With the recent popularity of X-Men ’97, we have seen a surge of interest in the mutants. The show acknowledges Storm as an “Omega Level Mutant”. So, what are Omega Level Mutants?

There is a classification of mutant powers to scale their powers relatively. While the classification featured Epsilon, Beta, Alpha and Omega, they were never explained well.

However, for the sake of this article, we will only focus on the Omega classification; because it features the most powerful mutants. With the recent Powers of X storyline (Krakoan Era) in Marvel Comics, we got a canon list of Omega Level Mutants. Being an Omega level guarantees that they are at the top of the pecking order in the world of mutants.

What are Omega Level Mutants?

Omega Level Mutants are mutants whose primary power has no known upper limit. This means their power can grow indefinitely and surpass any other mutant’s ability in that specific category.

These are the mutants that can destroy the world with their powers or cause a substantial amount of damage. The most impressive example would be Magneto from X-Men ’97 using his powers to cause a massive EMP on the whole planet.

Even if a mutant has extremely high mastery over their powers, it might not necessarily be classified as an Omega.

For example, Magneto and Forge are the strongest mutants in their respective fields: Magneto controls magnetism, and Forge has technopathy (the ability to invent and understand technology).

However, the reason Magneto is considered an Omega Level Mutant (and Forge is not) is because Magneto’s power has no ceiling—it can’t be quantified or surpassed.

On the other hand, Forge’s power, while extremely advanced, has a limit that can potentially be matched or exceeded by other beings, including humans.

Omega Level is also a classification that applies to a single, specific mutant power. Even though many mutants possess multiple abilities, typically only one is classified as Omega Level.

For instance, Jean Grey has both telepathic and telekinetic powers, but she is classified as an Omega Level mutant solely because of her telepathy, not her telekinesis.

Official List of All Omega Level Mutants

As of 2024, with Krakaon, there are 25 official Omega Level Mutants. This is an in-story list by Charles Xavier and these might change over time with evolving storylines.

This list contains the official 14 mutants on Earth that are Omega Level.

Monarch

Name: Jamie Braddock
Powers: Reality Manipulation (Quantum)
Affiliation: None

James “Jamie” Braddock is the older brother of Betsy Braddock (Psylocke) and Brian Braddock (Captain Britain). After dabbling in some dark magic and dying, Jamie was resurrected on Krakao by The Five.

His primary ability is reality warping, which he accomplishes by manipulating “invisible string constructs” that make up the fabric of reality. This allows him to transform objects, create new entities, and even split timelines, creating parallel realities.

In addition to his reality-warping abilities, Jamie also possesses quantum manipulation, which includes temporal manipulation, allowing him to control time. He can create and duplicate objects, beings, and even entire timelines. He can also bestow, augment, or remove powers from others, including himself.

Jamie’s other powers include geokinesis, matter manipulation, teleportation, healing, and telepathy. His telepathy allows him to control minds and alter perceptions.

Iceman

Name: Robert Louis “Bobby” Drake
Powers: Temperature Manipulation (Ice Generation)
Affiliation: Krakoa

One of the original X-Men, Bobby Drake has always been the mutant with the most untapped potential. Iceman, a mutant with cryokinetic abilities, can lower his body temperature to absolute zero, generating intense cold.

He creates and manipulates ice constructs, controls cold weather, and can freeze molecules at will. In his organic-ice form, Iceman is virtually indestructible, able to reform his body if shattered. He can also create ice clones, project his consciousness through moisture, and manipulate water.

His powers are occasionally unlocked to their fullest potential by telepaths like Psylocke. Iceman’s control extends to cellular replacement, enabling him to heal and avoid toxins by replacing damaged cells with moisture from his surroundings.

In Uncanny X-Men, when Emma Frost takes control of Bobby, she utilizes his powers to the full potential in ways Bobby had never imagined. When Bobby demanded to know how she accessed his abilities, Emma dismissed him, calling him a pathetic loser for not pushing himself.

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Elixir

Name: Joshua “Josh” Foley
Powers: Biokenesis
Affiliation: Krakoa

Following the founding of sovereign nation in Krakoa, Elixir became a part of The Five. The Five combine their powers to resurrect deceased mutants with their memories and powers, in new bodies.

