WARNING: The following contains spoilers for X-Factor #3, by Leah Williams, David Baldeon, Israel Silva, VC's Joe Caramagna and Tom Muller, on sale now.

While life is never easy for the students of the X-Men, the Academy X kids have been through a lot. This generation of young, new X-Men has already experienced the death of Laurie Collins and the assassination of nearly 50 of their classmates. During M-Day, some of those students were depowered, including Sofia Mantega, Wind Dancer.

After floating around the periphery of the Marvel Universe for a few years, Wind Dancer learned that life away from the X-Men wasn't much easier, as she went through her own brutal experience in X-Factor #3.

After Krakoa's team of mutant investigators was sent to the Mojoverse to follow up on the alleged death of a mutant, the X-team learns that the late mutant in question is Wind Dancer, who became another victim of Mojoworld's obsession with media content and fame.

The six-armed Spiral, Mojo's lieutenant, even withheld the news from X-Factor until she could reveal her identity on camera and catch their horrified reactions as she's gunned down, especially the reaction of Sofia's old classmate, Prodigy.

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Spiral uses Sofia's death to lead X-Factor down a trail of breadcrumbs, prompting them to find clues for why she died. The gang soon runs into Shatterstar, who announces he's Mojoverse's top streamer. Shatterstar reveals that Sofia's remains were intended to be fed to the Mojoverse clone-mother, which would then disperse her mutant DNA into the "next generation of clones."

However, Shatterstar clarifies that he was able to convince Mojo not to feed Wind Dancer's remains to the clone-mother after all. Instead, Mojo will televise her autopsy as a spectacle for all to see. Shatterstar leads the gang to where Sofia's body is being held, using code to instruct X-Factor to get her remains out.

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Though Wind Dancer isn't seen again in the issue, it's likely she'll be resurrected through the X-Men's cloning process, which would likely include bringing her back with her original mutant powers.

Created by Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir and Keron Grant, Sofia Mantega debuted in New Mutants #1 in 2003. In that series, Danielle Moonstar convinces the 16-year-old mutant to join the Xavier Institute after seeing Sofia use her air-manipulating powers on the news.

When the Xavier Institute students are broken up into different teams, Sofia finds herself on the New Mutants squad alongside Surge, Elixir, Prodigy and Wither. After David rejects the offer to lead the New Mutants, Sofia gets the position. Eventually, the two come to an understanding and work as c0-leaders together. Well-liked and extroverted, Sofia even wins the superlative for "Most Outgoing" in the school's yearbook.

After losing her powers on M-day, Sofia leaves the school. Instead of returning home to Venezuela, she finds a new life for herself, working as a waitress in New York City. Haunted by the loss of her powers, Mantega often dreamt of having her powers return to her --and had nightmares over losing them. During this time in her life, she joins the new iteration of the New Warriors. While on the New Warriors, Mantega takes up a new codename, Renascence.

Since her stint on the New Warriors, Sofia has been largely absent from comics. X-Factor #3 marks her return and her death simultaneously. If Aurora is any example, she could very well join the X-Factor extended family after her inevitable resurrection, too.

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