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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: While this run is one of the biggest {{Base Breaker}}s in X-Men history, the one thing about it everyone seems to agree on disliking is the treatment given to [[EnsembleDarkhorse minor-but-beloved]] superheroines Risque and Darkstar; to wit, Risque has her organs harvested by the U-Men off-panel, and Darkstar is offhandedly shot by Fantomex--an action that he is actually ''praised'' for because she was BrainwashedAndCrazy and trying to kill everyone.
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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: While this run is one of the biggest {{Base Breaker}}s in X-Men history, the one thing about it everyone seems to agree on disliking is the The treatment given to [[EnsembleDarkhorse minor-but-beloved]] superheroines Risque and Darkstar; to wit, Risque has her organs harvested by the U-Men off-panel, and Darkstar is offhandedly shot by Fantomex--an action that he is actually ''praised'' for because she was BrainwashedAndCrazy and trying to kill everyone.
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** "...call me '''SUBLIME.'''" - Issue #152; the puppetmaster stands revealed, and it's... the StarterVillain? Did ''not'' see that coming.
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** "... call me '''SUBLIME.'''" - Issue #152; the puppetmaster stands revealed, and it's... the StarterVillain? Did ''not'' see that coming.
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* YouAreTooLate: In the first issue, Scott and Logan nail Cassandra after a brief, tense battle with her nano-sentinels...only to find that she already sent them to Genosha and nearly killed almost everyone on the island.
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* YouAreTooLate: In the first issue, Scott and Logan nail Cassandra after a brief, tense battle with her nano-sentinels... only to find that she already sent them to Genosha and nearly killed almost everyone on the island.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: The later arcs, starting with "Murder at the Mansion," begin revealing a whole string of people behind other people: Angel Salvadore shot Emma Frost... under a psychic command from Esme Cuckoo... who gave said command at the behest of Xorn... who was possessed by Sublime. Furthermore, Sublime was ultimately revealed to responsible for everything bad that happened in the run, apart from ''maybe'' Cassandra Nova, and even then it's implied she at least got her tech from him if nothing else.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: The later arcs, starting with "Murder at the Mansion," begin revealing a whole string of people behind other people: Angel Salvadore shot Emma Frost... under a psychic command from Esme Cuckoo... who gave said command at the behest of Xorn... who was possessed by Sublime. Furthermore, Sublime was ultimately revealed to be responsible for everything bad that happened in the run, apart from ''maybe'' Cassandra Nova, and even then it's implied she at least got her tech from him if nothing else.
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** The Weapon X program also gets this treatment. We learn that the "X" in its name is actually the Roman numeral for "10"--it's the tenth in a series of experiments devised by Sublime to create the perfect super-soldiers for combatting the mutant menace. The project began with in WorldWarII with the creation of Weapon I...better known as ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.
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** The Weapon X program also gets this treatment. We learn that the "X" in its name is actually the Roman numeral for "10"--it's the tenth in a series of experiments devised by Sublime to create the perfect super-soldiers for combatting the mutant menace. The project began with in WorldWarII with the creation of Weapon I... better known as ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.
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* RedHerring: When Cassandra first shows up, the X-Men theorize that she's the first specimen of a completely new species that's more advanced than both humans and mutants. This seems the most likely explanation for her strange physiology... until it turns out that she's actually professor Xavier's deranged twin sister, and that her messed up anatomy is the result of her creating her own body after existing as an incorporeal being on the astral plane.
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* RedHerring: When Cassandra first shows up, the X-Men theorize that she's the first specimen of a completely new species that's more advanced than both humans and mutants. This seems the most likely explanation for her strange physiology...until it turns out that she's actually professor Xavier's deranged twin sister, and that her messed up anatomy is the result of her creating her own body after existing as an incorporeal being on the astral plane.
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The following arcs introduced several new students at Charles Xavier's school (including Beak, a deformed half-human birdman, Angel Salvadore, a young woman who sports the wings of a fly, the Stepford Cuckoos, and Xorn, a Chinese prisoner who can heal injured people and sports a black hole inside his helmet), and dealt with [[DarkerAndEdgier more mature]] themes. The series culminated in a storyline, "Planet X", that was over two years in the making - Xorn revealed himself to be {{Magneto}} (who was thought dead after Genosha was destroyed), and subsequently crippled Xavier while enacting a plan to turn Earth into a mutant haven and exterminate humanity in the process.
