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.

Mutants have it pretty good these days. They have their own nation where they can finally live safely and without persecution, aside from the occasional invasion and the questionable actions of Beast. Mutants have also mastered a cloning technique that brings them awfully close to being immortal.

Jonathan Hickman and Pepe Larraz introduced the X-Men's resurrection protocols in 2019's House of X. While mutants are still capable of dying, the protocols enable them to be brought back to life in most cases with little fuss. However, in X-Factor #3, the team learns that the mutants of Krakoa aren't the only ones in the cloning and resurrection business, and their reaction is less than amicable.

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X-Factor gets the word that a mutant has died in the Mojoverse, and they head in to find out who it was and what happened. They have no idea who died, and only got the message sent by a mysterious individual inside the Mojoverse. When they arrive, they learn the dead mutant was a former student of Xavier's named Wind Dancer, who was also a member of the New Mutants at one time. They also discover that the person who sent them the message was Shatterstar, a former member of both X-Force and X-Factor and the current number one live streamer in the Mojoverse.

Shatterstar had even more disturbing news for X-Factor. The Mojoverse has enacted their own version of the resurrection process, and the mutants are openly disgusted. While the mutants use memories and DNA to resurrect themselves in new bodies, the Mojoverse feeds mutant DNA to something called the "clone mother" where it is then dispersed to the next generation of clones. What appears to disgust the mutants is the fact that the clones are born without any of their memories and are essentially a blank slate that Mojo then molds into whatever he wants them to be.

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In Krakoa, the resurrected body is not only a duplicate of the mutant in question, but also the memories of the dead are downloaded into the body, making them a nearly perfect copy of the original. The Mojoverse clones and resurrects mutants as mindless drones, prepared to be programmed to do the bidding of their masters. Shatterstar confirmed that this is how the Mojoverse produces the cannon fodder needed for their gladiatorial games, effectively forcing the clones into battles to the death for the entertainment of the masses.

If Wind Dancer is resurrected using the protocols on Krakoa, she will return with most of her memories intact. If she is brought back to life in the Mojoverse, it will be as a mindless drone existing for the sole purpose of doing Mojo's bidding. Regardless of the differences, both sides are still playing God, and with forces that they have no way of truly understanding. The differences between the practices are subtle, yet vast enough for the X-Men to declare that their way is the right way. In reality, neither side has the right to play God, and therefore neither side has the right to condemn the other, at least not without proving themselves to be hypocrites...which is exactly what the X-Men have done.

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