Well, it looks like the New Mutants movie is finally being released after several delays. I figured it might be worth a quick post to cover possibly the only connection between the New Mutants film and the MC2: the mutant Rahne Sinclair aka Wolfsbane.
As I’ve previously detailed in my History of the MC2: The X-Men entry, we don’t have a huge amount of information about the famed mutant team, the X-Men in the MC2. What we do know is that at some point in the past, Wolverine was the leader a team of X-Men that included Cain Marko (Juggernaut), Synch (Everett Thomas), Siryn (Theresa Cassidy), 'Hopper' and of course Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair) as seen in J2 #7, J2 #12 and Wild Thing #5.
Rahne remained a member of this X-Men team for some time and participated in a mission to save the Earth from the Overlords Eight. While on their way back from the Crossroads of Infinity, the X-Men ran into an army of creatures called Darklings. Rahne and her fellow teammates managed to escape the creatures thanks to the sacrifice of Cain Marko who stayed behind to destroy the X-Men’s dimensional jumpjack transport device, preventing the Darklings from following them to Earth (J2#7, J2 #12). Cain would spend many years trapped in the evil Nemesus' dimension, eventually inadvertently transferring much of his powers as Juggernaut to his son, Zane (J2 #1).
We don’t know what happened to this particular team of X-Men after this mission, though as we know Wolverine retired, we can assume the other members went their separate ways. Presumably Wolfsbane is still out their fighting to protect a world that hates and fears her.
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