Dream-Teaming Round 13: To put right what once went wrong...

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Okay, you're an assistant editor at the comic book publisher of your choice. You're boss comes in and tells you to drum up some roster ideas for a team-book they'd like to set-up for a future creative team to write. He asks for a proposal including: The roster of the team, The driving idea, explanations for character choices, and the creative team you'd like to see.

THE RULES------------------------

1) The winner of the last round becomes the moderator of the round, and thus gets to choose the team in question to be built. He must also name the roster to be filled, which should be at least 4, but no more than 9.

2) You may not use more than 4 characters common in anyone else's team in the round, as in if team one has characters a,b,c,d,e, team two can have characters a,b,c,d in common, but cannot use character e. The team posted first takes priority.

3) You must write a brief two or three sentence plot summary, an explanation for each team member, and the creative team you'd like to see on the book.

4) After TEN DAYS, the round is declared closed. People will vote via PM and send it to the moderator, who will count the votes and declare winner. Like the Ultimatization Game, you CANNOT vote for yourself.

5) The winner declared gets to choose the team in the next round.

This Round:

The Exiles
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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to create an Exiles series that won't get canceled after 6 issues.
 
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Excellent. I hope to compete in this round.
 
Intriguing, I'm gonna try to shake it up a little bit with this one.
 
Writer: Peter David (great with temporal/multiverse story-lines)
Artist: Sean Phillips (great at disjointed, detailed and surreal artwork)

This is the team where alternate-universe crossovers live on!

The Team:
Havok:
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Team leader. He finds his role as Nexus of realities has returned, and he can slip between the consciousnesses of all Havoks from all worlds.

Layla Miller:
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She detects the multiverse problem first. Her ability to detect fundamental changes in reality aids the Exiles in fixing what has gone wrong.

Doctor Strangefate:
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Uses magic and psychic powers to track down the team and teleport them around the multiverse.

Cain:
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The team strongman. Rescued from the destruction of the Age of Apocalypse.

Speedball:
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When non-native to 616 multiverse heroes start going missing, he decides to become part of the solution, not part of the problem.

Wasp:
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She's the, um, brains of the operation. She has control over her hunger and a super-handy cybernetic body. This picture is a place-holder until I can find a better.

The Pitch: Realities are bleeding together, and heroes from outside the multiverse are disappearing. Layla Miller, Havok, and Ape-Cannonball come together to solve this problem only to find Charles Xavier, Doctor Strangefate, ready to help them put together a team to replace the Exiles--all apparently killed by some aggressive, reality warping and destroying force. In the first arc, this team races to find out who is behind the destruction of so many universes only to find that it is the longest-serving Exile of all: Blink, driven mad with grief from lost friends and loved ones on the Exile's last, forgotten, and ill-fated mission. The team continues in order to set right the damage Blink has done.
 
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The Exiles

The Mutant situation has been at a crossroads for the past couple of years after M-Day. As such nearly every mutant in the world has been de-powered and left as a human. Hank McCoy, Stephen Strange, Reed Richards and all of the world's greatest minds have been unable to crack the mutant dilemma. When Beast reached out to a group of villains including Dr. Doom, the High Evolutionary and the Dark Beast only one person truly had a chance of saving them, Mister Sinister. Though he didn't care for the plight of mutant-kind, an alternate version of himself was willing to risk everything to save the mutants, and would recruit the Exiles.

Nathaniel Essex, MINISTER SINISTER
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Born in a world where only mutants exist as humanity took the evolutionary leap forward during the Middle Ages, Nathaniel Essex was not obsessed with the workings of Darwin and could not be twisted into his prime counterpart's evil self. Becoming a religious figure to his earth due to his immortality, Essex would meet tragedy when Apocalypse, the precursor to mutants, would release the Legacy Virus. Spreading at an accelerated rate, the Virus would decimate the population and kill every mutant on Earth except for Essex, whose blood Apocalypse had drawn the Virus from. Attacking and mortally killing Apocalypse, he would be given a cryptic statement that "everything begins and ends with Prime." Researching this line for years, Essex would create a device capable of looking into the other universes surrounding his own. Looking through the mutant history of every single one he would come to every universe, completely devoid of mutants now, except for 616, which had the only child born after the decimation began. Searching for the most influential mutants in the remaining universes not yet affected, Essex would form his Exiles.

Nathan Summers, CABLE
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Born in the 616 Universe but notable for being displaced in time, Cable was put under the charge of Hope Summers, who Essex sought out. Refusing to let Hope go without him, Cable would be made the de-facto leader of the group, using his incredible tactical abilities to lead the team through the Multiverse in order to find a way to save Mutant-Kind. Knowing his universe is at the heart of mutant salvation, Cable is willing to die for the sake of the future.

