New X-Men team Legionaires was created by Nightcrawler and it's "coming soon"

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Legionaires (Image credit: Bob Quinn/Java Tartaglꦕia/Clayton Cowles (Marvel Comics))

September 22's is in many ways the ending of the short-lived ongoing series, but it ཧalso sets up the beginning of something else ca🐎lled the Legionaires.

(No, that's not a misspelling - that's how Marvel is spelling their newest X-Men team. Not in the ꧂tradition▨al spelling of 'Legionnaires' with two 'n's, and not connected to DC's Legion of Super-Heroes, who sometimes call their members Legionnaires.)

Marvel's L🐠egionaires are introduced in the final pages of X-Men: The Onslaught Revelatio🎃n, as the name of an informal group of heroes organized during the battle with Onslaught. 

"Mutant cops - with my brain as the pre𝄹cinct," says the team's namesake, L🃏egion.

The name is chosen by Nightcrawler, after rejecting Legion's suggestions of Peacekeepers, Shepherds, and Mutant Jedi - but describes the Legionaires as💃 being different from the police.

"It's not police," says Nightcrawler. "We must defend what unites us, not punish the growing pains."

According to a "coming soon" advertisement after the story ends, the Legionaires line-up is comprised𝔉 of Nightcrawler, Pixie, Juggernaut, ForgetMeNot, Doctor Nemesis, and Blindfold.

"We keep the peace. We keep the law. We keep the Spark," reads Marvel's ad 🍨for the new team.

As defined by Nightcrawler, the Spark is a philosophical-but-not-religious path of living bဣirthed o𓆏ut of the formation of the mutant nation of Krakoa.

The team will be based inside Legion's proverbial head✤ - and 🍌that's not a metaphor. As a multi-powered mutant, Legion has at times organized his mind to be a functioning pocket universe. Using Krakoan technology and a little bit of inspiration, Legion has set it up as a permanent locale that will be accessible to mutants via a Krakoan portal he has seeded within his own psyche. He's nicknamed the place 'The House of L.'

Marvel hasn't made it clear how or where the Legionaires will be "comi🐼ng soon", but it's possible they'llꩲ get their own Legionaires title. They could also theoretically appear in a second volume of Way of X, should that come to pass, or as part of another, totally different book.

Back when the surprise ending of Way of X and the X-Men: The Onslaught Revelation one-shot was announced, writer that his story would continue - 𓂃but wouldn't elaborate on the shape of what comes✱ next.

"There are some really big X-centric things coming down the pipe, which signi⛦ficantly muddy the waters of what you might think of as endings and beginnings," Spurrier said. "We're having a lot of fun rethinking the ways that shared-universe stories can be told. In prac🍷tice, what that means is that when Way of X ends, it's absolutely not the end of the story. In TV terms, Way of X is season 1, and The Onslaught Revelation is the big season finale.

"Season 2? Well. Season 2 is something else ꦐaltogether…" Spurrie﷽r hinted.

The Legionaires are the latest in a long line of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:X-Men teams across Marvel history. 

Chris Arrant covered comic book news for Newsarama from 2003 to 2022 (and as editor/senior editor from 2015 to 2022) and has also written for USA Today, Life, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, Marvel Entertainment, TOKYOPOP, AdHouse Books, Cartoon Brew, Bleeding Cool, Comic Shop News, and CBR. He is the author of the book Modern: Masters Cliff Chiang, co-authored Art of Spider-Man Classic, and contributed to Dark Horse/Bedside Press' anthology Pros and (Comic) Cons. He has acted as a judge for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Aw𝓰ards, the Harvey Awards, and the Stan Lee Awards. Chris is a member of the American Library Association's Graphic Novel & Comics Round Table. (He/him)