House of X: Rebirth (Twenty-Nine)
Mutants did not care in the slightest about being classified as chimpanzees. After all, Mutants had already been bullied down to rock bottom before. Forget gorillas—what vicious names hadn't been used on them? But now, as long as they admitted they were apes, they could successfully drag the people insulting them down with them and turn them into a pack of beasts who could only rage impotently. Thinking about it was actually pretty satisfying.
If Mutants were gorillas, then everyone who argued with them was an idiot flinging shit at apes. As long as you could set aside your international image and fight three hundred rounds with a group of rare wild animals, the Mutants would naturally not be stingy about accepting the challenge. They would just see who was better at throwing shit.
Under these circumstances, Europe was disgusted into helplessness. After all, they prided themselves on being Old World aristocrats and even saw the United States as unruly barbarians. If they really got into a fight with this pack of gorillas, they would lose both substance and face, so they could only give up in frustration.
And just like that, the United States caught fire internally, Europe did not dare step in, and basically the entire Western world was beaten flat. On top of that, they received quite a lot of aid from China and Wakanda, so the whole of Krakoa Island did not merely recover in one breath. It was more like it had been injected with super-soldier serum and shot straight up with a whoosh.
Ship after ship of supplies was transported in. Later on, ordinary movers could no longer meet the Mutants' needs. Even sending Mutants like Magneto in was completely unable to keep up, so they could only deploy