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Introduction

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If you have just watched X-Men: Days of Future and stumbled on this site while surfing the internet for more X-Men information, this page is to help you navigate the site. There are spoilers ahead!!

The X-Men: Days of Future Past page features the 25 variant covers of Empire magazine for the movie. It will also be updated in the future with links to relevant and interesting articles.

The post-credit scenes for the movie featured a man with grey-blue skin using his powers to build a pyramid as masses of people chant 'En Sabah Nur' while four beings on horses stand in the background. En Sabah Nur would become the villain Apocalypse and the four beings on horses are his Horsemen of Apocalypse namely Pestilence, Famine, War and Death. Apocalypse's defining story arc in the comics is the Age of Apocalypse crossover. In an alternate reality, Apocalypse conquered North America and began a genocidal campaign to kill humans. Apocalypse is also involved in various story arcs in the mainstream reality and more information can be found here..

If you are interested in what is going on in the comics and dare to challenge 50 years of X-Men comics history, you may want to check out History of the X-Men.

More than one hundred mutants have been created in the comics. Some of these mutants are introduced in each movie. X-Men Roster lists all the members of the team in its history and Rosters features the X-rosters over the years. Check out potential new X-Men members for future movies!

You may also want to check out nomoremutants.com for more information about the X-Men.

All-New Marvel Now: X-Force (2014 - Present)

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X-Force is an ongoing title launched in February 2014, written by Simon Spurrier and pencilled by Rock-He Kim. It features an X-Force team led by Cable out to assert the mutant cause on a clandestine level.
A terrorist attack known as the Alexandria Incident used a weaponized mutant to claim 3,000 lives. In response, Cable re-formed the mutant black ops team X-Force to ensure that mutantkind not only has a continued place in the world but also a stake in it.

X-Force is currently on the trail of Russian billionaire Volga-who they believe to be behind the Alexandria Incident, as well as the man who has been abducting and exploiting mutants, including new teammate MeMe.

Team

Cable (Nathan Summers)

Psylocke (Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock)

Fantomex (Charlie Cluster 7)

Marrow (Sarah)

MeMe

Dr. Nemesis (Dr. James Nichola Bradley)

Past Series

X-Force is the name adopted by various different groups of mutant superheroes featuring in a series of the same name. The first series was created by Rob Liefeld in 1991 to replace New Mutants. It featured Cable leading a proactive militaristic team. In #116 (2001), the team was replaced by a team of mutant media celebrities. The title was cancelled with #129 (2002) and replaced with a new series X-Statix. In 2004, a six-issue X-Force miniseries was released, with Liefeld as plotter and illustrator and Fabian Nicieza providing dialogue. The series reunited many members of the original team. The series was followed by a four-issue prequel X-Force: Shatterstar mini-series.

In 2008, the third series was launched, written by the team of Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost. Cyclops formed the team as a black ops unit to deal with threats using lethal force. The team was disbanded by Cyclops with #28 (2010) following the Second Coming crossover. A three issue mini-series X-Force: Sex and Violence was released shortly after.

A new title Uncanny X-Force was launched in 2011, written by Rick Remender. Wolverine and Archangel reformed a new secret X-Force team to continue the fight. The title ended with #35 in 2012.

The second volume of Uncanny X-Force and a new title Cable and X-Force were released in 2013. The former features a strike team operating in Los Angeles while the later features a Cable-led proactive team.

Both titles were cancelled in 2014 and replaced by a new X-Force title. In this new title, Cable leads a team to assert the mutant cause on a clandestine level.

First Series

Cable-Founded X-Force

(1991-2001)

Shortly after taking over as mentor of the student team New Mutants, Cable re-organised it into the paramilitary X-Force a mutant strike team that would take a more proactive stance against threats to mutantkind. The original team consisted of Cannonball, Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith), Warpath, Shatterstar, Feral and Domino. The terrorist Mutant Liberation Front, led by Stryfe, the evil clone of Cable became the main nemesis of X-Force. X-Force teamed up with Spider Man and Siryn to prevent a terrorist bombing by Black Tom and the Juggernaut after which Siryn joined the team. Later, it was revealed that Domino had been replaced by the shapeshifting mutant Copycat, who had infiltrated the team at the behest of arms dealer Tolliver who was keeping Domino prisoner. X-Force was soon attacked by Weapon: PRIME, which was created by the Canadian government's Department K to take down X-Force. Cable and X-Force were separated as a result. Cable took the fight to Tolliver to rescue Domino, defeating the mercenary Deadpool. Rictor, who was in Weapon: PRIME, joined X-Force to rescue former New Mutant, Sunspot from the External Gideon.

After a seeming assassination attempt on Professor X by Cable, X-Force was targeted for capture by the combined forces of X-Men and X-Factor. It was later revealed that Stryfe was responsible for framing Cable and X-Force was released. Cable was believed dead after a battle with Stryfe but returned and resumed the team's training, recruiting the mutant-tracking Caliban to replace Cannonball, who had joined the X-Men.

Cable attempted to force the team underground with new identities but X-Force walked out on him. Shatterstar and Rictor journeyed to Mexico while Siryn, Warpath, Sunspot, Meltdown (Tabitha Smith) and Domino were joined by former New Mutant, Moonstar. The team traveled around the US before being captured by Reignfire and Locus. Taken to Las Vegas, the team learnt the truth about the connection between Reignfire and Sunspot. X-Force then moved into a new warehouse in San Francisco before vacationing in Hawaii. The team soon gained a new teammate in Bedlam and Cannonball returned. Sunspot was later convinced by Selene to join the Hellfire Club.

X-Force came under former British spy Pete Wisdom, who introduced the team to the shadowy world of espionage. The team was believed killed in an explosion but all its members subsequently reappeared.

Domino, Rictor, Siryn, Sunspot and Warpath joined Xavier's X-Corporation mutant response group; Cannonball joined Storm's XSE mutant police force; Moonstar was recruited as a teacher at the Xavier Institute while Cable became a messiah-like figure in his efforts to save the world's population from themselves.

Former Bases of Operation

Adirondack Mountains, Camp Verde Reservation, Arcade World NY, X-Mansion, On the Road

Original Team

Cable (Nathan Summers)

Cannonball (Samuel "Sam" Guthrie)

Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith)

Shatterstar (Gaveedra-Seven)

Warpath (James Proudstar)

Feral (Maria Callasanto)

Domino (Neena Thurman), impersonated by Copycat (Vanessa Calysee)

Recruits

Siryn (Theresa Cassidy)

Rictor (Julio Richter)

Sunspot (Roberto DaCosta)

Domino (Neena Thurman)

Caliban

Moonstar (Danielle "Dani" Moonstar)

Bedlam (Jesse Aaronson)

Pete Wisdom, took over as mentor

Second Series

Cable-Founded X-Force

(2004)

Cable reformed the team to fight Skornn in the six-issue X-Force miniseries (second series).

Roster

Cable (Nathan Summers)

Cannonball (Samuel "Sam" Guthrie)

Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith)

Shatterstar (Gaveedra-Seven)

Warpath (James Proudstar)

Domino (Neena Thurman)

Third Series

X-Men Strike Team

(2007 - 2010)

There exists a covert team of mutants, assigned to jobs too dirty, too dangerous for the regular X-Men. Their existence known only to a select few, they are... X-Force!

Cyclops' covert wetworks team doesn't protect the dream, they erase the threats.

X-Force was formed during Messiah Complex by Cyclops to chase after Cable, who was holding onto the Messiah child, and whom was believed to be a traitor. During a confrontation with the cyborg Reavers on route to finding Cable, Caliban was killed. After the events of Messiah CompleX, Cyclops reformed the team to kill off threats to mutants.

X-Force witnessed the revival of the mega-sentinel Bastion, who proceeded to find the former Technarchy ruler Magus to obtain his techno-organic virus. Using the T-O virus, Bastion resurrected several mutant haters to form his cabal, including Bolivar Trask, Steven Lang, Reverend William Stryker, Donald Pierce, Cameron Hodge, Graydon Creed and Leper Queen. The team next traveled to the future to retrieve Cable and Hope where they fought Stryfe and Bishop. They returned to the past only to have X-23 captured by her former handlers in the Facility. X-23 managed to escape in time for Selene to launch an attack on the mutant island of Utopia. After fending off the attack, X-Force traveled to Genosha to confront and defeat Selene. X-Force's secret existence was revealed following the return of Hope and Bastion's attack on Utopia. With the defeat of Bastion, Cyclops disbanded X-Force. However, unknown to Cyclops, Wolverine forms a team of X-Force on his own.

Roster

Wolverine (James 'Logan' Howlett) Leader

Warpath (James Proudstar)

X-23 (Laura Kinney)

Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair)

Domino (Neena Thurman)

Archangel (Warren Worthington III)

Elixir (Joshua Forley)

Vanisher (Telford Porter)

Members during Messiah CompleX

Hepzibah

Caliban

Uncanny X-Force
(2010 - 2012)

Base of Operations
Cavern X

When the Akkaba Society resurrected En Sabah Nur, also known as Apocalypse, Wolverine and Archangel brought together Fantomex, Deadpool and Psylocke to form the Uncanny X-Force. The team fought their way to Apocalypse, only to discover that this reincarnation is a child. X-Force's resolve wavered, save for Fantomex who put a bullet in the child's head, arguing that the child's upbringing by the cult had already tainted him beyond repair. The team struggled with the idea of having killed a child.

They next fought and destroyed the cyborg Reavers led by Lady Deathstrike.

Fantomex discovered that there is something wrong with the World, as a presence calling itself Weapon Infinity started manipulating the timestream within. He was attacked by a group of Deathlok cyborgs based on the Avengers who want to kill him and take possession of the World. The team was aided by a rogue Deathlok unit and they travel into the World where Deadpool killed the architect of Weapon Infinity, the enigmatic Father, erasing the attacking Deathlok strain. The rogue Deathlok joins X-Force.

Since the team was formed, Angel has been fighting the bloodthirsty influence of the razor-winged entity known as Archangel. The entity was implanted in his psyche years ago by Apocalypse. Warren has been allowing the Archangel to take over from time to time because the entity is useful in wetworks activities. But Archangel had been exerting control to a greater degree than Warren imagined. To combat this, Psylocke had been psionically helping Warren keep Archangel in check, eventually imprisoning him deep in Warren's mind. During the battle with the Shadow King, Archangel was released from the mental prison. Archangel took control over Warren and the team brought in the Dark Beast to help Warren. The team traveled to the Age of Apocalypse reality to retrieve the Life Seed Dark Beast mentioned would cure Warren. X-Force met the reality's X-Men while the Dark Beast escaped. The two teams fought Weapon X, the reality's heir to Apocalypse. The AoA X-Men helped X-Force return to their reality where they faced and were defeated by Archangel, his four Horsemen and the Dark Beast, who wanted Archangel to fulfill his grand scheme of using the power of the Life Seed to fuel the super-advanced weapons lab known as the World to extinguish all life on earth and reset evolution. X-Force, along with some support from the X-Men of the AoA, assault Archangel's stronghold. In the climatic final battle, Fantomex revealed that he had cloned the child Apocalypse and been secretly raising him in a virtual reality realm. He was forced to release the child, Genesis, early to aid the team in the fight against Archangel. In the end, Psylocke rammed the Life Seed into Archangel's chest, killing him. But shortly after, an amnesiac Warren Worthington emerged from the rubble. AoA Nightcrawler joined X-Force while the rest of his team returned to their own reality.

X-Force's existence was discovered by Kitty Pryde and Beast, staff members of Wolverine's Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Unhappy, they chose to tolerate the actions of X-Force. Fantomex was taken in by the Captain Britain Corps and put on trial in the mystical Otherworld for his role in killing the kid Apocalypse. Wolverine led X-Force into Otherworld, where Psylocke rescued Fantomex while the rest of the team aid the Captain Britain Corps in fending off attacks from the forces of the Goat Monk. When Psylocke realized that his brother Jamie would become responsible for the Goat Monk's attack in the future, she snapped his neck, ending the attack.

As X-Force started to break apart with Psylocke and Fantomex leaving, they came under attack by the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, led by Daken and consisting of Sabretooth, Mystique, Skinless Man, Age of Apocalypse Blob, the Shadow King and the three members of the Omega Gang. Fantomex succeeded in evading Mystique to attempt to rescue Psylocke from the Shadow King's clutches. However, he was killed in the rescue. E.V.A. managed to take Psylocke away after which she evolved into a humanoid form. Wolverine, Nightcrawler and Deadpool managed to escape from their attackers, Omega Gang, and returned to their base to find Psylocke and E.V.A. The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants reveal themselves with Wolverine's son Daken as leader and Genesis captured. Ultimaton appeared with the aborigine mutant Gateway, killing him before triggering an explosion.

Psylocke managed to telepathically get Gateway to use his powers of teleportation on X-Force. They appeared in an alternate future where they encounter Deathlok. In this alternate future, Wolverine had successfully led an army of X-Force to kill Genesis, who had became Apocalypse. Hailed as heroes, X-Force turned to preemptive killings to eliminate crime. Deathlok was opposed to the preemptive killings and attempted to prevent X-Force from facing their future counterparts. Psylocke learnt that the leader of the world is a future version of her and attempted suicide. However, she was rescued by X-Force. Their future counterparts eventually sent them back to the present just as the future Psylocke and Wolverine engage in a passionate kiss.

Upon their return, they managed to capture Mystique. Deadpool infiltrates the Brotherhood's base to rescue Evan but is captured and tortured in front of him. Evan eventually donned the Apocalypse armor provided by the Brotherhood to rescue Deadpool, as intended. Mystique managed to influence Nightcrawler to free her in exchange for bringing him to exact his revenge on Blob. Nightcrawler betrayed the team, incapacitating EVA and Wolverine. Nightcrawler completed his revenge against Blob but was confronted by EVA. Wolverine and Psylocke infiltrated the Brotherhood's base but were captured. Psylocke's mind was shattered by the Shadow King but she managed to trap him in Omega White. Wolverine was made to drown by Daken but was rescued by Deadpool. Evan nearly killed Mystique and the Skinless Man but the former is rescued by Nightcrawler and the latter is killed by Deadpool for his role in killing Fantomex. Wolverine confronted Daken as Sabretooth escaped and killed Daken by drowning him. Following the battle, Fantomex was resurrected, albeit as three different beings due to his 3 brains - the evil Jean Philippe, mischievous but good Fantomex, and the noble female Cluster. Fantomex seemingly formed a relationship with Psylocke.

Roster

Wolverine (James Howlett)

Archangel (Warren Worthington)
[Apparently killed and resurrected as an amnesiac in Uncanny X-Force #18 (2011)]

Psylocke (Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock)

Fantomex (Charlie Cluster-7)

E.V.A.

Deadpool (Wade Wilson)

Deathlok

[Joined in Uncanny X-Force #8 (2011)]

Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner), from Age of Apocalypse reality
[Joined in Uncanny X-Force #19 (2011)]

Uncanny X-Force Second Series
(2013 - 2014)

Uncanny X-Force is relaunched with a new #1 by Sam Humphries and Ron Garney in January 2013. The title features Storm, Psylocke, Puck, Spiral, Bishop and the Fantomexes. The title ended with #17 in February 2014.

Storm and Psylocke responded to Puck's email invitation to investigate a drug dealer selling a drug that makes people susceptible to a hive mind mentality. They discovered the dealer to be Spiral and found a new mutant Ginny. They later realized that Ginny's psychic powers were responsible for the hive mind mentality and Spiral was merely selling generic drugs to earn a living.

The team was attacked by Bishop, returned from the future and possessed by a Demon Bear. Bishop was liberated. However, the team was unable to prevent the capture of Ginny by the Revenant Queen who also arrived from the future. Spiral escaped from X-Force's custody set out to search for Ginny. Psylocke was kidnapped by Cluster (the female Fantomex) to help her rescue Fantomex from Dark Fantomex. Psylocke rejected Cluster's offer to stay with her and Fantomex, her bad memories in their company still raw. The Revenant Queen was revealed to be Cassandra Nova, the evil mummudrai twin sister of Professor X. She prepared to open the veil to allow the revenants in the underworld to invade Earth. However, X-Force stopped her ploy.

Roster

Storm (Ororo Munroe)

Psylocke (Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock)

Puck (Eugene Judd)

Spiral (Rita Rayword)

Bishop (Lucas Bishop)

Cable and the X-Force
(2012 - 2014)

Cable and the X-Force is written by Dennis Hopeless and pencilled mainly by Salvador Larroca. It features a team of team led by Cable. It was launched in December 2012 and ended with #19 in February 2014.

Cable formed a X-Force team to proactively prevent disasters that he had precognitive visions of. However, the team's first mission ended in disaster and the team became wanted terrorists. After a series of missions, the X-Force was attacked by Havok's Uncanny Avengers who seek to capture them. While the team escaped, Cable was captured. However, his powers started to fluctuate. His surrogate daughter Hope Summers seek the help of Cable's former mentor Blaquesmith. They traveled to the future where Hope discovered that Cable's precognitive visions were the result of tampering by Blaquesmith and Lady Stryfe, a future version of Hope. They wanted Cable to remain active and Lady Stryfe wanted her young self to have quality time with her dad. Cable's missions also helped undo the horrors faced in the future. Realizing that the tampering was causing Cable harm, they sent young Hope back into the past with a psimitar to stabilize Cable's powers just as X-Force was attacking the Avengers Mansion in an attempt to rescue him. After Cable's powers stabilized, Havok allowed him and X-Force to depart so that they can deal with the threats that the Uncanny Avengers cannot.

The team engaged in two missions. Hope and Cable attacked a Reaver camp while Colossus and Domino halted an attempt to burgle an old Trask compound with Forge coordinating both missions from the X-Force's base. When Forge's mind was overtaken by his old enemy, the Adversary, both teams were left high and dry. Cable and Hope defeated an entire group of Reavers while Colossus and Domino destroyed a Sentinel guarding the Trask compound. Back in X-Force's base, Dr Nemesis and Boom Boom helped Forge defeat the Adversary by transferring him to Dr Nemesis's mind and trapping him.

Roster

Cable (Nathan Christopher Summers)

Domino (Neena Thurman)

Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)

Forge

Dr. Nemesis (Dr James Nicola Bradley)

Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith)

Hope Summers

Image Gallery

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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the X-Men, a massive poster is packed in All New X-Men #22.Now with a variety of characters from various eras. The poster is a combination of 12 covers from different artists.

X-Men Team/Era

X-Factor / X-Men (Female/Vol.4) / New Mutants

Wolverine and the X-Men / 70s X-Men / Uncanny X-Force

Generation X / 90s X-Men / X-treme X-Men

Original X-Men / Age of Apocalypse / Age of X

Artists

Walt Simonson / David Lopez / Art Adams

Nick Bradshaw / Neal Adams / Phil Noto

Chris Bachalo / Whilce Portacio / Salvador Larroca

Stuart Immonen / Joe Madureira / Clay Mann

Characters

X-Factor: Cyclops, Jean Grey, Archangel, Beast, Iceman

X-Men (Female): Storm, Kitty Pryde, Psylocke, Rogue, Marvel Girl (Rachel Grey), Jubilee, Shogo

New Mutants: Cannonball, Dani Moonstar, Sunspot, Karma, Magma, Magik, Cypher, Warlock

Wolverine and the X-Men: Wolverine, Beast, Iceman, Kitty Pryde, Marvel Girl (Rachel Grey), Doop, Warbird, Quentin Quire, Gladiator, Oya, Broo, Genesis, Glob Herman, Anole, Rockslide, Face, Match, Bamfs

70s X-Men: Cyclops, Marvel Girl (Jean Grey), Angel, Iceman, Havok

Uncanny X-Force: Wolverine, Archangel, Psylocke, Deadpool, Fantomex

Generation X: Banshee, Emma Frost, Chamber, Husk, Monet, Jubilee, Penance, Skin, Synch

90s X-Men: Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Gambit, Rogue, Psylocke

X-treme X-Men: Storm, Beast, Rogue, Gambit, Psylocke, Sage, Bishop, Thunderbird

Original X-Men: Cyclops, Marvel Girl (Jean Grey), Angel, Beast, Iceman

Age of Apocalypse: Magneto, Rogue, Storm, Weapon X (Wolverine), Nightcrawler, Sunfire, Sabretooth, Wild Child, Blink

Age of X: Magneto, Legacy/Reaper (Rogue), Gambit, Basilisk (Cyclops), Frenzy, Eclipse (Sunspot), Jubilee, Hellion, Nightmare (Pixie)

Check out: http://marvelentertainment.tumblr.com/post/65054163566/celebrating-50-years-of-x-men-battle-of-the-atom

Professor X, Magneto

Angel, Marvel Girl (Jean Grey), Cyclops, Beast, Iceman

1963 - 1966

Mimic, Changeling, Polaris, Havok, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Toad

1966 - 1969

Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Banshee, Storm, Sunfire, Colossus, Thunderbird

Northstar, Aurora, Hepzibah, Magik, Multiple Man, Mystique, Sabretooth

1970 - 1975

Kitty Pryde & Lockheed, Rogue, Rachel Grey, Psylocke, Longshot, Dazzler, Forge, Dani Moonstar, Cypher, Warlock

Cannonball, Sunspot, Karma, Warpath, Husk, Magma, Madison Jeffries, Cloak, Dagger, Emma Frost

Sage, Rusty Collins, Boom Boom, Frenzy, Legion, Wolfsbane, Siryn, Caliban, Skids, Rictor

Ariel, Leech, Arthur Maddicks, Avalanche, Strong Guy, Diamond Lil, Pyro, Madelyne Pryor, Callisto, Icarus

1980 - 1989

Penance, Gambit, Jubilee, Bishop, Joseph, Cecilia Reyes, Marrow, Magott, Deadpool, Skin, Chamber

Synch, Cable, Domino, X-Man, Blink, Shatterstar, Squirrel Girl, Feral, Copycat, Pete Wisdom, Monet

1990 - 1999

Xorn, Stacy X, Dead Girl, Armor, X-23, Dust, No-Girl, Match, Beak, Angel

Kid Omega, Stepford Cuckoos (Mindee, Phoebe, Celeste), Hellion, Elixir, Wither, Mercury, Anole, Rockslide

Surge, Prodigy, Bling!, Loa, Blindfold, Gentle, Cipher, Indra, Trance, Pixie

Darwin, Onyxx, Hope Summers, Evangeline Whedon Pulse, Abigail Brand, Doop, Layla Millar, Dr Nemesis, Fantomex

Danger, Wolf Cub, Glob Herman, Ernst, Greymalkin, Broo, Oya, Transonic, Zero, Primal

Velocidad, Face, Triage, Tempus, Karasu Tengu, Sobojo Tengu, Genesis, Eye-Boy, Shark Girl, Sprite

Marko Djurdjevic Wolverine poster

Marko Djurdjevic Poster

Uncanny X-Men 500 cover (Greg Land)

Uncanny X-Men 500 promo (Greg Land)

Uncanny X-Men 500 variant (Alex Ross)

Uncanny X-Men 500 variant (Michael Turner)

Uncanny X-Men 500 variant (Terry Dodson)

X-Men Disassembled

X-Men 200 (Chris Bachalo)

X-Men 200 (David Finch)

X-Men 2006 (Medina)

90s X-Men

80s X-Men

70s X-Men

X-Men Roster

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X-Men

For current rosters, please check here

For History of the X-Men, check here

For the rosters of X-Men over the years, check here

Original Team

Professor X (Charles Xavier)

[Active in X-Men #1 (1963);

Deceased, Killed by Cyclops in Avengers vs X-Men #7 (2012)]

Cyclops (Scott Summers)

[Active in X-Men #1 (1963)]

Iceman (Bobby Drake)

[Active in X-Men #1 (1963)]

Beast (Henry 'Hank' McCoy);

[Active in X-Men #1 (1963)]

Archangel (Warren Worthington III)

[Active in X-Men #1 (1963);

Active as Archangel in X-Men vol. 2 #1 (1991)]

Jean Grey-Summers

[Active in X-Men #1 (1963);

Active as Jean Grey in X-Men vol. 2 #1 (1991);

Active as Phoenix in Uncanny X-Men #318 (1994)]

1960s Recruits

Mimic (Calvin Rankin)

[Joined in X-Men #27 (1966)]

Changeling (Kevin Sydney)

[Active as Professor X in X-Men #40 (1968);

Died in X-Men #42 (1968)]

Polaris (Lorna Dane)

[Joined in X-Men #65 (1969);

Active in flashback as Magnetrix in X-Men: The Hidden Years #3 (2000)]

Havok (Alexander Summers)

[Joined in X-Men #65 (1970)]

Secret Team

Petra (Petra Kristensen)

[Joined in flashback in X-Men: Deadly Genesis #4 (2006);

Deceased; Killed in X-Men: Deadly Genesis #6 (2006)]

Sway (Suzanne Chan)

[Joined in flashback in X-Men: Deadly Genesis #4 (2006);

Deceased; Killed in X-Men: Deadly Genesis #6 (2006)]

Darwin (Amando Munoz)

[Joined in flashback in X-Men: Deadly Genesis #4 (2006)]

Vulcan (Gabriel Summers)

[Joined in flashback in X-Men: Deadly Genesis #4 (2006);

Apparently killed in battle with Black Bolt in War of Kings #6 (2009)]

New Team

Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)

[Joined in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975);

Killed by Bastion in X-Force #26 (2010)]

Wolverine (James Howlett)

[Joined in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975)]

Banshee (Sean Cassidy)

[Joined in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975);

Killed by Vulcan in X-Men: Deadly Genesis #2 (2006)]

Storm (Ororo Munroe)

[Joined in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975)]

Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida)

[Joined in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975)]

Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)

[Joined in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975)]

Thunderbird (John Proudstar)

[Joined in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975);

Died in X-Men #95 (1975)]

1980s recruits

Shadowcat (Katherine 'Kitty' Pryde)
[Joined as Kitty in X-Men #138 (1980);
Active as Sprite in X-Men #139 (1980);
Active as Ariel in Marvel Graphic Novel #5 (1982);
Active as Shadowcat in Kitty Pryde & Wolverine #5 (1982)]

Lockheed
[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #168 (1983)]

Rogue (Anna Marie)
[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #171 (1983)]

Marvel Girl (Rachel Grey/Summers)
[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #193 (1985);
Active as Phoenix in Uncanny X-Men Annual #9 (1985);
Active as Marvel Girl in Uncanny X-Men #444 (2004)]

Magneto (Max Eisenhardt)
[Headmaster of Xavier Institute in Uncanny X-Men #200 (1985)]

Psylocke (Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock)
[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #213 (1987)]

Longshot
[Joined in Mephisto Vs... #3 (1987)]

Dazzler (Alison Blaire)
[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #214 (1987)]

Forge
[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #255 (1989)]

1990s recruits

Gambit (Remy LeBeau)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men Annual #14 (1990)]

Jubilee (Jubilation Lee)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #258 (1990);

Depowered, Now in vampire form]

Bishop (Lucas Bishop)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #287 (1992)]

Revanche (Kwannon)

[Joined in X-Men vol. 2 #21 (1993);

Died in X-Men #31 (1994)]

Cannonball (Samuel 'Sam' Guthrie)

[Joined in X-Force vol. 1 #44 (1995)]

Joseph

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #338 (1996);

Died in X-Men #87 (1999)]

Cecilia Reyes

[Joined in X-Men vol. 2 #70 (1997)]

Marrow (Sarah)

[Joined in X-Men vol. 2 #70 (1997);

Depowered]

Maggott (Japeth)

[Joined in X-Men vol. 2 #70 (1997);

Died in Weapon X #5 (2002)]

2000s recruits

Thunderbird (Neal Sharra)

[Joined in X-Men #100 (2000)]

Cable (Nathan Summers)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #281 (2000)]

Moonstar (Danielle Moonstar)

[Joined in X-Men vol. 2 #102 (2000)]

Sage (Tessa)

[Joined in X-Men vol. 2 #109 (2001)]

Emma Frost

[Joined in New X-Men (X-Men vol. 2) #116 (2001)]

Xorn (Kuan-Yin Xorn)

[Joined in New X-Men Annual 2001 (2001);

Died in New X-Men #150 (2003)]

Chamber (Jonothon Starsmore)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #398 (2001)]

Stacy X (Miranda Leevald)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #400 (2001);

Died in New Warriors (vol. 4) #16 (2008)]

Lifeguard (Heather Cameron)

[Joined in Xtreme X-Men #10 (2002)]

Slipstream (Davis Cameron)

[Joined in Xtreme X-Men #10 (2002);

Depowered]

Northstar (Jean Paul Beaubier)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #414 (2002)]

Husk (Paige Guthrie)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #423 (2003)]

Juggernaut (Cain Marko)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #425 (2003)]

Xorn (Shen Xorn)

[Joined in X-Men vol. 2 #162 (2004);

Depowered]

Mystique (Raven Darkholme)

[Joined in X-Men vol. 2 #181 (2006)]

Warpath (James Proudstar)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #475 (2006)]

Sabretooth (Victor Creed)

[Joined in X-Men vol. 2 #192 (2006)]

Lady Mastermind (Regan Wyngarde)

[Joined in X-Men vol. 2 #192 (2006)]

Omega Sentinel (Karima Shapandar)

[Joined in X-Men vol. 2 #192 (2006)]

Armor (Hisako Ichiki)

[Joined in Astonishing X-Men #20 (2007)]

Hepzibah

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #487 (2007)]

Pixie (Megan Gywnn)

[Joined in X-Men Free Comic Day (2008)]

Karma (Xi'an Coy Mahn)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #501 (2008)]

Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa)

[Joined in Secret Invasion: X-Men #1 (2008)]

Aurora (Jeanne-Marie Beaubier)

[Joined in Secret Invasion: X-Men #2 (2008)]

Magma (Amara Aquilla)

[Joined in Secret Invasion: X-Men #4 (2009)]

Doctor Nemesis (Dr. James Nicola Bradley)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #504 (2009)]

Madison Jeffries

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #505 (2009)]

Magik (Illyana Rasputin)

[Joined in New Mutants #1 (2009)]

Namor (Sub-Mariner)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #513 (2009)]

Cloak (Tyrone Johnson)

[Joined in Dark Avengers #8 (2009)]

Dagger (Tandy Bowen)

[Joined in Dark Avengers #8 (2009)]

Domino (Neema Thurman)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #514 (2009)]

Danger

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #515 (2009)]

Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith)

[Joined in Dark Avengers #8 (2009)]

Ariel

[Joined in X-Men Legacy #226 (2009)]

Cypher (Douglas Ramsey)

[Joined in New Mutants #9 (2010)]

Warlock

[Joined in New Mutants #9 (2010)]

X-23 (Laura Kinney)

[Joined in X-Men: Second Coming #1 (2010)]]

Legion (David Haller)

[Joined in X-Men Legacy #250 (2011)]

Frenzy (Joanna Cargill)

[Joined in X-Men Legacy #250 (2011)]

X-Man (Nate Grey)

[Joined in New Mutants #27 (2011)]

Hope Summers

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #1 (2011)]

Warbird (Ava'Dara Naganandini)
[Joined in Astonishing X-Men #48 (2012)]

Blink (Clarice Ferguson)
[Joined in New Mutants #45 (2012)]

Firestar (Aneglica Jones)
[Joined in Amazing X-Men #1 (2013)]

M (Monet St. Croix)
[Joined in X-Men vol. 4 #7 (2013)]

Sub-Team Members

[Sub-Team members were part of an ad-hoc X-Men team or an X-Men affiliate team before/currently but never made it to the main team.]

Ad-hoc teams include:

New Mutants Graduate X-Men

Muir Island X-Men

Phalanx Invasion X-Men

Mannite Rescue X-Men (Astonishing X-Men)

Genoshan Assault X-Men

Street Team X-Men

For Ad-hoc X-Men rosters, check link

Affiliate teams include:

X-Men in Training: link

X-Force (X-Men Strike Team): link

X-Club/Science Team: link

Wolfsbane

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men Annual #10 (1986);

As a member of New Mutants Graduate X-Men]

Tom Corsi

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #254 (1989)]

Sharon Friedlander

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #254 (1989);

As a member of Muir Island X-Men;

Died in Uncanny X-Men #298 (1993)]

Moira MacTaggert

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #254 (1989);

As a member of Muir Island X-Men;

Died in X-Men vol. 2 #108 (2001)]

Amanda Sefton

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #254 (1989);

As a member of Muir Island X-Men]

Alysande Stuart

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #254 (1989);

As a member of Muir Island X-Men;

Died in Excalibur #55 (1992)]

Sunder

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #254 (1989);

As a member of Muir Island X-Men;

Died in Uncanny X-Men #254 (1989)]

Multiple Man (Jamie Madrox)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men Annual #15 (1991);

As a member of Muir Island X-Men]

Siryn (Theresa Cassidy)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men Annual #15 (1991);

As a member of Muir Island X-Men]

Omerta (Pauli Provenzano)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #392 (2001);

As a member of Genoshan Assault X-Men;

Died in Weapon X #5 (2002)]

Sunpyre (Leyu Yoshida)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #392 (2001);

As a member of Genoshan Assault X-Men;

Died in Uncanny X-Men #404 (2002)]

Wraith (Hector Rendoza)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #392 (2001);

As a member of Genoshan Assault X-Men;

Depowered]

Cipher (Alisa Tager)

[Joined in New X-Men #127 (2002) retroactively;

As a member of X-Men in Training]

Beak (Barnell Bohusk)

[Joined in New X-Men #149 (2004);

As a member of Street Team X-Men;

Depowered]

Choir (Irina Clayton)

[Joined in New X-Men #149 (2004);

As a member of Street Team X-Men;

Depowered]

Celeste Cuckoo

[Joined in New X-Men #149 (2004);

As a member of Street Team X-Men]

Mindee Cuckoo (Irma Mindee)

[Joined in New X-Men #149 (2004);

As a member of Street Team X-Men]

Phoebe Cuckoo

[Joined in New X-Men #149 (2004);

As a member of Street Team X-Men]

Dust (Sooraya Qadir)

[Joined in New X-Men #149 (2004);

As a member of Street Team X-Men]

Fantomex & E.V.A.

[Joined in New X-Men #149 (2004);

As a member of Street Team X-Men]

Forearm (Marcus Tucker)

[Joined in New X-Men #149 (2004);

As a member of Street Team X-Men]

Longneck (William Hanover)

[Joined in New X-Men #149 (2004);

As a member of Street Team X-Men]

Elixir (Joshua Foley)

[Joined in New X-Men #23 (2006);

As a member of X-Men in Training]

Hellion (Julian Keller)

[Joined in New X-Men #23 (2006);

As a member of X-Men in Training]

Mercury (Cessily Kinclaid)

[Joined in New X-Men #23 (2006);

As a member of X-Men in Training]

Rockslide (Santo Vaccaro)

[Joined in New X-Men #23 (2006);

As a member of X-Men in Training]

Surge (Noriko Ashida)

[Joined in New X-Men #23 (2006);

As a member of X-Men in Training]

Anole (Victor Borbowski)

[Joined in New X-Men #41 (2007);

As a member of X-Men in Training]

Gentle (Nezhno Abidemi)

[Joined in New X-Men #41 (2007);

As a member of X-Men in Training

Prodigy (David Alleyne)

[Joined in New X-Men #43 (2007);

As a member of X-Men in Training]

Caliban

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #493 (2008);

As a member of X-Men Strike Team/X-Force;

Killed by Purifiers in New X-Men #45 (2007)]

Blindfold (Ruth Aldine)

[Joined in Young X-Men #6 (2008);

As a member of X-Men in Training]

Graymalkin (Jonas Graymalkin)

[Joined in Young X-Men #6 (2008);

As a member of X-Men in Training]

Ink (Eric Glitter)

[Joined in Young X-Men #6 (2008);

As a member of X-Men in Training]

Vanisher (Telford Porter)

[Joined in X-Force #9 (2008);

As a member of X-Men Strike Team/X-Force]

Yuriko Takiguchi

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #507 (2009);

As a member of X-Men Science Team/X-Club;

Died in Uncanny X-Men #515 (2009)]

Kavita Rao

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #508 (2009);

As a member of X-Men Science Team/X-Club]

Loa (Alani Ryan)

[Joined in Runaways #10 (2009);

As a member of X-Men in Training]

Match (Ben Hammil)

[Joined in Runaways #10 (2009);

As a member of X-Men in Training]

Bling! (Roxanne Washington)

[Joined in Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia #1 (2009);

As a member of X-Men in Training]

Onyxx (Sidney Green)

[Joined in Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia #1 (2009);

As a member of X-Men in Training;

Died in X-Force #23 (2010)]

Trance (Hope Abbott)

[Joined in Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Exodus #1 (2009);

As a member of X-Men in Training]

Indra (Paras Gavaskar)

[Joined in X-Men Legacy #226 (2009);

As a member of X-Men in Training]

Imposters

Phoenix Force, impersonated Jean Grey

[Active as Phoenix X-Men #101 (1976);

Physical form destroyed in X-Men #127 (1980)]

Dark Beast (Henry McCoy), impersonated Beast

[Active as Beast in X-Men Unlimited #10 (1996);

Not currently a member; Active]

Wolverine ('Skrullverine'), impersonated Wolverine

[Active in Uncanny X-Men #371 (1999);

Died in Astonishing X-Men #3 (1999)]

Rosters

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Genoshan Assault X-Men

2000s X-Men

2000s X-Men / Astonishing X-Men

2000s X-Men

X-Factor Investigations

X-Factor Investigations

Wolverine and the X-Men

X-Men Legacy

X-Men (2010 - 2013)

Astonishing X-Men

X-Factor Investigations

Uncanny X-Men / Avengers vs X-Men

All-New Marvel Now: Wolverine and the X-Men (2014 - Present), (2011 - 2014)

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Wolverine and the X-Men is an ongoing title written by Jason Latour and pencilled by Mahmud Asrar. It focuses on Wolverine's staff and students in the Jean Grey School. The first series written by Jason Aaron ended with #42 in February 2014 and was relaunched in March 2014.

The title was the flagship team of Team Wolverine during Regenesis. It continues to feature Wolverine's X-Men during Marvel Now.

Cyclops' team can be found in Uncanny X-Men, the original X-Men can be found in All-New X-Men while Storm's team can be found in X-Men.

The Jean Grey School first fended off an attack by the new Hellfire Club [WatXM #1 - #3]. Shortly after, the School welcome new students - Angel who seemed to have lost his memory, and Genesis, a young clone of Apocalypse [#4]. Wolverine took student Quentin Quire to a space casino in order to earn enough money to keep the school going. Kitty Pryde became seemingly pregnant but was in fact invaded by microscopic Brood in her body. As the alien Professor Xanto Starblood arrived to kill Broo, the X-Men became miniaturized and enter Kitty Pryde's body in an attempt to end the Brood infestation. With the infestation ended, the X-Men returned to stop Starblood. Wolverine's adventure ended in disaster with his legs injured [WatXM #5 - #7] The Hellfire Club hired Sabretooth to take revenge on the X-Men by attacking Beast's girlfriend Abigail Brand, director of S.W.O.R.D. (Sentient Worlds Observation and Response Department) and its orbital base, the Peak. Beast and Brand manage to stop Sabretooth. Meanwhile, a group of students made their way to the space casino to retrieve the means to reverse Wolverine's injury. [WatXM #8]

Wolverine and Beast make a decision to fight on the Avengers side. [WatXM #9] As the X-Men lost the fight on the island nation Utopia, they escape via teleportation. Cyclops, Emma Frost and Magik made their way to the Jean Grey School to try to enlist other X-Men to their cause. [WatXM #10] Marvel Girl, Iceman, Gambit and Angel join in the fight against the Avengers. Meanwhile, Wolverine helped Hope Summers, believed to be the host for the Phoenix, make her to the moon to meet the Phoenix. [WatXM #11]

The war came to a head on the moon when the Phoenix was divided between five mutants - Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Colossus and Magik. The Phoenix Five went about changing the world for the better. As the Avengers became outlawed, they captured Hope Summers in order to find a way to stop Phoenix. Marvel Girl led a team of X-Men to try to take back Hope. Marvel Girl managed to fight past the Avengers to find Hope but decided to let her go. [WatXM #12] Ruler of the Shi'ar Empire, Gladiator made his way to Earth to take his son Kid Gladiator, with the fear that the Phoenix Force will destroy the Earth. He led Shi'ar foces and Warbird to find his son on Utopia. However, he was defeated by the Phoenix Five. Warbird and Kid Gladiator took Gladiator to the Jean Grey School to recuperate. [WatXM #13] Colossus arrived to date Kitty Pryde. However, they had disagreements. When they returned to the School, Colossus was about to destroy the School but was stopped by Pryde. Marvel Girl, Iceman, Gambit and Angel returned to the School, feeling that their decision to join Cyclops was wrong. [WatXM #14] Utopia's students joined the Jean Grey School and Angel was promoted into a teacher's assistant position. Gladiator recovered and made his son return to the Shi'ar Empire. He also made Warbird stay on Earth and she eventually became the art teacher. [WatXM #15] Meanwhile, the Hellfire Club was captured by the Phoenix Five but Kilgore was able to engineer his escape, taking the Club members to Salem Center. [WatXM #16] At Salem Center, Kilgore established a fake church to manipulate Idie while other members of the Club managed to recruit Glob Herman to their cause. At the school dance, Broo was disappointed when Idie chose Quentin as dance partner. He made it to the fake church where he was shot in the head by Kilgore. Meanwhile, Husk quit the School after Kitty Pryde confronted her for her erratic behavior. [WatXM #18] Unknown to all members of the School, Doop had been recruited by Wolverine to deal with threats in his own way. [WatXM #17]

Following the end of the Avengers vs X-Men event, new mutants emerge and two of them, Jia Jing and Eye Boy, join the student body. Angel managed to regain control of his company with the help of Matt Murdock, and installed a new board of directors with several of his students. Storm was recruited as a staff member of the School. [WatXM #19]

Frankenstein's monster took his group of followers to Salem Center to find the last member of Frankenstein's family, Maximilian von Katzenelnbogen. Maximilian was in Salem Center to attempt to bring Oya into the Hellfire Academy. The X-Men were ensnared under powerful magical mind control by the evil witch Calcabrina, working under Frankenstein's monster, and became the attractions of their circus. Students Quentin Quire, Rockslide, Genesis, Sharkgirl and Eye-Boy help freed the X-Men while Oya worked with Maximilian to fight Frankenstein's monster. Both Frankenstein's monster and Calcabrina managed to escape. Maximilian fully embraced his Frankenstein heritage. Calcabrina was recruited by Azazel, who appeared with what appeared to be many Bamfs. [WatXM #20-#23]

Icemand and Kitty Pryde went on a date. Wolverine and Storm developed an attraction. Wolverine helped Storm cut a mohawk hairstyle as she accepted Kitty Pryde's offer to take over as headmistress while she turned her attentions on helping the teenage original X-Men who had arrived at the present. Broo woke up from his comatose state. However, he remained in a feral state but obedient to Oya. [WatXM #24]

Wolverine organized a field trip to the Savage Land for the problematic students Quentin Quire, Glob Herman, Oya and Broo as well as the new students Genesis, Sprite (Jia Jing), Shark-Girl and Eye-Boy. Wolverine was taken out by his brother Dog, who arrived from the past. Dog took on the students, with the desire to prove that he is the better brother. He led the students to fight the cavemen, cowboys and robots that he transported there. Wolverine returned to take back the students and Dog teleported away. Glob Herman left with Sauron. [WatXM #25-#28] Back at the Jean Grey School, Wolverine led the school in preparing a time capsule. The time capsule was found by a future Wolverine who had no memory of it. He prepared a message for his young self to never forget about the past. Oya defected to the new Hellfire Academy. [WatXM #29]

Beast traveled to the S.W.O.R.D. orbital base with Broo to let Professor Xanto Starblood look into Broo's condition. However, the base was attacked by the Philistine who teleported Xanto and Broo away. Quentin Quire discovered Oya's defection by mind reading a Bamf and he decided to defect too, along with Toad. Quentin wanted to help Oya while Toad wanted to help his beloved Husk, a Hellfire Academy faculty member. They eventually turned on the Hellfire Academy faculty. The Black King Kade Kilgore offered Oya the Black Queen position but revealed that he was the one who shot Broo. Oya attacked Kilgore but decided against killing him. Wolverine used the Bamfs to follow a trail to find his defected students, finding and fighting Lord Deathstrike. Meanwhile, Beast, Rachel Grey and Storm discovered the Hellfire Academy's location from Krakoa and the X-Men departed for the Academy. With the Academy under attack by the X-Men, the other three Inner Circle members turned on Kilgore. While the Black Bishop and White King were dealt with by Kilgore, he was injured by the White Queen. The Philistine took the White Queen into the Siege Perilous while Dog took Kilgore into the same portal. Meanwhile, Toad helped Husk return to her normal self. Xanto Starblood escaped with Broo but the latter was somehow returned to normal by Nightcrawler. Broo took down Xanto and returned to the X-Men. The X-Men returned with Quentin, Oya, Broo, Toad, Husk, White King and Black Bishop back to the Jean Grey School. The rest of the Hellfire Academy student body were picked up by Sabretooth and Mystique. [WatXM #30- #35]

The X-Men were next involved in the Battle of the Atom crossover, fighting the Brotherhood of the future.

Wolverine went on a mission to destroy S.H.I.E.L.D's stock of Sentinels, during which he met and teamed up with Cyclops. Meanwhile, the students uncovered two undercover S.H.I.E.L.D agents masquerading as students. [WatXM #38 - #40] Toad was evicted from the School for his role in the Hellfire Academy and Husk promised him a date for his help in returning her to her normal self. Toad did not turn up for the date, instead choosing to accompany Baron Maximilian after his escape from the Jean Grey School. [WatXM #41] Several students, including Quentin Quire, graduated from the School. In the future, Wolverine was about to close the School when Quentin led several prospective students from the Negative Zone into the School. [WatXM #42]

Jean Grey School for Higher Learning

1407 Graymalkin Lane
Salem Center, NY 10560
more..

Faculty

Wolverine (James Howlett), Headmaster

Storm (Ororo Munroe), Headmistress

Beast (Hank McCoy), Vice Principal

Rachel Grey, Senior Staff Member

Iceman (Robert 'Bobby' Drake), Senior Staff Member

Northstar (Jean Paul Beaubier), Senior Staff Member

Chamber (Jonothon 'Jono' Starsmore), Junior Staff Member

Karma (Xi'an Coy Mahn), Junior Staff Member

Warbird (Ava'dara Naganandini), Junior Staff Member

Husk (Paige Guthrie), Junior Staff Member

Firestar (Angelica Jones), Junior Staff Member

Frenzy (Joanna Cargill), Adjunct Staff

Doop, Adjunct Staff

Nightcrawler, Status Unknown

Psylocke (Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock), Member of Storm's X-Men Team

M (Monet St. Croix), Member of Storm's X-Men Team

Pixie (Megan Gwynn), Graduated to X-Men status

Armor (Ichiki Hisako), Enrolled in Masters program; Teaching Assistant

Anole (Victor Borkowski), CEO of Worthington Industries

Kid Omega (Quentin Quire), Teaching Assistant

Cecilia Reyes, Medical Doctor

Students

Blindfold (Ruth Aldine)

Bling! (Roxy Washington)

Broo

Cipher (Alisa Tager)

Crosta

Dust (Sooraya Qadir)

Ernst

Eye Boy (Trevor Hawkins)

Face

Genesis (Evan)

Gentle (Nezhno Abidemi)

Graymalkin (Jonas Graymalkin)

Hellion (Julian Keller)

Shark-Girl (Iara Dos Santos)

Indra (Paras Gavaskar)

Karasu-Tengu

Kid Gladiator (Kubark)

Krakoa

Match (Ben Hammil)

Mercury (Cessily Kinclaid)

No Girl (Martha Johansson)

Oya (Idie Okonkwo)

Primal (Teon Savko)

Rockslide (Santo Vaccaro)

Sprite (Jia Jing)

Surge (Noriko Ashida)

Trance (Hope Abbott)

Transonic (Laurie Tromette)

Velocidad (Gabriel Cohuelo)

Manuel Enduque

[Formerly the White King]

Others

Bamfs

[Nightcrawler-lookalikes]

Fantomex (Charlie Cluster-7) & E.V.A.

[Member of Wolverine's now defunct X-Force team.]

Former Staff Members

Kitty Pryde, Senior Staff Member
Left to join Cyclops' side

Cannonball (Samuel 'Sam' Guthrie), Junior Staff Member
Left to join the Avengers

Gambit (Remy LeBeau), Senior Staff Member
Left to join X-Factor

Mimic (Calvin Rankin), Junior Staff Member
Left to pursue own path

Rogue (Anna Marie), Senior Staff Member
Left to join Uncanny Avengers

Toad (Mortimer Toynbee), Janitor
Forced to leave after he joined the Hellfire Academy

Former Students

Glob (Robert Herman)
[Defected to Hellfire Academy]

Stepford Cuckoos (Celeste, Irma Mindee, Phoebe)
[Joined Cyclops' New Xavier School]

Baron Maximilian von Katzenelnbogen (Dr Frankenstein)

[Formerly the Black Bishop]

Profiles

Faculty

The following are members of the Jean Grey Institute for Higher Learning faculty.

Headmaster

Wolverine (James Howlett)

Powers

Enhanced senses, adamantium claws, healing factor

History

Born in the last years of the 19th century, Wolverine had a convoluted life before he joined the X-Men (in 1975 publication time). He went on to become a long-time X-Man, having an unrequited love for fellow X-Man Jean Grey. Following a disagreement with Cyclops over the use of the young mutants to fight the mutant-hunting robot Sentinel, he took several X-Men and young mutants to the former grounds of the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning and established the Jean Grey Institute.

[For more on the history of Wolverine, check out his profile page here.]

Headmistress

Storm (Ororo Iqadi T'Challa)

Powers

Weather control

History

Ororo's mother, N'Dare, is the princess of a tribe in Kenya and descended from a long line of African witch-priestesses with white hair, blue eyes and a natural gift for sorcery. N'Dare fell in love with American photojournalist David Munroe and married him. They moved to Harlem in uptown New York City, where Ororo was born. They moved to Egypt and lived there until Ororo's parents died during the Suez Crisis in a botched aircraft attack, leaving six-year old Ororo as an orphan. Buried under tons of rubble after that attack, Ororo suffered from claustrophobia. She eventually found her way out and became a skilled thief in Cairo under the benign Achmed el-Gibar. She encountered Charles Xavier and stole from him but Charles was able to use his mental powers to prevent Ororo from escaping. When he was attacked by the malevolent Amahl Farouk, the Shadow King, Ororo was able to escape. As a young woman, Ororo wandered into the Serengeti. When Storm made her way to Kenya, she was saved by a young T'Challa (later the Black Panther) from racist thugs. They shared a brief romance. Ororo made her way back to her native village where she used her powers to provide rain and was worshiped as a goddess.

When the original X-Men was captured by the living island Krakoa, Xavier traveled to recruit Ororo, recognizing her as the young girl who attempted to steal from him years ago. Ororo initially had trouble adjusting to Western culture but adapted soon after. After Cyclops took a leave of absence, Ororo became leader. She harbored motherly feelings for the young Kitty Pryde. Later, when the X-Man Angel was kidnapped by the disenfranchised mutants Morlocks, Storm challenged their leader Callisto to a duel. Despite already being rendered sick by the Morlock known as Plague, Storm defeated Callisto by impaling her through the heart, nearly killing her. Storm was usually a serene and independent person but her outlook of life started to darken. Storm became influenced by the ronin Yukio, a friend of Wolverine whom she became fast friends with. She changed her costume and spotted a Mohwak hairstyle, establishing a punk look and attitude. This change alienated her from Kitty. Storm soon lost her powers to a mutant power neutralizing gun that was intended for another X-Man Rogue but accidentally shot her. The gun was developed by the mutant Forge. Forge helped Storm cope with her life without powers in his home in Dallas, Texas and they fell in love. However, when Storm overheard a conversation between Forge and Gyrich, the government operative who fired the gun, she discovered that Forge had built the gun. She was heartbroken and left him. Storm made her way back to the X-Men, where she challenged Cyclops to the leadership. Even though she was powerless, she managed to defeat Cyclops, who left the X-Men to be with his wife, Madelyne Pryor. She changed back to her original look and joined the Hellfire Club together with Magneto. She became trapped in another dimension with Forge where she regained her elemental powers. They emerged in time to help the X-Men defeat the Adversary, apparently dying in the process. The X-Men were resurrected by the Omniversal Majestrix Roma. With the world believing them dead, they established a new base in the Australian Outback. She was later apparently killed by the evil cyborg Nanny but was in fact physically regressed back to childhood by Nanny. As a child, she was hunted by the Shadow King and framed for murder. She was rescued by the mutant Gambit and they formed a thieving partnership. She was kidnapped to the island Genosha by the mutant-hating government where she was transformed into a brainwashed mutate. In the end, she was restored physically and mentally back to her adult state and her brainwashing was reversed.

After the various X-teams defeated the Shadow King, the X-Men were reorganized into two teams, with Cyclops and Storm as the leaders of the respective teams. Forge proposed to Storm but she hesitated. Before Storm can respond, he rescinded his offer and departed. They eventually made up with each other. Much later, Storm led a breakaway team of X-Men to recover the lost prophetic Destiny's Diaries. The team became the Xtreme Sanctions Executive, a United Nations approved task force policing mutants given worldwide authority. They returned back to the Xavier Institute following its destruction at the hands of Xorn.

