Genosha

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Genosha
Marvel Comics location
First appearanceThe Uncanny X-Men #235
(October 1988)
Created byChris Claremont
Rick Leonardi
In-universe information
TypeAfrican country
Race(s)Humans, Mutants
LocationsHammer Bay, Ridgeback Mountains, Carrion Cave
CharactersGenoshans

Genosha (/dʒəˈnoʊʃə/ or /ɡəˈnoʊʃə/) is a fictional country appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is an island nation that exists in the Marvel Universe and a prominent location in the X-Men comics. The fictional nation served as an allegory for slavery and later for South African apartheid before becoming a mutant homeland and subsequently a disaster zone.[1][non-primary source needed] The island is located off the southeastern African coast northwest from Seychelles and northeast of Madagascar. Its capital city was Hammer Bay.

Publication history

Genosha first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #235 (October 1988), and was created by Chris Claremont and Rick Leonardi.[2] Genosha served as an analog to South Africa at that time.[3]

Genosha received an entry in The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Update '89 #3.

Fictional country history

Mutant apartheid

The island is located off the east coast of

Havok was one of the Magistrates since having his memory wiped by the Siege Perilous. Havok himself, woken from his conditioning by his brother Cyclops, dealt the killing blow to Cameron Hodge in the process.[6]

Conflict and Magneto's reign

A new Genoshan regime that promised better treatment of mutants was put in place after Hodge's destruction. A period of general turmoil and a number of attacks by superhumans, including

Acolytes
who were unwilling to forgive the former Genoshan government for its crimes against mutants, followed.(X-Men vol. 2 #1 1991)

A different version of X-Factor, including Wolfsbane, later returned to the island to help restore peace between its government and a rogue group of super-powered beings that had fled the island. The Genoshan government was shown with peaceful intentions, even trying to undo the ill effects visited upon Wolfsbane. Genosha was also shown to have typical suburban tract housing, like many small towns in America, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.[7]

After the "

Sugar Man, a refugee of the Age of Apocalypse timeline.[volume & issue needed
]

The United Nations ceded the island nation to the powerful mutant Magneto, after he demanded an entire mutants-only nation.[8][9] Magneto and his Acolytes managed to reestablish a modicum of peace and stability only briefly until civil war broke out between him and the remaining human population on the island led by the Magistrates. Magneto eventually defeated the Magistrates and restored order to most of the island, with hold-outs briefly remaining at Carrion Cove before being obliterated.[10]

The elimination of the Legacy Virus gave Magneto a freshly healthy army, leading him to declare a campaign of global conquest.[11] A small team of X-Men stopped this plan, badly injuring Magneto in the process[12] (the original issue presented him as being killed, but this was retconned in the New X-Men comic book series).[13]

Genosha had a population of sixteen million mutants and a stable, advanced society.[14] However, the entire island was reduced to rubble and its mutant population was slain by Cassandra Nova's Wild Sentinels. There were few survivors, many evacuated, and the Brotherhood of Mutants turned one of the Sentinels into a memorial statue.[15]

Xavier's leadership

Magneto and Xavier have since then joined forces to rebuild the island nation as detailed in the series Excalibur vol. 3 (2004). This goes badly as foreign military forces have thrown up a cordon around the island; no one is allowed to enter, and those trying to leave are fired upon.

A few survivors and newly arriving mutants who wish to help with the rebuilding process remain on the island. Members of this volunteer 'army' include

Wicked
. More are found in the surrounding countryside, some join with Xavier. There is a conflict with Magistrates, the island's former law enforcement. Though they are assisted by humanoid creatures they refer to as 'trolls', the Magistrates' forces are driven off. Some of the Magistrates are captured and kept in the island's makeshift jail.

