In X-Men tradition, the most powerful mutants are categorized as 'Omega mutants', possessing power equal to literal gods. Despite the X-Men franchise existing for 61 years, only a few dozen mutants have been officially declared Omega levelshowing how rare and overwhelming the power wielded by these mutants is. The complete list of X-MenThe series' Omegas include iconic heroes, iconic villains, and some little-known mutants.
Many of the X-Men's Omega mutants come from the recently introduced nation of Arakko, so this list will be split into two parts: Earth mutants (the humanoid heroes and villains most fans will likely recognize) and Arakko mutants (weird new additions and wonderful). that surpass the limits of mutant powers.) We will also cover potential Omega Mutants – the ones who probably deserve the title, even if Marvel hasn't made it official.
Why “Omega Level” can mean slightly different things depending on the comic book era, we'll categorize each Omega as one of three 'types':
- Classic – For most of Marvel's history, X-Men comics have used “omega level” to refer to incredibly powerful mutants, especially those whose upper limits are seemingly impossible to measure.
- Krakoan – X-MenThe Krakoan Era 2019-2024 redefined the category, tightening the rules so that mutants were only considered Omega if their power could not be exceeded in their area, even hypothetically. For example, Magneto has complete control of magnetism – there is no theoretical mutant who can control magnetism in a way that he cannot. The Krakoan method has named only 14 official Omega-level mutants, making this category more exclusive. It can be assumed that Krakoan Omegas also qualify as Classical Omegas, but not vice versa.
- In addition – There have been a handful of mutants who go beyond Omega level, although there is no official term for this status. We only use this category where Marvel has explicitly stated that the character is beyond Omega.
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Corporal (aka Nathan Summers)
Omega Type: Classic
Starting off our list of Earth's Omega-level mutants is Cable. The son of Cyclops and Jean Grey, Cable was created in the future due to contracting a virus that could not be treated in the present. Cable is a telekinetic and telepathic mutant and has claimed in the past to be among the most powerful telepaths on the planet. In fact, he was labeled as an Omega-level mutant for this power in Lonnie Nadler, Zac Thompson, and Germán Peralta. Cable #159.
Sadly, Cable is rarely able to access his full powersas he is forced to dedicate a significant part of them to fighting a techno-organic virus that is constantly replacing his body with machines. Thanks to his ability to shapeshift and control other machines, Cable chose to keep the virus even when he was offered a cure. However, when in full possession of his telepathy, he was able to reach every mind on Earth at the same time.
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Kid Omega (aka Quentin Quire)
Omega Type: Krakoan
A rebellious former student of the Xavier School, Quentin Quire has immense telepathic and telekinetic power, although only his telepathic abilities reach Omega level. Kid Omega is able to use these powers to read and influence other people's minds, in addition to having immense skill in combating other mediums and being naturally protected from telepathic attacks. He is also capable of constructing weapons with astral energy – most commonly a shotgun. Despite apparently not liking the X-Men, he has worked on the cast of Wolverine's X-Force in the past.
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Hope Summers (aka Hope)
Omega Type: Krakoan
Daughter of the Phoenix Force, later raised by Cable, Hope is an experienced soldier who can copy the powers of any mutants in her vicinityincluding assuming multiple powers at the same time. Hope can duplicate powers from a distance and does not deny the target access to their own powers when doing so. She is also bonded to five other mutants known as the Lights, who have a subconscious desire to trust and protect her. Hope is beyond death, but has recently abandoned human form to exist in the extra-reality space known as the White Hot Room.
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Magneto (aka Max Eisenhart)
Omega Type: Krakoan
The X-Men's most iconic villain (despite having spent most of the last few decades as an ally), Magneto has complete control over magnetism. This allows him to control and reshape metal, however, he has discovered many other applications for his powers, from generating force fields to manually pumping his blood around his body after his heart was ripped out by Thanos' uncle Ouranos. Magneto is one of the only non-Arakki mutants to ever sit on his governing body, the Great Ring, and X-Men hinted that it's only a matter of time before his daughter Polaris unlocks the same level of power as the Omega class.
