Marvel’sX - Menhave yet again been entangled in astronomical conflicts between ancient alien imperium . This sentence , it ’s at a scale great than ever before . As of the new issueX - Men # 9,the full Brood   species , a hive mind spanning ten thousand worlds , one thousand queens , and six trillion dawdler , has fall under the statement of Broo , one of Wolverine ’s grade - schooling students .

The Brood   isone of the deadliest speciesthat Marvel ’s multiverse   has to extend . Survivors of a dead cosmos , the Brood inject eggs into their prey that squander and replicate the original host . ( envisage the Xenomorphs from the movieAlienbut with a whole superhero universe to prosper in . )

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Normally the Brood are bestial piranha who follow an insect - like   beehive mind , but the 10 - adult male receive a mutant Brood pilotless aircraft that develop intelligence activity and independent thought . They adopted him and enrol him in Wolverine ’s schooltime for young mutation , where he took the name Broo . The Broodling is a scientific prodigy but has struggled with his predatory nature . A guest teacher named Deathlok analyzed the timestream to resolve that Broo had a 22 % luck of curing all Crab in the next five years … and a 34 % fortune ofeating several of his class fellow . But Deathlok clearly did n’t have a bun in the oven what really unfolded .

In late issues ofX - gentleman’s gentleman , the New Mutants returned from a space adventure with a occult eggs which turned out to be exceedingly worthful to rival alien nation - commonwealth the Kree and the Shi’ar , as well as the Brood … as shown by the Kree and Shi’ar push over its location and the Brood encroach upon Earth to get it back . The X - Men beat them backwhile Broo and his co-worker examine the egg to learn its secret .

go - Men # 9revealed what it actually is : the King Egg , a superweapon evolve by Kree scientist to weaponize the Brood . The King Egg , when actuate , would bring out a Brood King , a unique brute whose pheromones would rank it as far above the Brood Queens as the Queens were above totally disposable drones . This would take into account the Kree to set the King against rival intergalactic powers and consume them with billions of baneful predators . As various extraterrestrial factions derive upon the X - Men in a massive battle , the Brood dead stopped in home .   Some were happy to see the coinage relent , but others recognise an total hive falling quiet as a direful omen . They all looked around to see where the egg went when Broo return the bad news . " distressing , " he admitted as lap up his finger . " I ate it . "

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The narration confirms it : the property of the King Egg have transferred to young Broo , giving him constitutional authority over every Brood hive in cosmos . This is n’t the first sentence that an X - Men character has ruled an empire ; most recently , Cyclops ' mad brother Vulcantemporarily ruled over the Shi’ar . But it is a much more immediate sort of power . Leaders of galactic empires may have political domination , but Broo is a king at the biologic level . The Brood are more than a people ; they are a single , immense entity traverse multiple galaxies . The alien armada approaching Earth in the upcomingEmpyrestoryline motive to watch   mutants carefully … because they just became an interstellar superpower .

X - Men # 9is useable now from your local comics store and digital providers .

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