Elixir can control the biology of himself and others on a cellular level. This allows him to heal injuries, resurrect the dead, manipulate life force, and even induce diseases. His powers keep evolving, allowing him to heal more people at once and even resurrect millions at a time. He can also heal himself and resurrect after death.

Elixir can also use his powers to inflict harm, causing illness, organ failure, and even death. He has precise control, able to create a specific tumor in one instance. This harmful ability has grown stronger after his rebirth.

His skin turns gold when healing and black when harming, potentially due to a secondary mutation. This change seems involuntary and takes time to revert.

Marvel Girl

Name: Jean Grey
Powers: Telepathy
Affiliation: X-Men

Jean Grey, a mutant with potent empathic, telepathic, and telekinetic abilities, had her powers awakened during childhood trauma. Initially mentored by Professor Charles Xavier, her telepathy was suppressed to prevent harm, but later fully activated.

Her telepathy allows her to read and manipulate thoughts, create illusions, control minds, and communicate over vast distances. Jean’s telekinesis enables her to levitate, manipulate matter at the molecular level, and create protective shields.

Even though Jean Grey has great telekinesis powers, she is an Omega Level ‘Telepath’. She is considered Omega level based on her telepathy powers alone, and not because of telekinesis.

The Phoenix Force greatly amplifies her powers, allowing for space travel, faster-than-light speed, and manifestation of fiery constructs. Jean can also harness and manipulate psionic energy, create psychic flames, and perform feats like self-resurrection and disintegration of matter.

Her abilities make her one of the most powerful mutants, capable of influencing minds and matter on an extraordinary scale.

Legion

Name: David Haller
Powers: Power Manifestation
Affiliation: Unknown

David Haller, son of Professor Charles Xavier and Israeli ambassador Gabrielle Haller, was born a mutant. Conceived during an affair in Israel, Xavier was unaware of David’s existence until after founding the New Mutants.

As an Omega Level mutant, Legion has the ability to spontaneously create mutations, each governed by a different persona. His immense powers and mental instability result in over 200 Omega-level split personalities, with new ones continuously emerging.

Rogue, while inside Legion’s mind, experienced thousands of unique powers, indicating the constant birth of new abilities.

This makes him highly versatile and unpredictable. One persona, Lucas, has telepathic, telekinetic, and pyrokinetic powers. His abilities were first triggered by trauma, incinerating the brains of his stepfather’s assassins. Engineered by Moira MacTaggert and Professor X to have the powers to warp reality, David’s power has virtually no limits.

Magneto

Name: Max Eisenhardt / Erik Lehnsherr
Powers: Magnetism
Affiliation: Unknown

One of the most iconic mutants in Marvel, Magneto’s power is well known. He is a complex character who is ideologically opposed to Charles Xavier. He has gone to extreme lengths to protect the mutantkind, usually putting him against the X-Men.

Most recently, he has rejoined Charles Xavier to establish the mutant nation of Krakoa, serving as a key figure on its Quiet Council. He possesses comprehensive control over magnetism, enabling him to manipulate metal, generate force fields, and achieve feats like moving mountains and altering planetary electromagnetic fields.

His power allows him to hold together a Celestial’s headless form, blanket the globe with an electromagnetic pulse, and create complex machines in seconds. Magneto can fly, manipulate matter at the subatomic level, and control organic iron in blood.

He also generates electromagnetic energy, creating powerful rays, electric bolts, and light manipulation for invisibility and holograms. Additionally, he has telepathic resistance, geomagnetic links, and can create wormholes for instant travel.

Magneto’s magnetic armor and shields withstand extreme forces, making him one of the most formidable mutants in the X-Men series.

Proteus

Name: Kevin MacTaggert
Powers: Reality Manipulation (Psionic)
Affiliation: Krakoa

Kevin MacTaggert, also known as Proteus, is the son of mutant expert Moira MacTaggert and politician Joe MacTaggert. A powerful reality-warping mutant, his birth was engineered by Moira and Charles Xavier to create a mutant capable of cheating death. Kevin’s powers, which allow him to manipulate reality, teleport, and reconstruct molecules, burn out his body, necessitating the use of new host bodies to sustain himself.

