(Earth-18727)
MAXIME
(Earth-18727)
Real Name: Maxime (surname unrevealed)
Identity/Class: Alternate reality (Earth-18727) human mutant
citizen of France, Krakoa
Occupation: Student;
former Hound
Group Membership: None
formerly Ahab's Hounds (Armor/Hisako Ichiki, Boom Boom/Tabitha Smith, Domino/Neena Thurman, Gentle/Nezhno Abidemi,
Glob Herman/Robert Herman, Honey Badger/Gabby Kinney, Logan/James
Howlett-21923, Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner, Prestige/Rachel Summers-811,
Rockslide/Santo Vaccarro, Storm/Ororo Munroe, Trinary/Shilpa Khatri,
Warpath/James Proudstar, others) (all of reality-616 unless noted)
Affiliations: New Mutants (Armor/Hisako
Ichiki, Boom Boom/Tabitha Smith, Glob Herman/Robert Herman, Mirage/Dani
Moonstar), Angel Salvadore Bohusk, Beak/Barnell Bohusk, numerous Bohusk
children, Black King/Sebastian Shaw, Cosmar/Natashia Repina (all of
Earth-616)
formerly Glob Herman/Robert Herman, Jean Grey, Kitty
Pryde, Rockslide/Santo Vaccarro of Earth-18727; Ahab/Rory Campbell of
Earth-811
Enemies: Bohem Cartel (Andre, Deylin, Luis, Tumulo, others)
formerly X-Men (Angel/Warren Worthington III,
Armor/Hisako Ichiki, Beast/Hank McCoy, Boom Boom/Tabitha Smith,
Cable/Nathan Summers, Cyclops/Scott Summers, Domino/Neena Thurman,
Gentle/Nezhno Abidemi, Glob Herman/Robert Herman, Honey Badger/Gabby
Kinney, Iceman/Bobby Drake, Jean Grey, Logan/James Howlett-21923,
Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner, Rockslide/Santo Vaccarro,
Shatterstar/Gaveedra Seven, Storm/Ororo Munroe, Trinary/Shilpa Khatri,
Warpath/James Proudstar, X-23/Laura Kinney, others) (all of reality-616
unless noted)
Known Relatives: Unidentified parents, Manon (sister)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Krakoa, Pacific Ocean, Earth-616
formerly mobile aboard the Pequod; Xavier Institute for Mutant Education and Outreach, Earth-18727
First Appearance: Extermination#1 (October, 2018)
Powers/Abilities: Maxime is a mutant empath. He can induce and manipulate emotions in anyone he touches.
Maxime was trained by Ahab in telepathic resistance, making his mind impossible to read or shut down even for Omega-level telepaths such as Jean Grey.
While controlled by Ahab, Maxime and Manon worked in tandem to turn mutants into Hounds instantly, with Maxime pacifying the target and Manon inserting memories of years of torture, negating the need for any further conditioning. The twins themselves were not ordinary Hounds, lacking distinct facial marking and possessing a grater degree of autonomy.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 3'7")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 90 lbs.)
Eyes: Black, no visible iris
Hair: White
History: (Extermination#5 (fb) - BTS) - Maxime and his twin sister Manon were French mutant children of mutant parents born in reality-18727, a near potential future of Earth-616. As second-generation mutants, their powers manifested before pubetry, and the twins became students at Xavier's Institute, just like their parents before them. Their teacher Glob Herman insisted that the twins practice their English language skills, as they preferred to speak French to one another.
(Extermination#5) - In the school's kitchen, Maxime and Manon awere approached by time-traveling teenage Jean Grey of Earth-616. She asked the twins about their powers, and Manon showed Jean how she performed her memory manipulation.
(Extermination#5 (fb) - BTS) - Maxime and Manon were abducted by time-traveling Ahab of Earth-811 who placed them under his mental control. Ahab used the twins' power to instantly turn mutants into Hounds and trained them to resist telepathic intrusions, specifically those of Jean Grey.
(Extermination#3 (fb) - BTS) - Traveling into the relative past of reality-616, Ahab placed the twins on the streets of Chicago as a bait for the X-Men.
(Extermination#1) - Maxime and Manon were threatened by a crowd of anti-mutant protesters and hid in an alley. After showing up on Cerebro, they were picked up by the X-Men and taken to Xavier's Institute. Jean Grey scanned their minds but found no traces of memories, even as Dr. Cecilia Reyes confirmed that the twins were physically healthy.
