Cassandra Nova

**Cassandra Nova Xavier**, also known as Cassandra Nova Xavier, is the main antagonist of the *Marvel's X-Men*. Cassandra was first a stillborn due to her brothers psychic assault and spent decades building herself a body by clinging to a sewer wall. She then emerges to seek revenge and destruction on Charles and his "children".

Cassandra is the main antagonist and final boss of *Marvel's X-Men*, where she initially started out behind the seems plotting and pulling strings. Being the mastermind who orchestrated the genocide of Genosha. Finally entering the X-Men world and wrecking havoc from the inside out. She becomes a captive prisoner and starts unraveling Charles Dream. She eventually moves onto a greater design to be born again within a new world and host the Ultimate lifeform in the form of the Phoenix.

## History

### Early history

Cassandra Nova Xavier is what the Shi'ar call "Mummudrai", the spirit that is the equal and opposite of a person. However, due to the amazing genetic potential of Professor Charles Xavier, his Mummudrai was able to create a physical form, effectively a twin. While gestating in her mother Sharon Xavier's, womb, Cassandra was recognized by Charles as an evil presence, and he preemptively tried to kill her with his nascent psychic abilities. Cassandra was barely able to defend herself and the shock of the roiling battle caused Sharon to have a miscarriage. Though the doctors pronounced her stillborn, Cassandra in fact survived and spent the next decades as a growing mass of cells in a sewer wall, building a new body for herself and planning her revenge on her brother.

### Becoming Cassandra Nova

Never being born, nor ever truly given a proper name, the Mummudrai Twin of Charles Xavier, build itself a body and when the time came emerged from the sewer it grew in. The creature named itself Cassandra Nova after the doctor which presumed her still born. In the sewers where she emerged from the self made womb she eventually was awakened (unbeknown to her at the time) by the phoenix force return to earth, which also gave rise to increase number of mutants being created. Upon exiting her womb she was filled with only one thought, revenge against the one who tried to kill her. Her sewer was also stock pilled with anti-mutant propaganda. Namely Trask Industries and the Sentinels. Setting her off on her course to find Trask and find the sentinels to begin her revenge.

### *Marvel's X-Men*

#### Act 1

In Marvel's X-Men, Cassandra Nova begins by arriving in the savage land with Donald Trask and William Stryker. There she takes the men to the Mastermold. Upon her journey she is discovered via Cerebro by Charles Xavier, in which the two engage in a psychic conversation, and in that moment upon connecting with Cerebro via a telepathic link with Charles, she uncovers the use of the Cerebro machine and the location of the Mutant safe homeland island of Genosha. Originally setting her sights on sending sentinels to Charles she now sets her sights on Genosha instead, (so she can make Charles suffer by snuffing out his dream). She begins initiating her plan, by copying Trask's DNA she is able to put the Mastermold online and send out a series of Wild Sentinel Juggernauts to Genosha.

Charles finding out about the hostile intentions of Cassandra Nova, sends out the X-Men to the savage land to confront his sister. The player is among the first mutant to be encountered by Cassandra Nova in which case she takes in fascination. She is then battle by Wolverine and Cyclops and her vocal cords slashed and she is apprehended and brought back to the X-Mansion. The X-Men are too late however as Cassandra Nova's Attack has already begun and the sentinels decimate Genosha, creating a genocide of 16 Million mutants, allegedly including Magneto himself. She is then apprehended and brought back to the X-Mansion, for questioning and further investigation.

#### Act 2

Cassandra Now in the X-Mens custody in Beasts lab. Beast has run full analysis on Cassandra and deduces she is in fact Charles Twin sister from the womb, (which he tried to kill many years ago before his birth). She then attempts to usurp Cerebro to use it to Psychically decimate all mutants but she is then defeated by Jean Grey Phoenix force. She takes great note of this and the power of the phoenix (not understanding it fully yet). Commentary is held on what she hoped to gain, and that Cerebro would never ensure all mutants would be killed, as those resistent or immune to psychics would live on. She is then held in a special brig containment below the mansion, off-limits to all students, except the player whom Charles expresses grief due the player's home originally being Genosha and that the player is the only person Cassandra Nova will speak too. Charles will ask the player to communicate with Cassandra Nova. The player will have interesting conversations with Cassandra Nova, and why they were sparred when Cassandra could have easily decimated them. The player and Cassandra will begin a quid pro quo relationship in which case the player will give information about themselves, the phoenix force, the Shiar and Beasts research in exchange for details on Cassandra Nova's Expertise on Genetic Evolution and Self Appointed Mastery on Mutant Hate. Upon discovering Sublime and the U-Men, she will give her commentary on the matter. The final conversation had is all Cassandra Nova wanted was the chance to be born and Charles destroyed that chance. She taunts saying one day she will be born again and that the player potential is wasted. She lies and says like the player all Cassandra wants is a home and a family. (in reality plotting for a time in which she will go to the Shiar and begin initiating her ultimate plan to eradicate all mutants)