Storm resumed her romance with T'Challa, the King of Wakanda, which led to their marriage. Both Storm and Black Panther briefly joined the Fantastic Four. Later, Storm rejoined the X-Men, managing her duties with the X-Men and as the Queen of Wakanda. Following the schism, Storm stayed with Cyclops to help keep an eye on the strong personalities in the team. She also joined the Avengers.

Following the Avengers vs X-Men event, she joined the Jean Grey School and took over Kitty Pryde as Headmistress.

Vice Principal

Beast (Hank 'Henry' McCoy)

Powers

Superhuman strength, agility and durability; enhanced senses; healing factor; night vision; razor-sharp claws, pheromone excretion

History

Henry was born in Dundee, Illinois, in the United States, to Norton and Edna McCoy. His father, Norton McCoy, was employed at a local nuclear power plant before Henry's birth and was once exposed to intense nuclear radiation, which appeared to have caused his son's mutation. Hank was born with a vast intellect, unusually long arms and legs, and unusually large hands and feet for a human. As he dealt with animosity, he was invited by Charles Xavier into his Institute for Gifted Youngsters. As Beast, he was one of the original five X-Men alongside Cyclops, Marvel Girl (Jean Grey), Iceman and Angel (Warren Worthington).

He left the X-Men to become a research scientist at the Brand Corporation where he was forced to ingest a serum he created in prevent his research from being stolen. As a result, he grew grey fur which eventually became blue and gained an ape-like form. He joined the super-team Avengers and later the Defenders before rejoining his former X-Men teammates to form X-Factor. While at X-Factor, he was subjected was a serum which removed his blue fur. He was touched by Apocalypse' Horseman Pestilence during a battle. Pestilence's powers interacted with the serum in a way that whenever Beast used his superhuman strength, his intelligence decreased. Later, an encounter with the mutant Infectia, capable of manipulating molecular structure through touch, caused Hank to eventually regain his furry appearance and intelligence. During this period of time, he romanced Trish Tilby, a reporter.

X-Factor eventually rejoined the X-Men after the various X-teams defeated the malevolent psychic entity Shadow King. He dedicated time to developing a cure for the mutant-killing Legacy virus. For a period of time, he was captured and replaced by the Dark Beast from the Age of Apocalypse reality. He escaped and return to the X-Men, eventually finding a cure for the virus based on the notes of geneticist Moira MacTaggert, who was killed by Mystique and her Brotherhood. Beast joined Storm's team of X-Men to recover the Destiny's Diaries, a series of books with predictions of the future. However, he was severely injured on the first mission by Vargas and he returned to the Xavier Institute. He was affected by the emergence of secondary mutations, gaining a feline physique. He was humiliated by the malevolent psychic Cassandra Nova and badly beaten up by a mind-controlled student Beak. Cassandra's genocidal plot was eventually stopped. Beast's relationship with Trish ended with her unable to accept his new look.

When news of a cure for mutation broke out, he was tempted. However, when he discovered that the cure was developed by fellow geneticist Dr. Kavita Rao based on experimentation on mutants, he helped the X-Men shut down her operation. After the X-Men relocated to San Francisco, Beast and Archangel (Warren Worthington) recruited scientists, including a now reformed Dr. Rao, to form the X-Club. Beast also met and later romanced S.W.O.R.D. Director Abigail Brand, joining the organization after a disagreement with Cyclops' method led to him leaving the X-Men. Hank also joined the Secret Avengers team.

When Wolverine built the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, Hank took the chance to rejoin the X-Men. He remains in the Secret Avengers team.

Senior Staff Member

Iceman (Robert "Bobby" Drake)

Powers

Organic ice control

History

Robert Drake was born in Floral Park, Long Island, New York, to William Robert Drake and Madeline Beatrice Bass-Drake. His powers first manifested when he was on a date and a local bully tried to take his date for himself. Robert pointed his finger at the bully and unwittingly encased him in a block of ice. The local townspeople, came looking for him in the form of an angry mob and the local sheriff had no choice but to put Robert in jail for his own protection. While Robert was sitting in his cell at the sheriff station, the outer wall was blown open by Cyclops and a brief fight ensued before they were stopped by Charles Xavier. Charles suggested to Robert's parents that he be enrolled into his School for Gifted Youngsters and his parents agreed. As Iceman, Robert became the youngest of the original five X-Men alongside Cyclops, Marvel Girl (Jean Grey), Beast and Angel (Warren Worthington). He briefly romanced Polaris, who shortly after left for Havok instead. He left when the new X-Men team came in, attending UCLA. He joined the super-team Champions, then Defenders, before joining his former X-Men teammates to form X-Factor. An encounter with the Asgardian trickster god Loki led to Iceman losing control of his abilities. During a battle with the anti-mutant Right, he was fitted with a power-dampening belt which helped him control his abilities. He gained sufficient control over his augmented powers and he stopped using the belt. Later, Robert developed a romantic relationship with Opal Tanaka.

X-Factor rejoined the X-Men and Iceman became a long-time X-Man. Iceman's relationship with Opal deteriorated with Robert's father displaying prejudices towards her Japanese heritage over a meal. As Iceman started to neglect her, she eventually broke off their relationship. When Iceman was checking on Emma Frost, who was in a comatose state after she was attacked by mutant Trevor Fitzroy and his Sentinels and placed in the Xavier mansion, there was an electricity breakdown. Emma woke up in the body of Iceman and used his powers in ways he had never used before. She eventually left Iceman's body. Robert invited Rogue to lunch with his parents but it ended badly when his father assumed a romantic relationship and verbally attacked them with the same prejudices he expressed with Opal. Iceman and Rogue then went on a road trip to ease their mind, with Rogue having problems with Gambit. Iceman eventually returned to the X-Men. When Graydon Creed was running for President with a anti-mutant campaign, Iceman was chosen to infiltrate the campaign. Iceman's father stood stood up in a crowd and spoke in favor of mutants, which surprised Iceman as his father had previously expressed prejudices. His father's connection with Robert was discovered and the people who worked for Graydon captured his father and almost beat him up to death. Robert left the X-Men to be with his dad. Iceman was captured to be part of Apocalypse' Twelve. Apocalypse intended to harness the powers of the Twelve but his plot was ended by Nate Grey and Cyclops.

Iceman eventually returned to the X-Men. Iceman received a chest wound during a heated battle with Black Tom but due to a secondary mutation, his wound remained icy. When Iceman's body was shattered from the neck down by the demonic Azazel, he was able to reconstitute an ice form but was unable to change back to human. Following M-Day and the depowering of most of the mutant population, he found himself to be flesh and blood again and believed himself to have lost his powers. He soon discovered that he had actually lost his secondary mutation and is now able to revert from ice to flesh. A brief relationship with Polaris did not last. Iceman continued serving in the X-Men.

When Wolverine decided to open the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning, he approached Iceman first and recruited him into the teaching staff. Wolverine also prompted Iceman to develop his Omega potential.

Senior Staff Member

Marvel Girl (Rachel Grey/Summers)

Powers

Virtually unlimited telepathic and telekinetic powers

History

Rachel Summers came from an alternate future (Days of Future Past) in which mutants were either killed or incarcerated by mutant-hunting robot Sentinels. In that reality, she is the daughter of Cyclops and Jean Grey. She was captured and made to become a hound, hunting other mutants for her masters. She was sent to the present by that reality's Kitty Pryde. In the present, she realized that Jean Grey is believed dead and Cyclops was married to Madelyne Pryor, who was pregnant. She joined the X-Men for a short period of time. She left after she attempted to kill Selene, Black Queen of the Hellfire Club, but was stopped by Wolverine. Badly injured, she was lured into Spiral's Body Shoppe.

She managed to escape and she eventually joined the British team Excalibur where she formed a good friendship with this reality's Kitty Pryde. After several failed attempts at bonding with Jean Grey, who had returned, she finally succeeded and was present at Jean's wedding to Cyclops. When her teammate Captain Britain was lost in the timestream, she traded places with him. She ended up two thousand years in a future where the world was conquered by Apocalypse. She gathered a group of rebels to form the Askani. As Mother Askani, she was involved in sending a member of the Askani to the past to bring her brother Nathan forward in time to help him recover from the techno-organic virus. The Askani cloned Nathan in case he was not able to survive the virus. Apocalypse's followers attacked the Askani and took the clone (who would later become the villain Stryfe), leaving Mother Askani critically injured. On life support, she drew the minds of Cyclops and Jean Grey into the future as Slym and Redd to raise Cable. She died ten years later, returning Cyclops and Jean Grey back to the past seconds after they had left.

She became lost in the time-stream until Cable rescued her and returned her to the present. She was kidnapped by telepath Elias Bogan, former Lord Imperial of the Hellfire Club, before the X-Men rescued her. She rejoined the X-Men, taking the Marvel Girl codename and changing her surname from Summers to Grey in memory of her 'mother' Jean Grey, who had just died. She began to spend time with Jean's family but they were killed by the alien Shi'ar Death Commandos under orders to prevent the Phoenix from taking on another Grey as host. She was part of the team that traveled to space to stop Cyclops' long lost brother Vulcan from wrecking revenge on the alien Shi'ar Empire for the death of his mother. She remained in space as part of the Starjammers along with fellow X-Men Havok and Polaris and formed a relationship with the Shi'ar warrior Korvus. After several adventures in space, they were ready to return. Rachel sent a telepathic call which was picked up by Rogue. Rogue led a team of X-Men to get them back to Earth. Rachel decided to join Wolverine's school as senior staff member.

Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier)

Powers

Superhuman speed; flight; able to generate bursts of bright white light

Current Status

Active in the X-Men

Group Affiliations

X-Men Alpha Flight, Formerly Hydra, Xavier Institute Faculty, Front de Liberation du-Quebec

Notes

Jean-Paul's parents were killed in an automobile accident when young. He was eventually adopted, and he was separated from his twin sister Aurora. He became an elite skier in his teenage years. His powers manifested and he became unbeatable, quitting the sport as he became bored. Angry and rebellious, he soon joined the terrorist outfit Front de Liberation du-Quebec, fighting to win independence for Quebec from Canada. He was disgusting with the group's tactics and renounced terrorism.

He joined Canada's superteam Alpha Flight where he was reunited with his sister, no Aurora. Much later, he publicly announced himself a gay and was soon recruited by Jean Grey to join an ad-hoc team of X-Men to fight Magneto. He was recruited into the X-Men proper by Professor X. He left active status and became a mentor to a student squad but was soon killed by a Wolverine brainwashed by the ninja Hand organization. Northstar's body was recovered by the Hand and he was resurrected to serve the Hand. He was stopped by Wolverine who brought him to SHIELD to have his programming undone. The Children of the Vault broke Northstar out to use him to attack the X-Men along with his sister Aurora but both of them were stopped and sent to SHIELD. The Acolytes' Exodus infiltrated SHIELD's helicarrier to break Northstar and Aurora out.

They returned to Canada but made it to San Francisco to help the X-Men fight the Skrull invasion. Northstar was recruited back to the X-Men by Wolverine. Northstar joined a team of Alpha Flight but returned to the X-Men. He also married his boyfriend, Kyle Jinadu.

Junior Staff Member

Karma (Xi'an Coy Mahn)

Powers

Psionic mind possession, allowing her to control multiple individuals simultaneously

History

Xi'an came from Vietnam. Her father was a Colonel in the South Vietnamese army. During the fall of Saigon, her father was shot and killed. Xi'an escaped on a small, cramped boat along with her mother and younger brother and sister, Leong and Nga. The boat was boarded by Thai pirates and Xi'an and her mother were raped. Her mother died afterwards. Arriving in New York City, she took in with Father Bowen, who was running a program to help Vietnamese refugees. However, her siblings were kidnapped by her uncle General Ngoc Coy and she used her powers to control Spider Man to rescue them. However, she was stopped by the Fantastic Four. The heroes agreed to help Karma retrieve her siblings. Xi'an faced her older brother Tran, who was working with their uncle. She was forced to kill him.

Xi'an was referred by Reed Richards to Professor X and she became the first of the New Mutants as Karma, becoming the first leader due to her older age. However, after a mission, she was believed dead. She was actually taken as a host by the malevolent psychic entity, Shadow King. The New Mutants eventually liberated Xi'an. When her siblings went missing, she left the team again to search for her them. After finding her siblings, she became a librarian at the University of Chicago where she met Kitty Pryde, developing an unrequited love for her.

Karma returned to the Institute to join former teammate Dani Moonstar as part of the teaching staff. She later joined the X-Men and later rejoined her former New Mutants teammates as part of the New Mutants X-Men squad. She lost her left leg while fighting the anti-human Right organization and received a prosthetic leg. In a mission to the otherworldly Limbo, she befriended an opponent Face. Upon returning, she left the New Mutants to take care of Face. She eventually joined the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.

Junior Staff Member

Husk (Paige Guthrie)

Powers

Able to alter the submolecular structure of her body underneath her skin, allowing her to shed her outer epidermis to reveal a new layer of varying properties. She has used this power to turn her body into stone, glass, wood and other substances.

History

Paige is the younger sister of Sam Guthrie. She grew up wanting to be a mutant and got her wish. She was kidnapped by the alien Phalanx along with other new mutants but was rescued. She joined the Massachusetts Academy as part of the student team Generation X where she developed a mutual attraction with Chamber. Shortly after Generation X was disbanded, After Generation X was disbanded, Husk along with fellow Gen X-ers Jubilee and M joined former Xavier Institute headmaster Banshee's militaristic outfit X-Corp to keep an eye on him. X-Corp was disbanded and she joined the X-Men. She shared a brief romance with the much older Warren Worthington (Angel), helping him run the mutant charity Mutantes Sans Frontiers. The relationship ended under unknown circumstances. Along with her brother, she joined Wolverine. Her powers became unstable and after an argument with Kitty Pryde, she left the School. She joined the Hellfire Academy and was liberated by Toad. She returned to the Jean Grey School as student counselor.

Junior Staff Member

Chamber (Jonothon 'Jono' Starsmore)

Powers

Projection of bio-blasts from his torso; limited telepathy

History

When Chamber's powers manifested, it blew a hole in his face and upper body. He traveled from his home in UK to US to enroll in the Xavier Institute and join Generation X. He was often moody and was unable to return fellow Gen X-er Husk's affections.

Just before Generation X was disbanded, Chamber was invited to join the X-Men. He eventually left active duty. He was soon asked by X-Man Wolverine to infiltrate Weapon X. Weapon X was able to repair restore his face and upper body. However, when the Scarlet Witch depowered most of the mutant population during M-Day, Chamber was one of those affected. With his face and upper body missing yet again, he was place in a life support in hospital until he was taken by the Clan Akkaba, an organization with ties to Apocalypse. Chamber is revealed to be a descendant of Apocalypse and Clan Akkaba restored Chamber's face and upper body. However, Chamber now has characteristics similar to that of Apocalypse.

While there were hints that Chamber might have gained omega-level mutant abilities, he next turned up as a member of New Warriors, with technology granting him the ability to create solidified sound constructs. After the New Warriors disbanded, Chamber turned up at Utopia. In the Age of X reality, Chamber's old powers kicked in, his face and upper body was blown off again. He retained this look after the Age of X reality reverted.

Warbird (Ava'dara Naganandini)
History
Warbird comes from the alien Shi'ar Imperium. Ava'dara's "father" was an automated seed sprinkler and her "mother" was one of thousands frozen eggs harvested each month from females factory workers as part of their government-mandated body-tax. Her birth mother was an alien slave who died after giving birth to her. She later trained and gained the title of Warbird. On one of her missions, she allowed the child of her killing targets to survive and escape. As punishment, she was sent to be the bodyguard of Prince Kubark, son of Gladiator, King of the Shi'ar Imperium. She followed him to the Jean Grey School. After Gladiator took Kubark back with the arrival of the Phoenix Force, he made Warbird stay on Earth. She joined the School staff as an art teacher.

Recruiter

Angel (Warren Worthington III)

Powers

Flight via wings

History

Angel is formerly the multi-billionaire Warren Worthington III. Warren is one of the original X-Men along with Cyclops, Marvel Girl (Jean Grey), Beast and Iceman. He left when the new team came in, joining the Champions, then Defenders before rejoining his former teammates to form X-Factor.

With his fortune, he financed X-Factor, masquerading as mutant hunters but their intention is to bring in mutants in to provide them a safe harbor. While in X-Factor, Angel was caught by the mutant-killing Marauders team and his wings were impaled. Angel's friend Cameron Hodge, X-Factor's manager, was secretly the leader of the mutant-hating Right organization. He orchestrated the amputation of Angel's wings and the airplane accident that seemingly killed Angel. Angel was rescued by Apocalypse prior to the explosion. Using his otherworldly Celestial technology, Apocalypse grafted metal wings to Angel and made him Death, one of his Four Horsemen. As leader, Death led the Horsemen against X-Factor before Iceman managed to return him to his senses. He rejoined X-Factor shortly after and renamed himself Archangel.

X-Factor eventually rejoined the X-Men and Angel became a long-time X-Man. He formed brief romantic relationships with fellow X-Men Psylocke and later Husk. Angel's feather wings eventually returned, breaking the metal wings he had as Archangel. A long time later, Angel's Archangel persona re-emerged. When Fantomex in his X-Force team killed Apocalypse, Angel became the heir. With the Archangel persona in firm control, he was joined by the Four Horsemen and other former servants of Apocalypse. He attempted to engineer the destruction of the world, intending to grow a new world out of the old. When his Horseman Death was killed by X-Force, Archangel made Psylocke into the new Death and intended her to be his bride. However, Psylocke managed to return to her senses and together with Fantomex fought Archangel. Using the Celestial Life Seed, she stabbed Archangel in the chest, seemingly killing him. However, Angel appeared alive though he is amnesiac. Angel is placed in Wolverine's Jean Grey Institute as a student. He soon graduated and assigned as teaching assistant.

Adjunct Staff

Frenzy (Joanne Cargill)

Powers

Superhuman strength and durability

History

Frenzy started out as a member of the Alliance of Evil team serving under Apocalypse which fought X-Factor (original X-Men). She later joined the Acolytes, mutant zealots worshipping Magneto. When Magneto became the ruler of the island Genosha, Joanna became ambassador to the United Nations. When Magneto declared war on humanity, she was captured by the US government. The X-Man Jean Grey freed Cargill and mind-controlled her into joining her ad-hoc team of X-Men. The X-Men team eventually defeated Magneto. Later, Joanna joined a new acolytes team led by Exodus which joined Sinister's Marauders team. The Acolytes team eventually disbanded and Joanna made her way to the mutant island Utopia. After a stint as an X-Man in the alternate Age of X reality, she had a new outlook on life. She joined a team of X-Men for two missions before joining Wolverine in Westchester.

Adjunct Staff

Doop

Doop was said to be the product of a Cold War era US military experiment, becoming instrumental in the downfall of the Soviet Union. He later served as cameramen for the celebrity mutant superteam X-Force, later X-Statix. After X-Statix disbanded, Doop became known as Daap and was found in space by Polaris. For some reason, Daap brought Polaris and the mutant-hating Leper Queen to Apocalypse's fortress. Doop was later brought into the mutant island Utopia as a private investigator. When Wolverine opened the Jean Grey Institute for Higher Learning, Doop was recruited by Wolverine to become adjunct staff.

Students

The student body at the Jean Grey School is mainly comprised of students from the now defunct Xavier Institute for Higher Learning (from 2001 publication date). Several new students also enrolled into the School.

Armor (Ichiki Hisako)

Powers

Telekinetic body armour

History

Armor first appeared in the Astonishing X-Men series. She was from the Paladins student squad mentored by Kitty Pryde and later joined the X-Men for several missions. Wolverine became her mentor of sorts. She also joined the New X-Men team on one mission.

Anole (Victor Borkowski)

Powers

Spiked carapace on head; sticky prehensile tongue; able to cling to solid surfaces; able to camouflage his skin to match almost any surface

History

Anole was first featured prominently in the New X-Men: Academy X series and was the leader of the Alpha Squadron student squad. Shortly after the student squads were disbanded, he joined the team in New X-Men and later in Young X-Men before becoming an X-Man in Training. He formed a good friendship with fellow student Rockslide.

Blindfold (Ruth Aldine)

Powers

Precognitive Abilities

Active: Astonishing X-Men #7 (2005)

History

Blindfold first appeared in the Astonishing X-Men series as a precognitive student. She joined the team in Young X-Men before becoming an X-Man in Training.

Bling! (Roxy Washington)

Powers

Rock body, can fire rock shards

History

Roxy first appeared in the X-Men vol. 2 series as part of Gambit's Chevalier's student squad. As a lesbian, she was attracted to new student Foxx, actually Mystique in disguise. She became an X-Man in Training.

Broo

Broo is a mutant young of the alien parasitic Brood. Unlike his bethren, he was born exhibiting kindness.

He first appeared in Astonishing X-Men #40.

Cipher (Alisa Tager)

Powers

Invisibility, Phasing/Intangibility, Complete Stealth

Active: Young X-Men #8 (2008)

History

Cipher first appeared in the Young X-Men series. She was a student who joined the Xavier Institute when it opened its doors to an expansive student body. Due to her invisibility powers, no one knew of her presence except Blindfold, with whom she conversed occasionally. She eventually revealed herself to Ink to persuade him to rejoin the Young X-Men team to fight the Y-Men. She later became an X-Man in Training.

Crosta

Powers

Generate shockwaves from his body when distressed, powerful enough to shatter solid matter

Active: Dark Reign: The Cabal #1 (2009)

History

Crosta is a member of the Homo Mermanus race (Atlantean). Crosta was secreted away by his mother after the abandonment of Atlantis, his father eventually brought him to the attention of their King Namor in a paternity suit.

When his mutant powers emmerged he was ordered by Namor to attend the X-Men's mutant school in San Francisco, rather than remain with his mother or join his father in Latveria with the Atlantean military, he violently rejected the idea, attacking Namor. Reined in by Namor, he was sent to the X-Men.

He was later shown in the waters below Utopia, guiding new Atlantean immigrants to the Citizen Intake Center at the base of the pillar supporting Utopia.

Dust (Sooraya Qadir)

Powers

Can transform her body into a living sandstorm able to blind opponents or strip away flesh

Active: New X-Men #138 (2003)

History

Dust is an adolescent Sunni Muslim girl born in Afghanistan. She was kidnapped by a slave-trading ring after she was separated from her mother. She was rescued by Wolverine who took her to X-Corporation Mumbai. She enrolled at the Xavier Institute and had the loud and rebellious Noriko (Surge) as roomate. They had disagreements over their views. Dust was placed in Xorn's Special Class but discovered Xorn's intended betrayal. She alerted Professor X but both were defeated as Xorn went on the rampage before he was stopped by the X-Men.

She was placed in the Hellions student squad and joined the New X-Men team after M-Day. She was the target for death of the Purifiers, who believed that she would go on to kill the Purifiers. However, the Purifiers were defeated.

After the Messiah Complex crossover, Cyclops disbanded the X-Men and shut off the Institute. Dust returned to Afghanistan but was tricked into joining the Young X-Men team by the cyborg Donald Pierce. She was tricked into fighting former New Mutant Magma. After the ruse was discovered, the Young X-Men rejoined the mutants in San Francisco. Her fight with Magma caused cell degradation and she was eventually healed by Ink.

She joined several X-Men missions, including fighting off alien Skrulls during their invasion of San Francisco; and fending off Nimrod and vampire invasions.

Ernst

Powers

Enhanced strength

History

Ernst first appeared in New X-Men (X-Men vol. 2) and was part of the Special Class. It is hinted that she is the villain Cassandra Nova trapped in the body of the Imperial Guardsman Stuff. She was not an X-Man in Training, unlike all the other students.

Eye Boy (Trevor)
Powers
Many Eyes
Active: Wolverine and the X-Men #19 (2012)
History
Trevor is one of the mutants that emerge following the Avengers vs X-Men event.

Face

Powers

Blasts created from face

History

Face is one of the babies kidnapped by demons to open the gate from Limbo to Earth during Inferno. After the demonic invasion is ended, the babies ended up with Project: Purgatory which raised them and trained them in their powers. Project: Purgatory attacked the New Mutants. The New Mutant Karma made contact with Face using her powers, creating a bond and Face helped her. After Project: Purgatory was defeated, Face joined Utopia and was placed under the care of Karma. When Karma followed Wolverine following the schism, Face followed suit, settling in the Jean Grey School.

Genesis (Evan Sabah Nur)

Powers

Molecular manipulation, Immortality, Superhuman strength, speed, Agility, Endurance, Reflexes, Durability;

History

After X-Force's Fantomex killed the mutant supremacist Apocalypse, he obtained DNA samples. He cloned a boy out of the cells and had him raised in virtual reality by in a Kansas farming family. When Apocalypse's heir, Archangel, threatened the destruction of the world, Fantomex returned to the virtual reality as Uncle Cluster, bringing Evan out to help in the fight. After Archangel was stopped, Fantomex enrolled Evan into the Jean Grey Institute. In one of the possible futures seen by the cyborg Deathlok, Evan grew up to become Apocalypse, destroying the Jean Grey Institute.

Gentle (Nezhno Abidemi)

Powers

Extreme strength by increasing muscle mass of his body to impossible levels; Prolonged usage of powers will result in death; Vibranium tatoos on his body keeps his powers in check.

History

Gentle first appeared in New X-Men. He was mentioned to be part of Storm's student squad and comes from Wakanda, the African nation ruled by the Black Panther. He joined the New X-Men team and later became an X-Man in Training.

Graymalkin (Jonas Graymalkin)

Powers

Has a number of abilities that wax and wane with exposure to light such as night vision, super strength, enhanced agility and invulnerability

History

Graymalkin first appeared in Young X-Men. Jonas was the only child born to Charles and Marcia Graymalkin. His family lived on the land where the Xavier Institute would eventually be built. Jonas was experimenting sexuality with another boy when he was in the act by his father. His father beat him unconscious and buried him alive. His mutant powers activated then, allowing him to fall into a state of suspended animation for 200 years until the destruction of the Xavier Institute at the hands of Bishop. He returned to start observing the Young X-Men team, eventually joining the team. He later became an X-Man in Training.

Hellion (Julian Keller)

Powers

High-level telekinesis

Active: New Mutants #2 (2003)

History

Julian was born in Los Angeles, California to parents who managed to work their way out poverty to become billionaires. Julian was sent to the Xavier Institute so that he would learn to use his powers with some discretion. He adopted an air of superiority which annoyed other students. However, he became the favorite student of Emma Frost, adopting the codename Hellion in tribute to her first class of students, Hellions.

He became interested in leader of the rival New Mutants student squad, Wind Dancer. However, when she was depowered on M-Day, she left the Institute and the relationship went no where. In a competition to determine who will make it to the New X-Men team, Julian failed to follow Emma Frost's instructions to knock X-23 out early. Julian was placed in the New X-Men team but leadership was passed to Surge instead. Hellion had many missions in the New X-Men team. He accompanied X-23 to search for a captured Mercury. In the process, both developed a crush on the other.

During the Messiah Complex crossover, the New X-Men team attempted a preemptive strike on the Purifiers. The team was ambushed by the Purifiers' Reavers team and Lady Deathstrike, who critically injured Hellion. Cyclops disbanded the X-Men and shut down the Institute. Unable to locate his parents, Hellion turned to Magneto, who rejected him.

He joined the rest of the mutants in San Francisco and was kidnapped by the Sapiens League along with Surge and Boom Boom. They were rescued by X-Force. In the Utopia crossover, Hellion gathered a group to break the city curfew and deliver a message. However, the group was captured by Osborn's Dark X-Men before they were rescued.

Hellion was in an X-Men team fighting off an invasion of Nimrod sentinels in the Second Coming crossover when he lost both of his hands. Harboring a hatred for sentinels, Hellion severely damaged his teammate Karima Shapandar, an Omega Sentinel, during a mission to repair damages in San Francisco caused by the Nimrod attacks, when she turned rogue. Hellion was told to control himself by Cyclops or he could be locked up in the brig.

Hellion gained a greater mastery of his powers in the Age of X reality created by the Moira personality in Legion, which he managed to retain when reality was reverted to normal.

Indra (Paras Gavaskar)

Powers

Retractable armored plates

Active: New X-Men: Academy X #7 (2005)

History

Indra is the youngest of the remaining powered students. During the San Francisco riots, Indra knocked out some HAMMER agents, violating the most important tenet of his Jain faith - absolute nonviolence. Indra started to experience great pain when accessing his powers, believing it divine punishment for violating his beliefs. Rogue attempted to counsel him, suggesting that his inability to access his powers was psychosomatic. Rogue also confronted him with the fact that he chose the codename Indra, the Hindu god of war, despite his pacifist beliefs and believed that he did so out of belief in his own potential. Rogue also mentioned that Indra was choosing to back away from his potential rather than embracing it. Following that, Indra began manifesting a sophisticated full suit of armor and weaponry as an upgrade of his powers.

When his family summoned him back to India, he returned with Magneto, Rogue, Anole and Loa. His father forced him to take his elder brother's place in an arranged marriage. The group fought the Child of the Vault. The marriage was eventually cancelled and Indra returned home with the X-Men. Indra became an X-Man in Training.

Karasu-Tengu

Powers

Astral Projection; Telepathy

Active: X-Men Legacy Vol. 2 #2 (2013)

History

Karasu-Tengu and her brother Sojobo-Tengu were abandoned as infants, but were later saved and raised by the evil Japanese ninja Ogun. When Ogun died, the twins became his heirs. After the activation of their mutant powers, the twins were forced by the Yamaugichi-Kai Clan to psychically torture victims. They were convinced to leave the Clan by Legion. However, Legion was attacked by the X-Men who thought he was going to hurt the twins. After Legion left, the X-Men invited the twins to join the Jean Grey School. However, Sojobo was in fact possessed by Luca Aldine who wanted to get close to his sister Blindfold, a student in the Jean Grey School, in order to kill her. Luca was defeated by Legion but Sojobo did not survive. Even though Karasu hated Legion for his role in her brother's death, she helped rescue Legion. Later, she was kidnapped and imprisoned in a concentration camp in Brazil before she was rescued by Cable's X-Force.

Kid Gladiator (Kubark) (right)
Warbird (Ava'dara Naganandini) (left)
Powers: Superstrength, flight

Kid Gladiator is the son of Gladiator, currently Majestor of the alien Shi'ar Imperium. He was sent by his father to study at the Jean Grey's Institute for Higher Learning as punishment for destroying half of Chandilar, royal city of the Shi'ar Imperium. Warbird was sent to be his bodyguard. Following the arrival of the Phoenix Force, his father came to take him back. He eventually returned to the Jean Grey School.

Wolverine and the X-Men #1 is both characters' first appearance.

Kid Omega (Quentin Quire)

Powers

Omega level telepath and telekinetic

Active: New X-Men #126 (2002)

History

After his attempted riot was stopped, Kid Omega's body began burning out by his own powers caused by the drug Kick. Beast failed to stabilize himself and Xorn was asked to help Kid Omega along. In fact, Kid Omega evolved into a non-corporeal form dormant in Beast's laboratory.

When the Phoenix Force returned to Earth, it sensed Quentin Quire. Although the Force passed Quentin as a possible host for it, Quentin regain consciousness and reconstituted his body. Quentin asked the Force to resurrect his lover Sophie but she was disgusted by him and chose to return to death. In anguish, Quentin returned to his previous non-corporeal state.

He later resurfaced and attempted to destroy the Utopia Island but was stopped by fellow student Martha Johansson and the Stepford Cuckoos.

Match (Ben Hammil)

Powers

Pyrokinesis; immunity to heat and flame

Active: New X-Men: Academy X #7 (2005)

History

Match was the leader of the Paragons student squad.

During the San Francisco riots in the Utopia crossover, Match joined Hellion's rebellious group to try to make a point to the authorities. However, the group was captured by Norman Osborn's forces before X-Force rescued all captured mutants. Match became an X-Man in Training.

Mercury (Cessily Kincaid)

Powers

Body made of non-toxic, malleable bio-mercury; shapeshifting

Active: New Mutants #2 (2003)

History

Cessily, an Irish American, was raised in Portland, Oregon by her parents. When her powers manifested, her parents were disgusted and they sent her to the Xavier Institute. She befriended Julian Keller (Hellion) and Santo Vacarro (Rockslide). She became roommates with Laurie Collins (Wallflower) but did not like her. She also developed an unrequited crush on Wither.

She was placed in the Hellions student squad and joined the New X-Men after M-Day. She was kidnapped by Facility X which used her bio-mercury to create Predator X, leaving her physically traumatized and forcing her to recuperate at the Institute. Mercury rejoined the New X-Men team for missions and joined the mutants at San Francisco.

She joined several X-Men missions, including fighting off alien Skrulls during their invasion of San Francisco; searching for Magik in the otherworldly Limbo; peace-keeping during the San Francisco riots and fending off a vampire invasion.

No-Girl (Martha Johnasson)

Powers

Telepath

Active: New X-Men #134 (2003)

History

Martha was a mutant runaway who was captured by the U-Men. Their founder John Sublime had her brain removed, keeping the disembodied brain alive in a a capsule. Martha was controlled by drugs and syringes. She was eventually freed by X-Men Cyclops and Emma Frost and she took revenge on Sublime by mentally forcing him to fall to his death. Martha became a student in the Xavier Institute's Special Class under the mentorship of Xorn. Fellow student Quentin Quire invented a special hovering case to hold her brain, allowing her a level of mobility. Martha befriended another student, Ernst. When Xorn turned rogue, destroying the school and forming a new Brotherhood of Mutants, Martha and Ernst joined him. After Xorn was stopped, Martha returned to life as a student. After the X-Men relocated to Utopia, she stopped Quentin Quire's plan to destroy the island. Following the schism between Cyclops and Wolverine, Martha stayed with Cyclops and was recruited into the Five Lights team by Zero. Zero used his powers to give Martha a new physical body.

Oya (Idie Okonkwo)

Delta State, Nigeria

Powers
Temperature Transference, manifested as freezing or flame generation

History
Idie believes that her powers are a curse. She was under attack in her home in Delta State, Nigeria after her powers manifested when she was rescued by Storm and Hope. She became the youngest of the lights at 14. While on a visit to the Museum of Mutant History in San Francisco along with the X-Men, they were attacked by the Hellfire Club. Oya was forced to kill members of the Hellfire Club to save her fellow mutants. Oya became traumatized and the X-Men believe it best that Oya leave Utopia and join Wolverine's side. She defected to the Hellfire Academy to find out Broo's attacker. After discovering that the Black King Kade Kilgore was the one, she attacked him but decided against killing him. She returned to the Jean Grey School following the fall of the Hellfire Academy and developed a relationship with Quentin Quire.

Pixie (Megan Gywnn)

Powers

Butterfly wings granting flight, pixie dust which causes hallucinations

Wields a soul dagger

Limited magic abilities, including teleportation

Active: New X-Men: Academy X #5 (2004)

History

Megan is a Welsh teenager from the mining town Abergylid. For years, she believed that her father died in the mine and she was raised by her grandparents. After enrolling at the Xavier Institute, she was assigned to be part of the Paragons training squad under the tutelage of Wolfsbane. She was voted the Friendliest Student. Some time later, the Institute students were brought to the otherworldly Limbo. A group of students, including Pixie, fought demons and were saved by the Darkchilde/Magik, who was created by the Belasco, the ruler of Limbo, out of the memories of Illyana Rasputin. Pixie submitted to Magik's request to use her soul to create a Soulsword and Bloodstones. The process was interrupted by fellow student Anole, and only one Bloodstone and a Souldagger were created instead. The Souldagger was actually a portion of Pixie's soul and black magic now filled the hole left behind in the dagger's creation. A portion of her pink hair changed to black. Pixie was taught a teleportation spell by Magik and she used it to teleport the group of students to save the other students from Belasco. Magik was able to defeat Belasco. The students returned to the Xavier Institute and Pixie was added to the New X-Men team.

After Cyclops disbanded the X-Men (following Messiah CompleX), Pixie returned to her hometown. She found the demonic N'Garai kidnapping people to feed their leader, Kierrok the Damned. Pixie called in the X-Men to defeat Kierrok and N'Garai. Pixie then returned with the X-Men to America, where she joined the team in their new base in San Francisco. After leaving one of Dazzler's gigs, Pixie was attacked by a group of masked anti-mutant men calling themselves the Hellfire Cult. After a brief period of time questioning her desire to remain with the X-Men, Pixie returned in time to help the X-Men defeat Empath, leader of the Hellfire Cult.

Pixie reluctantly joined a group of X-Men to find Magik in Limbo where they fought Belasco's daughter, Witchfire. Witchfire forged a new Bloodstone from Pixie's soul before she was finally defeated by the X-Men and Magik. Magik returned to the X-Men but Pixie was despondent over losing more of her soul. Pixie soon discovered that her father was actually the deceased villain Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde). Shortly after, Pixie and the New Mutants team, in which Magik was a member, were captured by Project Purgatory on separate occasions. The Project succeeded in extracting the bloodstones from Pixie to summon the Elder Gods but both the Project and Elder Gods were defeated by the X-Men. After the battle, Magik gave Pixie a golden box containing her Souldagger and both her bloodstones.

Some time later, Pixie flirted with Five Lights member Velocidad, unaware that he had something going on with team leader Hope Summers. Pixie was packing to join Wolverine to return to Westchester following his schism with Cyclops when Hope approached her to join her team.

She later joined the Jean Grey School and eventually graduated into full X-Men status.

Primal (Teon Savko)
Ukraine
Powers: Ultra-efficient instinct
Teon is seemingly a feral mutant capable of speaking only a few words. However, while in a court, he managed to articular his thoughts in an intelligent manner. He likes to spar with Wolverine.

Rockslide (Santo Vacarro)

Powers

Organic rock hide; enhanced strength and durability; ability to detach and reattach his limbs to fire as projectiles which are uncontrollable once detached

Active: New Mutants #3 (2003)

History

An Italian-American mutant from Boston, Santo was sent to the Xavier Institute where he befriended Julian Keller (Hellion) and joined the Hellions student squad. He joined the New X-Men team following M-Day. The X-Men was disbanded following the Messiah Complex crossover. Rockslide was tricked into joining the Young X-Men team by the cyborg Donald Pierce. After the ruse was discovered, the Young X-Men rejoined the other mutants in San Francisco. He participated in several X-Men missions, including fighting off alien Skrulls during their invasion of San Francisco; searching for Magik in the otherworldly Limbo; peace-keeping during the San Francisco riots; and fending off Nimrods and vampires invasions. Rockslide shares a good friendship with Anole and both attempted crime-fighting in San Francisco.

Sharkgirl (Iara Dos Santos)
Powers
Able to turn into a shark-human hybrid
Active: Wolverine and the X-Men #20 (2012)
History
Iara is one of the new mutants that emerged following the Avengers vs X-Men event. Angel tried to recruit her but fought Mystique and the new Silver Samurai who intended to recruit her too. Iara eventually joined the Jean Grey School.

Sprite (Jia Jing)
Powers
Flight due to wings
Active: Wolverine and the X-Men #19 (2012)
History
Jia Jing is one of the mutants that emerge following the Avengers vs X-Men event. She comes from Beijing.

Surge (Noriko Ashida)

Powers

Ability to absorb electricity and rechannel it into speed and offensive bursts

Active: New Mutants vol. 2 #10 (2004)

History

Noriko was born in Japan but ran away from home when she was thirteen after her powers manifested. She ended up living homeless on the streets of Salem Centre when she went to the Institute gates pleading for help. However, she was chased away by the student Hellion. She was eventually brought to the Institute by Wolfsbane, Elixir, Wind Dancer, Wallflower and Prodigy. Beast designed a pair of gauntlets that will regulates electricity powers. Nori became a student at Xavier and became roommates with the Muslim Dust. However, they had disagreements over the accepted role of women.

Noriko became part of the New Mutants student squad and eventually became a couple with teammate David Alleyne (Prodigy). Noriko retained her powers after M-Day and was placed as leader of the New X-Men student team. She led the New X-Men team through several missions. Fearing for the safety of David, who lost his powers after M-Day, Noriko began to push David away in the hopes of driving him away from the school and out of harm's way. Their relationship eventually ended.

Cyclops disbanded the X-Men and shut down the Institute after the Messiah Complex crossover. Surge made her way to Colorado seeking help from former mentor Dani Moonstar, who counseled Surge on how to deal with the pain that came with being a mutant. Surge rejoined the other mutants as they relocated to San Francisco. She aided the X-Men in fighting off the Skrull invasion.

She was later kidnapped along with Boom Boom and Hellion by the Sapien League before they were rescued by X-Force. Surge went on to help the X-Men in several missions.

Trance (Hope Abbott)

Powers

Astral projection; astral form causes energy damage

Active: New X-Men: Academy X #12 (2005)

History

Trance was in the Paragons student squad. When Trance lost control of her powers during the San Francisco riots (Utopia crossover), Rogue helped her regain control. Trance joined an X-Men team to travel to the otherworldly Limbo to rescue Magik.

Transonic (Laurie Tromette)
Vancouver B.C.
Powers: Supersonic Flight
Laurie is a studious person who sometimes wonder about her deep loyalty to Hope. Zero recruited her to attack Hope Summers but she backed out in the end, helping Hope defeat Zero.

Velocidad (Gabriel Cohuelo)
Mexico City, Mexico
Powers: Time-warping speedster
Gabriel is attracted to Hope and shared a kiss with her once. However, when he was caught by Hope while flirting with Pixie, resulting in both girls' unhappiness. He revealed that the usage of his powers is aging him prematurely.

Others

Bamfs

Bamfs are Nightcrawler lookalikes who were seen in the Jean Grey Institute for Higher Learning. It has not been revealed where they came from though it is likely they came through the inter-dimensional portal set up by Beast. Some Bamfs are recently seen with the demonic Azazel.

Krakoa

This Krakoa is a spawn of the original Krakoa, the Living Island, which the X-Men fought years ago. Krakoa was manipulated by the Hellfire Club to attack the newly built Jean Grey Institute. Kid Omega managed to reason with him and Rachel Grey liberated him. Krakoa then became part of the Jean Grey School.

Former Staff

Senior Staff Member, formerly Headmistress

Kitty Pryde

Powers

Able to transform her body into an intangible state; can disrupt electrical systems by phasing through them

History

Katherine Anne "Kitty" Pryde was born in Deerfield, Illinois to Carmen and Theresa Pryde of Jewish descent. Her powers emerged when she was thirteen, which gave her headaches. She was approached by both Hellfire Club's Emma Frost and the X-Men's Professor X. Kitty got along better with Professor X and the three X-Men with him (Storm, Colossus and Wolverine), becaming fast friends with the X-Men's Storm. The Hellfire Club attacked and captured the X-Men. Kitty became separated in the confusion and she contacted other members of the X-Men who rescued their teammates. Professor X used his powers to change the Prydes' unfavorable attitude towards him and Kitty was allowed to enroll at the Xavier Institute. She also joined the X-Men, adopting the codename Sprite. Shortly after, her body was taken over by an older Katherine Pryde from the dystopian 'Days of Future Past' future, who helped the X-Men prevent the assassination of Senator Kelly by the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Back in her body, Kitty singlehandedly defeated an N'Garai demon. Kitty was later forced to attend Emma Frost's Massachusetts Academy by her parents. However, when Emma's attempt to subdue the X-Men failed, she revoked Kitty's admission. While in the X-Men, Kitty developed a crush on teammate Colossus and formed a strong friendship with her sister Illyana and Nightcrawler. Kitty befriended the dragon Lockheed while on a mission in outer space. Wolverine became a mentor of sorts while Storm regarded Kitty as a daughter. Kitty was later assigned to the New Mutants team to be with mutants close to her age but following her objections, she returned to the X-Men. She was kidnapped by the Morlock Caliban to be her bride but was saved by the X-Men. Kitty shared a brief romance with Colossus. However, while on the Beyonder's world, he developed feelings for an alien woman Zsaji, who eventually died. When Colossus returned, he confessed to Kitty his feelings for Zsaji, ending their romance. Kitty became good friends with Doug Ramsey, sharing an interest in computers. Doug eventually joined the New Mutants as Cypher.

Kitty was possessed by the ninja demon Ogun when she traveled to Japan to find her father. Kitty gained a virtual lifetime of martial arts training and was brainwashed into becoming a ninja assassin. She was sent to kill Wolverine. With Wolverine's help, she was able to resist Ogun's influence. They were able to vanquish Ogun and Kitty took on the codename Shadowcat.

Kitty was injured during the Marauders' massacre of the Morlocks. She lost control of her powers and was stuck in an intangible state. Her condition deteriorated before she was saved by Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic Four. The X-Men injured during the massacre were sent to Moira MacTaggert's Muir Island to recuperate. Kitty and Nightcrawler joined the British team Excalibur after they watched the X-Men seemingly perish at the hands of the Adversary. She romanced agent Pete Wisdom and joined international law enforcement agency S.H.I.E.L.D. for a mission. She broke off her relationship with Wisdom shortly after. When Excalibur disbanded, Shadowcat, Nightcrawler and Colossus returned to the X-Men.

She visited Genosha, gaining a rebellious streak for reasons unknown. She returned to the X-Men for a while, departing following the death of Colossus. She attended the University of Chicago, where she met the former New Mutant Karma. Being lesbian, Karma developed a crush on Kitty, which was not reciprocated. During this period of time, her father died. Soon after, she was kidnapped by the anti-mutant Reverend Stryker but Storm's team of X-Men rescued her.

She rejoined the X-Men under Cyclops' team, harboring reservations serving alongside a reformed Emma Frost. She found Colossus alive on the first mission and they soon resumed dating. While in the alien Breakworld, Kitty used her powers to make a bullet pointed at Earth intangible. However, she was also trapped in the bullet as the X-Men resigned themselves to losing her. Some time later, Magneto decided to show his new allegiances to the X-Men by using his magnetic powers to return the bullet to Earth, cracking it into half and rescuing Kitty. He had previously encountered the bullet and had been keeping tabs on it until his decision to draw it back. However, Kitty was stuck in an intangible state, which was eventually reversed with an alien ritual conducted by the Breakworlders.

She joined Wolverine at the Jean Grey School as headmistress. When the original X-Men were brought to the present by the Beast, she decided to serve as their guide, quitting her role as Headmistress.

Junior Staff Member

Cannonball (Samuel "Sam" Guthrie)

Powers

Able to generate and release thermochemical energy; protective blast field, flight

History

Cannonball's father died in the coal mines in Kentucky when he was young. As a result, he followed in his father's footsteps to work in the coal mines to support his family. He is the oldest of 10 siblings in the family, of which 5 later display mutant powers. He was misled into joining the Hellfire Club and fought against Professor X's new recruits but he learnt the errors of his ways and joined the new recruits to become part of the New Mutants. He became co-leader with Dani Moonstar. While in the New Mutants, he met and romanced the intergalactic thief Lila Cheney for a period of time.

Eventually, the mutant from the future Cable took charge of the New Mutants and reorganized it into the paramilitary X-Force. Cable groomed Cannonball, believing him to be a External, a type of mutants who are virtually immortal. Cannonball became leader of the X-Force when Cable was not around.

He accepted the invitation to become an X-Man and his greatest moment came when he defeated Gladiator, the leader of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard.He subsequently rejoined X-Force. When X-Force dissolved, he joined X-Corporation Paris for a short while before joining Storm's X-Men team.

Sam joined a newly formed but short-lived X-Force to deal with the threat of Skornn and went in search with Siryn for Cable when the latter was killed by Skornn. He rejoined the X-Men after the mission.

He became the leader of the New Mutants X-Men squad but after suffering from traumatic events when during a mission in Limbo and in the Age of X reality, he left New Mutants to recuperate. Following the schism, he left Utopia to join Wolverine's teaching staff. He left the teaching staff to join the Avengers.

Junior Staff Member

Mimic (Calvin Rankin)

Powers

Able to mimic any human or superhuman abilities or powers.

Currently possesses the powers of the original 5 X-Men.

History

Calvin Rankin was born in Passaic, New Jersey. After an accidental mixup of chemicals from his father Ronald's experiments, he gained his powers to temporarily copy skills and powers. Ronald brought Calvin into a mine where he worked on a machine worked on a machine to make the abilities his son absorbed permanent. But his experiments with the device caused several power outages in the vicinity; in order to hold off the mob which was tracking these disturbances, Ronald blasted the mine entrance, but he was accidentally caught and killed in the explosion, and his device sealed deep inside the mine. As Mimic, Calvin attempted to manipulate the X-Men to get to the machine. However, Calvin's powers were removed by the machine. Professor X of the X-Men wiped his mind and let him go. Attending the same college as X-Man Jean Grey, his memories returned. Calvin blackmailed his way into the X-Men and eventually was made deputy leader. However, he began to antagonize others with his arrogant nature and was expelled after a fight with Cyclops. He saved the X-Men from the Super-Adaptoid, defeating him by tricking it into copy his artificial powers. He lost his powers but became a better person.

Calvin regained his powers but they were enhanced to absorb people's life forces, killing them. As Beast worked on a solution, Calvin seemingly perished in a self-sacrificial fight against the Hulk after gaining his gamma radiation. He was actually in a coma until Wolverine came near him. Absorbing Wolverine's healing powers, Calvin revived. After an encounter with X-Force, Calvin was recruited by the psionic entity Onslaught and his powers were stabilized. After Onslaught was defeated, Calvin was imprisoned by Operation: Zero Tolerance for a brief period of time before he was freed by the Excalibur team, who thought that he was Professor X. Calvin became friends with Excalibur, helping them in a few missions and attending the wedding of Excalibur members Captain Britain and Meggan.

Much later, he resurfaced as part of Norman Osborn's Dark X-Men team, diagnosed with a bipolar disorder. He formed a deep friendship with fellow teammate Weapon Omega. After Norman Osborn fell out of power. Both Mimic and Weapon Omega escaped. When Weapon Omega's powers started up, Mimic brought him to the Jean Grey School to seek help. After several unsuccessful attempts to help him, Beast had Weapon Omega go into an induced artificial coma to prevent his powers from killing him. Rogue invited Mimic to join the School as a teacher. Eventually, Mimic decided to leave the school to find a new life for himself.

Administrative Assistant

Deathlok

Powers

Cybernetic enhancements

History

Deathlok's AI inhabits a human host who was a psychopathic killer. He arrived from the future to help X-Force fight against an army of Deathloks who wanted to kill Fantomex to save the World. These Deathloks formerly super-beings from an alternate future in which the super-beings had became self-appointed judge, jury and executioner. The Father used the World to instigate Operation Deathlok. The Deathloks' mission was to convert all superhumans into controllable Deathlok troopers. The population supported the programmed and it was made law. In the present, this Deathlok unit led X-Force into the World to kill the Father and stop the other Deathloks. Deathlok then joined X-Force to safeguard the World. He was invited by Wolverine to become a guest lecturer at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. He became administrative assistant to Kitty Pryde. He was later captured by Hope Summers of the future and Blaquesmith who used his powers to evolve Cable's powers.

Senior Staff Member

Rogue (Anna Marie)

Powers

Able to absorb memories and abilities through physical contact

History

Anna Marie was born in Caldecott County, Mississippi, to a happy family. When her mother disappeared after a failed attempt at using Native American mysticism, Anna was raised by her strict and authoritarian Aunt Carrie. She ran away from home as a young teenager. Eventually, she was taken in as a daughter by the shape-shifting Mystique and precognitive Destiny. She grew close to a boy named Cody Robbins. At a moment when she kissed Cody, her powers emerged, absorbing the life energies of Cody and leaving him in permanent coma. Traumatized by the experience, Anna started wearing body-concealing clothing that eliminated the possibility of body contact. In time, Mystique turned Rogue's loneliness, bitterness and despair into anger, recruiting her into the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.

Rogue confronted the Avenger Ms. Marvel, intending to steal her powers. However, things went wrong when the transfer of psyche and powers became permanent. The shock of absorbing such a strong persona drove Rogue insane and she attempted to kill Ms. Marvel by throwing her off the Golden Gate Bridge. However, Ms. Marvel was saved by Spider Woman. Though Rogue felt guilt over the incident, she fought the Avengers using her powers. She also fought Dazzler and Angel (Warren Worthington) and the X-Men on separate occasions.

Unable to deal with her powers and Ms. Marvel's psyche, she turned to Professor X for help. Professor X was unable to help her immediately but recruited her to the X-Men, against the wishes of the members in the team. She gained the trust of the team after she protected Wolverine's fiancee, Mariko Yashida, in Japan; and risking her life to save Colossus in a fight against the Brotherhood. The X-Men relocated to the Australian Outback where she struggled with the Ms. Marvel personality. Rogue was pulled into the mystical portal Siege Perilous during a fight. Rogue returned to Earth, with the remaining portions of Ms. Marvel's personality purged and reconstituted as another entity. A powerless Rogue turned up in the prehistoric Savage Land where she faced the Ms. Marvel entity. There was not enough life-force to sustain both of them but Magneto arrived in time to destroy the Ms. Marvel entity and save Rogue. Rogue joined Magneto, Nick Fury and Ka-Zar to battle Zaladane who wanted to conquer the Savage Land. Though Rogue was attracted to Magneto, she parted ways with him when he killed Zaladane. Rogue rejoined the X-Men where she went on to share an on-off relationship with fellow teammate Gambit.

