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word of advice : Contains spoilers forNYX#1Minutes after being discover to the newX - Menteam , the mutant Prodigy was one of the many mutants kill during an attack at the Hellfire Gala in 2023 . Now , mutants have been forced on the run again afterthe destruction of their island nation Krakoa , and Prodigy finds himself among a young group of mutants who have find a new home in New York City .
NYX , written by Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing with art by Francesco Mortarino , is the ghostlike successor series to both the other 2000sNew MutantsandNew X - Menseries . The newNYXseries follow mutants Laura Kinney , Kamala Khan , Anole , Sophie Cuckoo , and Prodigy into young maturity , as they attempt to balance their lives as mutants and as people in a world that hates and fears them once again .
In an consultation withAIPT , NYX#1 writers Collin Kelly and Jackson Lanzing give away their motivation for Prodigy ’s electric arc in the new series .
And Prodigy , a character who we are longtime fans of , obviously was a vast part of Academy X and a huge part of the future of the 10 - Isle of Man to the stage that he had been named a appendage of the decade - Men decently before they were all off . And we retrieve it was a really important bit to say , OK , Prodigy go through his whole journeying , he ’s become the Cyclops that he always desire to be , and it did n’t work . What ’s next ? How do you maltreat back away from that and back into some kind of biography ? What do you become in the absence seizure of your dreaming ?
These are very deep and difficult motion to answer , and they are exactly the questions that are necessary when writing a quality like Prodigy .
Prodigy’s Tenure As An X-Man Only Resulted In Tragedy
David Alleyne aka Prodigy first appeared in 2003’sNew Mutants#4 by Nunzio DeFilippis , Christina Weir , and Keron Grant . Prodigy decline leadership of the X - Men at every opportunity , until he learns the importance of the persona , and of what he can learn from it . InNew X - Men#2 by Nunzio DeFilippis , Christina Weir , and Randy Green , Dani Moonstar explicitly say the team that Prodigy is her pick to lead the next iteration of the New Mutants team , and offer him the location as squad loss leader of her Training Squad . ab initio , he refuses , state his desire to actually canvass and determine at Xavier ’s school rather than becoming a superhero and run a risk his life . finally , he concedes and takes on the mantle as carbon monoxide gas - leader with Wind Dancer .
This tenure as a New Mutant is abruptly - lived , as during theDecimationevent , also known as M - Day , triggered by Scarlet Witch in theHouse of Mevent , Prodigy loses his mutant powers , but not his place at Xavier ’s school . David survive the Purifiers ' blast on the X - Mansion , theMessiah War , andAvengers Vs . X - Men , all without powers . The Five by and by recreate Prodigy on Krakoa with his powers fix , only for him to finally become an official member of the X - Men right beforeOrchis ' onslaught on Krakoaduring the third Hellfire Gala .
More than 42 mutants exit during the purifier ' attack on the X - Mansion , including Prodigy ’s Training Squad Colorado - extremity Wallflower , Icarus , and Tag .
Cyclops' Teachings Have Turned Prodigy Into Professor Xavier
InNYX#1 , it is revealed that Prodigy has pass on up on superheroics and become a professor of Mutant Studies , which is the perfect use for him to bring ina post - Krakoan bon ton . Professor Alleyne has even had his own Magneto , in the variety of a Modern scoundrel , The Krakoan . Like Xavier before him , his opposition is a mutation from his past , as Julian Keller , known as the Hellion , was also there on the Training Squad when Prodigy first came to Xavier ’s school day . Sophie Cuckoo has also been make to be highly vital of the new Professor ’s philosophies regarding human - mutant intercourse .
David ’s genetic mutation set him aside from the relaxation of humanity in the eye of the Marvel Universe ’s various anti - mutant hate groups , even if it is n’t a seeable mutant . Prodigyis both using his powers in an entirely productive mode , and through teaching a mutant - centrical course , he has become theX - Manhe intended to be and a role model that he would ’ve looked up to when he joined Xavier ’s school .
NYX#1is uncommitted now from Marvel Comics .
Source : AIPT
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