Well these rumors definitely brightened my day. Exodus has been in my top five for more than 20 years. I'm hoping the Jubilee is Generation X. I would love it if US Agent is Force Works. Most of the rest are going to depend on the version of the character.
2026-2027 Rumor/Leak List - New Year, New Thread! Updated 4-9-26.
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So we can all get on the same page, the "classic" Mesmero look is the cross between Kang and King Cobra with a dash of Lex Luthor?
Was this guy ever on the Animated Series? I don't think I've ever seen this character in action in any story I've read or seen.
Was this guy ever on the Animated Series? I don't think I've ever seen this character in action in any story I've read or seen.
Thor-El
Asgardian
He was in X-Men: Evolution, wasn't he? I have a vague memory of that.
EDIT: Yep, he was. Not in the classic outfit though. He was a herald? acolyte? horseman? of Apocalypse in that series.
PantherCult
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I met Mesmero in the pages of X-Men long before I ever heard of Kang, King Cobra or even Lex Luthor. Uncanny X-Men 111 was the very first comic I ever read. Mesmero was the bad guy and so he holds ab outsized place in comic history for me.
But the idea that he's a mash up of King Cobra and Kang is silly and reductive. The green/purple color trope for villains was a long standing mainstay of the 4- color printing process for comics. Heroes were red/blue/yellow and villains were purple/green - Green Goblin, Dr Doom, the Lizard - so many early Marvel villains adhere to this pattern. So the idea that Mesmero, who appeared in 1968, was a copy of King Cobra and Kang who appeared in '63 and '64 respectively because they share a color scheme and some vaguely similar costume aesthetics is silly. Mesmero was designed at at a time where purple and green was short hand for 'bad guy'.
No Mesmero slander on my watch.
BasilElks
Alias: Basilisk
Mesmero is great. <3 Hopefully, soon, we'll also get classic Vanisher (60s green costume), & Unus the Untouchable.
Lucid Silverback
Knuckle-walker
I believe this is the Mesmero look most of us here desire. (à la John Byrne)
Just look at him posing all sexy for Beast.
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Just look at him posing all sexy for Beast.
BasilElks
Alias: Basilisk
80s handbook Mesmero for the win. <3
Thor-El
Asgardian
So very much Yes.I believe this is the Mesmero look most of us here desire. (à la John Byrne)
Just look at him posing all sexy for Beast.
That wasn't slander - that was an observation from someone who admittedly said they had never read or seen anything with this character. And I was referring to his costume - I have literally no idea what his powers are outside of conjecturing that it's something about mesmerizing.