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Marvel Universe
The Press Gang were elite Genoshan Magistrates and mutant nationalists who served their country's regime with pride and so did not undergo the Mutate bonding process. When Fabian Cortez instituted a bloody civil war between Mutates and Magistrates in Genosha, the Press Gang led the Magistrate faction. After the United Nationa gave Magneto control of the country, Pipeline defected to his cause, but the fate of the rest of the Magistrates remains unknown. They could have fled Genosha, been killed as Magneto consolidated power, or killed later during Cassandra Nova's Wild Sentinel attack.