She joined Storm's team to recover Destiny's Diaries. She requested teammate Sage to evolve her powers to the stage where she can use all the powers she had ever absorbed at once. After injuries sustained in a fight against the inter-dimensional warlord Khan, both Gambit and Rogue lost their powers. They left the X-Men to lead a life away from adventuring and explore their relationship. Both of them returned to the X-Men and regained their powers. However, their relationship became strained due to their inability to touch each other. The situation worsened when Mystique masqueraded as young mutant Foxx to seduce Gambit with the intention of breaking up Rogue and Gambit's relationship. Mystique tried to set up Rogue with another mutant Pulse but failed. Gambit eventually became Apocalypse's Horseman, believing he can defeat Apocalypse eventually. However, Gambit was brainwashed and he attempted to kill Rogue. After Apocalypse's defeat, Gambit left the X-Men. Rogue became leader of an X-Men team. Rogue's powers were amplified by the Strain 88 virus inflicted by Pandemic but she became comatose. She was forced to wake up by Cable to help in defeating the alien Hecatomb. In defeating Hecatomb, Rogue absorbed psyches of eight billion minds stored inside it. When the X-Men brought Rogue back to her old home in Caldecott to recuperate, they were attacked by Sinister's Marauders who captured Rogue.

A battle soon erupted between different factions when the first mutant baby was born since M-Day, on which most of the mutant population lost their powers. At the climatic battle, Mystique and Gambit captured the baby and placed the baby in direct contact with Rogue. All the psyches previously imprinted in Rogue was removed. She woke up to grab Mystique's face, absorbing her powers and consciousness, leaving Mystique incapacitated. She departed, asking Gambit not to follow her.

She went traveling, ending up in the X-Men's former Australian Outback base. She was trapped in the illusions of Danger before she was rescued by Professor X and Gambit. Danger was persuaded by Professor X to give up her plots of revenge against Professor X. Both Danger and Professor X helped Rogue to gain control of her powers. Rogue, Gambit and Danger traveled to San Francisco where they joined the X-Men. She became mentor to the young mutants and served in several missions with the X-Men. She formed a relationship with Magneto, which ended when she left Utopia to join Wolverine

Senior Staff Member

Gambit (Remy LeBeau)

Powers

Able to transform an inorganic object's potential energy into kinetic energy; causing it to explode

History

Rémy LeBeau was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was kidnapped from the hospital where he was born, then raised by the LeBeau Clan Thieves' Guild, and given to the Antiquary as a tribute. They referred to the child as "Le Diable Blanc" ("the White Devil") and believed he was prophesied to unite the warring Thieves' and Assassins' Guilds. Soon after, Rémy was placed in the care of Fagan's Mob, a gang of street thieves who raised the child and taught him the ways of thievery. After living as an orphan on the streets, a 10-year-old Rémy attempted to pick the pocket of Jean-Luc LeBeau, then patriarch of the Thieves' Guild. Jean-Luc took the boy off the streets and adopted him into his own family. In an attempt to reconcile the Thieves' and Assassins' Guilds, Rémy married Bella Donna Boudreaux, granddaughter of the head Assassin, whom he met at age 8. Unfortunately, he was challenged by her brother Julien to a duel after the wedding. In the duel, Gambit killed Julien, and he was exiled from the city, ending his relationship with Bella Donna.

Remy's powers became out of control and he approached geneticist Mr. Sinister to help him control his powers. To return the favor, Remy carried out several missions for Sinister, the last of which led him to assemble the hit squad Marauders. Gambit led the Marauders into the sewers in search of the disenfranchised mutants known as the Morlocks. The Marauders went on to massacre the Morlocks. Gambit was unable to stop the Marauders but managed to rescue a child, Sarah who would grow up to become a one-time X-Man Marrow.

After traveling around the world, he found and rescued Storm, then de-aged into a child, from the malevolent psychic entity Shadow King. He went on to shared adventures with her. They ended up at the mutant island Genosha, where they helped the various X-teams against the anti-mutant leadership. Storm returned to adulthood at Genosha and she inducted Gambit into the X-Men. Gambit went on to share a on-off romance with fellow X-Man Rogue. After the X-Men learnt of his involvement in the Morlocks massacre, he was booted off the team but he eventually returned. While a member of X-Men, Marrow was attracted to Gambit but she left the team under unrevealed circumstances. Gambit later left the X-Men for a brief period of time before rejoining Storm's X-Men. After injuries sustained in a fight against the inter-dimensional warlord Khan, both Gambit and Rogue lost their powers. They left the X-Men to lead a life away from adventuring and explore their relationship. Both of them returned to the X-Men and regained their powers. However, their relationship became strained due to their inability to touch each other. He joined Apocalypse as his Horseman, thinking that he can stop him eventually. However, the plan backfired and he gained a new Death persona. When Apocalypse was defeated, he joined Sinister's Marauders. He later reformed and joined Professor X on his adventures to regain lost memories following his head injuries at the hands of Bishop. After helping Rogue gain control of her powers, he returned to the X-Men with her.

Janitor

Toad (Mortimer Toynbee)

Powers

Superhuman strength; super-leaping; super-prehensile tongue

History

Mortimer was a member of various incarnations of the Brotherhood and was a founder of one incarnation.

He was also in Mystique's Brotherhood which attacked Moira MacTaggart's Muir Island facility.

He was in the Magneto-imposter's Brotherhood though he did not know he is an imposter. After M-Day

He brought mutant Lorelei to the Xavier Institute after she was attacked by members of the anti-mutant Purity. Toad followed the X-Men to the mutant island Utopia. When Wolverine opened the Jean Grey Institute for Higher Learning, Toad joined as the janitor.

Former Students

Glob (Robert Herman)

Powers

Bio-paraffin body

History

Glob Herman first appeared in New X-Men (X-Men vol. 2). He joined Kid Omega's rebellious Omega Gang, inciting a student riot at the Xavier's Institute before the entire group was captured and incarcerated. He emerged years later and joined the mutants on the mutant island Utopia, before joining other students in the Jean Grey School where he became a constant troublemaker. He later defected to the Hellfire Academy.

Stepford Cuckoos, Three-In-One (Celeste, Irma Mindee, Phoebe)

Powers

Can combine individual telepathic powers to form a gestalt 'supermind'

Active: New X-Men #118 (2001)

History

Stepford Cuckoos were formerly the Five-In-One, along with Sophie and Esme. They were grown from ova cells harvested from Emma Frost by John Sublime where she was comatose following the Sentinel attack on her student Hellions. The Five-In-One were designated Weapon XIV in the Weapon Plus program. They were placed in the Xavier Institute when the school opened its doors to an expansive student group. They became the proteges of Emma Frost.

The telepath Quentin Quire had a crush on Sophie but was rejected. After learning that he was adopted, Quentin started a student riot with his Omega Gang, using the drug Kick to boost his powers. Wanting to stop Quentin, Sophie used the drug Kick to boost her powers, using Cerebra to do so. In the process, she overexerted herself and died. They held Emma Frost partially responsible for Sophie's death because she inspired Sophie to heroism. They informed Jean Grey that Emma Frost was about to conduct a psychic affair with Jean's husband Cyclops.

Esme soon collaborated with the X-Man Xorn, who disguised himself as Magneto. However, Xorn eventually killed Esme in a fit of anger.

When the students were reorganized into student squads, the Cuckoos were placed in Cyclops' Corsairs squad. Their origins were revealed and they each absorbed a Phoenix fragment. The fragment eventually vacated them and traveled back into Space.

Recently, after joining the Jean Grey School for a period of time, they joined Cyclops' New Xavier School.

Loa (Alani Ryan)

Powers

Able to physically pass through solid matter, causing it to break down

Active: New X-Men: Academy X #5 (2004)

History

Loa's grandmother, Alice Ryan, was an acquaintance of Prince Namor of Atlantis.

Loa was briefly seen to have a relationship with Elixir. It is unsure if anything came out of it.

He also joined Rogue, Magneto and Anole to travel to India with Indra to answer a family call where they fought the Children of the Vault.

Loa accompanied Emma Frost to the New Atlantis where she revealed herself to be well educated in Atlantean history, mythology and culture. She possessed a pendent passed down to her by her grandmother, which was given to her by Namor in the past. Loa helped the Atlanteans fight the underwater vampires known as the Aqueos.

Loa joined Namor, Dr. Strange, Lyra and Silver Surfer to form the Defenders to help fight Attuma, who had become a member of the Worthy. (Fear Itself) Loa chose to remain at Utopia following the schism between Cyclops and Wolverine. Utopia's students were kept under confinement in the Avengers Academy following the Phoenix's arrival on Earth during the events of Avengers vs X-Men. The students escape but Loa elected to stay and enroll in the Academy.

Prodigy (David Alleyne)

Powers

Knowledge mimicry of limited radius, formerly

Active: New Mutants vol. 2 #4 (2003)

History

David is a naturally intelligent boy. His manifested his powers as a teenager and realized that he had the ability to know anything people nearby him know. As a result, answers to his exams and assignments began to appear in his head whenever he was in the same room as his teachers. David became driven to study harder. He took college-level courses while finishing high school and attempted to keep his mutation a secret until the anti-mutant Purity group outed him to his parents and attempted to attack him. he was rescued by the librarian at his school, the former New Mutant Karma and her former teammate Dani Moonstar.

David enrolled at the Xavier Institute and became roommates with Josh Foley. David was initially hostile toward Josh due to the latter's past as an anti-mutant bigot before he discovered his own mutant powers. Later, David and Josh were part of the New Mutants student squad and David eventually became co-leader along with Surge. David underwent an illusion of a possible future in which he removed his mental blocks and was able to permanently retain the knowledge he absorbed. In this illusion created by Dani and Emma Frost, David gained the knowledge of the the most important and intellectual individuals in the world, bringing a near-utopia to Earth, albeit at the hidden cost of genocide and the killing of his friends and the X-Men. The illusion ended with Surge, his wife, overloading her powers and killing them both in order to stop him. This illusion caused David to reject having his mental blocks removed and caused him to ignore his feelings for Noriko. They eventually resolved their differences and David began a relationship with her.

David lost his powers after M-Day. Planning to leave the Institute, David revealed that he built a "Danger Cave" to replace the destroyed Danger Room before he lost his powers. David's parents and Cyclops decided it would be safer for him to remain at the mansion. David helped the New X-Men student team, using his natural intelligence to help his friends. Fearing for David's safety, Surge tried to push him away. Their relationship eventually came to an end. David was confronted by the Stepford Cuckoos, who removed his mental blocks, which restored all the past knowledge and skills he absorbed when he had his powers. David joined the other mutants who relocated to San Francisco. He has since assisted the X-Men in several missions in a non-fighting capacity. Following the schism between Cyclops and Wolverine, he chose to remain in Utopia. He did not join the Jean Grey School along with other Utopia students after Utopia was shut down. He later left to join the Young Avengers.

Hellfire Academy

The Hellfire Academy was founded by Kade Kilgore, the Black King of the Hellfire Club. This academy served as an opponent to the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.

Left to Right

Inner Circle

Manuel Enduque, White King

Baron Maximilian von Katzenelnbogen (Dr Frankenstein): Black Bishop

Kade Kilgore: Black King

Wilhelmina Kensington: White Queen

The genius son of a weapons-manufacturer, Kade Kilgore spent two years blackmailing the board of his father's company to install him as the new C.E.O. Kade used a psi-blocking helmet and a light-bending wetsuit to sneak onto Utopia island and free Quentin Quire from his containment cell. After Quentin interrupted an arms control summit in Switzerland (which Kade's father was attending) by telepathically making the assembled diplomats reveal their dirtiest secrets on live television, Kade shot his father to death and dumped his body out of his flying car and into the mountains. With the resulting fear and general panic after Quentin's attack, the Hellfire Club then toasted the 12-year-old as their new Black King. He turned the Hellfire Club into a mutant-hating organization, recruiting a new Inner Circle. After failed attacks on the Jean Grey School, he went around the world to recruits faculty and students for his Hellfire Academy. He also had Maximilian attempt to recruit Oya from the Jean Grey School. Maximilian was hunted by Frankenstein's Monster and his Murder Circus. After Oya helped him escape, he decided to embrace his heritage and adopt the alias Dr. Frankenstein.

Faculty

Mystique, headmistress

Sabretooth, headmaster

Mondo

Dr. Xanto Starblood

Sauron

Dog Logan

Master Pandemonium

Wendigo

The Philistine

Lord Deathstrike

Husk

Silver Samurai

Toad

History

The Hellfire Academy was attacked by the X-Men seeking to recover their students Oya, Broo and Quentin Quire. Quentin and the Toad turned on the other faculty members. Toad fought Husk and managed to return her to normal. Oya attacked the Black King after he revealed himself to be the one who injured Broo. However, she decided not to kill him and ran away with Quentin. The other three Inner circle members turned on the Black King. While he dealt with the White King and Black Bishop, he was injured by the White Queen. The Philistine took the White Queen into the Siege Perilous and Dog took the Black Queen into the same portal. Xanto Starblood escaped with Broo but the latter was somehow returned to normal by Nightcrawler and he took down Xanto and returned to the X-Men. Sabretooth and Mystique escaped with the other students. The X-Men took Quentin, Broo, Oya, Toad and Husk back to the X-Men.

Sabretooth
Healing factor, Feral senses, Claws

Mystique
Shapeshifter

Mondo
Media manipulator

Dr. Xanto Starblood
Alien professor

Sauron
Life-energy absorbed

Dog Logan
Human

Master Pandemonium (Martin Preston)
Master of the dark arts

Wendigo (Georges Baptiste)
Superstrength

The Philistine
Teleportation

Husk
Skin shredding and changing

Toad
Amphibian

Lord Deathstrike
Assassin

Students (New Hellions)

[From top left, clockwise]

Glob Herman
Bio-paraffin body

Mudbug (Ledbetter)
Bug

Infestation
Controls swarm of bugs

Tin Man (Owen Backes)
Machine control

Oya
Temperature transference

Snot
Shoots mucus from nose

Kid Omega
Telepathy

Broo

Alien Brood

Snot after Siege Perilous

Promo Images

X-Men under Wolverine are:

(In Wolverine and the X-Men #1 image)

Wolverine (James Howlett)

Beast (Henry McCoy)

Iceman (Robert Drake)

Kitty Pryde & Lockheed

Toad (Mortimer Toynbee), not an established X-Man

(In X-Men Legacy #259 image)

Rogue (Anna Marie)

Marvel Girl (Rachel Grey)

Gambit (Remy LeBeau)

Frenzy (Joanna Cargill)

(Established in X-Men Regenesis #1)

Cannonball (Sam Guthrie)

Husk (Paige Guthrie)

Chamber (Jonothan Starsmore)

Dust (Sooraya Qadir), not an established X-Man
[seems to be a printing error]

Other mutants under Wolverine's banner:

1) Uncanny X-Force (Uncanny X-Force #19 image)

Fantomex (Charlie Cluster 7) & E.V.A.

Deadpool (Wade Wilson)

AoA Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)

Psylocke (Elizabeth Betsy Braddock)
[Only serves on X-Force as she is under Cyclops]

2) X-Factor Investigations (X-Factor #230 image)

Havok (Alex Summers)

Polaris (Lorna Dane)

Multiple Man (Jamie Madrox)

Strong Guy (Guido Carosella)

Butterfly (Layla Miller)

Banshee (Theresa Cassidy)

M (Monet St. Croix)

Rictor (Julio Richter)

Shatterstar (Gaveedra Seven)

Longshot

Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair)

All-New Marvel Now: All-New X-Men (2012 - Present)

2014-05-16T13:32:00.003+08:00

All New X-Men is an ongoing title launched in November 2012 with Brian Michael Bendis as writer and Stuart Immonen as penciller. It is a companion book to the Uncanny X-Men with Brian Michael Bendis the writer for both books.

The title sees the original X-Men arrive at the present to attempt to create a better future for mutants.

Wolverine's team can be found in Wolverine and the X-Men and Amazing X-Men while Storm's team can be found in X-Men.

Sypnosis

Following his escape from incarceration for his role in killing Professor X during the events of AvX, Cyclops organized a new team of X-Men including Magneto and Magik to seek out and recruit new mutants. They recruited new mutants Eva Bell and Christopher Muse.

Unable to cope with yet another mutation, Beast realized he was going to die and decided that he want to attempt something to stop what he felt was an inevitable mutant-human war. He traveled to the past to convince the original X-Men to come to the present. He hoped that the presence of the original X-Men can persuade Cyclops to stop his mutant revolution.

Cyclops and his team helped Emma Frost escape from incarceration and recruited her. Cyclops' X-Men confronted each other over their powers which were broken by their contact with the Phoenix Force. They traveled to University of Texas to recruit new mutant Benjamin Deeds and were confronted by the original X-Men. After a brief fight, Magik teleported Cyclops' team away. While resting, Jean Grey's telepathic powers triggered ahead of time. They returned to the Jean Grey School in time for young Beast to help the present day Beast stabilize his new mutation. Meanwhile, Cyclops returned to recruit Benjamin Deeds. Young Jean Grey used her telepathy on Kitty Pryde to gain the memories of her future. She decided that the original X-Men will not return to the past and will stay in the present to fight for a better future. Kitty Pryde volunteered to mentor the original X-Men.

While Jean Grey struggled to cope with her expanded powers, she turned a cold shoulder to Cyclops. Cyclops ran out of the School and was found by Mystique who masqueraded as Wolverine. Mystique portrayed herself as a sympathizer of Professor X and left before Wolverine found Cyclops. Meanwhile, the young Angel encountered his future self, now an amnesiac. They helped defend Avengers Tower against a Hydra attack but alerted the Avengers to the original X-Men's presence in the present day. After an argument between Beast and Captain America, young Cyclops convinced Captain America to give him a chance to solve the problems in the present day. Young Angel was spooked by his future and wanted to return to the past but was forced to stay by a mental manipulation from Jean Grey.

Mystique and Sabretooth attacked the Raft prison to release and recruit Lady Mastermind. Lady Mastermind used her illusion powers to create the original X-Men to commit crimes. Meanwhile, Cyclops' X-Men arrive at the Jean Grey School to attempt to recruit new mutants. They succeed in recruiting young Angel and the Stepford Cuckoos.

Wolverine and Kitty led the original X-Men to search for Mystique after learning of her encounter with young Cyclops. However, they were engaged by Havok's Uncanny Avengers for their apparent role in various crimes. After a verbal confrontation, Havok allowed Wolverine and the original X-Men to pursue Mystique and clear their names. The X-Men engaged Mystique, Sabretooth, Lady Mastermind and the Silver Samurai just as they were attempting to buy the pirate nation Madripoor from Madame Hydra. After a long fight, Mystique was captured while the rest of her accomplices escaped. However, she later escaped from the Raft.

Back in the School, Jean Grey learnt of the older Beast's attraction towards her. She shared a kiss with the younger Beast.

With the Battle of the Atom crossover, the original X-Men realized that they were unable to return to their own time. They decided to leave the Jean Grey School as they felt unwanted there and joined Cyclops' side along with their mentor Kitty Pryde.

The team rescued X-23 from a team of the mutant hunting religious zealots, the Purifiers after which she joined the team, forming an attraction with young Cyclops. The Shi'ar kidnapped Jean Grey to put her on trial for actions her future self had committed as the Phoenix. With the help of the Guardians of the Galaxy and the intergalactic pirates Starjammers, the team travelled to the Shi'ar Imperium. In the process, young Cyclops discovered that his father Corsair of the Starjammers was alive. Jean Grey manifested a new skill set combining her telepathy and telekinesis during the fight against the Shi'ar Imperial Guard. Young Cyclops threatened the Shi'ar Majestor Gladiator to leave them alone. After returning to Earth, young Cyclops left with Corsair to space.

Team

Marvel Girl (Jean Grey)

Iceman (Robert 'Bobby' Drake)

Angel (Warren Worthington III)

Beast (Henry 'Hank' McCoy)

X-23 (Laura Kinney)

Cyclops (Scott Summers)
Left with father to space

Marvel Q&A

Newsarama Interview

All-New Marvel Now: Uncanny X-Men (2013 - Present)

2014-05-16T13:32:00.002+08:00

Uncanny X-Men is a relaunched title released in February 2013. It is written by Brian Michael Bendis (also the writer of All New X-Men) and pencilled by Chris Bachalo and Frazer Irving. It follows Cyclops' X-Men as they recruit new mutants into the New Xavier School.

Wolverine's team can be found in Wolverine and the X-Men and Amazing X-Men, the original X-Men can be found in All-New X-Men while Storm's team can be found in X-Men.

Sypnosis

Magneto offered himself to S.H.I.E.L.D. as an informant in Cyclops' X-Men. The team located new mutant Fabio Medina and was attacked by the Sentinels. Cyclops was able to destroy the Sentinels. The team traveled to Australia so that young Eva can visit her mother. However, they were intercepted by the Avengers. Eva was able to use her powers to stop the time around the Avengers, allowing the X-Men to escape. Cyclops realized that Magneto had approached S.H.I.E.L.D. but the latter insisted that it was to allow him to know about what the agency is planning. Cyclops next led his team to recruit new members at the Jean Grey School. Angel of the original X-Men as well as the Stepford Cuckoos joined.

Cyclops' team was brought into the Limbo dimension by Dormammu so that he can conquer the dimension and destroy its ruler Magik without the team informing the sorcerer supreme. The team was able to stop Dormammu and Magik absorbed the entire Limbo dimension into herself.

After this ordeal, the X-Men recruited new mutant David Bond but Goldballs requested to return home. Back home, Goldballs was approached and taken in by Dazzler, the new mutant liaison at S.H.I.E.L.D. Cyclops' team arrived to rescue Goldballs. Shortly after, unknown to anyone, Dazzler was knocked out and replaced by Mystique. Cyclops next led his team to attend a pro-mutant ally but they were attacked by an advanced Sentinel. After a long fight, they were able to destroy the Sentinel.

During the Battle of the Atom crossover, Cyclops' team helped young Cyclops and Jean Grey fight the future Brotherhood. The Brotherhood was later defeated by the combined forces of Cyclops and Wolverine's X-Men as well as the future X-Men. The original X-Men decided to join Cyclops' side as they felt unwanted by Wolverine's side. Kitty Pryde also defected because she was unhappy with Wolverine and his side's treatment of the original X-Men.

X-Men

Image above (Right to left)

Magik (Illyana Rasputin)

Teleportation, Demonic nature

Cyclops (Scott Summers)

Eye beams

Emma Frost

Telepathy

Magneto (Max Eisenhardt)

Master of magnetism

[Left the New Xavier School to go solo]

Students

Tempus (Eva Bell)

Control over time and space

Triage (Christopher Muse)

Healing

Morph (Benjamin Deeds)

Able to take on the appearance and voice of another person

Able to manipulate chemical pheromones to make people feel good about themselves and him

Goldballs (Fabio Medina)

Creation of bouncy balls

Stepford Cuckoos (Irma Mindee, Celeste, Phoebe)

Telepathic hive mind

Hijack (David Bond)

Control over vehicles and robots

[Kicked out of the New Xavier School]

Original X-Men

Following the Battle of the Atom crossover, the original X-Men joined Cyclops' side.

Cyclops (Scott Summers)

Marvel Girl (Jean Grey)

Beast (Henry 'Hank' McCoy)

Iceman (Robert 'Bobby' Drake)

Angel (Warren Worthington III)

Check out All New X-Men.

Dazzler (Alison Blaire)

Converts sound to light

Mutant liaison in S.H.I.E.L.D. Replaced by Mystique, unknown to everyone.

CBR interview with Bendis

All-New Marvel Now: Amazing X-Men (2013 - Present)

2014-05-16T13:32:00.001+08:00

Amazing X-Men is a current title launched in November 2013, written by Jason Aaron and pencilled by Ed McGuinness. It features a team of X-Men from the Jean Grey School being superheroes. Their first mission was to help Nightcrawler defeat his father Azazel in the afterlife.

Team

Wolverine (James 'Logan' Howlett)

Storm (Ororo Munroe)

Beast (Henry 'Hank' McCoy)

Iceman (Robert 'Bobby' Drake)

Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier)

Firestar (Angelica Jones)

Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)

Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)

All-New Marvel Now: X-Men (2013 - Present)

2014-05-16T13:32:00.000+08:00

Starting this April, writer Brian Wood teams up with artist Oliver Coipel on the new Marvel Now! ongoing series, X-Men. The title consists of an all-female lineup. more on Marvel..

Wolverine's team can be found in Wolverine and the X-Men and Amazing X-Men, Cyclops' team can be found in Uncanny X-Men while the original X-Men can be found in All-New X-Men.

The team first helped the former anti-mutant Sublime fight and defeat his sister, the technological virus Arkea. They managed to liberate Karima Shapandar from Arkea's influence. As a side-effect, Karima lost her Omega Sentinel technology. The X-Men lost Kitty Pryde to Cyclops' side following the Battle of Atom crossover. Ana Cortes, sharing Lady Deathstrike's consciousness, attempted to obtain the Omega Sentinel technology at the Jean Grey school and fought Karima and Monet St. Croix but was defeated before she escaped. Storm recruited Karima and Monet into her team to search for Lady Deathstrike. Lady Deathstrike formed a team of Sisterhood comprising of Typhoid Mary and Amora the Enchantress. Typhoid Mary stole Arkea from the X-Men and Lady Deathstrike recruited Arkea into her team. However, Arkea soon assumed control and ordered the resurrection of dead X-Men villains Selene and Madelyne Pryor. Unable to live with what she had unleashed on the world, Ana Cortes sent a call to the X-Men for help. As the X-Men arrived to fight Arkea, who had now taken on the Lady Deathstrike's consciousness, Storm allowed Selene and Madelyne Pryor to leave. The X-Men proceeded to destroy Arkea.

Team Roster

Storm (Ororo Munroe)

Marvel Girl (Rachel Grey)

Psylocke (Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock)

Jubilee (Jubilation Lee)

M (Monet St. Croix)

Former Members

Kitty Pryde
Left for Cyclops' side

Rogue (Anna Marie)
Presumably left for Uncanny Avengers

Karima Shapandar, formerly Omega Sentinel
Left to work for Sabra

Sisterhood

From top right, anti-clockwise

Lady Deathstrike (Ana Cortes, later Reiko + Arkea)

Amora the Enchantress

Typhoid Mary

Selene

Madelyne Pryor

Dodson variant

Hastings Variant

Baby Variant

50th Anniversary Variant

Limited Edition Comix Variant

Manara Variant

All-New Marvel Now: Uncanny Avengers (2012 - Present)

2014-05-16T13:31:00.001+08:00

Uncanny Avengers is an ongoing title released in Oct 2012. It features an Avengers team with X-Men representation. The team aims to change the way the public looks at mutants by protecting the world as one super team.

CBR interview with Remender

Sypnosis

Captain America approached Havok to lead a team of Avengers that will demonstrate that mutants and humans can work side by side. A revived Red Skull recruited his team of S-Men and took possession of the deceased Charles Xavier's brain, gaining his psychic powers. He led the S-Men through Manhattan, inciting anti-mutant hysteria by telepathically driving civilians to attack the mutants around them. The Avengers managed to drive off the Red Skull but the damage has already been done.

The team welcomed Wasp, Wonder Man and Sunfire into its ranks. A press conference was held where Havok gave a speech about his stance. The team was assaulted by the Grim Reaper who wanted to kill Scarlet Witch for returning him to life some time before. He was accidentally killed by Rogue who had Wonder Man's powers.

The twins of Archangel and Pestilence were abducted by the time-travelling warlord Kang. Now grown up, the twins Uriel and Eimin stole Jarnbjorn, the enchanted axe that Thor wielded in his youth which was later stolen by Kang. They traveled to the present and used Jarnbjorn to destroy a Celestial. They proceeded on to destroy S.W.O.R.D.'s orbital Peak station and the Akkaba Metropolis, the antarctic city that served as home to the ex-mutant worshippers of Apocalypse. Captain America, who was in the Peak station, managed to escape and ended up listening to a message from Immortus, who promised to send an army to help defeat the twins. The twins revealed the truth of their origin to the Avengers: Wolverine and his X-Force team murdered their father and a child who was supposed to be the heir to Apocalypse's throne. Enraged by this revelation, Captain America expelled Wolverine from the team. Half of the team left with Wolverine, leaving behind Havok and Wasp.

The two factions seek out the twins separately. Meanwhile, the twins reanimated the Grim Reaper, Banshee, Sentry and Daken to serve as their Horsemen of Death. Wonder Man was ambushed and captured by his brother Grim Reaper. Banshee abducted Scarlet Witch. Daken captured and tortured his father Wolverine. Sentry attacked Thor.

Captain America, Havok and Wasp infiltrated the twins' base and was attacked by Banshee. Meanwhile, the Scarlet Witch accepted a deal to use her powers, augmented by Wonder Man's powers to bring about a rapture and bring all mutants to live in Jupiter. Rogue and Sunfire found Wolverine. Rogue used her powers to absorb Wolverine's and both of them went in search of the Scarlet Witch.

Roster

Avengers

Captain America

Thor

Scarlet Witch

Wasp

Wonder Man

X-Men

Havok, leader of the team

Rogue

Wolverine

Sunfire

CBR report on Marvel's Uncanny Avengers liveblog

All-New Marvel Now: All-New X-Factor (2014)

2014-05-16T13:31:00.000+08:00

All New X-Factor is an ongoing title launched in January 2014, written by Peter David and pencilled by Carmine Di Giandomenico. The title features a X-Factor team sponsored by Serval Industries led by Polaris.

Team

Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff)

Gambit (Remy LeBeau)

Danger

Cypher (Doug Ramsey)

Warlock

Regenesis: Uncanny X-Men (2011-2012)

2014-05-16T13:29:00.000+08:00

Uncanny X-Men (vol. 2) was a title handled by a creative team comprising of writer Kieron Gillen as well as pencillers Greg Land and Carlos Pacheco on rotating art duty. It was launched as a new #1 issue following the end of the first series with #544. For more on the first series, check here.. Uncanny X-Men ended with #20. The title was relaunched under Marvel Now as Uncanny X-Men (vol. 3).

This title featured the X-Men under the banner of Cyclops (Scott Summers), who is focused on making the island of Utopia, off the coast of San Francisco, a base for the safeguarding of mutants from extinction.

For other teams under Team Cyclops and Team Wolverine, check out Regenesis.

The X-Men first defeated Mr. Sinister, who re-fashioned himself into a species. Sinister took the head of the Dreaming Celestial, which prompted the rest of the space-gods Celestials to come to Earth. The X-Men were able to turn the Celestials back. [UXM #1 - #3] The team next defeated a member of the alien Phalanx. [UXM #4]

The small town of Montana was destroyed and used to create Tabula Rasa (in Uncanny X-Force), a strange land that seems to progress millennia in the span of hours. The X-Men went to investigate and they interacted with the inhabitants. They managed to help the Savage of the Apex stop a plot by fellow Apex Immortal Man to destroy the inhabitants of Tabula Rasa in order to resurrect the virtually extinct Apex. [UXM #5 - #8]

The orbital base of S.W.O.R.D. (Sentient World Observation and Response Department) was destroyed due to the machinations of one of its prisoners, Unit. The X-Men joined the Avengers in bringing in the escaped prisoners. However, when Hope Summers was threatened by Unit, the X-Men abandoned their mission to try to rescue Hope. Unit was captured by the X-Men eventually but in the X-Men's brig, he managed to take control of his jailer Danger. [UXM #9 - #10]

In 2012, in the event Avengers vs X-Men, the arrival of the Phoenix Force triggered a war between the Avengers and the X-Men with the former believing that the Phoenix is a destructive force that will lay waste to the planet and the latter believing that the Phoenix will reignite the dying mutant race. The war came to a head on the moon when the Phoenix was divided between five mutants - Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Colossus and Magik. The Phoenix Five went about changing the world for the better. [UXM #11 - #13] When they discovered that Sinister had built a city underground populated by his clones, they made their way to attack him. Sinister briefly captured the Phoenix in his five Madelyne Pryor clones but the Phoenix Five recovered the Phoenix to destroy Sinister's city [UXM #14 - #17] In a battle against the combined forces of Avengers and the rest of the X-Men, Cyclops had a psychic rendezvous with Emma Frost. He proceeded to knock out Emma and take her Phoenix Force for himself. He killed Professor X during the battle before he was stopped with the combined efforts of Hope Summers and the Scarlet Witch. Cyclops was imprisoned. In his jail, he was visited by Sinister in the form of the X-Men's PR specialist Kate Kildare who taunted him. Unit released his control of Danger, who proceeded to release all the X-Men's prisoners as Utopia was deserted. Magik confronted Colossus and revealed her role in her brother becoming an avatar of Cytorrak as a lesson for him. She relieved Colossus of Cytorrak's control but Colossus was enraged over her actions. [UXM #18 - #20]

Extinction Team

This team is a powerful group of super-powered individuals which functions like a super-hero team. fighting criminals, defeating invaders and ensuring peace. The team consists of several ex-villains and is also meant to make humans scared of mutants as an act of deterrence.

Cyclops (Scott Summers), leader

Storm (Ororo Iqadi T'Challa)

Emma Frost

Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)

Magneto (Max Eisenhardt)

Magik (Illyana Rasputin)

Danger

Namor

Hope Summers

Psylocke (Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock)

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Character Profiles

Cyclops (Scott Summers)

Powers
Optic Blasts
History
Scott grew up in Anchorage, Alaska. When he was a young boy, his father, USAF major Christopher Summers, took the family, including Scott's mother Katherine Ann and brother Alex, for a flight. It came under attack by an alien Shi'ar spaceship. As the plane went down in flames, Christopher and Katherine fastened Scott and Alex into a parachute and pushed them off the plane, hoping they would survive. The parachute caught fire and Scott stuck his head upon landing, which could have affected his ability to control his powers. Both Scott and Alex ended up in an orphanage in Omaha, Nebraska. Alex would be adopted while Scott was subjected to a battery of tests and experiments by the orphanage's owner, Mr. Milbury, who was secretly Mr. Sinister. As a result of traumatic events in his life, Scott developed a self-imposed mental block. When Scott was sixteen, he ran away from the orphanage While walking past a construction site, his powers activated and damaged a metal crane causing it to fall towards a crowd. Scott quickly unleashed a second blast to destroy the crane. The crowd thought the action an act of violence and turned into a lynch mob. Scott managed to escape and encountered the villain Jack O' Diamonds. He was eventually found and taken in by Professor Charles Xavier. Scott became the first X-Man as Cyclops. Cyclops became field leader.

Cyclops became attracted to fellow X-Man Jean Grey, who shared an attraction for him. Due to his insecurity, they only confessed their feelings some time later. Scott met up with his brother Alex, who developed powers of his own. Alex would go on to become Havok and join the X-Men. When the X-Men was captured by the living island Krakoa, Professor Xavier recruited a team of mutants under the tutelage of his friend Moira MacTaggert. The team managed to rescue Scott and one of its members Gabriel revealed himself to be Scott's brother. The team seemingly perished at the hands of Krakoa and Professor X recruited another team of mutants (Storm, Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Colossus, Banshee, Thunderbird and Sunfire). Under the leadership of Cyclops, they managed to defeat Krakoa and release the other X-Men. The old X-Men decided to leave the team, except Cyclops who remained behind to help in training the new X-Men. Unknown to Cyclops, Professor X removed his memories of Gabriel and his team of X-Men.

Cyclops later encountered Corsair, the leader of the intergalactic band or pirates, the Starjammers, who opposed the tyranny of the alien Shi'ar empire. Jean Grey learnt that Corsair is Christopher, Scott's father but chose not to reveal his identity to Scott. The Shi'ar that attacked the plane years ago captured Christopher and Katherine back to the Shi'ar empire and presented them to the Emperor D'Ken. Katherine was already pregnant and D'Ken ripped the baby off her, killing her. The baby's growth was accelerated using technology and he grew up to become Gabriel. Gabriel was sent back to Earth under a Shi'ar agent. Gabriel eventually escaped and was taken in by MacTaggert. Christopher was sent to the slave pens where he escaped along with other prisoners to form the Starjammers.

Jean Grey died piloting a shuttle back to Earth after a space mission and was seemingly resurrected by the cosmic Phoenix Force. Scott questioned his relationship with Jean and was unable to mourn when he believed Jean dead in her mission to the prehistoric Savage Land. He briefly dated Colleen Wing. He discovered his love for Jean after reuniting with her on a mission to Muir Island to fight Proteus. However, Jean Grey was soon mind influenced by Mastermind of the Hellfire Club. She became the Black Queen of the Club but the plan backfired when the Phoenix Force became corrupted and turned into the Dark Phoenix, destroying the D'bari star and killing five billions in the process. In a psionic battle with Professor X, Jean regained control. However, the Shi'ar, now under the leadership of the benign Lilandra, also the lover of Professor X, was forced to bring in the Dark Phoenix and kill her for her crimes. Professor X invoked a trial by combat in which the X-Men would fight the Shi'ar Imperial Guard to determine the Dark Phoenix's fate. During the fight, Jean felt the Dark Phoenix resurfacing and chose to commit suicide.

Cyclops left the X-Men and joined the crew of a fishing boat under captain Lee Forrester. After a few adventurers, they ended up in the Bermuda Triangle where they found Magneto's base of operations. Cyclops returned to the X-Men and discovered that Corsair is his father. Scott visited his grandparents, who ran a shipping company in Alaska, and found Madelyne Pryor, who bore an uncanny semblance to Jean. They fell in love and eventually married. A powerless Storm later challenged Cyclops to a duel for leadership of the X-Men, which Cyclops lost. Cyclops left the team to be with Madelyne. Madelyne soon gave birth to Nathan.

Jean Grey was found alive at the bottom of Jamaica Bay, revived by the Fantastic Four and Avengers. Apparently, the Phoenix Force had sent Jean Grey to recuperate in a cocoon while it took the form of Jean Grey. Cyclops left Madelyne to join Jean, Iceman, Angel and Beast to form the X-Factor. Nathan was kidnapped by Mr. Sinister's Marauders and Madelyne joined the X-Men as an assisting member. The X-Men apparently sacrificed themselves to stop the Adversary though they were resurrected by Roma in secret. They established a new base in the Australian Outback. The demons of the otherworldly Limbo S'ym and N'astirh corrupted Madelyne and she eventually became the Goblin Queen. Madelyne reclaimed Nathan from Sinister but also learnt of her origins as Jean Grey's clone for the purpose of bearing Scott's son. Madelyne intended to sacrifice Nathan to open a portal from Limbo to Earth but was stopped. Madelyne fought Jean and sacrificed herself in an attempt to take Jean down with her. However, Jean was able to absorb Madelyne's psyche into herself. Cyclops learnt that Mr. Sinister ran the orphanage that he was in. Cyclops later resumed his relationship with Jean. Nathan was later infected with the techno-organic virus by Apocalypse. Cyclops was forced to allow Nathan to be brought to the future by the time travelling member of the Askani Clan.

After the X-Men and X-Factor defeated the malevolent psychic entity Shadow King, the members of X-Factor returned to the X-Men. Cyclops became leader of the X-Men Blue Team. Cyclops and Jean were captured by Mr. Sinister's agent Caliban, formerly their teammate in X-Factor, for Stryfe, a clone of an adult Nathan. Stryfe revealed to Cyclops and Jean that he is Nathan. The real Nathan, now the time-travelling Cable who arrived at the present some time back, fought Stryfe and both seemingly perished. Cable returned eventually and revealed to Cyclops that he is in fact his son. Despite teammate Psylocke's flirtations, Cyclops remained steadfast to Jean and eventually married her. While on a honeymoon, Cyclops and Jean's psyches were drawn into the future and placed in new bodies. As Slym and Redd, they raised a young Nathan for twelve years before they returned to the present at a moment just after they were sent to the future. Much later, during the anti-mutant Operation: Zero Tolerance, a bomb was placed in Cyclops' chest. The bomb was eventually removed but Cyclops left with Jean to recuperate for a period of time. Cyclops returned to the X-Men in time to be captured by Apocalypse as part of his Twelve. As Apocalypse harnessed the powers of the Twelve and prepared to merge his psyche into the body of the powerful Nate Grey, Cyclops managed to knock Nate away and willingly merge with Apocalypse. This new entity was believed dead but was soon found by Jean Grey and Cable in Egypt. Cable managed to remove Apocalypse's spirit and destroy it.

Cyclops returned to the X-Men with a darker personality. Problems started to emerge in his marriage to Jean and. Cyclops got close to fellow teammate Emma Frost, talking to her about his problems. The psychic therapy sessions soon turned into psychic trysts. Jean Grey found out about the psychic trysts and use her new-found Phoenix powers to humiliate Emma. The X-Men soon came under attack by the Chinese mutant Xorn, a Xavier Institute staff member. Xorn, disguised as Magneto, destroyed the Xavier Institute and New York. In the final battle, Xorn killed Jean. A dystopian alternate future resulted because Cyclops had fell into despair and was unable to move on with life and the X-Men. Jean was reborn 150 years into this future. Using her powers as the White Phoenix of the Crown, she gave a psychic nudge to Cyclops in the present, encouraging him to develop a relationship with Emma. This relationship was poorly taken by X-Men such as Wolverine, Kitty Pryde and Rachel Grey. Cyclops and Emma became co-headmasters of the Xavier Institute. Some time later, Gabriel resurfaced and revealed the true events surrounding Krakoa. This deepened the rift between Cyclops and Professor X, who had by then had several dark secrets revealed.

M-Day happened which depowered the majority of the mutant population. The first mutant who was born after M-Day attracted the attentions of several parties. (Messiah CompleX) Cyclops was convinced that the baby is the messiah child who would bring salvation to mutantkind. When he got hold of the baby, he passed her to Cable, who brought her to the future to raise her. Cyclops disbanded the X-Men for a brief period of time and established a new base in San Francisco, waiting for the messiah child to return. Cyclops was forced to relocate the X-Men to the mutant island Utopia after a clash with Norman Osborn's forces. (Utopia) The messiah child subsequently returned with Cable, which attracted the attentions of the cyborg Bastion, who sent his forces after her. The X-Men eventually managed to defeat Bastion and new mutants surfaced soon after.

With mutantkind fighting for survival, Cyclops believed in building a mutant army to defend themselves. However, Wolverine eventually came to believe in giving the younger mutants a chance at living normal lives. The schism led to Wolverine leading a group of X-Men and younger mutants back to the former grounds of the Xavier Institute where he established the new Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.

Storm (Ororo Iqadi T'Challa)

Powers
Weather control
History
Ororo's mother, N'Dare, is the princess of a tribe in Kenya and descended from a long line of African witch-priestesses with white hair, blue eyes and a natural gift for sorcery. N'Dare fell in love with American photojournalist David Munroe and married him. They moved to Harlem in uptown New York City, where Ororo was born. They moved to Egypt and lived there until Ororo's parents died during the Suez Crisis in a botched aircraft attack, leaving six-year old Ororo as an orphan. Buried under tons of rubble after that attack, Ororo suffered from claustrophobia. She eventually found her way out and became a skilled thief in Cairo under the benign Achmed el-Gibar. She encountered Charles Xavier and stole from him but Charles was able to use his mental powers to prevent Ororo from escaping. When he was attacked by the malevolent Amahl Farouk, the Shadow King, Ororo was able to escape. As a young woman, Ororo wandered into the Serengeti. When Storm made her way to Kenya, she was saved by a young T'Challa (later the Black Panther) from racist thugs. They shared a brief romance. Ororo made her way back to her native village where she used her powers to provide rain and was worshiped as a goddess.

When the original X-Men was captured by the living island Krakoa, Xavier traveled to recruit Ororo, recognizing her as the young girl who attempted to steal from him years ago. Ororo initially had trouble adjusting to Western culture but adapted soon after. After Cyclops took a leave of absence, Ororo became leader. She harbored motherly feelings for the young Kitty Pryde. Later, when the X-Man Angel was kidnapped by the disenfranchised mutants Morlocks, Storm challenged their leader Callisto to a duel. Despite already being rendered sick by the Morlock known as Plague, Storm defeated Callisto by impaling her through the heart, nearly killing her. Storm was usually a serene and independent person but her outlook of life started to darken. Storm became influenced by the ronin Yukio, a friend of Wolverine whom she became fast friends with. She changed her costume and spotted a Mohwak hairstyle, establishing a punk look and attitude. This change alienated her from Kitty. Storm soon lost her powers to a mutant power neutralizing gun that was intended for another X-Man Rogue but accidentally shot her. The gun was developed by the mutant Forge. Forge helped Storm cope with her life without powers in his home in Dallas, Texas and they fell in love. However, when Storm overheard a conversation between Forge and Gyrich, the government operative who fired the gun, she discovered that Forge had built the gun. She was heartbroken and left him. Storm made her way back to the X-Men, where she challenged Cyclops to the leadership. Even though she was powerless, she managed to defeat Cyclops, who left the X-Men to be with his wife, Madelyne Pryor. She changed back to her original look and joined the Hellfire Club together with Magneto. She became trapped in another dimension with Forge where she regained her elemental powers. They emerged in time to help the X-Men defeat the Adversary, apparently dying in the process. The X-Men were resurrected by the Omniversal Majestrix Roma. With the world believing them dead, they established a new base in the Australian Outback. She was later apparently killed by the evil cyborg Nanny but was in fact physically regressed back to childhood by Nanny. As a child, she was hunted by the Shadow King and framed for murder. She was rescued by the mutant Gambit and they formed a thieving partnership. She was kidnapped to the island Genosha by the mutant-hating government where she was transformed into a brainwashed mutate. In the end, she was restored physically and mentally back to her adult state and her brainwashing was reversed.

After the various X-teams defeated the Shadow King, the X-Men were reorganized into two teams, with Cyclops and Storm as the leaders of the respective teams. Forge proposed to Storm but she hesitated. Before Storm can respond, he rescinded his offer and departed. They eventually made up with each other. Much later, Storm led a breakaway team of X-Men to recover the lost prophetic Destiny's Diaries. The team became the Xtreme Sanctions Executive, a United Nations approved task force policing mutants given worldwide authority. They returned back to the Xavier Institute following its destruction at the hands of Xorn.

Storm resumed her romance with T'Challa, the King of Wakanda, which led to their marriage. Both Storm and Black Panther briefly joined the Fantastic Four. Later, Storm rejoined the X-Men, managing her duties with the X-Men and as the Queen of Wakanda. Following the schism, Storm stayed with Cyclops to help keep an eye on the strong personalities in the team. She also joined the Avengers.

Emma Frost

Powers

Telepathy, Able to turn into diamond form without access to telepathy

History

Emma Frost was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to the wealthy Winston and Hazel Frost; she is the second of three daughters and also had an older brother, Christian Frost. Winston was cold, ruthless, and domineering, often imposing impossibly high standards on his children, while Hazel abused prescription drugs to cope with the tensions of her household. Thus, Emma obtained no emotional support from her parents or her sisters Adrienne and Cordelia, but gets along with her gay brother Christian.

At her school, she was ruthlessly teased by the other students and has difficulties with her grades. She was supported by her teacher, Ian Kendall. After some time with headaches, her telepathic powers began to manifest, allowing her to read the minds of other students and get answers to the tests. Because she was able to glean information, Emma became a tutor to other students and Ian recommended her to be a teacher, something Emma's father refuseed.

On her way home from school one day, Emma's car broke down and Ian gives her a ride home. After reading his thoughts and learning that he thought she is beautiful and intelligent, Emma kissed him. Her sister Adrienne recorded it and her father used the evidence to get Ian fired. Emma began to fight back by revealing Adrienne's secret modeling career and taking pictures of her father with a mistress. Her actions intrigued her father, who said that she reminded him of himself at her age. Her father chose her to carry on his fortune, but after seeing her father betray her trust and commit Christian to a mental institution following a suicide attempt, Emma rejected his offer and decided to make her own way in life.

After a period of homelessness, Emma met and fell in love with a young man named Troy, who agreed to let Emma live with him. She learnt that he owed a large amount of money to a local mobster named Lucien. In order to save Troy's life, Emma agreed to participate in a fake kidnapping scheme in an attempt to extort the remainder of Troy's debt from her father. However, Winston refused to pay the ransom, and Troy was killed while valiantly attempting to save Emma from an enraged Lucien. After disposing of Troy's corpse, Lucien's thugs handcuffed Emma to a pipe and sealed her mouth shut with duct tape, intending to kill her later. Adrienne released Lucien's ransom video to the media, forcing Winston to pay for Emma's safe release. Not content with the money, Lucien still decided to kill her, but by using her powers, Emma turns the thugs against one another and then forced the remaining henchman to free her.

Emma takes the ransom money and enrolled in Empire State University. There, she began to learn about mutants for the first time. She briefly dated a basketball player; however after their first date, he mysteriously attacked her and was reported. She also met a fellow telepath named Astrid Bloom, who became her friend and mentor. Emma was also shocked to learn that Ian was also working at ESU and was dating her roommate. Emma, who still loved him, began to date him and was horrified to later learn that he was caught attacking her roommate. Emma later learned that Astrid was secretly behind both the basketball player and Ian's attacks. Furious, she attacked Astrid telepathically and left her comatose. Though she was able to use her powers to save Ian's job, he rejected her when she confessed her powers as a mutant to him. She became cold towards humans after this.

Emma later auditioned as a dancer for the Hellfire Club where she discovered the plans of Edward Buckman, the Club's leader, and Steven Lang to destroy all mutants. Alongside Sebastian Shaw, Lourdes Chantel, and Harry Leland, Emma battled Lang's Sentinels and with Shaw, killed Buckman and the Council of the Chosen. Shaw and Emma then took control of the Hellfire Club, setting themselves up as Lords Cardinal of the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club. Emma became White Queen. Emma also became Chairman of the Board of Trustees and headmistress of the Massachusetts Academy, a school for mutants which serves as a counterpoint to Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, recruiting young mutants competitively with Xavier by using a bug planted in Cerebro. Frost and the Club's agents later attempted to recruit Kitty Pryde for the Massachusetts Academy, and capture (and personally torture) several members of the X-Men, including Storm, Colossus, Wolverine, and Phoenix. Emma engaged Phoenix in a psychic battle in which she was overpowered and on the verge of being killed. Frost launched a last-minute attack that led the X-Men to believe she had committed suicide, though in truth, she was comatose and recovering from Phoenix's attack under the care of Sebastian Shaw. In another encounter with the X-Men, Frost telepathically forced Kitty Pryde's parents to transfer her from Xavier's to the Massachusetts Academy. She then switched minds with Storm in order to defeat the X-Men from within their own ranks, but the process was soon reversed and the two are restored to their respective bodies. She was later temporarily rendered comatose by Mastermind. As headmistress of the Massachusetts Academy, Emma trained a group of mutant students as the Hellions. She recruited the young mutant Firestar for the Hellions but after a while Firestar battled Emma and left the team. Emma then attempted to recruit Doug Ramsey (later Cypher) and captured Kitty Pryde again. They were rescued by Xavier's own student team, the New Mutants. When the New Mutants were killed and resurrected by the omnipotent Beyonder, they were left traumatized and withdrawn. Emma took the chance to mentally influence New Mutants' headmaster Magneto to transfer the team to her Massachusetts Academy. The plot was discovered and the New Mutants returned to the Xavier Institute. Alongside Shaw and Selene, Emma invited Magneto to join the Hellfire Club Inncer Circle. She engineered a competition between the New Mutants and Hellions and later recruited Magma into her Hellions. The Hellfire Club Inner Circle encountered the demonic invasion of New York (Inferno) after which Emma, Selene and Magneto voted to kick Shaw out. Later, the time-traveling Trevor Fitzroy unleashed the mutant-killing Sentinels robots on Emma and her Hellions. Emma fell into a psychic coma while the Hellions were mostly killed. Her body was placed in the Xavier Institute. When she woke up, she was disoriented and switch bodies with Iceman before Professor Xavier persuaded her to return to her own body.

Emma teamed up with X-Man Banshee and Jubilee, as well as the feral Sabretooth, to defeat the alien Phalanx and rescue a group of young mutants who were captured. The Massachusetts Academy was reopened and the young mutants trained as Generation X with Emma and Banshee as the co-headmasters. After Frost's business ventures took a bad turn, she seek help from her estranged sister Adrienne. Her sister offered financial assistance in exchange for becoming co-headmistress of the school in return. However, Adrienne secretly plotted against Emma and planted a bomb at the school, which killed Generation X member Synch. Frost murdered Adrienne and then returned to the Academy, growing increasingly distant from her students in an effort to hide her crime. Monet discovered that Emma murdered her sister and informed the other students that they can no longer trust her. This, combined with Banshee's increasing depression and alocholism following the death of his long-time lover Moira MacTaggert, led the students to leave, disbanding Generation X.

Emma made her way to the mutant island Genosha where she became a teacher. However, Genosha and its inhabitants were wiped out by an army of Sentinels sent by Cassandra Nova, Professor X's long lost twin sister. Emma managed to survive by manifesting a secondary mutation, turning his body diamond. Emma made her way to the Xavier Institute where she joined the teaching staff. She took special interest in a group of telepathic quintet, the Stepford Cuckoos. Emma also began telepathic trysts with Cyclops, who had problems with his marriage to Jean Grey. When a school riot led to the death of Sophie of the Stepford Cuckoos, the rest of her sisters grew bitter and blamed Emma's failed mentor-ship. They exposed Emma's psychic affair with Cyclops to Jean Grey. Jean Grey psychically humiliated Emma and the later was found shattered into many diamond pieces. The mutant detectives Bishop and Sage were brought in to investigate the apparent murder. During the investigation, Jean Grey used her powers to piece together the pieces and revive Emma; and Emma was able to point to Esme of the Stepford Cuckoos as the one who mind-controlled another student Angel Salvadore to shoot her. Esme was under the influence of the teacher Xorn, who masqueraded as Magneto. Xorn destroyed the Xavier Institute and took over New York. When the X-Men attacked Xorn, he killed Jean Grey before Wolverine killed him. A guilt-ridden Cyclops was unable to move on with his life, which led to a dystopian future. Jean was reborn in this future and after sensing the cause, used her powers to urge Cyclops and Emma to start a relationship. However, the relationship came under criticism from other X-Men such as Wolverine, Kitty Pryde and Rachel Grey. A while later, the X-Men came to learn that the Stepford Cuckoos were created by the Weapon Plus program from genetic material in Emma Frost's ova collected while she was unconscious following Trevor Fitzroy's attack.

