The following article contains spoilers for Sins of Sinister: Dominion #1, on sale now from Marvel Comics.
The X-Men titles' Sins of Sinister event is over -- or is it? Sinister's thousand-year hellish alternate reality has been reset. But members of Krakoa's Quiet Council might not be free of Sinister's influence. Among them, Charles Xavier himself.
A distrusting Storm questions Xavier in the wake of Sinister's plot. Her interrogation is seen in a preview of the upcoming Immortal X-Men #11, written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Lucas Werneck and colored by David Curiel. And fellow Council members Exodus, Hope and Emma Frost appear to be next.
The four Quiet Council members banished themselves to Krakoa's Pit of Exile at the end of Gillen, Werneck and Paco Medina's Sins of Sinister: Dominion #1. The quartet agreed to the imprisonment. The agreement came following Mother Righteous' revelation that they still might not be free of Sinister's influence. Sinister's nightmarish reality came to fruition after he was able to plant his essence within members of the Council, among others. Mother Righteous herself is another version of Sinister.
That reality was chronicled across multiple X-Men titles comprising the just-concluded Sins of Sinister event. Sinister-ized versions of nearly every individual on Earth enabled a global takeover. In the ensuing centuries, his out-of-control forces spread across the galaxy. Moira MacTaggert later successfully rebooted Sinister's reality-gone-awry, resetting the Marvel timeline. The reset came by killing her own clone, enabling her reincarnation powers to restart history.
Oh, Charles Xavier, What Did You Do?
Sinister began ushering in his mad vision by manipulating the Quiet Council. He did so in conjunction with harnessing Moira's power in Groundhog Day fashion. By repeatedly resetting reality, Sinister ultimately killed the Council's four members. The villain then corrupted Krakoa's cloning technology with his own essence. The four were resurrected, but with Sinister's trojan horse planted inside them. The extent of Sinister's machinations were realized in Immortal X-Men #10, when Xavier was one of those revealed to have been corrupted. The issue served as a prelude to the Sins of Sinister event.
That issue also provided possible insight into Storm's current concerns. The X-Men founder's narrative revealed the tremendous, and questionable, lengths he would go to protect Krakoa and mutantkind. Whether those extremes were being voiced by Xavier or Sinister, though, is unclear -- and potentially what Storm wants to uncover.
Immortal X-Men #11 goes on sale May 3 from Marvel.
Source: Marvel