X Men
August 28, 2020

X Man the concept existed in Ancient India:

By Nilakhi Banerjee

We are all familiar with the term X Man. It’s a very popular Marvel series. To understand the ancient roots we must also first get acquainted with the idea of X Man. The XMen are a team of fictional mutant superheroes appearing also in American Comic Books  published by Marvel comics. Created by artist Jack Kirby and writer Stan Lee. The characters first appeared in The X Men  (September 1963) and formed one of the most recognizable. And successful franchises of Marvel Comics, appearing in numerous books, television shows, films, and video games.

Most of the X-Men are mutants, a subspecies of humans who are born with superhuman abilities activated by the “X-Gene”. The X-Men also fight for peace and equality between normal humans and mutants. In a world where anti-mutant bigotry is fierce and widespread.

Time Travel:

Many of the X-Men’s stories delve into time travel either in the sense of the team traveling through time on a mission, villains traveling through time to alter history, or certain characters traveling from the past or future in order to join the present team. Story arcs and spin-offs that are notable for using this plot devices.

All these devices pertain to the ancient Indian beliefs of demigods who had the power to time travel. Though this seems to be a modern technology but it’s roots lie in ancient times. In Mahabharata we have the story of Revati who is a time travellers. All the Gods and the demigods were capable to travelling to different times and space. In ancient age this was termed as supernatural powers but the modern science gives it the name of advanced technologies. Whether technologies or mythical powers but the concept of time travel was very much present.

Aliens or Demi-Gods:

If we talk about time travel or modern science, the one thing that come to our minds is the aliens. Now who are these aliens?? If we look into the definition of X Men then they are sub human species much similar to the demigods of the ancient India. Demigods were half human and half god that is they were born from human and gods coming together. They possessed many extraordinary powers. We have the mention of the Pandava brothers from Mahabharata who were born from a human with the boon of a Deva. Arjun was a demigod. Similarly the race of Vanaras or Hanuman was also a demigod. So the concept of X Men was quite popular in ancient India.

Death and resurrection:

One of the most recurring plot devices used in the X-Men franchise is death and resurrection, mostly in the sense of Jean Grey and her bond with the Phoenix. Though not as iconic as Jean and the Phoenix, many other X-Men characters have died and come back to life on occasion. Death and resurrection has become such a common occurrence in the X-books that the characters have mentioned on numerous occasions that they’re not strangers to death or have made comments that death doesn’t always have a lasting effect on them. This is again similar to the concept of demigods in ancient India who could not be vanquished very easily. Even if they were injured, they were easily treated.

Space travel:

Space Travel has been a common staple in the X-Men books beginning with the Phoenix and Dark Phoenix sagas. Since then space has been involved in many stories involving the X-Men’s allies and occasional rivals the Shiar along with stories involving the Phoenix Force. Space has been the setting for many stories involving the likes of The Brood, such as the story arc where the villainous species was first introduced. So this again pertains to the common concept of demigods who were capable of travelling to space and different dimensions.

The future of X Men: So we know that time is a cycle. Whatever happened in the past will again come back in the future. This concept is also called time rap. By now we know that the idea of X Men was very much present in the ancient times.

In the future these species may again come up. According to material geologists, the present civilization will come to an end in the near future. Due to the ongoing advancements in science we are becoming dependent on technologies.

Shift From Nature:

This is creating a shift from nature. Eventually in the near future, nature will perform natural selection and might be the present civilization with all its technological advancements will be destroyed. Life is a never ending cycle so civilizations will again come up. Innovations will again take place from the beginning. At that time the modern scientists who went up in space to form colonies might be interested to come back and help the primal people with modern Technologies.

These are the humans who went up in space as the earth ceased to be a suitable place for stay. We already are aware of NASA space colonies in the Cosmos. These people will be impossible to kill as they would have advanced scientific machines.

They will be able to easily time travel and space travel. It is very likely that the primal civilizations will take them as Gods or aliens. And probably again a species of god-human hybrid will come up like the idea of X Men today. They will be termed as Demi-Gods. So aliens are not something supernatural but they are only humans who went up in space long time back. So X Men are from our past which will be our future. We will probably enter into an age of AI where these technologies will be the new normal.