WARNING: The following contains spoilers for the story "Traditional Pink Sushi" from Marvel Voices: Identity #1, on sale now
The X-Men have helped create a new future for mutant-kind, where the former conflicts have been forgotten and moved past. While some of their conflicts have lingered and even festered on Krakoa, others have made genuine attempts to grow as people and move beyond the mistakes they'd made in the past. There's one notable antagonist who has made especially solid in-roads on that front, and seems to have even made bond with a younger generation of mutants in the process.
Silver Samurai and Armor spent some time together in the story "Traditional Pink Sushi" by Ken Nimura from Marvel Voices: Identity #1 with the pair sharing a surprising bond that helps cement the idea that the former villain has fully embraced his new place on Krakoa.
Kenuichio Harada -- aka the Silver Samurai -- debuted in Daredevil #111 by Steve Gerber and Bob Brown, and quickly became a reoccurring Wolverine antagonist. Capable of infusing any object with a powerful tachyon field that makes it capable of cutting through almost anything. A frequent antagonist in the Marvel Universe, Silver Samurai's complicated relationship with Logan and his half-sister Mariko always hinted at a possible redemption for the character -- even eventually becoming an ally to the heroes of the world. He was resurrected on Krakoa following his earlier demise and has carved out a place in the new mutant age as the officiant of the Arena where mutants can test their might against one another.
Silver Samurai has flirted with his old ways though -- most notably in X of Swords, where he battled Wolverine out of a rage that he wasn't chosen as one of the Swordbearers of Krakoa for their tournament against Arakko. But "Traditional Pink Sushi" further cements his current place on the mutant nation by revealing he's developed a friendship with Hisako Ichiki -- aka Armor. The young mutant -- introduced in Astonishing X-Men #4 by Joss Whedon and John Cassiday -- has also always been deeply tied to her Japanese ancestry, with her mutant ability to create a massive shield around her suggested to be a personification of her family's legacy protecting her.
The two share a deep-seated love for sushi rolls, a traditional Japanese dish. Silver Samurai even specifically recalls how his mother would make them when he was a child. Silver Samurai's long-standing obsession with tradition meant though that he was initially offended on principle when he saw that Armor's unique take on the dish included pink rice -- achieved by adding ketchup and mayonnaise instead of rice vinvegar. Armor points out that arguing about the importance of tradition in cooking is somewhat subverted when they're using the unique alien fish that can be found around Krakoa -- the living island they live on. They even used tree leaves from the island instead of seaweed, as sushi is typically prepared.
Taking a bite, Silver Samurai is immediately reminded of the feeling good sushi gave him when he was with his mother as a child -- effectively giving the longtime antagonist his own "Egon from Ratatouille" moment. The scene then cuts ahead a year to the next time the pair share sushi (alongside Daken and Surge, both of whom are also at least partly of Japanese descent) again. It's a sweet celebration that unites some specific members of the mutant nation, while also suggesting that either at least a year has passed in the Marvel Universe since the inception of Krakoa -- or that Krakoa is still in relative peace for at least the first year of its existence.
It also further cements the idea that Silver Samurai has fully embraced his place on Krakoa and with other mutants above his own selfish ambitions, bonding with young mutants he would have likely never really even met if Krakoa had never united them. It's a sweet reminder that Krakoa as an experiment -- a place where mutants can put aside their previous differences and help create a better future for themselves and others like them -- does indeed have the potential to succeed.