- News
- New Comics
- Powers
-
Reviews
- Review
- The magazine returns with a second volume. There's a lot of Millar movies updates plus comics that you may or may not have seen as well as articles and interviews.
- Darth Vader and the Ghost Prison -- Part 1
- Review
- An all-new story told from the perspective of an Imperial Cadet that might even leave you rooting for Darth Vader.
- Review
- The Voodoo Queen discovers the secrets of her history, the Voodoo Court and more in the latest issue of this Vertigo series.
- Shock to the System, Part Two
- Review
- Get ready for some suspense, heavy duty action and not one, but two crazy twists. This is Captain America on a mission. Brubaker and Zircher are unleashing the Captain America action here.
- Podcast
-
X-Men: Schism
2011 Marvel
5 appearances
-
X-Men: Prelude to Schism
2011 Marvel
4 appearances
-
Generation Hope
2011 Marvel
2 appearances
-
X-Men: Regenesis
2011 Marvel
1 appearance
An X-Men event that will tear divisions down the mutant nation of Utopia. What mystery threatens the X-Men? Who are the new Hellfire Club? Will the young mutants survive the clash between Cyclops and Wolverine?
Related Issues
Despite the promotional material and press releases about the importance of Schism to the world of the X-Men, the story does not take place in the main X-Men titles such as Uncanny X-Men, X-Men Legacy or the relatively recently published X-Men.
Instead, the majority of the story arc takes place in the five-issue limited series X-Men: Schism. The only exception to the rule is the inclusion of Generation Hope issues #10 & #11 as the youngest of the Five Lights, Oya, will have a role to play in the story arc.
The Whole of of X-Men: Schism will be written by Jason Aaron, the on-going writer of three Wolverine titles (chronologically published: Wolverine, Wolverine: Weapon X, and Wolverine). However, each of the five issues will be drawn by a different artist (the majority of whom have been employed as regular pencillers for on-going X-Men titles in the past).
Checklist
July
- X-Men: Schism #1 - Art By Carlos Pacheco
- X-Men: Schism #2 - Art By Frank Cho
August
- X-Men: Schism #3 - Art By Daniel Acuña
- Generation Hope #10
September
- X-Men: Schism #4 - Art By Alan Davis
- Generation Hope #11
October
- X-Men: Schism #5 - Art By Adam Kubert
Plot Summary
Prelude
In the months leading up to the publication of X-Men: Schism, Marvel released the mini series Prelude To Schism on a bi-weekly basis. The limited series showed the X-Men tentatively awaiting Cyclops' decision regarding an oncoming & unrevealed enemy. Each issue covered the same time period as experienced by four key leading members of the X-Men: Professor X, Magneto, Cyclops & Wolverine.
The events were repeated over and over, but from different perspectives. The X-Men appear to be tense awaiting some sort of cataclysmic battle which they repeatedly state that they cannot win or hope to survive against. While waiting for Cyclops' final decision, other popular members of the X-Men debate which course of action they feel would be best: to stay & fight or guide mutantkind to safety away from Utopia. Ultimately, Cyclops made the decision to stay on Utopia and fight the on-coming enemy.
Trouble With The United Nations
After Cyclops delivers a speech to the United Nations asking for all Sentinel programmes around the world to be decommissioned, the UN Building is attacked twice: once telepathically by Kid Omega, and then by a small troop of Sentinels. As a result of this event, several countries begin to mobilise their Sentinels. The X-Men observe the news broadcasts, and Cyclops commands Emma Frost to put every mutant on a global alert despite Storm's warnings not to fan the flames. Wolverine bonds with the youngest of the Five Lights, 14 year old Oya, by buying her a doll and eating ice cream together.
It is revealed that 12 year old prodigy Kade Kilgore had infiltrated Utopia to release Kid Omega. While the UN was being attacked, young Kilgore usurped his father's position as CEO of the Kilgore Company & assassinated his father by shooting him as he fell out of a flying car. A new Hellfire Club welcomes him as their new Black King.
Lasting Impact
Currently it remains to be seen what the giant cataclysmic event which was being predicted in Prelude To Schism was. What is clear is that the events of Schism will leave the X-Men divided. It is possible that the event could be the upcoming Avengers vs. X-Men crossover, slated to begin in April 2012.
Promotional material for Schism used the tag line, "United No More". On June 09, 2011 (before the first issue of X-Men: Schism had been released) Marvel had already announced that events from Schism would lead to the cancellation of Uncanny X-Men in October 2011, the flagship X-Men title. After a week of fan speculation, a press released in June 16, 2011 announced that Schism would be followed by X-Men: ReGenesis, a story arc that will see the launch of two new X-Men titles; Uncanny X-Men and Wolverine And The X-Men. Unlike the Genesis of 1991 which saw the launch of X-Men, the X-Men will not act as two separate yet united teams of Gold & Blue. Instead each title will focus on two groups of X-Men operating in different terms & paradigms to the other. The Uncanny X-Men title features a team consisting of Emma Frost, Cyclops, Danger, Magneto, Magik, and a Cytorrak enhanced Colossus. Meanwhile, Rogue, Gambit, Wolverine, Beast, Storm, and a host of other mutants star in Wolverine and the X-Men.
