Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Warning: contains spoilers for Weapon X-Men #4!As a new era of X-Men looms in Marvel Comics, the publisher just shocked readers by introducing the franchise's most powerful hero of all time. In X-Men lore, the most powerful mutants are known as Omega-level beings, with only a handful of characters ever ascending beyond Omega level.
Related After 44 Years, X-Men Fully Explains a God-Tier Mutant Power Some X-Men abilities are so powerful they're difficult to ever explain, but the franchise just did a great job of clarifying a classic superpower. The Phoenix Force is Marvel's embodiment of life and rebirth, and can rewrite reality on a whim. The X-Men have a long history with the entity, which has often chosen Jean Grey as its host.
Related X-Men Officially Settled the 4 Most Powerful Beings in the Marvel Universe X-Men has officially clarified the four ultimate forces in the Marvel Universe, from a godlike AI to the Devourer of Worlds himself. The first time Onslaught's name was spoken in Marvel canon was by the badly beaten Juggernaut . However, the writer of that moment - Uncanny X-Men #322 's Scott Lobdell - has revealed that at the time, he had no idea who or what 'Onslaught' actually was. In Tom DeFalco's Comic Creators on X-Men , Lobdell says, "I just thought it was a cool way to open a story. ... I ended up doing that opening sequence, but I still didn't know who Onslaught was.
Marvel can keep coming back to the new Onslaught to tell stories disconnected from its mainline X-Men titles - a great tool to have, given how fun it's been seeing so many alternate realities where X-Men's most iconic stories took a very different turn. It can also be a major force for good - prior to its redemption, Wolverine convinced Onslaught to tackle the multiverse's 'evil' realities first - a promise it may still be inclined to keep.