The future son of Wolverine and Mystique is one of the deadliest mutants in the Marvel Universe, so where is he?
The Multiverse has long been the home of shocking variants of iconic characters, and none know that better than the X-Men. Marvel’s mutant heroes have spent decades dealing with twisted versions of themselves, and their children, from alternate timelines and realities. Despite being par for the course at this point, it is still almost always devastating when possible futures come to terrorize the X-Men’s present, especially when that threat came in the form of Wolverine and Mystique’s very own shapeshifting son.
2013’s X-Men #6 by Brian Wood and David Lopez saw the titular heroes working both alongside and against time displaced iterations of themselves. While the past version of the original X-Men team were helping the present lineup, their successors from the future were revealed as the Brotherhood of Mutants only posing as their heroic counterparts. Though the future son of Charles Xavier was in fact who he said, the team’s Kitty Pryde was none other than Raze Darkholme all along. As the son of Wolverine and Mystique, Raze was the perfect person to infiltrate the past X-Men and steer them towards failure, believing them to be the cause of catastrophe in his time. While Raze’s hatred of the previous X-Men extend throughout time itself, the burning rage that fueled it was something he had known for nearly his entire life.
At some point, Raze’s loathing for his mother led him to murder Mystique in cold blood before assuming her place, with no one else realizing the deception for years to come. This same hate extended just as much to his father when they finally came face-to-face. For as much as that mysterious, tortured history drove him to drastic measures, Raze was never able to see his vision of an X-Men-less world come to fruition no matter how many attempts he made to eliminate them. Future defeats at the heroes’ hands only pushed Raze deeper into the dark recesses of his mind, eventually producing a plan that saw every homo-sapien in existence wiped out of existence in 2014’s X-Men: No More Humans by Mike Carey and Salvador Larroca.
By erasing humanity from the prime Earth, Raze had made way for every homo-superior across the Multiverse to come call that particular planet their own. This was hardly a perfect solution to the problems he had spent so many years chasing back and forth across the timeline, and would eventually become another failed plot on Raze’s part after an alternate Phoenix Force set things right. Throughout all of his endeavors, Raze seemed doomed to fail from the beginning whether he ever realized it or not. In spite of having some of the most powerful mutants in the Multiverse at his side and all of their meticulous planning, some version the X-Men or their allies would always triumph over Raze’s Brotherhood, further entrenching the villain into the festering hatred he had always clung to.
Considering the last readers have seen of Raze was battling a horde of various other “Wolverines” from across the Multiverse beneath Battleworld, there really isn’t any telling if he will return. Assuming Raze’s timeline still exists somewhere in the infinite expanse of alternate realities, he could very well cross over into the prime Marvel Universe to pose a threat to it once more. And, with so much time between Raze’s present and now, fans might even get a little more insight into exactly how he came to be in the first place. Wolverine and Mystique may not be the most unlikely couple Marvel has seen, but there are still plenty of questions about his parents for Raze to answer if he ever does make a comeback.
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