Marcus Dexter: The Missing Light (Marvel Comics)

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I tried many times to post up more in the adventures of Alpha-1 but just wasn't interested anymore.. Put it down to the comic being cancelled then. Its now time for a play in the Marvel universe. Style and layout will be just like Alpha-1's as i doubt im gonna be up for posting tons of dialogue.

 

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X-Men: Second Coming<hr>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

"Second Coming" is a crossover storyline published by Marvel Comics that ran through the most of the X-Men comic books from March to July 2010.

 

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Publication history<hr><blockquote>"Second Coming" was the final part of a trilogy of stories that began with "Messiah Complex" and continued in "Messiah War". Intended as a conclusion to Cable's efforts to save Hope from Bishop, who has hunted the so called Mutant Messiah since her birth; the series also builds on the "Utopia", "Nation X" and "Necrosha" storylines of 2009 in the X-Men books.

 

The story centers on the return of Cable and Hope Summers to the present day and Bastion's final campaign to destroy the X-Men.</blockquote>

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Plot synopsis<hr><blockquote>The story follows the return of Cable and Hope from the future to the present. Their arrival sparks off action from Bastion and his allies Stephen Lang, Bolivar Trask, William Stryker, Graydon Creed and Cameron Hodge. Bastion tells them that the Mutant Messiah has returned and gives them orders to kill her.

 

In a motel, a fire-fight between Cable and Hope and the Purifiers breaks out, Wolverine and the others arrive to help them. As the Alpha Team (Wolverine, X-23, Angel, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Psylocke and Magik) battles Stryker and his Purifiers, Magik makes her way toward Hope, under orders from Wolverine to teleport her to Utopia. But one of the Purifies opens a portal to Limbo she cannot control and she is drawn into it by a cluster of demonic tentacles. Subsequently, they incapacitate Nightcrawler with disorienting weaponry to prevent him from teleporting. Wolverine's team find Cable and Hope and after a short confrontation with another group of Sapien League members, the X-Men and Cable decide for a diversionary tactic. Cable remains behind with some of the X-Men, after learning from the New Mutants that Cable was being tracked, while Rogue, Nightcrawler, and Hope leave in order to protect the girl.

 

Parallel to this, the New Mutants arrive at Cameron Hodge's facility, where Cameron Hodge and his whole army of "Smileys" are killed by Warlock of the New Mutants at the behest of Doug Ramsey when his lifeforce and the lifeforces of the Smileys are forcibly absorbed by Warlock via their shared connection of the techno-organic Transmode virus. The New Mutants warn Cyclops of Bastion's towers.

 

Shortly after, Cyclops loses contact with the Alpha and Beta teams. The Alpha Team has been attacked by armored soldiers and a jet; in response, Psylocke telekinetically sends X-23 to the jet to commandeer it. Nightcrawler, Rogue, and Hope arrive in Nevada, where Bastion appears before them and brutally beats Rogue. Just as Bastion extends his arm to kill Hope, Nightcrawler teleports between them and is impaled in the chest. Nightcrawler teleports Hope to Utopia, where he tells her that he believes in her before he dies. When the Alpha Team returns to Utopia, Colossus wants Pixie to rescue Magik from Limbo. In Nevada, Bastion repairs himself and tells his followers to prepare for Plan B. As evening falls, Nightcrawler's funeral is held, with Beast arriving to place blame on Cyclops' shoulders.

 

Three and a half miles away from San Francisco, the X-Club investigate an oil rig and discover a ticking timer. Suddenly, an explosion is felt and Cyclops is certain that the X-Men's jets, the Blackbirds, have been decimated. Donald Pierce is found standing amid the debris, and rues that he will not live to witness the decimation of the mutant race. Cyclops eliminates him with an optic blast, and alerts the X-Men to expect an attack. With no teleporters, no planes, and no Cerebra, Cyclops announces that they are trapped on Utopia. Meanwhile, the X-Club Science team are caught in a trap of their own as they recover from the oil rig explosion. Through a conversation between Dr. Nemesis and the others, it is revealed that they are stranded just outside of San Francisco and Utopia.

