The X-Men is a super group in the Marvel Universe that center around Professor Charles Xavier and his school for mutants. Key characters include Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Professor X and Wolverine.
Original X-Men
Early on the team employed its training in the real world both trying to locate other mutants and to fight against mutant terrorists. On several occasions they battled against Xavier's former friend Magneto and his Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants. Notable early enemies (many of which were brotherhood members) included Magneto, Unus the Untouchable, the Vanisher, the Sentinels, the Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Toad, the Juggernaut, the Blob, Mimic, and the Super-Adaptoid. Later additions to the original five included Cyclops' brother Havok as well as Magneto's daughter Polaris. The Mimic was also a team member briefly, but only after blackmailing the team and was the only member to be kicked off the team.
Line ups:
- Professor X, Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Angel
- Professor X , Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Angel, Mimic, Changeling
- Professor X , Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Angel, Polaris, Havok
Deadly Genesis
Line Ups:
- Professor X , Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Iceman, Angel, Polaris, Havok, Banshee, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Storm, Sunfire, Thunderbird, Wolverine
1980's X-Men:
The new additions included Dazzler, Forge, Longshot, Psylocke, Rogue, and Rachel Summers.
Professor X left the X-Men to be with Lilandra in space and Magneto lead the X-Men for a time.
New villains included Madelyne Pryor, Apocalypse, Mister Sinister, and Sabretooth.
1990's X-Men:
The X-Men return to Westchester, New York and Professor X returns back to Earth.
The New Mutants were turned into X-Force lead by Cable.
The original X-Men abandoned X-Factor and returned to the X-Men. Beast had developed blue fur and Angel was transformed into Archangel (Apocalypse's Horsemen of Death). Havok and Polaris with a few other mutants formed a new, government-affiliated X-Factor.
The X-Men split up into two group; the "blue team," consisting of Beast, Psylocke, Rogue, Gambit, Cyclops and Wolverine (X-Men); and the "gold team," consisting of Colossus, Iceman, Archangel, Jean Grey, Storm, and Bishop (Uncanny X-Men). Professor X, Jubilee, Banshee and Forge stayed on as non-combatant X-Men only helping when needed.
" The X-Tinction Agenda" The government of Genosha captured mutants and used them as prison labor.
" The Muir Island Saga" The original X-Factor and Xavier returned to the X-Men to deal with the evil Shadow King.
- " X-Cutioner's Song" Cable's clone and arch-enemy Stryfe, framed the X-Force leader for an attempt on Professor X's life. He also captured and tormented Cyclops and Jean Grey, the genetic parents of both Cable and Stryfe, who were revealed to be time-travelers.
- " Fatal Attractions" Magneto returned, ripping out Wolverine's adamantium and forcing Xavier to mind wipe him. Continues in " Bloodties" and causes the "Onslaught" X-Over.
- " Phalanx Covenant" A collective consciousness infected with the Transmode Virus infiltrated the X-Mansion, kidnapped a small bunch of previously unknown mutants and plotted to eliminate mutant-kind. This crossover results in the teenage mutant group, Generation X.
- "Legion Quest" Professor X is killed by his time-traveling son Legion before he had ever formed the X-Men. This causes an alternate reality to unfolded in which Apocalypse rules North America and Magneto leads the X-Men as a resistance force ( Age of Apocalypse).
- " Onslaught" Professor X lost control of his powers, producing an evil, near-omnipotent secondary personality called Onslaught, which battled the X-Men, The Avengers, and the Fantastic Four.
- " Operation: Zero Tolerance" An anti-mutant army is given government license to hunt down the X-Teams and other mutants.
Current Teams
The current X-Men and related teams are:
Astonishing X-Men: Emma Frost, Cyclops, Beast, Colossus, Wolverine, Storm, and Armor
X-Men Legacy: Currently this comic is following Xavier's attempts to rebuild his mind after the events of Messiah Complex. Recently, Rogue, Gambit, and Mystique have joined Xavier in X-Men Legacy. Rogue is still trying to sort through her memories along with Mystique, and Gambit is assisting Xavier in talking to Rogue.
Uncanny X-Men: Largely the same team as in Astonishing. Notable additions are, Karma, Pixie, Angel, Dazzler, and Nightcrawler.
New Mutants: Having reformed after the return of Illyana Rasputin the team now consists of Cannonball, Magma, Sunspot, Dani Moonstar and Karma.
Young X-Men: Original team: Blindfold, Dust, Ink, Rockslide and Wolf Cub (now deceased). Current line-up: Dust, Greymalkin, Ink, Rockslide, Anole with Sunspot and Dani Moonstar acting as mentors.
X-Factor: Madrox, M, Siryn, Strong Guy, Rictor, Longshot and Darwin.