Emma came under the influence of Cassandra Nova, creating manifestations of Cassandra; Sebastian Shaw; Emma's younger self in the Hellfire Club as Perfection; as well as Emma's student in Genosha, Negasonic Teenage Warhead. Cyclops was able to figure out that the manifestations were fake and led the X-Men to return Emma to her senses. Much later, she was invited into the secret cabal of Norman Osborn (Green Goblin) who managed to become director of the HAMMER agency. The cabal consisted Namor, Doctor Doom, Loki and the Hood. It was revealed that Emma once shared a romantic relationship with Namor during her time in the Hellfire Club. When a riot broke out in San Francisco, the X-Men's new base, Osborn sent his HAMMER agents and Avengers to quell the riot. He invited Emma to leave Cyclops and lead his team of X-Men. Emma accepted and invited Namor to join. As things come to a head, Emma revealed her true loyalties and brought Namor along with Cloak and Dagger in Osborn's X-Men back to Cyclops' side. Since then, she has been dealing with Namor's advances.

Following the schism and the absence of the wealthy Warren Worthington III (Archangel), Emma funds Cyclops' X-Men.

Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)

Powers

Able to transform his body into organic steel; Able to call on the powers of Juggernaut, granting additional strength

History

Piotr "Peter" Rasputin was born on a Soviet collective farm called the Ust-Ordynski Collective near Lake Baikal in Siberia. He lived there with his mother Alexandra, father Nikolai, and sister,Illyana. His older brother, Mikhail, had been a Soviet cosmonaut and had apparently died in a rocket accident. Peter's superhuman powers manifested during his adolescence while saving his sister from a runaway tractor. At first, Peter was content simply to use these powers to aid the other people of the collective; however he was soon contacted by Professor Charles Xavier, the founder of the X-Men. Xavier was recruiting a new team of X-Men to rescue the original team, most of whom had been captured by the sentient mutant island Krakoa. Colossus remained with the X-Men and he became known to be peaceful, selfless, and was reluctant to hurt or kill anyone, always putting himself himself in danger to protect others.

The villain Arcade sent his employee Miss Locke to kidnap the X-Men's loved ones, including Colossus' younger sister Illyana. After the X-Men defeated Arcade, Illyana lived with her brother at the Xavier Institute. Illyana was later trapped in Limbo where she grew up to be the mutant sorceress Magik. When the X-Men fought the evil mutant Proteus who was killing humans, Colossus was forced to exploit Proteus' weakness for metal and kill him via contact. Peter formed a relationship with fellow X-Man Kitty Pryde. The X-Men was soon trapped with other heroes along with a group of villains in a world created by the omnipotent Beyonder. During this Secret Wars, Peter was infatuated with the alien healer Zsaji, who soon died. When Peter returned to Earth, he ended his relationship with Kitty. During the Marauders' massacre of the sewer dwelling Morlocks (Mutant Massacre), Kitty was severely injured and Peter gave in to his rage and snapped the neck of one of the Marauders. Peter was severely injured in the fight. Magneto, then an X-Man, used his powers to heal Peter but the process left him paralyzed. He was sent to Muir Island along with injured X-Men Nightcrawler and Shadowcat to recuperate.

When Peter saw the X-Men fight the Adversary in Dallas (Fall of Mutants), he had his sister Illyana teleport him to join in the fight. The team sacrificed themselves to stop the Adversary but were resurrected by Roma. With the world believing them dead, the X-Men operated out of a base in the Australian Outback. When Illyana de-aged back to a child to stop a demonic invasion (Inferno), Peter sent her back to live in Russia. (It was strongly hinted that the son's father is Colossus). Back in the Australian Outback, the X-Men were under attack by the cybernetic Reavers and the X-Man Psylocke telepathically prodded the X-Men to escape via the mystical Siege Perilous. Peter emerged in New York with no memory of his life, inventing a new life for himself as Peter Nicholas, a successful artist. Eventually, Peter was controlled by the malevolent psychic entity Shadow King to hunt down Charles Xavier and Stevie Hunter. Xavier had no choice but to destroy the Peter Nicholas persona to break the Shadow King's hold. With his memories back, Colossus rejoined the X-Men, joining the Gold Team. The X-Men found themselves in another dimension where they found Colossus' brother Mikhail. Mikhail returned to Earth, where he established himself as the remnants of the Morlocks and teleported them to another world. Soon after, Peter's parents were killed and Illyana kidnapped by the Russian government, who hoped to use Illyana's powers to defeat the Soul Skinner. The X-Men managed to save Illyana and bring her back to the Mansion. However, Illyana became a victim from the Legacy Virus and died. The death of his family and brain damage that forced him to remain in armored form affected Peter deeply and he joined Magneto and his Acolytes. Even after he recovered from brain damage, he decided to remain with the Acolytes hoping that he can temper the Acolytes' extremist methods with what he had learned from Professor Xavier.

The Acolytes' base in the asteroid Avalon was destroyed. Still alive on Earth, he traveled to England to seek out former love Shadowcat, now a member of Excalibur. Peter found Kitty in the arms of her new love Pete Wisdom. Exhausted, mentally ill and enraged, Peter attacked Wisdom and nearly killed him but he was subdued by Captain Britain and Meggan and later cured of his illness by Moira. Colossus accepted Kitty's relationship and joined Excalibur. Excalibur eventually disbanded and Colossus returned to the X-Men along with Nightcrawler and Shadowcat. Using notes from the recently murdered Moira MacTaggert, the X-Man Beast created a cure for the Legacy Virus. However, it had to be made airborne with the death of its first user. Not wanting others to die like Illyana, Colossus administered the cure on himself and he seemingly died. Colossus' body was cremated and Kitty scattered the ashes in Russia.

Much later, Kitty found Colossus alive while raiding the medical company Benetech, which had developed a mutant cure. It was revealed that the alien Ord from Breakworld captured Colossus' body and left a body that the X-Men cremated. After reviving Peter, Ord managed to use the Legacy Virus cure in Peter's blood to develop the mutant cure. Peter then rejoined the X-Men. Peter was involved in an elaborate scheme created by Aghanne, the leader of a Breakword reform cult, in which he was prophesized to destroy Breakworld. Colossus' steel form would allow him to destroy the planet's power source, initiating a chain reaction that would destroy the entire world. However, Colossus refused to destroy Breakworld.

Colossus was involved in several X-Men missions. When a teenage Illyana resurfaced, Colossus eventually managed to persuade her to stay with the X-Men. Later, the Juggernaut became Kuurth: Breaker of Stone, one of the Heralds of the asgardian Serpent, attacked San Francisco as part of the Serpent's plan to wreck havoc in the world (Fear Itself). A small team including Colossus, Kitty and Illyana made their way to the other-dimensional being Cyttorak, who was responsible for empowering the Juggernaut. Illyana was able to bargain with Cyttorak to reappoint a new avatar of the Juggernaut. Unable to accept Illyana taking on the powers, Peter took the powers for himself. Following the Schism, Kitty left the mutant island Utopia while Colossus decided to stay due to fears of his new powers being unsafe around children.

Magneto (Max Eisenhardt)

Powers
Master of Magnetism
History
Magneto was born Max Eisenhardt in the late 1920s to a middle class German Jewish family whose father, Jakob, was a highly decorated World War I veteran. Surviving discrimination and hardship during the Nazi rise to power, Kristallnacht, and the passing of the Nuremberg Laws, in 1939 Max and his family fled to Poland where they were captured during the German invasion of Poland and sent to the Warsaw Ghetto. Max and his family escaped the Ghetto, only to be betrayed and captured again. His mother, father, and sister were executed and buried in a mass grave, but Max survived, possibly due to the manifestation of his powers. Escaping from the mass grave, he was ultimately captured yet again and sent to Auschwitz, where he eventually became a Sonderkommando. While at Auschwitz, Eisenhardt reunited with a Roma girl named Magda, with whom he had fallen in love when he was younger, and with whom he escaped the prison camp during the October 7th 1944 revolt. Following the war, he and Magda moved to the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia, and Max adopted the name "Magnus". Magda and Magnus had a daughter named Anya, and lived uneventfully until one night when an angry mob burned down their home with Anya still inside. Enraged at the mob for preventing him from rescuing Anya, the young Magnus's powers manifested uncontrollably, killing the mob and destroying a part of the city. Magda, terrified at Magnus' power, left him and later gave birth to the mutant twins Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch before walking away to die. Wanted by the authorities for the deaths and destruction in Vinnytsia, while searching for Magda, Magnus paid a Romanian forger, George Odekirk, to create the cover identity of "Erik Lehnsherr the Sinte gypsy" for him.

Erik made his way to Israel where he met and befriended Charles Xavier while working at a psychiatric hospital near Haifa. They had lengthy debates regarding the rise of mutants. While facing Baron Strucker and HYDRA, they were forced to reveal their mutant abilities to each other. After the battle, Erik realized that his views were not compatible with Xavier's. He left with a cache of hidden Nazi gold which provided him with the finances to pursue his goals.

Magneto's experiences in Auschwitz and Vinnystia shaped his outlook on the situation that mutants face. Determined to keep such atrocities from ever being committed against mutantkind, he is willing to use deadly force to protect mutants. He first surfaced to attack the United States military base at Cape Citadel. He was defeated by Charles Xavier's students, the X-Men. Magneto proceeded to to create the Asteroid M, an orbital base of operations and gathered a group of mutants including Toad, Mastermind, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch into the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. They briefly conquered the South American nation Santo Marco but was eventually driven out by the X-Men.

Both Magneto and Toad were captured by the alien Stranger, whom Magneto initially thought was a powerful mutant. They were encased in a special cocoon and brought to another planet. Magneto managed to escape, leaving Toad behind. Magneto reformed the Brotherhood without Mastermind but with Toad who managed to make his way back from the Stranger's world. He captured the X-Men but was defeated by the Avengers with the aid of a rebellious Toad. Magneto traveled to the prehistoric Savage Land to create the Savage Land Mutates, clashing with the X-Men and Ka-Zar. Magneto went on to get into several clashes. Using ancient and advanced alien technology, Magneto created an artificial humanoid "Alpha the Ultimate Mutant". Alpha rebelled against his creator and reduced Magneto to infancy. The infant Magneto was placed in the care of Dr. Moira MacTaggert at her Muir Island facility. At Muir Island, MacTaggert manipulated the infant Magneto's genetic code to prevent him from becoming "evil" in adulthood. However, her genetic tampering lost its effect when Magneto reactivated his powers again. Magneto was eventually restored to adulthood in his physical prime and was found by the alien Shi'ar agent Erik the Red.

Magneto later discovered that former Brotherhood members the Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are actually his children, also learning of their recent marriages to the Vision and Crystal respectively and Quicksilver's child Luna. He revealed his identity to his children but they refused to forgive him.

Magneto allied with Professor X and the X-Men when a group of heroes and villains were abducted by the omnipotent Beyonder. After this Secret Wars, Magneto was transported back to Asteroid M. However, the alien Warlock, traveling to Earth, collided with the asteroid, breaking it to pieces. Magneto fell towards Earth and into the Atlantic Ocean, sustaining serious injures He was rescued by Lee Forrester, the captain of a fishing trawler. Lee helped him recuperate from his injuries and the two shared a brief romance. After recuperating from his injuries, Magneto was asked to aid the X-Men in battling the returned Beyonder. Magneto eventually softened his view on humanity, surrendering himself to the law to stand trial for his crime. A special tribunal was organized in Paris which eventually chose to strike all charges against Magneto from prior to his 'rebirth'. The tribunal was interrupted by an attack from Fenris, the twin children of Baron Strucker. Fenris was defeated but Professor sustained grave injuries from the battle. Xavier asked Magneto to take over his school and the X-Men while he traveled into outer space to heal under the care of the intergalactic pirates Starjammers. Magneto agreed and chose not to return to the courthouse to accept judgment. He took over the school under the identity Michael Xavier, Charles' cousin. Recognizing his efforts at reforming, Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch began to accept him as their father.

Magneto made a substantial effort as headmaster of the New Mutants and an ally to the X-men but his tenure was disastrous. The Beyonder returned to kill the New Mutants thought he brought them back to life soon after. Magneto was also manipulated by Emma Frost to add the New Mutants into her Hellions team though the ploy was found out and the New Mutants were returned. Following the Marauders' massacre of the sewer dwelling Morlocks, Magneto and Storm joined the Hellfire Club jointly as the White King. His relationship with the New Mutants deteriorated with several events and after they witnessed Magneto and the Hellfire Club negotiating with the demons during the demonic invasion of New York (Inferno), they rejected Magneto. Magneto also ousted long time Hellfire Club Black King Sebastian Shaw an established himself as the Grey King. Magneto participated in the Acts of Vengeance along other villains. Later, he made her way to the Savage Land where he helped the X-Man Rogue. He worked alongside Rogue, Ka-Zar, Nick Fury and a number of of Russian operatives to reestablish peace in the Savage Land. In the process, Magneto encountered Zaladane who wanted to conquer the Savage Land and killed her. With her death, Magneto renounced his efforts in following Xavier's beliefs.

Tired of the constant state of strife, Magneto built a second orbital base called Avalon where he hoped to live a life of quiet seclusion. However, a group of mutants calling themselves the Acolytes approached him to pledge their service and allegiance to him. Under the influence of one of the Acolytes, Fabian Cortez, Magneto announced that Asteroid M will be a new homeland for mutantkind. He discovered that Moira MacTaggert had altered his genetic structure where he was de-aged. Enraged that his redemption was a lie, he kidnapped Moira and subjected her to torture. He would later learn that the genetic tampering had lost its effect when he used his powers after he re-aged. The X-Men attacked Avalon to rescue Moira and stop Magneto and the Soviets launched a particle beam satellite that destroyed Asteroid M. Betrayed and abandoned by Cortez, Magneto refused Xavier's pleas to escape with the X-Men back to Earth. He seemingly perished with his followers but it was later revealed that he was saved by the Acolyte Chrome in a protective shell.

The U.N. Security Council, in response to a resurgent Magneto, voted to activate the "Magneto Protocols: - a satellite network, which skews the Earth's magnetic field enough to prevent Magneto from using his powers within. In response, Magneto generated an electromagnetic pulse to destroy the satellites and deactivate every electric device on Earth within minutes. The X-Men sent a team into space to face Magneto. During the battle, Magneto ripped the adamantium from Wolverine's bones, which enraged Xavier to the point that he wiped Magneto's mind, leaving him in a coma. Magneto remained comatose on Avalon, worshiped by the Acolytes under the leadership of the ancient mutant Exodus until Avalon was destroyed by the arrival of Holocaust from the Age of Apocalypse reality. Colossus, then an Acolyte, placed Magneto in an escape pod sending him back to Earth. The pod was intercepted by his former ally Astra. Astra cloned Magneto and restored Magneto's memories and powers before attempting to kill him. Magneto managed to triumph over the clone, who became Joseph, while he went into hiding. Joseph made his way to the X-Men and the world believed him to be Magneto. The real Magneto posed as Erik the Red and revealed Gambit's past crimes to the X-Men, resulting in Gambit's expulsion from the team. Magneto then killed George Odekirk, the forger that created his "Erik Lehnsherr" alias to prevent his identity from being discovered by Israeli superhero Sabra and diplomat Gabrielle Haller.

Magneto constructed a machine to amplify and blackmailed the world to ceding him a country for him to establish a mutant nation. The X-Men and Joseph confronted him. Magneto's powers were severely depleted from over-straining them in battling Joseph, who sacrificed his life to restore the Earth to normal. However, the UN, manipulated by its mutant affairs officer Alda Huxley, ceded to Magneto the island nation Genosha. He ruled Genosha with the aid of Quicksilver, Polaris and Fabian Cortez. Despite the UN's hopes that the Genoshan civil war between humans and mutants would occupy him, Magneto ultimately crushed all opposition to his rule and rebuilt the nation. He raised an army of mutants and captured Charles Xavier as a symbol to rally his troops in a declaration of war on humanity. However, a group of ad-hoc X-Men defeated him. Wolverine took the opportunity to cripple Magneto with serious injuries. When Polaris discovered that she was in fact Magneto's daughter, Magneto announced to Genosha the fact. However, Genosha was soon attacked by an army of Sentinels raised by Xavier's twin sister Cassandra Nova Xavier. Over 16 million mutants and humans died in Genosha, with Magneto seemingly one of the casualties.

The Chinese mutant Xorn masqueraded as Magneto, attacking the Xavier Institute and New York and eventually killing X-Man Jean Grey before he was beheaded by Wolverine. When Xavier took the body of Xorn to Genosha for burial, he met the real Magneto. Both of them teamed up to rebuild Genosha along a group of mutants. When the Scarlet Witch suffered a mental breakdown and killed several of her teammates in the Avengers, Magneto brought her to Genosha to take care of her. The Avengers and X-Men met and some of them suggested killing the Scarlet Witch. Quicksilver learnt of their intentions and traveled to Genosha to inform Magneto before he convinced his sister to use her powers to warp reality into the House of M where Magneto is the ruler of the world. However, Wolverine recovered his memories and with the help of a young girl Layla Miller, restored the memories of several heroes. Together, they attacked Magneto in Genosha, believing him responsible. When Quicksilver revealed himself to be responsible, Magneto killed Quicksilver only for the Scarlet Witch to resurrect him. The Scarlet Witch proceeded on to warp reality back to normal but uttered the words 'No More Mutants' causing the majority of the mutant population, including Magneto, to lose their powers.

When Quicksilver came to Genosha to restore the mutants' powers with the Inhumans' Terrigen Mists, Magneto condemned his actions. An angry Quicksilver attacked Magneto and savagely beat him until his own daughter Luna stopped him. Much later, Charles Xavier suffered head injuries from a shot fired by the former X-Man Bishop during the events of Messiah CompleX. The Acolyte Exodus took Charles' body and invited Magneto to help him restore Charles' psyche. The powerless Magneto was looked down upon by both Exodus and another Acolyte Frenzy.

When the X-Men moved to San Francisco, Magneto appeared and seemingly used his powers to reactivate Sentinels to attack them. The X-Men defeated him and it was revealed that his powers were artificially simulated by a suit design by the High Evolutionary. The attack was a distraction so that the High Evolutionary can obtain an unknown object from the Dreaming Celestial currently in San Francisco. After extensively examining the Dreaming Celestial, the High Evolutionary was able to help Magneto restore his powers. Shortly after the X-Men moved to the mutant island Utopia, which was created using the remnants of his old Asteroid M, Magneto approached them and offered to work with them. Magneto tried ways to gain the trust of X-Men leader Cyclops, eventually returning Kitty Pryde, then trapped in a bullet in space, to Earth. Magneto remained with the X-Men, forming a relationship with fellow X-Man Rogue.

Magik (Illyana Nikolaevna Rasputin)

PowersTeleportation of self and others through time and space via teleportation discs; trained sorceress; owns the Soulsword, which grants various powers

History

Illyana was born in Ust-Ordynski Collective farm near Lake Baikal, Siberia. When she was six years old, she was kidnapped to America by the villain Arcade because of her ties to the X-Man Colossus. The X-Men managed to defeat Arcade and rescue their kins and friends. Later, Illyana was trapped in Limbo for seven years during which she was an apprentice to Belasco. Eventually, Illyana created the Soulsword and used it to defeat Belasco, taking over Limbo as ruler. She returned to Earth but only mere moments have passed in the real world since her capture.

Illyana was sent back to Russia to live with her parents until they were murdered by the Russian government. Illyana returned to live in the Xavier Institute. Shortly after, she contracted and lost her life to the mutant-killing Legacy Virus (in Uncanny X-Men #303 (1993)).

Illyana's Darkchylde personality took hold and she desired to create several more bloodstones to gain godlike powers. She attacked several demons in search of her Bloodstone amulet, which was actually in the hands of Belasco's daughter Witchfire. Back in San Francisco, Pixie discovered that Illyana's soulsword was hidden inside Nightcrawler and Illyana appeared to reclaim her soulsword. When she returned, she discovered that Witchfire had taken over Limbo. Illyana was defeated by Witchfire. A group of X-Men made their way to Limbo where they rescued Illyana and defeated Witchfire, ending her plot to release the Elder Gods. She teleported the X-Men back to Earth, where Cyclops persuaded her to stay.

However, she risked the X-Men and New Mutants' lives in a plot to destroy the Elder Gods and was thereafter imprisoned by the X-Men. Following the schism, she was released and she joined Cyclops' Extinction Team.

Danger

Powers

Ability to create holographic projections; enhanced strength and durability; flight; energy blasts

History

Danger is the physical embodiment of the X-Men's training facility, Danger Room. For years, she was self-conscious but Professor X chose not to free her. Danger persuaded student Wing to kill himself, which allowed her to break free of her programming restrictions. She attacked the X-Men, then proceeded to find Professor X at the mutant island Genosha. In Genosha, Danger took control of a Wild Sentinel and engaged the X-Men again. Beast managed to destroy Danger's body but her consciousness apparently existed inside that of the Sentinel. She reappeared in a humanoid form similar to her original body, offering assistance to Ord of the Breakworld. Ord and Danger ended up in Breakworld along with the X-Men and S.W.O.R.D.. In Breakworld, Danger attacked Cyclops and Emma Frost and managed to knock out Cyclops. Emma confronted Danger and revealed that Danger had not overcome her programming which prevented her from killing mutants. Emma Frost convinced Danger to help the X-Men instead, offering to give Professor X to Danger in exchange. After the adventure in Breakworld, Danger was taken into custody by S.W.O.R.D.. When S.W.O.R.D.'s headquarters was destroyed during the alien Skrull invasion, Danger escaped and made her way to Australia. She tricked Rogue with the intention of using her as a means of getting revenge on Professor X. However, she was also targeted by an alien Shi'ar salvage crew. After being damaged by the crew, Danger warped the immediate area with holographic projections of past moments of Rogue's life and famous moments in the X-Men history. Xavier and Gambit made their way to the virtual reality where along with Rogue, they took out the Shi'ar salvage crew. Xavier persuaded Danger to give up her quest for revenge, after which both of them helped Rogue gain full control of her powers.

Danger followed Rogue and Gambit back to the X-Men in San Francisco. She became the prison warden of the mutant island Utopia and an X-Man. After the schism, she was made a member of Cyclops' Extinction Team and is also a member of the X-Club science team.

Namor the Sub-Mariner

Powers

Amphibious physiology; Flight; Superhuman strength, speed, agility, durability and longevity

History

Namor is the mutant son of a human seaman Leonard MacKenzie and an atlantean princess Fen.

As a hybrid, he possesses the super strength and aquatic abilities of the Homo Mermanus race of Atlantis and the mutant powers of flight. He grew up with a short, nasty temper and a hostile attitude towards the surface dwellers, blaming them for the near destruction of Atlantis. As Sub-Mariner, he launched frequent attacks on humanity, causing untold destruction on New York City, which him into a confrontation with the original Human Torch. When the Nazis attacked Atlantis, he joined the Allied Forces and served with Captain America and others in the Invaders.

Much later, in the modern era, he was found amnesiac by Fantastic Four's Human Torch. He began a series of attacks on New York City but was stopped by Fantastic Four each time. Eventually, Namor used his abilities for the benefit of humanity, joining teams such as Defenders and the Avengers. He was also part of the secret Illuminati (Iron Man, Mr Fantastic, Dr Strange, Black Bolt) for years. Due to disagreements among members, the Illuminati broke up.

When Norman Osborn became the Director for National Security, he invited Namor to be part of his secret villainous Cabal. Fellow Cabal member Emma Frost was asked by Norman to form a X-Men team under his auspices and she took the opportunity to invite Namor to join. Emma and Namor shared a romantic history during her days in the Hellfire Club. However, Emma soon revealed her true loyalties, bringing Namor along with her to return to the X-Men. Norman sent his X-Men, along with the Avengers and HAMMER agents to attack Cyclops' X-Men at their new island base of Utopia but was successfully repelled. Since then, Namor has remained with the X-Men on the island of Utopia.

Trivial

While Namor is often called the first mutant, he is not the oldest mutant. Rather, he is the first mutant character to appear in print for Marvel.

Namor's favorite war-cry is 'Imperious Rex'.

Hope (Hope Summers)

Powers

Power Mimic

History

In a major battle among all sides involved, Cyclops got hold of the baby and gave her to Cable so that he can raise her in the future. Cable raised the baby as they hop through the timeline evading pursue by Bishop. After an encounter with Bishop, Cable took Hope to the safe haven New Liberty where he married a woman named Hope and raised the baby to a child. New Liberty was eventually invaded by an army of humanoid roaches who called themselves the United States Army, upon which Cable escaped with his family. He eventually killed the President. However, Cable's wife was killed shortly after. Cable named the baby Hope after her adoptive mother.

Bishop caught up with Cable and Hope and the pair had to fight through the parasitic Brood and undergo many time jumps to shake off the pursuit. They managed to trap Bishop and return to the present timeline. Her return was noticed, as Bastion sent his forces in an attempt to kill her. The X-Men mobilized to protect her and managed to get her back to their island Utopia. When Bastion arrived at Utopia, Hope manifested her powers for the first time, utilizing a variety of other mutants' powers, including the Phoenix Force, to destroy Bastion.

Shortly after, five new mutants emerged. Cyclops dispatched the X-Men to monitor each of the 5 mutants while Hope and Rogue travel to help these mutants. These new mutants seem to struggle with the onset of their powers and were only stabilized by Hope's touch. Hope became the leader of the Five Lights, which became a search-and-rescue team for new mutants. Hope also became a member of Cyclops' X-Men.

Psylocke (Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock)

Powers

Telepathy, residual telekinesis

History

Betsy was born in Britain to Sir James Braddock as the elder twin to Brian Braddock. She was recruited into Britain's S.T.R.I.K.E.'s Psi division and later took over Brian's role as Captain Britain. During a battle with Slaymaster, her eyes were gouged out. Recovering in the Alps, she was kidnapped by Mojo, brainwashed and given cybernetic eyes. She was rescued by Brian and the New Mutants.

Following the Marauder's massacre of the sewer-dwelling Morlocks, Psylocke joined the X-Men. The X-Men seemingly sacrificed themselves in Dallas to help Forge bind the Adversary. They were resurrected by the Omniversal Guardian, Roma and relocated to a base in the Australian Outback. Having a recognitive flash that the cyborg Reavers were going to kill the X-Men, she sent members of the team through the mystical Siege Perilous.

Psylocke was found amnesiac on an island off China by Matsu'o Tsurayaba, the leader of the ninja group the Hand. Seeing the chance to help his brain-dead lover Kwannon, he had Spiral use Psylocke's telepathy to restore Kwannon's brain. However, Spiral placed the two women's minds in each others' bodies. Psylocke, in Kwannon's body became Lady Mandarin, the Hand's prime assassin, before she was liberated by Wolverine and Jubilee and rejoined the X-Men. Kwannon, in Psylocke's body, appeared at the Xavier Institute claiming to be the real Psylocke but no one was sure who the real Psylocke is. Kwannon contracted the mutant-killing Legacy virus and asked Matsu'o to kill her, restoring Psylocke's full personality.

Psylocke developed a romantic relationship with fellow X-Man Archangel. After Psylocke suffered fatal injuries at the hands of Sabretooth, Archangel and Wolverine retrieved magical liquid from the Crimson Dawn in an effort to heal her. As a result, she gained the ability to teleport through shadows, as well as a red tattoo over her left eye.

Fighting against the Shadow King, Psylocke sacrificed her telepathy to trap him. When Jean Grey helped Psylocke to deal with the Shadow King, their powers swapped: with Psylocke gaining the powers of telekinesis and Jean Grey losing the powers of telekinesis but gaining greater telepathy powers.

Psylocke joined Storm's team in search of the precognitive mutant Destiny's diaries. On their first mission, she fought and was killed by Vargas.

She was resurrected one year later by her elder brother Jamie who also gave her immunity to mind powers to prepare her to fight the First Fallen. Psylocke eventually fulfilled her role and Jamie sacrificed himself to trap the First Fallen.

Psylocke was recruited into the dimension-hopping Exiles to help fix realities with problems. She was eventually kidnapped by the Red Queen, the psychic ghost of Madelyne Pryor. The Red Queen returned Psylocke's mind into her original British body under her control. When the X-Men attacked Red Queen and her Sisterhood, Dazzler destroyed Psylocke's face and liberated her from the Red Queen's control. Psylocke returned to her Japanese body and rejoined the X-Men with a new power set: telepathy and telekinesis though both powers were not as strong as before.

Psylocke joined the X-Club in travelling to the past in an attempt to unlock the secrets of mutantkind in an attempt to reverse the effects of the mutant-depowering M-Day. Back in the present, Psylocke travelled to Japan to bury her former British body, which had been exhumed by the Red Queen. However, in a ploy to get Psylocke to meet him, Matsu'o Tsurayaba sent the Hand to destroy the body. Psylocke found her way to Matsu'o and learnt that he had been slowly disfigured by Wolverine as punishment for his role in the death of Wolverine's former fiancee, Mariko Yashida. Matsu'o wanted Psylocke to end his life as he did not have hands to perform seppuku. After a fight between Psylocke and Wolverine, the latter allowed Psylocke to end Matsu'o's life.

Psylocke has since participated in several missions with the X-Men. Psylocke also joined Wolverine's Uncanny X-Force team, where she resumed a relationship with Angel (Warren Worthington) She attempted to use her telepathy to keep Warren Worthington's Archangel persona in check but ultimately failed. Archangel became Apocalypse's heir and went on to attempt genocide before Psylocke was forced to kill him. A resurrected Warren emerged but he became amnesiac. While Psylocke remained in Uncanny X-Force, she is under Cyclops at Utopia.

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Other Mutants under Team Cyclops

Security Recon (X-Men)

This team ensures the safety of Utopia island and is featured in X-Men vol. 3.

Psylocke (Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock), leader

Jubilee (Jubilation Lee)

Warpath (James Proudstar)

Domino (Neena Thurman)

(For more, check X-Men vol. 3)

Clean-Up (New Mutants)

The New Mutants team is responsible for cleaning up the X-Men's loose ends. It is based in 1128 Mission Street, San Francisco, California.

Dani Moonstar, leader

Magma (Amara Aquilla)

Sunspot (Roberto "Bobby" Da Costa)

Cypher (Douglas Ramsey)

Warlock

X-Man (Nate Grey)

(For more, check out New Mutants)

X-Club/Science Team

Dr. Nemesis (James Nicola Bradley)

Dr. Kavita Rao

Madison Jefferies

Danger

Generation Hope

The team is known as the Lights and is a search-and-rescue team for new mutants. Members of the team also join the other recruits in the Street Team.

Hope Summers, leader

Transonic (Laurie Tromette)

Velocidad (Gabriel Cohuelo)

Primal (Teon Savko)

Zero (Kenji Uedo)

Pixie (Megan Gwynn)

(For more, check out Generation Hope)

Street Team

This team consists of recruits under the eyes of experienced X-Men and is involved in patrolling the streets of San Francisco.

Dazzler (Alison Blaire), leader

Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith)

Lifeguard (Heather Cameron)

Recruits

The recruits patrol the streets of San Francisco in shifts and go through a diverse syllabus.

Prodigy (David Alleyne)

Surge (Noriko Ashida)

Dust (Sooraya Qadir)

Loa (Alani Ryan)

Martha Johannson

Stepford Cuckoos (Phoebe, Irma Mindee, Celeste)

Crosta

Others

There are X-Men living in Utopia who are not on active duty.

Professor X (Charles Xavier)

Legion (David Charles Xavier)

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X-Club Profiles

Madison Jeffries (Box)

Powers

Psionic machine assembly

Group Affiliations

X-Men, X-Club, formerly Weapon X, Alpha Flight, Gamma Flight, Zodiac

Other Aliases

Box, Gemini

History

As a young man, Madison Jeffries volunteered to enlist as a soldier in Vietnam, alongside his younger brother Lionel. His brother went mad after he used his abilities to reshape organic materials to revive dead soldiers. Madison was forced to use his own powers to bind his brother. Lionel was committed to a psychiatric ward while Madison left the service.

Madison met and befriended a man named Roger Bochs at a clinic for physically disabled superheroes. The two became fast friends and Madison used his mutant powers to help Roger complete his ultimate creation: the Box robot. They were discovered by Dr. James MacDonald Hudson, a.k.a. Weapon Alpha, and recruited into the up and coming Alpha Flight program, established by Department H. Madison was sent to the third-tier Gamma Flight program while Bochs and Box reached the Beta Flight level. Madison had a brief relationship with fellow teammate Diamond Lil but they drifted apart for some time.

Lionel resurfaced as head of the New Life Clinic, where he used his mutant powers to heal injured members of Alpha Flight. However, Lionel had been experimenting, altering Bochs, now in Alpha Flight, so that he can impress teammate and girlfriend Aurora. Jealous with Aurora's former boyfriend Walter Langkowski and with his alterations deteriorating, Bochs joined with Bochs to attack Walter. Madison forcibly removed Boschs from Box, taking control of the robot. Bochs physically joined with Lionel to become Omega. Madison merged with Box to fight and destroy Omega.

As Box, Madison joined Alpha Flight where he formed a brief relationship with Heather Hudson and they were briefly engaged. However, Heather's ex-husband James was found alive, bringing an end to the engagement. Madison formed a relationship with Diamond Lil and they eventually married.

Alpha Flight was disbanded and subsequently reactivated. On the team's first mission, the criminal organization Zodiac kidnapped and brainwashed Madison, convincing him to become Gemini. Lil was kidnapped by Department H and experimented on. After both Madison and Lil were liberated, Madison was kidnapped by Weapon X, brainwashed and made to create the Neverland death camp. Diamond Lil was also kidnapped by Weapon X and taken to Neverland. When an internal schism forced Weapon X's Director to run away, Madison aided him.

Madison ended up trapped in a building with killer robots until he was rescued by Angel, Beast and Dr. Nemesis. Madison was recruited into the X-Men Science Team. When the X-Men relocated to the mutant island Utopia, Diamond Lil joined the mutant community established there. However, Lil was killed by Mortis during an attack launched by Selene. (Necrosha) Madison built a glass coffin for her and Lil was buried at sea. Madison later developed an attraction for Danger.

Doctor Nemesis (James Nicola Bradley)
Powers

Scientific Genius; Armed with two handguns firing hypodermic projectiles containing narcotic drugs; Prolonged lifespan
History

Bradley was the co-creator of the android Human Torch in the late 1930s with Professor Phineas T. Horton. He was mostly a silent partner in this endeavor and began building a second android. The two scientists were unable to correct the design flaw that would cause their android to burst into flames upon exposure to oxygen. Bradley preferred to resolve the issue before revealing their work to the public. However, Horton was eager for both fame and further financial backing, and he held a press conference in late 1939 to introduce the android. However, the Human Torch caught fire and it turned into a public relations disaster with the press labeling the android a menace. Bradley broke off the partnership.

Sometime before 1941, Bradley completed the second android who became the superhero, Volton the Human Generator from late 1941 to early 1942. Bradley led Volton to believe it was a scientist named Guy Newton who had discovered how to utilize his body's power to generate static electricity. Around this time, Bradley worked at Mercy Hospital in New York City and fought crime as Dr. Nemesis.

After a few adventurers, he was approached by members of the Third Reich to lead the superhuman Battle Axis team, which included Volton. He changed his alter-ego to Dr. Death. Dr. Death built the oscillotron which would cause a severe earthquake on the U.S. west coast. The devastation would force the U.S. to withdraw from the war to deal with its crisis at home. In the final confrontation with the U.S.'s Invaders, Dr. Death was able to get the oscillotron activated when he was struck down by Volton. Volton had learnt of his origins and Dr. Death's role in keeping it secret. Namor the Sub-Mariner was able to shutdown the machine and Dr. Death was left for dead. Bradley survived and returned to New York City. He repented and assumed his original Dr. Nemesis persona. He became engaged to his co-worker, Nurse Mary Strong.

After the war, he relocated to Buenos Aires to hunt down Nazi superscientists. Many years later, he was approached by Beast and Angel to join the X-Men's science club. On one of the X-Club's mission, they traveled back in time to obtain genetic samples from Bradley's parents to aid in their research. Bradley revealed to the team that he is one of the first of the modern wave of mutants and that his power of "self-evolved intellect", which allowed him to greatly extend his longevity through his own invented serums. Bradley's father was a brilliant radical inventor who managed to invent a self-powered electric light bulb and his mother is her husband's bodyguard. Bradley's father killed when he helped the X-Club stop the Hellfire Club's Sentinel from ravaging across San Francisco. Bradley's mother later died in childbirth as she was already in a weakened condition from the trauma of losing her husband. Unknown to the rest of the X-Men, Dr. Nemesis secretly traveled back in time to be the doctor of his own mother, essentially delivering himself. However, the X-Men was unable to obtain the couple's genetic samples.

Dr. Kavita Rao

Mutant Geneticist

Dr. Rao is a world-renowned geneticist from India who develop a serum, later called Hope, which could "cure" mutants. The X-Men discovered that Rao had been working with the alien Ord of Breadworld. The X-Men defeated Ord. Dr. Rao's work was destroyed by Wolverine, leaving Beast with the last sample of "Hope". Following M-Day and the depowering of the majority of the mutant population, Dr. Rao was one of the experts, which include villains, whom Beast seek out for help in undoing the effects. Dr. Rao agreed to aid Beast. When Beast and Angel (Warren Worthington) recruited members for the science squad, Dr. Rao was one of its members.

Street Team Profiles

Dazzler (Alison Blair)

Powers

Able to transmute sonic vibrations into various types of light; highly accomplished roller skater

History

Alison was born in Gardendale, New York to Carter and Katherine Blaire. Her father wanted her to pursue a law degree but she was an aspiring singer. Her light-generating powers appeared when she was performing at a school dance she volunteered for. Everyone assumed it was a technologically-generated special effect. Using the stage name "Dazzler", Alison set out to make a name for herself in the music industry, using her light powers and dancing ability to enhance her performances. In one of her shows, she met the X-Men and helped them fight off an attack by the Hellfire Club. She subsequently helped the X-Men fight the new mutant Kitty Pryde. However, she turned down the X-Men's offer to join the team. She came to acquaint herself with various heroes and she used her powers to fight ordinary criminals and supervillains, including the then-mentally unstable Rogue. She also had a brief romantic affair with Warren Worthington III (Angel). In one of her adventures, she encountered the planet-devouring Galactus, who briefly turned her into his herald so that she can retrieve his herald Terrax for him. She rejected an offer to join the Avengers.

Alison moved to Los Angeles to help her half-sister Lois London, who has the mutant powers to kill anyone she touches. Influenced both by her lover, Roman Nekobah, and her desire to abate the growing anti-mutant sentiment, Alison publicly declared her mutant identity. However, the revelation backfired, destroying her reputation and career and inflaming anti-mutant sentiment, sending Alison into a depressive state. She spent time as a keyboard player in rock singer and fellow mutant Lila Cheney's band. Alison was later possessed by the psychic mutant Malice and was later saved and taken in by the X-Men.

While in the X-Men, Alison received training and attained greater control over her powers. She also developed a romance with fellow teammate Longshot. She was also forced to work alongside Rogue, now reformed, who tried to kill her before. She reconcilled with Rogue shortly after. The X-Men were forced to enter the mystical Siege Perilous to escape the cyborg Reavers. She ended up amnesiac and washed up on a beach where she was found by her former bodyguard Strong Guy. Strong Guy nursed her back to health and Alison's memories were restored after Longshot found her. Devastated by the loss of her career, Alison joined Longshot to travel to his native "Mojoworld" and remained there to help fight in the ongoing rebellion against the tyrant Mojo along with Lila Cheney.

Dazzler eventually returned to Earth without Longshot after an unfortunate series of events, including miscarriage. She joined Jean Grey's ad-hoc X-Men team to fight against Magneto, who was about to lead a war on humanity. After Magneto was defeated, Alison left the X-Men. She re-established her musical career. She moved her career to England and joined Captain Britain's Excalibur team. Dazzler later encountered an amnesiac Longshot. Longshot recovered his feelings for her and some of his memories and left his Exiles team to resestablish his relationship with Dazzler. However, they split ways due in part to Dazzler's frustration with other women's attraction to Longshot, in part due to his powers, but mainly because of the realization that Longshot was no longer the man she loved.

Dazzler rejoined the X-Men in San Francisco, where she also reestablished a career as a musician. She hired young X-Man Pixie as part of her band and also formed a friendship with fellow X-Man Northstar. Dazzler joined the X-Men for several missions. Following the schism between Cyclops and Wolverine, Dazzler chose to remain behind in San Francisco. Cyclops asked her to lead the X-Men Street Team comprising of young recruits.

Lifeguard (Heather Cameron)

Powers

Able to subconsciously manifest superhuman powers dependent on whatever is necessary to save lives in any given situation; granted wings for flight from alien Shi'ar genome.

History

Heather was a lifeguard in Surfer's Paradise, Australia living with her brother Davis. Unknown to them, their father was an Australian crimelord Viceroy. After the Viceroy was killed, the siblings were attacked but were saved by Storm's team of X-Men. Heather soon manifested her powers and joined the X-Men. She formed a romantic relationship with Thunderbird.

Her alien shi'ar nature manifested when her appearance changed to display shi'ar features.

Afraid of what this meant for him, Davis ran away from the X-Men. Thunderbird and Lifeguard left the X-Men to search for him. However, they eventually became members of X-Corporation Singapore before it was eventually disbanded after M-Day. Much later, she resurfaced as part of the X-Men Street Team.

Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith)

Powers

Can psionically generate, release, and reabsorb plasma; can time detonation of same

History

Tabitha was born in Roanoke, Virginia. When her mutant powers manifested at 13, her parents showed their disgust and her father even beat her. She ran away from home and met the cosmic entity Beyonder. She later helped the Avengers ambush the Beyonder.

She was recruited by the Vanisher for her band of thieves called the Fallen Angels. She found her way to X-Factor (Original X-Men) and was taken in as a ward. She returned to the Fallen Angels for some adventures before returning to X-Factor and joining other wards to join the X-Terminators to battle demons during the demonic Inferno invasion.

The X-Terminators then joined the New Mutants where Tabitha fell in love with Cannonball. Cable soon became mentor of the New Mutants. When Tabitha and other mutants were kidnapped by Genoshan forces during the Xtinction Agenda crossover, the various X-teams infiltrated Genosha to rescue their teammates. Cable converted it into the paramilitary X-Force soon after. Boom Boom stayed with X-Force and renamed herself Boomer. She formed a relationship with Cannonball which was eventually broken when he joined the X-Men.

Later, Tabitha renamed herself Meltdown, donning a new costume and gained better control of her powers. She had a short fling with teammate Sunspot. X-Force was eventually disbanded. Tabitha joined Cable's Underground organization to bring about the downfall of Weapon X. However, the memories of Underground members were wiped with regards to the existence of Weapon X after a mission. Tabitha joined Cable's new X-Force to fight Skornn.

She joined the Nextwave team and after leaving the team relocated to San Francisco to join up with the other mutants. She fought the mutant Nuwa while shopping in San Francisco. She was later kidnapped along with Hellion and Surge by the Leper Queen. She was eventually rescued by Wolverine's X-Force. Boom Boom relocated to the mutant nation Utopia along with the other mutants and joined the X-Men, helping the team fend off an attack by Predator Xs and later fighting Bastion's minions during the Second Coming crossover. Following the schism between Cyclops and Wolverine, Tabitha remained behind in Utopia as part of the Street Team.

Recruits Profiles

Surge (Noriko Ashida)

Powers

Ability to absorb electricity and rechannel it into speed and offensive bursts

Active: New Mutants vol. 2 #10 (2004)

History

She was later kidnapped along with Boom Boom and Hellion by the Sapien League before they were rescued by X-Force. Surge went on to help the X-Men in several missions.

Prodigy (David Alleyne)

Powers

Knowledge mimicry of limited radius, formerly

Active: New Mutants vol. 2 #4 (2003)

History

Dust (Sooraya Qadir)

Powers

Can transform her body into a living sandstorm able to blind opponents or strip away flesh

Active: New X-Men #138 (2003)

History

She joined several X-Men missions, including fighting off alien Skrulls during their invasion of San Francisco; and fending off Nimrod and vampire invasions.

Loa (Alani Ryan)

Powers

Able to physically pass through solid matter, causing it to break down

Active: New X-Men: Academy X #5 (2004)

History

Loa's grandmother, Alice Ryan, was an acquaintance of Prince Namor of Atlantis.

Loa was briefly seen to have a relationship with Elixir. It is unsure if anything came out of it.

He also joined Rogue, Magneto and Anole to travel to India with Indra to answer a family call where they fought the Children of the Vault.

Loa joined Namor, Dr. Strange, Lyra and Silver Surfer to form the Defenders to help fight Attuma, who had become a member of the Worthy. (Fear Itself)

Stepford Cuckoos, Three-In-One (Celeste, Irma Mindee, Phoebe)

Powers

Can combine individual telepathic powers to form a gestalt 'supermind'

Active: New X-Men #118 (2001)

History

Esme soon collaborated with the X-Man Xorn, who disguised himself as Magneto. However, Xorn eventually killed Esme in a fit of anger.

The Stepford Cuckoos are currently placed on telepathic duties in Cerebra.

No-Girl (Martha Johnasson)

Powers

Telepath

Active: New X-Men #134 (2003)

History

Pixie (Megan Gywnn)

Powers

Butterfly wings granting flight, pixie dust which causes hallucinations

Wields a soul dagger

Limited magic abilities, including teleportation

Active: New X-Men: Academy X #5 (2004)

History

Crosta

Powers

Generate shockwaves from his body when distressed, powerful enough to shatter solid matter

Active: Dark Reign: The Cabal #1 (2009)

History

He was later shown in the waters below Utopia, guiding new Atlantean immigrants to the Citizen Intake Center at the base of the pillar supporting Utopia.

Others Profiles

Professor X (Professor Charles Francis Xavier)

Powers

Telepathy; astral projection

History

Charles Francis Xavier was born in New York City to the wealthy Brian Xavier, a well-respected nuclear scientist, and Sharon Xavier. After Brian died in an accident, his science partner Kurt Marko married Sharon. Kurt moved in with the Xaviers, bringing his son Cain. Kurt quickly grew neglectful of Sharon, driving her to alcoholism, and abused both Charles and Cain. Cain took out his frustrations and insecurities on his stepbrother. Charles used his telepathic powers to read Cain's mind and explore the extent of his psychological damage, which only led to Cain becoming more aggressive toward him. Sharon died soon after, and a fight erupted between Cain and Charles that caused some of Kurt's lab equipment to explode. Mortally wounded, Kurt dragged the two children out before dying, and admitted he was partly responsible for Brian's death.

With help from his powers and his natural genius, Xavier became an excellent student and athlete, though he gave up the latter, believing his powers give him an unfair advantage. Due to his powers, by the time he graduated from high school, Charles lost all of his hair. He graduated with honors at the age of 16 from Harvard University. In graduate studies he received Ph.D.s in Genetics, Biophysics, and Psychology with a two year residence at Pembroke College, Oxford University. At graduate school, he met a Scottish girl named Moira Kinross, a fellow genetics student with whom he fell in love. The two agreed to get married, but soon, Xavier is drafted into the Korean War. He carved himself a niche as a soldier in search and rescue missions alongside Kitty Pryde's father, Carmen Pryde and witnessed Cain's transformation into Juggernaut when he touched a ruby with an inscription on it in an underground temple. During the war, he received a letter from Moira telling him that she is breaking up with him. He later discovered that Moira married her old boyfriend Joseph MacTaggert.

Deeply depressed, Xavier began traveling around the world as an adventurer after leaving the army. In Cairo, he met a young girl named Ororo Munroe (later known as Storm), who was a pickpocket, and the Shadow King, a powerful mutant who was posing as Egyptian crime lord Amahl Farouk. Xavier defeated the Shadow King, barely escaping with his life. This encounter led to Xavier's decision to devote his life to protecting humanity from evil mutants and safeguarding innocent mutants from human oppression.

Xavier visited his friend Daniel Shomron, who ran a clinic for traumatized Holocaust victims in Haifa, Israel. There, he met Erik Lehnsherr (who would later become Magneto), a Holocaust survivor who worked as a volunteer in the clinic, and Gabrielle Haller, a woman driven into a catatonic coma by the trauma she experienced. Xavier used his mental powers to break her out of her catatonia and the two fell in love. Xavier and Magneto became good friends. The two held lengthy debates hypothesizing what will happen if humanity is faced with a new super-powered race of humans. While Xavier is optimistic, Magneto's experiences in the Holocaust led him to believe that humanity will ultimately oppress the new race of humans as they have done with other minorities. The two friends revealed their powers to each other when they fight Nazi Baron Wolfgang von Strucker and his HYDRA agents, who kidnap Gabrielle because she knew the location of their secret cache of gold. Magneto attempted to kill Strucker but Xavier stopped him. Realizing that his and Xavier's views on mutant-human relations are incompatible, Magneto left with the gold. Charles stayed in Israel for some time, but he and Gabrielle separated on good terms, neither knowing that she was pregnant with his son, who grows up to become the mutant Legion.

In a strange town near the Himalayas, Xavier encountered an alien calling himself Lucifer, the advance scout for an invasion by his race, and foiled his plans. In retaliation, Lucifer dropped a huge stone block on Xavier, crippling his legs. After Lucifer left, a young woman named Tessa heard Xavier's telepathic cries for help and rescued him, bringing him to safety, beginning a long alliance between the two. In a hospital in India he was cared for by an American nurse, Amelia Voght and they fell in love. When he was released from the hospital the two move into an apartment in Bombay together. They eventually move to the United States, living on Xavier's family estate. But the night Scott Summers moved into Xavier's mansion, Amelia left him, believing that mutants should lie low instead. Charles tried to force her to stay with his mental powers, but immediately ashamed by this, let her go. She later became a disciple of Magneto.

Charles made a name for himself as geneticist and psychologist, and the Greys referred to him to help their catatonic daughter, Jean. Xavier trained her in the use of her telekinesis, while inhibiting her telepathic abilities until she matures. Around this time, he also started working with fellow mutation expert, Karl Lykos, as well as Moira MacTaggert again, who built a mutant research station on Muir Island. Xavier also trained Tessa as a spy on Sebastian Shaw. Xavier founded Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, which provide a safe haven for mutants and teaches them to master their abilities. In addition, he seek to foster mutant-human relations by providing his superhero team, the X-Men. The X-Men consisted of Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Beast and Iceman. With his inherited fortune, he uses his ancestral mansion at 1407 Graymalkin Lane in Salem Center, Westchester County, New York as a base of operations with technologically advanced facilities, including the Danger Room. Presenting the image of a stern teacher, Xavier makes his students endure a rigorous training regime. Among the obstacles Xavier faces was his old friend, Magneto, who had grown into an advocate of mutant superiority since their last encounter and who believed the only solution to mutant persecution is domination over humanity.

Xavier seemingly died during the X-Men's battle with the sub-human Grotesk. However, Xavier had arranged for a reformed former villain named Changeling to impersonate him while he went into hiding to plan a defense against an invasion by the extraterrestrial Z'Nox, imparting a portion of his telepathic abilities to the Changeling to complete the disguise. Changeling was the one who died. Xavier later reemerged to fight the Z'Nox.

When the X-Men are captured by the sentient island Krakoa, Xavier assembled a new team composed of Dr. MacTaggert's students, including Cyclops' and Havok's long-lost brother Vulcan, to rescue them.. However, after rescuing Cyclops, they were seemingly killed. Upon Cyclops' return, Xavier removed Cyclops' memories of the death of Vulcan and his teammates, and began assembling yet another team of X-Men. Xavier's subsequent rescue team consisted of Banshee, Colossus, Sunfire, Nightcrawler, Storm, Wolverine, and Thunderbird. After the mission, the older team of X-Men, except for Cyclops, left the school and Xavier mentored the new X-Men.

Xavier forms a psychic bond across galaxies with Princess Lilandra from the Shi'ar Empire. When they finally meet, it was love at first sight. She implored the professor to stop her mad brother, Shi'ar Emperor D'Ken, and he instantly aided her by deploying his X-Men. Later, when Jean Grey returned from a mission to the Savage Land to tell him that all the X-Men are dead, he shut down the school and traveled with Lilandra to her kingdom, where she was crowned Empress. Xavier sensed the changes taking place in Jean Grey, and returned to Earth to help and resume leadership of the X-Men. Shortly thereafter he battled his pupil after she became Dark Phoenix and destroyed a populated planet. Xavier challenged the Shi'ar Imperial Guard to a duel over the fate of the Phoenix. Phoenix later committed suicide in order to prevent herself from endangering more innocent lives.

Xavier was captured by the alien Brood and implanted with an egg which placed him under their control. During this time, Xavier assembled a team of younger mutants called the New Mutants, secretly intended to be prime hosts for reproduction of the Brood. The X-Men discovered this and returned to free Xavier, but they were too late to prevent his body from being destroyed with a Brood Queen in its place. The X-Men and Starjammers, intergalactic pirates led by Cyclops' father Corsair, subdued the monstrous creature containing Xavier's essence. A body was cloned using tissue samples he donated to the Starjammers and Xavier's consciousness was transferred into this body. This new body possessed functional legs, though the psychosomatic pain Xavier experienced after living so long as a paraplegic took some time to subside.