Confined by Moira to a maximum security cell on Muir Island due to his unstable powers, Kevin was later resurrected on Krakoa with a steady supply of brain-dead Xavier clones as hosts. He became a member of The Five, a group of mutants who can resurrect dead mutants.

Kevin’s abilities include generating psionic force to warp reality, telepathy, telekinesis, energy projection, and force field generation. As an energy being, he is effectively immortal but requires human hosts, whose bodies he eventually burns out and discards. His known weaknesses are metal and his dependence on fresh host bodies.

Mister M

Name: Absolon Zebardyn Mercator
Powers: Matter Manipulation
Affiliation: Unknown

Absolon Mercator, a Belgian mutant, first manifested his powers after an incident where he turned a bully inside out, causing the boy to live in that state for three days.

When Krakoa was established as a mutant nation, most omega-level mutants joined, but Absolon did not. Instead, Apocalypse brought him to Otherworld, giving him the Siege Perilous to protect. Absolon took over a province, renamed it Mercator, and merged the Siege Perilous with the land, closing it off to all visitors. He agreed to guard it on the condition that he could do so his way and be left alone.

An Omega level mutant with matter manipulation abilities, Absolon can alter molecular structures, making him virtually omnipotent. His powers include machine manipulation, intangibility, electricity generation, air manipulation, power negation and amplification, biological manipulation, plant growth acceleration, healing, self-resurrection, life creation, force field generation, flight, telekinesis, telepathy, telepathic immunity, and the creation of nuclear explosions.

Storm

Name: Ororo Munroe
Powers: Weather Manipulation
Affiliation: X-Men/Krakoa

An integral member of the X-Men, Storm is a well known mutant. After being orphaned, she became a thief in Cairo and later traveled to Kenya, where locals worshipped her as a goddess for alleviating droughts. She joined the X-Men under Professor Xavier’s guidance, adopting the name Storm.

Storm’s powers are vast but her primary power is Weather Manipulation. She can control weather phenomena, including temperature, precipitation, humidity, and atmospheric pressure. She can generate lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes, and blizzards, and can clear skies or create meteorological effects at will.

Her powers are partly derived from Earth’s electromagnetic field, allowing her to channel ambient electromagnetism for various effects, such as electric blasts and flight. Storm can manipulate cosmic storms, solar winds, and interstellar mediums.

Descended from a line of powerful sorceresses, Storm has untapped magical potential, hinted at in various instances. She has mystical abilities due to her lineage of sorceresses, and her worship in Wakanda has elevated her to a goddess, enhancing her powers.

Storm also has a psychic bond with Earth’s biosphere, giving her an empathic connection to all living things and allowing her to sense natural phenomena and disturbances.

Storm’s abilities are influenced by her emotions, and her powers are only limited by her willpower and physical strength.

Exodus

Name: Bennet du Paris
Powers: Telekinesis
Affiliation: Krakoa

Grand Duc Bennet du Paris, a 12th-century nobleman from medieval France, awakened his mutant powers during the Crusades. Enhanced by Apocalypse to become his champion, Exodus, Bennet betrayed his master and was subsequently forced into a coma, entombed for thousands of years.

In the modern era, he was awakened by Magneto, joined the Acolytes as his right-hand man, and later became part of the Quiet Council on Krakoa, contributing to the future of mutantkind.

Exodus is one of the most powerful mutants, described as a Psionic of the Highest Order and confirmed as an Omega-Level Mutant by Charles Xavier. His abilities include telekinesis, telepathy, teleportation, and superhuman durability, all significantly amplified by Apocalypse’s tampering.

His telekinesis allows him to manipulate objects at a molecular and subatomic level, create force fields, project concussive blasts, and construct telekinetic constructs. He can also generate electromagnetic blasts, fly at Mach 2 speeds, and heal others telekinetically.

Exodus’s telepathic abilities include mind control, telepathic tracking, creating illusions, and projecting psionic blasts. He can sense, control, and manipulate the emotions of others, and his psionic vampirism allows him to absorb and use the psionic energy of those around him.

His superhuman durability, regenerative healing factor, disease immunity, and advanced longevity make him nearly invulnerable and capable of rapid healing.

