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Krakoa
Affiliation: None
Aliases: "The Island That Walks Like a Man!" ;)
Relatives: Vega-Superior (spore)
Alternate-X Versions: Kaiju Krakoa (Exiles)
Codename Etymology: Pronounced kräk'ō'ə [Probably derived from Krakatau/Krakatoa, an island between Java and Sumatra that exploded in 1883, ejected more than six cubic miles (25 cubic kilometres) of rock, ash, and pumice, and generated the loudest sound ever historically recorded].
Powers: Born when a nuclear explosion irradiated a tropical island, linking all of its organic components into a collective consciousness, Krakoa was a living island. He was able to control all the parts of his "body," which was the island itself, through simple thought. He could even shape and manipulate inorganic matter like rocks. All of the animal life on Krakoa was also part of the collective and were directed by the Krakoa consciousness, which possessed formidable psychic powers. Krakoa was the first foe that the second-generation team of X-Men faced. They were recruited to rescue the original team when Cyclops returned from the island alone. Krakoa had captured the original X-Men unawares when they first landed on the island, because they expected to find a humanoid mutant, not that the island itself was the mutant. They were strung up inside a cave and attached to tubes and vines that siphoned off their mutant energy and empowered Krakoa. While Cyclops thought he had escpaed, in reality, Krakoa let him go so that he could return with more mutants for Krakoa to feed on. However, the new X-Men freed their predecessors as Professor X engaged Krakoa's mind. Storm unleashed a huge lightning strike into Polaris, restablishing her control over the Earth's magnetic field. Then Cyclops and Havok poured their powers' energy into her, super-charging her almost beyond he limits. Under Xavier's direction, Lorna created a pocket of reverse polarity, which flung Krakoa out of Earth's gravity well and into space. The X-Men abandoned the island just prior to its departure and survived the vacuum-generated whirlpool left behind in one of Iceman's ice domes.
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