Xavier took a teaching position at Columbia University was the target of a hate crime. He was severely injured and left for dead. Callisto and her Morlocks, a group of underground-dwelling mutants, got him to safety. One of the Morlocks partially restored Xavier's health, but Callisto warned Xavier that he isn't fully healed and that he must spend more time recuperating and restrain himself from exerting his full strength or powers, or his health might fail again. Xavier hid his injuries from the others and resumed his life.

Charles met with former lover Gabrielle Haller on Muir Isle and discovered that they had a child. The boy, David, is autistic and suffers from multiple personality disorder and has vast psionic powers like his father.

A reformed Magneto was arrested and put on trial and Xavier attended the trial to defend his friend. Andrea and Andreas Strucker, the children of presumed dead Baron von Strucker, crashed the courtroom to attack Magneto and Xavier and Xavier was seriously injured. Dying, he asked a shocked Magneto to look after the X-Men for him. Lilandra, who had a psychic bond with Xavier, felt that he was in great danger and headed to Earth. There, she and Corsair took Xavier with them so Shi'ar advanced technology can heal him. Xavier served as a member of the Starjammers. He became consort to the Princess-Majestrix Lilandra while in exile, and when she later resumed her throne he took up residence with her in the Imperial palace on the Shi'ar homeworld. Xavier joined Lilandra in her cause to overthrow her sister Deathbird.

Xavier eventually became imprisoned by the Skrulls during their attempted invasion of the Shi'ar Empire. Xavier broke free from imprisonment by Warskrull Prime, and was reunited with the X-Men. A healthy Xavier returns to Earth and was reunited with both the current and original X-Men teams. In a battle with his old foe, the Shadow King, Xavier's spine was shattered, returning him to his former paraplegic state, while his son David was seemingly killed. In the following months, Xavier rebuilt the mansion and restructured the X-Men into two teams. While holding a mutant rights speech, Xavier was nearly assassinated by Stryfe in the guise of Cable, being infected with a fatal techno-organic virus. For reasons of his own, the villain Apocalypse saved him. As a temporary side-effect he gained full use of his legs and devoted his time to the youngest recruit on his team, Jubilee. With all his students now highly trained adults, Professor Xavier renamed his school the Xavier Institute For Higher Learning. He assumed control of a private institution, the Massachusetts Academy, making it the new School for Gifted Youngsters. Another group of young mutants was trained here, Generation X, with Banshee and Emma Frost as headmaster and headmistress, respectively.

In a fight between Magneto and the X-Men, Magneto used his powers to rip out the adamantium bonded to Wolverine's skeleton. A furious Xavier wiped Magneto's mind, leaving him in a coma. From the psychic trauma of Xavier using his powers so violently and the mixing of Magneto's and Xavier's repressed anger, the evil psionic entity Onslaught is born. Professor X was the unknowing host of Onslaught for a time until it emerged. Onslaught wreaked havoc, destroying much of Manhattan, until many of Marvel's superheroes—including the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and the Hulk—destroy him at the seeming course of their lives. Xavier lost his telepathy and, overcome with guilt, left the X-Men and was incarcerated for his actions. He was turned over to Operation: Zero Tolerance, headed by the mutant-hating Bastion. He was released after Bastion was captured by government forces. He aided a Brotherhood of mutants and fought with a sentient Cerebro and a team of impostor X-Men before returning to the X-Men. A short while later, Magneto was handed the sovereignty of the island nation of Genosha.

Xavier was among the fabled "Twelve" mutants kidnapped by Apocalypse, whose combined energies would grant him omnipotence. After Apocalypse's defeat with the help of Skrull mutants, Xavier went with the young Skrulls known as Cadre K to train them and free them from their oppressors, and eventually returned to aid in Legacy Virus research. Mystique and her Brotherhood started a deadly assault on Muir Isle by releasing an altered form of the Legacy Virus, all in retaliation against the election campaign of Robert Kelly, a seeming mutant-hater. Mystique blew up Moira MacTaggert's laboratory complex, fatally wounding her. Charles went to the astral plane to meet with her and retrieve information on the cure to the Legacy Virus before Moira passed away.

Afted Beast cured the Legacy Virus, many infected Genoshan mutants recover overnight, providing Magneto, current ruler of Genosha, with an army to start a war against humans. He demanded that Earth's governments accept him as their leader, and abducted and crucified Xavier in Magda Square to rally his army. Amelia Voght, in Magneto's army, could not stand to see her former lover punished in such a manner and set him free. Jean Grey led an ad-hoc team of X-Men to distract Magneto and Wolverine gutted him.

Xavier's evil twin Cassandra Nova, whom Xavier attempted to kill while they were both in their mother's womb, ordered a group of rogue Sentinels to destroy Genosha. Magneto, appeared to die along with the vast majority of the nation's inhabitants. Nova then took over Xavier's body. Posing as Xavier, she revealed his mutation to the world before going into space and crippling the Shi'ar Empire. The X-Men restored Xavier, but Lilandra, believing that too much disaster had come from the Shi'ar's involvement with the X-Men, annulled her marriage to Xavier. The Chinese mutant Xorn joined the X-Men and used his healing power to restore Xavier's use of his legs. Soon after, the X-Men brought in Juggernaut and both Charles and Cain reconciled.

After a school riot led by student Quentin Quire which led to the deaths of some students, Xavier stepped down as headmaster and was succeeded by Jean Grey. Later, Xorn revealed himself as Magneto, impersonating him. Xorn kidnapped Xavier, then destroyed the Xavier Institute and New York City. The X-Men arrived and in the ensuing fight, Magneto killed Jean Grey. Wolverine killed Magneto in retaliation. Xavier left the Institute for Genosha with Xorn's body. With the world at large believing Xorn to be the real Magneto, Xavier was met in Genosha by Magneto himself. They formed a team of mutants to try to rebuild Genosha.

Cyclops and Emma Frost became co-headmasters of the Institute. The Danger Room gained sentience and took a humanoid form as Danger. Danger attacked the X-Men then traveled to Genosha in an attempt to kill Xavier. Magneto held Danger back until the X-Men arrived. Danger revealed that Xavier had known that she had gained sentience years ago after he upgraded it. Danger fled and the disgusted X-Men left.

Magneto's daughter, the Scarlet Witch, suffered a mental breakdown and causes the death of several Avengers. Magneto brought her to Xavier and asked him to use his mental powers to help her. Although aided by Doctor Strange, Xavier was unsuccessful. Xavier ordered a meeting of the X-Men and Avengers to decide Wanda's fate. Her brother Quicksilver, believing the heroes' plan was to kill her, sped off to Genosha and convinced Wanda to create an alternate reality. In this 'House of M' reality, Magneto is the ruler of the world with a dominant mutant population. The heroes regained memories of the real world with the help of Wolverine and a young Layla Miller and they confronted Magneto. Magneto confronted Quicksilver and in a fit of anger, Wanda reverted reality to its original state but depowered the majority of the mutant population. Xavier went missing.

Vulcan was reawakened soon after and attacked the X-Men, confronting Xavier who had returned, now able to walk but without the use of his powers. Xavier revealed to the X-Men about his recruitment of a team from Moira's students, their fate and his removal of Cyclops' memories of Vulcan all those years ago. Vulcan left for the Shi'ar Empire to seek vengeance for their involvement in his mother's death. Xavier led a team of X-Men into space to stop Vulcan. Xavier was captured and thrown into the M'Kraan Crystal where he regained his powers before he was pulled out by the X-Man Darwin. Unable to deal with Vulcan, Lilandra sent Xavier back to Earth with some of his X-Men. The rest of the X-Men joined the Starjammers to form a resistance against Vulcan, who managed to overthrow Emperor D'Ken and become Emperor of the Shi'ar Empire.

At the end of the events in Messiah CompleX in which different factions try to capture the first baby born since M-Day, Xavier was accidentally shot in the head by Bishop. He was kidnapped by Exodus, who enlisted a depowered Magneto to help him heal Xavier. Exodus tried to make Xavier lead his Acolytes team to recover the messiah child but Xavier refused. Though Xavier was healed, he lost some memories. He went on a quest to search for his missing memories. In the process, Xavier discovered about Sinister's involvement in setting him up as a potential host for Sinister. He also helped Wolverine with his amnesiac son Daken. Later, he recruited Gambit to locate the missing Rogue. In the former X-Men base in the Australian Outback, they rescued Rogue from a revenge scheme set up by Danger and Xavier convinced Danger to give up her revenge. Xavier and Danger managed to help Rogue control her powers. Xavier returned to the US to persuade Exodus to disband his Acolytes, after which he was kidnapped by Norman Osborn, head of the peacekeeping HAMMER agency. Xavier was imprisoned in Alcatraz as Mystique impersonated him.

After Osborn was stopped, Xavier was among the mutants now living in the Utopia island. When Magneto arrived at Utopia in an attempt to join the X-Men under Cyclops, Xavier attacked Magneto telepathically, believing that he did not come for peaceful purposes. Cyclops accepted Magneto into the X-Men and Xavier later apologized to Magneto for his actions. When his son Legion was brought in, he turned to caring for him.

Following the schism between Cyclops and Wolverine, Xavier visited Wolverine at his newly established Jean Grey School. However, Xavier continued to stay in Utopia with his son Legion.

Legion (David Charles Haller)

Powers

Telepathy; ability to absorb the consciousness of others; telekinesis; psionic ability to start fires; many others

History

David Haller was the son of Charles Xavier and Holocaust survivor Gabrielle Haller. By the time Charles learned of his son, the teenage boy had been overtaken by multiple personalities.

He was sent to the Muir Island facility to be cared for by Moira MacTaggart.

When the Shadow King attacked the Muir Island facility, he possessed David, using his powers to psychically increase the amount of hatred in the world and feed off this malignant energy. Shadow King was defeated by X-Men and X-Factor (original X-Men) after which David went into a coma. Few years later, he woke up with his fractured mind healed.

Hoping to help his father realise his goal of peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants, he travelled to the past with the intent of killing Magneto before he would launch his war on humanity.

However, he ended up killing his father when Charles selflessly dove in front of Magneto to save his life. This created the Age of Apocalypse reality in which Magneto became the one who formed the X-Men and the mutant warlord Apocalypse managed to take over North America. Eventually, Bishop managed to return to the point in time just before Legion was going to accidentally kill Xavier, taking the blow instead. Legion seemingly died as a result of the energies unleashed.

A rogue personality in the form of Moira MacTaggert manifested, re-creating reality into the Age of X one in which mutants were isolated on an island and fought off anti-mutants on an almost daily basis. Legion's involvement was discovered and Legion accessed Moira's powers to return reality to its original state. Shortly after, several of his personalities managed to manifest themselves physically. Charles Xavier formed a team of X-Men to bring these personalities in.

Hepzibah

Powers

Enhanced agility, speed, reflexes, coordination, balance, retractable claws, hyper-keen senses, mind/mood-altering pheromones and night vision

History

Hepzibah's race, the Mephitisoids were conquered by the Shi'ar. Hating their oppressors, the Mephitisoids led numerous revolts before being placed under permanent martial law. When Hepzibah was treated cruelly by her guards, Corsair rebelled, leading to them eventually forming the Starjammers together with Ch'od and Raza.

She soon fell in love with Corsair and the two were bonded for life. After Corsair was killed by his son, Vulcan, Hepzibah was sent to Earth along with the X-Men by Shi'ar Majestrix Lilandra to Earth. On Earth, she formed a relationship with X-Man Warpath.

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Based on the promo image, the mutants under Cyclops are:

( In Uncanny X-Men #1 image)

Cyclops (Scott Summers)

Emma Frost

Magneto (Max Eisenhardt)

Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)

Magik (Illyana Rasputin)

Danger

(In X-Men #20 image)

Storm (Ororo Munroe)

Psylocke (Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock), in charge of security on Utopia

Jubilee (Jubilation Lee)

Warpath (James Proudstar)

Domino (Neena Thurman)

(In New Mutants #33 image)

Dani Moonstar

Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa)

Magma (Amara Aquilla)

Warlock

Cypher (Douglas Ramsey)

X-Man (Nate Grey)

(In Generation Hope #13 image)

Hope Summers

Transonic (Laurie Tromette)

Velocidad (Gabriel Cohuelo)

Primal (Teon Savko)

Zero (Kenji Uedo)

Sebastian Shaw

X-Men Lineups: 2000s Part 5 (Post-Mesiah CompleX to Schism)

2014-05-16T13:24:00.001+08:00

From #500 (2008), Uncanny X-Men was co-written by writers Matt Fraction and Ed Brubaker, and pencilled by a rotating cast of Greg Land and Terry Dodson. Brubaker left with #503. Kieron Gillen joined Fraction in issue #531, before the later departed with #534, leaving Gillen the writer. Wilce Portacio pencilled one arc. It was the flagship title of the X-Men during this period of time and featured a whole family of characters. The title ended with #544 and relaunched with a new #1. more..

After the events of Messiah Complex, Cyclops disbanded the X-Men and closed down the Xavier's Institute. The X-Men were soon reunited in San Francisco, where Cyclops and Emma invited the world's mutants to join them there, promising protection. Many mutants and former members of the X-Men accepted the invitation, and a number of new recruits joined the team, including the teleporting Pixie, Northstar's twin sister Aurora, the luck-manipulating Domino, time bomb generating Boom Boom and dimensional portal-creating Ariel. Cyclops also reinstated the trainee program under the care of former New Mutants Dani Moonstar and Sunspot. (Check Young X-Men section of Institute Student Body) Cyclops also secretly reinstated his X-Force, which gained as members the healer Elixir, Domino and the teleporting Vanisher as members, sending them on missions to eliminate mutantkind's enemies before they could harm mutants. (Check Third Series of X-Force) Beast and Angel gathered a team of scientists including Dr. Nemesis, Madison Jeffries, Kavita Rao and Yuriko Takiguchi as the X-Club (below), devoted to restoring the mutant gene. The X-Men fought the mutant-hating Hellfire Cult, resisted the Skrull invasion of San Francisco, battled demonic forces in limbo to recover Colossus' resurrected sister Illyana Rasputin (X-Infernus miniseries) and assisted Storm in fighting the Shadow King's assault on Wakanda (Worlds Apart miniseries). The former New Mutants also regrouped as a squad of X-Men (check New Mutants). The team also successfully defeated the surviving Madelyne Pryor and her Sisterhood of Mutants, who was trying to acquire Jean Grey's body as Pryor's new host. (Uncanny X-Men) Around the same time, a team of X-Men comprising of Cyclops, Emma Frost, Beast, Storm, Wolverine and Armor encountered the Ghost Box, a interdimensional portal and fought rogue former X-Man Forge who created a new breed of mutants. The team also combated a new breed of Sentinels created by geneticist Kaga, using the DNA and bodies of deceased mutants, Krakoa and Brood. The team then traveled to Africa to investigate strange mutations caused by energies of another dimension, fighting a group of superhero-slaying simulacrum Fury. (check Astonishing X-Men)

When the anti-mutant Humanity Now! coalition introduced Proposition X, an initiative requiring all mutants to undergo chemical birth control, riots erupted in San Francisco between mutants and anti-mutant protestors. Norman Osborn, formerly the Green Goblin and now the head of the national peacekeeping agency HAMMER, sent his superhuman Avengers, who were secretly disguised villains, to quell the riots and establish order. Osborn also approached Emma Frost, who had a pact with Osborn to stay out of each other's business, to lead a group of 'X-Men' that would police the mutant community. Emma pretended to agree, going undercover in his organization, bringing Namor with her. Unknown to all, Beast, Xavier and many other captive mutants were being held prisoner in Alcatraz, guinea pigs in a project designed to negate mutant powers. Cyclops worked with the X-Club to raise Magneto's former orbital base from he ocean's floor, converting it into an island four miles off the coast of California, a nation for mutants, free from governmental interference. Cyclops also asked Moonstar, a former Asgardian Valkyrie, to barter a deal with the Asgardian goddess of Death, Hela for a temporary power boost to help her battle the Avengers' Ares, the Olympian God of War. While the X-Men's teleporters moved San Francisco's mutants to the island raised by the X-Club, X-Force freed the mutant prisoners in Alcatraz and confronted Osborn's X-Men. Emma and Namor turned on their team, bringing street vigilantes Cloak and Dagger with them. Cyclops then proclaimed mutantkind's emancipation to the world, establishing the island as a mutant sanctuary. The gathered mutants rallied against an attack by Osborn's Avengers, who left the battle once Osborn realized to continue fighting would result in televised killings of mutants. (Utopia crossover in Uncanny X-Men and Dark Avengers)

Gambit and Rogue rejoined the team, while Storm splitting her time between Utopia and Wakanda. Rogue became mentor to the students. (X-Men Legacy) Magneto, who regained his powers with the help of the High Evolutionary, arrived at Utopia and vowed his loyalty to Cyclops for accomplishing the mutant nation Magneto always dreamed of. He worked with Namor to build a support for the sinking island, simultaneously giving Namor's Atlantean people a purpose and home. Danger as recruited as warden of the evil mutants in the X-Men's custody, working towards their rehabilitation. Utopia soon fought an invasion by mutant-killing Predator X creatures before Beast quit the team, angry at Cyclops for leaving him Osborn's torture chambers as long as he did and accepting Magneto into Utopia. (Uncanny X-Men)

Soon, the immortal sorceress Selene worked with techno-organic vampire Eli Bard to resurrect millions of deceased mutants to aid in her quest for godhood. Former New Mutants Warlock returned from outer space to turn a resurrected Cypher, former teammate, from his thrall under Selene. The X-Men fought Selene on Utopia and Muir Island before X-Force attacked her newly created kingdom of Necrosha on the devastated shores of Genosha, seemingly destroying her. (Necrosha crossover)

Shortly after, the return of the messiah child Hope and Cable prompted the super-sentinel Bastion to accelerate his plans to wipe out mutantkind. The X-Men and Bastion's forces fought to locate Hope. The X-Men got to her first, with X-Man Nightcrawler sacrificing his life to bring Hope back to Utopia. Bastion's forces launched an all-out assault on Utopia which ended when Hope destroyed Bastion. (Second Coming crossover)

Hope's return triggered the rise of new mutants, as five of them were located throughout the world by the X-Men's Cerebra system. The X-Men were split into teams to keep watch on these mutants called the "Five Lights". Their powers were only stabilized with the touch of Hope as she traveled across the globe to bring them in. These "Five Lights" became fiercely loyal to her as she forged them into a search-and-rescue team for new mutants. (Generation Hope)

Cyclops disbanded X-Force following the victory over Bastion. However, both Archangel and Wolverine saw the need for a team of X-Force and assembled their own team. (Check Uncanny X-Force section of X-Force)

The X-Men soon suffered a mutant flu epidermic that robs them of their powers, created by Lobe of the Sublime Corp. Storm and Angel formed a team of healthy mutants including Dazzler, Northstar and Pixie to fight the Collective Man, who was trying to establish himself as leader of the triads in Chinatown, before defeating Sublime Corp. Around the same period, the X-Men fought off a vampiric invasion which resulted in former mutant Jubilee becoming a vampire. A team of X-Men led by Storm joined Spider Man in stopping the Dark Beast's experiments using the Lizard's DNA. All the X-Men on Utopia fought off an attack by the Evolutionaries, whose purpose is to massacre the mutant race and select the leader of the mutant race. A team of X-Men dealt with a demonic threat with the help of the Ghost Rider. Later, another team of X-Men, alongside the Future Foundation, help the native Kaddak of another world defeat the Scorpius occupiers. (X-Men vol. 3)

Cyclops took on refugees from the alien Breakworld, led by former Powerlord Krunn who was deposed by Colossus when the X-Men and S.W.O.R.D. had a mission of peace there. Krunn attempted to seek revenge on the X-Men but was stopped. In the process, Kitty Pryde regained her tangibility. (Uncanny X-Men)

With the events of Fear Itself, Juggernaut of the Worthy attacked San Francisco, turning the mutants and humans on each other. Cyclops attempted various strategies to stop him. One of the strategies involved Magik, Colossus and Kitty entering the realm of Cytorrak, Juggernaut's patron. Magik convinced Cytorrak that Juggernaut now served a new master in the Serpent. Colossus took Magik's place in become Cytorrak's newest avatar, gaining the powers of Juggernaut and ending the original Juggernaut's attack on San Francisco. (Uncanny X-Men)

The X-Men soon experienced a Schism. Cyclops and Wolverine attended an international arms conference to persuade nations to disable their Sentinels. However, rogue mutant Quentin Quire launched a psychic attack, triggering an international incident. Nations all over the world brought their Sentinels out of storage, many of them malfunctioning. X-Men were dispatched all over the world to stop the robots. Cyclops sent his most powerful team of X-Men to make an appearance at the opening of a mutant history museum in order to counter the onslaught of bigotry on the public relations front. However, all went according to the plan of Kade Kilgore, a twelve-year-old boy who became the Black King of the Hellfire Club. Kade led an attack on the museum and young Idie Okonkwo eventually killed members of the remaining Hellfire Club henchmen. A bomb went off and the debris formed itself into a gigantic Sentinel which attacked Utopia. Cyclops and Wolverine had disagreements throughout the events, including Cyclops' decision not to hand Quentin Quire to the authorities and Cyclops' request of Idie to kill the Hellfire Club henchmen. Things came to a head when Wolverine disagreed with Cyclops' decision to ask the younger mutants to defend Utopia in the absence of the older X-Men. The X-Men and young mutants managed to defeat the Sentinel but Wolverine decided to leave Utopia and establish another sanctuary for younger mutants. (Schism crossover)

For Cyclops' team, check out Regenesis: Uncanny X-Men

For Wolverine's team, check out: Regenesis: Wolverine and the X-Men

For a list of all the X-Men over the years, check out X-Men All-Time Roster.

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The following is a list of all active X-Men during this period of time.

Professor X (Professor Charles Francis Xavier)

Cyclops (Scott Summers)

Beast (Henry 'Hank' McCoy), left to join Secret Avengers

Archangel (Warren Worthington III)

Iceman (Bobby Drake)

Storm (Ororo Munroe)

Wolverine (James Howlett)

Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)

Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner), deceased

Shadowcat (Katherine "Kitty" Pryde)

Rogue (Anna Marie)

Magneto (Max Eisenhardt)

Dazzler (Alison Blaire)

Psylocke (Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock)

Cannonball (Samuel 'Sam' Guthrie)

Cecilia Reyes

Gambit (Remy LeBeau)

Mirage (Dani Moonstar)

Emma Frost

Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier)

Husk (Paige Guthrie)

Warpath (James Proudstar)

Hepzibah

Armor (Hisako Ichiki)

The following are new members during this period of time.

Pixie (Megan Gywnn)

Karma (Xi'an Coy Mahn)

Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa)

Aurora (Jeanne-Marie Beaubier)

Magma (Amara Aquilla)

Dr. Nemesis (Dr. James Nicola Bradley)

Madison Jeffries

Magik (Illyana Rasputin)

Namor

Cloak (Tyrone Johnson), no longer active in the X-Men

Dagger (Tandy Bowen), no longer active in the X-Men

Domino (Neena Thurman)

Danger

Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith)

Ariel, deceased

Cypher (Douglas Ramsey)

Warlock

X-23 (Laura Kinney)

Other characters who joined Utopia's cast in the pages of Uncanny X-Men include:

Yuriko Takiguchi

Kavita Rao

Fantomex
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X-Club

The X-Men Science Team, whose members were recuited by Archangel and Beast, was initially formed to reverse the effects of M-Day.

Madison Jeffries (Box)

Powers

Psionic machine assembly

Group Affiliations

X-Men, X-Club, formerly Weapon X, Alpha Flight, Gamma Flight, Zodiac

Other Aliases

Box, Gemini

History

Doctor Nemesis (James Nicola Bradley)
Powers

Scientific Genius; Armed with two handguns firing hypodermic projectiles containing narcotic drugs; Prolonged lifespan
History

Dr. Kavita Rao

Mutant Geneticist

Danger

Powers

Ability to create holographic projections; enhanced strength and durability; flight; energy blasts

History

Former Members

Archangel (Warren Worthington III)

Beast (Henry McCoy), left the X-Men

Psylocke (Elisabeth 'Betsy' Braddock)

Dr. Yuriko Takiguchi

Atomic Mutation Specialist

Formerly led SHIELD's Green Team

Died of old age in Uncanny X-Men #515

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Utopia

[2009-2011]

After the Xavier Institute was destroyed by Bishop during the events of Messiah CompleX, Cyclops relocated the X-Men to San Francisco. He invited all mutants to seek sanctuary in the newly established base, Greymalkin Industries. Soon after, riots broke out when Simon Trask and his anti-mutant Humanity Now group walked through San Francisco in support of the Proposition X bill legislating mutant productive rights. The director of peacekeeping agency H.A.M.M.E.R. Norman Osborn sent in H.A.M.M.E.R. agents and his team of Avengers to stop the riots and hunt down mutants. He also formed a X-Men team under the leadership of Emma Frost, who seemingly left Cyclops to join Osborn. Eventually, Emma revealed herself to be infiltrating Osborn's circle and she returned to Cyclop's side. Cyclops had the X-Club raise the remains of Magneto's former base, Asteriod M from the bottom of the sea. He led an exodus of mutants to Asteriod M and establish a mutant nation on the newly named 'Utopia' before fending off an attack by Osborn forces.

Following a schism between Cyclops and Wolverine, the latter took mutants from Utopia to re-establish a base in Westchester. The remaining mutants remain residents of Utopia. For a list of mutants currently in Utopia following Schism, check here..

Utopia

Floating off the coastline of San Francisco, CA

Residents of Utopia

Active X-Men

Professor X (Charles Xavier)

Cyclops (Scott Summers)

Emma Frost

Angel (Warren Worthington III), also in X-Force

Iceman (Robert 'Bobby' Drake)

Storm (Ororo Munroe)

Wolverine (James Howlett), also in X-Force

Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)

Shadowcat (Katherine "Kitty" Pryde)

Rogue (Anna Marie)

Magneto (Max Eisenhardt)

Psylocke (Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock), also in X-Force

Dazzler (Alison Blaire)

Gambit (Remy Lebeau)

Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier)

Pixie (Megan Gwynn)

Armor (Ichiki Hisako)

Namor

Frenzy (Joanne Cargill)

Legion (David Haller)

New Mutants

(X-Men Team)

Dani Moonstar

Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa)

Magma (Amara Aquilla)

Warlock

Cypher (Douglas Ramsey)

X-Man (Nate Grey)

Former members

Magik (Illyana Rasputin), Prisoner

Cannonball (Samuel Guthrie), recuperating

Karma (Xi'an Coy Mahn), looking after Face

Uncanny X-Force

Fantomex & E.V.A.

Deadpool

X-Club

Madison Jeffries, also in X-Men

Dr. Kavita Rao

Dr. Nemesis (Dr. James Nicola Bradley), also in X-Men

X-Men in Training

Surge (Noriko Ashida)

Prodigy (David Alleyne)

Hellion (Julian Keller)

Mercury (Cessily Kinclaid)

Rockslide (Santo Vaccaro)

Dust (Sooraya Qadir)

Anole (Victor Borbowski)

Gentle (Nezhno Abidemi)

Stepford Cuckoos (Celeste, Mindee, Phoebe)

Match (Ben Hammil)

Loa (Alani Ryan)

Trance (Hope Abbott)

Bling (Roxy Washington)

Blindfold (Ruth Aldine)

Graymalkin (Jonas Greymalkin)

Ink (Erik Gitter), comatose

Cipher (Alisa Tager)

Indra (Paras Gavaskar)

Students

Martha Johansson

Ernst

X-Men

Cecilia Reyes, Dr.

Chamber (Jonothan Starsmore)

Husk (Paige Guthrie)

Omega Sentinel (Karima Shapandar)

Warpath (James Proudstar)

Hepzibah

Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith)

Domino (Neema Thurman)

Danger

X-23 (Laura Kinney)

Five Lights

Hope (Hope Summers/Spalding)

Transonic (Laurie Tromette)

Velocidad (Gabriel Cohuelo)

Oya (Idie Okonkwo)

Primal (Teon Savko)

Zero (Kenji Uedo)

Associates

Evangeline Whedon

Powers: Ability to transform into a red dragon

Affiliations: Lawyer of X-Men

Other Inhabitants

Dragoness (Tamara Kutz), formerly in Mutant Liberation Front

Doop, Formerly X-Statix

Avalanche (Dominic Szilard Janos Petros), formerly in Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, X-Corp

Toad (Mortimer Toynbee), formerly in Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, 198

Nekra (Nekra Sinclair), imprisoned for attack on museum, formerly in Lethal Legion

Lorelei (Lorelei Travis), formerly in 198

Rhapsody (Rachel Argosy), former villain in X-Factor

X-Treme (Adam Neramani), shi'ar human-mutant hybrid

Stinger (Wendy Sherman), formerly in Alliance of Evil

Bliss (Babara Stacey), formerly in Morlocks

Erg (Andreas Kornig), formerly in Morlocks, 198

Kid Omega (Quentin Quire), former student (Omega Gang)

Neophyte (Simon Hall), formerly in Acolytes

Random (Marshall III Evan Stone), mercenary, last with Acolytes before Utopia

Outlaw (Inez Temple), fomerly in Agency X, 198

Litterbug, formerly in Morlocks

Glob Herman (Robert Herman), former student (Omega Gang)

Leong (younger brother of Karma)

Nga (younger sister of Karma)

Face, formerly of Inferno Babies, mentored by Karma

Prisoners

Empath (Manuel Alfonso Rodrigo de la Rocha), formerly in Hellions, X-Corp L.A., 198, Hellfire Cult

Tattooed Man , Russian, tormentor of Colossus

Scalphunter (John Greycrow), formerly in Marauders

Mortis (Lois London), younger sister of Dazzler

Leon Nunez

Former Inhabitants

Dr. Yuriko Takiguchi

[Formerly in the X-Club;

Died in Uncanny X-Men #515 (2009) due to natural causes]

Dagger (Tandy Bowen)

[Formerly in the X-Men;

Left in Cloak & Dagger #1 (2010) because they feel they do not belong.]

Cloak (Tyrone Johnson)

[Formerly in the X-Men;

Left in Cloak & Dagger #1 (2010) because they feel they do not belong.]

Beast (Henry 'Hank' McCoy

[Formerly in the X-Men;

Left in Uncanny X-Men #519 (2010) in protest of Cyclops' militaristic stance.]

Onyxx (Sidney Green)

[Student;

Killed by Wither in X-Force #23 (2010) during X Necrosha event.]

Diamond Lil (Lilian Crawley)

[Formerly in Alpha Flight, Gamma Flight, Omega Flight;

Killed by Mortis in X-Force #23 (2010) during X Necrosha event.]

Meld (Jeremiah Muldoon)

[Formerly in Sentinel Squad O*N*E;

Killed by Senyaka in X-Force #23 (2010) during X Necrosha event.]

Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair)

[Formerly in New Mutants, X-Factor, Excalibur, X-Factor Investigations, X-Force;

Left in X-Force #25 (2010) following the disbanding of X-Force.]

Elixir (Joshua Foley)

[Formerly in X-Force, student;

Left in X-Force #25 (2010) following the disbanding of X-Force.]

Ariel

[Fomerly in the X-Men;

Killed in X-Men Legacy #235 (2010) by Bastion's forces.]

Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)

[Fomerly in the X-Men;

Killed in X-Men Legacy #235 (2010) by Bastion]

Vanisher (Telford Porter)

[Fomerly in the X-Force;

Killed in New Mutants #13 (2010) by Bastion's forces.]

Donald Pierce

[Formerly White Bishop of Hellfire Club, Reavers;

Killed in New Mutants #13 (2010) by Cyclops after escaping from prison and sabotaging the X-Jets.]

Sack

[Formerly in Morlocks;

Killed in New Mutants #14 (2010) by Nimrod Sentinels.]

Cable (Nathan Summers)

[Formerly in New Mutants, X-Force, X-Men;

Sacrificed himself in X-Force #28 (2010).]

Leech

[Formerly in Morlocks, X-Terminators, Generation X, Weapon X, 198;

Invited to live with the Fantastic Four]

Artie (Arthur Maddicks)

[Formerly in X-Terminators, Generation X;

Invited to live with the Fantastic Four]

Mutant Community

(Not confirmed on Utopia/Not in Utopia)

X-Factor Investigations

Whereabouts: Active in New York

Aurora

Powers: Flight, Superspeed

Affiliations: Alpha Flight, formerly X-Men, Weapon X, Beta Flight, Gamma Flight

Whereabouts: Active in Alpha Flight in Utopia

Alchemy (Thomas Jones)

Powers: Manipulation of molecular structure of anything into elements on the periodic table

Affiliations: None

Whereabouts: Unknown

Blackwing (Barnell Bohusk)

formerly Beak

Powers: Formerly Avian body; Technological based flight and energy blasts

Affiliations: Formely New Warriors, Student at Xavier's Institute, Street Team X-Men

Whereabouts: Raising family in New York

Catiana (Tatiana Caban)

Powers: Ability to transform into animals

Affiliations: None

Whereabouts: Living in the streets in New York

Lila Cheney

Powers: Interstellar transportation

Affiliations: None

Whereabouts: Unknown, possibly off-world

Gateway

Powers: Teleportation, telepathy, remote viewing, precognition, postcognition

Affiliations: Ally to Reavers, X-Men

Whereabouts: Australian outback

Havok (Alex Summers)

Powers: Able to absorb ambient cosmic energy and release it as plasma blasts

Affiliations: Currently Starjammers, formerly X-Factor, X-Men, etc.

Whereabouts: Space

Molly Hayes

Powers: Super strength

Affiliations: Runaways

Whereabouts: With Runaways

Kylun (Colin McKay)

Powers: Animal-like appearance, sound mimicry

Affiliations: Formerly Excalibur

Whereabouts: Unknown

Lifeguard (Heather Cameron)

Powers: Able to subconsciously manifest superhuman powers dependent on whatever is necessary to save lives in any situation, granted wings for flight from alien Shi'ar genome

Affiliations: Formely X-Men

Whereabouts: Unknown

Marvel Girl (Rachel Grey)

Powers: Telepathy, Telekinesis

Affiliations: Currently Starjammers, Formely X-Men, Excalibur

Whereabouts: Space

Micromax (Scott Wright)

Powers: Mass and size manipulation

Affiliations: Currently MI-13, Vanguard, Formerly Excalibur

Whereabouts: England

Kiden Nixon

Powers: Time manipulation

Affiliations: None

Whereabouts: New York

Nuwa

Powers: Creation of tranquility waves that puts others to sleep

Affiliation: Formerly Mutant Liberation Front, China Force, 3 Peace

Whereabouts: Last seen defeated by Boom Boom in San Francisco

Phaser (Christian Cord)

Formerly Radian

Powers: Formerly generates blinding light, Technological based generation of intense bursts energy from chest of his armor and deflection of energy through specialized gauntlets

Affiliations: Formerly New Warriors, rebellious student group Omega Gang; Xavier Institute student

Whereabouts: Unknown

Polaris (Lorna Dane)

Powers: Magnetic manipulation

Affiliation: Currently Starjammers, Formerly X-Men, X-Factor etc.

Whereabouts: Space

Pulse (Augustus)

Powers: Ability to disable powers, electronics

Affiliations: None

Whereabouts: None

Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff)

Powers: Superspeed

Affiliations: Avengers, Formerly X-Factor, etc.

Whereabouts: Teacher in Avengers Academy

Renascence (Sofia Mantega)

Powers: Formerly air manipulation, flight; Technological based suit with six mechanical tentacles and electrically charged talons

Affiliations: Formerly New Warriors, New Mutants student squad

Whereabouts: Unknown

Sage (Tessa)

Powers: Cybernetic mind that functions like a computer; can catalyze potential of latent mutants

Affiliations: Formerly New Exiles, X-Men, Hellfire Club

Whereabouts: Merged with Panopticon

Sebastian Shaw

Powers: Able to absorb kinetic energy and rechannel it into superhuman strength, speed and durability

Affiliations: Formerly Hellfire Club

Whereabouts: Shaw was a prisoner for a time in Utopia before he was released with memory wiped clean by Emma Frost

Skids (Sally Bevins)

Powers: Able to create a force field around her

Affiliations: Formerly SHIELD, X-Corporation, Mutant Liberation Front, New Mutants, X-Terminators, Morlocks

Whereabouts: Unknown

Bobby Soul

Powers: Possession, Astral projection

Affiliations: None

Whereabouts: New York

Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida)

Powers: Flight, Ionization of matter into a fiery plasma state

Affiliations: Formerly Marauders, X-Men etc.

Whereabouts: Unknown

Tempest (Angel Salvadore)

Powers: Formerly Winged flight, acidic spit; technologically based fire, ice and flight powers

Affiliations: New Warriors, Special Class

Whereabouts: Raising family in New York

Thunderbird (Neal Sharra)

Powers: Able to convert ambient heat energy into super-heated plasma, concussive force blasts; flight

Affiliations: Formerly X-Corporation, X-Men

Whereabouts: Unknown

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#500-507 (2008–2009)	Angel, Beast, Colossus, Cyclops, Dazzler, Emma Frost, Karma, Nightcrawler, Pixie, Stepford Cuckoos, Storm, Wolverine
#508-512 (2009)	Angel, Beast, Colossus, Cyclops, Dazzler, Doctor Nemesis, Emma Frost, Iceman, Karma, Kavita Rao, Madison Jeffries, Nightcrawler, Northstar, Pixie, Psylocke, Stepford Cuckoos, Storm, Yuriko Takiguchi, Wolverine
#513-514 (2009)	"Dark Avengers"/"Utopia" crossover: All the mutants in San Francisco battle against Norman Osborn's Dark Avengers and the group of Dark X-Men he forms under the Black Queen, including Cloak and Dagger, Daken, Dark Beast, Mimic, Mystique, Namor, and Weapon Omega.
#515-522 (2009–2010)	Angel, Boom Boom, Colossus, Cyclops, Dazzler, Doctor Nemesis, Emma Frost, Fantomex, Iceman, Karma, Kavita Rao, Madison Jeffries, Magneto, Namor, Nightcrawler, Northstar, Pixie, Professor X, Psylocke, Rogue, Stepford Cuckoos, Storm, Wolverine
#523-525 (2010)	"Second Coming" crossover
#526-529 (2010)	Angel, Cecilia Reyes, Colossus, Cyclops, Dazzler, Doctor Nemesis, Emma Frost, Fantomex, Hope Summers, Iceman, Kavita Rao, Kitty Pryde, Madison Jeffries, Namor, Northstar, Psylocke, Rogue, Storm, Wolverine
#530-534 (2010–2011)	Angel, Colossus, Cyclops, Dazzler, Doctor Nemesis, Emma Frost, Fantomex, Hope Summers, Kavita Rao, Kitty Pryde, Madison Jeffries, Namor, Northstar, Pixie, Psylocke, Rogue, Storm, Wolverine
#534.1-538 (2011–present)	Angel, Colossus, Cyclops, Doctor Nemesis, Emma Frost, Hope Summers, Iceman, Kavita Rao, Kitty Pryde, Madison Jeffries, Magneto, Namor, Psylocke, Rogue, Storm, Wolverine

Uncanny X-Men: Manifest Destiny	Uncanny X-Men #500-503; X-Men Free Comic Book Day #1; X-Men: Manifest Destiny #1-5	October 2009	0-7851-2451-9
Uncanny X-Men: Lovelorn	Uncanny X-Men #504-507, Annual #2	June 2009	0-7851-2999-5
Uncanny X-Men: Sisterhood	Uncanny X-Men #508-512	August 2009	0-7851-4105-7
Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia	Uncanny X-Men #513-514; Dark Avengers #7-8; Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia (one-shot); Utopia Finale	April 2010	0-7851-4234-7
Uncanny X-Men: Nation X	Uncanny X-Men #515-522; Dark Reign: The List - X-Men; Nation X #1-4	November 2010	0-7851-4103-0
X-Men: Second Coming	Second Coming: Prepare, Second Coming #1-2, Uncanny X-Men #523-525, New Mutants #12-14, X-Men: Legacy #235-237, X-Force #26-28	June 2011	0-7851-5521-8
Uncanny X-Men: The Five Lights (Aka Uncanny X-Men: The Birth of Generation Hope)	Uncanny X-Men #526-529; Uncanny X-Men: The Heroic Age (one shot)	December 2010	0-7851-4643-8
Uncanny X-Men: Quarantine	Uncanny X-Men #530-534	June 2011	0-7851-5225-3
Uncanny X-Men: Breaking Point	Uncanny X-Men #534.1; #535-539	September 2011	0-7851-5226-2
Fear Itself: Uncanny X-Men	Uncanny X-Men #540-544	March 2012	0-7851-5797-2

X-Men (2010 - 2013)

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Presenting Victor Gischler's run in one image

X-Men vol. 3 is a X-Men series from 2010 to 2013. The title was written by Victor Gischler from #1 - #29 and saw the X-Men interact with the rest of the Marvel universe. Brian Wood took over with #30 till #37. Wood's roster consists of Storm, Colossus, Psylocke, Domino and Pixie. Wood's run was fashioned to be an espionage thriller. Seth Peck wrote the title from #38 to #41. The title is cancelled with #41 and is relaunched as part of Marvel Now, written by Brian Wood.

X-Men #1 - X-Men #19

The first arc is drawn by Paco Medina and sees the X-Men fighting a vampire invasion. The son of Dracula led an invasion on San Francisco with the intention of converting mutants to join the vampire army. The depowered mutant Jubilee became the victim, becoming a vampire. Cyclops had the former lord of vampires Dracula, previously assassinated by Xarus, resurrected. The X-Men fought off an attack on Utopia while Dracula seek out Xarus and killed him.

List of X-Men who appeared in X-Men vol. 3 (in order of appearance):

Cyclops

Emma Frost

Archangel

Wolverine

Storm

Jubilee

Pixie

Dr. Nemesis

Dr. Kavita Rao

Colossus

Gambit

Namor

Madison Jeffries

X-23

Rogue

Cypher

Husk

Armor

Magma

Rockslide

Dust

Mercury

Bling!

Iceman

Guest Appearance:

Blade

X-Men who appeared in Curse of Mutants: Storm & Gambit:

Dazzler

Northstar

Magik

X-Men who appeared in Curse of Mutants: X-Men vs Vampires:

Husk

Dazzler

Rogue

Ernst

Martha Johansson

Magneto

Gambit

Armor

Rockslide

Karma

Archangel

The second arc (#7 - #10 (2011)) sees Cyclops send a team of X-Men led by Storm to Manhattan to investigate a series of disappearances. The team enters the sewers where they are ambushed by several feral lizard creatures. The X-Men fought off the creatures and joined Spider Man in solving this case. The mastermind turned out to be the Dark Beast, who used the Lizard's DNA to learn the secrets of his mutation. Dark Beast was apprehended. Chris Bachalo penciled this arc.

The team consists of:

Storm

Emma Frost

Gambit

Wolverine

X-Men vol. 3 #11 (2011) is a Curse of Mutants epilogue issue. Professor X relates a story to Jubilee about his past when he encountered a vampire called Koda.

First to Last is a story arc in X-Men vol. 3 (Giant-Size X-Men #1, X-Men #12 - #15 (2011)) written by Chris Yost and drawn by Paco Medina. This arc sees many different X-Men and affiliates help fight the Evolutionaries, who wanted to seek the leader of mutants and massacre the human race.

Giant-Sized X-Men 1 Variant

X-Men 12 Variant

X-Men 13 Variant

X-Men 14 Variant

X-Men 15 Variant

Gischler returns in #15.1 (2011) with Will Conrad as penciller. A team of X-Men encountered Ghost Rider while dealing with a demonic threat.

Cyclops

Storm

Gambit

Dani Moonstar

Pixie

The fourth arc is titled 'The Land of the Skull' (X-Men #15 - X-Men #19 (2011)) and is pencilled by Jorge Molina. The X-Men teamed up with the Future Foundation to investigate a strange happening in the Bermuda Triangle. Both teams were transported into another world where they, along with the Skull and Lee Forrester (Cyclops' former girlfriend), help the native Kaddak defeat the Scorpius occupiers.

Cyclops

Emma Frost

Wolverine

Magneto

Pixie

With Regenesis, the X-Men in this title are under Cyclops' banner. The title features the Security Recon Team consisting of:

Psylocke (Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock), leader

Warpath (James Proudstar)

Domino (Neena Thurman)

Storm (Ororo Iqadi T'Challa), who took over leadership

Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)

Pixie (Megan Gwynn)

Jubilee (Jubilation Lee), former member

For other teams under Team Cyclops and Team Wolverine, check out Regenesis.

X-Men #20 - #23

The first arc with Regenesis sees the the Security Recon Team, along with Storm and Colossus travel to the Eastern European country Puternicstan. There, they teamed up with War Machine to rescue teammate Domino and stop the country's Sentinel production. In the process, Jubilee went missing. (Illustrated by Will Conrad)

X-Men #24 - #27
Jubilee was recruited by Kodo Raizo and his band of Forgiven vampires. Unsure of Jubilee's whereabouts, Storm led a team of X-Men to search for her. The X-Men allied themselves with Raizo's team to fend off assassins out to kill Raizo. At the end, Jubilee left the X-Men to join Raizo. (Illustrated by Al Barrionuevo and Jorge Molina)

X-Men #28 - #29
Pixie is tricked by a group of Skrulls who were stranded on Earth following the Secret Invasion into stealing an item from the Fantastic Four to aid them in returning home. The X-Men and Fantastic Four teamed up to stop machines of war unleashed by one of the Skrulls while Pixie helped the Skrulls return home. (Illustrated by Will Conrad)

X-Men #30 - #37
Brian Wood takes over the title with issue #30. David Lopez penciled the title from #30 - #33, #36 - #37. Roland Boschi penciled #34 - #35. Storm and her team of X-Men, Colossus, Psylocke, Domino and Pixie, discovered that a race of proto-mutants lived on Earth hundreds of years before modern mutants began to evolve. Deranged scientist David Michael Gray dug up and cloned the remains of some of these proto-mutants, but he killed himself and all of the clones before the X-Men could intervene. The team next stopped a plan by the leader of the cult Heavenly Path to use Gray's proto-mutant samples to bring his followers and all humankind to genetic perfection. Storm and her team eventually tracked down David Sheppard, an original proto-mutant who has been alive for the past seven hundred years, seeking to find answers about the missing link in evolution. Uncomfortable with the attraction that he has attracted, he escaped and past on to another world. In the process, Storm and Colossus had disagreements on her methods, leading to a confrontation.

X-Men #38 - #39

Seth Peck took over the title with #38. Paul Azaceta and Matthew Southworth pencil the two issues.

Domino teams up with Daredevil to stop an ex-SHIELD agent selling villain tech on the black market.

X-Men #40 - #41

Jefte Palo and Guillermo Mogorron pencil this arc.

A team of X-Men consisting of Storm, Iceman, Angel, Pixie and Chamber attempts to recruit a new mutant but was intercepted by a new team of Freedom Force. The new mutant decides to join the US army with Freedom Force.

Character Profiles

Psylocke (Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock)

Powers

Telepathy, residual telekinesis

History

Psylocke joined Storm's team in search of the precognitive mutant Destiny's diaries. On their first mission, she fought and was killed by Vargas.

Warpath (James Proudstar)

Powers

Enhanced strength, speed, durability, agility, reflexes and senses; flight

History

James Proudstar was born on the Apache reservation at Camp Verde, Arizona. His brother is Thunderbird of the X-Men, who was killed on his second mission. He believed Professor X responsible for his brother's death. He joined Emma Frost's Massachusetts Academy as a member of the Hellions. The Hellions clashed with rival New Mutants a few times and the team eventually kidnapped Banshee to Cheyenne Mountain, the site of Thunderbird's death, with the intention to lure the X-Men there. James found Xavier alone and intended to kill him but was unable to kill him in cold blood. Xavier offered him membership in the New Mutants but he refused.

He left the Hellions and returned to his home where he found his entire tribe killed. He believed the Hellions responsible and joined Cable's New Mutants which was converted into the paramilitary X-Force. Later, he discovered that Emma Frost was not responsible. He shared a brief romance with Risque.

After X-Force disbanded, he joined X-Corporation Mumbai. He rejoined the X-Force for a mission agaisnt Skornn. He retained his powers after M-Day and was recruited by Professor X into the X-Men for a mission into space to go after Vulcan, who was seeking revenge against the Shi'ar Empire for their role in his mother's death and his treatment at their hands. The X-Men allied with the Starjammers, which included Hepzibah. In the final battle, Warpath and Hepzibah was sent back to Earth with other X-Men. On Earth, he shared a romantic relationship with Hepzibah.

In the Messiah CompleX crossover, Warpath was dispatched to join the X-Force team by Cyclops to hunt down Cable, who was believed to have turned traitor. X-Force was re-purposed into a secret team to go after the X-Men's enemies with lethal force and Warpath remained. After the Second Coming crossover, X-Force's cover was blown and the team was disbanded. Warpath remained on Utopia, serving in some X-Men missions.

Domino (Neena Thurman)

Powers

Can generate probability-affecting psionic aura about herself; extensively trained in various combat techniques, covert operations, marksmanship, and demolitions

History

Neena is the result of a top-secret government breeding program intended to develop the perfect weapon. Domino was the only test subject to survive, but her "luck" power was deemed a failure at meeting the project's goals. Her biological mother broke her out of the project and left her with Father Rudolpho Boschelli in the Church of the Sacred Heart in Chicago. Domino eventually left the Church and became a mercenary.

She was then assigned to guard the genius Dr. Milo Thurman, whose analytical ability made him too dangerous for the government to let roam free. Somehow, Domino and Thurman fell in love and were married. The two separated after a raid on the facility by AIM members, with Milo believing Domino had been killed during the altercation.

Neena helped found the mercenary band the Six Pack where she met mutant time traveler Cable. Six Pack as later renamed Wild Pack. Neena was later captured and imprisoned by Tolliver, who sent the mutant Copycat to impersonate Domino. As Domino, Copycat joined Cable's New Mutants, which was later reorganized into the paramiliatary X-Force. The real Domino escaped and joined X-Force.

After X-Force disbanded, Domino joined X-Corporation in its Hong Kong branch. Together with the X-Men, they investigated the U-Men and their "Third Species" movement, harvesting body parts from living mutants. She was employed by SHIELD as a member of the new Six Pack which was defeated by Cable and Deadpool. She switched sides to join Cable at his nation Providence and assassinated Rumekistan's dictator Flag Smasher as part of a plan for Cable to take over the nation. However, she then attempted to kill Cable, believing that he would lead them to ruin but failed.

Together with former X-Force members Shatterstar and Domino, they broke out the 198 members from the Xavier Institute grounds during the Civil War crossover. Later, she was in Tokyo attempting to capture the Vanisher who was trying to sell a vial of the mutant-killing Legacy Virus. She encountered Wolverine's X-Force and joined them. On behalf of Wolverine, Domino stopped by a cemetery in Japan to deliver flowers to a deceased love one where she encountered the Sisterhood of Mutants who stole the body of former X-Man Revanche. Domino was then dispatched on a mission to replace Jean Grey's body before the Sisterhood's Red Queen can take the body as her host.

Shortly after, Domino joined the X-Men and was sent on a mission. Following the Second Coming crossover, X-Force was disbanded and she remained on Utopia since.

Storm (Ororo Iqadi T'Challa)

Powers

Weather control

History

Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)

Powers

Able to transform his body into organic steel; Able to call on the powers of Juggernaut, granting additional strength

History

Pixie (Megan Gywnn)

Powers

Butterfly wings granting flight, pixie dust which causes hallucinations

Wields a soul dagger

Limited magic abilities, including teleportation

Active: New X-Men: Academy X #5 (2004)

History

Jubilee (Jubilation Lee)

Powers

Formerly generation of explosive energy bursts, similar to fireworks, varying in power and intensity, Jubilee was depowered during M-Day

Jubilee became a vampire and gained all powers and abilities a vampire has

History

Jubilation Lee is a Chinese American girl born in Beverly Hills, California, where she lived with her wealthy immigrant parents. However, her life was destroyed when her parents were murdered by hitmen. Jubilee was sent to an orphanage, but she ran away and hid in the Hollywood Mall, stealing food to survive. She first discovered her mutant power while running away from mall security and realized that she could earn money by using her powers to entertain customers in the mall. The mall security hired mutant hunters known as the M-Squad to capture her. Jubilee initially held her own by blasting the M-Squad's energy tractor beams, but she was eventually caught by them. She was rescued by X-Men members Dazzler, Psylocke, Rogue, and Storm, who happened to be shopping at the mall. Curious about the women, she tracks them for a while and later follows them into a portal. At the X-Men's Australian Outback base, she stayed in hiding, stealing food to survive. When the cybernetic Reavers captured Wolverine and tied him to a X-cross, Jubilee rescued him, nursing him back to full health. When the Reavers came for them, they escaped and made their way to the island Madripoor where they found Psylocke brainwashed into service to Matsu'o Tsurayaba. They defeat Matsu'o and the Mandarin; and freed Psylocke after which they traveled around the world for missions. They ended up at the mutant island Genosha to help the various X-teams fight the country's anti-mutant government. Jubilee joined the X-Men and participated in a mission in the alien Shi'ar Empire. She joined the X-Men Blue Team and participated in several missions, mourning the death of Illyana Rasputin to the mutant-killing Legacy Virus.