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Kid Omega

Name: Quentin Quire
Powers: Telepathy
Affiliation: Krakoa

Quintavius “Quentin” Quirinius Quire quickly stood out at the Xavier Institute due to his unparalleled intellect and extraordinary mutant abilities. Described as one of the most powerful telepaths, telekinetics, and psions, Quentin became an avatar of the Phoenix Force and is destined to host its power in the future.

Quentin is an Omega-Level telepath capable of deep mental manipulation, telepathic tracking, and creating illusions. He can induce paralysis, amnesia, and project psionic blasts. His telekinetic abilities allow him to manipulate matter on a subatomic level, create force fields, and fly at high speeds while shielding himself from harm.

His psychic intelligence enables rapid data processing, precise thought formulation, and defense against psychic assaults. Quentin Quire is also a super genius rivalling some of the smartest people in the world.

Powerhouse

Name: Franklin Richards
Powers: Reality Manipulation (Universal)
Affiliation: Human/Fantastic Four

Franklin Richards, son of Reed and Sue Richards of the Fantastic Four, is an Omega-level mutant with vast reality-warping abilities. He helped restore the Multiverse after its collapse, depleting most of his powers in the process.

Franklin can manipulate reality on a universal scale, creating pocket universes, life doubles, and entire planets. His abilities include fundamental forces manipulation, energy construct creation, matter manipulation, teleportation, and time travel.

Franklin’s telepathic skills allow him to read minds, project thoughts, create illusions, and control or alter minds. He can also erect psychic shields, project psionic blasts, and astrally project himself.

Franklin possesses telekinesis, enabling him to levitate objects and fly. His energy projection can destroy powerful entities, and his precognitive dreams foresee future events. He has significant psionic resistance, superhuman durability, and the ability to fly. Despite his immense power, Franklin often requires assistance, like from Reed Richards and Molecule Man, to materialize his creations.

Vulcan

Name: Gabriel Summers
Powers: Energy Manipulation
Affiliation: Krakoa

Gabriel Summers, known as Vulcan, is a younger brother of Cyclops and Havok. Originally born into slavery on the Shi’ar Throneworld and artificially aged, Vulcan eventually arrived on Earth where he discovered his mutant abilities. Initially not considered Omega-level, his status was elevated after exposure to a burst of mutant energy on M-Day.

Vulcan’s primary ability is energy manipulation, allowing him to control, absorb, and project energy across the electromagnetic spectrum. He can replicate energy forms such as Cyclops’ optic blasts and Adam Warlock’s energies, and manipulate the Nova Force.

Vulcan can also generate powerful energy blasts, create force-fields, and even simulate telekinesis with his constructs. His powers include energy absorption from other mutants and the ability to detect energy signatures over great distances.

Additionally, Vulcan possesses superhuman durability, surviving encounters that would severely harm others, and has shown increased physical strength post-resurrection in Krakoa.

Hope Summers

Name: Hope Summers
Powers: Power Manipulation
Affiliation: Krakoa

Hope Summers, an Omega-level mutant, is pivotal in mutant history. Born after M-Day, she was raised in the future by Cable and returned to activate new mutants and reverse M-Day’s effects with the Phoenix Force.

As part of Krakoa, she joined The Five, responsible for resurrecting deceased mutants. Hope’s primary ability is power manipulation, allowing her to copy and control the powers of nearby mutants without physical contact or adverse effects to the originals.

She can stabilize, amplify, negate, and synergize mutant powers as needed, crucial for tasks like terraformation and synchronization among mutants.

Additionally, she possesses the rare ability to detect and bestow mutant powers globally. Her psychic energy has made her undetectable by mutant-tracking technology at times. Hope’s influence extends to the Lights, mutants linked to her whose powers she can manipulate to a degree, shaping their actions and connections.

Krakoan and non-Earth Omega Level Mutants

With Jonathan Hickman’s X-Men run, Arakko and Krakao were introduced as living islands. Krakao became the home of X-Men and all mutants on Earth.

Arakko and Krakoa were once part of Okkara, a sentient island in the South Pacific, home to a mutant nation ruled by Apocalypse and his wife Genesis. Thousands of years ago, Okkara was split into Krakoa and Arakko by the demonic god Annihilation wielding the Twilight Sword.