(Extermination#2) - Allowed to freely roam the Institute, Maxime and Manon began secretly implanting the Hound programming into the mutants they touched. When Ahab attacked the Institute seeking the time-displaced teenage X-Men, he activated the Hound programming in Logan of Earth-21923.
(Extermination#3) - Ahab revealed to the X-Men that Maxime and Manon worked for him and that he now had sleeper Hounds everywhere, activating Nightcrawler and Shatterstar. Ahab's target, the teenage Beast, was taken away, and Ahab teleported himself and his Hounds to the Pequod, his flying fortress. There, Maxime and Manon deduced that teenage Beast, Angel, and Iceman had all been taken by the young version of Cable.
(Extermination#4) - Ahab took the Pequod to the Searebro, an underwater X-Men base, seeking to kill time-displaced teenage Cyclops and ensure a dark future for the mutants. He teleported himself and his Hounds inside, where they attacked the X-Men team of the adult Jean Grey, who was unable to get inside the twins' heads. Maxime and Manon turned Honey Badger and Trinary, adding more Hounds to their pack.
(Extermination#5) - More X-Men arrived to join the fight, but Maxime and Manon kept transforming them into Hounds, turning Gentle, Boom-Boom, Warpath, Rockslide, and Storm. The growing number of Hounds was about to overwhelm the X-Men when Cable teleported the time-displaced X-Men away. Ahab went after them, ordering the twins to finish the remaining X-Men. They have turned many more and were about to overwhelm the remaining X-Men when Cable teleported Ahab back inside Searebro. The time-displaced teenage X-Men returned to their time, and their previously locked memories were remembered by their adult selves. Jean Grey remembered the trick Manon showed her in the past and let out a psychic blast that knocked out the twins and freed all Hounds that they had converted, while Ahab escaped with the rest. Cable told the X-Men to take care of Maxime and Manon, as with the history diverged they no longer had a future to return to.
(Age of X-Man: NextGen#1 (fb) - BTS) - Maxime and Manon were transplanted into X-Man's pocket dimension, where their memories were altered along with everyone else's. Like all young mutants, they were enrolled at the Summers Institute for Higher Learning. In X-Man's world, children were believed to be created artificially, but the twins still stayed close together despite familial relationships being prohibited.
(Age of X-Man: NextGen#1) - Maxime and Manon pestered fellow student Glob Herman who was feeding his pet chickens. Maxime mocked the fact that the chickens were named after the dead X-men. They were told off by Armor, who threatened to report the twins to dean Angel.
(Age of X-Man: NextGen#3) - Maxime and Manon were in the halls of the Summers Institute when Armor and Glob called after Anole. Overhearing an argument between Pixie and Armor, the twins told Pixie that she was right to be concerned about Armor who was acting very suspiciously.
(Age of X-Man: NextGen#4) - Maxime and Manon walked down the hall past Betsy Braddock of Department X.
(Age of X-Man: NextGen#5) - After Glob, Armor, and their friends were taken away by Department X and erased from every student's memory, Maxime and Manon fed Glob's chickens, finding it relaxing.
(Age of X-Man: Omega#1 - BTS) - X-Man eventually released all the mutants he abducted back into the real world.
(New Mutants IV#3 (fb) - BTS) - Maxime and Manon relocated to the newly established mutant nation of Krakoa in the Pacific Ocean.
(New Mutants IV#6 (fb) - BTS) - Maxime and Manon noticed that other mutants viewed them with suspicion.
(New Mutants IV#3) - When Glob and Armor went to check on their friends Angel Salvadore and Beak, Maxime and Manon wanted to tag along. They said that they could be helpful by giving their friends happy emotions and memories, and Armor allowed them to come as long as they did not do any of that. The four of them went through a Krakoan Gate to Pilger, Nebraska, where the twins were introduced to the large Bohusk family. While the grown-ups were inside, some of the children were taken hostage by members of the Bohem Cartel from Costa Perdita whose leader Tumulo called for the mutants to come out. Armor charged him but was hit by a power-dampening missile, which forced Maxime and others to surrender.