Collected Editions
Non-U.S. Editions
Associated Issues Edit
order: 1
Before Messiah Complex came Endangered Species. This is the prelude to the X-Men Event of 2011. What does it mean to be a leader? What does it do to a person? What do the choices you make mean about the person you are? This mini-series delves into these issues and will give an X-Men reader what they need to know about their favorite mutants before everything changes in July.
order: 2
Before Messiah Complex came Endangered Species. This is the prelude to the X-Men Event of 2011. What does it mean to be a leader? What does it do to a person? What do the choices you make mean about the person you are? This mini-series delves into these issues and will give an X-Men reader what they need to know about their favorite mutants before everything changes in July.
order: 3
The mini-series that leads to the X-Event of 2011 continues! This month we get inside the heads of the two most important X-Men: Cyclops and Wolverine. See parts of their past you never saw before, experience the most intense moments in X-History and understand what leads to the Schism that is coming!
order: 4
The mini-series that leads to the X-Event of 2011 continues! This month we get inside the heads of the two most important X-Men: Cyclops and Wolverine. See parts of their past you never saw before, experience the most intense moments in X-History and understand what leads to the Schism that is coming!
order: 6
Official Solicitation
It has all been leading to this! Buckle your seatbelts, True Believers, for an action-packed emotional roller coaster that will forever change the X-Men and the landscape of Mutantkind forever in X-Men: Schism #1! Courtesy of Marvel Architect Jason Aaron and superstar artist Carlos Pacheco, the opening salvo for the X-Event of the century begins with a bang as a mutant-triggered incident sends humankind in a frenzy! They’ve always been brothers in arms, but finally one of them has gone too far. The long awaited confrontation between Cyclops and Wolverine begins here! Can the two of them hold it together long enough to preserve the safety of their species? Or will their differences prove to be too much and set off a mutant civil war? Find out as the biggest X-Men event in years kicks off this July when Carlos Pacheco, Frank Cho, Daniel Acuña, Alan Davis & Adam Kubert join Jason Aaron for the X-Ride of your life! It all begins in the oversized X-Men: Schism #1!
Plot Summary
Tired from an unknown adventure, Wolverine blows off a training session with the Five Lights and discovers the unwelcome knowledge that Oya lost all her toys when hunted as a monster (because of manifestation of her mutant powers). However, Cyclops refuses to let him rest taking him to the United Nations as his 'Token Avenger' instead. here, Cyclops delivers a speech that calls for the immediate disarmament of every country's individual Sentinel programs. Just as representatives from each country try to exchange in debate, denying the existence of Sentinels, Kid Omega bursts into the room and assaults the delegates with a telepathic wave. Media coverage shows each delegate confessing to their own individual sins. Outside the UN Building, a truck is opened releasing a small troop of Sentinels which Cyclops & Wolverine soon destroy. Elsewhere, 12 year old Kade Kilgore assassinates his father by pushing him out of a flying car & shooting him as he falls. The boy is clearly a young genius, and has usurped control of his father's business by becoming the new CEO.
Back on Utopia, Wolverine presents Oya with a new doll and joins her in the kitchen as she eats ice cream. The other leaders of the X-Men watch news-feeds from around the world. Emma Frost attempted to send Hope Summers back to bed, but Cyclops allows her to stay & watch. Wolverine & Oya arrive as news of activated Sentinels is broadcast. Wolverine attempts to send Oya back to the kitchen, but again Cyclops allows her to stay & watch with Hope. Cyclops commands Emma to put every mutant on global alert, to which Storm warns him not to make the situation worse by over-reacting.
The broadcasts of Sentinels in every city is also broadcast into a secret meeting room. There, 13 mysteriously hooded figures admit that they are impressed with young Kade Kilgore's actions. The young man had infiltrated Utopia & released Kid Omega in secret, planning on the chaos that would ensue. Due to the success of his actions, Kilgore is accepted as the new Black King of the Hellfire Club.
Note
Nightcrawler only appears in a flashback. He has not been resurrected in this issue.
order: 7
It's never been a more dangerous time to be a mutant. Even with their numbers at a record low, the world refuses to trust mutantkind...and after a mutant-triggered international incident, anti-mutant hatred hits new heights. Of course it's at this moment, when the mutant race needs most to stand together, that a split begins that will tear apart the very foundation of the X-Men.
order: 8
The events of Schism #1 have launched the world into turmoil, and the all-new Hellfire Club is ready to take advantage of the chaos. But when the survival of the mutant race is on the line, just how far will the X-Men go? Once a line is crossed, there's no going back. The event that promises to tear the X-Men apart at their very core continues, by writer and Marvel Architect Jason Aaron, and superstar artist Daniel Acuña (WOLVERINE, AVENGERS)!
order: 9
SCHISM TIE-IN! Generation Hope take part in the X-Men event of 2011! The mutants of the future finally come to understand the real sad meaning of mutantkind's past as a day trip from Utopia takes a tragic, bloody turn. In the wake of SCHISM's first casualties, can Generation Hope even exist anymore?
order: 10
The events of Schism #1 have launched the world into turmoil, and the all-new Hellfire Club is ready to take advantage of the chaos. But when the survival of the mutant race is on the line, just how far will the X-Men go? Once a line is crossed, there’s no going back. The event that promises to tear the X-Men apart at their very core continues, by writer and Marvel Architect Jason Aaron, and superstar artist Alan Davis!
order: 11
With a deadly but half-wrecked Sentinel approaching Utopia and most of the X-Men being in the field, it is up to Hope Summers and the rest of her team to save the island... or run. What they'll do is not quite certain yet.
order: 12
On one side, X-Men team leader, Cyclops. On the other, X-Men mainstay, Wolverine. Between them lies the fate of mutantkind, and surrounding them, the foes who want to end them forever!
order: 13
After SCHISM, who will the mutants follow -- Cyclops or Wolverine? Setting the stage for WOLVERINE & THE X-MEN #1 and UNCANNY X-MEN #1 and the rest of the X-Men Universe!
| Story Arc: | Schism |
| 1st Appearance: | X-Men: Prelude to Schism #1 |
| Appears in: | 12 issues |
| Publisher: | Marvel |
-
Gold Dust Boi
1,105 points
- xerox_kitty 628 points
- AgeofHurricane 64 points
- Perception 40 points
- pikahyper 35 points
