User blog:GrnMarvl14/Age of X - Teaser Speculation

Apparently this is the week of Age of X teasers. Three teasers so far, and two to go, from the looks of things.

The first showed us Gambit (with cool new gray suit) and Hellion (with even cooler floating cybernetic arms). And a bunch of shadowy figures. Some speculation could be made on who they are, but why speculate when you can just wait a day?

The second reveals...Nightmare (presumably the winged female) and Berserker (the dude with the hatchets, I assume).

And today's, the third nets us Basilisk and Frenzy. Clearly Basilisk is the lad with the red eyes, leaving Frenzy as the lady in blue.

It seems that one of two things is happening in Age of X: We're getting new mutants...or we're seeing an alternate reality. Or...well...let's not get to that yet. The fact that it's an "Age of" story seems to heavily hint at alternate reality (Age of Apocalypse, Ages of Apocalypse...these are where we get our assumptions from, and no creator seems willing to tell us to think differently), and it would be kind of odd to reveal new mutants this way, especially so relatively soon after the Generation Hope mutants. Kind of knocks the wind out of their sails.

There is a third option. And this COULD be true of the alternate reality: These four characters we've seen so far that we, seemingly, don't know...are in fact characters we DO know. Berserker's tattoo and belt emblem are AWFULLY similar to Thunderbird's symbol (though he could easily be Warpath, with hatchets instead of knives). Nightmare's wings bear an odd resemblance to Dragoness, and we know she's on Utopia. Basilisk's glowing red eyes aren't too familiar, eh? And Frenzy, well...give her a white streak in her hair (plus, she's been hanging around San Francisco). So...are we seeing an alternate reality? New identities for old characters (which raises the question of "why"?) or...something else?

Two teasers and two days to go. Who knows what we'll see. Should prove interesting, though.