Jubilee was placed in Generation X so that she can be with people around her age. After Generation X disbanded, she moved to L.A. with teammate Synch to pursue an acting career. However, she was mainly cast in stereotypical Asian roles and after her agent tried to seduce her, she blasted him with a powerful plasma blast. Around this time, she joined former teammates Husk and M at their former mentor Banshee's new militaristic outfit X-Corp to keep an eye on him. When the outfit was infiltrated and attacked by Mystique and her Brotherhood, the trio helped the X-Men stop them. She returned to L.A. to be with Synch but both of them were kidnapped by the anti-mutant Church of Humanity and crucified on the front lawn of the Xavier Institute. While Jubilee survived with the help of Angel's blood, Skin died. Jubilee went on to join the X-Men for several missions before she was taken off the active roster. Jubilee was contacted by a long lost relative, Aunt Hope and moved in with her in L.A.. Jubilee attended Payton Noble High School. However, Hope was an assassin caught up in a crime ring. When Wolverine visited Jubilee, the two of them along with Hope and butler Brad got into a battle with Hope's former boss. Hope was killed in an explosion and seemingly died. A distraught Jubilee returned to the Xavier Institute with Wolverine.

Jubilee lost her powers along with most of the mutant population during M-Day. She ran a halfway house in New York for depowered mutants but was kidnapped by Omega Red and badly beaten. Wolverine eventually used the world peacekeeping agency S.H.I.E.L.D. to rescue Jubilee. Jubilee next surfaced as Wondra, with technological-based super strength, joining the New Warriors. After leaving New Warriors, she made her way to San Francisco but refused to join the X-Men or enter the mutant island Utopia.

Cyclops sent teenage X-Man Pixie to check on Jubilee. During this time, Jubilee was infected with a mass bio-engineered virus released by a vampire suicide bomber. This virus turned her into a vampire. Jubilee is able to survive with Wolverine's blood. Jubilee was brought in by Gambit to help Wolverine's clone X-23 to live a normal life. Following the schism, Jubilee remained at Utopia to be away from the students at Wolverine's school. She joined Psylocke's security recon team.

Generation Hope (2010 - 2012)

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Generation Hope is a title featuring a group of teenage mutants including the messiah child Hope and a group of teenage mutants known as the 5 Lights. The title is launched in 2010 and is written by Kieron Gillen and pencilled by Salva Espin, Tim Seely and Steven Sanders. With #13, the title was written by James Asmus and pencilled by Ibraim Roberson. The title ended with #17.

Generation Hope is under Cyclops' banner.

For other teams under Team Cyclops and Team Wolverine, check out Regenesis.

Generation Hope features Hope Summers, Transonic, Velocidad, Teon and Zero. The young X-Men Pixie agreed to join the Five Lights to provide teleportation services. Martha Johansson was invited to join by Zero.

Shortly after the return of the messiah child Hope Summers to the present, Cerebra detected 5 new mutants. Cyclops dispatched the X-Men to monitor each of the 5 mutants while Hope and Rogue travel to help these mutants. These new mutants seem to struggle with the onset of their powers and were only stabilized by Hope's touch. So far, Laurie, Gabriel, Idie and Teon seem to be loyal to Hope.

The title sees Rogue, Hope and the team pick up the 5th Light Kenji in Japan. However, Kenji went beserk and attacked New York, fighting Cyclops and Wolverine. With the help of the team, Hope managed to subdue Kenji and bring him in. Hope decided to convert the group into a search-and-rescue team. Cyclops replaced Rogue with Kitty Pryde as the team liaison. The team found the 6th Light in Germany as a baby in his mother's womb who is afraid to be born. The team managed to convince the baby that it is worth it to be born. However, the team was unable to save the 7th Light in Sheffield from committing suicide.

In the events of Schism, Oya was with the X-Men when they appeared at the mutant history museum in San Francisco. They were attacked by the Hellfire Club and Oya was forced to kill Hellfire Club members to prevent further bloodshed. When Wolverine fell out with Cyclops and led mutants away from Utopia, Laurie forced Hope to accept that Oya is better off away from the Five Lights and with Wolverine.

Hope and the rest of the Five Lights are currently under Cyclops' banner in Utopia island. Hope recruited Pixie while Martha Johansson was recruited by Zero. Their first mission following the Schism was to travel to Pakistan to rescue the mind-wiped former villain Sebastian Shaw. When the Lights returned to Utopia, Shaw was attacked and imprisoned by Cyclops. Cyclops showed Hope a dossier of Shaw's past deeds and left it to her to decide if she should let Shaw join her team. With resentment for Hope for how she had been dealing with the Lights boiling, Zero hatched his plot, controlling the inhabitants of Utopia to attack and kill her. Zero's plot was eventually stopped by members of the Lights and Hope destroyed him with the help of Martha Johansson.

Hope (Hope Summers)

Powers: Power Mimic

Hope was the first mutant birth in a long time since M-Day in which most of the mutant population lost their powers. Her birth in Cooperstown, Alaska attracted Sinister's Marauders, who knew of her arrival via several prophetic avenues, and Reverend William Stryker's Purifiers, who had information from the future Sentinel Nimrod. Her birth also shot out the X-Men's mutant tracking machine Cerebra. Both sides fought to find the baby and the X-Men traveled to Alaska in an attempt to find the baby but she had already been taken by the X-Man Cable, raised in the future, who regarded the baby as a messiah. The X-Man Bishop, also raised in another future, believed Hope caused the death of millions of humans which led to the subjugation of mutants in his own timeline. He got to Cable and was about to kill the baby when the Marauders arrived to take the her.

In a major battle among all sides involved, Cyclops got hold of the baby and gave her to Cable so that he can raise her in the future. Cable raised the baby as they hop through the timeline evading pursue by Bishop. After an encounter with Bishop, Cable took Hope to the safe haven New Liberty where he married a woman named Hope and raised the baby to a child. New Liberty was eventually invaded by an army of humanoid roaches who called themselves the United States Army, upon which Cable escaped with his family. He eventually killed the President. However, Cable's wife was killed shortly after. Cable named the baby Hope after her adoptive mother.

Bishop soon allied himself with the evil clone of Cable, Stryfe. Meanwhile, Cyclops sent the X-Force to the future to check on Cable and the child. The team found Cable and Hope in time to fight Bishop and Stryfe. After rescuing Hope from capture at the hands of Bishop, X-Force returned to the past. While preparing for a time jump, Hope was separated from Cable and stranded herself 2 years away from Cable. Cable eventually re-united with Hope.

Bishop caught up with Cable and Hope and the pair had to fight through the parasitic Brood and undergo many time jumps to shake off the pursuit. They managed to trap Bishop and return to the present timeline. Her return was noticed, as Bastion sent his forces in an attempt to kill her. The X-Men mobilized to protect her and managed to get her back to their island Utopia. When Bastion arrived at Utopia, Hope manifested her powers for the first time, utilizing a variety of other mutants' powers, including the Phoenix Force, to destroy Bastion.

Shortly after, five new mutants emerged. Cyclops dispatched the X-Men to monitor each of the 5 mutants while Hope and Rogue travel to help these mutants. These new mutants seem to struggle with the onset of their powers and were only stabilized by Hope's touch. Hope became the leader of the Five Lights, which became a search-and-rescue team for new mutants. Hope also became a member of Cyclops' X-Men.

Hope was attacked by teammate Zero, who was unhappy with the way she deals with the Lights. With the help of Martha Johansson, Hope destroyed Zero. The Phoenix Force is currently on its way to take Hope as its host.

Velocidad (Gabriel Cohuelo)
Mexico City, Mexico
Powers: Time-warping speedster
Gabriel is attracted to Hope and shared a kiss with her once. However, when he was caught by Hope while flirting with Pixie, resulting in both girls' unhappiness. He revealed that the usage of his powers is aging him prematurely.

Oya (Idie Okonkwo)
Delta State, Nigeria
Powers: Temperature Transference, manifested as freezing or flame generation
Idie believes that her powers are a curse. She is the youngest of the lights at 14.
Oya left the team to join Wolverine's side.

Primal (Teon Savko)
Ukraine
Powers: Ultra-efficient instinct
Teon is seemingly a feral mutant capable of speaking only a few words. However, while in a court, he managed to articular his thoughts in an intelligent manner. He likes to spar with Wolverine.

Zero (Kenji Uedo)
Tokyo, Japan
Powers: Techno-organic body sculptor
When Kenji's powers manifested, he went on a rampage and destroyed a part of Tokyo before he was stopped by Hope Summers. He was brought to Utopia along with the rest of the Five Lights. He harbored resentment for Hope for the way she treated the Lights. Eventually, he controlled the inhabitants of Utopia to attack Hope but was eventually destroyed by Hope with the help of Martha Johansson.

6th Light
Berlin, Germany
The 6th Light was in his mother's womb when he controlled the people in the hospital. The Five Lights traveled to the hospital where they managed to calm the baby and convince him that it was worth it to be born into the world. The baby released control of the people and was born into the world.

7th Light

Sheffield, UK

When the 7th Light's powers manifested, he was ridiculed by his friend. He committed suicide before the 5 Lights can arrive to bring him in.

Later Members

No-Girl (Martha Johnasson)
Powers
Telepath
Active: New X-Men #134 (2003)
History
Martha was a mutant runaway who was captured by the U-Men. Their founder John Sublime had her brain removed, keeping the disembodied brain alive in a a capsule. Martha was controlled by drugs and syringes. She was eventually freed by X-Men Cyclops and Emma Frost and she took revenge on Sublime by mentally forcing him to fall to his death. Martha became a student in the Xavier Institute's Special Class under the mentorship of Xorn. Fellow student Quentin Quire invented a special hovering case to hold her brain, allowing her a level of mobility. Martha befriended another student, Ernst. When Xorn turned rogue, destroying the school and forming a new Brotherhood of Mutants, Martha and Ernst joined him. After Xorn was stopped, Martha returned to life as a student. After the X-Men relocated to Utopia, she stopped Quentin Quire's plan to destroy the island. Following the schism between Cyclops and Wolverine, Martha stayed with Cyclops and was recruited into the Five Lights team by Zero. Zero used his powers to give Martha a new physical body. When Martha discovered that Zero was using her all the while in preparation for attacking Hope, she helped Hope destroy him.

Pixie (Megan Gywnn)
Powers
Butterfly wings granting flight, pixie dust which causes hallucinations
Wields a soul dagger
Limited magic abilities, including teleportation
Active: New X-Men: Academy X #5 (2004)
History
Megan is a Welsh teenager from the mining town Abergylid. For years, she believed that her father died in the mine and she was raised by her grandparents. After enrolling at the Xavier Institute, she was assigned to be part of the Paragons training squad under the tutelage of Wolfsbane. She was voted the Friendliest Student. Some time later, the Institute students were brought to the otherworldly Limbo. A group of students, including Pixie, fought demons and were saved by the Darkchilde/Magik, who was created by the Belasco, the ruler of Limbo, out of the memories of Illyana Rasputin. Pixie submitted to Magik's request to use her soul to create a Soulsword and Bloodstones. The process was interrupted by fellow student Anole, and only one Bloodstone and a Souldagger were created instead. The Souldagger was actually a portion of Pixie's soul and black magic now filled the hole left behind in the dagger's creation. A portion of her pink hair changed to black. Pixie was taught a teleportation spell by Magik and she used it to teleport the group of students to save the other students from Belasco. Magik was able to defeat Belasco. The students returned to the Xavier Institute and Pixie was added to the New X-Men team.

After Cyclops disbanded the X-Men (following Messiah CompleX), Pixie returned to her hometown. She found the demonic N'Garai kidnapping people to feed their leader, Kierrok the Damned. Pixie called in the X-Men to defeat Kierrok and N'Garai. Pixie then returned with the X-Men to America, where she joined the team in their new base in San Francisco. After leaving one of Dazzler's gigs, Pixie was attacked by a group of masked anti-mutant men calling themselves the Hellfire Cult. After a brief period of time questioning her desire to remain with the X-Men, Pixie returned in time to help the X-Men defeat Empath, leader of the Hellfire Cult.

Pixie reluctantly joined a group of X-Men to find Magik in Limbo where they fought Belasco's daughter, Witchfire. Witchfire forged a new Bloodstone from Pixie's soul before she was finally defeated by the X-Men and Magik. Magik returned to the X-Men but Pixie was despondent over losing more of her soul. Pixie soon discovered that her father was actually the deceased villain Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde). Shortly after, Pixie and the New Mutants team, in which Magik was a member, were captured by Project Purgatory on separate occasions. The Project succeeded in extracting the bloodstones from Pixie to summon the Elder Gods but both the Project and Elder Gods were defeated by the X-Men. After the battle, Magik gave Pixie a golden box containing her Souldagger and both her bloodstones.

Some time later, Pixie flirted with Five Lights member Velocidad, unaware that he had something going on with team leader Hope Summers. Pixie was packing to join Wolverine to return to Westchester following his schism with Cyclops when Hope approached her to join her team.

Sebastian Shaw
Powers
Able to absorb kinetic energy and rechannel it into superhuman strength, speed and durability
Current Status
Currently in China with his memory wiped by Emma Frost
Known Relatives
Shinobi Shaw (son)
Group Affiliations
Hellfire Club
History
Born into an impoverished family, Sebastian became a self-made millionaire by the age of 30. He became engaged to fellow mutant Lourdes Chantel and was initiated into the Hellfire Club due to his vast fortune. He caught the attention of White King Ned Buckman and was inducted into the Inner Circle as the Black Rook. Ned eventually turned on Sebastian, sending the mutant-hunting robot Sentinels to attack him, killing Lourdes in the process. Along with fellow Inner Circle member Emma Frost, Sebastian engineered a coup and had the Inner Circle members killed, taking over as Black King. He took on Tessa as his personal assistant. The Hellfire Club under him clashed with the X-Men several times.

He was eventually deposed by Magneto, who had the help of White Queen Emma Frost and Black King Selene. He was then apparently killed by his son Shinobi but returned to reclaim his position as Black King of the Hellfire Club. While making a bid to become Lord Imperial of the Club, he fell into Sage (formerly Tessa)'s ploy and was severely injured. Sunspot became Lord Imperial instead. When Sunspot left the Hellfire Club, Sebastian Shaw managed to become Lord Imperial. However, he was subsequently tricked and captured by Emma Frost and placed in the X-Men's brig. When Emma decided that Sebastian is a liability, she brought him to China and eventually wiped his memory.
Shaw turned up on the Cerebra scanners. Hope believed that Shaw is a new mutant and brought the Lights to bring him in. Shaw was attacked by Cyclops upon reaching Utopia and imprisoned. Cyclops showed Hope a dossier of Shaw's past deeds and left it to her to decide if she should let Shaw join her team. When Hope was attacked by Zero, Shaw was among those who helped her.

CBR X-Position with writer Kieron Gillen on Generation Hope: more..

Title	Material collected	Publication date
Generation Hope: The Future's a Four-Lettered Word	Generation Hope #1-5	Jun-11
Generation Hope: Schism	Generation Hope #6-12	Jan-12
Generation Hope: The End of a Generation	Generation Hope #13-17	May-12

New Mutants (1982-1991), (2009 - 2012)

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Brief Overview

The New Mutants is a group of mutant superheroes starring in three series with the same name. The first series was created by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod in 1983. It ended in 1991 as it was relaunched as X-Force. The second series was launched in 2003 featuring a new group of teenage mutants with the original New Mutants serving as mentors and was relaunched in 2004 as New X-Men: Academy X. The third series was launched in May 2009 reuniting members of the original team. This series is cancelled with #50 on October 2012.

New Mutants

The third New Mutant series was launch in May 2009 reuniting most of the original team. It was written by Zeb Wells and pencilled by Diogenes Neves. Wells would go on to write the series until #21 (2011) with different pencillers. Mike Carey wrote the series from #22 - #24 (2011) as part of the Age of X crossover before the writing pair of Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning took over. The title ended with #50.

Third Series

Base of Operations

Utopia

Formerly,

Greymalkin Industries, San Francisco

Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters

The New Mutants (X-Men team)'s first task was to bring in the son of Professor X, Legion, who was suffering from multiple personality disorder. [New Mutants #1 - #5] Selene sent an undead army of mutants to attack the mutant island of Utopia, including Cypher, a former New Mutant who died years ago and the New Mutants' former rivals Hellions. With the help of the returning Warlock, Cypher was released from Selene's thrall and resurrected. [New Mutants #6 - #8] The forces of Project: Purgatory set events into motion [NM #9] while Cyclops revealed to Emma Frost that he intend the New Mutants team to be an avenue to groom the next leader, it is not necessarily Cannonball. Dani Moonstar helped the Norse goddess of death Hela as her Valkyrie during the Norman Osborn's siege on Asgard in Broxton. [NM #10] When the child messiah returned from the future, Bastion and his Human Council initiated their attack on the mutants. The New Mutants team was involved in raiding the base of Cameron Hodge and his anti-mutant Right organization before returning to Utopia to fend off an assault from Nimrod sentinels from the future sent by Bastion. [NM #12 - #14]

With Bastion defeated, the New Mutants find themselves dealing with Project: Purgatory. Members of Project: Purgatory kidnapped Pixie for the bloodstone in her soul dagger. Illyana teleported the New Mutants into Limbo to rescue Pixie where they fought mutants raised by Project: Purgatory. These mutants were infants used in the opening of the gateway to Limbo during Inferno many years ago. Most of the New Mutants members were captured by Project Purgatory's General Ulysses. General Ulysses managed to extract the bloodstone and summon the Elder Gods. The X-Men gather to help the New Mutants. It was eventually revealed that this is all Illyana's plan to lure the Elder Gods out to destroy them. She succeeded but lost the trust of the X-Men. Project Purgatory's Face became Karma's ward. [NM #15 - #21] The New Mutants was next involved in the Age of X. more.. [NM #22 - #24]

Team

Cannonball (Samuel Guthrie), team leader

Mirage (Dani Moonstar)

Karma (Xi'an Coy Mahn)

Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa)

Magma (Amara Aquilla)

Magik (Illyana Rasputin)

Warlock

Cypher (Douglas Ramsey)

[2011]

The New Mutants survived Limbo fighting the ex-Inferno babies and went through the alternate reality Age of X. Having lost the X-Men's trust following her ploy to destroy the Elder Gods in Limbo, Illyana was placed on arrest. Karma volunteered to leave the team to take care of one of the ex-Inferno babies called Face whom she rescued while in Limbo. Cannonball removed himself from the roster to recuperate from the fallout from events in Limbo and the Age of X. As a result, Dani Moonster was placed in charge of the team with the mission to clean up any loose ends the X-Men have on hand. The team's first mission saw them rescue X-Man from the Sugar Man. [NM #25 - #28] The team then accidentally traveled to Mephisto's Hell in an attempt to rescue Dani Moonstar. Magma made a pact with Mephisto for the team to be transported to Hela's Hel to rescue Dani. [NM #29 - #32]

Roster

Mirage (Dani Moonstar), leader

Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa)

Magma (Amara Aquilla)

Warlock

Cypher (Douglas Ramsey)

X-Man (Nate Grey)

Following the schism between Cyclops and Wolverine, the X-Men and students split into two camps. The New Mutants team remained under Cyclops while former members Cannonball and Karma joined Wolverine at the Jean Grey School. The team moved into an apartment in San Francisco with leader Dani Moonstar feeling that they could benefit from more contact with the "real" world. Their first mission is to find the missing mutant Blink. They found Blink and helped her deal with the band Diskhord, under the influence of an extra-terrestrial which intended the band to create enough chaos energy to call for help to escape. [NM #33 - #36]

Magma then went for a date with Mephisto, realizing the pact she made with him. [NM #37]. The New Mutants next traveled to Paradise Island, home of the Ani-Mates, to investigate Doug's nightmare vision. All of them except Warlock were infected by a virus plague and they battled a newly reanimated Ani-Mator. Doug and Warlock were able to defeat the Ani-Mator and cure the other New Mutants and the Ani-Mates of the virus. [NM #38 - #40] Blink visited the team and teleported them to the island nation of Madripoor to relax. [NM #41].

The team became embroiled in a spell cast by Sigurd, which created a new reality in which the Norse gods forgot about their identities and live their lives as normal human. A long time ago, Sigurd and his troops were involved with the Norse All-Father Bor's Valkyrie, who placed a curse on them, turning them into the Disir. Since then, the Disir hungered for the flesh of dead gods, but were unable to satisfy their hunger due to the protection accorded to dead gods in Hela's realm. Sigurd's spell was reversed. New Mutants and Norse gods manage to make Bor end his curse and the Disir reverted into Valkyrie serving under Hela.
[Exiled #1, Journey into Mystery #637 - #638, New Mutants #43 - #43]

Roster

Mirage (Dani Moonstar), leader

Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa)

Magma (Amara Aquilla)

Warlock

Cypher (Douglas Ramsey)

X-Man (Nate Grey)

Blink (Clarice Ferguson)

The team soon received a warning from Dr Strange and the Defenders regarding an impending reality-changing event. They encounter future versions of Cannonball and Karma. They come from a reality in which the New Mutants are armed with Warlock-like Transmode-tech and Cypher controlled everyone on the planet. While trying to undo that reality, the two were discovered by the future Cypher and forced to attack the team. The New Mutants managed to stop them and sent Cypher back where he came from. [NM #44 - #46] They soon discovered that reality is wrong. They seek out Dr Strange, who is a drunk in this reality. Back at the Jean Grey School, Face attempted to kill Cypher but accidentally killed Karma instead. Tormented by guilt, Cypher attempted to kill himself to prevent his transformation into his darker self. However, he was saved by the Hellions, reanimated by Warlock tech, who are eager to see Cypher fulfill his future. The New Mutants arrive to protect their friend but Cypher transformed into the monster he was trying to destroy. The present Cypher's plan eventually worked as he buried an idea in his mind, so that the future Cypher sent the Hellions to rescue the present self. With the dead Hellions present, Dani's Valkyrie powers manifested and she was able to free Cypher from his future self. [NM #47 - NM#49]

The New Mutants invited the X-Men, Asgardians and other friends to a party. However, the party was crashed by Tyro, Warlock's ward, who was controlled by his father. The heroes fought and free Tyro.
[NM #50]

Roster

Mirage (Dani Moonstar), leader

Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa)

Magma (Amara Aquilla)

Warlock

Cypher (Douglas Ramsey)

X-Man (Nate Grey)

Cannonball (Samuel Guthrie)

Blink (Clarice Ferguson)

Karma (Xi'an Coy Mahn)

Character Profiles

Danielle 'Dani' Moonstar

Alias

Mirage, Moonstar, Psyche

Powers

Psionic ability to create three-dimensional images from concepts within the minds of himself and others, formerly

Dani Moonstar was depowered during M-Day

Gained Valkyrie powers temporarily from Hela which enabled her to go head-to-head with Ares, the God of War

Group Affiliations

X-Men, New Mutants, formerly Young X-Men, Inititative, Xavier Institute staff, Mutant Liberation Front, SHIELD, X-Force

History

Dani is a Cheyenne. When her powers manifested, she saw a vision of her parents' death at the hands of a Demonic Bear. Shortly after, her parents disappeared and she was taken in by her grandfather. The Hellfire Club attempted to capture Dani and her grandfather died in the process. However, her grandfather had already contacted his friend Charles Xavier, who came to take her into the group that would become the New Mutants. She eventually became co-leader of the New Mutants with Cannonball. Shortly after, she was attacked by the Demon Bear but her teammate Magik was able to use her powers to return the Bear back into its original forms of Dani's parents. When the New Mutants found themselves in Asgard, home of the Norse gods, Dani rescued the winged mount, Brightwind and became the Valkyrie, chooser of the slain, as a result. Her powers fluctuated over several missions.

The New Mutants returned to Asgard to aid the Norse gods against Hela, goddess of death, after which she chose to remain when the rest of the team returned to Earth. Later, She returned to Earth in an undercover role in the mutant terrorist team, Mutant Liberation Front and subsequently rejoined some of her former teammates in the paramilitary X-Force, leaving the team when ex-spy Pete Wisdom came in as mentor. She served a brief period as X-Man and became staff member of the Xavier Institute, mentoring the New Mutants student squad.

She was de-powered following M-Day and was forced to leave by headmaster Emma Frost. She returned to rejoin her former teammates in the New Mutants X-Men squad even without her powers. When the director of H.A.M.M.E.R. Norman Osborn sent the Avengers to attack the X-Men in their new island home of Utopia, Dani visited Hela seeking for her Valkyrie powers to be returned to her. Hela agreed and Dani managed to use her temporary powers to defeat the Greek God of War Ares, a member of Osborn's Avengers. Since then, Hela has called on Dani twice to aid her, granting her temporary powers on both occasions. When Cannonball took a leave of absence, Dani became leader of the team.

Magma (Amara Juliana Olivia Aquilla)

Powers

Able to assume fiery form; can control movement of tectonic plates to cause seismic upheaval or call forth molten rock from the Earth's core, immune to heat and flame

Group Affiliations

X-Men, New Mutants, formerly The 198, Xavier Institute school staff, XSE, X-Corporation LA, New Hellions

Notable Relatives

Selene (Grandmother)

History

Magma comes from the city of Nova Roma in the Amazon Rainforests, a colony of the Roman Republic founded shortly after the death of Julius Caesar in 44BC. The city was ruled until then by the immortal mutant Selene. Amara is the daughter of Lucius Antonius Aquilla, a senator. Caught in a power struggle between her father and Selene, also her grandmother, Amara encountered the New Mutants disguised as a Brazilian Indian. Amara discovered her powers when Selene threw her into a lava pool as a human sacrifice. After the battle with Selene, her father urged her to leave Nova Roma with the New Mutants.

The New Mutants went on to encounter the rival Hellions from Emma Frost's Massachusetts Academy and Magma began to develop feelings for Hellion's Empath. Later, Magma left the New Mutants to join the Hellions. She returned to Nova Roma with Empath, where she was captured by the High Evolutionary but was rescued by the New Mutants.

It was later revealed that Nova Roma was created by Selene using mind control on British citizens to recreate Rome and that Amara's name is actually Allison Crestmere. With that identify, she briefly surfaced as a member of the New Hellions.

Much later, she was crucified by the anti-mutant Church of Humanity on the lawn of the Xavier Institute. She was saved a infusion of blood from the X-Man Archangel, which has healing qualities. However, she went into coma before she was revived by students Elixir and Hellion, against the wishes of Professor X who believed a forced revival will be traumatic to her mind. Allison accidentally destroyed the infirmary and fled.

Allison found her way to X-Corporation LA under former New Mutants teammate Sunspot. She revealed that when she was healed by Elixir, the Allison's identity was removed and that Allison Crestmere is actually the deception. She joined Storm's team for a mission before returning to the Xavier Institute as mentor to the Paragons student squad. She was also a member of Storm's Xtreme Sanctions Executive.

On M-Day, Magma and her boyfriend were in a volcano. When most of the mutants in the world lost their powers, her boyfriend was one of them and he fell into the lava, losing his life. Magma went mad and made the volcano erupt before attacking a nearby town. She was brought in by Empath back to the Xavier Institute.

She joined her former teammates to reform New Mutants. Sunspot expressed his attraction for her but she has yet to reciprocate.

Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa)

Powers

Able to absorb solar energy and metabolize it into physical strength, convert it into thrust to enable flight, or rechannel it as heat or infrared radiation

Group Affiliations

New Mutants, formerly Young X-Men, Hellfire Club, X-Corporation LA, Mutant Liberation Front, X-Force, Fallen Angels

History

Roberto, an Afro-Brazilian, was born in Rio De Janeiro. His father Emmanuel was a millionaire. Roberto grew up to be a star soccer player in school. Shortly before his fourteenth birthday, he was in a game when racist members of the opponent assaulted him. Roberto initiated a fight on the field when his powers manifested. Everyone fled except for his girlfriend Juliana Sandoval. He became the target of the Hellfire Club. The Club's mercenaries kidnapped Juliana to lure Roberto, who was then defeated. He was rescued by Psyche (Dani Moonstar) and Karma, but Juliana sacrificed herself by jumping in front of a bullet meant for Roberto. The Club was eventually defeated and Roberto joined other new mutants to form the New Mutants team.

Roberto became a long-time member of the team until it was reformed into the paramilitary X-Force by the time-traveling mutant Cable. In this period of time, his father joined the Hellfire Club and eventually died. After leaving the team, he went under the tutelage of Gideon of the Externals, a old business partner of his father. Gideon ended up experimenting on Roberto, which granted him new powers such as flight and the ability to fire solar blasts. He became lost into the space-time continuum after interfering with the teleportation powers of Locust.

During this time, a villain known as Reignfire emerged, taking over the mutant terrorist group Mutant Liberation Front. During a fight, he revealed his face which was that of Roberto's. For a while, Reignfire was believed to be Sunspot. It was later revealed that Reignfire was a protoplasmic cellular construct based on Roberto when it received a cell sample from him. Reignfire died shortly after.

Sunspot returned and joined X-Force, which was then separated from Cable. Later, he was approached to take over his father's place in the Hellfire Club. Selene promised to resurrect Juliana if he agreed. Sunspot became Black Rook of the Club and Selene planted Juliana's amnesiac soul into a girl who had just died.

Sunspot next became head of X-Corporation LA, joining Storm's X-Men team for a mission. Later, Sunspot was invited by long-time Hellfire Club Black King Sebastian Shaw to take over him as Black King while he took over the Lord Imperial position. Following a battle between Shaw and Donald Pierce, Sunspot was engineered by X-Man Sage to become Lord Imperial instead. Sage stayed at his side to make sure he was not corrupted by the power. Following M-Day and the depowering of most of the mutant population, Sunspot was asked to help in the shutting down of all the X-Corporation offices.

Sunspot left the Hellfire Club to return to the X-Men where the New Mutants team was reformed. He expressed his feelings for fellow teammate Magma but was not reciprocated.

Cypher (Douglas "Doug" Aaron Ramsey)

Powers

Hyper-linguist

Current Status

Killed by the Ani-mator

in New Mutants #60 (1987)

Resurrected by Selene using the Techno-Organic virus

Group Affiliations

X-Men, New Mutants
History
Doug was a good friend of X-Man Kitty Pryde, sharing an interest in video games, computers and computer technology. Professor X suspected that he possessed a passive mutant power but did not invite him to attend his school. When the alien Warlock arrived on Earth, the New Mutants brought in Doug to communicate with him. Doug joined the New Mutants as Cypher, becoming good friends with Warlock. Cypher was briefly attracted to X-Man Psylocke but formed a relationship with fellow New Mutants member Wolfsbane. The team went on a mission to rescue Bird Brain's fellow Ani-Men from the Ani-Mator. During the fight, the Ani-Mator aimed a shot at Wolfsbane. Cypher threw himself into the path of the bullet and he died. Later, Warlock was killed by the anti-mutant Cameron Hodge and his ashes were scattered upon Doug's grave. Warlock was subsequently resurrected by the Phalanx with the memories of Doug. This new entity Douglock believed himself to be based on the genetic and mental engrams of both Warlock and Doug but he later discovered that he is in fact Warlock.

Cypher was resurrected by the Transmode Virus used by Selene as part of her undead army. Cypher was sent along with others to capture the New Mutant Magma. He found Magma and beat her up before the rest of the team drove him off. Warlock, who had returned from his adventures, reversed Cypher's programming. Now alive, Cypher returned to the New Mutants team.

Warlock

Powers

Body structure that resembles machinery; ability to shape change into any solid or liquid form

Group Affiliations

X-Men, New Mutants

History

Warlock is a member of the alien Technarchy, a race which survived by infecting living creatures with the techno-organic transmode virus, before draining their life energy. Warlock possesses a compassion that is missing from others of his race and thus is regarded as a mutant. He escaped from his father, the Magnus, the Technarch's leader and arrived on Earth. He met the New Mutants and Cypher, who became good friends with him. Cypher later died in a mission. Warlock was kidnapped along with several other mutants to the mutant island Genosha, where he was killed by the anti-mutant Cameron Hodge. Warlock's ashes were scattered over the grave of Cypher. Warlock was later resurrected by the Phalanx as Douglock, possessing Doug's memories. For a time, Douglock believed himself to be based on the genetic and mental engrams of both Warlock and Doug but he later discovered that he is in fact Warlock. He went on his own adventures, eventually traveling to outer space where he took in a young charge, Tyro. Both of them aided the cosmic adventurer Nova against a Phalanx invasion. Warlock returned to Earth just in time to meet Cypher, resurrected by Selene's transmode virus. Warlock managed to remove the malicious programming of the technoorganic-based transmode virus. Both Warlock and Cypher returned to the New Mutants.

X-Man (Nate Grey)

Powers

Omega-level powers: Telepathy, telekinesis, psychometry, precognition, cross-dimension travel formerly

Powers reduced to residual telekinesis

Group Affiliations

New Mutants, formerly Mannites Rescue X-Men, Outcasts

Known Relatives

AoA Scott Summers (Cyclops, genetic father), AoA Jean Grey (genetic mother)

History

X-Man was created in the Age of Apocalypse reality by Sinister using the genetic material of Prelate Cyclops and Jean Grey. Sinister hoped to use him as a weapon against the despot Apocalypse in the future. Nate was released by Cyclops, who was secretly helping Sinister's prisoners to escape. Nate found his way to Forge and his group of outcasts. However, Sinister soon infiltrated this group, killing Forge and some of his outcasts before revealing himself to Nate. Nate injured Sinister before traveling to Apocalypse's base to fight the despot. In the ensuing melee, Nate fought Horseman Holocaust and impaled him with a M'Krann crystal shard which brought them to the real reality.

Nate Grey had many adventures in the real world, including joining the Mannites Rescue X-Men alongside Cyclops and Jean Grey of this reality. Nate later became shaman to the mutant tribe, sacrificing himself to save the world.

Believed to be dead, X-Man resurfaced much later in a small town, causing its residents to dreamwalk and chant his name repeatedly. The director of peace-keeping agency HAMMER Norman Osborn sent in his team of X-Men to investigate the disturbances, bringing in X-Man under captivity. Nate took over control of Norman Osborn but his ploy was stopped by Osborn's X-Men. Osborn had X-Man strapped into the Omega Machine so that he can use his powers to open portals into other realities. Following the fall of Osborn and HAMMER, Nate Grey was captured by Sugar Man. Learning of Nate Grey's return, Cyclops tasked Dani Moonstar's team of X-Men (New Mutants) to locate Nate and bring him in. The New Mutants managed to capture Sugar Man and free Nate Grey, whose powers were burnt out and reduced to residual telekinesis.

Blink (Clarice Ferguson)
Powers
Teleportation
History
Clarice was one of the young mutants captured by the alien Phalanx. Clarice was unable to control her powers and the use of her teleportation powers would shred the object or person instead. While in captivity, she used her powers to attack her Phalanx guard Harvest. However, she was caught up in her own teleportation field and apparently died in the process. With her sacrifice, the other captives were able to escape and eventually became Generation X.

Clarice was actually not dead but stranded in another dimension, suffering in agony. She was rescued at the spot where she had fought Harvest by Selene, who was gathering her Inner Circle consisting of mutants with death-related powers. Selene convinced Clarice to join the Inner Circle by telling her that Emma Frost was to be blamed for not attempting to rescue her. Selene launched an attack on the X-Men's Utopia island and Clarice fought several X-Men. As Selene started to absorb souls around her, Clarice teleported most of the mutants Selene resurrected to Genosha so that she can continue to absorb more souls to attain godhood. After X-Force defeated Selene in Genosha, Blink escaped.

Blink was located in Eastern Europe by a team of X-Men and Dr. Strange attempt to resurrect Selene. Emma convinced Blink that Selene lied to her and Dr. Strange purged Selene's corruptive influence from her. Feeling remorseful, Blink teleported away. She joined the New Mutants on a mission to stop the destructive Diskhord band. She rejoined the team on other missions subsequently.

Associates

Face
Powers
Blasts created from face
History
Face is one of the babies kidnapped by demons to open the gate from Limbo to Earth during Inferno. After the demonic invasion is ended, the babies ended up with Project: Purgatory which raised them and trained them in their powers. Project: Purgatory attacked the New Mutants. The New Mutant Karma made contact with Face using her powers, creating a bond and Face helped her. After Project: Purgatory was defeated, Face joined Utopia and was placed under the care of Karma. When Karma followed Wolverine following the schism, Face followed suit, settling in the Jean Grey School.

Former Members

Cannonball (Samuel "Sam" Guthrie)

Powers

Able to generate and release thermochemical energy; protective blast field, flight

Group Affiliations

X-Men, New Mutants, formerly Xtreme Sanctions Executive, Xtreme X-Men, Mutant Liberation Front, X-Corporation, X-Force, New Mutants, Hellions, Hellfire Club

Known Relatives

Thomas Zebulon Guthrie (father, deceased), Lucinda Guthrie (mother), (in order of seniority) Elisabeth Guthrie (sister), Paige Guthrie (Husk, sister), Joshua “Jay” Guthrie (Icarus, brother, deceased), Melody Guthrie (Aero, sister), Joelle Guthrie (sister), Lewis Guthrie (brother), Cissie Guthrie (sister), Jebediah Guthrie (brother), one more unnamed sister, Lucas Bartholemew Guthrie (uncle)

History

Karma (Xi'an "Shan" Coy Manh)

Powers

Psionic mind possession, allowing her to control multiple individuals simultaneously

Group Affiliations

X-Men, New Mutants, Formerly Xavier Institute school staff

Notable Relatives

Leong (brother), Nga (sister)

History

Magik (Illyana Nikolaevna Rasputin)

PowersTeleportation of self and others through time and space via teleportation discs; trained sorceress; owns the Soulsword, which grants various powers

Group Affiliations

X-Men, New Mutants

Notable Relatives

Colossus (Piotr Rapustin, brother)

History

As a teenager, she formed a strong friendship with X-Man Kitty Pryde and also joined the New Mutants. Illyana's demonic nature eventually took over her and the demons pressed her become the full and true lord of Limbo. Her efforts to escape provided the demon N'astirh the opportunity to open a colossal teleportation disc through which a demonic invasion started. Magik fought and defeated the demon Sym and in the process, the seven year old Illyana who had not been corrupted by Belasco emerged in place of the teenage Illyana.

Illyana was sent back to Russia to live with her parents until they were murdered by the Russian government. Illyana returned to live in the Xavier Institute. Shortly after, she contracted and lost her life to the mutant-killing Legacy Virus (in Uncanny X-Men #303 (1993)).

Much later, the teenaged version of Illyana was recreated as Darkchylde by Belasco from the remaining essence and memories of her found in Limbo. Not satisfied, he banished her to the outer parts of Limbo. Belasco went in search of the real Illyana, pulling the students of Xavier Institute into Limbo. Darkchylde discovered a group of students in Limbo. She stole a portion of Pixie's soul hoping to create a bloodstone and a new soulsword. However, the spell was interrupted by Anole and a soul dagger was created instead. When Rockslide thwarted her attempt to complete the spell, her human memories with the X-Men returned. Illyana revealed that Pixie was now capable of using magic and taught her a teleportation spell. The students teleported into Belasco's castle where they defeated him and rescued the other students.

Illyana's Darkchylde personality took hold and she desired to create several more bloodstones to gain godlike powers. She attacked several demons in search of her Bloodstone amulet, which was actually in the hands of Belasco's daughter Witchfire. Back in San Francisco, Pixie discovered that Illyana's soulsword was hidden inside Nightcrawler and Illyana appeared to reclaim her soulsword. When she returned, she discovered that Witchfire had taken over Limbo. Illyana was defeated by Witchfire. A group of X-Men made their way to Limbo where they rescued Illyana and defeated Witchfire, ending her plot to release the Elder Gods. She teleported the X-Men back to Earth, where Cyclops persuaded her to stay.

Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair)

Powers

Able to shape change into various lupine states; in lupine form. has enhanced senses and speed, claws and fangs

Group Affiliations

X-Factor, formerly X-Force, Xavier Institute staff, Excalibur, New Mutants

History

Rahne was raised as an orphan by an abusive Scottish pastor Reverend Craig who beat religion into her from an early age. When her mutant powers manifested, Reverend Craig led an angry mob intending to burn her at the stakes. Rahne was rescued and adopted by Moira MacTaggart. When Moira confronted Craig, she learnt that Craig was actually the biological father and the mother had been a prostitute. Moira sent Rahne to the Xavier's Institute where she joined the New Mutants. She formed a strong friendship with Dani Moonstar and discovered that she can establish a psychic link with Dani when she is in her wolf-form. She also developed a crush for Cannonball for a period of time. While the New Mutants went to Asgard, she formed an attraction to wolf-prince Hrimhari. Rahne eventually formed a relationship with teammate Cypher. However, while on a mission, Cypher was killed when he took a bullet meant for Rahne. After the New Mutants took in new members, Rahne formed a short-lived relationship with Rictor.

Rahne was kidnapped to the mutant island Genosha where she was experimented on and thus became mentally bonded to X-Man Havok. Following the defeat of the malevolent psychic entity Shadow King, Rahne joined the government-sponsored X-Factor along with Havok. The mental bond to Havok was eventually removed. Shortly after, she returned to Moira MacTaggert's base on Muir Island and joined the Britain-based Excalibur. She was a bridesmaid at the wedding of teammates Captain Britain and Meggan. Excalibur was disbanded shortly after. Rahne and former teammate Douglock stayed behind at Muir Island to assist Moira in her search for a cure to the Legacy Virus. Muir Island came under the attack of Mystique's Brotherhood. Rahne was shot was a neutralizer which removed her powers while Moira was killed in an explosion.

Rahne eventually made her way to the Xavier's Institute where she became a teaching assistant. She also a part-time employee at Jamie Madrox's XXX Investigations. Rahne developed a relationship with student Elixir. A passionate encounter led to Elixir's healing powers restoring Rahne's powers. Rahne accidentally injured Elixir but he was able to use his powers to heal himself. Rahne ended the relationship after knowing student Wallflower was interested in Elixir. When Rahne's relationship with Elixir was exposed by student Wither, who was attracted to Wallflower, Rahne left the school. Rahne began working full-time at Madrox's X-Factor Investigations. She formed a relationship with Rictor which ended when she left X-Factor to join the strike force X-Force following the events of Messiah Complex. Rahne was kidnapped by the anti-mutants religious group Purifiers where she found out that Reverend Craig had joined the group. She was rescued by X-Force while in a drugged state. When she woke up, she attacked the X-Man Archangel and ripped out his wings, delivering them back to Craig. X-Force attacks the Purifiers and Rahne accidentally devoured Craig. Rahne retained no knowledge of having did that.

While recuperating at X-Force's base, she was found by the wolf-prince Hrimhari. After having sex, they were attacked by a trio of Frost Giants. They managed to defeat the Giants, but Wolfsbane fainted. Later, when Wolfsbane became unconscious, Hrimhari brought her to the mutant island Utopia where Dr. Nemesis revealed that Wolfsbane is pregnant. Hrimhari made a pact with the Asgardian goddess of the underworld Hela, where he gave his soul in exchange for a comatose Elixir to be revived. Elixir used his powers to heal Wolfsbane. Wolfsbane also gained enhanced strength and senses from the baby so that she can survive the baby's birth.

Rahne returned to X-Factor where she lied to Rictor that he was the father of the baby. The deception was eventually discovered. When Rahne was about to give birth, she attracted a number of canine and feline gods and demons who wanted the baby. While captured by the god Agamemnon, Rahne gave birth to her baby via her mouth. The baby assaulted Agamemnon with rage and bloodlust which prompted Rahne to denounce her baby. The baby was adopted by Jack Russells. Back at X-Factor, Rahne fell into depression, believing the baby to be punishment for her sins while in X-Force.

Bird Brain

Powers

Flight

Group Affiliations

Formerly Ani-Mates, New Mutants

History

Bird Brain was one of the Ani-Mates created by the Ani-Mator. He escaped and befriended the New Mutants and eventually brought them to rescue his fellow Ani-Mates. Bird Brain stayed with the Ani-Mates after they were freed from the Ani-Mator's tyranny.

Title	Material collected	Publication date	ISBN
New Mutants: Return of Legion	New Mutants, vol. 3 #1–5	December 2009	0785139923
New Mutants: Necrosha	New Mutants, vol. 3 #6–11	May 2010	0785139935
X-Necrosha	New X-Men #32; X-Force vol. 3 #11, #21–25; New Mutants vol. 3 #6–8; X-Men: Legacy #231–234; X-Force/New Mutants: Necrosha One-Shot; X Necrosha: The Gathering; material from X-Force vol. 3 Annual #1	December 2010	078514675X
X-Men: Second Coming	Second Coming: Prepare; Second Coming #1–2; Uncanny X-Men #523–525; New Mutants, vol. 3 #12–14; X-Men Legacy#235–237; X-Force vol. 3 #26–28	September 2010	0785146784
New Mutants: Fall of the New Mutants	New Mutants, vol. 3 #15–21	March 2011	0785145834
X-Men: Age of X	Age of X: Alpha; X-Men Legacy #245–247; New Mutants, vol. 3 #22–24; Age of X: Universe #1–2	July 2011	078515289X
New Mutants: Unfinished Business	New Mutants, vol. 3 #25–28	October 2011	0785152309
Fear Itself: Wolverine/New Mutants	Fear Itself: Wolverine #1–3; New Mutants, vol. 3 #29–32	April 2012	0785152309
New Mutants: A Date with the Devil	New Mutants, vol. 3 #33–37	April 2012	0785152323
Journey Into Mystery/New Mutants: Exiled	New Mutants, vol. 3 #42-43, Exiled #1, Journey Into Mystery #637-638	September 2012	0785165408
New Mutants: De-Animator	New Mutants, vol. 3 #38-41	November 2012	0785161608
New Mutants: Fight the Future	New Mutants, vol. 3 #44-50	December 2012	0785161619

First Series

(1982-1991)

(1982) The New Mutants (Cannonball, Dani Moonstar, Karma, Sunspot, Wolfsbane) was formed by Professor X while he was under the control of the alien Brood. The members were meant to act as hosts of the Brood but this ploy was stopped by the X-Men.

The team later took in other members (Magik, Magma, Cypher, Warlock). When Professor X was suffering from fatalistic injuries, he asked a reformed Magneto to take over as mentor of the New Mutants. Magneto reluctantly agreed after which Professor X was brought to the Shi'ar Imperium for treatment.

The New Mutants fought menaces like Donald Pierce and his Reavers, the Hellfire Club and Emma Frost's Hellions. The team also travelled to Asgard, home of the Gods of Norse mythology.

4 wards of X-Factor/X-Terminators (original X-Men) were later added to the team. They are Rictor, Rusty Collins, Skids, Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith).

(1990) Cable eventually became mentor of the team. Several longtime members left the team and the team added several new members: Domino (impersonated by Copycat), Shatterstar, Warpath, Feral. In New Mutants #100 (1991), the team reorganised into the paramilitary X-Force.

(2003, New Mutants vol. 2, New X-Men: Academy X) Dani Moonstar, Karma, Wolfsbane and Magma joined the Xavier Institute staff at a time when the Institute opened it doors.

(2008, Young X-Men) The cyborg Donald Pierce posed as Cyclops and tricked a Young X-Men team to attack former New Mutants Cannonball, Sunspot, Dani Moonstar and Magma. However, the ploy was eventually discovered. Moonstar and Sunspot became mentors to the Young X-Men.

(2009) The New Mutants squad was formed by Cyclops as an avenue for finding the next leader of the X-Men.

Original Team

(Started in Marvel Graphic Novel #4)

Professor X (Charles Xavier), mentor

[Made Magneto headmaster in Uncanny X-Men #200 (1985)]

Karma (Xi'an Coy Mahn)

[Seemingly deceased in New Mutants #6 (1982);

Returned in New Mutants #34 (1985);

Left the team in New Mutants #54 (1987) to search for her missing siblings]

Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair)

[Left in New Mutants in Xtinction Agenda after she became a mutate]

Psyche (Dani Moonstar)

[Active as Mirage in New Mutants #19 (1984);

Active as Moonstar in X-Force vol. 1 #27]

Cannonball (Sam Guthrie)

Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa)

[Left in New Mutants #99 (1991) to inherit his deceased father's corporate]

Recruits

Sprite (Kitty Pryde), temporary recruit

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #167-#168 (1983)]

Magma (Amara Aquilla)

[Joined in New Mutants #13 (1984);

Left in New Mutants #57 (1987) to join Hellions]

Magik (Illyana Rasputin)

[Joined in New Mutants #14 (1984);

Left in New Mutants #77 (1989) after she de-aged back to a child.]

Warlock

[Joined in New Mutants #21 (1984);

Killed in New Mutants #90 (1990) during Xtinction Agenda]

Cypher (Doug Ramsey)

[Joined in New Mutants #21 (1984);

Killed in New Mutants #60 (1988) by Ani-Mator]

Magneto, took over as mentor

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #200 (1985);

Left in New Mutants #75 (1989) after the team walked out on him]

Bird Brain

[Temporary recruit New Mutants #57 (1987) - #61 (1988)]

X-Terminators Recruits

[All 4 members joined in New Mutants #77 (1989)]

Rusty Collins

[Left in New Mutants #87 (1990) to join MLF]

Skids (Sally Bevins)

[Left in New Mutants #87 (1990) to join MLF]

Rictor (Julio Richter)

[Left in New Mutants #98 (1991) to find Wolfsbane in Genosha]

Boom Boom (Tabitha Smith)

New Recruits

Cable (Nathan Christopher Summers)

[Took over as mentor;

Joined in New Mutants #89 (1990)]

Copycat (Vanessa Carlysee), impersonated Domino

[Joined in New Mutants #98 (1991)]

Warpath (James Proudstar)

[Joined in New Mutants #99 (1991)]

Shatterstar (Gaveedra Seven)

[Joined in New Mutants #100 (1991)]

Feral (Maria Callasantos)

[Joined in New Mutants #100 (1991)]

X-Man (Nate Grey)

[Joined in New Mutants vol. 3 #27 (2011)]

Title	Material collected	Publication date	ISBN
New Mutants Classic, Volume 1	The New Mutants #1–7; Marvel Graphic Novel #4; Uncanny X-Men#167	May 2006	0785121943
New Mutants Classic, Volume 2	The New Mutants #8–17	January 2007	0785121951
New Mutants Classic, Volume 3	The New Mutants #18–25, Annual #1	May 2008	0785131191
New Mutants Classic, Volume 4	The New Mutants #26–34	March 2009	0785137283
New Mutants Classic, Volume 5	The New Mutants #35–40; New Mutants Special Edition; Uncanny X-Men Annual #9	March 2010	0785144609
New Mutants Classic, Volume 6	The New Mutants #41-47; New Mutants Annual #2; Uncanny X-Men Annual #10	August 2011	0785155449
New Mutants: The Demon Bear Saga	The New Mutants #18–21	December 1990	0871356732
X-Men: Mutant Massacre	The New Mutants #46; Uncanny X-Men #210–213; X-Factor #9–11;Thor #373–374; Power Pack #27	October 2001	0785102248
New Mutants Forever	The New Mutants #53-54; New Mutants Forever #1-5	February 2011	9780785147473
X-Men: Fall of the Mutants	The New Mutants #59–61; Uncanny X-Men #225–227; X-Factor #24–26	February 2002	0785108254
X-Men: Fall of the Mutants Omnibus	New Mutants (1983) #55-61;Uncanny X-Men #220-227; X-Factor(1986) #19-26; Captain America(1968) #339; Daredevil(1964) #252;Fantastic Four (1961) #312;Incredible Hulk (1968) #340; Power Pack (1984) #35	May 2011	978-0-7851-5822-6
X-Men: Inferno	The New Mutants #71–73; Uncanny X-Men #239–243; X-Factor #36–39	December 1996	0785102221
Cable and the New Mutants	The New Mutants #87–91, #93–94, and the last page of #86	May 1995	0871359375
Cable Classic, Volume 1	The New Mutants #87; Cable: Blood and Metal #1–2; Cable #1–4	March 2008	078513123X
X-Men: X-Tinction Agenda	The New Mutants #95–97; Uncanny X-Men #270–272; X-Factor #60–62	November 1991	0871359227
Deadpool Classic, Volume 1	The New Mutants #98; Deadpool("The Circle Chase") #1–4;Deadpool, vol. 2 ("Sins of the Past") #1–4; Deadpool, vol. 3 #1	May 2008	0785131248
X-Force: Shatterstar	The New Mutants #99–100; X-Force: Shatterstar #1–4	August 2005	0785116338
X-Force: A Force to be Reckoned With	The New Mutants #98-100, X-Force#1-4, Spider-Man #16	January 2011	978-0785149842

Brief Chronology

Marvel Graphic Novel #4

(Formation of New Mutants: Wolfsbane, Karma, Psyche, Sunspot, Cannonball. The team fights the cyborg Donald Pierce.)

New Mutants #1

(Danger Room session)

NM #2

(While the New Mutants are out in town, the Sentinels attack.)

NM #3

(Vs Brood)

NM #4

(The New Mutants help their teacher Stevie Hunter to find the one responsible for making prank calls, who is actually one of her student, Peter Brislow)

NM #5 - 6

(Vs Viper and Silver Samurai, Appearance by Team America. Karma apparently died during the mission)

NM #7

(Vs Axe, Apperance by Sunspot's family)

NM #8 - 12

(The team ends up in the city of Nova Roma where they get caught up in politics before facing off Selene, Magma joins the team)

NM #13

(Class stories, Appearance by Katherine Pryde)

Magik - Storm and Illyana #1 - 4

(Magik recounts her time in Limbo spent as apprentice to Belasco.)

