Warning: Contains spoilers for Marvel's Voices: X-Men #1!!

The X-Men have provided safe haven for mutants for decades. Since Charles Xavier put together the original team, those with the X-Gene have proven that they are stronger together. They’ve faced an endless onslaught of threats, yet even those poised to eliminate them entirely have failed, and Professor X knows why.

Marvel’s Voices: X-Men #1 – by Jan Baladuza, Marcelo Costa, and Neeraj Menon – offers insight into why mutantkind will always rise from the ashes.

Experiencing a bout of nostalgia, Xavier muses that the X-Men bounce back, no matter what. Beneath all the pain they endure as a team and a species, there is an unbreakable connection that withstands everything thrown at them.

The X-Men Always Stand Up For Their Own

Professor X has seen generations of mutants come and go, along with all the ion and heartache they brought with them. In Marvel’s Voices: X-Men #1, as he looks back through images of his original team and others that came after – like Wolverine, Jubilee, and Cable – he identifies the thread weaves them all together. "They fight for themselves. And for us. But also for what they are." There is always a greater purpose behind everything the X-Men do; it is a constant battle for their own existence. "We are mutantkind. Look how beautiful we are." That drive to lift mutants up allows them to survive everything they face.

The X-Men Have Already Survived The Unthinkable

In addition to banding together to face whatever may come, the X-Men have demonstrated the invaluable ability to create space for themselves. When there is no home for them, they make their own – whether that’s X-Mansion, Utopia, Limbo, or Krakoa. Alongside Xavier's walk through the past, Marvel’s Voices revisits Mystique’s time with the Brotherhood, highlighting precisely why that tactic is always successful. She tells Destiny that she can only be herself among the Brotherhood. Ultimately, that sentiment is what ties all of mutantkind together, and it is why they will continue to come back again and again. No matter who they lose, or which voices go silent, mutantkind will survive.

Marvel Comics' mutants have dealt with the Orchis’ attack on the Hellfire Gala and the subsequent death, injuries, and separation that followed, mark one more tragedy to overcome. Mutants have proved that they'll continue on and adapt in whatever way is required of them, whether taking back what is theirs, or creating something new instead. One thing is certain: the X-Men fight for survival because, together, they can truly be themselves.

Check out Marvel's Voices: X-Men #1, available now from Marvel Comics!