Hellions See Through a Secret Mission, Causing Genocide

Marvel Comics launched Hellions #8 on January 6, 2021, alongside  X-Factor #6 and Juggernaut #5. In Hellions #8, we will see a team composed of some troublemakers like Havok, Greycrow, Empath, Psylocke, Wild Child, and Nanny (They are referred to as Hellions collectively).

In the newest issue of Hellions #8, we will find out about the darker side of the Krokoan council and their laws, especially the newly introduced Hesiod Protocols.

In following the Hesiod Protocols, Psylocke commits a (Robot) genocide when the robots start showing signs of evolution. However, the secret mission to do so wasn’t ordered by the leaders of Krokoa.

She justifies her actions by saying, “No A.I. may flourish under our watch.” This is also oddly the darker logic behind trying to “protect” the mutants.

Before the genocide, when robots were still under Cameron Hodge’s control (he uses them to attack the Hellions), he strikes a fatal blow on Hellion, and just before dying, Hellion tells Hodge that he’s a robot.

Of course, Hodge had a hard time believing it, so he orders one of his A.I. bots to shoot him. (Please bear in mind that the robots are forbidden to harm Hodge in their design)

The robots do as they are said, and the Hellion is shot, revealing metallic and robotic parts hidden underneath the flesh. Perhaps that incident acted as a catalyst for what was about to happen.

The A.I. robots kill Hodge (most likely as an act of vengeance) even after being programmed otherwise, indicating a possible evolutionary development in their systems.

The robots thank hellions for freeing them and express their desire to become “friends” with the mutants. But then comes Psylocke.

Psylocke secretly unleashes a virus that messes up the robots’ programming system and eventually ends up killing them without being ordered to do so.

Issue #8 shows us the darker side of Krokoa and their leadership as we see a bunch of lost-causes murder an entire race of (most likely developed) robots who wanted to be friends, all in the name of following through their protocols, and in turn, the will of the leadership.