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The following arcs introduced several new students at Charles Xavier's school (including Beak, a deformed half-human birdman, Angel Salvadore, a young woman who sports the wings of a fly, the Stepford Cuckoos, and Xorn, a Chinese prisoner who can heal injured people and sports a black hole inside his helmet), and dealt with [[DarkerAndEdgier more mature]] themes. The series culminated in a storyline, "Planet X", that was over two years in the making - Xorn revealed himself to be {{Magneto}} ComicBook/{{Magneto}} (who was thought dead after Genosha was destroyed), and subsequently crippled Xavier while enacting a plan to turn Earth into a mutant haven and exterminate humanity in the process.
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** Sublime's U-Men and and Quentin Quire's Omega Men both serve as this for the X-Men, though in varying ways:
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* DeadpanSnarker: Jean Gray as Phoenix, who starts by passively asking the mutilated Wolverine if his "eyes have grown back yet" and dies just after she remarks to Cyclops how she seems to come back [[LampshadeHanging only to die again soon after]].
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* DeadpanSnarker: Jean Gray Grey as Phoenix, who starts by passively asking the mutilated Wolverine if his "eyes have grown back yet" and dies just after she remarks to Cyclops how she seems to come back [[LampshadeHanging only to die again soon after]].
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* ''Here Comes Tomorrow'' (#151-154): The final arc written by Morrison, which follows a group of mutants in the [[TimeTravel far future]] who discover Jean Grey inside a Phoenix Egg and attempt to free her, while Beast (under the influence of Sublime) attempts to destroy the X-Men (now led by a reformed clone of Cassandra Nova) once and for all.
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* ''Here Comes Tomorrow'' (#151-154): The final arc written by Morrison, which follows a group of mutants in the [[TimeTravel far future]] who discover Jean Grey inside a Phoenix Egg and attempt to free her, while Beast (under the influence of Sublime) attempts to destroy the X-Men (now led by a reformed clone of Cassandra Nova) once and for all.
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** The Weapon X program also gets this treatment. We learn that the "X" in its name is actually the Roman numeral for "10"--it's the tenth in a series of experiments devised by Sublime to create the perfect super-soldiers for combatting the mutant menace. The project began with in WorldWarII with the creation of Weapon I...better known as CaptainAmerica.
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** The Weapon X program also gets this treatment. We learn that the "X" in its name is actually the Roman numeral for "10"--it's the tenth in a series of experiments devised by Sublime to create the perfect super-soldiers for combatting the mutant menace. The project began with in WorldWarII with the creation of Weapon I...better known as CaptainAmerica.ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.
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* {{Rewrite}}: The Weapon X facility is explained to be just one of several such installations created throughout the world. CaptainAmerica is revealed to be "Weapon I" (from the Project: Rebirth program), while several other characters (including the Stepford Cuckoos) are revealed to be later test subjects.
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* {{Rewrite}}: The Weapon X facility is explained to be just one of several such installations created throughout the world. CaptainAmerica ComicBook/CaptainAmerica is revealed to be "Weapon I" (from the Project: Rebirth program), while several other characters (including the Stepford Cuckoos) are revealed to be later test subjects.
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* CallBack: Just before Jean dies, she makes reference to [[TheDarkPhoenixSaga dying right after coming back as the Phoenix]].
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* CallBack: Just before Jean dies, she makes reference to [[TheDarkPhoenixSaga [[ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga dying right after coming back as the Phoenix]].
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For the series ''New X-Men: Academy X'', visit the ''NewMutants'' page.
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** Wolverine's backstory was completely overhauled, with the revelation that his ordeal with Weapon X was merely the tenth in a series of similar experiments dating back to WorldWarII.
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* {{Satan}}: Sublime, essentially, from being an ancient creature who deceives humans to possessing and ruling the world though the body of a man known as "the Beast" in an apocalyptic future. Morrison would recycle a number of phrases used to describe Sublime, such as "hole in things" and "true enemy," for Doctor Hurt, the LouisCypher BigBad of his run on ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}''.
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** Professor X steps down as leader of the X-Men in favor of Cyclops. He's rejoined the team since then, but as a generally content subordinate of Scott's.
