#kodiak noatak

[why-i-love-comics]

X-Men '97 #2 (2024)

written by Steve Foxe art by Salva Espin & Matt Milla

#xmen 97 #morph #sabertooth #wolverine #marvel #harpoon #kevin sidney #victor creed #james howlett #logan #kodiak noatak

[bloodinthegutter]

X-Men ‘97 #1 by Steve Foxe

#x men #x men 97 #x men marauders #mister sinister #nathanial essex #vertigo #ruckus #clement wilson #slab #kris anderson #gorgeous george #george blair #hairbag #michael suggs #arclight #philippa sontag #sabretooth #victor creed #prism #harpoon #kodiak noatak #riptide #janos quested

[kwxnnxn]

a lot of the marauders have a weird colorism thing going on huh.

Honestly yeah. Which I guess almost every character of colour in comics gets that, like in the Marauders Harpoon and Greycrow obviously get the worst of it. With Harpoon he was introduce with that really racist colouring that indigenous characters were given back then and since then he's mostly been really pale.

With Greycrow he was always coloured really pale even when he was introduce (which made me unsure if he was originally supposed to be indigenous, maybe the weird codename was simply just a codename). However something I've noticed with Greycrow is that colourist seem to make him a lot darker now that he's a good guy vs when he was a bad guy.

And it’s not even old colouring vs new colouring he’s paler at the beginning of hellions vs the end of it once his redemption arc is mostly complete. Obviously, this wasn’t done on purpose I think someone must have tapped the colourist on the shoulder and told them to fix the colouring in the later issues.

#ask #john greycrow #kodiak noatak #sorry this was supposed to be about all the marauders and i made it about greycrow #as i often do

[comparativetarot]

Eight of Wands. Art by Jeremy Ennis, from the X-Men Tarot Deck.

Following the challenging and defensive nature of the Seven of Wands, the Eight of Wands signifies rapid change and the necessity to take action. This card’s strong energy gives a sense of urgency to any reading.

#Jeremy Ennis #X-Men Tarot Deck #Eight of Wands #Eight #Wands #Minor Arcana #Tarot #X-Men #Harpoon #Kodiak Noatak

[literallyjustnewmutants]

The New Mutants #52 (vol. 1)

#new mutants #sabretooth #victor creed #marauders #dani moonstar #mirage #sam guthrie #cannonball #illyana rasputin #magik #vertigo #karma #xi'an coy manh #rahne sinclair #wolfsbane #warlock #doug ramsey #cypher #harpoon #kodiak noatak

[literallyjustxfactor]

X-Factor #10 (vol. 1)

#x-factor #mutant massacre #apocalypse #en sabah nur #plague #pestilence #four horsemen #sabretooth #victor creed #marauders #morlocks #harpoon #kodiak noatak

[marvelheroperil]

Poor Angel is tortured by the Marauders. 

- Thor v1 #373, 1986

#Angel #Archangel #Warren Worthington III #X Factor #Marauders #Blockbuster #Michael Baer #Harpoon #Kodiak Noatak #the marauders #X Men #XFactor #XMen #torture #trapped #spikes #Crucified #surrounded #villain gloating #Dude in Distress

[comicbooktradingcards]

Fleer Ultra X-Men - Series 3 (2018)

#139 Harpoon

#harpoon #kodiak noatak #marvel #agustin alessio #comic book trading cards #marvel trading cards #flx3

[xmenreborn]

MUTANT MASSACRE

#mutant massacre #sabretooth #victor creed #james howlett #logan #wolverine #angel #warren worthington iii #thor #shadowcat #kitty pryde #rogue #anna marie #harpoon #Kodiak Noatak #marvel #comics #marvel comics #x-men comics #x men comics #x-men #xmen #x men #x-men milestones

[marvelperil]

Poor Angel is tortured by Blockbuster and Harpoon of the Marauders. 

