A new era of X-Men has begun with the release of House of X issue 1, and that new area is
very preoccupied with the importance of Omega Level mutants, or rather, to Charles Xavier’s
greater plan; according to his files, the current priority for the mutant nation of
Krakoa is to protect and nurture its greatest natural resource: Omega level mutants.
In case you didn’t know, Omega level mutants are defined as a mutant whose dominant power
is deemed to register, or reach, an undefinable upper limit of that power’s special classification.
So today, we’re continuing our list of the top 10 omega level mutants with a part 2!
Because there’s only 14 Omega Level mutants confirmed by Marvel’s re-launch of House
of X, we’re including a few other characters who were considered to previously have been
of Omega level, or are considered beyond omega level, from alternate earths as well.
And be sure to check out the part 1 of this list too!
So with that in mind, let’s get
to it.
10 Matthew Malloy Charles Xavier once called Matthew Malloy
the largest mutant power source Cerebro has ever registered.
Malloy, who is from Earth 14923, can tap into extra dimensional power sources that let him
warp reality to his will.
First appearing in Uncanny X-Men issue 23 (and dying a handful of issues later in number
31), Malloy has cosmic awareness, is capable of matter absorption, telekinesis, telepathy,
can teleport and can manipulate time.
His mutant abilities manifested due to an emotional breaking point; Matthew had witnesses
the death of his wife, who had been vaporized by a Skrull ship while the two were in the
middle of an argument.
A year later, after his sister in law comforted him and told him she still saw him as her
brother, he had a breakthrough, his powers burst out of him, and he lost control, which
caused an eruption of energy and accidentally killed his sister in law.
SHIELD would go on the hunt for him.
He would kill Cyclops, Magik, and himself, then resurrected himself, visited the Jean
Grey School, killed Emma Frost, and continued to accidentally wreak havoc.
Tempus had to go back in time to prevent Malloy’s parents meeting, causing him to cease to exist.
9 New Sun Gambit on a regular basis is by no means an
omega level mutant.
But, on Earth 9921, there is a different version of Gambit called New Sun, a mutant who, as
a child, was raised by a government project called Alpha 1 who was molded into an mutant
with an expertise and total control of his powers; something that backfired, since New
Sun destroyed the Alpha-1 facility.
He has total kinetic control, able to manipulate kinetic energy at a molecular level, turning
an object’s potential energy into kinetic energy, which would make it explosive.
He has no blocks or restraints preventing him from using his powers on living beings,
and does not need to make physical contact.
In addition to that, he can cause other beings to not move, or causing them to be unable
to stop if they are in motion.
And he can simulate other versions of energy by manipulating the kinetic energy present
by increasing molecular agitation.
He can also transform himself into an energy wave that allows him to travel through space
and into other dimensions in the multiverse.
Oh, and he killed this reality’s version of the Phoenix.
Eventually, he sought out Earth 616’s Gambit, and helped him escape Antarctica after he
was abandoned by the X-Men there, and in return, he became a bit of an errand boy for his alternate
earth self.
8 Mad Jim Jaspers Mad Jim Jaspers is an insane mutant who hails
from Earth 238, and has nigh-omnipotent reality warping abilities.
Created by Alan Moore, David Thorpe and Alan Davis, he first appeared in Marvel Superheroes
issue 377 in 1981, and later popped into Earth 616 in Daredevil issue 7 in 1983.
On Earth 238, he was a British politician who waged a war on mutants, having an anti-mutant
and anti-superhero stance, despite being a mutant himself; this was a means for him to
eliminate his fellow mutants to ensure his supremacy.
Eventually, he lost his sanity, and created a cybernetic construct called the Fury, which
could track, hunt and eliminate mutants and super powered individuals; a tool that turned
out to be incredibly efficient in its successful extermination of those individuals, for the
most part.
His powers consist of dimensional manipulation, time manipulation, genetic manipulation, invulnerability,
healing abilities, necromancy, levitation, invulnerability, animation, blast powers,
divine powers, reality manipulation, shape shifting, super strength, and teleportation.
He can survive without a physical body, and his powers on 616 actually exceeded his limitations
on Earth 238, the latter in which his abilities threatened to engulf the entire reality and
spread to other realities, consuming them.
7 The Marquis of Death The Marquis of Death was considered to be
a mutant beyond omega level; and technically, on his alternate earth, he was the most powerful
mutant since he was the only mutant to have existed in that reality.
He would teach Doctor Doom everything he knew, with Doom as his apprentice; Doom would be
responsible for killing him, as well.
The Marquis, whose real name is Clyde Wyncham Jr, hails from Earth 807128, and first appeared
in Fantastic Four issue 562 in 2009, dying a handful of issues later.
He is capable of warping reality on a multiversal scale, could travel between parallel universe,
effortlessly obliterate pretty much anything, which also includes entire realities, and
could create abstract entities who overpower the likes of Galactus.
He could even control Eternity, having him battle on his behalf, and that’s a scary
thought.
Clyde essentially made himself the master of time and space.
Thank god for Doctor Doom.
6 Proteus Proteus is the son of Moira MacTaggert, a
mutant by the name of Kevin MacTaggert, who can psionically manipulate reality.
He can manipulate the energy around him at will, with his only limit being his own imagination.
Having to live most of his life in forced seclusion, his powers are not to be taken
lightly; he exists in a state of pure psionic energy, and has shown he is capable of possessing
human bodies, although that usually ends poorly with the bodies of most beings he’s possessed
burning out within a few days, even hours.
None of the individuals he’s possessed in the past have shown capable of breaking free
of his domination.
