Marvel 11836: Rise of the Lone Star

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Description

Duncan Nenni, a sharp-tongued Texan economist and mutant, spent years keeping mutant politics at a distance. But when tragedy upends his life, he becomes the Alamo, a vigilante with a plasma-fueled cause. His path collides with the X-Men, Avengers, and especially Rogue, a former terrorist wrestling with memory and identity.

As anti-mutant hate rises, Alamo dives into a dark web of conspiracies involving Trask International, SHIELD, and the Friends of Humanity. Anna Marie seeks healing; Duncan seeks purpose. Together, they confront their pasts, challenge systemic issues, and navigate messy truths where personal ethics, mutant politics, and national ideals clash.

Set against the backdrop of a politically charged 2020's America,Earth-11836explores the complicated realities faced by superhumans. It’s a story of politics, trauma, philosophy, family, and the enduring search for identity and love.

Information

Status: Hiatus
Year: 2025
Author: TheRetroCowboy

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Rating: 4.0/ 5.0
Followers: 140
Views: 89,300

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Community Reviews(4)

ArtFriendsRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The character work shines here, more so than the plot. The MC is divisive and complex, feels human and makes mistakes. Rogue is absolute Gold here, maybe even better than the MC.
Action sequences are very nice, specially those with Captain America. It's slow paced which is not really a problem, and while the action in the first volume is clunky, it becomes better later on.
Overall great story, great character work, plot is good, gets better with time.
Now for some spoilers and a breakdown.
Style
The story is a little inconsistent with style, sometimes it takes a more simple diaogue route with less character description, sometimes it will very much describe expressions and environment. I think this was a choice by the author later on. Reading the updated (rewritten) first volumes you can see it looks more like the fourh and fifth volumes than the second volume.
But I do prefer the later style, style inconsistency is not good, but I guess the author is trying to more descriptive. The author constantly updates older chapters, so maybe do that with the second and third volumes.
But the prose is good, the style is also good. Monologues bleed a little bit with character narration, but yeah it's good. Not perfect but good.
Grammar
Some typos here and there, not often. Again constantly updated. Overall very clean. No complaints.
Plot/Story
Suffers a bit earlier on, because it seems a bit formulaic up to volume 3. Characters go to places beat some people up and get information, later on the story breaks with this formula and explores a lot of character dynamics, but it is consistent. Could benefit for MC doing more in-depth investigation earlier on, but he does it more hands on later chapters.
What I think very good in this story is the sheer number of characters it introduces and ties to the main plot. It's the Friends of Humanity first, then the government, then the Hellfire Club. It starts to unravel a whole conspiracy, which seems to be going to be explored in detail lat
Ic3hellRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
The story is great, and the characters are very well-represented. Also, their personalities don't feel shallow. The scene setting is amazing, and really shows instead of telling, so good job on that. We'll see how this story goes, but I'm honestly expecting great things from it. Good job Author, you rock.
ZucchiRoyal Road
★★★★★ 5.0
One of the better X-Men fanfic I have ever seen. Its really hard to find a good Rogue/Male Mc that isn't crap. I hope you continue this fic for a really long time, and that by the end every reader is satisfied. Gonna be 5 Stars from me. Excelsior, Ever Upward and Beyond.
Moist NuggetRoyal Road
★★★ 3.0
I'm not even sure where to begin, I know that this story is quite large and has been frequently updated and as I'm only at chapter 1.7 the later chapters could be much better than what I've read, but the switch ups that a reader will be hit with from the very beginning of the story are kind of ludicrous. Some spoilers ahead so read at your own peril (basically spoilers for chapters 1-8)
At the start of the story we get a picture of the MC and his parents. They love him, know he's a mutant and seem to want him to (as a civilian) join/try out for the avengers/become a hero. The MC is vocally against their ideas and is shown to be exasperated by the notion of it, expressing that he just wants to do his 'own thing and be free'
Fast forward a couple chapters and we find out that the MC is already done with College and working with/in a firm dealing with bonds. Seemingly being a normal person, we see him at his job and watch as a suspicious individual works towards getting funds for a company with what seem like suspicious transactions.
So, going against the initial chapters and the idea that he wanted to be left alone and had no intentions of being a hero, the MC immediately starts investigating the suspicious transactions, immediately sees illegal dealings happening at the first place he investigates and then without missing a beat uses info/pictures taken of the crime scene a couple days later at his job to stop the villains from gaining funding from the company the MC works in.
This is where the story really gets rough. The Villains are laughably evil/incompetent. The Main Villain in charge and his enforcer show up in person at the MC's workplace to get the funding issue sorted. Mc talks back to the villains enforcer and the Enforcer without a pause opens fire on him, full on gun fight in the middle of a workday, not even trying to hide anything as a secretive organization, with said organizations leader brazenly next to him.
The MC takes the gun shots like a champ, n