Update On...PHANTAZIA

[Monolith]

This week we kick off a series of updates to fabulous female X-Men villains who made surprising returns during the X-Men's Krakoan Age. Some of these returns may have been brief, and all of these villainesses deserve better still. Case in point, our first update on one of the more interesting villains to debut in the early 90s, who still to this day remains mostly a mystery. Why did she choose to join Toad's Brotherhood? Why didn't she accept Exodus' offer to join the Acolytes? And how the heck did she remember House of X? Her motives remain her own - and she is not interested in revealing them...she is...PHANTAZIA.

https://uncannyxmen.net/characters/phantazia

[Holland Oates]

She doesn’t get enough use imo. She has several qualities of a potential fan favorite.

[P-90]

She doesn’t get enough use imo. She has several qualities of a potential fan favorite.

Yeah, I've always wondered why she wasn't used more, if nothing else her abilities are interesting.

[Gremlin]

The 90’s were an odd time as there were so many awesome characters created but they became lost in the noise a bit. Post, Executioner and Sienna Blaze had interesting designs but by the time the 00’s came around and the x-office went back to the classic villains the newly created ones were thrown on the scrap heap.

[Outsider_BR]

Sooner or later there will be a new Brotherhood of Mutants. I hope they make one that lasts for several years. If the 90s had its editorial complications, nowadays I think that the short duration of creative teams and comics makes the teams of heroes and villains very volatile. Phantazya has a lot of potential, I've always liked the mystery she evokes.

[Chronis]

The 90’s were an odd time as there were so many awesome characters created but they became lost in the noise a bit.

Several of the writers who created these characters had left Marvel before the end of the decade. Marvel also cancelled several of its then popular titles following its banktuptcy in December 1996. With many former protagonists in comic book limbo, their supporting characters and foes vanished as well.

I honestly think that many of these characters had either merit or potential. They could be interesting again in the hands of competent writers.

[Blackcyclops]

The 90’s were an odd time as there were so many awesome characters created but they became lost in the noise a bit.

Several of the writers who created these characters had left Marvel before the end of the decade. Marvel also cancelled several of its then popular titles following its banktuptcy in December 1996. With many former protagonists in comic book limbo, their supporting characters and foes vanished as well.

I honestly think that many of these characters had either merit or potential. They could be interesting again in the hands of competent writers.

I think most of those characters had super cool designs that fell into the taste of readers who came of age in that era (hence why so many older readers critiqued them so heavy)but had such little development that calling them awesome is purely based on aesthetics and not really anything they did honestly. But like all characters they could be fully fleshed out if someone wanted to use them…as the adage goes there are no “bad” characters.

Although I think some had shitty designs looking back lol

[Cable]

I wouldn't be surprised if we start to see characters from that time start to appear more, because we will increasingly get writers who got into comics as young readers in the 90s and 2000s.

[Blackcyclops]

I wouldn't be surprised if we start to see characters from that time start to appear more, because we will increasingly get writers who got into comics as young readers in the 90s and 2000s.

Very true

[Holland Oates]

Sooner or later there will be a new Brotherhood of Mutants. I hope they make one that lasts for several years. If the 90s had its editorial complications, nowadays I think that the short duration of creative teams and comics makes the teams of heroes and villains very volatile. Phantazya has a lot of potential, I've always liked the mystery she evokes.

Technically, there’s enough for at least two Sisterhood of Evil Mutants. Animax, Fatale, Marrow, the remnants of the M.L.F, etc are all floating out there waiting for leadership.