History ComicBook / ImmortalXMen

** In issue #7, Kurt is momentarily shaken when he comes across an Orchis propaganda leaflet which, underneath the anti-mutant xenophobia, makes the somewhat simplistic yet blunt and difficult-to-refute point that mutant claims that they are an oppressed and downtrodden minority cannot help but ring a little hollow when they're powerful enough to conquer Mars, terraform it within minutes and use it as the foundation of a mutant-only galactic civilization. Oh, and when it turns out they can also live forever.

* {{Textplosion}}: Sinister has a villain soliloquy so long that it devolves into all-text pages. He even has the time to rant about some
BitingTheHandHumor regarding the spelling of ''A.X.E.: ComicBook/{{Judgment Day|MarvelComics}}''.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Deconstructed. In issue #6, when Destiny is facing the Progenitor's judgement after the failed attempt to destroy it (the consequences of which she knew, but kept secret), she argues that the alternative was seeing the whole world burn, and that if it came to either the mutants or the humans, she was going to choose the mutants. The Progenitor ([[AFormYouAreComfortableWith in the form of Mystique]]) promptly silences her by saying that it isn't judging her for that, it's judging her for ''lying'' to accomplish it; choosing to keep a major fact like that from the others, to ensure that they'd do it. This earns Destiny a thumbs down from the Celestial, with it coldly warning her that she'd best hope the others prove more moral than her.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Sinister's usual flippant LargeHam demeanour falls apart when he discovers that Doctor Stasis is another version of him and he starts to doubt his own identity.

* MadnessMantra: [[spoiler:You're a ghost...]]. ''Some''thing causes Destiny and Sinister in the first issue, and then Destiny again in the second, to act as if they GoMadFromTheRevelation and repeat this line over and over. It happens to Sinister again in the eighth issue [[spoiler:where it's revealed the original Essex says both the "You're a ghost" mantra and a new one, "Red and black", before he dies.]]

* FlatCharacter: Rather brutally lampshaded in #17, when Xavier undergoes a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind in [[spoiler: Sinister's]] consciousness, and is struck by just how little of an interior life he actually has:
-->'''Xavier:''' Inner lives are beautiful things. I have walked through the depths of many minds. Like rainforests populated by endless whim and memories, with colours in palates of dream. ''This'' is cold and empty and sad. I am sorry for you, [[spoiler: Nathaniel]]. You are full of broken glass. [[spoiler: Bad jokes. Memes.]] There is no weight to you. You are barely a paper mask.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: During issue #6, Destiny sees that Mystique is more willing to go for a vote if it harms or kills humans. Privately, Irene notes how sometimes her wife's sociopathic tendencies unnerve her.

* OutOfFocus: Not all the Quiet Council characters are focused on equally. Sinister by far gets the most focus in early issues, with Mystique and Destiny not far behind, and Emma, Exodus, and Nightcrawler all being almost as prominent. Hope is in focus for the first three issues but only appeals for a single panel in the fourth, while Storm is uncharacteristically quiet and Colossus is barely even a presence. Gillen has stated that each issue will focus on a different Council member, so it is possible that this will be rectified in future issues.

* MiseryPoker: When Ambassador Mingyu confronts Emma about Krakoa's revival technology, presses for more information, and points out how this could be used for humans as well, Frost tries to shut him up by [[AppealToWorseProblems throwing the Genoshan Genocide in his face in a "mutants suffer worse then humans so we don't have to share or be nice to you" way]]. Mingyu is not impressed, pointing out that ranting about hate crimes committed against mutants (least of all one that ''wasn't even committed by humans'') and who has it worse won't magically make criticisms and problems go away, and that Krakoa [[{{Realpolitik}} is going to have to be willing to make concessions and engage with humans as equals if they want to actually survive as a nation long-term]].

* ArcWords: Destiny to Sinister, over and over: “We must be on the same side.”

* MeaningfulEcho: In the first issue, Destiny tells Sinister that there is no "the" future. In the third issue, she simply says that there is "no future", because [[spoiler:she can see no future in which her wife Mystique survives]].

* Stealth Sequel: [[spoiler: The idea of a Dominion being represented by a crown, as Enigma is, was introduced in ComicBook/DefendersBeyond]]

The first issue was released 30 March 2022. The series is scheduled to end with issue #18, followed by ''X-Men: Forever'', also written by Gillen and launching in 2024.

* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: [[spoiler: The last few pages of issue #18 introduces Enigma, the fifth Sinister System, an A.I. based approach who ''appears'' to be the Sinister that became a Dominion]]

* AllForNothing: Shaw works behind the Quiet Council's backs to undermine Krakoa and take over so he can exploit its resources. [[spoiler:After ''Fall of X'', when Mutantkind is either dead or gone, he's still unable to do this.]]

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Exodus' PsychoactivePowers can be strengthened even more by others' belief. [[spoiler:Which gets taken to it's LogicalExtreme in one possible future where Exodus — empowered by the faith of a trillions-strong mutant theocracy — ascends into being a full-blown cosmic entity on the scale of Galactus.]]

* ObviouslyEvil: Once Mother Righteous' treachery becomes apparent, Exodus is kicking himself for [[TheFundamentalist suffering a witch to live]].

* CreatorInJoke: Being a Brit, Kieron Gillen prefers the most common British spelling, "Judgement", rather than "Judgment" and wanted to use the former for the 2022 event ComicBook/JudgmentDayMarvelComics. Marvel editorial overrode him, and he had Sinister (also a Brit) make a [[BitingTheHandHumor catty remark about it]] in the first issue.

* ReligiousBruiser: Exodus, raised as a Catholic in the time of the Crusades, is still a devout Christian, and still willing to throw down with anyone he considers a threat to his fellow mutants. In conversation with Hope, he explains a bit about his personal theological beliefs and how they relate to his mutant supremacist ideals, such as his theory that Jesus was a mutant.