Some of the captured Magistrates agree to work with Xavier to rebuild the island. Throughout the entire series, Unus the Untouchable and his squadron of mutants remain a problem; they do not wish to be part of Xavier's group.[16]

House of M

Main article: House of M

Later, Magneto learned of his daughter the Scarlet Witch's nervous break-down and her ever-growing powers to alter reality. Magneto snatched Wanda from her battle with her fellow Avengers and brought her to Genosha, where he asked Xavier to restore the Scarlet Witch's sanity - but to no avail. The telepath couldn't help her and, concerned of the threat to reality that Wanda posed, Xavier consulted the Avengers and the X-Men about what to do with her. Their decision was rendered moot, though, as by the time they reached Genosha reality altered around the heroes - changing into the world ruled by the House of M.

While conventional reality was eventually restored, it came at a high price, as thousands if not millions of Earth's mutant population lost their powers or died in the process, leaving only a few hundred mutants alive and powered. Just like most of his new Genoshan allies and enemies, Magneto was among the depowered people, remaining trapped on the island.

Son of M and the Collective Incident

In the limited series Son of M, there is a battle between some of the remaining mutants and the Inhumans.

In

Michael Pointer. Dubbed "the Collective" by the Avengers, against whom he then fought, the Collective traveled to Genosha and reached out to the startled Magneto. The Collective, controlled by Xorn, attempted to restore Magneto's powers and convince him to lead the remaining mutants into taking over the planet. To the Collective's surprise, Magneto resisted and allowed the Avengers to separate the energy from his body and send it into the sun. The comatose Magneto is also taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody, but the helicopter that was supposed to transport him off Genosha explodes once it lifts off. Magneto's body is not found. It has since been revealed that he survived the explosion and remained depowered until the High Evolutionary's dangerous experiment returned his magnetic abilities.[17]

Silent War

Main article: Silent War

To date Genosha is now completely dead. Already in ruins before, the battle between the Inhumans and the O*N*E further destroyed the once-proud island nation during the Silent War.

Since Magneto was the last person on Genosha, it seems that it's now totally uninhabited, which is corroborated by

Speed when they began their search for their mother, the Scarlet Witch
. They encountered Genosha an empty land filled with destroyed towers and empty streets.

Necrosha and beyond

Main article: Necrosha

Caliban, who tells Selene he senses millions of dead mutants. They enter the ruins and Selene proclaims Hammer Bay, the devastated capital of the island nation Necrosha, the place where she will become a god.[18]

With Eli Bard, Selene resurrects the massacred residents of Genosha, with

Mortis
explain what happened and the Coven begins to set up base at Necrosha.

Selene is eventually defeated and killed, thus ending the effect of the corrupted Techno-organic virus in the bodies she revived[20] and returning Genosha to an empty land. According to writer Chris Yost, Elixir is still on Necrosha.

During a visit to Genosha by the students of Jean Grey's School for Gifted Youngsters' students organized by Beast and Kitty Pryde, Sabretooth and AOA Blob assaulted Kid Gladiator and Kid Omega in order to kidnap Genesis. During this time, there were no mentioning of Elixir living here.[21]

During the

S-Men.[22] Magneto is captured and telepathically tortured by Red Skull. He is given visions of those closest to him suffering while being unable to do anything to stop it. After being freed by Scarlet Witch, Rogue, and Havok, he bites down on a vial beneath his skin of Mutant Growth Hormone, giving himself enough power to fight.[23] Havok, Rogue, and Scarlet Witch are captured by the Red Skull's S-Men and sent to his concentration camp in Genosha. Rogue (who still has Wonder Man inside her) is able to break the group free. They discover Magneto has been captured, and free him, as well. The three want to leave the island and alert the rest of the Avengers and X-Men of what Red Skull is doing, but Magneto says he's going to stay and fight. Before they can do anything, Red Skull appears.[24] Magneto, Rogue, and the Scarlet Witch fought Red Onslaught in Genosha and are later joined by the Avengers and the X-Men. Iron Man used a telepathic tamperer to stop the Red Skull's influence. When more heroes arrived to help, Red Onslaught revealed that he influenced Stark to create a model of Sentinels, based on the knowledge of different super heroes he acquired after the Civil War before erasing the latter's memories of constructing them. Red Onslaught then deployed his Stark Sentinels to fight the heroes.[25]

