth-x-men-35-spoilers/ |url-status=live }}

Critics praised the Krakoan Age for shifting the status quo for the X-Men and pushing the publishing line towards new storytelling opportunities. Following the release of House of X and Powers of X, Ryan Sonneville of AIPT commented that while the direction "has not been universally loved", it had reinvigorated his "love for the X-Men [...]. Everything felt fresh, different, and for the first time in many years, the Dawn of X launch felt like it was taking the X-Men into new territory".{{Cite web |last=Sonneville |first=Ryan |date=2020-01-10 |title=X-Men Foreign Policy #1: Examining Krakoan international relations |url=https://aiptcomics.com/2020/01/10/x-men-foreign-policy-1-examining-krakoan-international-relations/ |access-date=2024-06-05 |website=AIPT |language=en-us |archive-date=June 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605203930/https://aiptcomics.com/2020/01/10/x-men-foreign-policy-1-examining-krakoan-international-relations/ |url-status=live }} Sonneville noted that while a sovereign mutant state is not "novel" to Marvel Comics, "Krakoa differed from previous attempts at mutant safe spaces by making clear that this nation would be treated as an equal with other states on the international stage" since they "had the means of demanding this level of acceptance in ways previous mutant homelands could not. This nation of Krakoa has been one of the most intriguing elements of the new X-Men books, and the one I have spent hours pondering over the last few months". Academic Kevin Chiat of the University of Western Australia presented a paper on how the Krakoan Age mutants conquered death. He viewed the resurrection protocols as enhancing the drama since it "has opened new science fictional questions for X-Men to explore such as the meaning of spirituality for an Eternal people, questions of identity and the geo-political implications of an oppressed minority suddenly becoming the most powerful nation on the planet. For the X-Men's Krakoan Age, curing death may have secured mutankind's future but it has also created a whole new set of crises to challenge the superhero genre".{{Cite journal |last=Chiat |first=Kevin |date=2023-09-14 |title=The Resurrection Protocols – Conquering the Crisis of Death in Marvel Comics' X-Men's Krakoan Age: Graphic Horizons |url=https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/the-resurrection-protocols-conquering-the-crisis-of-death-in-marv |journal=Graphic Horizons: The Future of Comics in an Intermedial World |location=University of Adelaide |access-date=June 5, 2024 |archive-date=June 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240611011455/https://research-repository.uwa.edu.au/en/publications/the-resurrection-protocols-conquering-the-crisis-of-death-in-marv |url-status=live }} Micheal Foulk of The Beat commented on the "life-altering" impact of the resurrection protocols and how it is also a "metatextual commentary on the revolving door of death in superhero comics".{{Cite web |last=Foulk |first=Micheal |date=February 17, 2022 |title=Heroes of X: Revisiting HOXPOX and Queerly Examining the Past, Present, and Future of the X-Men |url=https://www.comicsbeat.com/heroes-of-x-revisiting-hoxpox-and-queerly-examining-the-past-present-and-future-of-the-x-men/ |access-date=June 8, 2024 |website=The Beat |language=en-US |archive-date=June 11, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240611011443/https://www.comicsbeat.com/heroes-of-x-revisiting-hoxpox-and-queerly-examining-the-past-present-and-future-of-the-x-men/ |url-status=live }} Foulk elaborated:

Superheroes, especially of the mutant variety, had been dying and resurrecting for years with often flimsy explanations. Hickman writes resurrection into the narrative as a physical process that requires specific resources and has both rules and limitations. Resurrection for mutants is especially poignant because while many heroes die in the Marvel Universe, it is only the mutants who are actively hunted, terrorized, and murdered just for existing. While many heroes opt into dangerous situations, the mutants have never been allowed to opt-out.