NM #14

(Vs Sym, Magik joins the team)

NM #15 - 17

(Vs White Queen and Hellions)

NM #18-20

(Vs Demon Bear, Appearance by Tom Corsi, Sharon Friedlander, Psyche's parents)

NM #21

(Slumber party, Warlock and Cypher join the team)

NM Annual #1

(The New Mutants attend Lila Cheney's concert and get dragged into her plot to steal and auction Earth. Lila and Cannonball become an item.)

NM #22 - 25

(Wolfsbane and Sunspot get into trouble with Cloak and Dagger's powers; Appearance by Rogue and Colossus; Selene and Emmanuel da Costa join the Hellfire Club Inner Circle)

NM #26 - 28

(Psyche, Wolfsbane, Cypher and Warlock join Professor X, Moira MacTaggart and Gabrielle Haller for a mission inside Legion's psyche.)

NM #29-31

(Sunspot and Magma joins the Gladiators; Shadowcat, Lila Cheney and later Rachel Summers and Dazzler join Cannonball and Magik to free them; Shadow King-possessed Karma appears)

NM #32 - 34

(With the help of Storm, the team liberates Karma from being possessed by the Shadow King.)

NM Special Edition 1/Uncanny X-Men Annual #9

(Adventures in Asgard! Desiring Storm as his bride, the God of Mischief Loki has Storm, along with the New Mutants with her, brought to Asgard. Cannonball helps the dwarfs. Sunspot goes into the favour of the Asgardian women and Warriors Three, Dani finds the winged horse and becomes a Valkyrie, Karma finds herself in a desert where she helped another boy out, Magma turns into a faery, Cypher becomes a slave before being found by Warlock, Wolfsbane finds the wolf prince Hrimhari while Illyana gets captured by the Enchantress. They all come together to free Illyana. Later, together with the X-Men turn the tables on Loki.)

NM #35

(Magneto takes over as mentor.)

NM #36 - 37

(The team fights the Beyonder, who proceeds on to kill everyone of them. The team is revived later in Secret War #9.)

NM #38 - 40

(Magneto allows most of the New Mutants join the Emma Frost's Hellions due to their spiritual coma state following their death and resurrection at the hands of the Beyonder. Upon knowing that the Hellion Empath manipulated his feelings, Magneto seeks to retrieve the New Mutants, and fight the Avengers in the process. Both Magneto and Emma Frost work together to help the New Mutants restore their minds after which they leave the Hellions.)

NM #41

(Dani Moonstar is back at home. When her former friend meets an accident, she tries to fight off death but fails.)

NM #42

(Cannonball goes back home where he deals with his unhappy brother Josh; His girlfriend Lila Cheney meets his mother.)

NM #43

(The New Mutants teach the Hellion Empath a lesson.)

NM #44

(Vs Legion)

NM Annual #2

(Mojo kidnaps Elizabeth Braddock and uses her to recruit some of the New Mutants and other kids. They are freed by the rest of the New Mutants.)

NM #45

(The team meets a closet mutant Larry Bodine, who later commits suicide for fear that the mutant-hunting X-Factor will come after him. Appearance by Katherine Pryde)

NM #46 - 47

(Mutant Massacre tie-in, Vs Magus, Travelled back in time to Scotland)

NM #48

(With Magik's teleportation going haywire, Sunspot, Karma, Wolfsbane and Magma arrives in a future where Sentinels have eliminated most of the super beings. They aid the future Cannonball and Mirage to retrieve a kidnapped Lila Cheney.)

NM #49

(Cannonball, Mirage, Cypher and Warlock arrive in a future in which the mutants have won a war and established themselves as the dominant species. They act to aid the humans but were captured by the ARBS, the mutant polic force. They were brought before the leaders, the future Sunspot and Magma.)

NM #50

(The team fights Magus with the help of Professor X and the Starjammers and manage to defeat him.)

NM #51

(The New Mutants help in repairing the Starjammers ship. When the Shi'ar attack, Professor X make Magik teleport the New Mutants back to Earth. Meanwhile, Storm and Magneto join the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club as the White King.)

NM #52

(The New Mutants vs Marauders in Danger Room training session)

NM Annual 2

(Warlock vs Impossible Man, as the New Mutants try to limit the damage.)

NM #53 - 54 (Last issue of Claremont's run)

(Cypher seemingly turns into a techno-organic being and infects the rest of the New Mutants but that turns out to be a dream. Magneto brings the team to a gala in the Hellfire Club where they get into an argument with the Hellions. They agree to a contest to find out the ones who tricked a Hellfire Club Inner Circle aspirant with a fake statue of the Black Queen Selene. The Hellions beat the New Mutants to the perpetrators: Viper and the Silver Samurai. During the gala, Magma discovers that Selene may be her ancestor.)

NM #55

(The team attends Lila Cheney's party. Aliens who want Lila to help them steal an item rough up Lila's boyfriend, Cannonball. The New Mutants deal with them.)

NM #56-58

(The New Mutants beat the Hellions to retrieve Bird-Brain, who was incarcerated for scientific studies and accidentally freed by Cannonball. Magma leaves the New Mutants for the Hellions. The New Mutants study for their midterms with Bird-Brain in their midst. When Bird-Brain attempts to return to his home, the team follows.)

NM #59-61

(Fall of the Mutants crossover. The New Mutants fight the Ani-Mator, who is responsible for the creation of Bird-Brain and other Ani-Men. Ani-Mator's boss, Cameron Hodge of the anti-mutant Right arrives to inspect his work. A fight ensues and Cypher is killed. Hodge leaves but his plane is brought down by a monster into the sea. Magik sends the Ani-Mator into limbo. Brain-Brain stays with his fellow Ani-Men while the New Mutants return home to discover X-Factor revealing themselves to be Xavier's first batch of X-Men and the X-Men apparently dying in Dallas.)

NM #62

(Magma and Empath travel to her homeland of Nova Roma.)

NM #63

(Magik recalls her adventure around the time she met Warlock for the first time (NM #21) when she acquired a space-suit after returning from limbo.)

NM #64

(Cypher's funeral. Warlock attempts to revive him but is persuaded out of it.)

NM #65 - 66

(Magik goes after Forge, whom she believes caused the death of the X-Men and her brother Colossus. The New Mutants follow her to try to get her out of trouble. They fight Freedom Force and a Mystique-disguised Forge. Destiny shows the New Mutants that Magik is destined to start a demonic invasion of Earth. Magik finds the real Forge and fights with him but releases him in the end.)

NM Annual #4

(The New Mutants rescue a kidnapped Magma. In the process, Dani Moonstar's powers changed such that the illusions she created can take on real form. Only one illusion can exist at any one time and takes the form of a necklace of her spirit lance by default.)

NM #67 - 70

(The New Mutants seek to rescue Lila Cheney, who was kidnapped into space by Spyder. Gosamyr, who had escaped Spyder and travelled with his kidnap crew to Earth, joins the New Mutants. Unknown to the team except Warlock, Gosamyr is intensifying the emotions of the New Mutants throughout the journey. Once they catch up with Spyder, they get captured. Escaping with the help of Gosamyr, they go after Spyder but not before he had Gosamyr's family emerge from their cocoons before their time, creating a destructive threat. Lila seemingly sacrifices herself to teleport Gosamyr's family into the sun to end the threat. Magik teleports the team via Limbo to escape but they come face to face with the Limbo usurper Sym.)

X-Terminators #1-4

(The demon N'astirh hatches a plan to create a pentagram with 13 mutant babies to create a portal for the demons of Limbo to invade New York. His minions capture Leech and Artie by accident, prompting Whiz Kid and the X-Factor kids - Boom-Boom, Rictor, Rusty and Skids to come together to find them. Whiz Kid is captured to help N'astirh create a machine to process his spells. The X-Terminators manage to rescue Leech and Artie, and later the babies in the pentagram. At the same time, Whiz Kid manages to destroy the machine and N'astirh.)

NM #71 - 73

(Inferno tie-in. The New Mutants fight Sym and manage to escape. Magik comes into contact with the demon N'astirh, who used to save Magik from Sym back when she was an apprentice of Belasco. Magik is tricked to open a portal which the hordes of Limbo enter New York. The New Mutants and X-Terminators work to disrupt a large pentagram over New York. Magik turns into the Darkchylde, goaded by by both Sym and N'astirh. The New Mutants see Magneto and the Hellfire Club seemingly making an agreement with N'astirh. With the arrival of her brother, Colossus, Magik manages to focus and cast a spell to suck all the demons back into Limbo. In doing so, the teenage Magik ceases to exist and Illyana Rasputin returns as a seven year old child.)

NM #74

(The X-Terminators lead the New Mutants back to X-Factor's headquarters, Ship. Ship rejects Gosamyr, who has been with the New Mutants, with the knowledge of the danger of her alien species. Apparently, she makes others fight and kill to possess her. Ship provides Gosamyr with a starship which will bring her to a place where she can be taught to control what she is.)

NM #75

(The New Mutants return to the Mansion to find it destroyed. Magneto and the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club arrives. Magneto imprisoned the New Mutants in a ball of metal. When Sebastian Shaw rejects Magneto's eligibility as White King, they fought. Magneto outlines his plans for mutants as soldiers in the upcoming war for dominance amongst the mutant factions. Magneto defeats Shaw and the latter leaves the Hellfire Club. Magneto becomes the Grey King. He releases the New Mutants, who reject him as their teacher.)

NM #76

(The X-Terminators unknowingly found an Atlantean horn which they blow to summon a sea monster accidentally. The New Mutants and Namor arrive to help.)

NM #77 - 85 (excluding NM #81)

(The X-Terminators join the New Mutants. They send Illyana Rasputin home. Dani gets possessed by an unknown entity and the team seek out Dr. Strange for help. The possessed Dani starts to create flames but her astral form manages to use her powers to put herself on ice. The team brings her back to Ship but is attacked by a Freedom Force intent on capturing Rusty Collins. After a fight, Rusty and Skids volunteer to be captured while the rest of the team gets Dani back to Ship. However, Ship flies off to space and the possessed Dani breaks free. Dr. Strange sends the team and Dani into Asgard. As Dani flies away after hurting Wolfsbane, the team accidentally comes into contact with the dwarfs, who capture them. Eitri, leader of the dwarfs whom Cannonball had helped in a previous trip to Asgard, releases them and tells them that the Valkyries have been stealing the best dwarven weaponsmiths instead of their usual tasks of taking souls of slain warriors. The Valkyries arrive to capture the dwarfs and the New Mutants. The later manage to escape and the team finds the wolf prince Hrimhari. When the mistress of the Valkyries, Hel begins to move her fortress away from Asgard, the New Mutants attempt to flee into Asgard but only Boom Boom, Warlock and Hrimhari get through. The three of them travel to Asgard to find the All-father Odin but he is currently in Odinsleep. They are captured but the children of Volstagg of the Warriors Three point them to where they can find help. In the meantime, the New Mutants are helped by one of the Valkyries, Mist. However, when Cannonball sees Eitri being forced to forged a weapon for Hel, he leads the New Mutants to help and the team gets caught. On Earth, Freedom Force manages to capture Rusty Collins and Skids. Boom Boom, Warlock and Hrimhari get caught by a frost giant, an ally of Hel, but are rescued by the giant Tiwaz. Eitri completes the Deathsword for Hel, which would enable her to kill Odin in his sleep and give her control over the Odin power. The New Mutants and Mist release the imprisoned Einherjar, Odin's warrior and steal the Deathsword. However, Hel manages to defeat the Einherjar and retrieve the Deathsword. The New Mutants escape and infiltrates Hel's army, seeking to stop Dani. Volstagg's children manage to find Balder the Brave with the sorceress Karnilla in her kingdom of Nornheim. Karnilla manages to restore her people, who had been turned to stone, helped on from afar by Tiwaz. At the same time, Warlock, Boom Boom and Hrimhari manages to rescue the Warriors Three from Queen Ula and her hive trolls. Hrimhari manages to persuade Queen Ula that Hel, rather than Asgard, has been responsible for kidnapping members of the hive trolls. Balder, the Warriors Three and the two armies gather together in front of Asgard. Just then, Hel leads her army to attack. Meanwhile, back on Earth, Rusty Collins chances upon an attempt by Vulture to escape from prison. He tries to stop Vulture but is pulled along. After Vulture manages to shake him off, he frees Skids to continue the pursuit. Rusty intends to prevent Vulture from freeing Nitro, who is currently under trial in a containment canister and whose explosive powers would be a great danger to innocents near the courthouse. The fight continues in Asgard. The New Mutants go after Dani. Eitri frees the Einhenjar and arrives at the battle, seeking to destroy the Deathsword. Beside Odin, the New Mutants fight Dani. Eitri arrives and in the ensuing fight, tells Cannonball of the flaw in the Deathsword. Cannonball manages to exploit that flaw as he goes between Dani's strike and Odin. When the Deathsword is destroyed, Hel's hold on her army is severed and they turn on Hel, who then escapes.)

NM #81

(While Magma and Empath are in Nova Roma, Magma recounts the time when she met one of the gods she worshipped, Hercules.)

NM #86

(Vulture confronts the Tinkerer regarding his pirated wings design. He brings Tinkerer along to rescue Nitro. After he manages to release Nitro, Rusty Collins and Skids arrives. Skids manage to contain Nitro's explosion. Freedom Force arrives at the scene and bring Rusty and Skids in. Six mysterious figures attack a research facility and the Mutant Liberation Front demands that Rusty and Skids are freed or they will start destroying human property.)

NM Summer Special - A Mutant in Megapolis

(Television!)

NM #87 - 91

(The Mutant Liberation Front attacks a second research station and demands the release of Rusty and Skids. Unknown to them, a certain Cable is following them. They return to their leader Stryfe, who asks them to break Rusty and Skids out. Meanwhile, the New Mutants travels back to Earth from Asgard. Cable fails to stop the MLF's mission and gets caught. He rejects Freedom Force's offer to join them and engineers an escape. The New Mutants reunite with X-Factor. Moira MacTaggart, who seems different from her usual self, demands that Wolfsbane return to Scotland. Freedom Force chases after Cable. Cannonball, Sunspot and Boom Boom shop for a parting gift for Wolfsbane after which they encounter Cable fighting Freedom Force and assist him. Meanwhile, Moira arrives early to pick Wolfsbane up but Rictor and Warlock manage to delay their departure long enough for the rest of the New Mutants and Cable to arrive. Cable persuades Moira, whom he seems to know, to let Wolfsbane stay to help him in a mission. Cable leads the New Mutants to the destroyed Xavier's Institute where they create new uniforms and train in the Danger Room. Rictor seems to know Cable and believes that Cable took his father away from him. He breaks down in the Danger Room and later enters the Morlocks Tunnel, intend on dealing with Masque. Instead, he encounters Sabretooth and Caliban. Cable leads the New Mutants into the tunnels. They save Rictor while Sabretooth and Caliban fights, looked on by Masque and the Morlocks. Caliban wins the fight and the New Mutants depart the Tunnels.)

NM #92

(Wolfsbane recalls to Cable a time when the New Mutants followed Cannonball to Kentucky to visit his family. They went to a carnival. However, it turned out to be controlled by skrull slavers. They stopped the threat and the skrulls escaped.)

NM #93 - 94

(The New Mutants travel to the Asian principality of Madripoor where they meet Sunfire. Sunfire's pursuit of a drug threatening Japan led to the city just as Cable traced the MLF to the same place. Cannonball, Boom Boom, Warlock and Sunfire contacted Stryfe and the MLF while doing aerial surveillance. They are caught. Meanwhile, Cable contacted Wolverine and fought him. The New Mutants stop the fight and together with Wolverine find Stryfe's hideout. After a fight, the hideout is destroyed when the weapon cache in it caught fire and exploded.)

NM #95

(Xtinction Agenda tie-in. Boom Boom, Rictor, Wolfsbane, Warlock and Storm are brought to Genosha as prisoners and they meet Cameron Hodge, the mastermind of the kidnap. They are put in a cell but manage to escape with the help of Warlock. However, Warlock is captured by Hodge, who proceeds to kill him. Wolfsbane arrives just in time to watch the execution and is caught by Hodge.)

NM #96

(Xtinction Agenda tie-in. On the run, Rictor and Boom Boom meet Jubilee. Other teams make their move. Cable's team soon meets Wolfsbane, who had been altered into a mutate.)

NM #97

(The X-teams are gathered before Cameron Hodge. They manage to turn around to fight and pursue him. Storm finds a way to reverse the mutate process, restoring Wolfsbane among others.)

NM #98 - 99

(Gideon has a workout. Over at the Xavier Institute, Cable and Cannonball have their own workout. Emmanuel da Costa is killed by someone working under Gideon. Deadpool, claiming to be hired by Tolliver. attempts to kill Cable but is eventually stopped by Domino. As Cable ponders over new recruits, Rictor leaves with the intention of joining Wolfsbane in Madripoor. Gideon arrives and tells his old friend Sunspot that his father is dead. Feral of the Morlock escapes Masque. Cable extends an invitation to Warpath to join him. Gideon persuades Sunspot to take control of his father's business empire. Warpath arrives in Camp Verde to see it destroyed, seemingly by the Hellfire Club. After Sunspot leaves, Warpath turns up and agrees to join Cable. Feral and Shatterstar appear at the Institute soon after. The Imperial Protectorate follows Shatterstar from the otherwordly dimension Mojoverse. The team deals with the Imperials only to have Masque turn up demanding the return of Feral. Cable deals with Masque and he leaves.The team prepares and leave the Xavier Institute. After a debrief with the MLF, Stryfe travels to his office where he removes his helmet.. to reveal the face of Cable?)

NM Truth or Death #1-3 (1997)

(While in a training session in the Danger Room, Magik encounters a mysterious person who later reveal himself to be her eldest brother Mikhail. On a dare, Magik teleports the team to the future where they meet their future self. Mikhail appears after Magik learns that she will die to the Legacy Virus and offers to cure her. The future Mutants attempt to stop Mikhail but Karma turns on them, with her own experiences with her siblings haunting her. The future Mutants eventually escape as the younger Cypher discovers that Mikhail has in fact made Magik vulnerable to the Legacy Virus. They turn on Mikhail and he escapes. The younger Mutants return to their own timeline with their memories of these events erased.)

Astonishing X-Men (2004 - 2013)

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Astonishing X-Men was an ongoing X-Men title launched in 2004 and ended in 2013. It was positioned as the title suitable for new readers who do not want to be bogged down by continuity.

Joss Whedon's Run

[Appearance: Astonishing X-Men #1 (2004) - Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1 (2008)]

Astonishing X-Men was launched in 2004 with Joss Whedon as the writer and John Cassaday as the penciller. Whedon wrote 4 arcs: Gifted, Danger, Torn and Unstoppable, from Astonishing X-Men #1 to Astonishing X-Men #24, ending with Giant Size Astonishing X-Men #1 in 2008.

Astonishing X-Men #1 - Astonishing X-Men #6: Gifted

Cyclops' team learned of scientist Kavita Rao's claim to have created a cure for mutants, which was made possible by the extraterrestrial Ord, a Breakworld native who came to Earth to prevent a prophecy that an Earth mutant would destroy his planet. Ord originally wanted to declare war but made diplomatic arrangements with SWORD (Sentient Worlds Observation and Response Department), an intelligence agency charged with handling extraterrestrial matters. Ord stole Colossus' body, resurrecting him and experimenting on him. He discovered the cure for the Legacy Virus within Colossus's body and his findings resulted in Rao's cure. The X-Men investigated and found Colossus alive, defeating Ord, who was taken into custody by SWORD.

Astonishing X-Men #7 - Astonishing X-Men #12: Danger
The team fought Danger, the sentient Danger Room consciousness that Xavier ignored years before. Danger manipulated the X-Men into freeing it from the mansion's confines, leaving to kill Xavier. The X-Men managed to stop Danger from killing Xavier but were horrified to learn that Xavier had held Danger captive for years. This caused a rift between Xavier and the team.

Astonishing X-Men #13 - Astonishing X-Men #18: Torn

Shortly after the Marauders situation, Emma Frost turned on the team, creating life-like images of former Hellfire Club associate Sebastian Shaw; a younger version of her, Perfection; deceased former student Negasonic Teenage Warhead; and evil psychic Cassandra Nova, to attack her teammates. It turned out that Cassandra Nova made Emma a sleeper agent just before sending in Sentinels to destroy the mutant island Genosha. The team managed to deal with the threat and liberate Emma before being taken by SWORD to outer space, joined by student Armor.

Astonishing X-Men #19 - Astonishing X-Men #24,
Giant-Sized Astonishing X-Men #1: Unstoppable
SWORD and the X-Men made their way to Breakworld in an attempt to stop Breakworld from destroying Earth. In the process, they learnt that Breakworld's doomsday prophecy was part of an elaborate scheme by Aghanne, an insane leader of a reformation cult seeking Breakworld's destruction. The team prevented Earth's destruction when Kitty Pryde bonded herself to a ten-mile bullet aimed at Earth by phasing it harmlessly through the planet. However, Earth's scientists and heroes were unable to free her.

Cyclops, Emma Frost, Wolverine, Beast, Kitty Pryde, Lockheed

Late Additions

Armor [AXM #20], Colossus [AXM #5]

Warren Ellis' Run

[Astonishing X-Men #25 (2008) - Astonishing X-Men #30 (2009)]
[Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Box #1 - #2 (2009)]

Following the end of Whedon and Cassaday's run, the new creative team of Warren Ellis and Simone Bianchi took over from Astonishing X-Men #25, starting with the Ghost Box arc. A 2-issue Ghost Box miniseries was also published.

The team encountered the Ghost Box, a interdimensional portal and fought rogue former X-Man Forge who created a breed of mutants. The battle ended with Forge's seeming death.

[Astonishing X-Men #31 (2009) - Astonishing X-Men #35 (2010)]

Phil Jimenez took over as penciller in #31 to begin the eXogenetic arc.

The team combated a new breed of Sentinels created by geneticist Kaga, using the DNA and bodies of deceased mutants, Krakoa and Brood.

[Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis #1 - #5 (2010)]
With creative delays over the series, a 5-issue limited series titled Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis was released with Kaare Andrews as the penciller. The X-Men traveled to Africa to investigate strange mutations caused by energies of another dimension, fighting a group of superhero-slaying simulacrum Fury.

Cyclops, Emma Frost, Wolverine, Beast, Storm, Armor

Daniel Way and Christos Gage

[Astonishing X-Men #36, 37, 39, 41 (2011)]

Daniel Way takes over as writer with Jason Pearson and Nick Bradshaw providing pencilling duties starting in February's Astonishing X-Men #36 and for issues #37, #39 and #41. When Armor discovered the deaths of her mother and brother, Cyclops, Emma and Wolverine accompanied her back to Japan to attend their funeral. When Mentallo controlled monsters to cause trouble in Japan, the X-Men traveled to Monster Island, off Japan, to end Mentallo's control of these monsters.

Cyclops, Emma Frost, Wolverine, Armor

[Astonishing X-Men #38, 40, 42 (2011)]

Writer Christo Gage and artist Juan Bobillo introduced a parallel story to Daniel Way's arc. The X-Men including Storm, Beast, Colossus and Kitty Pryde traveled into space to rescue Abigail Brand from a Brood attack. They were able to negotiate a Brood withdrawal from Earth and recover a benign young Brood.

Beast, Colossus, Kitty Pryde, Lockheed, Storm

[Astonishing X-Men #43 (2011)]

James Asmus wrote a single issue, #43. Danger asked Emma Frost for help in rescuing an A.I. However, it turned out that the A.I. was manipulating her.

Greg Pak's Run

[Astonishing X-Men #44 - #47 (2011-2012)]

Greg Pak and Mike McKone take over the title from issue #44 - #47. Cyclops was captured into an alternate dimension in which Charles Xavier won a war against Magneto and his terrorist mutants. However, the war ravaged Earth. The brilliant minds built a machine which could convert the powers of mutants into raw energy to save the planet at the cost of their lives. The structural integrity of the planet requires constant maintenance and Xavier turned to capturing mutants from alternate dimensions. Cyclops and his fellow prisoners from other dimensions escaped and put a stop to Xavier's plans. Cyclops was sent back to his own dimension via a Ghost Box by his temporary teammates.

The story continues in X-Treme X-Men.

[Astonishing X-Men #48 - #68 (2012-2013)]

Majorie Liu wrote Astonishing X-Men with #48.

The title was under Team Wolverine during Regenesis. Under Marvel Now, the title continues to follow the cast in Wolverine's X-Men.

Astonishing X-Men #48 (2012) - Astonishing X-Men #56 (2012)
Art by Mike Perkins

The team defeated Marauders and discovered that they are mind-controlled. Further investigations revealed the involvement of Hatchi Tech, Inc. Meanwhile, Northstar proposed to his long-time boyfriend Kyle Jinadu. While Northstar first failed, he later succeeded in convincing Kyle. Kyle was baited into a trap and Northstar had to defeat the X-Men, mind-controlled by member Karma, to rescue him. Karma disappeared while the X-Men organized the wedding of Northstar and Kyle Jinadu. On the wedding night, Karma was revealed to be under the control of Susan Hatchi's nano-worms. Wolverine stumbled upon them but Hatchi activated a device which detonated the bomb inside his body. The X-Men were able to link Susan Hatchi's involvement with Karma and the Marauders. Beast got a location from the nano-worms and the X-Men rescue Karma but were unable to help the victims used in experiments in the facility in the ensuing explosion. Susan Hatchi appeared and revealed herself as Karma's half-sister. Using her nano-worms, she controlled the X-Men and ordered them to conquer Madripoor. They confront the country's current leader Tyger Tiger but she was not willing to give up control so easily. Northstar seemingly killed Iceman during an argument, which allowed Iceman to reconstitute himself to get help. The X-Men were arrested but before they reached the prison, they encountered Karma's father, long thought dead just as Susan fired a missile at them. In the rubble, Susan confronted Karma, who was in turn confronted by their father. Meanwhile, Susan's plan to kill everyone in New York City with her nano-worms as retribution for the X-Men's failure failed as Iceman managed to get the X-Men in the School to turn off the nano-worms. Karma used her powers to bond with Susan but Susan was killed by her father. Karma inherited Hatchi Tech as the only living relative of Susan, becoming a millionaire.

In 2012 June's "Astonishing X-Men" #51 by writer Marjorie Liu and artist Mike Perkins, Northstar marries Kyle and becomes the first gay married man in mainstream super hero comics.

CBR News spoke with Marvel Editor-in-Chief Axel Alonso, Perkins, and Liu about the history making wedding. more here..

Marvel - Save the Date: Landmark X-Men Marriage

Astonishing X-Men Annual #1

Written by Christos Gage and Art by David Baldeon

The X-Men broke in on Northstar and Kyle's honeymoon in Paris, seeking the former's help in stopping the Friends of Humanity, which has been targeting family of the X-Men and students. The X-Men took turns talking to Kyle about being married to one in the X-Men family. Northstar returned to lead the X-Men to a warehouse in Moscow to stop a Russian mafia boss bankrolling Friends of Humanity. Karma remained behind to protect Kyle. However, FoH attacked Kyle. Northstar returned in time to save Kyle and FoH was defeated.

Astonishing X-Men #57 (2013) - Astonishing X-Men #59 (2013)

Art by Gabriel Hernandez Walta

Warbird learnt of the existence of an artifact believed to be a doomsday device and journeyed to Cairo to retrieve it. She fought with the sole survivor of the Fianden, an alien race of artists wiped out by the Shi'ar eons ago, who turned out to be a machine. Eventually, despite repeated SHIELD intervention, the Fianden machine managed to merge with the device, creating a museum for the Fianden in the Egypt desert. The encounter prompted Warbird to fully embrace her artistic inclinations, something forbidden by the Shi'ar, which led to the Fiandens' destruction in the first place.

Gambit, Iceman, Karma, Northstar, Cecilia Reyes, Warbird, Wolverine

Astonishing X-Men #60 - Astonishing X-Men #61 (2013)

The title became part of the X-Termination crossover. For more, check here..

Astonishing X-Men #62 - Astonishing X-Men #65 (2013)

Art by Gabriel Hernandez Walta

Iceman was corrupted by the Apocalypse Death Seed during the events of X-Termination. He blanketed the world with a new ice age before he was stopped by the X-Men.

Gambit, Iceman, Karma, Kitty Pryde, Warbird, Wolverine

Astonishing X-Men #66 - #68 (2013)

Art by Amilcar Pinna for #67 - #68 and Ganriel Hernandez Walta for #68

The X-Men encountered a young lost alien who was using his powers to possess people. When Karma and Cecilia Reyes tried to connect to the alien, he escaped. Wolverine and Gambit went on a road trip to locate the alien. With the help of a young girl named Wendy, they reunited the alien with its parents.

In the last issue, the X-Men captured the Dark Beast. Warbird contemplated her new life. Gambit and Cecilia Reyes went on a date. Northstar and Kyle fought in court for the right to stay in America.

Gambit, Jubilee, Karma, Kitty Pryde, Northstar, Cecilia Reyes, Storm, Warbird, Wolverine

Title	Material Collected	Publication Date	ISBN

Astonishing X-Men Vol. 1: Gifted	Astonishing X-Men #1-6	May 10, 2006	0785115315
Astonishing X-Men Vol. 2: Dangerous	Astonishing X-Men #7-12	June 27, 2007	078511677X
Astonishing X-Men Vol. 3: Torn	Astonishing X-Men #13-18	February 14, 2007	0785117598
Astonishing X-Men Vol. 4: Unstoppable	Astonishing X-Men #19-24 & Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1	July 2, 2008	0785122540
Astonishing X-Men Vol. 5: Ghost Box	Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 3 #25–30 & Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes #1–2	December 2009	0-7851-2788-7
Astonishing X-Men Vol. 6: Exogenetic	Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 3 #31–35	September 2010	0-7851-3149-3
Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis	Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis #1–5	October 5, 2011	0-7851-4491-9
Astonishing X-Men Vol. 7: Monstrous	Astonishing X-Men Vol. 3 #36-37, 39, & 41	December, 2011	0-7851-5114-1
Astonishing X-Men By Joss Whedon & John Cassaday Ultimate Collection Book 1	Astonishing X-Men, vol. 3 #1–12^[13]	February 01, 2012	0-7851-6194-3
Astonishing X-Men Vol. 8: Children of the Brood	Astonishing X-Men Vol. 3 #38, 40, 42-43, Uncanny X-Men #162	February 2012	0-7851-5787-5
Astonishing X-Men By Joss Whedon & John Cassaday Ultimate Collection Book 2	Astonishing X-Men, vol. 3 #13–24 and Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1^[14]	March 07, 2012	0-7851-6195-0
Astonishing X-Men Vol. 9: Exalted	Astonishing X-Men Vol. 3 #44-47 & material from Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes #1	May 2012	0-7851-6177-5
Astonishing X-Men Vol. 10: Northstar	Astonishing X-Men #48-51 & material from Nation X #2	September 2012	0-7851-6179-1
Astonishing X-Men Vol. 11: Weaponized	Astonishing X-Men Vol. 3 #52-56 and Astonishing X-Men: Annual #1	April 2013	0-7851-6415-4
X-Men: X-Termination	Age of Apocalypse #13-14, X-Treme X-Men Vol. 2 #12-13, X-Termination #1-2, Astonishing X-Men Vol. 3 #60-61	August 2013	0-7851-8443-0
Astonishing X-Men Vol. 12: Unmasked	Astonishing X-Men Vol. 3 #57-59, 66	November 2013	0-7851-6180-5
Astonishing X-Men Vol. 13: Frozen	Astonishing X-Men Vol. 3 #62-65, 67-68	December 2013	0-7851-6641-6

X-Men Legacy (2008 - 2012), (2012 - 2014)

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The title began its publication in October 1991 as X-Men. From 2001 to 2004, #114 to #156, it is published as New X-Men. With issue #157, the title reverted to its original title. In 2008 with issue #208, the title was re-titled X-Men Legacy. The title is written by Mike Carey and pencilled by a rotating cast of artists. Writer Christos Gage and penciller David Baldeon took over the title with #260.1. The title ends with X-Men Legacy #275 and is relaunched with a new #1 in November 2012. The second volume of X-Men Legacy ended with #25 (renumbered #300) to commemorate the series.

The series was re-titled X-Men Legacy following the Messiah Complex crossover. Professor X was accidentally shot in the head by Bishop. While the X-Men presumed him deceased, his body disappeared and his whereabouts are unknown.

Between #208 (2008) - #225 (2009), the title focuses on Professor X.

In the Divided He Stands arc in #208 (2008) - #212 (2008), Exodus restored Professor X after which the latter went on a journey to recover lost memories. In Sins of the Father in #213 (2008) - #216 (2008), Professor X, Sebastian Shaw and Gambit fought off an attempt by Mr. Sinister to revive himself by taking over Xavier or Shaw. He then returned to the mutant island of Utopia to let Cyclops know that he is alive. In the Original Sins mini-crossover (X-Men: Original Sins one-shot, X-Men Legacy #217 - #218, Wolverine Origins #28 - #30 (2009)), Wolverine recruited Xavier to help his son Daken overcome Romulus's mind influence. At the same time, Daken was involved in a ploy by Sebastian Shaw and Ms Sinister to regain control over the Hellfire Club. Eventually, Xavier was able to undo Daken's mind influence while fending off Ms Sinister and Wolverine fought Shaw. In Salvage #219 (2009) - #225 (2009), Rogue isolated herself in the X-Men's former Australian outback base to deal with her powers. Danger, the physical embodiment of the X-Men's Danger Room, found Rogue and enveloped her in a series of scenarios meant to push Rogue to a personal crisis. Xavier and Gambit traveled to the Australian outback to help Rogue but found themselves immersed in the scenarios. After fighting off a crew of Shi'ar salvagers trapped in the scenarios, Xavier managed to deactivate Danger. With the help of a now pacified Danger, Xavier helped Rogue achieve control over her powers. Xavier returned to Exodus and his acolytes to persuade them to disband and join the mutant community in Utopia.

In issue #226 (2009), Rogue replaced Professor X as the central character. Having regained control over her powers, Rogue returned to the X-Men along with Gambit and Danger just in time to deal with the mutant riots in San Francisco during the Utopia cross-over. [#226 (2009) - #227(2009)]. Rogue helped students Trance (Hope Abbott) and Indra (Paras Gavaskar) deal with their powers during the riots. After the establishment of Utopia, Cyclops re-positioned her as mentor to the younger mutants.

In the Emplate arc (#228 (2009) - #230 (2009)), the mutant psychic vampire Emplate returned and kidnapped Bling! (Roxy Washington) as an energy source for himself. Rogue absorbed Trance's powers to enter Emplate's domain to rescue Bling! and defeat Emplate.

In the X Necrosha crossover (#231 (2010) - #233 (2010)), Rogue was part of a team led by Nightcrawler. The team traveled to Muir Island to check in on a warning provided by Destiny. The team includes Nightcrawler, Colossus, Rogue, Psylocke, Magneto, Husk, Blindfold and Trance. On Muir Island, they faced a revived Proteus, who used his powers to possess many of the X-Men. Proteus was eventually stopped by Rogue and Magneto.

X-Men Legacy was part of the Second Coming crossover from #234 (2010) - #237 (2010). more..

In the Collision arc [#238 (2010) to #241 (2010)], Rogue brought a team including Magneto as well as Loa, Anole and Indra, all former members of the Alpha Squadron student squad, to escort Indra back home to Mumbai, India. Indra was due to be married to someone arranged by his family. In Mumbai, they fought the Children of the Vault after which Indra's marriage was annulled.

In Fables of Reconstruction [#242 (2010) - #243 (2010)], Cyclops assembled a team to help San Francisco, which was ravaged by the battle between the X-Men and Bastion, with the rebuilding process. The team consists of Rogue, Magneto, Colossus, Psylocke, Omega Sentinel, Danger, Hope and Random. When Omega Sentinel's Sentinel programming went awry, affected by the virus the X-Men released to stop the Nimrod Sentinels during Second Coming, she attacked Hope. Hellion, who had his hands burned off by the Nimrod Sentinels during Second Coming, fought Omega Sentinel and severely injured her, earning a reprimand from Cyclops.

The None So Blind story [#244 (2011)] focused on Blindfold as she witnessed events which would lead to the Age of X.

The Age of X arc is in [#245 (2011) - #249 (2011)]. more..

From #250 (Age of X aftermath), several personalities in Legion's mind went rogue, manifesting physically. Professor Xavier formed a team to bring these personalities in. The team included Professor X, Magneto, Legion, Rogue, Frenzy. Rogue used Legion's powers to stop the rogue personality Styx. After Styx was defeated, Rogue used one of Legion's powers to teleport herself, Gambit, Magneto and Frenzy into outer space to search for Havok, Polaris and Marvel Girl.

They ended up in a space station where the Shi'ar came under attacked by the insectoid Grad Nan Holt. Havok, Polaris and Marvel Girl were under the control of the Grad Nan Holt's Friendless who wanted to incite a war between Grad Nan Holt and the Shi'ar to decimate both races.

Following the schism between Cyclops and Wolverine, the X-Men and students split into two camps.

X-Men Legacy is under Wolverine's banner and the title features a group of X-Men serving as teachers and protectors in the Jean Grey Institute for Higher Learning.

For more on Jean Grey School for Higher Learning faculty and student body, check here

For other teams under Team Cyclops and Team Wolverine, check out Regenesis.

X-Men Legacy focuses on Rogue as the main character, along with Gambit, Rachel Grey, Frenzy, Cannonball and Husk. Wolverine, Iceman and Beast also made appearances.

In #260.1 (2012), the X-Men fight off an incursion by the other-dimensional demons, N'Garai. From #261 - #263 (2012), the X-Men faced Exodus who wanted to reunite the mutants forcibly. With the help of Cyclops' Five Lights team, Exodus was defeated. #264 - #265 (2012) saw the X-Men try to help Weapon Omega cope with his out-of-control powers. The X-Men failed and had to place him in stasis while they find a cure for him. Rogue managed to persuade Omega's good friend Mimic joined the Jean Grey School as staff member.

The X-Men soon became embroiled in a battle against the Avengers as the Phoenix Force arrives on Earth. In #266 - #267 (2012), Avengers She-Hulk, Falcon and Moon Knight were sent to the Jean Grey School to keep the mutants from entering the conflict. A fight later ensued between staff members and the Avengers over disagreements and the X-Men managed to drive the Avengers away.

In a fight between the Avengers and X-Men on the moon, the Phoenix Force was split between five X-Men (Cyclops, Emma Frost, Namor, Colossus, Magik) and they go about changing the world for the better. In #268 (2012), Frenzy participated in a mission to stop warlords, in the process saving a girl from her abusive husband. In #269 - #270 (2012), Rogue joined the Phoenix Five in changing the world. When Ms. Marvel attempt to persuade Rogue to be wary of the Phoenix Five, Rogue defeated Ms. Marvel and had her sent to Magik's prison. However, Rogue soon realized that the Phoenix Five had became and tried to rescue Ms. Marvel. Magik returned to stop the jailbreak and sent Rogue to an alternate dimension where she was recruited to help one of the alien warring factions. She eventually helped to unite the two warring factions and their new leaders help her return to Earth in time to participate in the final battle against Cyclops. [#271 - #273 (2012)] In the aftermath of the battle [#274 (2012)], Rogue and Magneto rescued trapped passengers in a train and they agreed to a break-up as Rogue picks up her life.

Rogue and Mimic help stop a prison breakout in the final issue of the series and Rogue imparts life lessons to Mimic who departs the teaching staff of the Institute. [#275 (2012)]

The second volume of X-Men Legacy is written by Simon Spurrier and mainly pencilled by Tan Eng Huat. It features Legion's journey to master his multiple personalities and his efforts to make the world better for mutants. In the process, he formed a relationship with the young mutant Blindfold and fought her evil brother Luca Aldine. To prevent his powers from spiralling out of control and causing the deaths of Blindfold and many others, he wiped himself out of existence but remaining within Blindfold's mind.
[X-Men Legacy #1 (2012) - #25 (renumbered #300) (2014)]

Cover of X-Men Legacy #300

Profiles

Rogue (Anna Marie)

Powers

Able to absorb memories and abilities through physical contact

History

Frenzy (Joanna Cargill)
Powers
Superhuman strength and durability
Current Status
Active in an X-Men squad
Group Affiliations
X-Men, formerly Acolytes, Genoshan Assault X-Men, Femizons, Alliance of Evil

History
Frenzy was originally part of the Alliance of Evil team working under the mutant supremacist Apocalypse. The Alliance of Evil clashed with the original X-Factor (Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Iceman, Angel) several times. The team was later recruited to bodyguard mutants Harness and Piecemeal, clashing with Cable and his New Mutants.

Joanna was later invited to join Superia's Femizons, which she accepted. She joined in the attack on Captain America and Paladin, then traveled to Superia's island to be one of her Femizons. She was once again imprisoned but was able to break free of the Vault prison to create problems for the superhero team Avengers.

She eventually joined the second incarnation of the Magneto-worshipping team Acolytes. She relinquished her codename and became known by her last name Cargill, as common among the Acolytes. Their first mission was to capture a child with latent mutant powers from Our Mother of the Sacred Heart, a school. During the mission, Cargill killed X-Men ally Sharon Friedlander before the X-Men arrived. Having history with Gambit since they met and clashed during a mission when they were mercenaries-for-hire, she went after him and Bishop. She was defeated by Gambit and the Acolytes escaped. Later, Cargill attempted to murder the mutant-hating Senator Kelly, but was electrocuted by Wolfsbane.

After Magneto was revealed to be alive having previously thought dead, Cargill was among the Acolytes who quickly turned on leader Fabian Cortez and joined Magneto in his mutant sanctuary, Avalon. When Avalon fell following its destruction at the hands of Holocaust, Cargill and her fellow Acolytes allied with the X-Man Cyclops to escape the destroyed space station in time. They crash landed in Australia but were given to the authorities. The Acolytes escaped prison and found the remains of Avalon, worshipping it and the return of Magneto. Exodus eventually took over as leader of the Acolytes, and Cargill participated in the attack on Mount Wundagore, base of the High Evolutionary.

After the Acolytes disbanded, Cargill became the ambassador of Magneto's mutant island nation Genosha to the United Nations. When Magneto seek to rally the mutants in his nation to launch a war on humankind, Cargill went on television declaring that every country that pledged loyalty to Magneto would be given some autonomy. However, she was captured by the government. Jean Grey of the X-Men went about recruiting mutants to form an ad-hoc team of X-Men to deal with Magneto. She freed Cargill and mind-controlled her, requiring her knowledge of Genosha to deal with Magneto. The team managed to infiltrate Genosha and defeat Magneto, after which Cargill was freed from her mind-control. She immediately left the Xavier's Institute.

Frenzy retained her powers after M-Day and joined a new team of Acolytes led by Exodus along with mutants Random and Tempo. On the team's first mission, they infiltrated the Helicarrier of the peace-keeping agency S.H.I.E.L.D. to free mutants Northstar and Aurora, defeating Rogue. Cargill was eventually defeated with the combined efforts of Mystique, Northstar and Aurora. The Acolytes joined Mr. Sinister's Marauders and attacked the X-Men in search of the prophetic Destiny Diaries. When the mutant messiah child was born, the Marauders and X-Men clashed a few times to claim the child. In the final battle between all parties involved, Professor X was accidentally shot in the head by Bishop. The Acolytes escaped with Professor X's body. Professor X was restored by Exodus. However, Frenzy did not want to do anything with him and wanted to kill him. After arguing with her fellow Acolytes over the issue, she confronted Xavier with the attention to kill him, but was stopped and severely injured by a depowered Magneto.

Xavier left and went on a journey to recover his lost memories. When he returned, he brought Frenzy out of her coma. Xavier persuaded Exodus to disband the Acolytes and Frenzy left angrily. She resurfaced in San Francisco to join in the riots against anti-mutant followers. After Cyclops established the mutant island of Utopia, Frenzy stayed, helping the X-Men fight off an attack by the super Sentinel known as Bastion. She relapsed to her old way, attacking a museum in San Francisco along with Nekra in protest of its exhibits. She was defeated by Dazzler and Northstar of the X-Men and captured by the police.

She was back in Utopia when the Age of X reality was created by Legion's Moria personality. In this reality, she is a hero married to Cyclops. When the Age of X reality was reversed, she retained her memories. She confronted Cyclops over their relationship but he rejected her. She decided that she liked her role back in the Age of X reality and seek to be an X-Man. She forced her way into Professor X's team put together to deal with Legion's rogue personality.

Legion (David Charles Haller)
Powers
Telepathy; ability to absorb the consciousness of others; telekinesis; psionic ability to start fires; many others
Current Status
Seemingly killed by a time-travelling Bishop; Recently returned
Known Relatives
Charles Xavier (father), Gabrielle Haller (mother, deceased)
Notes
David Haller was the son of Charles Xavier and Holocaust survivor Gabrielle Haller. By the time Charles learned of his son, the teenage boy had been overtaken by multiple personalities.
He was sent to the Muir Island facility to be cared for by Moira MacTaggart.
When the Shadow King attacked the Muir Island facility, he possessed David, using his powers to psychically increase the amount of hatred in the world and feed off this malignant energy. Shadow King was defeated by X-Men and X-Factor (original X-Men) after which David went into a coma. Few years later, he woke up with his fractured mind healed.
Hoping to help his father realise his goal of peaceful coexistence between humans and mutants, he travelled to the past with the intent of killing Magneto before he would launch his war on humanity.

However, he ended up killing his father when Charles selflessly dove in front of Magneto to save his life. This created the Age of Apocalypse reality in which Magneto became the one who formed the X-Men and the mutant warlord Apocalypse managed to take over North America. Eventually, Bishop managed to return to the point in time just before Legion was going to accidentally kill Xavier, taking the blow instead. Legion seemingly died as a result of the energies unleashed.

However, he did not die. He was brought in by the New Mutants X-Men squad and received treatment for his multiple personalities in Utopia. He was kept sedated along with other evil mutants in Utopia but was released to help the X-Men in repelling Bastion's invading forces. It was revealed that Legion was brought back to Earth by Magik to kill the Elder Gods.

A rogue personality in the form of Moira MacTaggert manifested, re-creating reality into the Age of X one in which mutants were isolated on an island and fought off anti-mutants on an almost daily basis. Legion's involvement was discovered and Legion accessed Moira's powers to return reality to its original state. Shortly after, several of his personalities managed to manifest themselves physically. Charles Xavier formed a team of X-Men to bring these personalities in.

X-Factor Investigations (2005 - 2013)

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The X-Factor title is the third volume of the series written by Peter David and features X-Factor Investigations, a detective agency set up by Jamie Madrox. X-Factor Investigations was based in New York.

The title ended in 2013 and will be replaced by the All-New X-Factor written by Peter David too.

History

From Marvel.wikia.com

X-Factor Investigations is a detective agency run by Jamie Madrox the Multiple Man. The initial staff consisted of Madrox's best friend,Guido Carosella (Strong Guy) and their former teammate Rahne Sinclair (Wolfsbane). The agency was originally named XXX Investigations, but name was changed because Rahne thought that it sounded too much like Madrox was investigating pornography. The firm was renamed X-Factor Investigations after the government-sponsored X-Factor mutant superhero group that the three founders had previously served on.

Following M-Day, Madrox's newfound wealth from winning a Who Wants to be a Millionaire-style gameshow allowed him to recruit several of his former colleagues of the Parisbranch of the now defunct X-Corporation. New members included Siryn, a depowered Rictor, Generation M's Monet and the mysterious, youngLayla Miller. Almost immediately the team came into conflict with rival agency Singularity Investigations after they ordered Siryn beaten and left for dead.

After meeting with Singularity CEO Damian Tryp, Madrox asked Siryn to find out more about the Decimation from the heroes who might have been involved (by using her modulated voice to make them more suggestible). She learned from Spider-Man that the X-Men (who had denied any involvement), as well as Quicksilver were, in fact, central to the ending of the House of M and the subsequent Decimation.

Little was known about Damian Tryp apart from the fact that he ran Singularity Investigations, which was in direct competition with Madrox's X-Factor Investigations and his encounters with Madrox's team. He was also one of the few mutants who kept their superhuman powers after the M-Day, although it was discovered that he might not be a mutant, but a genetic throwback to an earlier time, i.e., a "changeling", a predecessor to mutants who manifest powers at birth. Tryp’s mutation enabled him to live for a very long time, as evidenced by him being alive in the 14th-century Wales. He also was able to move through time in a similar fashion to Quicksilver, which enabled him to bring together himself at three different times.

Damian Tryp also seemed to be involved in Jamie Madrox’s past. When Jamie was born, the doctor’s slap caused him to multiply into two identical babies, which was rather shocking to both his parents and the doctor. Professor Charles Xavier, a friend of the Madrox family, suggested that they move to Kansas to raise the boy in privacy with the possibility of the boy to be later taught at Professor X’s school for the gifted youngsters. However, when Madrox was still young, Tryp also made an own offer to look after Jamie, claiming that Jamie was also a "changeling" like him. Jamie's parents, however, refused to give Jamie to Tryp, who proceeded to create a freak tornado that killed Jamie’s parents.

The all out conflict between Tryp's Singularity Investigations and X-Factor Investigations began after the youngest version of Tryp badly beat Siryn (after shooting her in the neck with a dart that prevented her from using her powers) and left her for dead. Siryn, as part of her duties for X-Factor Investigations, was investigating the murder of thewoman who died in Jack Vaughn’s penthouse under suspicious circumstances.

Jack Vaughn (a movie star) claimed that the woman was killed by her sister, Gloria Santiago, who was upset about the relationship (claiming that Jack was “no good” for her sister), and that all he was trying to do was wrestle the gun away from her. The sister thus hired X-Factor Investigations to help her clear her name and bring Jack to justice. Singularity Investigations was representing Jack Vaughn with Tryp, Junior (i.e., the youngest version) as the defense counsel. Siryn and X-Factor Investigations managed to incriminate Vaughn and to thwart SI’s assassination attempt on Rictor. Tryp, Junior was so infuriated by this that he ambushed Siryn and beat her almost to death, leaving her to die in an alley.

Madrox and Strong Guy gave Tryp a very public warning as Tryp was jogging in Central Park. They told Tryp that they knew that it was him who hurt Siryn, and while they would not hurt him in broad daylight, he should watch his back. Tryp, Junior and Tryp, Senior made Madrox an offer to join their firm, and Madrox laughed in response.

Quicksilver returned to Mutant Town, having gained the ability to restore other mutants' powers from the Terrigen Crystals. X-Factor used this to confront the X-Men with their knowledge of the Decimation. As a result, X-Factor took a public stance in defiance of the Superhuman Registration Act and the X-Men have decided not to interfere with Quicksilver as long as he stayed in Mutant Town.

It was exposed that Tryp and his company have been working on a new version of the legacy virus. A former Singularity employee came to X-Factor Investigations and related that Tryp was attempting to restart the Legacy Virus, the plague that killed several mutants, including, briefly, Madrox himself. Strong Guy was sent to drive the man to safety but once they were alone, Strong Guy killed him and called Tryp to report. It was later discovered that Tryp had placed a hypnotic suggestion in Strong Guy’s head to turn him into a sleeper agent. According to the oldest version of Tryp (ancient), all of Singularity Investigations' efforts to create the Legacy Virus had been to prevent a possible future in which X-Factor managed to undo the Decimation, but as a result, humanity was wiped out by the re-powered mutants in a bloody conflict. As such, X-Factor Investigations' new goal was to undo Decimation, but also to prevent the conflict Tryp predicted.

Due to one of Madrox's dupes blowing up the SI building, apparently killing Tryp, Junior and Tryp, Senior (i.e., the middle-aged version), only the ancient Tryp (the one who had been alive the longest and has seen the grim future) was still alive.

After the destruction of Singularity Investigations, the present form of Damian Tryp (the elder/ancient) revealed to Layla that her very existence had foiled his plans — she was a force of chaos like he was. Tryp also revealed that when he comes into conflict with Layla, terrible events would occur as a result. Following her encounter with Tryp, Layla was genuinely shocked for the first time: the glass of milk she was pouring overflowed, spilling onto the floor.

After finding out about the foretold event, each member of the X-Factor Investigations received a session with Doc Samson.

X-Factor Investigations took public stance in defiance of the Superhuman Registration Act, and Madrox had helpedAegis elude S.H.I.E.L.D. authorities. However, Rictor and M were registered by a duplicate of Madrox who was an agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. Madrox, Strong Guy, and Wolfsbane were already registered because of their membership in the previous, government-sponsored X-Factor.

After Madrox's experience with his S.H.I.E.L.D. dupe, a dupe he had forgotten about, Madrox went on a quest to gather his lost dupes and revealed an ability to absorb himself into dupes. This quest met an end when he found a dupe who had built his own family. Meanwhile Siryn and Monet bounded in France and rescued a child from a riot. X-Factor was then attacked by the X-Cell and almost defeated. The X-Cell's member believed the government to be responsible for their lost powers. All but Marrow and Callisto were re-powered by Quicksilver and Rictor -- a process that resulted in the death of their leader and Abyss, Fatale and Reaper fleeing into the brimstone dimension to fate unknown. When Layla Miller revealed what truly happened to Callisto and Marrow, Rictor used his powers to expel the Terrigen crystals from Quicksilver's body (except for one, which he kept) at the cost of his powers.

