One of the X-Men‘s most ruthless villains receives a major redesign that makes him even more terrifying than usual. Humans’ prejudice towards mutantkind is so cruel that it sometimes eclipses the threats of interdimensional tyrants and twisted mutant supremacists. Whereas ultra-powerful villains like Onslaught and Shadow King are bent on destruction, and mutant antagonists like Cassandra Nova and Magneto are motivated by personal vendettas, anti-mutant humans hate Homo Superior out of fear. So, while the X-Men can fight monsters all day long, they can’t punch or blast away the persistent societal bias that drives ordinary citizens to forge weapons of mass extermination out of pure ideological spite.

Human malice has birthed a legion of villains and advanced cybernetic systems specifically designed to achieve the total erasure of mutantkind. Key figures like Bolivar Trask and William Stryker have used their vast resources and public platforms to wage war against mutants. Techno-organic nightmares like Bastion and Omega Sentinel aren’t human, and they end up being an even bigger threat to the world than mutants, but they are living monuments to humanity’s worst impulses, with adaptive algorithms that lead Homo Superior to the brink of extinction.

When humans and machines come together to attack mutants, the X-Men need to act quickly lest they face an apocalyptic event for their species.

Cameron Hodge Returns With A New Design

Gambit Gone #2; Written By Steve Orlando; Art By Edoardo Audino, Gerardo Sandoval, And Feredico Blee

On Earth-295’s war-torn, post-Age of Apocalypse timeline, Cameron Hodge rallies all existing anti-mutant human forces for a final purge against mutantkind. Normally, the Earth-616 version of Hodge is a cyborg with a towering, wire-filled, scorpion-like robotic body and nothing organic other than his human face. On Earth-295, the Age of Apocalypse‘s Cameron Hodge possesses a musclebound body covered with biological spine-like protrusions along his back and the top of his head. His signature round glasses now appear as built-in lenses, and his terrifying face looks more skeletal than ever before, with huge sharp teeth in the form of a permanent grin.

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