Oliver Sava of The A.V. Club highlighted that "Dawn Of X has impressively expanded on plot points introduced in HOX/POX". In contrast, Lia Williamson of AIPT felt "the series started to stall a lot" after HOX/POX while Chandler Poling of AIPT viewed X of Swords as "the first misstep" of series with next phase feeling "a little sluggish" until the Hellfire Gala which "brought out all the elements that I love about the X-Men in a way that I never knew I needed".{{Cite web |last1=Williamson |first1=Lia |last2=Sonneville |first2=Ryan |last3=Poling |first3=Chandler |last4=Chan |first4=Madeleine |last5=Canham |first5=David |last6=Coplan |first6=Chris |date=February 10, 2022 |title=Dissecting Jonathan Hickman's 'X-Men' legacy |url=https://aiptcomics.com/2022/02/10/x-men-hickman-era-retrospective/ |access-date=June 6, 2024 |website=AIPT |language=en-us |archive-date=June 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606022150/https://aiptcomics.com/2022/02/10/x-men-hickman-era-retrospective/ |url-status=live }} Poling also stated that when "reflecting on the Hickman run, what stands out to me most is the introduction to the incredible talent that surrounds this era. The incredible work by Leah Williams, Vita Ayala, Russell Dauterman, Pepe Larraz, Al Ewing, Rod Reis, Phil Noto, Gerry Duggan, and others, certified that I will be sticking around".

On the end of Hickman's run in January 2022, Susana Polo of Polygon commented that Hickman's X-Men era was marked by the "misfortune" of beginning right before the COVID-19 pandemic as comics distribution was disrupted and Marvel Comics paused publication for months. However, the era also had good fortune such as a "thriving 'writers room' of creative talent" who dug "deep into the possibilities of the setting's new status quo" and "blockbuster sales". She highlighted how the Krakoan Age evolved from Hickman's original plan:

It's no secret that the powerhouse of the Krakoan era has been a tightly knit group of writers and artists who built out from the ground rules Hickman established [...] to the point where sticking around for a while to play in that world became appealing. And the writer has also spoken candidly about how the Diamond Comics shutdown and Marvel's pause demanded a change in priorities: Any book that ended meant at least two creators out of a job in a very scarce time. Keeping his collaborators in work took precedence over his initially planned timing.

Polo opined that Hickman's "extreme" changes were "perhaps comparable only to the work of Len Wein, Chris Claremont, and Dave Cockrum in their 1975 push to change the series from an allegorical story about a teen superteam to a sci-fi soap opera. The X-Men have not been the same since 2019, and as with all changes to a classic superhero formula, it was exciting to some and infuriating to others". In April 2022, during the launch of Destiny Of X, Oliver Sava of The A.V. Club viewed the next year of the series as an indication of "Jonathan Hickman's big X-periment" longevity and thought that "the line has the creative power to maintain this status quo for at least a few more years", however, it faced corporate obstacles.{{Cite web |last=Sava |first=Oliver |date=April 5, 2022 |title=How to catch up on the X-Men, the most unpredictable of Marvel comics |url=https://www.avclub.com/x-men-destiny-of-x-marvel-where-to-start-1848721219 |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=The A.V. Club |language=en |archive-date=May 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240508032848/https://www.avclub.com/x-men-destiny-of-x-marvel-where-to-start-1848721219 |url-status=live }} Sava also highlighted one the "delightful" aspects of the Krakoan Age was its "fan engagement" since the initial series "got people invested in mutants again" – "Marvel has capitalized on the franchise's passionate fanbase with the annual X-Men election and Hellfire Gala".

