[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by Dr Kain

The Nimrod 3 pack I'm holding off for it to go on sale since I really only want Nimrod. Not that I really even have a place to put Nimrod right now anyway unless I take Onslaught out of the battle shelf and put Nimrod in his place, which is tempting since I know nothing about Onslaught other than he was created by both Magneto and Charles. His story arc came well after I stopped reading X-Men and I have yet to felt the desire to read it.

Just a quick rundown on Onslaught. Shortly after the AoA event resolved and all returned to normal Magneto ripped the adamantium out of Wolverine's body which nearly killed him so in heated retaliation Charles lashed out and wiped Magneto's mind. This triggered the creation of a psychic entity born of Charles' darkest thoughts and impulses which additionally has Magneto's powers since his mind was the one used to "feed" the birth. The entity called itself Onslaught and in its infancy was just evil Charles but quickly grew independent with intentions to wipe out humanity on behalf of mutantkind. Naturally the X-men oppose this so Onslaught (after power boosting by absorbing Franklin Richards and X-Man) decides to kill every one. At the end of the day it takes the combined sacrifice of the Avengers and Fantastic Four to stop Onslaught, leaving a world where the X-Men and Spider-Man are the most notable heroes standing. Of course the "dead" heroes would return in short order because Marvel wasn't really going to kill half of their popular roster.

It's not really a recommended reading but I do still like Onslaught as an example of a big, ludicrously overpowered villain who's underwritten as hell. He got to be the big boss of the first Marvel vs Capcom game though so that's pretty cool.