“… in the House of M reality, the purpose of the experiments is to create super-soldiers to fight Magneto, whose mutants are overwhelming the human forces in the human/mutant war. Luke [Cage] still breaks out of prison, but finds a world where Magneto has just won the war – a world that is beginning to change drastically.”

House of M: Avengers

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