History
Origin
Krakoa was believed to have been a very small island in the Pacific Ocean that was located close to where some nuclear bombing tests were done. It was thought that the radiation somehow turned the island's ecosystem into a single hive-mind entity.
In reality, Krakoa was part of a greater land called Okkara, but it was attacked by an enemy wielding a twilight sword. Okkara was split into two creatures, Krakoa and Arakko. Apocalypse arrived with his First Horsemen and sealed away the enemy. However, both Arakko and the Horsemen had to be sealed away with them, leaving Krakoa feeling mournful and lonely.[2]
Nick Fury along with his team accidentally witnessed the explosion on Krakoa in 1945. Soon after that they crashed on the island where they came across the island's collective intelligence. In order to leave the place Fury managed to arranged a peaceful parting in exchange for keeping its existence a secret.[3]
X-Men Tragedies
Original X-Men
The X-Men (then consisting of Cyclops, Angel, Havok, Iceman, Marvel Girl (Jean Grey), and Polaris) came to the island after Cerebro detected an unknown mutant there, and were captured by Krakoa, who used them as food sources.[1]
Moira's X-Men
Another team of young mutants, composed of Petra, Darwin, Sway and the third Summers brother Kid Vulcan, from a parallel X-Mansion led by Moira McTaggart, were sent to help the original X-Men. They managed to save Cyclops and returned him to Professor X. However, Krakoa killed Petra and Sway and left Darwin and Kid Vulcan almost dead. Xavier erased all records of the real events and his brother from Cyclops' mind, and altered the other mutants' minds to cast the illusion of a speaking, sentient Krakoa.[4]
Third Team
With the failure of the first team Professor X then decided to recruit international mutants to save his X-Men, namely Colossus, Nightcrawler, Storm, Sunfire, Thunderbird, Banshee, and Wolverine, and sent them to Krakoa. Cyclops' group of mutants paired off and after each pair encounter and defeated various aspects of the island, the new X-Men team found the original X-Men, who were weakened from being fed upon by Krakoa for so long. At this point, it was revealed that the island was itself the mutant they had originally detected and Krakoa battled the new and old X-Men by forming a giant humanoid body out of its terrain. With a combination of psi interference by Professor X and energy blasts from Cyclops and Havok, Storm was able to supercharge Polaris' magnetic powers with bolts of lightning. Polaris interacted with the Earth's core and created a magnetic pulse so strong that she was able to launch Krakoa into outer space. The X-Men—then counting thirteen members—were saved.[1]
He was captured by the enigmatic alien, the Stranger, and were imprisoned in the Stranger's Labworld for the alien to study him. He remained their until freed by Overmind.[5]
Legacy
A portion of Krakoa's biomass was used for construction of the biosphere at the Massachusetts Academy, nicknamed the "Danger Grotto" by Generation X.[citation needed]
A "son of Krakoa", the result of a spore that was released from Krakoa as it was shot into space, later appeared. Nightcrawler eventually defeated this "Vega-Superior" by tricking him into drowning himself.[6]
The Young X-Men encountered another "Krakoa" when 56 construction workers disappeared from a construction site on a tropical island. It is unclear what the relation between this Krakoa and the original is, if any.[7]
Rebirth
After apparently abandoning his dream for peaceful coexistence, Professor X ultimately repurposed Krakoa into a sovereign nation state for mutants. Now donning a portable Cerebro, Xavier seemingly recruited and experimented on Krakoa with the help of Cypher. Both expanding Krakoa's consciousness and cultivating its biome to include exotic flowers that can be used for various purposes, as such becoming the primary economic resource of the mutant nation.
These Flowers of Krakoa could grow Habitat, self-sufficient offshoots of Krakoa that served as embassies around the solar system, while remaining connected to its hive mind via Gateways, which provided ways to instantly travel from one part of Krakoa to another.