All-New, All-Different Marvel

As part of the

Dark Riders, who have been targeting mutants with healing powers. After defeating the Dark Riders, Magneto then ties up the Dark Riders and sets off a bomb that kills them and also levels the entire island. It was a sign that Magneto has "no intention of 'Laying Low'."[26]

Empyre

During the Empyre storyline, some of the Cotati used Genosha as a front for their upcoming invasion of Wakanda. This was foiled because of the X-Men, Hordeculture, and the Genoshan zombies that are the results of Scarlet Witch trying to revive the mutants that were killed there.[27]

Other versions

Marvel Noir

In the

inhumane punishments on its prisoners ranging from sleep deprivations and water torture. Genosha Bay Prison caught the notice of the public and culminating in a Senate Judiciary Meeting on consider closing the prison. Even if the prison were to be close down, lawmakers were unwilling to let its more severe criminal sociopaths from allowing into America's prisons. In reality, Genosha Bay Prison was used as a proving ground in recruiting the prisoners as a next generation of government operatives.[28]

Ultimate Marvel

In the

Spiral. Centino is sentenced by Adams and Major Domo to the neighboring island of Krakoa#Ultimate Marvel to battle Arcade, but is saved by the X-Men. The island returns in an arc of Ultimate Spider-Man where the mutant killer Deadpool and his squad is hired by Adams.[30]

In other media

Television

Film

  • Genosha appears in X-Men as an uncharted island where Magneto and his Brotherhood have established a base for themselves.
  • Genosha appears in Dark Phoenix as a mutant refuge run by Magneto, which he received from the U.S. government.[31]

Video games

Music

  • Genosha serves as the namesake for Genosha Recordings, an experimental hardcore/gabber/darkcore label run by The Outside Agency.
  • A song named after Genosha appears in Judgement Day's album, Peacocks/Pink Monsters.

Miscellaneous

Genosha has been compared to the Confederate States of America in an article by The Atlantic.[33]

References

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  4. ^ "X-Men: 10 Facts Fans Should Know About Genosha". 19 August 2020.
  5. ^ The Uncanny X-Men #235-238. Marvel Comics.
  6. ^ The Uncanny X-Men #270-272, The New Mutants #95-97, X-Factor #60-62. Marvel Comics.
  7. ^ X-Factor #89. Marvel Comics.
  8. ^ X-Men vol. 2 #87 (Apr 1999)
  9. ISBN 978-1-4165-3141-8
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  10. ^ Magneto Rex #1-3.
  11. ^ X-Men vol. 2 #111. Marvel Comics.
  12. ^ X-Men vol. 2 #113, p.21. Marvel Comics.
  13. ^ New X-Men #115. Marvel Comics.
  14. ^ New X-Men #115. Marvel Comics.
  15. ^ New X-Men #132. Marvel Comics.
  16. ^ Excalibur #6. Marvel Comics.
  17. ^ The New Avengers #19-20. Marvel Comics.
  18. ^ X-Necrosha #1. Marvel Comics.
  19. ^ X-Force #21. Marvel Comics.
  20. ^ X-Force #25. Marvel Comics.
  21. ^ Uncanny X-Force #30. Marvel Comics.
  22. ^ Magneto vol. 3 #9. Marvel Comics.
  23. ^ Magneto vol. 3 #10. Marvel Comics.
  24. ^ Uncanny Avengers #24. Marvel Comics.
  25. ^ Avengers & X-Men: AXIS #1. Marvel Comics.
  26. ^ Uncanny X-Men vol. 4 #5. Marvel Comics.
  27. ^ Empyre: X-Men #1-4. Marvel Comics.
  28. ^ X-Men Noir: Mark of Cain #1. Marvel Comics.
  29. ^ Ultimate X-Men #54
  30. ^ Ultimate Spider-Man #91-93
  31. ^ Bacon, Thomas (December 8, 2017). "How Magneto Fits Into X-Men: Dark Phoenix; Genosha Confirmed". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on December 9, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
  32. ^ "GamesRadar+".
  33. ^ Coates, Ta-Nehisi (22 June 2015). "What This Cruel War Was Over". The Atlantic. Retrieved 15 August 2017.

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