Who Were The New Mutants In Logan
Last weekend logan arrived in theaters and delivered a powerful final turn for hugh jackman s wolverine.
Who were the new mutants in logan. Well dead of course. When logan opens on a dystopian 2029 there are very few mutants let alone x men on the ground. Rice used genetic samples from mutants to create new embryos that were carried by captured women. But what happened to those hundreds of thousands of gifted men women and children professor x.
In logan we learn of a new weapon x style program created to essentially grow a new breed of mutant that can be exploited in various ways by nefarious individuals. Rictor was created along with april bobby charlotte delilah erica gideon jackson jamaica joey jonah julie laura mira rebecca stephen tamara and tomás by zander rice as part of the transigen project. Wolverine was trying to defend the x mansion from an att. Like the film old man logan was also set in a violent dystopian future but instead of all mutants being nearly extinct supervillains banded together to destroy superheroes and rule the world.
The film logan is loosely based on the story arc old man logan. The reason why most mutants are missing is also similar to the comic. In logan the files x 23 had from alkali transigen lab reveal rictor s dna comes from a mutant named dominic petros aka avalanche a villain who has the same geological vibration powers. Laura aka x 23 is one of those mutants created from wolverine s dna but she s not alone as there s a whole mess of young mutant kids who factor in towards the end of the film and eventually disappear into the woods as the.