Warning: Spoilers for Uncanny X-Men #19!TheX-Mencould be replacing the X-Mansion with an amusement park based on them. The X-Mansion is easily the team’s most famous home base, to the point that evenLEGO gave its X-Men spinoffof the X-Mansion. However, the X-Mansion hasn’t been home to the team for years, but Marvel could give the X-Men an unexpected new sanctuary.
InUncanny X-Men#19, theX-Men team led by Rogue are introduced to ‘The Uncanny Village,’ a mutant-themed attraction presented to them by Mayor Sappora.
The pitch includes buildings named after the X-Men members themselves, like Nightcrawler’s Teleporting Trampolines and Jubilee’s Jump and Jive. Needless to say, the X-Men are a little freaked out at the notion.
The X-Men are Offered an Amusement Park: The Uncanny Village
Uncanny X-Men#19 by Gail Simone and David Marquez
With the X-Men currently split into two teams,the X-Men squad led by Roguerelocates to New Orleans, where they are training the next generation of mutants called The Outliers and stopping local threats. They soon gain a cult following among the New Orleans natives. To celebrate the X-Men, Mayor Mikki Sappora honors the team with a Friendship Festival.
Both the festival and the pitched Uncanny Village are meant to promote mutants and non-mutants coming together for fun. The political approach to literally branding the X-Men as the faces of equality brings the franchise into new themes revolving around capitalism, but if Mayor Sappora’s efforts are genuine, then it’s a wholesome contrast to what the X-Mansion has become lately.
The X-Mansion Has Become A Prison for Mutants
X-Men HQ Has Become the Exact Opposite of What Professor X Intended
The X-Mansion has now become home to mutant prisoners, as supervised by Warden Ellis, leading the likes of Captain Ezra and Phillip. It is now called Graymalkin Prison, giving theX-Men’s home a horrifying new purpose. Ironically enough, at one point, Graymalkin Prison was once home to the original founder of the building, Charles Xavier.
The OG X-Mansion was meant to be a sanctuary for mutantkind for students and gifted youngsters who didn’t have a home to call their own, and now, it’s designed to be a hellscape for mutants. Meanwhile, this new attraction has the potential to bring mutants and non-mutants in harmony, achieving Xavier’s dream, but theX-Menremain skeptical.