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* DeconReconSwitch: {{Joss Whedon}}'s ''Astonishing X-Men'' (''New X-Men'''s direct sequel) continued most of the series' themes and plot arcs while recasting the X-Men as traditional superheroes, complete with their classic spandex costumes. Though every bit as dark and mature as Morrison's run, it managed to reconstruct the action and adventure of the Claremont era, showing that there's still a place for superheroics amidst the chaos and ambiguity of the modern world.
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* DeconReconSwitch: {{Joss Whedon}}'s Creator/JossWhedon's ''Astonishing X-Men'' (''New X-Men'''s direct sequel) continued most of the series' themes and plot arcs while recasting the X-Men as traditional superheroes, complete with their classic spandex costumes. Though every bit as dark and mature as Morrison's run, it managed to reconstruct the action and adventure of the Claremont era, showing that there's still a place for superheroics amidst the chaos and ambiguity of the modern world.
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''New X-Men'' (2001-2004) is an American comic book series written by GrantMorrison, Creator/GrantMorrison, which follows the ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'s "Blue Team" as they attempt to stop several new threats against both mutants and mankind.
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** Emma Frost (previously of ''GenerationX'') became one of the series' most indispensable characters.
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* BiggerBad: Sublime. He was behind everything from the Kick drug to the creation of Weapon X (actually the tenth experiment of Weapon Plus), and may even have manipulated humanity into turning against mutants in the first place.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: Sublime. He was behind everything from the Kick drug to the creation of Weapon X (actually the tenth experiment of Weapon Plus), and may even have manipulated humanity into turning against mutants in the first place.
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*BehindTheBlack: In one issue, someone is trying to assassinate Professor Xavier in an airport. The assassin is covered in a shawl, and when some of the X-corp branch unmask the assassin, it is only then that the Professor, several yards away, tells Comicbook/JeanGrey who it is. This is a telepath who should have been able to tell the other telepath who it was before the audience finds out.
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** [[http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080724234834/marveldatabase/images/c/c5/New_X-Men_Vol_1_141.jpg This cover]] is shout-out to ''Film/TheTerminator''.
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* BatmanGrabsAGun: In one of the earliest issues, Professor Xavier picks up a gun and promptly shoots Cassandra when it becomes clear that the X-Men are in over their heads in their battle with her, breaking his strict [[ThouShaltNotKill "No Kill" policy]]. [[spoiler: Subverted, though, in that it later turns that it was Cassandra's mind in the Professor's body, and that the Professor's mind was in Cassandra's body when it happened.]]
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* BatmanGrabsAGun: In one of the earliest issues, Professor Xavier picks up a gun and promptly shoots Cassandra when it becomes clear that the X-Men are in over their heads in their battle with her, breaking his strict [[ThouShaltNotKill "No Kill" policy]]. [[spoiler: Subverted, though, in that it later turns that it was Cassandra's mind in the Professor's body, and that the Professor's mind was in Cassandra's body when it happened.]]happened]].
** He attempted it earlier, threathening to shoot himself to prevent her from taking control of his body and Cerebra.
** He attempted it earlier, threathening to shoot himself to prevent her from taking control of his body and Cerebra.
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* Shoutout: A number of Frank Quitely issues have visual Shoutouts to Creator/{{Moebius}}.
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The series was a retitling of the then-ongoing second volume of the ''X-Men'' series which began in the early 90's, and shared the series' numbering. Morrison, a critically-acclaimed writer known for his high-profile works at DCComics, was brought onboard to revitalize the title and introduce a number of new story elements. The series started with a shocking development, as the new villain Cassandra Nova directed an army of Sentinels to destroy the mutant island Genosha, resulting in [[DroppedABridgeOnHim millions of deaths]] and a shake-up to the status quo.
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The series was a retitling of the then-ongoing second volume of the ''X-Men'' series which began in the early 90's, and shared the series' numbering. Morrison, a critically-acclaimed writer known for his high-profile works at DCComics, was brought onboard to revitalize the title and introduce a number of new story elements. The series Morrison started with a shocking development, as he meant to go on, as the new villain Cassandra Nova directed an army of Sentinels to destroy the mutant island Genosha, resulting in [[DroppedABridgeOnHim millions of [[WhamEpisode sixteen million mutant deaths]] and a shake-up to the status quo.