When possessing, Proteus can access all of their memories, and retains them even after
he’s left their body.
There is one restraint, though; those with metal in their bodies appear to be immune
to his possession, with metal being his only weakness as it disrupts his energy and can
disperse his consciousness.
He can manipulate reality by transmuting matter, and bends the laws of physics.
He can turn buildings into liquid, a vehicle into bees, which he commands, can strips a
person of their mutant powers, reverse local gravity, open fissures in the earth, and painfully
stretch individuals into liquid shapes.
His abilities are contingent on his line of sight; if he shifts to a different thing to
manipulate, his previous manipulate will typically warp back and return to normal.
5 Monarch Monarch aka Jamie Braddock Jr, first appeared
in Marvel’s panels in Captain Britain issue 9 in 1976.
He is the brother of Captain Britain, Brian Braddock, and Psylocke Elizabeth Braddock.
Jamie is capable of quantum reality manipulation, which allows Jamie to see the world as invisible
string constructs.
He can pull these to transform reality.
He can only manipulate dense forms, with phased beings showing some level of resistance to
him, and formerly, he needed to be close enough to a target to touch the ‘cosmic filaments’
it or they were composed of, but his range now may have grown.
In addition to this, he has also demonstrated sorcery abilities, summoning extra dimensional
creatures and depicting mind control over others.
He’s proven capable of teleporting, and, most horrifically, warping bodies into terrifying
shapes.
4 Iceman Bobby Drake’s abilities have really grown
in power since he first appeared as one of the initial X-Men members in The x-Men issue
1 back in 1963.
Iceman’s omega power is temperature manipulation, and while it’s been stated that he’s yet
to tap into his full potential, the character’s powers can influence the ecosystem of the
entire world.
He can instantly decrease the temperature of ambient water vapor in his immediate environment,
dropping it to below zero degrees Celsius, which freezes it into ice.
The ice doesn’t break unless Bobby wills it to, and he can create an array of ice structures,
which include projectiles, shields, slides, etc, and has even crafted miniature cities.
He does not emanate cold, instead he decreases thermal energy, which he can also perceive
in objects around him.
And when Emma Frost possessed his body, we learnt he can do even more, like control all
forms of moisture, freeze the fluids within people’s bodies, and travel as a liquid,
solid or gas.
3 Hope Summers Hope Summers first appeared in X-Men issue
205 back in 2007, and was the first mutant born after the events of House of M. Hope’s
ability is power manipulation; she can psychically manipulate and mimic the powers of other mutants,
which is an ability that has unspecified limits currently, mimicking their mutant powers at
their utmost capacity, which is pretty darn impressive.
Her restriction of course depends on how close she is to the mutant she’s mimicking.
And it’s not only mimicry that she can do; she’s proven immune to Rogue’s lethal
absorption powers, with her touch erasing all of the memories and powers Rogue has previously
absorbed.
But she also cured her of the Strain 88 virus.
She’s also proven to jump-start a newly emerging mutant power to an undefined extent.
She can redirect the force of magnetic fields into negative matter.
2 Magneto It should be no surprise that Magneto finds
himself on this list.
He was actually who Xavier, in his files in House of X 1, used as an example when defining
an omega level mutant versus a mutant with an omega level ability.
I quote, “Both Magneto and Forge are the most powerful mutants of their power types
on the planet Earth (Magnetism and technopathy, respectively), but what makes Magneto, and
not Forge, an Omega level mutant is that the upper limit of Forge’s measurable powers
could hypothetically be surpassed (and, in fact, has by multiple humans on the planet),
while the upper limit of Magneto’s power cannot be surpassed by any measurable fashion.”
So what do those powers entail?
He can manipulate magnetic fields to achieve a wide variation of effects.
The maximum amount that he can manipulate at one time is still unknown, although he’s
proven such feats as moving asteroids and levitating objects like a 30,000 ton nuclear
submarine.
His abilities extend to an atomic level, specifically the electromagnetic force responsible for
chemical bonding, which has given him the power to manipulate chemical structures and
rearrange matter.
He can generate electromagnetic pulses and manipulate electromagnetic energy right down
to the photons.
He can turn invisible by warping light, and can resist strong telepathic attacks, which
has often been explained thanks to his helmet, or because his electromagnetic powers can
interfere with the attack, or just from his own will power.
Plus, he’s a genius, with experience in fields that include genetic manipulation,
particle physics, and engineering.
He also once had the power of a ‘magnetic personality’, but as you can imagine, that
kind of fell into obscurity compared to pretty much everything else we just mentioned.
1 Storm Storm’s status as an omega level mutant
is more of a recent revelation than some of the others on our list.
Storm has the ability to manipulate weather, a psionic power that lets her control all
forms of weather over vast territories, both on Earth and in extraterrestrial ecosystems.
This entails modifying temperature, controlling all forms of precipitation, humidity and moisture
at a molecular level, she can generate lighting and other electromagnetic atmospheric phenomena,
and can control atmospheric pressure.
She can create tornados, thunderstorms, blizzards and even hurricanes, and then dissipate that
weather entirely to form clear skies.
She can channel ambient electromagnetism through her body in order to create electric blasts,
she can flash freeze objects or people, change atmospheric pollutants into acid rain or toxic
fog, fly, of course, and even manipulate the air inside of a person’s lungs.
She can control nature forces the likes of cosmic storms, ocean currents, solar wind
and the electromagnetic field, along with the ability to separate water molecules into
oxygen and hydrogen via electrolysis, which allows gives her the ability to breathe underwater.
All in all, she’s one of the most powerful mutants on earth.
There we have it friends!