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Brian Morrison
Omega Type: Classic
Brian Morrison is a young mutant who can generate an immense amount of cosmic energy in explosive blasts. After the chaotic emergence of his powers in X-Men: Gold #36 (Marc Guggenheim and Pere Pérez), Kitty Pryde offered him training with the X-Men. It is unknown what Brian chose and how his powers may manifest differently with training.
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Maddie
Omega Type: Classic
Maddie is an Omega-level teleporter, constantly maintaining absolute spatial awareness of a large area around her, with the ability to teleport any object or group of objects within her, likely down to the molecular level. She carries a spear, using her powers to change its angle and direction to always hit her target. New Mutants hero Warlock estimated that in a fight to the death Even Wolverine would only have a 0.0078% chance of survival against her.
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Proteus (Kevin MacTaggert)
Omega Type: Krakoan
The son of former X-Men ally Dr. Moira MacTaggert, Proteus has absolute control of reality in his immediate radius. His powers are so extreme that they quickly deplete his biological form, leaving him in need of new host bodies, which he can possess and use as puppets. His powers can be stopped using metal, although the substance is not immune to his reality-warping powers. Once a villain, Proteus allied himself with the X-Men during the Krakoan Era, becoming an essential part of their Resurrection Protocols, which could bring mutants back from the dead.
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Exodus (also known as Bennet du Paris)
Omega Type: Krakoan
The most powerful telekinetic being in Marvel lore, Bennet du Paris is an ancient mutant born during the 12th century. Exodus can use telekinesis as a blunt instrument, but is also capable of a number of feats, from enhancing his body to superhuman levels to creating objects with psionic power and incredibly delicately manipulating multiple objects at once. Exodus also has the mutant ability to feed on faithwith Sins of the Sinister revealing that with enough followers, Exodus can become a Galactus-level cosmic being.
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Vulcan (aka Gabriel Summers)
Omega Type: Krakoan
The long-lost brother of Scott Summers' Cyclops, Vulcan has complete control over energy. He's capable of everything from throwing rays of cosmic fire to messing with the electrical signals of the human brain. Betrayed by Xavier, Vulcan developed a hatred for the X-Men and briefly became the tyrannical leader of the alien Shi'ar Empire. He was part of the terraforming of Mars in Planet-Sized X-Men #1 (by Gerry Duggan and Pepe Larraz), using his powers in conjunction with other Omega-level mutants.
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Forge
Omega Type: Classic
The latest Omega mutant in X-Men lore, Forge ascended to Omega level in July 2024 X Force #1 (by Geoffrey Thorne and Marcus To.) He achieved this by using a device that increased his power to invent any mechanism, giving him an instinctive understanding of the world's fields of causality. Forge can now instinctively put together a solution to any problembut due to the complexity involved, he doesn't necessarily understand his solutions on a conscious level. He is currently unsure whether he killed fellow hero Surge due to his subconscious designs.
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Iceman (aka Robert 'Bobby' Drake)
Omega Type: Krakoan
A founding member of the X-Men, Iceman has only recently reached his Omega-level potential. Although most fans know that he can turn his body into ice, his expanded powers treat Iceman more like a disembodied consciousness that can project himself into ice constructs. He can create gigantic or tiny bodies, as well as create and utilize multiple bodies at the same time or change his consciousness through large amounts of ice. He has immense control over his form, capable of consciously reconstructing himself at a cellular level.
Iceman can generate and control ice while reducing temperatures at incredibly fast rates. He was able to generate planetary-scale amounts of ice, as well as stop chemical reactions by controlling heat. At his most powerful state, he was able to slow down spacetime itself, stopping time around him.
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Elixir (aka Joshua Foley)
Omega Type: Krakoan
A member of the New Mutants class of 2003, Elixir has complete control over biological life. The Elixir can heal any injury, including the growth of a heart, and can also resurrect individuals from death. He is also capable of causing illness and death, with his skin changing from gold to black depending on whether he is healing or killing. Elixir's abilities increase in scope along with his understanding of biology, and he was instrumental in the X-Men's Resurrection Protocols.