Additionally, Xavier bought world leading pharmaceutical companies with his vast wealth to produce three new super drugs from Krakoan flowers, offering them to every country that formally recognized Krakoa as a nation. These drugs—dubbed I, L, and M—operate as a adaptive antibiotic, extend the human lifespan by five years, and prevent human "diseases of the mind" respectively, allegedly hereby solving the devastating health problems in humans.[8]
An island known as Arak Coral later appeared off the southern coast of Krakoa. With Cypher offworld, Cable and Prestige accompanied their father in exploring the new landmass and learned about it from the High Summoner of Arrakoa before the two islands merged into one.[9]
Points of Interest
- Akademos Habitat / The Sextant
- Arak Coral
- Arbor Magna / The Hatchery
- Arena
- The Armory / Laboratory
- Bar Sinister
- The Boneyard
- Carousel
- Danger Island
- Data Analysis[2]
- External Systems[2]
- The Green Lagoon
- The Grove
- The Grove of Theoretical Gates
- Healing Gardens
- Hellfire Bay
- House of M
- House of X
- Island M
- Moira's No-Space
- Observation
- The Oracle
- Pit of Exile
- The Pointe
- Prison Grotto
- The Quarry
- The Reservoir
- The Summer House
- Sunset Cliffs
- Transit
- Transit [Atlantic]
- Transit [Pacific]
- The Wild Hunt
Residents/Citizens of Krakoa
- • --|A|-- • (En Sabah Nur)[10]
- Aero (Melody Guthrie)[11]
- Amazing Baby[12]
- Anarchist (Tike Alicar)[13]
- Angel (Warren Worthington III)[8]
- Angel Salvadore[14]
- Animax (Blake Schiel)[10]
- Anole (Vic Borkowski)[15]
- Armor (Hisako Ichiki)[8]
- Artie Maddicks[13]
- Astra[10]
- Aurora (Jeanne-Marie Beaubier)[9]
- Avalanche (Dominikos Petrakis)[16]
- Axel Bohusk[14]
- Azazel[10]
- Banshee (Sean Cassidy)[8]
- Beak (Barnell Bohusk)[14]
- Beast (Hank McCoy)[8]
- Bedlam (Jesse Aaronson)[17]
- Bevatron (Fabian Marechal-Julbin)[18]
- Black Bishop (Shinobi Shaw)[19]
- Black King (Sebastian Shaw)[10]
- Black Knight (Andrea von Strucker)[20]
- Black Knight (Andreas von Strucker)[20]
- Black Tom Cassidy[10]
- Bling! (Roxy Washington)[21]
- Blink (Clarice Ferguson)[13]
- Blob (Fred Dukes)[22]
- Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith)[15]
- Briquette[16]
- Cable (Nathan Summers)[23]
- Caliban[17]
- Captain Britain (Betsy Braddock)[24]
- Catseye (Sharon Smith)[25]
- Dr. Cecilia Reyes[23]
- Celeste Cuckoo[8]
- Chamber (Jono Starsmore)[18]
- Changeling[22]
- Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)[8]
- Cosmar (Tashi Repina)[26]
- Curse[27]
- Cybelle[25]
- Cyclops (Scott Summers)[8]
- Cypher (Douglas Ramsey)[8]
- Daken (Akihiro)[10]
- Darwin (Armando Muñoz)[28]
- Dazzler (Ali Blaire)[15]
- Doctor Nemesis (James Bradley)[22]
- Domino (Neena Thurman)[17]
- Dragoness (Tamara Kurtz)[29]
- Dust (Sooraya Qadir)[10]
- Egg (Fabio Medina)[10]
- Elixir (Josh Foley)[10]
- Empath (Manuel de la Rocha)[25]
- Emplate (Marius St. Croix)[10]
- Eosimias (Hong Lianje)[19]
- Erg[25]
- Esme Cuckoo[8]
- Exodus (Bennet du Paris)[10]
