The majority of you maybe don't remember Paulie Provenzano (aka Omerta). Paulie Provenzano lived in Brooklyn and tried to join the mafia after he was discharged from the U.S. Army. The Mafia rudely rejected and attempted to kill him because of his mutant power of invulnerability. Paulie took out the goons and earned the attention of Jean Grey who recruited him into a new team of X-Men where Paulie adopted the codename Omerta.
Jean briefly leaves Paulie to enter the X-Mansion while she talks with Sunpyre on the front driveway. Paulie is thrown through the front doors moments later. Northstarfollows. Paulie protests, revealing his homophobia and Northstar protests as he is gay. Paulie dares Northstar to hit him, as he, Paulie is invulnerable. Throughout the storyline, Paulie regularly calls Northstar "Maple-Leaf" and puts him down for being homosexual Northstar's super-speed is enough to stun, but not hurt him.
The X-Men would fly to the island nation Genosha to try to stop Magneto and Omerta was very overconfident and apparently didn't realize how dangerous Magneto really was. Omerta stated that he was not scared of "some guy wearing a bucket on his head." This angered Magneto and Magneto attempted to manipulate Omerta using the iron in his blood but Magneto was unable to dos so because of Omerta's powers of invulnerability.
Although Magneto could not totally manipulate the iron in Omerta's body, he was still able to levitate him. Magneto levitated Omerta into space and coldly asked Northstar if he thought he was fast enough to save Omerta before he suffocated. Northstar flew as fast as he possibly could and was barely able to save Omerta. He took Omerta to a U.S. warship and gave him mouth to mouth, saving his life. Omerta disliked that Northstar had given him mouth to mouth but was still thankful of Jean-Paul for saving his life.
Now, I think the relationship between Omerta and Northstar is very interesting. Jean Paul is the first openly gay superhero and Paulie is an homophobic Italian-American gangster with super powers. In these days everyone is complain about the gay Ice man. People say "LGBT bullshit gets shoved down my throat enough!" or "I don't like gay people, why can't you respect my opinion?". I think the solution is a comic where there's a contrast between a gay character and another character who hate gay people (Have you ever seen "Dallas Buyers Club"?). They should work together in some adventures and become friends, showing kids there's nothing bad or unnatural in gay people. The redemption of Omerta could be the redemption of the readers. It would be cool discover the origins of Paulie, probably very violent. It would also be cool see Paulie live in the same apartment of Jean-Paul and Kyle. Northstar could be a sort of big brother\sister for Paulie, he could help him with girls and educate his temper.
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