Utopia (comics)

After the events of the "Messiah Complex" storyline, Cyclops ordered Wolverine to form a new X-Force team to act as his own covert black-ops squad, something Cyclops himself revealed to no one outside the team, in particular the co-leader of the X-Men and his lover, Emma Frost. Also, in the Secret Invasion: Dark Reign one-shot, at the first meeting of the Cabal, Osborn promised Frost to leave the San Francisco mutant community alone, provided she kept them under control. Emma kept the fact that she belonged to the Cabal from Cyclops. These secrets almost caused a split in their relationship, but they eventually reveal the truth to each other, promising to keep no more secrets.

Another event of note happened at the start of Messiah Complex, when at the place of birth of the

Later on, she joins Gambit, who has been injured by Ares, along with Danger. Ares does not take her seriously and dismisses her both as an opponent and her attempts to calm things down. Rogue grabs Ares and absorbs some of his powers. She easily dispatches a small group of H.A.M.M.E.R. agents with superhuman strength and proceeds to steal their tank, along with Gambit and Danger.

Rogue finally locates Trance and calms her down. Together, they defeat Ms. Marvel.^[3]

Chapter II

Osborn creates his official X-Men team with Frost as the leader. The team is joined by

Chapter III

The "Omega Machine" that Dark Beast is using on Hank McCoy is slowly eating him away, causing him great pain and torment. In another cell, Xavier tries to console McCoy and give him words of hope. Meanwhile, Osborn is not impressed with the Omega Machine's test results and wants Dark Beast to make sure the machine works in removing powers from mutants, without killing them. Elsewhere, Frost and the Dark X-Men are finishing up quelling the riots and capture the team led by Hellion. During the skirmish, Daken almost kills

Chapter IV

Frost's team is called out to deal with the Bio-Sentinels attacking San Francisco. Emma discovers that whatever Trask has infected his people with has killed them. Dani Moonstar goes to Las Vegas in the hope of approaching someone with a deal. Osborn then sends Frost's team to St. Francis Hospital to deal with Simon Trask. Magik meets up with X-Force to retrieve the imprisoned mutants while Psylocke, Kavita Rao, Madison Jeffries and Dr. Nemesis are just off the Pacific coast, reactivating a ship.

Chapter V

It is revealed that Dani Moonstar went to Vegas to make a deal with

The X-Men start to rebuild Utopia to make it a safe haven. Frost wonders if the end result will be like Genosha. Cyclops says no.^[5]

Post Utopia

The aftermath of Utopia followed in the Deadpool and New Avengers books:

After deciding to help people, Deadpool makes his way to San Francisco to start a new life. Dressing to 'fit in' (Deadpool wears a set of flamboyantly pink shorts and shirt), Wade is nearly provoked into killing a group of a hecklers, until two teens tell him that no matter what, he's beautiful. Content by the compliment, Wade lets the hecklers live and heads to a local bar where he beats up (and possibly kills) a group of sailors and the bartender. Again feeling dejected, Wade watches Cyclops address the world about Utopia. Seeing Cyclops urging all mutants to join them, Deadpool concludes that Cyclops is speaking to him specifically and decides to join the X-Men.

Meanwhile, in New York, the New Avengers watch the news in which Osborn has labeled the X-Men and all mutants on Utopia as traitors and designates Utopia a prison colony. Ronin, upon hearing this, becomes furious. Mockingbird and Ms. Marvel suggest that the team go to Utopia and help their friends, but Ronin disagrees and urges the other New Avengers to join him in killing Norman Osborn.^[6]

Reading order

The following is based on the release dates of the issues.

June 2009

• Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia

July 2009

• The Uncanny X-Men #513
• Dark X-Men: The Beginning #1
• X-Men Legacy #226
• Dark Avengers #7
• Dark X-Men: The Beginning #2

August 2009

• The Uncanny X-Men #514
• X-Men Legacy #227
• Dark Avengers #8
• Dark X-Men: The Beginning #3

September 2009

• Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Exodus
• Dark X-Men: Confession #1
• Dark Reign: The List-Uncanny X-Men

Collected editions

Softcovers

Hardcovers

References

External links

• "Utopia" at the Comic Book Database
• "IRON PATRIOTISM: Norman Osborn". Comic Book Resources. May 1, 2009
• "IRON PATRIOTISM: Venom". Comic Book Resources. May 8, 2009
• "IRON PATRIOTISM: Bullseye". Comic Book Resources. May 15, 2009
• Richards, Dave (June 5, 2009). "IRON PATRIOTISM: Daken". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2009-06-06.