Warning: Contains spoilers for Uncanny X-Men #2A spine-tingling nightmare is headed straight for Rogue’s new team of X-Men As “The Hag” hangs innocent mutants – like the newly introduced Outliers – for horrific experimentation. The Existential horror that is the Sentinels is replaced by the supernatural terror of the hagHaunting and hunting mutantkind for villainous humans in Invisible X-Men #2.
For decades now the Sentinels have been a symbol of mutant oppression, and The immense lengths humanity will go to eradicate mutantkind. Now, X-Men’s new demonic villain flips the science-fiction horror of Sentinels on its head, as Dr. Corina Ellis of the Greymalkin prison partners with the supernaturally empowered hag to collect new mutants for her prison.
The Hag is not a programmed machine, like the Sentinels, but instead chooses to hunt down the innocent mutants. Invisible X-Men #2, from writer Gail Simone and artist David Marquez, sees the Hag delivering the young mutant faun to Greymalkin Prison, before Ellis addresses the monster as “Sarah,” revealing that somehow The Hag is a twisted version of Xavier’s first love interest Sarah, introduced earlier in this issue.
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Uncanny X-Men #2 (2024) |
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September 11, 2024 |
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Gail Simone |
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David Marquez, Matt Wilson |
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David Marquez, Matt Wilson |
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Luciano Vecchio, Miguel Mercado, Nathan Szerdy |
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Who are the outliers? FROM THE ASHES continues as ROGUE, GAMBIT and WOLVERINE welcome a friend back, just in time to face four uncontrollable and wild mutants in the swamps of Louisiana! But with the mutant community disheartened and fractured, will even the hapless X-Men be enough to stop them? Something huge is starting, and it starts here! |
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The Hag is replacing Sentinels as the scariest mutant hunter
But the mutant hunter is Xavier’s secret first love
Little is known about the hag, except that she has a monstrous form, pulled straight out of a nightmare, and that she is hunting mutants, including the outliers, for Dr. Ellis. Invisible X-Men #1 The hag is seen stalking, attacking, and capturing the mutant faun – a young woman with the physical characteristics of a deer – with the help of two human-looking warrior hounds. She is truly horrible, with horribly crooked limbs, long, crippled fingers like spider legs, and the pale gray skin of the recently deceased. The Hag hunts mutants for a bomb, brings “freeze” to Alice in Graymalkin prison, and it’s clear that even the despised doctor is terrified of the supernatural… or is the Hag himself a mutant?
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Regardless, Ellis calls the holiday “Sarah,” the name of Xavier’s love interest introduced earlier in the issue, which makes the entity even more terrifying. If the holiday was once Sarah… what happened to the sweet woman the reader met, and how was Xavier? Regardless, the Hag quickly replaced the Sentinels as the X-Men’s scariest mutant hunters, as it appears that she is willingly choosing to hunt down the young mutants and bring them in for experimentation, unlike the Sentinels who are simply programmed machines. . In many ways, the hag represents the condensed essence of Orchis, the vile anti-mutant agency that hunted, tortured and killed countless mutants during the fall of Krakoa.
Calico and Sarah look very similar…
Back in July Invisible X-Men Writer Gail Simone tweeted that one of the outliers is related to a known mutant… and it’s now seemingly likely that Sarah and Calico may be blood related. Not only do Calico and Sarah look alike—white, blonde, with similarly shaped faces and features—but Calico says she’s “not a mutant.” Perhaps Sarah instilled this in Becca, so that she would not have to hunt and catch her own daughter like the hag did? It would be fascinating if Becca was…Charles Xavier’s daughter. Since Sarah was Xavier’s love, before Moira and Lilandra, it wouldn’t be a big surprise if they had a secret child together, especially given Xavier’s penchant for keeping secrets.
The hag is one of the scariest X-Men Enemies to be introduced in years, a True nightmare that took shape in the world to hunt mutants for pleasure and payment. The Sentinels will always be the most iconic mutant hunters in the franchise, but in just one issue, the Hag became the most terrifying hunter in mutant history.
Invisible X-Men #2 from Marvel Comics is available in stores now.
Source: Gail Simone