- Eye Boy (Trevor Hawkins)[30]
- Fauna (Desmond Ochoa-Diaz)[8]
- Feral (Maria Callasantos)[24]
- Firestar (Angel Jones)[22]
- Fish[31]
- Forearm (Michael McCain)[10]
- Forge[32]
- Frenzy (Joanna Cargill)[10]
- Gambit (Remy LeBeau)[24]
- Gateway[33]
- Gideon[22]
- Gentle (Nezhno Abidemi)[15]
- Glob Herman (Robert Herman)[10]
- Gorgeous George (George Blair)[16]
- Gorgon (Tomi Shishido)[10]
- Graymalkin (Jonas Graymalkin)[22]
- Grizzly (Theodore Winchester)[24]
- Gwenpool (Gwen Poole)[34]
- Havok (Alex Summers)[15]
- Healer[17]
- Hellion (Julian Keller)[18]
- Hope Summers[10]
- Husk (Paige Guthrie)[35]
- Icarus (Joshua Guthrie)[11]
- Iceman (Bobby Drake)[15]
- Jetstream (Haroun al-Rashid)[25]
- Jubilee (Jubes Lee)[15]
- Jumbo Carnation[31]
- Kara Bohusk[14]
- Karma (Shan Coy Manh)[18]
- Kid Omega (Quentin Quire)[36]
- Kyle Jinadu[37]
- Lady Mastermind (Regan Wyngarde)[10]
- Leech[13]
- Lifeguard (Heather Cameron)[16]
- Lila Cheney[16]
- Lockheed[27]
- Maggott (Japheth)[24]
- Magik (Illyana Rasputina)[15]
- Magma (Amara Aquilla)[15]
- Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr)[8]
- Mammomax (Maximus Jensen)[22]
- Manon[38]
- Marrow (Sarah)[10]
- Marvel Girl (Jean Grey)[8]
- Masque[10]
- Match (Ben Hammil)[15]
- Maxime[38]
- Mentallo (Marvin Flumm)[10]
- Mercury (Cessily Kincaid)[18]
- Mesmero (Vincent)[10]
- Mindee Cuckoo[8]
- Mirage (Dani Moonstar)[18]
- Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex)[10]
- Moira X (Moira MacTaggert)[15]
- Monarch (Jamie Braddock)[24]
- Mondo[18]
- Multiple Man (Jamie Madrox)[39]
- Mystique (Raven Darkhölme)[8]
- Nanny[25]
- Nature Girl (Lin Li)[30]
- Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)[8]
- Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier)[17]
- Omega Red (Arkady Rossovich)[40]
- Omerta (Paul Provenzano)[41]
- Orphan-Maker (Peter)[25]
- Oya (Idie Okonkwo)[42]
- Penance Twins (Claudette & Nicole St. Croix)[18]
- Penance (Monet St. Croix)[8]
- Petra[42]
- Phoebe Cuckoo[8]
- Piper[25]
- Pixie (Megan Gwynn)[15]
- Polaris (Lorna Dane)[10]
- Powerhouse (Franklin Richards)[43]
- Prestige (Rachel Grey)[23]
- Primal (Teon Macik)[16]
- Prism (Robbie)[17]
- Prodigy (David Alleyne)[44]
- Proteus (Kevin MacTaggert)[10]
- Psylocke (Kwannon)[24]
- Pyro (St. John Allerdyce)[27]
- Random (Marshall Stone III)[10]
- Razorhead[16]
- Red Bishop (Lucas Bishop)[15]
- Red Queen (Kate Pryde)[27]
- Rictor (Julio Richter)[45]
- Rockslide (Santo Vaccarro)[15]
- Rogue (Anna Marie LeBeau)[24]
- Roulette (Jennifer Stavros)[25]
- Sabretooth (Victor Creed)[8]
- Sage (Tessa)[8]
- Samurai (Ishiro Tsuburaya)[29]
- Saucier[46]
- Scalphunter (John Greycrow)[25]
- Scout (Gabby Kinney)[47]
- Selene Gallio[10]
- Shark-Girl (Iara Dos Santos)[15]
- Shatterstar (Ben Gaveedra)[22]
- Shogo Lee[24]
- Silver Samurai (Keniuchio Harada)[13]
- Siryn (Terry Rourke)[15]
- Skin (Angelo Espinosa)[15]
- Sonos Rex (Robert Wynn)[8]
- Sophie Cuckoo[8]
- Speed (Tommy Shepherd)[48]
- Stinger (Wendy Sherman)[20]