X-Force: Wolverine, Warpath, X-23, Archangel, Elixir , Domino, and Wolfsbane.
X-Club: Beast, Angel, Psylocke, Dr. Kavita Rao, Dr. James Bradley, Dr. Takiguchi, and Madison Jeffries
Exiles - The current Exiles lineup is: Morph, Sabretooth, Psylocke, Kitty Pryde(now deceased), Mystiq ue, Sage. Rogue and Gambit have both left the team. A secondary team is now also active their line up is: Blink, Scarlet Witch, Black Panther, Forge, Polaris, Beast.
Original X-Men Spin-Off
X-Men: First Class Vol. 1
The original X-Men team; Cyclops, Iceman, Marvel Girl, Beast and Angel, face off new nemesis and team-up with other super heroes. They face off a living plant in Greenland, they enter the mind of Professor Xavier, team-up with Dr. Strange, Thor and Gorilla Man The team also deal with Skrulls, the Lizard and work love problems with Angel and the Scarlet Witch.
X-Men: First Class Special
In this one issue Iceman and Beast try to recruit a museum "statue". The team listens to bad poems and we figure out that Jean had a pet dragon.
X-Men: First Class Vol. 2
A new series goes on with Jean having some girl bonding with the Invisible Girl. Have the team isolated in Island X where Mastermind tricks them to stay there. The team takes some vacations. They face off the Hulk and lose their powers during a Sentinel attack. Later because of a Catalyst they over power and defeat the Sentinels. Later then the X-Men see their future selves and how they could end up. Showing Iceman as a huge monster, Beast is a beast and Jean is a Phoenix. Later the Scarlet Witch is auditioned to be a SHIELD agent and then turns them down. After a mission everybody gets sick except for Cyclops so he has to deal with a maniac and death. The team later teams-up with the Continueteens and defeat Mysterio. The Team then gets a sudden change in members since Angel finds a civilization where he's accepted no matter how he looked while looking for his aunt. While Angel was enjoying being accepted the X-Men get an android as a 5th member of the X-Men, but it turned out that he ended up being consumed by lava because he wanted to look human but couldn´t although Jean saved his brain. Back home the team talked on how they missed Angel.
Alternate Realities
Earth-295
The X-Men of the Age of Apocalypse reality was led by Magneto. There were two teams and members included Rogue, Blink, Iceman, Sabretooth, Morph, Banshee, Storm, Dazzler, Exodus, Nightcrawler, Quicksilver, Sunfire and Wild Child.
Earth-1610
Xavier then started helping Wolverine to find out where were the people who gave him the metal implants. Weapon X did all the implants and they found it. Then the X-men were abducted by Weapon X and were tortured, they even made Beast blue.
Ultimate Alpha Flight arrived and seemingly kill Iceman and now the X-Men face these strange super powered team.
Jean Grey had taken it into her own hands to lead the X-Men and she was driving them around pretty hard. Nightcrawler contacted her saying that they needed help from themselves because they were addicted to the power enhancer. Wolverine had figured out that he was positive to have been dosed with Banshee so he went to Peter Parker for help to sort things out. Kitty and Peter were dealing with Banshee addicts themselves when Wolverine arrived. Peter explained that he was positive because he was Banshee the drug was made by taking properties of him. The X-men went after the addicted X-Men and fought it off. Jean went off for a moment while she talked to her father as Phoenix when then she fell unconscious. Logan blamed Colossus for it so he took his heart out for it.
Both X-Men embark on a flight until Phoenix stops it all. Everyone cools down for the exception of Cyclops that flies to the moon. During the fight Wolverine looses a leg to Colossus. Phoenix show to Colossus that Northstar is OK except that he is paralyzed from the waist down. Colossus and Wolverine are fixed up by Jean after that and then Jean heads to the moon. Wolverine using some of the Banshee Colossus bought he tracked it down to Muir Island blaming Xavier for it. Jean talked to Scott and after that he said he wanted to keep the power the Banshee started wearing off so she put his glasses back on. The Prof. was who created Banshee from Wolverine along with Magneto but Moira distributed it. She fought Wolverine with her "Screaming" powers. In the end Wolverine destroyed the whole facility. Quicksilver then arrived an told Moira that Magneto had newer plans for the near future.
20 Years into the future a new X-Men team that consisted of Captain America, Wolverine, Shadowcat, Rouge and a male Phoenix wanted to prevent the events of Ultimatum so they traveled back in time to stop it.