In May 2023, George Marston of Newsarama highlighted that "the Krakoa era instantly moved the metaphor of mutantkind as a self-identified reflection of the experiences of marginalized people in a new direction. Rather than being hated and feared by humans, mutants now had to face the perils of not evolving fast enough, not being advanced enough, not taking big enough swings toward the future".{{Cite web |last=Marston |first=George |date=May 11, 2023 |title=Whatever comes after Krakoa, the X-Men cannot go backwards |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/whatever-comes-after-krakoa-the-x-men-cannot-go-backwards/ |access-date=June 6, 2024 |website=GamesRadar+ |publisher=Newsarama |language=en |archive-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601212325/https://www.gamesradar.com/whatever-comes-after-krakoa-the-x-men-cannot-go-backwards/ |url-status=live }} However, after Hickman left the series, Marston thought the story was shifting back towards the traditional conflict with humanity and he hoped that the Fall of X would not lead to the return of the X-Mansion status quo. Marston wrote that while the Krakoan Age was "flawed", it "at least grappled with taking that story a step further. By moving on from the classic 'hated and feared by the humans they protect' theme and redirecting away from humanity as mutantkind's greatest enemy toward the evil future AI Nimrod and the Phalanx, a new fantasy took root in the franchise – one where those who feel the most endangered will outlive their tormentors to face radical and mystifying new horizons under their own agency".

David Harth, for CBR in August 2023, commented that while X-Men (Vol. 6) "sold well", the series felt "less important than when Hickman was writing" the previous volume. He viewed Pepe Larraz as "Marvel's heaviest-hitting penciler" but Gerry Duggan as a "steady hand" instead of a "superstar". Harth opined that the addition of Immortal X-Men by Kieron Gillen and X-Men Red by Al Ewing led to X-Men falling "further in readers' esteem" as "many fans" assumed the new titles "were the important books" because they had the more "A-list writers" even though all three titles had comparable art teams – "Immortal and Red gave readers more of the high-concept plots they were expecting and those books soon became the ones that most people thought of as flagships. X-Men (Vol. 6) was a fun superhero book, but it wasn't the center of the Krakoa Era anymore". However, Harth thought Dungan had the tools to "shine" in the upcoming Fall Of X as a superhero story was what was needed which "should let X-Men (Vol. 6) retake its spot at the top".

Following the conclusion of the Rise of the Powers of X miniseries, Jesse Schedee of IGN highlighted the "immense" cost of defeating both Orchis and Enigma – "the mutant nation is effectively gone, and the vast majority of the world's mutants are still trapped inside the White Hot Room. Earth's mutant population has dwindled once more, and humanity hates and fears them as much as ever". Schedee commented that "on the bright side, while the era of Krakoa has ended, this isn't entirely a return to the usual status quo for the X-Men". Following the conclusion of X-Men #35, Rich Johnston of Bleeding Cool stated that he and many fans would have trouble letting the Krakoan Age go but "with the time jump, Marvel Comics has placed it in a sealed coffin. There is no going back".{{Cite web |last=Johnston |first=Rich |date=June 5, 2024 |title=The Krakoan Age Was Never Going To Last, Official (X-Men #35 Spoilers) |url=https://bleedingcool.com/comics/krakoan-age-never-last-official-x-men-35-spoilers/ |access-date=June 5, 2024 |website=Bleeding Cool |language=en |archive-date=June 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240605115525/https://bleedingcool.com/comics/krakoan-age-never-last-official-x-men-35-spoilers/ |url-status=live }} Johnston commented that Marvel Comics understands how fans cling "to a previous state of storytelling when the comic book moves on". In this case, an in-canon explanation is given for moving the story forwards in the last issue of era – the old Krakoa was heading towards burnout because it was on an unsustainable path even without the interference of Orchis. Whereas, the new Krakoa within the White Hot Room had avoided burnout with "sustainable, low impact growth" with the New Krakoan mutants preferring it to Earth. Alex Schlesinger of Screen Rant highlighted that labelling the mutant society within the White Hot Room as New Krakoa "gives hope to anyone depressed over the transformative era's conclusion with just two simple words". Schlesinger commented that the era ending "is tragic for fans of the transformative reinvention of the X-Men franchise, but the words 'New Krakoa' bring light to a dark period. Even though the Krakoan Age has ended, Krakoa will never be truly destroyed".

