Waiting Room

Waiting Room
Name	Waiting Room
Aliases	Elysian Fields, Heaven
Status
Status	Active
Location Details
Reality	Earth-616
Dimension	Well Beyond the Worlds
Creators and Appearances
Creators	Leah Williams, Lucas Werneck
First	X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #5 (December, 2021)
First	X-Men: The Trial of Magneto #5 (December, 2021)

Which means now no one is lost. From now on, no mutant can ever be lost to us ever again.

—Hope Summers[source]

The Waiting Room is an astral plane carved and built by the Scarlet Witch from the Well Beyond the Worlds, the very seat of magic. It is an opt-in Elysian Fields exclusive to mutants that allows Cerebro to scan for mutants across time and space creating a permanent offshore backup to ensure no mutant is ever lost to resurrection.

History

After Magneto revealed the miracle of mutant resurrection to the Scarlet Witch on the night of the Hellfire Gala, she formulated a plan to atone for her actions on M-Day. However, to properly cast her spell, the Scarlet Witch needed to experience the resurrection process herself.

To ensure she would be resurrected, the Scarlet Witch staged a struggle and told Magneto to advocate for her resurrection (and to recruit Hope's help if needed) then cast a spell to murder herself. Her body was found by Speed, Prodigy, and Eye-Boy. While X-Factor and the X-Men investigated her apparent murder, the Quiet Council voted against resurrecting her. However, Hope and the Five began to resurrect her anyways (though the final step of putting her soul back into her husk body was magically performed by Wanda herself).

Having gone through the resurrection protocols and mimicking the process she went through herself in her own Eldritch Orchard, the Scarlet Witch was able to cast the ritual of three with Legion and Proteus to gather in pieces of all possibilities (past, present and future) and use that confetti to create an Elysian Field for mutants, a pocket dimension that existed in a liminal space between life and death called The Waiting Room. The new creation allowed Cerebro to scan across time and space for every mutant who died before Cerebro started its backups or before their X-gene could manifest, adding twenty million mutants to the resurrection queue overnight. Additionally, the Waiting Room offered an alternative to The Crucible by allowing depowered mutants to walk into through the gateway above Arbor Magna to enter themselves into the resurrection queue, and allowed mutants who had died in Otherworld to be resurrected as their true selves rather than a multiversal amalgamation.

Not long after the fall of the mutant nation of Krakoa, Storm asked Blue Marvel for assistance in entering the Waiting Room in order to bring back Magneto from his afterlife penance, after his death in Judgment Day. Coming through the Moon's path, Storm arrived in the Well Beyond the Worlds, the seat of magic from which the Waiting Room was carved. There, she met Tarn, the Uncaring, the only mutant still waiting in the Waiting Room, unsubmissive to a life with ending; the other mutant souls awaiting resurrection moved on from paradise through the path of Death, according to Ashake, Ashake also mentiones that that the Waiting room is a garden where magic grows. After defeating Tarn, Storm followed through the path of the Tower into the Overspace, leaving the Waiting Room and the Well Beyond the Worlds. Later on, the status of the mutant souls who left the Waiting Room was revealed by the Phoenix, who accepted them as pilgrims into the White Hot Room, where they would soon become one with the Phoenix Force itself.

Alternate Universe Versions

Sins of Sinister (Moira VII.1)

To forge an alliance between the Hell Lords and the Sinisters, Sebastian Shaw turned the Waiting Room into a Hell, as owning one was the only way to join the Infernal Parliament.

See Also

• 2 appearance(s) of Waiting Room
• 12 mention(s) of Waiting Room
• 1 image(s) of Waiting Room