Reed and Sue were going to go on a date when the future X-Men arrived trying to kill Reed. Reed not having any internal organs couldn't be killed so they kidnapped him. The rest of the Fantastic Four went to the present X-Men for help. Reed discovered that the future male Phoenix was actually his son Franklin Richards. Then future Wolverine attempted to kill Phoenix. Then the rest of the future X-Men discovered that future Wolverine was actually a Sentinel from the future. By the time the FF and present X-Men got there many Wolverine Sentinels had been destroyed had killed Rouge and had taken Reed into the future. Captain America was dying and Jean unmasked him revealing he was actually Scott. He told the group that himself, Jean and the original Cap had been stripped away of their powers so he took over a s Captain America after Steve Rodgers aged 100 years, then he died. In the future Iceman was captured by the Sentinels and Reed escaped his cell when he followed a trail of fire. Thinking it to be Johnny he then saw the future Fantastic Four: Invisible Woman, Iron Thing, Namor and Firestar.
The future X-Men, or what was left of them told the present X-Men and FF that the reason that they needed to stop it all was because the new ruler was getting rid of mutants. That new ruler was Sue. Future Sue convinced present Reed to fix a machine that would strip away people of their powers just like Cyclops´s Reed gave to her request while the present X-Men, present FF, and future X-men went into the future to find out what was going on. Ben and Firestar found out that both of them in the future were in love and Iceman found himself being killed by Namor. Sue met Nihil again then just to find out that he was actually future Reed. Future Phoenix turned everyone in to his mother. Reed then took away future Sue´s powers since clearly she had gone crazy because of her brother´s death. Everyone let the future hero´s free from a prison in the N-Zone Sue had made to maintain the super powered heroes. The present FF and X-men went back to their own time and Sue and Reed left to be alone. Sue told Reed she was worried that would eventually happen to them, but Reed assured that it would not. Sue left and then from a drawer Reed took out a ring, sure that, that future would not happen.
It's Tuesday 4:12 PM. Alison Blaire, Warren Worthington III, Hank McCoy and Kurt Wagner are on Broadway trying to get tickets for a show while Bruce Banner passes.
It's Tuesday 4:13 PM. New York is underwater.
At Broadway, Angel swims out of the water and takes Dazzler with him, apparently dead.
It's 5:02 PM. At Westchester the Professor of The Xavier Institute falls of his wheelchair. Prof. X tells Cyclops and Wolverine that Nightcrawler, Beast and Dazzler "are gone". Then, telepathically Xavier tells all superheroes, that he knows who is responsible for this events, and that all of them have to unite against this threat, to stop Magneto.
At Asteroid M, Magneto sits on a throne with Thor's hammer besides him and says: "Yes, bring them Charles. Bring everyone. So I can tell them myself. For what they've done. They will pay the ultimate price!"
In Ultimate X-Men #100 we find that The Academy of Tomorrow has been attacked by Madrox on behalf of Magneto. There are several multiples of Madrox with bombs strapped to their chest and when the Cyclops, Iceman and Rogue arrive the school is in flames and Northstar and Polaris are shown as dead. It is assumed that anyone inside has perished.
Earth-2182
In Nocturne's home reality the X-Men were led by Wolverine. Members were Nocturne, Nightcrawler, Thunderbird (Warpath), Shadowcat, Phoenix (The Phoenix Force inhabiting Colossus' dead body) and Armageddon.
Earth-928
The X-Men of 2099 were Cerebra, Krystalin, Desert Ghost, Meanstreak, Bloodhawk, La Lunatica, Skullfire, Metalhead, Sham, Junkpile and Serpentina.
Main article: X-Men 2099.
Earth-9997
The X-Men on Earth X were led by Cyclops, just calling himself Mr. S. Members were Dogface, Tower, Double-Header, Charmer and Mermaid.
Earth-1298
The X-men in the Mutant X reality was led by Magneto. Members were Mystique, Nightcrawler, Polaris, Quicksilver, Rogue and Cerebro.
The Original Line-up was Beast(Brute), Angel(Fallen), Jean Grey, Havok and Iceman.
Former members included Bloodstorm, Shadowcat and Colossus.
Earth-15104
The X-Men of the Here Comes Tomorrow reality was lead by Cassandra Nova. Members were Wolverine, Beak (Tito Bohusk), Tom Skylark and Rover, E.V.A. and Martha Johanson.
Earth-1815
In this reality, where the Exiles were sent on their first mission, Professor X was evil and intended to kill all humans. He lead the X-Men, and members included: Juggernaut, Chamber, Domino, Human Torch and Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew).
