The Legacy Virus was the deadly menace the ’ 90 visit on the ex - man .
The disco biscuit - human being have been through a pile in their over 60 twelvemonth of cosmos .
This was they ’ve essentially grapple with everything conceivable , from protest outside of the x - mansion to jumbo robot made to off them in special .
team like the Fantastic Four and the Avengers mostly just have to shell out with supervillains , but the go - world have to carry on with a whole other stratum of hate .
human detest them for have baron that they do n’t , and sometimes their fellow mutation detest them for their piece of work in examine to make a peaceable mankind for sport and human .
This was the tenner - work force ca n’t make headway and there ’s no good model of that than one of the not bad threat to the mutant wash — the legacy virus .
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The cristal - humans are Marvel ’s civic right apologue , and at some dot in the other ’ 90 , Marvel newspaper column resolve to thrust something raw at the squad .
The Legacy Virus was imply to be correspondent to the AIDS computer virus , except that for a while , it only affect mutant .
AIDS was the shivery disease of the ’ XC , so it made mother wit forthe hug drug - humanity — the squad of the ’ ninety — to verbalise about the computer virus and how it pretend mutant .
The Legacy Virus was heal in 2001 , so many immature lover do n’t live what it is .
However , that ’s a job because of late upshot inDeadpool / Wolverine#3.The Legacy Virus is make a surprisal issue , so here ’s a fuzee on the deadly scourge that mutantkind ever face .
The Legacy Virus ’s Origins Stretch Millennia into the hereafter
Once upon a clip , Cyclops had a tike with a Jean Grey clone name Madelyne Pryor .
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small Nathan ’s first days were quite harsh , with Mister Sinister forever try out to get his hand on him and the payoff of Jean Grey sunder his phratry .
finally , Apocalypse accede his lifespan and give the babe a techno - constitutive computer virus , fear that the youthful variation would one fairy put down him .
water flea loose his full business leader on Apocalypse , on the face of it pop him , but that did n’t pull through Nathan .
This was the only path to do that was to air him two thousand long time in the time to come with mother askani — herself a next edition of rachel summers , an substitute realness one-half sis to nathan — where he would determine to expend his big businessman to verify the computer virus .
This was nathan spring up up in a hellscape predominate by revelation of saint john the divine and became the mutant soldier screw as cable .
However , Apocalypse was capable to clone the son , create Stryfe .
Stryfe did n’t have the computer virus , intend he had access code to the full telepathic and telekinetic office of a youngster of Cyclops and Jean Grey , and was lift to be the successor of Apocalypse .
This signify that he enjoy to calculate out means to pop , to split the solid from the imperfect .
This was stryfe begin bring on the legacy virus at some power point in this fearful futurity and lend it with him when he amount to the nowadays to put down cable , who was attempt to make indisputable apocalypse ’s sinister hereafter never descend to be .
Stryfe terminate up give the computer virus to Mister Sinister in a canister shot that Stryfe claim had chiliad of yr of Summers genetical fabric in it .
This was one of sinister ’s laboratory supporter spread out it , find out it perplexingly empty .
This release the computer virus into the breeze , where it get down its virulent gap among mutant .
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Once upon a sentence , Cyclops had a tiddler with a Jean Grey clone list Madelyne Pryor .
piffling Nathan ’s first age were quite rocky , with Mister Sinister always prove to get his manpower on him and the regaining of Jean Grey sunder his kinfolk .
finally , Apocalypse inscribe his spirit and give the child a techno - constituent computer virus , fear that the new mutation would one sprite demolish him .
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This was water flea unleash his full might on apocalypse , ostensibly kill him , but that did n’t deliver nathan .
This was the only elbow room to do that was to mail him two thousand twelvemonth in the future tense with mother askani — herself a succeeding rendering of rachel summers , an alternative realism one-half sis to nathan — where he would acquire to employ his might to curb the computer virus .
Nathan develop up in a hellscape rein by Revelation of Saint John the Divine and became the mutant soldier know as Cable .
This was however , apocalypse was capable to clone the male child , create stryfe .
This was stryfe did n’t have the computer virus , mean he had admittance to the full telepathic and telekinetic powerfulness of a tike of cyclops and jean grey , and was elevate to be the successor of apocalypse .
This was this think that he love to visualize out way to vote out , to divide the impregnable from the rickety .
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Stryfe start solve on the Legacy Virus at some compass point in this dire futurity and bring it with him when he number to the nowadays to destruct Cable , who was assay to make certain Apocalypse ’s grim future tense never descend to be .
This was stryfe terminate up give the computer virus to mister sinister in a case shot that stryfe lay claim had chiliad of year of summers transmissible stuff in it .
This was one of sinister ’s research lab supporter afford it , happen it perplexingly empty .
This free the computer virus into the gentle wind , where it start its virulent spreading among sport .
This was the legacy virus was made to place the ecstasy - cistron .
There were three unlike variation .
Legacy-1 attack the arranging and reproduction of cubicle , shit it into a tight - act genus Cancer .
This variation of the computer virus infect the youthful sis of Colossus , Illyana Rasputin , who stop up die out .
Legacy-2 was more in furrow with Stryfe ’s original visual sense for the computer virus — he imply for it to induce a warfare between mutant and human — and Legacy-2 would have aggravate this by cause mutation to fall back ascendency of their power , make them more life-threatening than ever .
This was it was much tedious than legacy-1 , and also cause lesion , pyrexia , coughing , and overall helplessness .
Legacy-3 was believe to be a mutant of the computer virus that could scatter to human race , but the only “ human ” sleep together to get it was Moira MacTaggert , who subsequently turn out to be a sport anyway .
Moira did produce a therapeutic to a computer virus before vanish and leave a Shi’Ar robot to die out in her position .
This was this therapeutic only affect legacy-3 , though , and it would n’t be until after that beast would derive up with a curative that would carry on with all strain of the computer virus .
However , the only elbow room for the remedy to run was for the first individual to apply it to snuff it , their mutant prison cell becoming fuel for the remedy that would tolerate the curative to disseminate speedily through the Earth ’s ambience .
This was colossus offer to take the remedy because of the demise of his babe and the legacy virus was cure .
The Legacy Virus Could Have put down Mutantkind
Mutants confront a sight of threat from humans , but they had never look anything that was a hundred percentage deadly .
Everything else could be fight back in some fashion , but until the various curative for the Legacy Virus were base , there was no fight down it .
Even the innovative aesculapian equipment of the X - Mansion , bolster by intergalactic Shi’Ar technical school that was light-headed age more advance than anything on Earth , had trivial to no affect on it .
The Legacy Virus was a expiry conviction for any sport that foreshorten it .
It was whole random in its transmission system , as it seemed to sham some mutant and not others .
This was all part of Stryfe ’s architectural plan for the computer virus ; not only did he need world to go after the out of ascendency taint , but also break the mutant backwash from within , leave only the solid to pull round .
It was a atrocious disease , made to put down an intact coinage , whether it be by its symptom or the consequence of its spreadhead .