- Storm (Ororo Munroe)[8]
- Strobe (Juliana Worthing)[29]
- Strong Guy (Guido Carosella)[24]
- Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida)[17]
- Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa)[18]
- Surge (Nori Ashida)[15]
- Sway (Suzanne Chan)[42]
- Synch (Everett Thomas)[15]
- Tag (Brian Cruz)[18]
- Tarot (Marie-Ange Colbert)[25]
- Tempo (Heather Tucker)[16]
- Tempus (Eva Bell)[10]
- Thunderbird (John Proudstar)[16]
- Tito Bohusk[14]
- Toad (Mortimer Toynbee)[8]
- Tommy[25]
- Trance (Hope Abbott)[17]
- Transonic (Laurie Tromette)[16]
- Triage (Christopher Muse)[16]
- Trinary[49]
- Vanisher[17]
- Vulcan (Gabe Summers)[23]
- Warlock[8]
- Warpath (James Proudstar)[22]
- White Bishop (Christian Frost)[19]
- White Knight (Callisto)[10]
- White Queen (Emma Frost)[35]
- Wild Child (Kyle Gibney)[25]
- Wildside (Richard Gill)[10]
- Wither (Kevin Ford)[18]
- Wolf Cub (Nicholas Gleason)[24]
- Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair)[18]
- Wolverine (Laura Kinney)[47]
- Wolverine (Logan)[8]
- Wrench (Sandra Yo)[8]
- X (Charles Xavier)[8]
- Xorn (Kuan-Yin Xorn)[8]
- Zorn (Shen Xorn)[8]
Powers and Abilities
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Powers
Krakoa possesses an instinct-based hivemind comprised of the lifeforms that formed it.[citation needed] It can create moving, semi-humanoid and animal forms of various sizes out of its component earth.[citation needed] Its largest humanoid form possessed superhuman strength (lifting approximately 100 tons).[citation needed] It feeds on mutant energy, and drains that energy quickly, often rendering mutants powerless, and though it often traps beings using tentacle-like vegetation growth, it can feed off this energy as long as the being remains on the island.[citation needed] Krakoa can block the powers of telepaths trying to communicate with those on the island,[citation needed] and it can survive unaided in space.[citation needed]
Weaknesses
Magnetic pulses supercharged with bolts of lightning;[citation needed] winter[citation needed]
Notes
- The 2006 X-Men: Deadly Genesis Vol 1 storyline features a major retcon in which it is revealed that many of the elements in Giant-Size X-Men #1 were in fact deceptions and delusions created by Professor X to hide the major part of the story. Relevant to Krakoa:
- The creature was apparently non-verbal and instances where it appeared to speak were telepathically faked by Xavier.
- Krakoa also did not deliberately free Cyclops to seek out further mutants for it -- Cyclops escaped due to the intervention of Xavier's second team, which was edited out of Scott's memory.[50]
- Although not Xavier's doing, Deadly Genesis showed Krakoa was left orbiting around Earth for years until the energy wave from M-Day and the Collective awakened Vulcan. However, Krakoa was previously found and captured for study by the cosmic entity known as The Stranger, as seen when Quasar visited one of his 'laboratory worlds' in Quasar #15.