X-men NOIR:
In this reality (set in the 1930's), the X-men are a gang of sociopaths (instead of mutants) who were led by the now incarcerated physicist Professor Charles Xavier. Professor Xavier believes sociopath is the next step in human evolution. The X-men are framed for killing their own member Jean Grey by way of three cuts over the back and face. Leader of the police force known as " The Brotherhood" named Magnus is put in charge of the investigation. As the search for the X-men continues more and more of them are found dead. When a member of the city's police tracks down the X-men's new leader Scott Summers and is informed that someone is setting them up. When he tells them to go to the police Scott responds. "We're the X-men, and no one is on our side". Meanwhile a mysterious man in a bright red cape is investigating the crimes himself. After Warren Worthington is thrown from a roof top and Hank McCoy is shot and killed in a run in with The Brotherhood, Magnus orders the Brotherhood to take down Sebastian Shaw (a powerful mob boss) and his Hellfire Club. Magnus believes with the X-men out of his way and the Hellfire club killed off, the city will be "his". He meets with Anne-Marie Rankin to learn the whereabouts of the last few X-men but she kills him instead. The caped figure later realizes that Jean Grey is not dead. What happened was that she killed Anne-Marie Rankin and took her place, because she wanted to avoid being studied by Xavier or exploited by Magnus. She then says she knows that the caped figure cannot kill her and pulls a gun on him but he then reveals that he is the twin brother of who she thinks he is and then pushes her off the roof causing them both to fall to their death. His twin, accompanied by Scott finds their bodies and says that he lost him years ago by what he had become. He recants about how when he and his brother both worked at a prison they started the whole cape thing because it made the inmates think he was in two places at the same time (making it seem like he has super powers). They meet up with Logan and sail off together.
Other Mediums:
Animated appearances:
The Marvel Superheroes
The X-Men made their first animated appearance on the 1960s The Marvel Superheros. This was a Television series with all the original X-Men line-up ( Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Jean Grey, and the Iceman ). Originally, Grantray-Lawrence Animation wanted to make a Fantastic Four cartoon but Hannah Barabara got the rights to it, so they substituted them with the X-Men. The X-Men made their appearance in the Sub-Mariner episode "Dr. Doom's Day". Strangely enough, they were never actually referred to as the X-Men. They were, instead, referred to as the Allies for Peace. The characters were however, all went by their names from the comics and had their original designs from the comics as well.Magneto also made a guest appearance on Hannah Barabara's Fantastic four Cartoon. Reed Richards bamboozles him by using a wooden gun and when Magneto tries to manipulate he cannot and thinks powers have faded.
Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends
Having two members of the X-men ( Iceman and Firestar) as regulars on the show it only makes sense that the X-Men guest-starred in quite a few episodes of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, starting with a flashback in "The Origin of Iceman". Appearing in this episode are the original X-men ( Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Jean Grey, and the Iceman) and Professor Xavier.
The X-Men's next appearance in this show was in the episode "A Firestar is Born", including appearances from Professor X, Cyclops, Angel, Wolverine, Storm, and even Juggernaut (plus Magneto and a Sentinel in cameo appearances).
Pryde of the X-Men television pilot
In 1989,Marvel Productions made a pilot episode for a potential X-Men series. The pilot was entitled Pryde of the X-men. It followed Kitty Pryde joining up with the X-men. This series featured Profressor Xavier, Cyclops, Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler and Wolverine. It also had several members of the brotherhood including Magneto, Toad, Juggernaut, Pyro, The White Queen and many others for the X-men to fight. The series was never picked up.
In 1991, a six-player arcade game (and a four-player version) was based upon the pilot starring Colossus, Cyclops, Dazzler, Nightcrawler, Storm, and Wolverine. Kitty Pryde and Professor X also appear.
X-men: The Animated Series
The show was immensely popular and lasted 5 seasons.
When it aired in Japan it got an entirely new opening complete with animeesque animation and jap-pop lyrics. The rest of the show was basically the same. The series also spawned it's own comic spin-off which was entitled X-men: Adventures. This series lasted 15 issues and then was canceled.
X-men: Evolution
The show lasted 4 seasons before it was canceled. This show also inspired a comic book spin-off but it was canceled after 9 issues due to low sales.
Wolverine and the X-men
Currently Nickelodeon is running their X-men animated series.
Films:
The X-Men film franchise has created three X-men films and a Wolverine spin-off film. Also Fox plans to do a Magneto film in 2010, A Deadpool film in 2011, and a Gambit film in 2012.
| Team Name: | X-Men |
| Publisher: | Marvel Publishing |
| 1st Appearance: | X-Men #1 |
| Appears in: | 2104 issues |
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X-Men: The Last Stand
The final film of the original X-Men trilogy. Sort of followed the Dark Phoenix Saga storyline.
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X2: X-Men United
The second movie of the original X-Men trilogy. Brings on a new villain, William Stryker.
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X-Men
The original X-Men movie, many of the things established in it have since been retconned however.
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