Austin Gorton of ComicsXF focused on the art of Krakoa from X-Men (vol. 6) #35 – "there's just something about the final image of Krakoa saying goodbye to the mutants staying behind on Earth to be churned up into the latest relaunch that I find achingly beautiful. There are few words on the page, yet it seems to say so much. It haunts me (in a good way)".{{Cite web |last1=Burt |first1=Stephanie |last2=Dillon |first2=Sean |last3=Gorton |first3=Austin |last4=Grote |first4=Dan |last5=Murray |first5=Jake |last6=Pennington |first6=Latonya |last7=Peppard |first7=Anna |last8=Reck |first8=Adam |last9=Redmond |first9=Scott |date=June 21, 2024 |title=The ComicsXF bullpen share their favorite Krakoa memories |url=https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/21/goodbye-krakoa/ |access-date=June 22, 2024 |website=ComicsXF |language=en-US |archive-date=August 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240805001317/https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/21/goodbye-krakoa/ |url-status=live }} Isaac Jansons, also for Screen Rant, highlighted the "metatexual level" of building stories around conflict and that Marvel can never truly let the X-Men win because they "will never stop publishing X-Men stories".{{Cite web |last=Jansons |first=Isaac |date=June 6, 2024 |title=Marvel Confirms the Bittersweet Way the X-Men Franchise Eventually Has to End |url=https://screenrant.com/xmen-franchise-ending-mutants-bigotry-over-krakoa/ |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=ScreenRant |language=en |archive-date=June 6, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240606152321/https://screenrant.com/xmen-franchise-ending-mutants-bigotry-over-krakoa/ |url-status=live }} Jansons stated that "what the Krakoan Era posits, however, is that said bigotry shouldn't mean that the X-Men can never be happy. That something beautiful, and fragile, and necessarily messy like Krakoa can, and should, be built in opposition to hate, if only for a day". Brandon Zachary of CBR commented that the X-Men for years were splintered and "sidelined in the Marvel Universe" until the Krakoa Age. Zachary highlighted that the formation of a new mutant nation "introduced an openly political subtext into a franchise that has always been rooted in heavy thematic exploration of redemption, hatred, and acceptance" and that the scale of the new direction "gave creators plenty of room to experiment, resulting in an X-Men line that defied expectations and felt wholly unique". He opined that:

The Krakoa Era proves that the X-Men can work in all sorts of styles and genres, all while retaining a core thematic throughline that elevates this series above the rest of the genre. [...] As it approaches its end – and, notably, the era is coming to a close on its own terms – it's worth noting just how successful Krakoa has been in reminding readers of the sheer potential afforded by this corner of the Marvel Universe – and celebrating it for also being a phenomenal piece of comics creation and storytelling across the board".{{Cite web |last=Zachary |first=Brandon |date=2024-01-31 |title=Is The X-Men's Krakoa Era A GOAT Contender? |url=https://www.cbr.com/x-men-krakoa-possibly-greatest-era-of-all-time/ |access-date=2024-06-06 |website=CBR |language=en |archive-date=February 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205045619/https://www.cbr.com/x-men-krakoa-possibly-greatest-era-of-all-time/ |url-status=live }}