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Storm (also known as Ororo Munroe)
Omega Type: Krakoan
An iconic hero who debuted in 1975 Giant-Size X-Men #1 by Len Wein and Dave Cockrum, Storm controls the weather and atmosphere of the planet around him. Although her basic powers include rising into the wind to fly and striking her enemies with lightning, she is capable of exerting control on a planetary level, creating vast storms, earthquakes, and volcanoes. Storm recently joined the Avengers in Jed MacKay and Ryan North Avengers #17with Thor officially recognizing her as a fellow god.
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Legion (aka David Haller)
Omega Type: Krakoan
Son of Carlos Xavier, Legion has Omega-level ability to generate new superpowers. There is no limit to the strength or variety of powers that Legion can generate and wield, to the point that many of the powers he generates are also Omega level in strength (as he stated in the book by Simon Spurrier and Jorge Molina X-Men: Legacy Vol. 2#5.) For each power, the Legion also creates a new persona to rule it – an effect that may be necessary to control their abilities or may be a side effect of their own mental health issues.
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Monarch (aka James Braddock Jr.)
Omega Type: Krakoan
Brother of Brian Braddock (the former Captain Britain) and Betsy Braddock (the former Psylocke and current Captain Britain), James Braddock Jr. is able to see and influence causality, allowing him to distort reality by pulling ' invisible strings. Monarch can change reality, travel through time, give and receive superpowers, and do essentially anything else, with his powers becoming even stronger (capable of influencing alternate realities) while in the magical location known as Otherworld.
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Mister M (aka Absolon Mercator)
Omega Type: Krakoan
A mysterious mutant, Mister M has complete control of physical matter, expressing himself as an almost omnipotent manipulation of reality. He can resurrect life, give and receive superpowers, and transmute all substances into all other substances. Mister M has few alliances with heroes or villains, preferring to be alone.
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X-Man (aka Nathaniel Grey)
Omega Type: Classic
The genetically engineered son of Cyclops and Jean Grey, Nate Gray was created in an alternate reality but has since become a resident of Marvel's Earth-616. Designed by Mister Sinister to be the most powerful mutant ever born, X-Man has complete control of psionic energy, manifesting as a manipulation of divine reality. He can easily telepathically communicate with entire planets, create constructs from psionic energy, and control everything from complex machines to biological life. During the Age of X-Man event, Nate even created a new reality to house the X-Men's various heroes and villains.
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Matheus Malloy
Omega Type: Beyond Omega
One of the only X-Men characters to be explicitly described as “beyond Omega level” (in Strange X-Men Vol. 3#26by Brian Michael Bendis and Kris Anka), Matthew Malloy has complete control over reality. He can grant himself any power he desires and cannot be killed even if his physical body is destroyed. Matthew's powers surged uncontrollably, and he was only defeated when the mutant hero Tempus traveled back in time, preventing his conception.
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Miranda
Omega Type: Beyond Omega
Despite only existing in the reality of Max Bemis and Michael Walsh, X-Men: the worst X-Man of all time miniseries, Miranda is the bearer of the only official term for mutants beyond the Omega level, with Beast marking her as “Omicron mutant.” Miranda is able to manipulate reality and reconstruct past events, 'editing' the timeline so that it will always be as she made it.
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Jean Gray (Phoenix)
Omega Type: Beyond Omega
Finishing our list of Earth's mutants with the #1 most powerful is Jean Graythe current Phoenix and former Marvel Girl. Founding hero of the X-Men, Jean Gray has immense psychic powers. In the Krakoa Era, it was revealed that she is the creator of the Phoenix Force – a cosmic embodiment of creation that exists outside of time and space. At its most powerful, Jean can not only warp reality, but connect with all realities in the Marvel Universe. Currently at the height of their connection to the Phoenix Force, Stephanie Phillips and Marco Renna Phoenix #5 Recently, Jean was invited to join Marvel's cosmic pantheon, marking her as “the most powerful person in existence.”