 

Suddenly, an offshore explosion rocks Utopia sending X-Men reeling. When the X-Men gather near the Bay, they find a massive dome of energy enveloping both San Francisco and Utopia. The X-Men quickly attempt to destroy the dome, but to no avail. Namor appears and informs Cyclops that the energy dome also descends into the ocean floor, making it in actuality, a sphere. At the ruins of the oil rig, the X-Club attempts to analyze and dispose of the sphere. After a detailed scientific explanation provided by Madison Jeffries, the X-Club find themselves face to face with the Avengers, who are responding to San Francisco seemingly falling off the grid. In San Francisco, Magma, Namor and Cyclops survey the damage caused by the sphere via jetpacks, meeting at the Golden Gate Bridge. At the bridge they observe a smaller, silver sphere and conclude that it is powering the dome. The X-Men arrive. Under Cyclops’s orders, Iceman attacks the silver sphere only to be choked by a big metal arm. The other X-Men watch in horror as a legion of Nimrod type Sentinels begin to emerge.

 

With an army of Nimrod model sentinels’ continuing to emerge from Bastion’s time portal, a massive battle between the X-Men, their allies and Bastion’s forces ensues. The X-Men emerge from this battle victorious, but with several X-Men severely injured. Cyclops orders the strongest members of the X-Men to guard the portal while the injured are quickly ferried back to Utopia. Bastion tells his minions that the host of Nimrod sentinels faced by the X-Men was only a scouting party.

 

On Utopia, Cyclops gathers the core X-Men and briefs everyone on the state of things following the battle. Next Beast explains that Bastion’s portal is powered by an unknown energy source and made from an unknown origin. Beast also notes that the portal is temporal in nature connecting them to another period in history. Prodigy of the New X-Men team scans the portal again and discovers that there are at least 170,000 Sentinels waiting on the other side. Cyclops begins to formulate a new strategy which hinges on Cable using his last time jump to take X-force to the future to deactivate the sentinels. The revelation of the previously secret X-force team causes dismay amongst the X-Men who were unaware that the team existed or was murdering potential threats to mutants. Cyclops then sends all battle worthy mutants to the portal and tells them to prepare for another attack. The Stepford Cuckoos inform Cyclops that another wave of Sentinels are arriving. Colossus, Namor, Rockslide and Dust get ready to fight. Cable initiates the jump and X-Force leaves this timeline.

 

The X-Men then engage the Nimrods in battles all around the city and on Utopia. A Nimrod approaches Utopia and breaches its outer wall. Cyclops quickly shuts down several levels of the complex except for those most crucial and the resulting explosion from doing so destroys the Nimrod. Within the city, Storm, Surge, Iceman, Psylocke and Fantomex manage to destroy several Nimrods between them through coordinated efforts, while at the Port of Oakland, Namor fights several more by himself, but calls in for assistance as five more suddenly appear. Though at low power after a recent coma, Magneto defends the island against a horde of Nimrods to buy Beast time to treat the wounded.

 

In the future, X-force fights it way into a sentinel Processing Centre where Cypher takes over the programming of Master Mold and they shut down all of the Nimrods in both the present and future. Their mission completed, X-Force retrieves Cable and Cypher and make their way to the time portal to escape back to the present. Unfortunately, in the ensuing chaos X-23 is brutally burned when she attempts to cross through the time portal. The members of X-Force come to the conclusion that only inorganic matter is able to pass through the portal. With no other alternative, Cable sacrifices himself to hold the portal open and allow the others to return home.

 

Back in the present, as all of the Nimrods suddenly shut down, the X-Men are seen staring in shock and attempting to understand what has happened. Outside of the dome, Bastion appears with the reanimated Graydon Creed and Stephen Lang, commenting that while the Nimrods are gone, mutantkind is still trapped and that he will deal with the remaining mutants himself. After witnessing Cable's sacrifice, Hope manifests various X-Men powers such as Armor's psionic armor and Colossus's organic steel and kills Lang and Creed. With the assistance of the X-Men, she eradicates Bastion and shatters the dome surrounding the city. At a celebratory bonfire, Emma notices the flames around Hope take the shape of the Phoenix, and triggers a flashback to the Sisterhood storyline where Jean freed her from Lady Mastermind's illusion. Seized with terror, Emma runs to Cyclops to warn him. Before she can, Cyclops tells her that Cerebra has found five new mutants (Transonic, Velocidad, Oya, Primal, and Zero) that have appeared around the globe.

 

Moments after Cyclops and Emma leave, a sixth light blinks into existance but vanishes just as quickly when Marcus Dexter's powers begin manifesting.</blockquote>Aftermath<hr><blockquote>After leaving the X-Men due to Cyclops' more militant style of leadership, Beast heads to L.A. to meet up with his girlfriend Abigail Brand who stands him up, only to meet up with Molly Hayes of the Runaways. The two discuss extinction, faith, and living life to its fullest. He is currently a member of the Secret Avengers.

