#nekra sinclair

[comicpolls]

Favourite Black Character: Round One Match Fifty of Sixty-Four

Nekra Sinclair

Janelle Chord (Silhouette)

Voting ended onJan 9

[comicedit]

#cewomen25: favourite obscure women → Nekra Sinclair

source → sabretooth and the exiles (2022), leonard kirk.

i know there's more to you than anger. all true revolutionaries are driven by love.

[wakandas]

storytime with nekra.

more nekra.

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[corsairesix]

Victor LaValle really established Nekra as someone who like, has thoughts about mutant politics. And Prodigy was a professor for a bit. I NEED to see their academic beef because I know they would hate each other, even for the pettiest stuff

[roguestorm]

the pitch: a year after the fall of krakoa, many mutants are still scrambling to find their place in this new world. NYX is that place! a newly opened mutant culture center in the heart of new york city, NYX is a place for mutants to connect with each other, take classes and learn job skills, and appreciate mutant culture and art.

cast:

monet — the boss and benefactor. she spends a lot of time promoting the center and taking meetings.

trinary — she handles the accounts, files the forms, and takes whatever meetings monet can’t. basically the vice president.

rachel & karima — they’re the security team. it’s their job to make sure that the threats to the center stay off of everyone else’s radars, so that they can continue actually running the place.

elle & amara — programming specialists. they’re responsible for connecting with both the people who come to the center to give talks or performances and the donors who want to support the place. elle tends to deal more with the former while amara deals more with the latter, but they’re both responsible for planning events and making sure they run smoothly.

nekra — site manager. her responsibilities include addressing any day-to-day issues with the facility, brokering peace between patrons, and answering questions such as “are your events open to nonmutants?” (yes) and “where’s the bathroom?” (in the lobby, on your left)

the themes: everyone here is struggling to find a place. many of them are reeling from the loss of krakoa. rachel’s recently broken up with betsy, karima finally has her body back after being possessed for years, and nekra never even had a krakoa to lose. the center serves as an alternative to the isolationist krakoan model because the center encourages human/mutant interaction and cooperation.

if the recent NYX series was about the late teen experience, this one is about the early-to-mid twenties experience of trying to figure out what you can possibly do with your life that will mean something.

the dynamics:

monet and rachel — rachel is head of security but monet is the boss. rachel doesn’t love being bossed around, and monet doesn’t love her orders not being followed.

nekra and elle — nekra doesn’t necessarily want to like or care about any of her coworkers, but elle is so kind and poised that nekra can’t help but respond positively to her overtures of friendship.

trinary and karima — idealism vs practicality. karima takes on the role of older advisor who doesn’t want trinary to expect too much, while trinary helps karima learn how to hope again after everything she’s been through.

elle and rachel — friends who have fun together! most of the staff is friendly, but elle and rachel are the ones most likely to be found having drinks together on a tuesday night.

trinary and amara — they both cherish small moments of quiet at the end of the day, so they might, for instance, turn down an invitation for tuesday night drinks to go watch the sunset from amara’s balcony instead.

monet and karima — karima’s job is to protect the center and make sure that monet never has to enter the fight, but monet doesn’t especially love having someone else fight for her. basically, she hired karima to do this job that she really doesn’t like letting her do. she doesn’t like putting karima in harm’s way.

amara and nekra — these two are distrustful of and hostile to each other for a while until they inevitably get trapped in a bad situation where they have to rely on each other to get out.

the plot: definitely more episodic, with each issue focusing on two or three characters rather than all seven. one issue might follow monet and trinary as they go to a meeting but find that instead of meeting with a city council member, they’re being abducted. another issue is about nekra and the security team running around trying to stop a herd of bamfs from wreaking havoc on the place (or interrupting the meeting where elle is trying to convince a prominent mutant artist to debut her works in their gallery). another issue is set during a poetry slam that elle organized, when one of the poets tries to use poetry to hypnotize the audience. one issue follows monet and karima when monet gets attacked after an appearance on a talk show.

there might be hints that some of these things are connected, that certain villains are trying to undermine the center or are targeting monet specifically, but overall, the stories should stay pretty episodic and focused around the day-to-day life in the NYX mutant cultural center.

[mutantpowerlist]

Nekra - Nekra Sinclair (E-616) 🇺🇸 American / Krakoan🪴

First Appearance: Shanna, the She-Devil #5 (MAY 1973)

Attributes / Powers: • Chalk white skin (not albino). • Sharp teeth. • Uses voodoo magic. • Emotional empowerment. • Able to grant herself various superhuman physical attributes by harnessing the violent emotions within, especially hate. • Superhuman strength, speed, durability, agility, and reflexes. • Peak human stamina. • Skilled in hand-to-hand combatant.

Groups: Exiles, Lethal Legion, Black Spectre.

Weaknesses: • Nekra's powers are based upon drawing from her negative emotions and can only harness sufficient emotional stability to those powers for an hour. • If exposed to mood altering drugs or pheromones, her emotion stability can dramatically shift, cancelling her violent emotions, making her powerless.

Relatives: Mandrill.

Love Interests: Grim Reaper, Doctor Druid & Mister Hyde, Temper.

M-DAY (2005): • Kept her powers.

Number of Appearances: 65*

Current Comic Status: Alive.

[comicwaren]

From Wolverine Vol. 7 #045, “X Marks the Spot”

Art by Geoff Shaw and Alex Sinclair

Written by Victor LaValle and Benjamin Percy

[why-i-love-comics]

Wolverine #47 - "Bad Seed" (2024)

written by Victor LaValle & Benjamin Percy art by Geoff Shaw & Alex Sinclair