- Despite appearing as part of the foundation party of Krakoa, Broo is not considered a Krakoan because he doesnt have an X-Gene.[51]
Links and References
- 86 Appearances of Krakoa (Earth-616)
- 12 Minor Appearances of Krakoa (Earth-616)
- Media Krakoa (Earth-616) was Mentioned in
- 39 Images featuring Krakoa (Earth-616)
- Quotations by or about Krakoa (Earth-616)
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- Krakoa (Earth-616) at Wikipedia.org
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Giant-Size X-Men #1
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Powers of X #4
- ↑ Journey into Mystery: The Birth of Krakoa #1
- ↑ X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1-6
- ↑ Quasar #15
- ↑ Excalibur #31
- ↑ Young X-Men #7
- ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.13 8.14 8.15 8.16 8.17 8.18 8.19 8.20 8.21 8.22 8.23 8.24 8.25 8.26 8.27 8.28 8.29 House of X #1
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 X-Men Vol 5 #2
- ↑ 10.00 10.01 10.02 10.03 10.04 10.05 10.06 10.07 10.08 10.09 10.10 10.11 10.12 10.13 10.14 10.15 10.16 10.17 10.18 10.19 10.20 10.21 10.22 10.23 10.24 10.25 10.26 10.27 10.28 10.29 House of X #5
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 X-Men Vol 5 #7
- ↑ Excalibur Vol 4 #8
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 Cable Vol 4 #1
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 14.3 14.4 New Mutants Vol 4 #6
- ↑ 15.00 15.01 15.02 15.03 15.04 15.05 15.06 15.07 15.08 15.09 15.10 15.11 15.12 15.13 15.14 15.15 15.16 15.17 15.18 House of X #6
- ↑ 16.00 16.01 16.02 16.03 16.04 16.05 16.06 16.07 16.08 16.09 16.10 X-Force Vol 6 #9
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 17.4 17.5 17.6 17.7 17.8 X-Force Vol 6 #1
- ↑ 18.00 18.01 18.02 18.03 18.04 18.05 18.06 18.07 18.08 18.09 18.10 18.11 New Mutants Vol 4 #1
- ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 Marauders #3
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Marauders #8
- ↑ Fallen Angels Vol 2 #5
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 22.3 22.4 22.5 22.6 22.7 22.8 X-Force Vol 6 #2
- ↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 23.3 X-Men Vol 5 #1
- ↑ 24.00 24.01 24.02 24.03 24.04 24.05 24.06 24.07 24.08 24.09 24.10 Excalibur Vol 4 #1
- ↑ 25.00 25.01 25.02 25.03 25.04 25.05 25.06 25.07 25.08 25.09 25.10 25.11 25.12 Hellions #1
- ↑ New Mutants Vol 4 #11
- ↑ 27.0 27.1 27.2 27.3 Marauders #1
- ↑ X-Men Vol 5 #5
- ↑ 29.0 29.1 29.2 New Mutants Vol 4 #9
- ↑ 30.0 30.1 New Mutants Vol 4 #7
- ↑ 31.0 31.1 Marauders #4
- ↑ Powers of X #5
- ↑ Marauders #2
- ↑ Gwenpool Strikes Back #5
- ↑ 35.0 35.1 House of X #3
- ↑ X-Force Vol 6 #3
- ↑ X-Factor Vol 4 #1
- ↑ 38.0 38.1 New Mutants Vol 4 #3
- ↑ X-Force Vol 6 #4
- ↑ Wolverine Vol 7 #1
- ↑ Cable Vol 4 #2
- ↑ 42.0 42.1 42.2 X-Men Vol 5 #8
- ↑ X-Men / Fantastic Four Vol 2 #4
- ↑ Marvel's Voices #1
- ↑ Excalibur Vol 4 #3
- ↑ Giant-Size X-Men: Magneto #1
- ↑ 47.0 47.1 Fallen Angels Vol 2 #1
- ↑ Lords of Empyre: Emperor Hulkling #1
- ↑ House of X #4
- ↑ X-Men: Deadly Genesis #6
- ↑ White, Jordan D. (2 November 2019). Jordan D. White on Twitter: "He was visiting. He is their friend.". Twitter. Retrieved on 6 November 2019.
- ↑ X-Men: Phoenix Force Handbook #1
- ↑ X-Men: Phoenix Force Handbook #1
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