- X-Factor v1 #10

#Angel #Warren Worthington III #Warren Worthington #X Factor #X Men #XFactor #XMen #Blockbuster #Michael Baer #Harpoon #Kodiak Noatak #Marauders #The Marauders #torture #beaten #trapped #Crucified #dragged #blasted #surrounded #villain gloating #Distressed Dude

[bloodinthegutter]

Magneto vol 3 #15 by Cullen Bunn

Marauders vs SHIELD

#marvel comics #x men #x men comics #magneto #erik lehnsherr #john greycrow #prism #arclight #philippa sontag #riptide #janos quested #blockbuster #michael baer #scrambler #kim il sung #harpoon #kodiak noatak #sabretooth #victor creed

[justdealingwithsomeissues]

This is like, your quintessential Inferno cover, lots of orange, a bunch of people running at the bottom, the big bags in the background... and sure Silvestri is a little too sketchy for some, but it is still solid.

#Marvel #Uncanny X Men #Nathaniel Essex ~ Mister Sinister #N'Astirh #Madelyne Pryor ~ Goblin Queen #Vertigo #Philippa Sontag ~ Arclight #Malice #Lorna Dane ~ Polaris #Kodiak Noatak ~ Harpoon #John Greycrow ~ Scalphunter #Kim Il Sung ~ Scrambler #Victor Creed ~ Sabertooth #Inferno

[tepkunset]

Are there any other indigenous people in X-men? Like islanders?

So here’s a list of every Indigenous mutant in Marvel Comics (Earth 616) that I know of. Unfortunately, some are just straight up offensive. But there are a number of underappreciated gems!

Dani Moonstar AKA Mirage (Obviously gotta start with my fave)

Cheyenne

Illusory powers (originally her powers were creating illusions of peoples’ fears. Overtime her illusions eventually expanded to pretty much anything she wants. After she gets fried by the High Evolutionary’s machinery, her illusions could become solid objects, but she could only have one at a time. And during her time undercover with the MLF she developed the ability to channel her illusions into psonic arrows that stun people, trapping them in their nightmares. This is what she mostly uses, currently. (TBH I’d really like to see writers remember her abilities have far more uses than just that... Like, remember that time she recreated Jimmy’s whole damn farm and family so he could ‘see’ them again?)

Dani is also a valkyrie with the ability to sense death

Original member of the New Mutants

Honestly the best character on this list IMO. I could ramble about how awesome Dani is for days...

Forge

Cheyenne

Superhuman mechanical ingenuity/genius (kind of a complicated power, but basically his mutation is that he can understand machines and create anything he can imagine. Like a mutant Tony Stark except better in every way, fight me.)

Back in the day he also dabbled in sorcery but turned out uh Not Good and he hasn’t since

He’s been a member of a bunch of different X-Men teams and none of them have ever given him the respect he deserves

I like Forge a lot TBH, especially after the sorcery thing was dropped and forgotten

A shame we will probably never get to know his real name

Lucas Bishop AKA Bishop

Indigenous Australian (Unknown Nation)

Energy absorption and redirection, subsequently super durability (if you blast him he will just blast you back)

Bishop isn’t technically from 616, being born in a dark future, but has existed in the main universe for as long as he’s been around. He’s been a team member in Uncanny X-Men and X-Treme X-Men but then went through a period as an enemy, mostly cause he has a That’s So Raven syndrome where he thinks he's shaping the future for the better and fucks things up. Can’t say I’m a fan in the way he was used as an inconvenience for Cable, but otherwise you can count on Bishop for being pretty damn cool.

Just a warning for anyone unfamiliar with him but wants to read up on him: His background may be triggering. The tattoo over his eye isn’t a choice, but a brand he received when put into the mutant concentration camp where he was born in.

Shard Bishop AKA Shard

Indigenous Australian (Unknown Nation)

Energy blasts from light

Shard is Bishop’s younger sister, and therefore also not technically from 616. She’s also not nearly as prominent a character, but was member of X-Factor for a while.

