The boldly ambitious relaunch of the entire X-Men line under Dawn of X has seen Marvel's Merry Mutants found the mutant nation-state of Krakoa, effectively abolishing death while forming an island paradise with its own highly advanced technology. This development has not gone unnoticed, of course, with new and old enemies resurfacing to destroy the assembled Children of the Atom once and for all. The first year of the relaunch has seen renewed anti-mutant extremists take arms while cybernetic species known as the Phalanx are poised to strike against all of mutantkind. One major villain linking these two factions has been conspicuously absent during Dawn of X to date: Cameron Hodge.
Created by Bob Layton and Jackson Guice in 1986's X-Factor #1, Hodge was Angel's college roommate and devised a plan with Warren Worthington III to reunite the original five X-Men in a new team called X-Factor. The ensemble posed as humans hunting down mutants, using their public cover to track down young mutants and train them.
This plan proved disastrous when X-Factor's actions actually fueled anti-mutant hysteria nationwide, largely stemming from the organization's advertising campaign developed by Hodge. Beyond the failed advertising campaign, Hodge was revealed to be behind the team's recent hardships, including the amputation of Angel's wings after the grievous injuries he sustained during Mutant Massacre, a private plane crash that nearly claimed Angel's life and tension between Cyclops and Jean Grey through holographic projections of the Phoenix to seemingly haunt them.
Hodge founded and led his own anti-mutant extremist group known as The Right, directly putting him in conflict with his old associates. While commanding The Right, Hodge made a deal with the demon N'astirh for immortality in exchange for his organization opening a portal between Earth and Limbo. Soon after, Angel returned reborn as Archangel and decapitated Hodge after learning his former roommate had tortured and murdered his old girlfriend Candy Southern. Hodge's deal with N'Astirh kept him alive, however, living a tortured existence with his head attached to a cybernetic body.
Now positioned as a secret authority on Genosha, Hodge continued his anti-mutant agenda and targeted the New Mutants, resulting in Warlock's death and many of the team traumatized by his actions. Havok and Rictor led the unified mutant teams against Hodge, with Rictor burying Hodge's separated head under a pile of debris. Hodge recovered and was incorporated into the race of cybernetic beings known as the Phalanx, resulting in a new, advanced form while renewing his old grudge against Archangel before the Phalanx's eventual defeat.
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Hodge's most recent notable appearance was during the crossover event Second Coming, where his remains were recovered from the Phalanx wreckage in the Himalayas and revived by Bastion's Transmode Virus. Hodge was joined by fellow anti-mutant extremists -- including William Stryker and Bolivar Trask -- to form the Purifiers, targeting the X-Men while mutants were still listed as an endangered species after Scarlet Witch's actions during House of M. Over the course of the event, the resurrected Warlock finally got his revenge by seemingly destroying Hodge for good by draining his life force through their shared technorganic connection.
With a new iteration of the Phalanx already menacing Krakoa during Dawn of X and given Cameron Hodge's own propensity to survive death through his literal deal with a deal, it is certainly possible the villain could eventually make his big return. The attacks on the new mutant nation-state have certainly been coordinated and devastating in their own way and, with his history of orchestrating anti-mutant campaigns from behind-the-scenes, Hodge could be a likely culprit.