History ComicBook / Sabretooth2022

!!''Sabretooth 2022'' provides examples of:

!! Sabretooth provides examples of:

* WhamShot: Mystique asks Destiny [[spoiler:why she let Sabretooth escape]]. Destiny explains that she saw a vision showing Sabretooth may do something very good and important, but won't say what. Then we get to see for ourselves; [[spoiler:a vision of a crippled Sabretooth as leader of a countless mutants, announcing "To me, ''my ComicBook/{{Exiles}}''".]]

* NamesTheSame: InUniverse, Sabretooth clarifies in the final issue that Nanny's Cove is not named after Nanny, but rather [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanny_of_the_Maroons Nanny of the Maroons]].

''Sabretooth'' (2022), subtitled "''The Adversary''” for the collected edition, is a limited series from Creator/MarvelComics, published as part of the ''ComicBook/DestinyOfX'' arc and starring the eponymous [[Characters/MarvelComicsSabretooth Sabretooth]]. It’s written by Victor [=LaValle=], with art by Leonard Kirk and colors by Rain Beredo.

A SequelSeries by the same creative team, ''ComicBook/SabretoothAndTheExiles'', is scheduled for release in November 2022.

* AnswerCut: Sabretooth's mental monologue returns to the "I've always known what I am" theme. Cyclops, arriving off-panel with the X-Men, greets him with a call of "Coward". [[spoiler: Although, as they're just facets of his imagination, the dialogue's not actually unconnnected to his thoughts, even if it's subconscious]].

* ChocolateBaby: Nekra is a black woman but her mutation leaves her with chalk-white skin similar to an albino. She notes this contributed to a very rough childhood, as her father obviously suspected this when his wife gave birth a "white" child, leading to stress in their marriage that they took out on her.

** While Sabretooth's mind and body are recovering from Melter's attack, he comes across a discarded gun and a dead bird that obviously represent Birdy, his girlfriend from [[Creator/LarryHama Larry Hama's]] 1993 ''Sabretooth'' mini-series who was murdered by Victor's own son, Grayson Creed. The sight causes him to let out a HowlOfSorrow. [[spoiler:Then it turns out the Krakoans are planning to revive her…]]

* ConvictedByPublicOpinion: Part of Sabretooth's development is realizing that trying to get revenge on Xavier and the Quiet Council is pointless, since [[DeathIsCheap they'll just come back through Krakoa's resurrection protocols]] and he's not powerful enough to kill them all anyways. Their ''reputations'', on the other hand, are not so invincible. Therefore, he endeavors to instead expose their sins and dirty deeds to the neglected underclasses and countercultures of Krakoa, to destroy their power-base rather then attacking them directly.
* {{Deconstruction}}: Perhaps more then any other book in the Krakoan Age, this one criticizes and deconstructs how Krakoa functions and the Quiet Council governs, spelling out just how they look to other people (man, mutant, or machine); a cultish dystopia where anyone who fails to "behave" is ostracized at best, imprisoned at worst, all run by a group of smug, elitist, hypocritical, shortsighted, bigoted, self-righteous, and nepotistic douchebags who care more about forcing everyone to think like them then any actual sane or moral governing and gleefully commit the exact sort of sins they condemn everyone else for.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Just about everyone sent to the Pit except for Sabretooth himself and [[spoiler:Melter]]. Third Eye says it best; they weren't punished for any real crime, they were punished for ''not knowing their place'':

** Madison Jeffries was sentenced for "disrespecting the sacred land" by trying to help the woman he loves — [[AndroidsArePeopleToo Danger]] — come to Krakoa and building her a mechanical home on the island. Third Eye saliently remarks that his ''real'' crime was daring to love a robot rather then following Krakoa's general anti-robotic prejudices… [[SelectiveEnforcement not that Cypher is going to get punished for the same thing with Warlock because he's too important]].

* ExactWords: [[spoiler:Cypher cuts a deal and lets Sabretooth escape, having decided that the danger of him remaining on the island is too great thanks to his stoking of rebellions and twisting of the Pit. However, he never promised that he would ''only'' release Sabretooth, and so he takes the opportunity to let ''all'' of the Pit prisoners free (having been opposed to it's existence from the beginning) and sends them after the fleeing Sabretooth.]]

* HolierThanThou: The thing that enrages Sabretooth the most about the Quiet Council and ultimately comes to motivate him to oppose them; he may be a monster, but [[AtLeastIAdmitIt at least he admits it]] and doesn't pretend to be some morally-perfect {{Ubermensch}} while doing the exact same things they claim humans do.

* LowerDeckEpisode: The story focuses heavily on more obscure and oft-forgotten/unimportant supporting X-Characters like Blob, Mole, Nekra, Shark Girl, and so on. It's also something of a {{Deconstruction}} of the concept, since it uses those lesser-knowns as symbols of repressed underclasses and people who are forgotten and failed by society, exemplified by Mole's observation that "all mutants are equal, but some mutants (i.e., the main characters) are more equal then others".

