Earth-17315

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Official Name	Earth-17315
Status	Existing
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Scott Frank, James Mangold, Michael Green
First	Logan (March 3, 2017)
First	Logan (March 3, 2017)

History

This universe is a branched reality of Earth-10005 and its revised counterpart. After his father's death at the hands of Weapon X during his breakout from Alkali Lake in the early 80s, Dr. Zander Rice and his company, the Transigen Corporation began tampering with the gene pool of the population in order to suppress the mutant gene from being triggered. Rice also later began breeding children into genetically enhanced mutants that he hoped would follow his orders. His plan succeeded, and by 2004, mutants stopped being born entirely. Concurrent with this was the formation of the X-Men, which Weapon X joined under the alias Wolverine. They went on several adventures together, including one involving a fight at the Statue of Liberty.

By 2029, the mutant population had mostly gone extinct for no new mutant had been born in over two decades. Simultaneously, the mutants that sought sanctuary in Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters were slaughtered when the man they had entrusted their lives to, Charles Xavier, was stricken by dementia, causing his powers to become completely erratic and freezing the X-Men and student body in place, where they suffocated. Only Wolverine survived alongside Charles, due to his healing factor allowing him to be mobile in this situation. To keep Charles safe from those seeking to apprehend him for the murders, as well as anyone else who might suffer the same fate, Wolverine fled with Charles to Mexico and kept him in isolation with the assistance of Caliban. However, these additional episodes from Charles also took a toll on his healing factor, and eventually it began to wither away, leaving him mortal. In the years that followed, the X-Men became the stuff of myth, with comic books about their escapades even being produced.

Charles, seeking redemption from his accidental loss of control, persuaded surviving X-Man Logan into helping a rare mutant child, Laura travel to a new mutant sanctuary set up in Canada. After a long, bloody journey through North America, Logan learned of Zander's plot to rid the world of mutants, besides the children he manufactured into becoming mutants, and put an end to it. In the end, Logan helped the mutant children find liberation and sanctuary, before succumbing to his wounds and adamantium poisoning.

While the children lived in the mutant sanctuary for some time, Laura would eventually be pruned by the Time Variance Authority after Mr. Paradox, conflating the reality with that of the apocalyptic Earth-10005, deemed the reality a lost cause due to Logan, its anchor being, perishing. After Paradox was defeated, Laura chose not to return to her reality, instead taking residence in Earth-10005.

Residents

See: Earth-17315 Characters

Reavers

Logan

Caliban

Charles Xavier

Laura

Donald Pierce

X-24

Notes

• According to interviews with Logan star Hugh Jackman and director James Mangold, this reality was conceived as an alternate future set after Days of Future Past.
• 17315 is based on the universe's first appearance date: March 2017 (17/3), the month Logan first released.

Trivia

• In October 2017, Logan director James Mangold confirmed that he and X-23 co-creator Craig Kyle were working on a script for a spin-off film focusing on Laura, following the character's positive reception in Logan. However, due to Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox, it was unlikely that it would proceed past the development stage. After the acquisition, all planned X-Men films in development were canceled.

See Also

• 2 appearance(s) of Earth-17315
• 1 minor appearance(s) of Earth-17315
• 58 image(s) of Earth-17315
• 19 characters that originate from Earth-17315
• 3 teams that originate from Earth-17315
• 3 organizations that originate from Earth-17315