Honestly, Shard was never actually given a chance to do anything and her relationship with Fitzroy (green haired, slimy time travelling serial killer) is BS. 

James Proudstar AKA Warpath

Apache

Super strength, speed, senses, stamina, reflexes, durability, healing, and flight (everyone forgets the flight)

Also he’s over 7 feet tall which is its own superpower

John Proudstar’s younger brother

Sadly, Jimmy chronically suffers from writers not having a sweet clue what to do with him or how to write him. Swear to god, no one should be allowed to touch him before reading X-Force vol 1 after Liefeld left. James appearing to be scary to people who don’t know him and actually being a sweetheart is the whole deal with his character. He is not a violent raging edgelord! Everyone at Marvel just collectively forgot he rejected the name Warpath after starting to come to terms with the death of his family, too. 

Anyway, I love James with pure spite and venom and would love to fistfight all the writers who’ve done him dirty over the years...

John Proudstar AKA Thunderbird (speaking of getting done dirty)

Apache

Super strength, speed, senses, stamina, reflexes and durability

James Proudstar’s older brother

This poor bastard was created to die for shock value, and has been one of the few X-Men for which death has not been a revolving door. For the brief time he was around, he was portrayed as nothing but a jerk, too. It’s only in brief flashbacks that he’s ever been given more character. Also that one Chaos World mini.

Gloria Muñoz AKA Risque

Seminole

Can make objects implode (think the opposite of Gambit)

Risque was an anti-hero/anti-villain associated with the original X-Factor, and formerly James’ GF. She was a complicated character and deserved a redemption arc. That’s a hill I’m gonna die on.

John Greycrow AKA... I don’t even wanna say it

Unknown Nation

Technology manipulation (can like, turn a gun into a different gun for example), super healing

Scalphunter. His name is fucking scalphunter. And just like the other Indigenous Marauder member on this list, he’s been nothing but a lingering racist caricature. He is currently a protagonist in the running Hellions series and I honestly do not know what miracle Zeb Wells thinks he can pull to reinvent this character, but I guess we’ll just have to see.

Kodiak Noatak AKA Harpoon

Inuit

Can supercharge his harpoon with energy

That’s right, the Marauders don’t have just one, but two racist as fuck caricatures! He also... for some reason... speaks... like this a lot... I sure... wonder why...

Gateway

Indigenous Australian (Unknown Nation)

Teleportation portal creation

Oh look, it’s the X-Men’s bus ticket. Seriously, Gateway is nothing but a silent teleporter for the X-Men to travel around by, and another racist caricature. However, there is one good thing to come out of Gateway’s existence, and that’s that without him, we may never have gotten...

Eden Fesi AKA Manifold

Indigenous Australian (Unknown Nation)

Teleportation portal creation (and some interesting ways of using it too)

I swear Hickman must have looked back at Gatway and thought, you know what, let’s try that again except not offensive. Eden is pretty cool, and one of the three reasons I read Avengers vol 5 (the other two being Bobby and Sam). It’s a shame he’s never gotten the chance to interact with the X-Men, what with being a mutant and all. I would love to see him on Krakoa. Given that Hickman is at the helm and Eden is a Hickman character, I don’t think it’s too far-fetched of a hope?

Yeah, that’s all I can think of, unfortunately. Really makes you wish there were more, huh.

BONUS:

Julio Richter AKA Rictor

Listen. I will fight to my last dying breath to defend what I have always seen as the obvious; Julio was created with the intention of him being an Indigenous Mexican boy. I legit have a half-done powerpoint presentation about it that I never finished upon realizing no one would take me seriously when I sound like this mapping out all the evidence -

#x men #marvel comics #long post #Anonymous #ask

[literallyjustxfactor]

X-Factor #10 (vol. 1)

#x-factor #mutant massacre #angel #warren worthington iii #artie maddicks #michael baer #blockbuster #harpoon #kodiak noatak #vertigo

[thievesgambit-a]

ALTERNATE UNIVERSE: MARAUDERS ( verse tag )

NAME: Remy Etienne LeBeau ALIAS(ES): Gambit  AGE: 37  AFFILIATION(S): Mr. Sinister’s Marauders ABILITIES: all canon abilities, with the additional capability of charging organic material via skin contact POINT OF DIVERGENCE: Remy rejoins the Marauders after the Morlock Massacre rather than abandoning Sinister OTHER: Remy’s default outfit in this verse is very much akin to his uniform as it appears in X-Treme X-Men, as shown in the banner above.

