Warning: Contains SPOILERS forX-Men #13 (2025)One of theX-Men’s most annoying, problematic, and hateful heroes is finally walking a better path. Kid Omega, an Omega-level psychic with an Omega-level ego, has unequivocally been the franchise’s most hated character. However, the young X-Man has been walking a new path alongside his secret personal hero, and it’s about time it finally happens. Kid Omega may be annoying, but he has the makings of an iconicX-Men character.
InX-Men #14 (2025) -by Jed MacKay, Ryan Stegman, & JP Mayer - Cyclops’s X-Men are tasked by the local sheriff to search for and rescue a young, potentially-mutant girl who has gone missing in the nearby woods.
Previously, the X-Men turned the child away because she looked human. Now the team is giving their all to ensure the girl is found, including one of the franchise’s worst characters: Kid Omega. While the prodigy Omega-level psychic is popularly known for his anti-human rhetoric and impulsive ego,the young hero is gradually growing to overcome his historical faults.
Kid Omega Is Finally Embracing Xavier’s Message
X-Men #14 (2025)-Written By Jed MacKay; Art By Ryan Stegman; Inking By Ryan Stegman & JP Mayer; Color By Marte Gracia; Lettering By VC’s Clayton Cowles
Kid Omega is easily one of Marvel’s most powerful psychics but has equally been one of Marvel’s most annoyingly pompous characters. When Quinten Quire first debuted inNew X-Men #134 (2002) -by Grant Morrison and Keron Grant - he was characterized as little more than a prodigy and one ofCharles Xavier’s prized students. However, in time, Quire had harshlydeviated away from Xavier’s teachings to embrace a harsher, sometimes genocidal, ideology.This dark descent eventually climaxed during the X-Men’sSchismstoryline, when Kid Omega psychically forced the world’s leaders to expose their worst secrets on live television.
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However, by Krakoa, Kid Omega shifted his hateful beliefs toward a neutral middle ground. AsKrakoa’s shadow governmentbegan to corrupt the nation, Quinten launched a full investigation into Beast’s twisted “security” projects, successfully purging Krakoa of one of its darkest entities. Today, Kid Omega now serves alongside the X-Men’s more militant members, but closely follows in Cyclops’s nobler footsteps rather than Magneto’s continued anti-human beliefs. When Cyclops tasks his X-Men with finding the lost “human” girl, Quire doesn’t protest in the slightest. After decades of resisting Xavier’s dream,Kid Omega is finally starting to embrace its message.
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Kid Omega has not had a perfect life. He’s lost loved ones, he’s watched his kind be slaughtered, and he’s died and been desecrated far too many times. These events are what pushed Quinten down the dark path he’s traditionally followed. But the chief reason Quire has undergone this character development is thanks to Cyclops. Throughout Kid Omega’s comic career,he has always followed in Cyclops’s footsteps, even if he doesn’t always live by Scott’s ideals.Like Cyclops, especially in recent years, Quinten has fought through his disillusionment withthe X-Men and Xavier’s dreamto re-embrace a potentially better future.
While Kid Omega could still follow Magneto’s leadership, he’s chosen to walk alongside Cyclops as tepid friends and close allies.
In a sense,Cyclops and Kid Omega aren’t all that different.Both were child prodigies singled out by Charles Xavier. Both were given enormous expectations to be heroes for mutants in a world that systematically hates them. Both were forced to rethink their allegiances followingXavier’s downfall and Krakoa’s collapse. While Kid Omega could still follow Magneto’s leadership, he’s chosen to walk alongside Cyclops as tepid friends and close allies. Quinten has even started using Wolverine’s “Slim” nickname for Cyclops. So, if Scott Summers can put his pain and hate aside, Kid Omega can, too. And, thankfully, he is.
Kid Omega was once theX-Men’s most incessantly annoying and hateful character, but he has since found a change of heart and walks a new path of mutant/human coexistence.
X-Men #14 (2025)is now available from Marvel Comics.
X-Men
The X-Men franchise, created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, centers on mutants with extraordinary abilities. Led by the powerful telepath Professor Charles Xavier, they battle discrimination and villainous mutants threatening humanity. The series explores themes of diversity and acceptance through a blend of action, drama, and complex characters, spanning comics, animated series, and blockbuster films.
