Deadpool & Wolverine will ship the titular duo on an epic journey throughout time to avoid wasting Deadpool’s timeline from a world-ending calamity. That menace goes by the identify Cassandra Nova, and he or she’s one of many X-Males’s strongest, harmful, and disturbing villains.

Cassandra Nova is a twisted reflection of the X-Males’s founder, Charles Xavier, and her origin story is a snarled internet of revelations that even probably the most die-hard X-Males followers have hassle retaining observe of. So earlier than Deadpool & Wolverine premieres this Friday, let me let you know every thing that you must find out about Cassandra Nova.

Cassandra Nova is an extinction occasion made flesh

Cassandra Nova debuted within the pages of New X-Males #144, penned by the legendary comedian writer/artist duo Grant Morrison and Frank Quietly. To chop to the purpose, Cassandra is a mummudrai, a bodiless parasite from the Astral Aircraft. Attaching herself to Xavier whereas he was nonetheless within the womb, Cassandra used Xavier’s DNA to create a physique, changing into his twin sister.

Homicide from the second of her conception, Cassandra tried to strangle Xavier together with his personal umbilical twine. Xavier used his nascent psychic powers to struggle again, obliterating Cassandra’s physique and leaving everybody to imagine she’d died within the womb. Sadly for everybody, Cassandra survived, utilizing her personal psychic powers to construct a brand new physique and go into hiding.

Years after her conception, Cassandra made her presence identified to her brother and his X-Males in probably the most horrific approach potential. Utilizing an armada of mutant-hunting Sentinel robots, Cassandra launched an all-out assault on the mutant sovereign nation of Genosha. This occasion, tailored with terrifying accuracy within the fifth episode of X-Males ’97, left sixteen million mutants useless and inflicted a scar on the X-Males that’s by no means absolutely healed.

Through the years, Cassandra has clashed with the X-Males a number of instances, pushed by an all-consuming hatred for the brother she didn’t kill. Circumstances outdoors her management have pushed Cassandra to affix the X-Males often, however her innate bloodlust all the time drives her again to the trail of villainy.

Cassandra Nova is a nightmare on the psychic and genetic degree

The X-Males villains are a number of the strongest within the Marvel Universe, and Cassandra isn’t any exception. Cassandra, benign Xavier’s twin, has all of his skills. Xavier’s psychic powers are among the many strongest within the Marvel Universe, often invading the minds of hundreds of thousands of individuals. The one factor stopping Charles from enslaving or killing everybody on Earth is his restraint, a trait Cassandra sorely lacks.

On high of her psychic skills, Cassandra may manipulate DNA, permitting her to repeat and alter her and others’ genes. When she makes use of it in opposition to mutants, she will successfully steal their powers, making her the All-For-One of many Marvel Universe.

Who performs Cassandra in Deadpool and Wolverine?

Cassandra Nova would be the first X-Males villain to look within the Marvel Cinematic Universe, serving to to usher within the MCU’s “Mutant Period.” Emma Corrin, who performed Princess Diana within the fourth season of The Crown, will play Cassandra in Deadpool & Wolverine.

Based mostly on what we’ve seen in Deadpool & Wolverine’s trailers, Cassandra has taken over “The Void,” the cosmic junkyard that Loki’s Time Variance Authority dumps everybody and every thing that existed on the numerous timelines they’ve “pruned.” Commanding a military of mutants, Cassandra has presumably set her sights on escaping the Void and unleashing her distinctive pressure of chaos on the MCU’s foremost timeline.