The following article contains major spoilers for Sins of Sinister: Dominion #1, on sale now from Marvel Comics.
The Marvel timeline has just been rebooted again, and the entire universe has the X-Men and Moira MacTaggert to thank for it. Or at least, Moira's undoing of Sinister's recent machinations.
Sins of Sinister: Dominion #1 -- written by Kieron Gillen, drawn by Paco Medina and Lucas Werneck, colored by Bryan Valenza and lettered by VC's Clayton Cowles -- brings Mister Sinister's millennium-long, galaxy-wide dystopia to an end. One thousand years in the future, Sinister's bank of Moira clones has been found by Mother Righteous, an offshoot version of Sinister. It's Moira herself who kills Mother and then her own duplicate. Her clone's death restarts the universe, thanks to her reality-wiping powers of reincarnation.
How Did Mister Sinister Poison the Universe?
In Marvel's Sins of Sinister event, Sinister had attempted to bring the world in line with his visions of genetic domination. But his efforts went awry after the theft of his clones, leaving him unable to reboot reality. Sinister then lost control of his own takeover when his Sinister-ized creations proved to be as manipulative and deceptive as he. After taking over the world, Sinister's out-of-control creations spread across the galaxy. In the ensuing centuries, those beings dominated the universe with his dark and, well, sinister reality.
Sinister first ushered in his hellish dystopia by harnessing Moira's powers via a series of secretly created clones. The villain manipulated Krakoa's governing Quiet Council through trial and error. He repeatedly restarted reality by killing Moira's clones but retaining knowledge of his past failures. Sinister's manipulations enabled him to plant his own essence within Krakoa's resurrection protocols. In turn, he could take control of any mutant undergoing resurrection -- including those on the Council.
One of Sinister's chimeras, Rasputin IV, subsequently destroys Sinister's lab and all remaining clones. Her move, in theory, prevents history from repeating itself -- again.
The conclusion of Sins of Sinister isn't the first time the X-Men had a hand in starting reality over again. Sinister himself, in fact, restarted the timeline several times during the storyline as part of his manipulative plan. And Moira's own reincarnations during the House of X and Powers of X events also rebooted reality multiple times.
Going further back, 1995's Age of Apocalypse brought about an alternate reality in the wake Charles Xavier's death. Reality was restored -- mostly the same -- when the time-traveling Bishop went into the past to prevent Xavier's murder.
The subsequent Heroes Reborn storyline also served to give the Marvel Universe a fresh start of sorts. And the more recent Secret Wars event consolidated Marvel's old multiverse.
Sins of Sinister: Dominion #1 is on sale now from Marvel.
Source: Marvel