In contrast, Graeme McMillan of PopVerse thought that the "bold new direction" of the Krakoan Age "might have been a little too bold, in retrospect". McMillan viewed it as an "uneven" era with an "increasingly messy" second half although he preferred that the Krakoan Age was ambitious with "enough fun touches to enjoy even when the overarching stories fall flat". McMillan highlighted the amount of work that has to be undone to return the line to the basics and the "final year, in which the many dangling plot threads are tied up, feels especially rushed and, at times, anti-climactic – but that might be because it was struggling with an arguably impossible task. [...] The problem, ultimately, might lie at the feet of Jonathan Hickman and the original set up for the Krakoa era. There are a lot of big swings in both House of X and Powers of X that, arguably, were too big for the X-Men to continue to exist in the shared Marvel Universe". Jude Jones of ComicsXF stated that "Krakoa's appeal was less in what it achieved – the main characters and writers were still largely white (though not at all straight [...]), but the themes around culture and assimilation and assertion – these were analogous to the way in which I perceived and interacted with my culture. Krakoa as a concept was messy and incomplete (and, it should be noted, largely conceived and directed by a heterosexual white man); and yet, despite all of that, maybe even because of some of that, it felt genuine and honest in a way so many other comics hadn't".{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Jude |date=June 6, 2024 |title=Krakoa Was for Lovers: How the last 5 years of X-Men stories helped save one writer |url=https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/06/krakoa-was-for-lovers/ |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=ComicsXF |language=en-US |archive-date=June 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240607152949/https://comicsxf.com/2024/06/06/krakoa-was-for-lovers/ |url-status=live }} Jones viewed the "grandiose ideas" as "enticing" but was disappointed by how they were "executed inconsistently" – "what bothered me, especially toward the end, was the lack of originality with which things ended. Big robots and bigots upended by a scrappy, small group of mutants. To begin an era with a paradigm shift, only to end it with a regression to the norm – this, this low aim was sinful". Joe George, for Den of Geek, also highlighted the shortcomings of the Krakoan Age; it had the typical franchise problems such as "messy continuity", too many spin-off books and "needless crossovers".{{Cite web |last=George |first=Joe |date=June 5, 2024 |title=The X-Men Krakoa Era Never Reached Its Full Potential |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/x-men-krakoa-era-comics-never-reached-full-potential/ |access-date=June 7, 2024 |website=Den of Geek |language=en-US |archive-date=June 7, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240607045150/https://www.denofgeek.com/comics/x-men-krakoa-era-comics-never-reached-full-potential/ |url-status=live }} George commented that "Krakoa began with so much more promise" but thought the "primary problem" was that "it never fully embraced or explored its big ideas". George opined that "the Krakoa era offered a brief chance for the franchise to grow in compelling ways, but it fell short, refusing to fully embrace the conceit of mutation and change itself".

Mahmoud Salem of News Line Magazine highlighted that to return the X-Men to the status quo "the Marvel writers' solution to the 'Krakoa mutants problem' seems to be the annihilation of their state and their planetary deportation, with them returning to live in a world that continues to construct a culture of hatred against them". He also reported that, throughout the Krakoan Age, readers have been divided as to whether the storyline is intended as an extended allegory for the state of Israel.{{cite news |last1=Salem |first1=Mahmoud |date=19 June 2024 |title=The Israel of Marvel's X-Men |url=https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-israel-of-marvels-x-men/ |access-date=June 15, 2024 |work=New Lines Magazine |language=en-GB |archive-date=August 5, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240805001222/https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-israel-of-marvels-x-men/ |url-status=live }} Salem opined that "the parable of Krakoa is really a Greek tragedy, one that mirrors the promise of Israel when it was first founded (as a leftist egalitarian nation that even the Egyptian Communist Party supported {{Sic|publically}} at its inception) and what it has become over time". Asher Elbein of Defector viewed the Krakoan Age as "an impressively precision-engineered setup, something that can be plausibly read in multiple ways" where "you can, if you like, interpret it as a metaphor for the promises and failures of Zionism, or ethnonationalism more generally".{{Cite web |last=Elbein |first=Asher |date=April 24, 2024 |title=The Judgment Of Magneto |url=https://defector.com/the-judgment-of-magneto |access-date=July 15, 2024 |website=Defector Media |language=en |archive-date=July 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240715062046/https://defector.com/the-judgment-of-magneto |url-status=live }} Elbein commented that "as time goes on, the beautiful Krakoan dream is brutally undercut by the agendas of the monsters they allow in [...]. You can also read Krakoa just as easily as an invocation of the original Zionist nightmare: a small nation surrounded on all sides by enemies bent on its elimination, who poison its reputation and are ultimately successful in destroying it via brutal sneak attack".

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