With help from Roma, the X-Men seemingly died to give Forge the energy he needed to defeat the Adversary for good in Chris Claremont and Marc Silvestri’s Uncanny X-Men #227. During 1988’s seminal “Fall of the Mutants” event, the Adversary captured the multiversal goddess Roma and launched an attack on Earth based in Dallas, Texas. With a history that seemingly pre-dates the birth of the Marvel Universe, the Adversary is most commonly associated with the Cheyenne and the X-Men’s Forge, who spent years of shamanic training to stop him. Created by Chris Claremont and John Romita Jr in 1984’s Uncanny X-Men #188, the Adversary is a magical entity with a seemingly limitless amount of power that wants to destroy the universe and create a new one in its place. River also says that only the power of the Phoenix can stop him.Īs solicitations for future issues confirm, that villain is the Adversary, one of the more challenging villains Marvel’s mutants ever faced.
He offers Maya a dire warning about an oncoming battle with a spreading “shadow” who is known to the other people of the area. When Echo returns to the tribal land where she spent the best days of her youth, she encounters Riverwalker, a storyteller with the power to look back through a person’s ancestral line.