HOPE SUMMERS
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The baby that started the Messiah War, Hope has been raised by Cable as the future of mutant-kind. Raised by a soldier, Hope is a warrior at heart but gentle compared to her more desperate teammates. A mutant of Omega level, Hope is the Exile's powerhouse, using her amazing telepathic and telekinetic abilities to obliterate full armies that come after the group. Essex believes that her fate lies in releasing the Phoenix for its true purpose.

RUBY SUMMERS
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The daughter of Scott Summers and Emma Frost in one of 616's potential futures, Ruby is another woman raised on war. The instigator of the Summers Rebellion alongside Layla Miller and Jamie Madrox, Ruby is chosen because of her physical power and used as a soldier alongside Cable and Logan. Decades older than she looks, Ruby is a skilled combatant and has tremendous power in the fact that her crystal form might be made from something more powerful than mere ruby. It is revealed that she is in fact the reincarnation of the M'Kraan crystal, and needs to combine with Hope to alter reality.

OLD MAN LOGAN
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Hailing from one of the other possible futures of 616, Logan was in fact the cause for the X-Men's demise and has harbored the guilt of their death for years. Still as viscous a fighter as his younger self, Logan is a willing participant if it means he can save the mutants of the Multiverse. He still has his package which Essex believes holds the Phoenix Egg and his now adult partner Banner Jr. who has takes the name of Hulk.

Bruce Banner Jr, THE HULK
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The son of Bruce Banner who Logan took in as his son, Bruce Jr has grown into a man that resembles nothing of his father's insane self. An extremely strong being, Bruce is headstrong and prone to anger but has the same moral stance as Logan. Despite being inbred, he inherited his father's intelligence and is a genius. Accompanying Logan with the Exiles he has a severe crush on his teammate Ruby.

Max Eisenhardt, MAGNETO
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In almost all universes that Essex viewed, it was not Charles Xavier who was the leader of mutant-kind, but Magneto. Seeing how Magneto had been turned into a villain in 616, Essex wished to possibly change the future if their mission was unsuccessful. Bringing twenty year old Max Eisenhardt into the team, Essex hoped to change his view on mutants in order to possibly prevent his daughter from starting this mess. Idealistic and hopeful for the future, the events that Max witnesses greatly shape how he will act in life.

Scott Summers, CYCLOPS
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In Essex's universe Scott Summers was his adopted son after Corsair died. Having seen his son die to the Legacy Virus, Nathaniel knew that he had to bring someone as noble as him onto the team. Looking into universes to see that almost all versions of him had either twisted or vilified Scott, Nathaniel settled on the Ultimate Universe, where Scott had felt no influence from him. Choosing this Scott seconds before he is killed, Nathaniel brings him in to reunite with a version of his dead son.

A twelve issue miniseries that would define the future of mutants in not only the main Marvel Universe but all of them, the Exiles would visit several Earths in an attempt to find a cure. Highlights would be Hope realizing her true potential, Max slaughtering a group of people in a Nazi-controlled world, Ruby and Hulk consummating their relationship, Cable meeting his destiny and the final fate of Mutants being decided.

Writer: Grant Morrison
Artist: Frank Quietly
They're the best to ever work with the characters and can handle cosmic pathos on this scale.

Here's how you do an event Marvel.
 
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The Exiles​

Nathan Summers, CABLE
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The son of Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor, he is the only one capable of leading these mutants.

HOPE SUMMERS
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The Mutant Messiah and the key to unlocking mutant evolution.

RUBY SUMMERS
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Cyclops and Emma Frost's daughter from Bishop's timeline.

OLD MAN LOGAN
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The last X-Man in a timeline where the villains won.

Max Eisenhardt, MAGNETO
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The boy who would become Magneto.

Scott Summers, CYCLOPS
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The Cyclops of a universe ravaged by Magneto.

Nathaniel Essex, Minister Sinister
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The Mutant leader of his universe and the one who would assemble them all.

Writer: Grant Morrison
Artist: Frank Quietly

Please tell me this ties into Ellis' Astonishing where mutants from other realities are trying to invade 616.
 

No. I'm serious. I quite liked Ghost Boxes.






I think I'm going to do a team featuring insidious multiversal counterparts to the original five X-Men from across different dimensions, broken out of their prison following M-Day and looking for worlds to plunder.
 
No. I'm serious. I quite liked Ghost Boxes.






I think I'm going to do a team featuring insidious multiversal counterparts to the original five X-Men from across different dimensions, broken out of their prison following M-Day and looking for worlds to plunder.

I meant it as in you guessed it, with a twist. I still need to work out the kinks in it.
 
The round should end tonight at midnight, but since I have no reason to believe I'll be able to get back on the internet at some point before Monday evening the round will instead end Sunday at Midnight with the winner announced Monday.
 
I don't think I can beat Bluebeast. Half his cast would be in my team.
 

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