Moira tried to reason with Stryker, but ultimately the Colonel kept the mutants contained. Moira and the X-Men were captured by William Stryker, and confined to a power-dampening cell at Alkali Lake's Weapon X facility. Moira, as well as everyone else in the mansion, was saved by Quicksilver. Alex made a vain attempt to kill Apocalypse before he escaped, but instead hit the Blackbird, causing an explosion that destroyed the mansion. However, Charles was debilitated when he tried to access the mutant's mind, and was promptly captured by his Four Horsemen, much to the shock and dismay of everyone, including Moira. She explained to them how these cult tracings went back centuries, and that she found out about En Sabah Nur and how he may have been old enough to have influenced multiple religions.Ĭharles took Moira back to the X-mansion, where the telepath used Cerebro to locate En Sabah Nur. She compiled all her research and contacted Charles Xavier and Alexander Summers. One of which involved a tomb which, unknown to her, was the resting place of and ancient mutant know as En Sabah Nur. In 1983, Moira began investigating strange cult followings in Egypt. Moria, with the X-Men erased from her memory, resumed work at the CIA and eventually had a son named Kevin with a husband that she later divorced. ' Ever since the world found out about mutants there have been secret societies, cults, who see them as some kind of second coming or sign of god.' ―Moira MacTaggert After sharing a kiss with Charles at his mansion and christening his new team The X-Men, he erased her memory of their location so that she could not reveal it to the CIA, nor be made to tell them. She participated in the team's mission to stop the Cuban Missile Crisis and helped bring down the Hellfire Club. However, with the backing of an agent known only as the Man in Black, MacTaggert agreed to help them stop Shaw as a liason of sorts between Charles' 'team and Division X', the government department they operated under.

She took him and Mystique to brief the CIA director about mutants but they were first met with ridicule then shock and fear when Raven proved their claims when she morphed into one of the agents. After reading her mind about what she'd seen, he agreed to help her.

Daunted, she sought out one of the leading experts in genetic mutation, Charles Xavier a young graduate student at Oxford.Īfter attending his thesis presentation, she approached him celebrating in a bar and questioned him about the validity of his claims. After infiltrating one of their clubs in Las Vegas, by posing as one of the strippers, and witnessing Emma Frost and Azazel display their powers in an attempt to intimidate Colonel Hendry, she attempted to warn the CIA but was rebuffed. During the 1960's, Moira MacTaggert served as a CIA agent investigating Sebastian Shaw and his group, the Hellfire Club.

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