[1] When their superiors in the Chinese military prevent them from visiting their dying mother, Mary, the brothers rebel and battle the god Ho-Ti, who was apparently working with the government.

[2] Later, the Collective Man, now restored to full power, is mystically altered by the god Marduk and transformed into a gigantic, deformed form.

The brothers retain their powers following M-Day, when the Scarlet Witch depowers most mutants on Earth, and joins the Xavier Institute as part of the 198.

[4] Months later, the Collective Man invades San Francisco's organized crime circuit,[5] while its protector, Wolverine[6] was incapacitated by a "mutant flu" bioweapon released as part of the X-Men: Quarantine storyline.

Collective Man and the People's Defense Force meet Crystal and her team of All-New Inhumans as they investigate a mysterious "skyspear" in China.

[7] Collective Man later represents the Chinese government and attends Black Panther's meeting in the Eden Room of Avengers Mountain.