Warning! Spoilers for Heroes Reborn: Magneto & The Mutant Force #1!
Like DC Comics’ Wonder Woman, Marvel’s version of the character, Power Princess, has her own island full of Amazonian-like warriors called Utopians, and in a surprising twist, it was just revealed that Power Princess single handedly killed them all! And to think these battle hardened women died not by the sword of an enemy, but by something much more invisible and deadly.
Mentioned off-handedly in the newest Heroes Reborn tie-in issue, Heroes Reborn: Magneto & The Mutant Force #1 by Steve Orlando and Bernard Chang, Zarda aka Power Princess, has a well-known secret about her home island of Utopia Isle that squarely puts the blame of their extinction on her chiseled shoulders. Revealed by the Heroes Reborn version of the X-Men as they dive into Magneto’s mind to hopefully revive the deceased leader of their team, Charles Xavier, Power Princess’ killing of her Utopian sisters is an act that’s less flashy than expected yet no less brutal.
Noted as the Mutant Force enter the wrecked battlefield that is Magneto’s mind, the members of the team immediately realize they’re on a version of Power Princess’ home island, complete with undead skeleton warriors of what used to be the island’s Utopian residents. Further going on to say, “Some warrior women! Killed by germs their own princess brought back home,” as they beat back the encroaching forces, the twisted reason for the annihilation of Utopia Isle’s population is revealed to have been due to nothing more than some bacteria that the secluded society of warriors had never been exposed to, thus killing every single one of them when said germs arrived on their shores.
Brought to them by their champion and Wonder Woman inspired “hero”, it isn’t said as to whether or not Power Princess accidentally brought the germs to her island over the course of her many visits backs home, or if – and considering she’s a bit of an evil character in this reality – she brought the civilization wiping bacteria back to her people with the explicit intent to murder them all. Regardless, this wiping out of Utopians is an interesting wrinkle in the Heroes Reborn lore, but also shows a reality where Wonder Woman’s journey to Man’s World could have ended in a much more negative way.
Known for having left her own home island of Themyscira to help fight the good fight as a pillar of DC Comics’ superhero pantheon, Wonder Woman’s need to help Man’s World was one that was met with skepticism and worry about what it would mean for the rest of her fellow Amazons. And although this biological Achilles Heel never came to pass in the DC universe, the real implications of bringing diseases and germs that are unknown to the immune systems of a sheltered civilization such as the Amazons – or in this case the Utopians – is a unique twist on Wonder Woman lore that Marvel leans into entirely.
So while Wonder Woman luckily didn’t wipe out her entire island by opening them up to the germs of Man’s World, Marvel's Power Princess unfortunately can’t say the same. Having an army of warriors might seem like a good thing while self-contained on their bubble island, but when it comes down to it, they’d clearly be pretty useless anywhere else.
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