Extended description under the cut. 

Following canon, after Remy was banished from New Orleans from killing his brother-in-law in combat at age 18 (although it was his brother-in-law that challenged Remy in the first place), he wandered for some time. Along the way, his powers began to develop, causing all matter to explode uncontrollably. Desperate for a solution, he sought out Dr. Nathaniel Essex (AKA Mr. Sinister), who had previously commissioned Remy and the Thieves’ Guild when he was a member. Sinister agreed to performing a surgery to dampen Remy’s powers, but in exchange, Remy would have to perform a series of tasks for Sinister. Remy agreed. 

Mr. Sinister removed part of Remy’s brain stem, which limited his powers to only charging through skin contact, and only with inorganic matter. The list of favors for Sinister is long, but perhaps the most significant is Remy’s contribution to gathering the first iteration of the Marauders. Remy went to each member individually to recruit them: Philippa Strong (AKA Arclight), Michael Baer (AKA Blockbuster), Kodiak Noatak (AKA Harpoon), Malice, Robbie (AKA Prism), Janos Questad (AKA Riptide), Victor Creed (AKA Sabretooth), John Greycrow (AKA Scalphunter), Kim Il-Sung (AKA Scrambler), and Vertigo. Remy stated adamantly that this would be the last task he would perform for Sinister. 

At the time, he had no idea why Sinister was gathering these people. However, Remy quickly realized the task they had been given upon guiding them to the Morlock community: slaughtering their entire group.  

In canon, Remy attempted to stop the Marauders (AKA yes, he literally tried to 1 vs. 10 a group of highly skilled killers) but only succeeded in getting the Morlock Sarah (AKA Marrow) out. 

In this alternate universe, while Remy did not participate in the Massacre (he was not, after all, commissioned to do it), he returned to Sinister instead of leaving. He cited his reasons as he recognizes when someone is gathering heavy hitters for something big. Remy is a self-proclaimed survivalist. He decided to throw in his lot with Sinister and the Marauders, even though their actions were far from his style. 

Still, he acclimated quickly--if not with some moralistic resistance. He usually stuck to thievery, but now that he was an official member of the Marauders, Remy was often tasked with doing Sinister’s dirty work along with the rest of them, which included forcibly harvesting mutant DNA through any means necessary. He quickly accrued his own body count. 

While killing was never Remy’s M.O., he becomes more and more used to the act as time goes on. Eventually, he began using his powers without much care of who would get caught in the crossfire, and regularly became a dependable member of Sinister’s Marauders. 

Eventually, upon Remy’s request, and after years of good work, Sinister agreed to return some of Remy’s abilities via surgery. Part of Remy’s brain stem was restored so he could now charge organic matter as well as inorganic matter, although skin contact is still required. 

Today, he is a well known and notorious criminal, thief, murderer, and villain. Remy never has had any association with the X-Men except for situations where the Marauders and the X-Men clashed. Heroism has effectively been stamped out from his person. 

It must also be noted that Remy still retains his flirtatious, conceited, arrogant, and impish nature in this universe. Further, he is far more problematic, is not afraid to be overtly offensive, and more or less doesn’t give a shit about someone else’s feelings as long as the situation suits him. Other lives mean little to him. He is very much a loyal henchman to Mr. Sinister.

#could i make the banner fancier? yes. #do i want to? no. #au tag. #❛ ♣ ⁞ thieves got no use for chivalry — marauders au