To protect Earth from the resulting demonic invasion, Genesis, their children, and the Okkaran mutants were sealed away with Arakko, while Apocalypse stayed behind to prepare for their return. Arakko, led by the Great Ring of Arakko, a group of omega-level mutants, eventually faced a period of civil disorder threatening its stability.

Here is a list of officially recognized Omega Level Mutants from Arakko.

Isca the Unbeaten

Name: Isca
Powers: Inability to Lose
Affiliation: Unknown

Isca, an ancient mutant from Okkara, possesses the unique ability to always win, whether in individual contests, strategic battles, or even chance events due to her limited tychokinesis.

This power ensures she prevails in any scenario, altering probability to favor her success. Her victories extend to personal gains, often leading her to switch allegiances to the winning side in larger conflicts, sacrificing her comrades if necessary.

Isca’s ability also subtly affects her physical appearance, adapting to fit the context of her alliances, such as assuming demonic symbols or heroic traits when aligning with different factions. Additionally, she exhibits immunity to power negation, ensuring her abilities remain active regardless of external attempts to suppress them.

Tarn the Uncaring

Name: Tarn
Powers: Biological Manipulation (Psychokinetic)
Affiliation: Unknown

He is one of the newer mutant characters introduced during the Krakoan era. Tarn is a hybrid born from Annihilation’s experiments merging Daemons with Okkaran mutants, ascended to Omega Level Mutant status and sorcererhood in Amenth.

His primary ability lies in psychokinetic biological manipulation, enabling him to alter DNA at will. This power allows Tarn to enhance or nullify mutant abilities, induce aging reversal, and inflict bodily disfigurements effortlessly through telekinetic control over biological matter. He also possesses formidable telepathic abilities, though using them causes intense pain to his targets.

Tarn’s sadistic nature drives him to derive pleasure from tormenting and reshaping his victims, whom he coerces into worshipping him as a god due to his godlike powers. Even without his mutant abilities, Tarn exhibits superhuman strength surpassing ordinary humans, capable of overpowering formidable opponents such as Vulcan with ease.

High Mutant Prophet Idyll

Name: Idyll
Powers: Precognition
Affiliation: Arakko

Born on Arakko, the mutant who would later be known as the High Mutant Prophet Idyll grew up alongside the High Summoner. Possessing Omega Level mutant abilities, Idyll earned a place among the esteemed Great Ring of Arakko.

His primary power is precognition, allowing him to see visions of the future with clarity and insight. This ability grants Idyll significant influence and foresight within Arakko’s society and strategic planning. Like many mutants native to Arakko, Idyll has enjoyed advanced longevity, living for centuries due to his mutant heritage.

These attributes have positioned Idyll as a pivotal figure in the unfolding events and future of Arakko, where his visions shape decisions and outcomes on the island.

Idyll the Future Seer

Name: Idyll III
Powers: Precognition
Affiliation: Arakko

Idyll the Future Seer, an Omega Level mutant and member of Arakko’s esteemed Great Ring, is renowned for her precognitive abilities. She is the daughter of High Mutant Prophet Idyll, who prophesied the downfall of Arakko at the hands of Annihilation.

Idyll herself possesses the power to see visions of the true future with remarkable clarity and certainty. She has the same power sets as her father, Idyll. Despite her precognitive gifts, she is unable to alter or influence the course of events she foresees.

At some point, Idyll suffered a traumatic incident when Tarn the Uncaring severed her tongue, robbing her of the ability to speak her prophecies aloud. Her final prophecy before this mute state predicted the eventual reunification and subsequent permanent separation of Arakko and Krakoa.

Genesis

Name: Genesis
Powers: Cholorokinesis
Affiliation: Arakko

Genesis is another of the newer Omega level mutants introduced in Hickman’s run of X-Men. She originally hails from the ancient nation of Okkara where she ruled alongside her husband Apocalypse and bore the First Horsemen.

Genesis possesses the power of Chlorokinesis, granting her control over all plant and fungus life within her vicinity. When utilizing her powers, she manifests the ancient Egyptian symbol, The Eye of Horus, through green auras emanating from each hand.

This ability extends to manipulating microscopic fungi within individuals, enabling her to cause harm or even death from within. Genesis has the unique capability of communicating with plants and fungi, allowing her to gather information covertly by “whispering” to these organisms unnoticed.