* RemoteBody: Though Sabertooth and everyone else trapped in the Pit are trapped in a mental illusion, if they imagine a far off place they can project their consciousness to manifest a body out of Krakoa.

* YearOutsideHourInside: When Third Eye visits Mole again, he assumes that only a day has passed, only for Mole to mention that "it's been... a while" since he last saw Third Eye. It swiftly becomes apparent that things are moving much more quickly in the real world then Sabretooth's MentalWorld.

* AmazonBrigade: The Krakoan Coast Guard appears to been made up of Bling!, Nekra, and Oya. Sabretooth even calls them "low-rent Amazons."

* AmazonBrigade: The Krakoan Coast Guard appears to been made up of Bling!, Nekra, and Oya.

* BodyHorror: Sabretooth's fight with the X-Men leaves Nightcrawler's severed hand embedded in his chest, wrapped around his heart. He then has to rip it out.

* EleventhHourRanger: Toad, Nanny and the Orphan-Maker only appear in the final issue. They'd all been condemned to the Pit in other series, but played no part in Sabretooth's mindscapes and escape plans.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Sabretooth starts out thinking this, but gradually shifts to remembering that non-violent revenge can be just as effective…

* CallBack: As Sabretooth grows into a symbol of the public's grievances with the Quiet Council, the phrase "Sabretooth was right" starts to be bandied about as a rallying cry, calling back to the notorious "Cyclops was right" [[FandomNod fandom saying]] from the post-''Decimation'' era.

* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler:Nekra is back for her first significant appearance in years, as is the new Melter]].

** While Sabretooth's mind and body are recovering from Melter's attack, he comes across a discarded gun and a dead bird that obviously represent Birdy. The sight causes him to let out a HowlOfSorrow.

* YearOutsideHourInside: When Third Eye visits Mole again, he assumes that only a day has passed, only for Mole to mention that "it's been... a while" since he last saw Third Eye. It swiftly becomes apparent that things are moving much more quickly in the real world then Sabretooth's MentalWorld.

* VillainProtagonist: Sabretooth is definitely in this category at the start of the series. Even after his CharacterDevelopment, he's still the feral BloodKnight he's always been; he's just personally offended by the Quiet Council's HolierThanThous attitude and decides to do something about it.

* ContinuityNod: Mutants in the pit being able to manifest themselves from Krakoa's substance is a reference way back to Krakoa's first story arc. While it kept the first team of X-Men trapped, it manifested effigies of them to defend against the All-New, All-Different team Xavier organized to rescue them.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Melter claims that he was sent to the Pit for melting a Krakoan boulder, which counts as disrespecting the "sacred land". Subverted when it's shown later that his actions actually damaged Krakoa, which provoked it into draining him and multiple mutants to unconsciousness so it could heal itself.[[spoiler: He was also doing it not to practice his powers but trying to spy on the Quiet Council.]]

* SelectiveEnforcement: Deconstructed; the theme of the title is about law, its enforcement and punishment, and what it all says in the context of the society enforcing it.

* VillainProtagonist: Sabretooth is definitely in this category at the start of the series.

* YearOutsideHourInside: When Third Eye visits Mole again, he assumes that only a day has passed, only for Mole to mention that "it's been... a while" since he last saw Third Eye.

* NoodleIncident: Nekra and Oya were sent to the Pit for killing humans, Box and Melter were sent to it for damaging or disrespecting Krakoa, and Third Eye was sent to it because he ''somehow'' broke the "Make more mutants" edict.

* AmazonBrigade: The Krakoan Coast Guard was made up of Bling!, Nekra, and Oya.

* VictoryIsBoring: After he finishes fantasizing about killing everyone who has ever crossed him, Sabretooth finds himself at a loss over [[AndThenWhat what to do next]], and even begins questioning his long-held belief that he has always known exactly who and what he is.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Melter claims that he was sent to the Pit for melting a Krakoan boulder, which counts as disrespecting the "sacred land."

* LeakingCanOfEvil: Although Sabretooth's supposed to be sealed away forever, it's not long before [[spoiler: his presence starts haunting Krakoa in various ways]].

''Sabretooth'' (2022) is a limited series from Creator/MarvelComics, published as part of the ''ComicBook/DestinyOfX'' arc and starring the eponymous [[Characters/MarvelComicsSabretooth Sabretooth]]. It’s written by Victor [=LaValle=], with art by Leonard Kirk and colors by Rain Beredo.

* TwoGirlsToATeam: Of the six inmates, the only two women are Nekra and Oya.

* ShoutOut: Sabretooth mocking compares Third Eye to Series/{{Columbo}}. He responds that he prefers [[Film/DevilInABlueDress Easy Rawlins]].