(New Mutants IV#4) - The cartel members fitted all mutants with power-dampening collars. Demanding Krakoan medicine for the ransom, they held both adults and the kids hostage without any food. Maxime made a mean joke that Glob Herman could do with eating less. After several days of starvation, Armor agreed to their demands. The prisoners were finally given food, but it was terrible, and Maxime commented that it didn't even look like food. Angel Salvadore begged for her power dampening collar to be removed so she could spit on and digest the food for her children. Their captors refused, and the twins pointed that if any of the children were to die of starvation, there would be no ransom. When Angel Salvadore's collar was removed, she spit acid onto Manon's collar, melting and breaking it. Manon grabbed the guard named Andre, giving him memory of how his fellow Deylin had slept with his wife and murdered his parents. While Andre was in trance, Glob grabbed the key from his belt and unlocked Maxime's collar, who joined his sister and filled Andre with anger and desire to kill. As Andre and Deylin held each other at gunpoint, Glob asked why Maxime and Manon didn't make the guards their friends instead, but the twins replied that their captors deserved it and let them shoot one another.
(New Mutants IV#6) - Glob was horrified by what the twins had done, and Maxime and Manon noted that it was better than to let the guards shoot them instead. Subduing another guard who came to investigate the noise, Glob asked the twins to think their actions through and cause as little damage as possible. They obeyed and made the next guard, Luis, think that he was their friend and wanted to protect them from the kidnappers. The mutants rushed outside, where Armor was joined by Boom-Boom who came to check up on her and dealt with the rest of their captors. Having lost, Tumulo executed Beak's parents and then shot himself in the head. Beak was found and rushed to a hospital by Angel Salvadore, while the twins stayed behind with Glob, Armor, and Boom-Boom.
(New Mutants IV#6 (fb) - BTS) - Everyone returned to Krakoa, where Beak made a recovery. Seeing how sad the Bohusks were, Manon rewrote their memories to erase the recent traumatic events, making them think that Beak was shot by a burglar while his parents died peacefully years ago.
(New Mutants IV#6) - Four days later, Armor discovered what the twins had done to Bohusks and together with Glob confronted them about their actions, explaining that robbing people of their chance to grieve was morally wrong and violated their rights. The twins were sorry and said that they only wanted to help, but when Maxime ordered to put Bohusks' memories back, Armor realized that it would hurt them even more and only asked the twins to never do something like that again.
(New Mutants IV#8) - Maxime and Manon went to the Blackstone in the Hellfire Bay and told Sebastian Shaw what the Bohem Cartel had done to them and others. Shaw thanked the twins for the information but refused to let them come along as he went to settle the problem with the Bohem Cartel on his own.
(New Mutants IV# 9 - BTS) - The Captains of Krakoa Cyclops and Magik discussed the incident in Pilger. Magik noted that Maxime, Manon, and the others had shown remarkable restraint as though badly hurt, none of the hostage takers had died by their hands, concluding that things could have ended far worse had the mutants not intervened.
(New Mutants IV#11) - When Cosmar, a young mutant who could not control her powers and was unleashing her hightmares onto the world, was brought to Krakoa, Maxime and Manon were asked to help her. Dani Moonstar instructed Maxime to watch Cosmar and help her calm down whenever she had a nightmare and Manon to make sure that her brother didn't fall asleep on the job.
(New Mutants IV#18) - Maxime and Manon were in the audience at the Arena when Mirage fought Karma in the Crucible.
Comments: Created by Ed Brisson and Pepe Larraz.With the exception of one crowd scene cameo, all appearances of Maxime and Manon to date have been written by Ed Brisson.
Maxime and Manon appeared within the pocket dimension created by Nate Grey but were not seen among the mutants abducted into it in Uncanny X-Men V#10. Some of the mutants in the false reality were original constructs created by X-Man while others (specifically Dani Moonstar) were duplicates of the real people. Nate Grey insisted that it was impossible for anyone left behind to have been part of his world after seeing Moonstar, whom he created subconsciously due to their past relationship. Because of this, Age of X-Man Maxime and Manon were likely their real selves and not X-Man's constructs.
Profile by HBK123.CLARIFICATIONS:
Maxime of Earth-18727 should not be confused with:
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Extermination#3, p4, pan4 (main image)
New Mutants IV#11, p18, pan4 (headshot)
Extermination#5, p7, pan1 (turning Rockslide into a Hound)
Age of X-Man: Nextgen #1, p3, pan1 (inside X-Man's false reality)
New Mutants IV#4, p17, pan4 (turning tables on their captors)
New Mutants IV#6, p19, pan7 (scolded by Armor)
First Posted: 08/15/2025
Last updated: 08/15/2025
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