 

Hope is at the Baxter Building with Dr. Nemesis and Rogue, receiving a physical from Mr. Fantastic, as well as conversing with his son Franklin Richards. Upon giving Hope a clean bill of health, Reed suggests that Hope try to locate her family in an attempt to learn more about who she really is. On the way back to Utopia, Hope insists on doing just that.

 

Cyclops takes some time off to go hunting in The Savage Land, during which he encounters Steve Rogers, who suggests that Cyclops bring the X-Men out of the shadows and into the light as heroes. Rogers arranges to have the President award Scott the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which sways the people of San Francisco to welcome the X-Men back.

 

During a celebration on Utopia, Cyclops sneaks away to talk to Hope, in an attempt to discuss a strategy of dealing with the five lights. Hope becomes agitated at his expectations and just wants to find her family. Scott, realizing his mistreatment of Hope, decides that he'll deal with the lights and send a team to escort Hope to Alaska, much to her delight.

 

The storyline span-off two new ongoing series, Generation Hope that focuses on the five lights and Marcus Dexter: The Missing Light that follows the newly manifested mutant as he learns his place in the world.</blockquote>Cancelled Series

• Cable
  
• Dark Wolverine
  
• Wolverine: Origins
  
• Wolverine: Weapon X
  
• X-Force
  

New Series

 

• Daken: Dark Wolverine
  
• Generation Hope
  
• Namor: The First Mutant
  
• Uncanny X-Force
  
• Wolverine
  
• Wolverine: The Best There Is
  
• X-23
  
• X-Men
  
• Marcus Dexter: The Missing Light
  

External links<blockquote>X-Men: Second Coming at the Comic Book DB

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Origin<hr>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

"Origin" is the first issue published by Marvel Comics of the Missing Light Series spinning out of the X-Men storyline 'Second Coming' from March to July 2010. A concept idea by Joe Quesada to bring young unknown writers into a quiet area of the Marvel Universe and let them make their own mark with the option of folding it into the mainstream continuity should sales prove fruitful.

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Plot synopsis<hr><blockquote>The story begins where 'Second Coming' ended. During the celebration on Utopia, Cyclops sneaks away to talk to Hope, in an attempt to discuss a strategy of dealing with the five lights. Hope becomes agitated at his expectations and just wants to find her family. Scott, realizing his mistreatment of Hope, decides that he'll deal with the lights and send a team to escort Hope to Alaska, much to her delight. Moments after Cyclops and Emma leave, a sixth light blinks into existance but vanishes just as quickly.

 

The issue cuts to a brand new character falling out of bed holding his head in obvious pain. The character is Marcus Dexter, the sixth light who's mutant power is just manifesting. Emancipated from his parents, Marcus makes ends meet cleaning at a local medical clinic. Still reeling but in dire need of money, Marcus heads to work but begins to hear whispers from the shadows. Whilst cleaning he hears someone call him a loser and he confronts a couple of passerbys who deny even saying it.

 

Heading home, he hears people talking about S.H.I.E.L.D (Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division), a recently defunct government agency. Trying to find the source, Marcus finds himself down Yancy Street where he is stalked and then attacked by the Yancy Street Gang. Beaten and bloodied, Marcus folds over in pain clutching his head again, and as he screams out, the gang members grasp their heads and cry out as well before finally running off.

 

The issue ends with Marcus pulling himself off the ground and proclaiming 'What the hell?'</blockquote>Notes<blockquote>Joe Quesada has advised that this issue was 5% over their target level of sales

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Punisher<hr>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

"Punisher" was the second issue published by Marvel Comics of the Missing Light Series spinning out of the X-Men storyline 'Second Coming' from March to July 2010. A concept idea by Joe Quesada to bring young unknown writers into a quiet area of the Marvel Universe and let them make their own mark with the option of folding it into the mainstream continuity should sales prove fruitful.

