10 Insane Alternate Superhero Origins You Won't Believe Exist
7. Pope Henry McCoy
Everyone’s favourite woolly blue scientist was left badly shaken, much like every other mutant, by the events depicted in House of M. The M-Day effect, as it came to be known, involved an emotionally and psychologically shattered Scarlet Witch tearing reality apart and ultimately decimating the mutant population.
Witnessed by his regular counterpart and Dr Strange in astral form, Pope Beast showed what McCoy’s life as a man of the cloth would’ve been: both the first American and the first mutant Pope in the history of the Catholic Church.
Still a lover and champion of mutant rights, Pope McCoy received several spiritual visions in the wake of the M-Day effect. Filled with hope, he allied with the Inhumans, believing some form of mutant salvation awaited in the Terrigen Mists. Moved by his hopeful ambitions, the Inhumans treat him kindly but Medusa ultimately chooses to deny him entry to the mists. She warns him that only pain awaited mutantkind in the mists.
A poignant and heartbreaking moment during the controversial M-Day saga, Pope McCoy was a testament to the mutant’s work ethic and intellect that no matter what path he followed in life, he wound up the master of his field eventually.