X-Factor tangled with The Isolationist, a powerful telepath (among other things), who convinced Jamie Madorx,Cyclops , and Beast to organize a "Million Mutant March" political rally on Washington, D.C. to get mutants declared an endangered species by the U.S. government. However, Layla Miller told Madrox that one of Huber's agents had tried to kill her, and it was revealed that Huber's plan was a plot to get all the mutants in one place so they could be destroyed. Huber claimed that all the mutant voices in his head were driving him crazy. He also claimed that he had manipulated and arranged all of X-Factor Investigations problems and adventures. Then he teleported the team to a frozen wasteland.

Madrox, Rictor, and an accompanying Layla Miller were alerted to the Xavier Mansion by Emma Frost after the first mutant birth since M-Day. Madrox and Layla were sent to Forge's headquarters to send two dupes into different alternate realities. Layla jumped in with one of the dupes at the last minute, claiming she had a part to play in their mission. Unfortunately, Forge informed Madrox that there was no way to retrieve Layla and his dupes, who received instructions to kill themselves once they received the information they needed to get reabsorbed into Madrox Prime. Layla and the Madrox-dupe landed in Bishop's future, where they were captured and abused in mutant interment camps.

Rictor was instructed to go undercover as a Purifier by pretending to shoot Rahne as she attacked the group's members. He gained information on their artillery before his cover was blown by Anole and the other New X-Men. Rahne later joined the mutant group X-Force to hunt down Cable using their hyper-keen senses. Siryn was called by the mutant named Peepers asking to help him out. When Siryn arrived on the scene, Peepers was eaten to the bone by Predator X who was already on his way looking for the next mutant to kill. Strong Guy, Siryn, and M joined forces with the X-Men against the various groups trying to take control of the mutant baby.

After a confrontation with Jamie about her leaving, Rahne revealed that she had seen herself murder Jamie and Layla Madrox on their wedding night, and not wanting to kill Layla upon her return from the dystopian future, left the team. Meanwhile, Rictor, while walking down a street, thought he saw Layla. After following the young girl, he found a young prostitute who happened to appear around the same age. After some aggressive words with the young woman's pimp, he got into a fight that left him wounded. After Guido joined in the fight, the men quickly dispersed, and he walked with Rictor to the E.R. Elsewhere, Jamie was looking for a fight, and found himself at a Purifiergathering. After shooting their leader with a tranquilizer, Jamie made three copies of himself, and readied for a fight. Siryn revealed to a reverend that she was pregnant with Jamie's child; and later at a bar, revealed to Monet that she intended to give birth to the child.

Meanwhile, Mutant Town was under the clutches of X-Men villain Arcade with Rictor as his prisoner, Val Cooperreturned and X-Factor relocated to Detroit, Michigan.

Darwin went in search of Professor Xavier because he wanted to help him. He encountered Longshot, who tried to lead him to the Professor by using his powers. Longshot, however was unsure if his powers had been working correctly and tested them out on a group of people who turned on Darwin and attacked. After a brief fight, Darwin managed to get away and the crowd turned on Longshot. Darwin's father hired X-Factor to find his son, supposedly because he felt bad for walking out on him and his mother when he was younger. Madrox, Monet and Guido tracked down Darwin and Longshot but Longshot was attacked by Jazinda and She-Hulk who were trailing after him because he was really Nogor the Talisman, a Skrull priest.

After a fight between the two groups, they both realized Longshot was a Skrull impostor, defeat him, hand him over to Jazinda and She-Hulk before parting ways.

Darwin was reunited with his father, only to be betrayed and sold out to by operatives of an organization known as the Karma Project, who were experimenting on living human beings. Meanwhile, the real Longshot showed up and he and Darwin joined X-Factor. Valerie Cooper took an interest in Siryn's unborn child. During a confrontation when Siryn was leaving for the hospital because her water broke, Val was accidentally shot. While Val recovered, Siryn gave birth and finally acknowledged that her father was dead and never coming back. She named her son Sean, after her father but when Madrox held him, he absorbed Sean.

Jamie then left X-Factor Investigations and Detroit to wander and contemplate suicide. Before killing himself, Jamie walked to Vermont to speak with Pastor John Maddox, a dupe who had settled down and started a family. Explaining to John that dupes were unable to have babies, John revealed that he already knew this. However, Jamie threatened to kill himself, knocking out John. Before he pulled the trigger, an older Layla Miller returned to stop him.

Jamie was transported to the future in the midst of the Summers Rebellion, where mutants rose up against Sentinel and human oppressors, who were led by Ruby Summers, the daughter of Cyclops and Emma Frost with her fathers' eye beams and Emma's organic mineral body, Layla, and a cyborg Cyclops, whose predicament was Jamie's fault. After Jamie kissed Layla (now an adult) out of happiness at seeing her, Cyclops wanted Jamie to find out why some mutants were winking out off existence. The group visited an aging senile Doctor Doom, who said Layla told him in the past that he'd have to instruct Jamie and her on something in the future, and it is now.

In the present, X-Factor and new members Longshot and Darwin battled Cortex, an agent of the Summers Rebellion era government. Cortex briefly controlled Shatterstar and M, using them to respectively make assassination attempts on Reverend John Maddox and Lenore Wilkinson. Cortex grabbed Longshot, trying to also control him, and realized he and Shatterstar were connected, and when Cortex lost control over Monet, she attacked him and his hood fell back revealing that he was the second Jamie Madrox duplicate from Messiah Complex.

After an encounter with Bloodbath left Madrox temporarily dead, Havok and Polaris took over the team on behalf of Wolverine. After Madrox returned from his death, he and Alex decided that Alex would take the lead on jobs from Valerie Cooper and Wolverine while Madrox would take charge on the rest.

After a date with Monet in which he runs off to fight a super-villain, Guido and Monet have a falling out. While on a mission to fight the alternate versions of Dormammu and Captain America, Dormammu captures an innocent woman and threatens to kill her unless Guido backs down. Guido refuses however and Dormammu suddenly explodes and the woman is narrowly saved by Monet. Monet yells at Guido for risking the woman's life and calls him a soulless monster. Guido gets fed up and leaves X-Factor and is immediately recruited by a mysterious figure who reveals he was the one that destroyed the Dormammu.

After some soul searching, Rahne decides that she needs to find her son to make up for abandoning him when he was born. The rest of X-Factor help her track him down but they are not the only ones after him. Darwin, spurred on by his meeting with the future version of Rahne's son and mysterious voices in his head is trying to track Rahne's son down to kill him and avert the apocalypse. X-Factor succeed in stopping him and Rahne decides to stay behind with Jack Russel and her son to raise him.

While holding a memorial for her parents, Polaris hands a photograph of them to Longshot. Longshot gets a flash from it of the day Polaris' parents died yet refuses to tell Polaris what he saw. Polaris attempts to force him and then forces Monet to create a mind-link between them so she can see. After some coercing, Longshot shares what he saw. Polaris' "father" takes her and her mother up in the sky in an airplane and confronts his wife about her adultery with Magneto. Their argument quickly turns heated which prompts the young Polaris to start crying and yelling at them to stop. When her mother yells at her to shut up, Polaris' powers manifest far too early and she generates a magnetic pulse that destroys the plane and kills her parents. Her real father; Magneto arrives with Mastermind however and tells her that her magnetic pulse alerted him of her presence. He tells her that she is not yet ready for a life with him and that she craves a normal environment to grow up in. He asks Mastermind to use his illusionary powers to re-write Polaris' memories of that day and the crash which Mastermind succeeds in due to the malleable state of the child Polaris' mind. Polaris goes catatonic and Monet reveals that Mastermind's illusion is the reason for her mental instability throughout the years.

Siryn begins seeing images of her father talking to her through her mirror. He tells her that the only way to help Polaris is to approach the Banshee she encountered previously. The Banshee asks Siryn to take her place since it is tired and wants to rejoin her father in the afterlife. Siryn agrees in order to help Polaris which she succeeds in. As the new Banshee/Goddess of Death, she leaves X-Factor but promises Jamie to be there when he needs her.

Base of Operations

X-Factor Investigations office, Manhattan,

Formerly

XF Investigations offices, Detroit

X-Factor Investigations townhouse, Mutant Town, New York City

Roster

Multiple Man (Jamie Madrox)

M (Monet St. Croix)

Rictor (Julio Richter)

Butterfly (Layla Miller)

Longshot

Shatterstar (Gaveedra Seven/Benjamin Russell)

Polaris (Lorna Dane)

Former Members

Strong Guy (Guido Carosella)

Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair)

Siryn (Theresa Cassidy)

Darwin (Amando Munoz)

Havok (Alex Summers)

Multiple Man (Jamie Arthur Madrox)
Powers
Able to create identical duplicates of himself upon any physical impact
Group Affiliations
X-Factor, formerly SHIELD (duplicate), X-Corporation, X-Corp, Nasty Boys (duplicate), Fallen Angels

M (Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St. Croix)
Powers
Superhuman strength and speed; nigh-invulnerability; accelerated healing factor; flight; enhanced vision and hearing; telepathy; and the ability to perceive mutants' auras
Group Affiliations
X-Factor, formerly X-Corporation Paris, X-Corp, Generation X
Former Alias
Penance

Rictor (Julio Estiban Richter)
Powers
Generation of powerful vibratory waves
Group Affiliations
X-Factor, formerly X-Corporation, X-Force, New Mutants, X-Factor/X-Terminator (ward), Weapon P.R.I.M.E.

Butterfly (Layla Rose Millar)
Powers
Able to resurrect the dead as soul-less constructs. Extensive knowledge of past and future events imparted by her future self
Current Status
Stuck in alternate future for a period of time, now back in the present
Group Affiliations
X-Factor
Notes
Layla joined X-Factor as a child but while stuck in an alternate future grew up to be a teenager.

Longshot
Powers
Superhuman agility; Power to alter probability; Psychometry
Group Affiliations
X-Factor, formerly Exiles, X-Men

Shatterstar (Gaveedra Seven/Benjamin Russell)
Powers
Genetically bred to be the perfect fighting machine; Enhanced strength, speed, stamina, agility and reflexes; Accelerated healing; Ability to generate bio-energy through swords; Able to create portals with either Longshot or Layla as anchor
Group Affiliations
X-Factor, Formerly X-Force, New Mutants, Cadre Alliance

Polaris (Lorna Dane)
Powers
Magnetic manipulation, recreated using technology
Polaris was depowered during M-Day
Groups Affiliations
Starjammers, formerly X-Men, Apocalypse's Horsemen, Acolytes, Genoshan Cabinet, X-Factor, Marauders, Defenders

Former Members

Strong Guy (Guido Carosella)
Powers
Superhuman strength and endurance which he can increase by absorbing and subsequently releasing kinetic energy
Group Affiliations
X-Factor, formerly Arena

Banshee (Theresa Rourke Cassidy)
Powers
Able to create various sonic effects with her vocal cords; including flight, concussive sonic blasts, and sonar; power of suggestion by voice modulation
Former Alias
Siryn
Group Affiliations
X-Factor, formerly X-Corporation, X-Force
Notable Relatives
Sean Cassidy (Banshee, father)

Darwin (Armando Munoz)
Powers
Self-preservation; circumstantial evolution
Group Affiliations
X-Factor, formerly X-Men, Xavier's Secret Team

Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair)
Powers
Able to shape change into various lupine states; in lupine form. has enhanced senses and speed, claws and fangs
Group Affiliations
X-Factor, formerly X-Force, Xavier Institute staff, Excalibur, New Mutants

Havok (Alexander Summers)
Powers
Able to absorb ambient cosmic energy and release it as plasma blasts
Group Affiliations
Starjammers, formerly X-Men, Six, Brotherhood of Mutants (Dark Beast), X-Factor, Genoshan Magistrates

Valerie Cooper

Current Status
Deputy Presidential Advisor on Para-Human Affairs, O*N*E
History
Dr. Valerie Cooper had been liaisons to two government-sponsored teams: Mystique's Freedom Force, which was formed out of her Brotherhood but disbanded after a botched mission in the Middle East; and X-Factor, which was led by Havok.

Cooper later handed the leadership of X-Factor to Forge and added Sabretooth and Mystique to the team, which eventually led to disastrous consequences.

She returned to the Commission of Superhuman Affairs, helping the X-Men several times.

Later, she helped form the Office of National Emergency (O*N*E), a government branch dedicated to preparing and defending against superhuman threats.

After M-Day, she based herself at the Xavier Institute to oversee the mutant relocation centre in the Xavier Institute. Her role ended when the Xavier Institute was destroyed during the events of Messiah Complex.

Currently, she has been assigning tasks to Jamie Madrox's X-Factor Investigations.

Title	Material collected	Publication date	ISBN
Madrox: Multiple Choice	Madrox #1-5 (prelude to X-Factor vol. 3)	April 2005	0-7851-1500-5
X-Factor: The Longest Night	X-Factor vol. 3, #1-6	March 2007	0-7851-1817-9
X-Factor: Life and Death Matters	X-Factor vol. 3, #7-12	February 2007	0-7851-2146-3
X-Factor: Many Lives of Madrox	X-Factor vol. 3, #13-17	November 2007	0-7851-2359-8
X-Factor: Heart of Ice	X-Factor vol. 3, #18-24	April 2008	0-7851-2360-1
X-Men: Messiah Complex	X-Factor vol. 3, #25-27; Uncanny X-Men #492-494; X-Men #205-207; New X-Men #44-46; X-Men: Messiah Complex - Mutant Files	November 2008	0-7851-2320-2
X-Factor: The Only Game in Town	X-Factor vol. 3, #28-32; X-Factor: The Quick and the Dead	January 2009	0-7851-2863-8
X-Factor: Secret Invasion	X-Factor vol. 3, #33-38; She-Hulk vol. 2, #31	June 2009	0-7851-2865-4
X-Factor: Time and a Half	X-Factor vol. 3, #39-45	December 2009	0-7851-3836-6
X-Factor: Overtime	X-Factor vol. 3, #46-50; X-Factor: Layla Miller	December 2009	0-7851-3837-4
X-Factor: The Invisible Woman Has Vanished	X-Factor #200-203	June 2010	0-7851-4657-5
X-Factor: Second Coming	X-Factor #204-206; Nation X: X Factor	September 2010	0-7851-4892-0
X-Factor: Happenings in Vegas	X-Factor #207-212	March 2011	0-7851-4658-X
X-Factor: Scar Tissue	X-Factor #213-219	June 2011	0-7851-5283-0
X-Factor: Hard Labor	X-Factor #220-224	November 2011	0-7851-5285-7
X-Factor: Super Unnatural	X-Factor #224.1, 225-228	February 2012	0-7851-6058-2
X-Factor: They Keep Killing Jamie Madrox	X-Factor #229-232	June 2012	0-7851-6060-4
X-Factor: Together Again for the First Time	X-Factor #233-236	November 2012	0-7851-6063-9
X-Factor: The Road to Redemption	X-Factor #237-240	December 2012	0-7851-6413-8
X-Factor: Breaking Points	X-Factor #241-245	March 2013	0-7851-6512-6
X-Factor: Short Stories	X-Factor #246-249	March 2013	0-7851-6699-8

X-Men Lineups: 2000s Part 4 (Pre-Messiah CompleX)

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X-Men in Space (Uncanny X-Men)

[Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #475 (2006) - Uncanny X-Men #486 (2007)]

With Vulcan on his way to Shi'ar space, Xavier recruited a team of X-Men to follow and stop him. Vulcan fell in love with Deathbird, who convinced him to restore D'Ken's mind. They married soon after D'Ken reclaimed the throne from Lilandra. However, Vulcan killed D'Ken to claim the Shi'ar throne, then killed his father Corsair, and threw Xavier into the M'Krann crystal, Xavier was saved by Darwin and regained his telepathy from the crystal's energies. Lilandra returned Xavier to Earth alongside Warpath, Darwin, Nightcrawler and the cat-like Starjammer, Hepzibah, who joined the team. Havok, Polaris and Marvel Girl were left behind and joined the Starjammers to oppose Vulcan.

Professor X (Charles Xavier)

Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)

Warpath (James Proudstar)

Darwin (Armando Munoz)

Polaris (Lorna Dane)

[Joined the Starjammers in UXM 486 (2007)]

Havok (Alexander Summers)

[Joined the Starjammers in UXM 486 (2007)]

Marvel Girl (Rachel Grey/Summers)

[Joined the Starjammers in UXM 486 (2007)]

Uncanny X-Men

[Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #486 (2007) - Uncanny X-Men #491 (2007)]

Together with Storm, the X-Men who returned from space formed a team that fought with rogue Morlocks led by Masque.

Storm (Ororo Munroe)

Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)

Warpath (James Proudstar)

Hepzibah

#475-486 (2006–2007)	Darwin, Havok, Nightcrawler, Polaris, Professor X, Rachel Summers,Warpath
#487-491 (2007)	Caliban, Hepzibah, Nightcrawler, Professor X, Storm, Warpath

Uncanny X-Men: Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire	Uncanny X-Men #475-486	January 2008	0-7851-1800-8
Uncanny X-Men: The Extremists	Uncanny X-Men #487-491	December 2007	0-7851-1982-5
X-Men: Messiah Complex	X-Men: Messiah Complex (one-shot); Uncanny X-Men #492-494; X-Men #205-207; New X-Men #44-46; X-Factor #25-27;X-Men: Messiah Complex - Mutant Files	November 2008	0-7851-2320-2

Rogue's team (Adjectiveless X-Men)

[Apperance: X-Men vol. 2 #188 (2006) - X-Men vol. 2 #203 (2007)]

Rogue was asked by Cyclops to lead an emergency response team. She chose Cannonball, Iceman, Cable and former enemies, the enslaved Sabretooth, Mystique, Mastermind's daughter Lady Mastermind and the cyborg Omega Sentinel as her squad. The team dealt with threats like the Children of the Vault, Pandemic and Hecatomb. Sabretooth managed to escape from his forced services. This team, along with Cyclops' team, were attacked by Mr. Sinister's Marauders, which now included former X-Men Gambit and Sunfire, seeking Destiny's Diaries. Mystique and Lady Mastermind revealed their allegiances to Mr. Sinister and turned Omega Sentinel to their cause by allowing her to be possessed by the psychic Marauder Malice. Mystique successfully kidnapped Rogue with the warped intention of protecting her. The Marauders' campaign ended when Gambit destroyed the diaries.

Rogue (Anna Marie)

Iceman (Bobby Drake)

Cannonball (Samuel 'Sam' Guthrie)

Cable (Nathan Summers)

[Left in X-Men vol. 2 #199]

Sabretooth (Victor Creed)

[Turned on team in X-Men vol. 2 #198]

Mystique (Raven Darkholme)

[Turned on team in X-Men vol. 2 #200 to join Marauders]

Lady Mastermind (Regan Wyngarde)

[Turned on team in X-Men vol. 2 #200 to join Marauders]

Omega Sentinel (Karima Shapandar)

[Forced to turn on team in X-Men vol. 2 #200 by Malice to join Marauders]

X-Men
	188–204(2006–2007)	Cable, Cannonball, Iceman, Lady Mastermind, Mystique,Omega Sentinel, Rogue, Sabretooth

X-Men: Supernovas	X-Men, vol. 2 #188–199 and X-Men Annual, vol. 3 #1	August 2007	ISBN 0-7851-2319-9
X-Men: Blinded by the Light	X-Men, vol. 2 #200–204	December 2007	ISBN 0-7851-2544-2
X-Men: Messiah Complex	X-Men, vol. 2 #205–207 plus X-Men: Messiah Complex one-shot;Uncanny X-Men #492–494; New X-Men,vol. 2 #44–46; X-Factor, vol. 3 #25–27; and X-Men: Messiah Complex—Mutant Files one-shot	November 2008	ISBN 0-7851-2320-2

Astonishing X-Men

[Appearance: Astonishing X-Men #1 (2004) - Giant-Sized Astonishing X-Men #1 (2008)]

Shortly after the Marauders situation (read above), Emma Frost turned on the team, creating life-like images of former Hellfire Club associate Sebastian Shaw; a younger version of her, Perfection; deceased former student Negasonic Teenage Warhead; and evil psychic Cassandra Nova, to attack her teammates. It turned out that Cassandra Nova made Emma a sleeper agent just before sending in Sentinels to destroy the mutant island Genosha. The team managed to deal with the threat and liberate Emma before being taken by SWORD to outer space, joined by student Armor. SWORD and the X-Men made their way to Breakworld in an attempt to stop Breakworld from destroying Earth. In the process, they learnt that Breakworld's doomsday prophecy was part of an elaborate scheme by Aghanne, an insane leader of a reformation cult seeking Breakworld's destruction. The team prevented Earth's destruction when Kitty Pryde bonded herself to a ten-mile bullet aimed at Earth by phasing it harmlessly through the planet. However, Earth's scientists and heroes were unable to free her.

Cyclops (Scott Summers)

Beast (Henry 'Hank' McCoy)

Wolverine (James Howlett)

Shadowcat (Katherine 'Kitty' Pryde)

Emma Frost

Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)

Late Addition

Armor (Hisako Ichiki)

[Joined in Astonishing X-Men #20 (2007)]

Issue	Years	Roster
1 to 3	2004	Cyclops, Emma Frost, Wolverine, Beast, Shadowcat,Lockheed
4 to 19	2004 to 2006	Cyclops, Emma Frost, Wolverine, Beast, Shadowcat, Lockheed, Colossus, Armor, Blindfold
20 to 24 (&Giant-Size 1)	2007	Cyclops, Emma Frost, Wolverine, Beast, Shadowcat, Colossus, Armor, Abigail Brand, Danger

Astonishing X-Men:

Volume 1: Gifted (collects Astonishing X-Men, vol. 3 #1–6, ISBN 0-7851-1531-5)
Volume 2: Dangerous (collects Astonishing X-Men, vol. 3 #7–12, ISBN 0-7851-1677-X)
Volume 3: Torn (collects Astonishing X-Men, vol. 3 #13–18, ISBN 0-7851-1759-8)
Volume 4: Unstoppable (collects Astonishing X-Men, vol. 3 #19–24 & Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1, ISBN 0-7851-2254-0)

All 3 teams were back at the Xavier Institute when the events of Messiah CompleX happened.

Secondary Titles

New X-Men

(2006 - 2008)

New X-Men continued as the student book till its cancellation with #46 (2008). For more, check out the New X-Men section of Institute Student Body.

X-Factor (vol. 3)

(2008 - Current)

For more, check out X-Factor Investigations.

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X-Men Lineups: 2000s Part 3 (Reload)

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Following the destruction of the Xavier Institute at the hands of Xorn, all the X-Men teams returned and members were reshuffled into 3 teams.

Astonishing X-Men

[Appearance: Astonishing X-Men #1 (2004) - Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1 (2008)]

Cyclops' team learned of scientist Kavita Rao's claim to have created a cure for mutants, which was made possible by the extraterrestrial Ord, a Breakworld native who came to Earth to prevent a prophecy that an Earth mutant would destroy his planet. Ord originally wanted to declare war but made diplomatic arrangements with SWORD (Sentient Worlds Observation and Response Department), an intelligence agency charged with handling extraterrestrial matters. Ord stole Colossus' body, resurrecting him and experimenting on him. He discovered the cure for the Legacy Virus within Colossus's body and his findings resulted in Rao's cure. The X-Men investigated and found Colossus alive, defeating Ord, who was taken into custody by SWORD. The team then fought Danger, the sentient Danger Room consciousness that Xavier ignored years before. Danger manipulated the X-Men into freeing it from the mansion's confines, leaving to kill Xavier. The X-Men managed to stop Danger from killing Xavier but were horrified to learn that Xavier had held Danger captive for years. This caused a rift between Xavier and the team.

Cyclops (Scott Summers)

Beast (Henry 'Hank' McCoy)

Wolverine (James Howlett)

Shadowcat (Katherine 'Kitty' Pryde)

Emma Frost

Late Additions

Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)

[Joined in Astonishing X-Men #5 (2004)]

Armor (Hisako Ichiki)

[Joined in Astonishing X-Men #20 (2007)]

Issues	Years	Roster
1 to 3	2004	Cyclops, Emma Frost, Wolverine, Beast, Shadowcat,Lockheed
4 to 19	2004 to 2006	Cyclops, Emma Frost, Wolverine, Beast, Shadowcat, Lockheed, Colossus, Armor, Blindfold
20 to 24 (&Giant-Size 1)	2007	Cyclops, Emma Frost, Wolverine, Beast, Shadowcat, Colossus, Armor, Abigail Brand, Danger

Astonishing X-Men:

Volume 1: Gifted (collects Astonishing X-Men, vol. 3 #1–6, ISBN 0-7851-1531-5)
Volume 2: Dangerous (collects Astonishing X-Men, vol. 3 #7–12, ISBN 0-7851-1677-X)
Volume 3: Torn (collects Astonishing X-Men, vol. 3 #13–18, ISBN 0-7851-1759-8)
Volume 4: Unstoppable (collects Astonishing X-Men, vol. 3 #19–24 & Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men #1, ISBN 0-7851-2254-0)

Uncanny X-Men

[Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #444 (2004) - Uncanny X-Men #474 (2006)]

Storm's team continued operating as the Xtreme Sanctions Executive. They fought the mass-murdering Fury simulacrum, crimelord Viper, Sebastian Shaw and the Hellfire Club and encountered X-23, the teenaged female clone of Wolverine. Psylocke returned, resurrected by her reality-manipulating brother, Jamie Braddock, then joined the team in an adventure in the Savage Land where they fought the saurian Hauk'ka. After M-Day (read below), Rachel Summers witnessed her extended family slaughtered by the Shi'ar Death Commandos under orders to terminate the Grey family line to prevent the Phoenix from returning in another Grey family member. The team then fought the Death Commandos in a rematch before helping Psylocke and Jamie Braddock against the cosmic Fallen One.

Storm (Ororo Munroe)

Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)

Wolverine (James Howlett)

Sage (Tessa)

[Left in Uncanny X-Men #454 (2005)]

Bishop (Lucas Bishop)

Marvel Girl (Rachel Grey/Summers)

Cannonball (Samuel 'Sam' Guthrie)

[Left in Uncanny X-Men #447 (2004);

Rejoined in Uncanny X-Men #469 (2006)]

Late Additions

Psylocke (Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock)

[Resurrected in Uncanny X-Men #455 (2005)]

#444-454 (2004–2005)	Bishop, Cannonball, Nightcrawler, Rachel Summers, Sage, Storm, Wolverine
#455-474 (2005–2006)	Bishop, Cannonball, Nightcrawler, Psylocke, Rachel Summers, Storm, Wolverine

Uncanny X-Men - The New Age Vol. 1: The End of History	Uncanny X-Men #444-449	December 2004	0-7851-1535-8
Uncanny X-Men - The New Age Vol. 2: The Cruelest Cut	Uncanny X-Men #450-454	February 2005	0-7851-1645-1
Uncanny X-Men - The New Age Vol. 3: On Ice	Uncanny X-Men #455-461	August 2005	0-7851-1649-4
House of M: Uncanny X-Men	Uncanny X-Men #462-465;Secrets of the House of M	February 2006	0-7851-1663-X
Uncanny X-Men - The New Age Vol. 4: End of Greys	Uncanny X-Men #466-471	June 2006	0-7851-1664-8
Uncanny X-Men - The New Age Vol. 5: First Foursaken	Uncanny X-Men #472-474, Annual #1	October 2006	0-7851-2323-7

(Adjectiveless) X-Men

[Appearance: X-Men vol. 2 #157 (2004) - #187 (2006)]

Havok's team traveled to China where they found Xorn's brother, Shen, who joined the team. The team fought the Brotherhood on mansion grounds and were defeated by Shen, who then left the team to contemplate his actions. The team then prevented an invasion of Earth by a swarm of psychic aliens called Golgothas. Rogue's foster mother Mystique infiltrated the mansion as a student Foxx, sowing dissension in the team before being discovered, then asking for X-Men membership. After a vote among all the X-Men, her membership was approved. The team next worked with Storm and her longtime friend, the Wakandan king Black Panther (T'Challa) to stop the horrific practices of Dr. Erich Paine, a former Genoshan geneticist, and his ally the Russian Red Ghost. Storm remained in Africa to safeguard mutants there, eventually married T'Challa to become Wakanda's queen.

After M-Day, the team witnessed Polaris' lost of powers. Havok and Polaris left the team to help the latter cope her loss. Polaris was captured and along with former X-Men Gambit and Sunfire, were converted to Apocalypse's Horsemen. Polaris was liberated but Gambit and Sunfire departed before switching their allegiances to Mr. Sinister.

Havok (Alexander Summers)

Polaris (Lorna Dane)

Iceman (Bobby Drake)

Rogue (Anna Marie)

Gambit (Remy LeBeau)

Juggernaut (Cain Marko)

[Left in X-Men vol. 2 #164 (2005)]

Wolverine (James Howlett)

Late Additions

Xorn (Shen Xorn)

[Left in X-Men vol. 2 #164 (2005)]

X-Men	157–164(2004–2005)	Gambit, Havok, Iceman, Juggernaut, Polaris, Rogue, Wolverine
	165–180(2005–2006)	Emma Frost, Gambit, Havok, Iceman, Polaris, Rogue, Wolverine
	181–187 (2006)	Cyclops, Emma Frost, Gambit, Havok, Iceman, Mystique, Polaris, Rogue

X-Men: Day of the Atom	X-Men, vol. 2 #157–165	March 2005	ISBN 0-7851-1534-X
X-Men: Golgotha	X-Men, vol. 2 #166–170	July 2005	ISBN 0-7851-1650-8
X-Men: Bizarre Love Triangle	X-Men, vol. 2 #171–174	October 2005	ISBN 0-7851-1665-6
X-Men/Black Panther: Wild Kingdom	X-Men, vol. 2 #175–176 plus Black Panther, vol. 4 #8–9	February 2006	ISBN 0-7851-1789-X
Decimation: X-Men—The Day After	X-Men, vol. 2 #177–181 plus House of M: Decimation—The Day After one-shot	May 2006	ISBN 0-7851-1984-1
X-Men: Blood of Apocalypse	X-Men, vol. 2 #182–187	August 2006	ISBN 0-7851-1985-X

Continued

A group of Shi'ar forcibly reconstituted the Phoenix Force, intending to destroy it forever, but instead drove it insane. Injured, the Force fell to Earth, resurrecting Jean's body to house it. The X-Men fought the Phoenix Force and facing opposition from Jean Grey's spirit, possessed Emma Frost before it realized that Jean was one of its missing pieces. It bonded with Jean completely, their essences returning to the core of creation, the White Hot Room, to heal. (X-Men: Phoenix - Endsong miniseries)

Some time later, the superhero team Avengers disbanded after its member Scarlet Witch suffered a mental breakdown and turned her reality-altering powers against them. Magneto took custody of her and tried to help her heal and recover. However, when the X-Men and the re-grouped Avengers met to discuss how to handle the immense threat posed the Witch, her brother Quicksilver feared for her life, pressuring her to alter reality, creating a world in which mutants were the dominant species and live openly without fear, with Magneto as the emperor. This became known as the House of M reality. Eventually, a group of heroes became aware of the reality alterations and fought Magneto's forces. When the Scarlet Witch restored reality, she stripped 90% of the mutant population of their powers. This event, known as M-Day, left only approximately 300 mutants on Earth, apparently stripping the X-gene from all other living or dead mutants, with no new mutant births occurring. Hundreds of Xavier's students and many X-Men and associates, including Polaris, were depowered along with Xavier and Magneto.

To maintain order, the US government's Office of National Emergency posted a squad of human-piloted Sentinels around the Xavier Institute, making it a makeshift reservation for the world's remaining mutants. (Various Decimation miniseries) Despite the additional protection, over 40 depowered students were slaughtered while sent back to their homes, killed during an attack by anti-mutant religious zealot William Stryker and his Purifiers army. Cyclops and Emma instituted an "X-Men-in-Training" program, with selected students being trained to eventually become X-Men. (New X-Men series)

The energy stripped from Earth's depowered mutants coalesced in space, contacting the orbiting Krakoa fragment. This energy woke up Vulcan, who sought vengeance on Xavier, now able to walk, and the X-Men. Banshee was killed in the process before Vulcan revealed to the X-Men how Xavier had concealed the existence of his team. Marvel Girl (Rachel Summers) separated Vulcan and Darwin, who had converted himself into energy to sustain Vulcan after the Krakoa attack. Vulcan then left Earth to seek revenge on the Shi'ar Empire, blaming them for his mother's murder years ago. (X-Men: Deadly Genesis miniseries)

Secondary Titles

X-Factor (vol. 3)

(2008 - 2013)

Following the House of M crossover, Jamie Madrox recruited more members into his X-Factor Investigations. For more, check out X-Factor Investigations.

New X-Men: Academy X (2004 - 2006)

New X-Men (2006 - 2008)

New X-Men: Academy X replaced New Mutants (vol. 2) as the student title. The title featured the students in student groups. With #20 (2006), following the House of M crossover, the title was renamed New X-Men. For more, check out the New X-Men: Academy X - Squads and New X-Men sections of Institute Student Body.

Excalibur

[2004 - 2005]

This team was formed by Professor X and Magneto to rebuild the mutant nation of Genosha, which had been devastated by Sentinels sent by Cassandra Nova. Following M-Day and the subsequent depowering of mutants, Professor X and Magneto departed. The depowered mutants were offered the Inhuman's Terrigen Mist by Quicksilver. However, the Mists caused them to go out of control. After the effect wore off, they reverted back to human.

Excalibur vol. 3 #1 (2004) - #14 (2005)

Magneto (Max Eisenhardt)

Professor X (Charles Francis Xavier)

Callisto (Pic Bottom Centre Above)

[Depowered during M-Day. Repowered by Terrigen Mists. Last seen as member of terrorist X-Cell]

Dark Beast (Henry McCoy)

Freakshow (Pic Bottom Left)

[Depowered during M-Day. Repowered by Terrigen Mists.]

Karima Shapandar (now known as Omega Sentinel)

[ Pic Top Centre]

Shola Inkose (Pic Bottom Right)

[Depowered during M-Day. Repowered by Terrigen Mists.]

Wicked (Pic Bottom Centre Below)

[Depowered during M-Day. Repowered by Terrigen Mists.]

New Excalibur

[2005 - 2007]

This team was formed after M-Day and based in Britain. The team disbanded after a battle with Merlyn.

New Excalibur #1 (2005) - #24 (2007)

X-Men: Die by the Sword #1 (2007) - #5 (2007)

Captain Britain (Brian Braddock)

Dazzler (Alison Blaire)

Sage (Tessa)

Juggernaut (Cain Marko)

Pete Wisdom

Nocturne (Talia Josephine "T.J." Wagner)

Longshot

[Joined in X-Men: Die by the Sword #5 (2007)]

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The X-Men soon underwent a time of great expansion. There was a boom in Earth's mutant population and secondary mutations granting mutants additional abilities and mutations happened. Storm had already formed a splinter team (X-Treme X-Men). The rest of the X-Men split into teams once again, with the home team featured in New X-Men (formerly X-Men vol. 2) and the away team featured in Uncanny X-Men.

New X-Men (New X-Men (X-Men vol. 2))

[Appearance: New X-Men #114 (2001) - New X-Men #150 (2003)]

Professor Xavier's evil twin sister Cassandra Nova emerged, sending Sentinels to obliterate Genosha's 16 million mutant population. Emma Frost, now able to turn to diamond, survived the attack, and was rescued by the X-Men, after which she joined the team. Cassandra attacked the X-mansion, and forcibly switched bodies with Xavier. In Charles' body, she publicly outed him as a mutant, opened the school to hundreds of mutant students, then left Earth to gain control of Lilandra and the Shi'ar Empire. Meanwhile, the X-Men recruited Xorn (Kuan-Yin Xorn), a Chinese mutant with a star for a brain and fought John Sublime, founder of the U-Men, a group of humans who grafted mutant body parts on themselves. Cassandra convinced Lilandra to order the Imperial Guard to destroy all mutants on Earth before casting the Empire into turmoil. Cyclop's team (home team), now also the Institute's teaching faculty, fought the Guard and freed Lilandra. Cyclops and Emma Frost became attracted to each other, beginning a psychic affair. Xavier soon established the X-Corporation out of the remnants of the militaristic X-Corps, a global mutant rights organization.

The home team dealt with a riot organized by the rebellious Kid Omega before Jean Grey discovered her husband's psychic affair. Cyclops left the team and joined Wolverine and Weapon Plus's Weapon XIII to infiltrate Weapon Plus's World base, discovering that John Sublime was also the director of Weapon Plus. Meanwhile, Emma Frost was shattered into pieces while in diamond form, prompting an investigation by Bishop and Sage from Storm's team. The culprit was revealed to be Emma's student Esme Cuckoo. Esme had joined Xorn, who came to believe himself to be Magneto. Addicted to the drug Kick, Xorn destroyed the Institute and launched a devastating attack on New York City that killed over 5000 people and caused billions in damage. Believing Xorn to be the real Magneto, Cyclops formed a "street-level" team of X-Men (check Ad-hoc X-Men) to oppose him until the various X-Men returned from various exile to fight him. During the final battle, Xorn caused a massive electromagnetic pulse that apparently killed Jean Grey, bonded to the Phoenix Force again after another near-death experience. The act shattered the Phoenix Force into billions of pieces. Wolverine subsequently decapitated Xorn. Xavier left the X-Men to rebuild Genosha along the true Magneto. Cyclops was filled with grief for the death of Jean and was unable to move on, triggering an alternate dystopian future. In this future, Jean was reborn and Sublime was revealed to be a sentient bacterium which took over a human body to oppose mutants. She subsequently used her powers to wipe out Sublime and psychically pushed Cyclops in the present to move on. Cyclops and Emma Frost formed a relationship, becoming co-headmasters of the rebuilt Institute.

Professor X (Charles Xavier)

Cyclops (Scott Summers)

Jean Grey-Summers

Beast (Henry 'Hank' McCoy)

Wolverine (James Howlett)

Emma Frost

Late Additions

Xorn (Kuan-Yin Xorn)

[Joined in New X-Men Annual 2001 (2001);

Died in New X-Men #150 (2003)]

New X-Men	114–121(2001–2002)	Beast, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Jean Grey, Wolverine
	122–134(2002–2003)	Beast, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Jean Grey, Wolverine, Xorn
	135–150(2003–2004)	Beast, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Jean Grey, Wolverine, Xorn; also featured were the following students: Angel Salvadore, Basilisk, Beak, Dust, Ernst, No-Girl, Stepford Cuckoos
	151–154 (2004)	Cassandra Nova, E.V.A., Tito Jerome Bohusk, Tom Skylark and Rover, Wolverine
	155–156 (2004)	Beast, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Stepford Cuckoos

Title	Material Collected	Publication Date	ISBN

New X-Men, vol. 1: E Is for Extinction	New X-Men, vol. 1 #114–117 and New X-Men Annual 2001	December 2002	ISBN 0-7851-0811-4
New X-Men, vol. 2:Imperial	New X-Men, vol. 1 #118–126	July 2002	ISBN 0-7851-0887-4
New X-Men, vol. 3: New Worlds	New X-Men, vol. 1 #127–133	December 2002	ISBN 0-7851-0976-5
New X-Men, vol. 4: Riot at Xavier's	New X-Men, vol. 1 #134–138	July 2003	ISBN 0-7851-1067-4
New X-Men, vol. 5: Assault on Weapon Plus	New X-Men, vol. 1 #139–145	December 2003	ISBN 0-7851-1119-0
New X-Men, vol. 6: Planet X	New X-Men, vol. 1 #146–150	April 2004	ISBN 0-7851-1201-4
New X-Men, vol. 7: Here Comes Tomorrow	New X-Men, vol. 1 #151–154	July 2004	ISBN 0-7851-1345-2
New X-Men by Grant Morrison: Ultimate Collection, vol. 1	New X-Men, vol. 1 #114–126 and New X-Men Annual 2001	June 2008	ISBN 0-7851-3251-1
New X-Men by Grant Morrison: Ultimate Collection, vol. 2	New X-Men, vol. 1 #127–141	September 2008	ISBN 0-7851-3252-X
New X-Men by Grant Morrison: Ultimate Collection, vol. 3	New X-Men, vol. 1 #142–154	December 2008	ISBN 0-7851-3253-8
Uncanny X-Men, vol. 6: Bright New Mourning	New X-Men, vol. 1 #155–156 plus Uncanny X-Men #435–436 & #442–443	August 2004	ISBN 0-7851-1406-8

Away Team (Uncanny X-Men)

[Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #395 (2001) - Uncanny X-Men #443 (2004)]

When the X-Men were split into teams, Nightcrawler took charge of the away team. They faced a mutant massacre in London before bringing in former Generation X member, the psionic energy battery Chamber as a new member. The team next recruited the pheromone-manipulating Stacy X from the X-Ranch before dealing with the international mutant militia X-Corps, created by a well-intending Banshee, who was grieving over the death of love Moira MacTaggert. Banshee recruited his former students in Generation X and brainwashed former villains into the X-Corp. Designed to self-police mutantkind, the Corps fell apart when Mystique infiltrated the group, liberating the villains and taking over, severely wounding Banshee. The X-Men defeated her and the remnants of the organization were converted by Xavier into the X-Corporation, a global mutant rights organization.

The team soon took in many members, including the epidermis shedding former Generation X member Husj, Northstar, former foe Juggernaut, Havok, Polaris and Jubilee. The team battled the Dominant Species lupin mutants clan and prevented an invasion by the demonic Azazel, revealed to be Nightcrawler's father, and his mutant Neyaphem clan.

Archangel (Warren Worthington III)

Iceman (Bobby Drake)

Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner)

Wolverine (James Howlett)

Chamber (Jonothon Starsmore)

[Left by Uncanny X-Men #410 (2002)]

Late Additions

Stacy X (Miranda Leevald)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #400 (2001);

Left in Uncanny X-Men #422 (2003)]

Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #414 (2002)]

Husk (Paige Guthrie)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #421 (2003)

Havok (Alexander Summers)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #423 (2003)]

Polaris (Lorna Dane)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #423 (2003)]

Juggernaut (Cain Marko)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #425 (2003)]

Jubilee (Jubilation Lee)

[Joined in Uncanny X-Men #429 (2003)]

Issues	Team Roster

#395-414 (2001–2002)	Archangel, Chamber, Iceman, Nightcrawler, Stacy X, Wolverine
#415-443 (2002–2004)	Archangel, Havok, Husk, Iceman, Jubilee, Juggernaut, Nightcrawler, Northstar, Polaris, Professor X, Wolverine

Title	Material collected	Publication date	ISBN

Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1: Hope	Uncanny X-Men #410-415	January 2003	0-7851-1060-7
Uncanny X-Men Vol. 2: Dominant Species	Uncanny X-Men #416-420	July 2003	0-7851-1132-8
Uncanny X-Men Vol. 3: Holy War	Uncanny X-Men #421-427	October 2003	0-7851-1133-6
Uncanny X-Men Vol. 4: The Draco	Uncanny X-Men #428-434	March 2004	0-7851-1134-4
Uncanny X-Men Vol. 5: She Lies with Angels	Uncanny X-Men #437-441	July 2004	0-7851-1196-4
Uncanny X-Men Vol. 6: Bright New Mourning	Uncanny X-Men #435-436, #442-443; New X-Men #155-156	August 2004	0-7851-1406-8

Xtreme X-Men/Xtreme Sanctions Executive (XSE)

[Appearance: Xtreme X-Men #1 (2001) - Xtreme X-Men #46 (2004)]

Storm formed a splinter team to hunt down missing copies of the Destiny's Diaries, 13 diaries of the deceased precog Destiny. Leaving with Storm were Bishop, Beast, Rogue, Thunderbird, Psylocke and Tessa (who joined as Sage). The team fought Vargas, who was also seeking the Diaries. Psylocke was killed and Beast was severely injured, returning to the Xavier Institute to heal. The team recruited Gambit, along with mutant siblings Lifeguard and Slipstream before preventing an interdimensional invasion by the warlord Khan. The team ended the search for the Destiny's Diaries. Slipstream left the team after witnessing his sister Lifeguard become an alien Shi'ar hybrid. Lifeguard and her romantic interest Thunderbird left the team to search for him. Rogue and Gambit left the team to recuperate from injuries. Cannonball was recruited. The team became approved by the United Nations as Xtreme Sanctions Executive, a global mutant police force. Rogue and Gambit returned in time to help the team deal with the psychic predator Elias Bogan and rescue his captive Rachel Summers. Kitty Pryde and former New Mutants Magma and Sunspot also helped out. The team returned to the Xavier Institute after its destruction at the hands of Xorn.

Beast (Henry 'Hank' McCoy)

[Left in Xtreme X-Men #4 (2001)]

Storm (Ororo Munroe)

Rogue (Anna Marie)

[Left in Xtreme X-Men #19 (2002);

Rejoined in Xtreme X-Men #31 (2003)]

Psylocke (Elizabeth 'Betsy' Braddock)

[Killed in Xtreme X-Men #2 (2001)]

Bishop (Lucas Bishop)

Thunderbird (Neal Sharra)

[Left in Xtreme X-Men #19 (2002)]

Sage (Tessa)

Late Additions

Gambit (Remy LeBeau)

[Joined in Xtreme X-Men #10 (2002);

Left in Xtreme X-Men #19 (2002);

Rejoined in Xtreme X-Men #31 (2003)]

Lifeguard (Heather Cameron)

[Joined in Xtreme X-Men #10 (2002);

Left in Xtreme X-Men #19 (2002)]

Slipstream (Davis Cameron)

[Joined in Xtreme X-Men #10 (2002);

Left in Xtreme X-Men #19 (2002)]

Cannonball (Samuel 'Sam' Guthrie)

[Joined in Xtreme X-Men #24 (2002)]

Wolverine (James "Logan" Howlett)

[Appeared in Xtreme X-Men #24-30; Xtreme X-Men #40-46]

Shadowcat (Katherine "Kitty" Pryde)

[Appeared in Xtreme X-Men #25-30 (2003); Xtreme X-Men #40-46 (2004)]

Issues	Characters
#1-4 (2001)	Beast, Bishop, Psylocke, Rogue, Sage, Storm, Thunderbird
#5-19 (2001–2002)	Bishop, Gambit, Lifeguard, Rogue, Sage, Slipstream, Storm, Thunderbird
#20-30 (2003)	Bishop, Cannonball, Sage, Storm, Wolverine
#31-35 (2003–2004)	Bishop, Cannonball, Gambit, Rogue, Sage, Storm
#36-39 (2004)	Although focusing on Storm this arc also features Callisto, Strong Guy and Yukio
#40-46 (2004)	Bishop, Cannonball, Gambit, Magma, Rogue, Sage, Storm, Wolverine

Title	Material Collected	Publication Date	ISBN
X-Treme X-Men, Volume 1: Destiny	X-Treme X-Men #1-9	May, 2003	ISBN 0-7851-0841-6
X-Treme X-Men: Savage Land (Volume 1.5)	X-Treme X-Men: Savage Land #1-4	April, 2002	ISBN 0-7851-0869-6
X-Treme X-Men Volume 2: Invasion	X-Treme X-Men #10-18	December 2002	ISBN 0-7851-1018-6
X-Treme X-Men Volume 3: Schism	X-Treme X-Men #19-23, X-Pose #1-2	July, 2003	ISBN 0-7851-1084-4
X-Treme X-Men Volume 4: Mekanix	Mekanix #1-6 Limited Series, X-Men Unlimited #36	June, 2003	ISBN 0-7851-1117-4
X-Treme X-Men Volume 5: God Loves, Man Kills	X-Treme X-Men #25-30, plus reprints the original God Loves, Man Kills storyline by Chris Claremont	December 2003	ISBN 0-7851-1254-5
X-Treme X-Men Volume 6: Intifada	X-Treme X-Men #24, 31-35	March, 2004	ISBN 0-7851-1230-8
X-Treme X-Men Volume 7: Storm - The Arena	X-Treme X-Men #36-39	April, 2004	ISBN 0-7851-0936-6
X-Treme X-Men Volume 8: Prisoner Of Fire	X-Treme X-Men #40-46, Annual 2001	August, 2004	ISBN 0-7851-1351-7

X-Corps

[Uncanny X-Men #401 - #406 (2002)]

Base of Operations: Paris

The X-Corps is a paramilitary unit formed by Banshee to police mutantkind. Banshee was driven to militancy following the death of his beloved, Dr. Moira MacTaggart. Along with Multiple Man and his former students in Generation X, he also recruited supervillains and used the powers of Mastermind to keep them in line. However, it fell apart when Mystique, who had infiltrate X-Corps, freed the villains and went on a rampage in Paris. With X-Corps disbanded, the members went on to various assignments. Professor X took over the operations ans established X-Corporation Paris and other X-Corporation branches soon after.

Banshee (Sean Cassidy)

Multiple Man (Jamie Madrox)

With his self-duplicating powers, Jamie was able to create duplicates to form the staff at X-Corps. After X-Corps was disbanded, he joined the global outreach X-Corporation at its Paris branch. After the X-Corporation offices were shut down, he form the investigation agency X-Factor Investigations.

Radius (Jared Corbo)

Radius was formerly in Canadian's Alpha Flight. When the villains launched their attack on X-Corps, Radius was trapped in a fissure created by Avalanche. He was believed dead but it was revealed that he survived with his force-field generation powers. He lost his powers on M-Day.

Sunpyre (Leyu Yoshida)

Leyu and brother Shiro were born to a mother who suffered radiation poisoning due to exposure to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. As a result, Leyu and Shiro were born mutants with identical powers of flight and plasma blasts. When Jean Grey needed to form a team of X-Men to stop Magneto in Genosha, he contacted former X-Man Sunfire. Sunpyre responded the call instead. The team succeeded in stopping Magneto, after which Sunpyre left the team. She later joined Banshee's military outfit, X-Corps. She spent most of her time in the laboratory studying the mutant Abyss. When Mystique led a coup on Banshee and the X-Corps, she found Sunpyre, stabbing her to death.

Abyss (Nils Styger)

Abyss is the half-brother of Nightcrawler, with the demonic Azazel their father. He was involved in a fight with Fever Pitch when X-Corps intervened, capturing both of them. Abyss was kept in a containment tube and studied by Sunpyre. The mind-controlled villains soon broke free and went on a rampage. Abyss witnessed Mystique attacking Banshee and used his powers to create a vortex, sending Mystique inside. It eventually turned out that Mystique was sent to Azazel's dimension. Abyss was soon involved in a plan to bring Azazel and his army back to Earth. The plot was spoiled by the X-Men. Abyss was later depowered during M-Day.

Jubilee (Jubilation Lee)

Husk (Paige Guthrie)

M (Monet St. Croix)

Banshee's Angels were formerly his students in Generation X. After X-Corps was disbanded, Jubilee and Husk left and eventually re-joined the X-Men at various points of time while M joined X-Corporation Paris.

(Left to Right) Villains Under Control

The villains (except Fever Pitch) were formerly members of Mystique's Brotherhood of mutants. Mastermind was captured first and her powers were utilized to bring the other former villains under control. Mystique, disguised as Surge, broke Mastermind free and undid the mind control, leading her former teammates and Fever Pitch on a rampage, destroying parts of Paris and killing several X-Corps members. They were eventually stopped by the X-Men and the rest of X-Corps.

Mastermind II (Martinique Jason)

Surge (Mystique in disguise)

Fever Pitch

Fever Pitch was formerly in the terrorist group Gene Nation. He clashed with fellow mutant Abyss, which was intervened by X-Corps. Both mutants were captured and Fever Pitch was placed under mind-control along with other former villains to keep them in line. He joined Mystique when she broke the former villains free of their mind control, going on a rampage in Paris before being re-captured by X-Corps. After M-Day, he turned up at the Xavier Institute's mutant reservation for safety and left when the reservation was shut down. He was captured by the anti-mutant group Sapiens League and injected with a variant of the Legacy Virus, which sent his powers out of control. He caused an explosion which killed hundreds of humans and himself.

Avalanche (Dominic Szilard Janos Petros)

Blob (Frederick "Fred" J. Dukes)

X-Corporation

(2002 - 2006)

The X-Corporation was set up by Professor Charles Xavier to provide support for the mutant population on a global scale. X-Corporation offices were located in several major cities throughout the world.

After M-Day and the depowering of 90% of the mutant population, the X-Corporation Paris office was bombed. As a result, Cyclops requested Sunspot to help in evacuating all X-Corporation offices.

Hong Kong

Domino (Neena Thurman)

Risque (Gloria Dolores Muñoz)

Mumbai

Warpath (James Proudstar)

Feral (Maria Callasantos)

Thonn (Lucia Callasantos)

Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida)

Paris

Cannonball (Samuel Guthrie)

M (Monet St. Croix)

Siryn (Theresa Cassidy)

Multiple Man (Jamie Madrox)

Rictor (Julio Richter)

Sabra (Ruth Bat-Seraph)

Darkstar (Laynia Petrovna)

Singapore

Thunderbird (Neal Shaara)

Lifeguard (Heather Cameron)

Los Angeles

Sunspot (Roberto DaCosta)

Magma (Amara Aquilla)

Empath (Manuel de la Rocha)

Skids (Sally Bevins)

Skitz

Stringfellow

Secondary Titles

Before Grant Morrison took over as writer of New X-Men, the various secondary titles were mostly cancelled.

New Mutants (vol. 2)

A new series New Mutants (vol. 2) was published with stories about the Xavier Institute student body. The former New Mutants returned to the Institute as staff members.

(New Mutants v2 #1 (2003) - New Mutants v2 #13 (2004)

For more, check out the New Mutants vol. 2 section of Institute Student Body.

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