Evolutionary's History
Cyclops stated that they should be considered an Extinction Level Threat.
Origin
The Evolutionary was one of many of the Ape-Men specimens during the early Pleistocene era by the Eternal Phastos who took pity on them. He used his creative abilities to create special-colored armors for them, expose them to cosmic rays while restoring injured members to health using nanotechnology and increasing their intelligence. The one who became the Evolutionary was given a blue colored armor to separate him from his brethren. Also giving them the ability to enter a dormant state to wait between periods of evolution.
The Evolutionary was given the task of safeguarding the species farthest along the evolutionary track and protecting them from those who would target them simply for being an aberration, they sought to protect mankind as they evolved, by eradicating the earlier hominids, and saving the first men children born from them.
After going into a dormant state for eons, The Evolutionary and his group (Evolutionaries) awoke due to the emergence of the next stage in human evolution, mutants. They appeared before Professor Xavier and his X-Men explaining that they were created as mutant-kinds protectors, to see that they survive to become the dominant species on the planet, but they would have to eliminate all humans first. Seeing this as a contradiction to Xavier's dream the X-Men impulsively attack the Evolutionary, but to no success as his abilities were to powerful for them to handle. The Evolutionary next approached Magneto and asked him if he was the representative of mutantkind, in which he said yes. Needing Magneto to unite mutantkind, they sought out the young telepath Emma Frost, when they came across the X-Men who, informed by Brotherhood member Quicksilver, had come to keep her from Magneto, the Brotherhood, and the Evolutionaries. After the Brotherhood's successful abduction of Emma, they accompanied the group to the Xavier school grounds and watched as Emma was hooked into Cerebro and began connecting with every mutant mind on the planet. Opposed by the returning X-Men and Magneto's own children, the Evolutionaries were assaulted by a device created by Beast, shutting off their access to cosmic rays and accidentally killing two of them. When Cyclops vowed to protect mutantkind, the remaining Evolutionary reluctantly left, but not before erasing the memory of their presence from the minds of the X-Men and Brotherhood and vowing to return one day.
Many years later, when the remaining mutants, living on Utopia were endangered by the Neo, the Evolutionaries appeared again, exterminating all Neo around the world when threatened with violence, saying the Neo were a threat to Mutants (Homo superior). They then informed the gathered X-Men that they would destroy Humans (Homo sapiens) in order to protect mutants. As Cyclops attempted to prevent the X-Men from attacking their foe as they'd done years ago, the Evolutionaries grew tired of waiting and attempted to kill Cyclops, who was saved by the teleporting Pixie. With Cyclops stored beneath Utopia's soil, the other X-Men engaged the Evolutionaries, who attempted to stop the X-Men using non-lethal means, sighting Magneto and remembering their original encounter with him, Magneto attacked the Evolutionaries, an act that sparked a memory of the Evolutionaries in the mind of Emma Frost as well. Threatened by Toad's group of rebellious mutants, Irma Cuckoo was forced to broadcast Cyclops' memories of the Evolutionaries to the entire island, unlocking the memory in Magneto's mind and bringing all of the X-Men in on the deal Cyclops made so many years ago. Realizing the mistake he made years ago, Magneto rejected the offer of human extinction, and as the Evolutionaries prepared to destroy the X-Men, Cyclops ordered the activation of a device modeled after Beast's original device, destroying all but one Evolutionary. As Cyclops informed him that the X-Men were the protectors of mutantkind, not the Evolutionaries, the remaining Evolutionary escaped, returning to Africa, and vowing to one day return and kill Cyclops.
Their numbers somewhat restored, glowing gold instead of blue and allied with the High Evolutionary , the Evolutionaries seem determined to eradicate those they had deemed "tainted." Appearing in several places, they attacked the Morlocks, the mystical town of New Salem, and mutant/Dire Wraith Hybrid intent on wiping out all non-human species.
It turned out their alliance with the High Evolutionary was under false pretenses presented by the Eternal Zuras to the Evolutionary and the High Evolutionary that the Celestials would soon return and destroy the Earth if they have found out that there were any other species other than Baseline Humans living on the Earth.
The Evolutionary was later killed by Scarlet Spider when he went up against the New Warriors.
