The conflict between mutants and humans had existed for ages; no one could say exactly how the feud began.
In any case, both sides had organizations aimed at the other.
And in North America, the situation was especially severe.
Magneto's Brotherhood had always been committed to expanding the mutant population, with the ultimate goal of replacing human rule with mutant rule.
He had once tried to turn political leaders from various countries into mutants in order to change the government's attitude toward mutants.
It was not as if no one had used such extreme methods before. Back in the fifties and sixties, the Hellfire Club's Black King had wanted to trigger a nuclear war, flooding the world with radiation to increase the mutant population.
And with their abilities, mutants could rise more easily in a chaotic world.
But they had all failed!
The three major mutant organizations were still the same old three: the Hellfire Club, the Brotherhood, and the X-Men.
The Hellfire Club had remained neutral all these years. Apart from recruiting members and building a massive business empire... they seemed to do nothing else.
The Brotherhood was the only one truly stirring up trouble, while the X-Men were precisely the Brotherhood's greatest enemy—even ahead of the United States government.
Most interestingly, Magneto—the Brotherhood's leader, known as either Max Eisenhardt or Erik Lehnsherr—and Professor X Charles Xavier, leader of the X-Men, were good friends, former teammates and partners!
What an interesting relationship.
These oddly connected factions kept one another in check, and aside from minor skirmishes, nothing major happened.
But the United States government had supported Worthington Labs in developing a mutant cure!
That was digging up the very roots of mutantkind!
How could Magneto possibly stand by and watch it happen?
In his eyes, mutants had reached the