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Plot synopsis<hr><blockquote>Issue #2 picks up a few days after the last. Marcus has returned to work after the headaches and beating that he received at the hands of the Yancy Street Gang, however the mysterious voices continue. At a local shop he 'overhears' a couple of local youth contemplating shoplifting, but a stern look sends the kid on his way. Heading back towards his hovel of an apartment all hell breaks loose as gunfire breaks out. Picking himself up from the floor, Marcus sees The Punisher firing at a series of gangs clipping numerous members of the factions and killing several others. A group try to break away towards where Marcus is lying. The Punisher shouts towards Marcus to stop them, and Marcus cries out 'STOP!'. The breakaway gang members stop instantly and just stand there with a confused look on their face before The Punisher puts bullets in their backs.

 

The Punisher begins mopping up and has the remaining gang members lined up in front of him ready to be executed. Marcus cries out 'STOP!' again, and this time, The Punisher looks stunned. 'Leave them for the police', Marcus shouts, and with that The Punisher turns and retreats.

 

Finally the NYPD arrive and arrest the surviving gang members.. On a hunch, Marcus stares keenly at one of the gang members being escorted and whispers 'Trip!' before watching him fall flat on his face..

 

'Sweet!' Marcus exclaims and heads off home.

 

</blockquote>Notes<blockquote>Joe Quesada has advised that this issue was 15% over their target level of sales.

 

Characters appearing in this issue: The Punisher, New York Street Gang, Kingpin's Thugs.

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First Steps<hr>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

"First Steps" was originally published by Marvel Comics in Marcus Dexter: Missing Light 3 - 4. A concept idea by Joe Quesada to bring young unknown writers into a quiet area of the Marvel Universe and let them make their own mark with the option of folding it into the mainstream continuity should sales prove fruitful.

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Character Details<hr><blockquote>Marcus Dexter is a Mutant and one of the first to have awakened since M-Day. Whilst the other 5 are being located by Hope Summers, Marcus' cannot be detected by Cerebra and is struggling to come to terms with his emerging powers. Showing signs of telepathy and mind control.</blockquote>

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Plot synopsis<hr><blockquote>Marcus has begun testing the waters of his new powers in the way any young teenager would do; Getting things for free and getting attention from pretty girls. However his powers are put to the test when Batroc's Brigade storm the clinic where he works and hold people hostage.

 

Using his powers, Marcus slips away from the others. Marcus mentally stuns his nearby assailant and heads towards the main office to find the ringleader Ox who attacks him. Using a combination of mental and physical attacks, Ox is defeated and escapes along with the Brigade.

 

</blockquote>Notes<blockquote>Joe Quesada has advised that this issue was 40% over their target level of sales.

 

Characters appearing in this issue: Ox, Batroc's Brigade.

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Marcus Dexter: Missing Light

Reader Choice #1

 

Marcus Dexter has realised that he has gained unique powers and will begin to look for someone to help him understand whats happened.

 

This is your chance to influence the story.

Who Should Marcus Seek Out For Advice?

 

1) Professor Xavier and/or X-Men

2) Mister Fantastic

3) Iron Man

4) Dr Strange

5) Magneto

6) No-One

 

PM me with your decision and you could see your choice appear in a future issue

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Fancy Dan<hr>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

"Fancy Dan" was originally published by Marvel Comics in Marcus Dexter: Missing Light #5. A concept idea by Joe Quesada to bring young unknown writers into a quiet area of the Marvel Universe and let them make their own mark with the option of folding it into the mainstream continuity should sales prove fruitful.

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Character Details<hr><blockquote>Marcus Dexter is a Mutant and one of the first to have awakened since M-Day. Whilst the other 5 are being located by Hope Summers, Marcus' cannot be detected by Cerebra and is struggling to come to terms with his emerging powers. Showing signs of telepathy and mind control.</blockquote>

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Plot synopsis<hr><blockquote>Marcus has an itch he just cant scratch. An itch inside his head. After tackling Ox and Batroc's Brigade, Marcus has been wanting to try out his new found powers on someone else. He tracks down his old landlord who threatened his tenants with eviction constantly unless they overpaid their rent and constantly turned off the heating and charged them to get it back on. His name was Dan. Fancy Dan to his tenants.

 

Marcus follows Dan around getting him to trip up over things and knock stuff over. His crowning achievement came when he say an NYPD cop walking the beat and caused Dan to punch him square in the jaw. Fancy Dan was soon carted off.

 

Life was good for Marcus.... for now!

 

</blockquote>Notes<blockquote>Joe Quesada has advised that this issue was 60% over their target level of sales.

 

Characters appearing in this issue: Fancy Dan

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Thanks for the votes. Marcus has now met the winner and it will be posted soon