Redroot the Forest

Name: Redroot
Powers: Botanopathy
Affiliation: Arakko

Redroot the Forest, a pure-blood mutant from Amenth, earned the title of “Voice of Arakko” due to her unique ability to communicate with the land itself.

She is one of the Omega Level Mutants on Arakko with the power of Botanopathy, which allowed her to converse with flora and manipulate the earth of Arakko to her advantage.

In addition to her botanical communication, Redroot possessed a formidable offensive ability known as the Field of Decay. This power enabled her to induce rapid decay in organic materials, effectively rotting them away with a touch. This made her a formidable adversary in combat, capable of swiftly neutralizing opponents and obstacles alike.

Lactuca the Knower

Name: Lactuca
Powers: Space Communication
Affiliation: Arakko

Lactuca is an Omega level mutant from Arakko, known as a Universal Shaper. She considers the Universe her mother and fellow Universal Shaper Eden Fesi her little brother. Her face remains unseen, always covered in a black cloth with star-like patterns.

Lactuca’s powers include spatial awareness, allowing her to know the position of everything and see all. She can share this knowledge with others by letting them look into her eyes or by mentally connecting with Eden Fesi (Manifold).

Lactuca also possesses spatial manipulation, demonstrated by closing dimensional rifts and altering her size to combat threats. She can teleport herself and others, even remotely, and has the ability to fly. Her telepathic abilities encompass mind linking, astral projection, and possession.

Lodus Logos

Name: Lodus Logos
Powers: Verbal Metallogenesis
Affiliation: Arakko

Lodus Logos is one of the Omega Level mutants, a member of the Great Ring of Arakko, holding the Seat of Dreams on the Table of Dusk. This position made him responsible for art, poetry, and song within the nation.

After joining the Great Ring, Lodus Logos befriended Storm. His primary ability, Verbal Metallogenesis, allowed him to create unlimited amounts of any metal using his words. He could control both the amount and shape of the metal, but he preferred to use poetry to create small, refined metal objects like daggers, striving for perfection in each creation.

Sobunar of the Depths

Name: Sobunar
Powers: Oceanic Blood
Affiliation: Arakko

Sobunar, an Omega-Level mutant and member of the Great Ring of Arakko, hails from a lineage of aquatic mutants. Known as the third of his name, Sobunar played a crucial role in the terraforming of Mars by providing his blood to create the planet’s oceans, with the help of Hope Summers and Monarch.

Sobunar’s primary ability, Oceanic Blood, allows his body to contain an entire marine biological system capable of rehydrating worlds.

This ability grants him extrasensory perception, enabling him to sense and feel entities within the waters he created, including his children and other creatures in Arakko’s oceans. Additionally, Sobunar possesses water manipulation powers, allowing him to control water and use it for levitation.

Xilo the First Defender/Stulgid

Name: Xilora
Powers: Terrakinesis
Affiliation: Arakko

Xilo, the First Defender, is an omega-level mutant from 2 billion years ago, surviving Threshold’s downfall alongside Okkara. Xilo is a collective of insects that can either present as a single being or separate into innumerable tendrils, allowing him to persist through regeneration and advanced longevity.

Xilo’s abilities include terrakinesis and terraforming, enabling him to shape stone and soil. He played a crucial role in the terraforming of Mars by merging with the planet, enriching its soil, and creating biotic life to support a breathable atmosphere. His tendrils are powerful enough to scour a human to bone in seconds. Recruited by Isca the Unbeaten and Magneto, Xilo helped make Mars viable for life.

Uqesh the Bridge

Name: Uqesh
Powers: Summoning Gods
Affiliation: Arakko

Uqesh the Bridge, an Omega-Level mutant from Arakko, held the unique ability to summon gods at will, regardless of their desire. This extraordinary power earned Uqesh a significant role within the Great Ring of Arakko, where he occupied the prestigious Seat of Law.

His abilities made him a formidable and influential figure, capable of calling upon divine beings to aid in Arakko’s endeavors and enforce the nation’s laws and decisions. Uqesh’s presence in the Great Ring underscored his importance in the balance of power and the mystical aspects of Arakko’s governance.