In the midst of the riot caused by Kid Omega, Cassandra Nova escapes (unbeknown to the player) waiting for the opportune time, she infects/boobytraps her body with an advanced Neurons disease she then turns her attention to Charles who is weakened thanks to Kid Omegas assault. She then switches body with him leaving Charles in her infected/boodytrapped body as a helpless vat. Beast discovers this and question Cassandra whom she infects and mentally tortures Beast with a dose of highly concentrated sublime. After attacking him psychically and inducting him to prepare the phoenix egg for when the time comes for it's life spark to return to it, and sends him away. She then decrees that the Shiar will need to take custody of the body. She contacts the Shiar and under the ruse and face of Charles posing as him to infiltrate her way. Before leaving she unleashes a compound of sentinites that she had Forge secretly work on. These sentinites would weaken the X-Men, making them sick by attacking their white blood cells (most notably Jean-Grey her biggest threat). She bids the X-Men goodbye and gleefully makes way into the Shiar Empire while releasing in the atmosphere sentinites to effect humans by triggering their hate for mutants and super charging world leaders, she also frames Jean-Grey for the murder of a senator as revenge for her previous defeat. Leaving earth in disarray, she weakens the X-Men both physically and politically, but ultimate targeting Jean-Grey who is dying. Biding time fully knowing that with Jean-Grey death, the phoenix force would be released as from the information manipulatively given from the players interaction with Cassandra regarding the life states of the phoenix.

#### Act 3

Upon her arrival within the Shiar, she begins to wreck hell on board. By turning the Shiar agaisnt the X-Men on Earth as she prepares to take control of the Hecatomb ( a Shiar super weapon which would use the creation of Mummudrai to ursurp enemies.) This also allowed incubation of the Mummudrai. Upon learning the death of Jean-Grey, and using the knowledge siphoned from Beast, Cassandra starts preparing the hecatomb to incubate the phoenix egg. When the player and their allies defeat the corruption of Beast from Cassandra Nova, he reveals that she actually switched bodies with Charles Xavier. As the player and the X-Men make way to defeat the Shiar they finally make a purge on Charles Xaviers Mind (in which they finally learn the truth of Cassandra Novas origins) and frees him from Cassandra Nova disintegrating body. With Cassandra Nova bodiless, she is weakened but using the Hecatomb creates the players own personal Mummudrai before escaping to earth in her Psychic form, where the phoenix egg lies waiting. Cassandra arrives on earth and enters the phoenix egg, ready to be incubated from the siphoned psychic energy of her created Mummudrais thanks to the hecatomb. The player arrives to stop Cassandra, but it is too late as her incubation is complete and after feeding off the players last remaining psychic energy leaves them for dead and she immerges from the phoenix egg as Cassandra Nova - The Phoenix. Unbeknown but upon feeding of the psychic energy force of the player creates a unique psychic bond that allows the player to bring themselves back from the brink of death and with a remnant of phoenix force spark, the player rises from death with a portion of the phoenix force. Cassandra begins to decimate the world and begins burning away "that which doesn't work" the flame to be extinguish, to serve evolution itself and correct it, but eradicating the mutant gene from space and time. The player confronts Cassandra Nova and the two engage in a massive battle over the ruins of Genosha. Cassandra will taunt the player relentlessly opting none of this would have been possible without their help and the two will have a heated exchange. Eventually the player will emerge victorious and snuff the phoenix force from Cassandra and they will ultimately decide her fate.

Cassandra Nova will either be

* Morally Sidious: Destroyed
* Morally Just: Purified
* Morally Diplomatic: Put in Endless Coma
* Morally Neutral: Left for the others to deal with

The aftermath holds true, that regardless her act on Genosha would never be forgotten but the effects of her Sentinites would be reversed and while she treid to break Charles Dream most of all....she ultimately failed.

Thus is the end for Cassandra Novas story....or is it the end?

## Characteristics

### Appearance

Cassandra is of slightly above-average height, with a thin almost skeletal build, weighing 140 lbs. and standing 5'10" in height. She has brown hair and brown eyes. Cassandra is often seen wearing scarf, pants and more masculine clothing.

As Dark Phoenix she wears more scantily black clad attire.

### Personality

Cassandra is show to extremely vengeful, vindictive and ruthless. She holds no qualms in taking lives and has a sadistic side delighting in telepathic torture of others. She is truly resentful and vengeful for what Charles did to her in the womb. Cassandra has become obsessed with destroying the mutant evolution and is deeply enthralled by evolution. She is also extremely cunning and devious willing to be captured and play the X-Men at there core. There is nothing she won't do to accomplish her goals and represents the darker side of Charles Persona, yet is extremely similar opting an interest in eduction of youth and particularly in mutants.

## Original appearance

Cassandra Nova's first appeared in *New X-Men #114* on July, 2001.

Due to her popularity and underuse, Marvel's X-Men decided to feature her as the main villain and have her be her on screen debut in a videogame.

## Behind the scenes

### Portrayal

Sigourney Weaver is the voice/motion capture actress for Cassandra Nova.

### Reception

TBD

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