Warning! Spoilers ahead for King in Black #4.
In the latest issue of Marvel's King in Black, the heroes of the Marvel Universe rally together for an all-out offensive against Knull, the Symbiote God, and it's a far stronger plan of attack than their first attempt to ward off the massive invasion in the first issue, a conflict they lost hands down. While this new assault is quite impressive, some readers may be wondering why this new plan of unified heroes and powers wasn't the original strategy from the get-go. The answer may very well lie with the X-Men and their new status as an independent nation.
In the first issue of King in Black, Captain America and Venom came up with several different plans for the Avengers and their allies to ward off and defend against the imminent invasion. However, it still wasn't enough to stop the Symbiote God, whose power proved to be far too great for them to handle. After his initial onslaught in New York, Knull began his conquest and corruption across the entire globe, and he assimilated several heroes into his army by bonding them to his hive by the end of the first issue.
Now, King in Black #4, from writer Donny Cates and artist Ryan Stegman, sees Venom's son Dylan Brock using his powers over symbiotes to free several of these corrupted heroes, all while Jean Grey downloads a far superior battle plan into the minds of several heavy hitters such as Doctor Strange, Cyclops, Storm, Invisible Woman, Human Torch, Namor, and Thor. Synergizing all of their powers together, these heroes are able to cause enough damage to allow Jean to breach Knull's mind in order to find his weakness. The attack works spectacularly well, and as such it seems as though it should have been "Plan A" from the start of King in Black.
One reason this wasn't the first plan of attack could potentially be due to thel reluctance of Krakoa, the new island nation of Marvel's mutants. Power synchronization has been a key strategy and essentially a secret weapon of Krakoa since its inception. This synergy has been responsible for several of the country's key processes, such as their ability to resurrect their own kind, several of their innovations and infrastructure, as well as their own unique defenses. It's possible that the mutants of Krakoa did not want to share their principle strategies with the rest of the world, at least not until things became as dire as they've become with Knull's global takeover (including Krakoa's own gateways).
It seems likely that the X-Men made the same mistake the rest of the heroes did: they severely underestimated the King in Black and his power. As such, they probably felt as though using Jean to synchronize with the other heroes wasn't inherently necessary if they could help it. That being said, it seems pretty evident that the X-Men could have avoided a lot of collateral damage had Jean stepped up earlier. At the very least, the heroes would have been able to put up more of a fight, perhaps halting Knull's invasion long enough for the Enigma Force to arrive and face the King in Black before so many heroes were lost and corrupted by his legions.
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