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* SoProudOfYou: Inverted. After Emma kills Esme, she cradles the dying girl and tells her that in spite of her turning against the X-Men, she's still proud of her.
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* SoProudOfYou: Inverted. After Emma When Magneto kills Esme, she Emma cradles the dying girl and tells her that in spite of her turning against the X-Men, she's still proud of her.
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* BlessedWithSuck: Angel Salvadore has the ability to fly, but does so at the cost of not being able to consume her food properly (she has to vomit on it and digest it like paste).
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* BlessedWithSuck: Angel Salvadore has the ability to fly, but does so at the cost of not being able to consume her food properly (she like a human; she has more fly-like organs, meaning that to eat, she has to vomit acidic slime on it her food and digest let it like paste).dissolve into paste before sucking it back up. Even many of her fellow mutants regard this as gross. She also has a fly-like reproductive system, and ends up giving birth to five children -- which she lays as part of a clutch of about a dozen or more huge, ugly eggs -- about a week after getting pregnant.
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* BigDamnHeroes: The Stepford Cuckoos take it upon themselves to stop Quentin Quire's riot. Sophie uses Cerebra (and some Kick) to boost their abilities while her sisters handle Quentin face-to-face. Sophie dies as a result, though this turned out to be orchestrated Esme.
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* BigDamnHeroes: The Stepford Cuckoos take it upon themselves to stop Quentin Quire's riot. Sophie uses Cerebra (and some Kick) to boost their abilities while her sisters handle Quentin face-to-face. Sophie dies as a result, though this turned out to be orchestrated by Esme.
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* FanNickname: "Xorneto" for the version of Magneto that appears in "Planet X", after a {{retcon}} established that it was actually Xorn in disguise.
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* WholePlotReference: The "Here Comes Tomorrow" arc is heavily influenced by ''TheWizardOfOz''. Many of the characters are direct copies of those found in ''Oz'' (Tom and Rover are Dorothy and Toto, flying Nightcrawlers are the flying monkeys, Tito is the Cowardly Lion, etc.), and the ending strongly mirrors the film (someone wishes for something to be true, and goes to a wizard for help).
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* WholePlotReference: The "Here Comes Tomorrow" arc is heavily influenced by ''TheWizardOfOz''. Many of the characters are direct copies of counterparts to those found in ''Oz'' (Tom and Rover are Dorothy and Toto, flying Nightcrawlers are the flying monkeys, Tito is the Cowardly Lion, etc.), and the ending strongly mirrors the film (someone wishes for something to be true, and goes to a wizard for help).help).
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Inverted this time with Jean and the Phoenix entity. It's implied that Jean only lost control because she was afraid of her power before, and repressed it. Now, she's out and proud, and completely in control of herself.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Inverted this time with Jean and the Phoenix entity. It's implied that Jean only lost control because she was afraid of her power before, and repressed it. Now, she's out and proud, and completely in control of herself.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: The series explores many of the harsher aspects of how an oppressed minority of superhumans might function in the real world, with abuse of power-enhancing drugs, campus insurrection at the Xavier Institute, the homegrown culture of the "mutant ghetto", and even UsefulNotes/CheGuevara-esque idolization of Magneto figuring into the plot.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: The series explores many of the harsher aspects of how an oppressed minority a subculture of superhumans might function in the real world, with abuse of power-enhancing drugs, campus insurrection at the Xavier Institute, the homegrown culture of the "mutant ghetto", and even UsefulNotes/CheGuevara-esque idolization of Magneto figuring into the plot.
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''New X-Men'' (2001-2004) is an American comic book series written by GrantMorrison, which follows the ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'s "Blue Team" as they attempt to stop several new threats against both mutants and mankind.
The series was a retitling of the then-ongoing second volume of the ''X-Men'' series which began in the early 90's, and shared the series' numbering. Morrison, a critically-acclaimed writer known for his high-profile works at DCComics, was brought onboard to revitalize the title and introduce a number of new story elements. The series started with a shocking development, as the new villain Cassandra Nova directed an army of Sentinels to destroy the mutant island Genosha, resulting in [[DroppedABridgeOnHim millions of deaths]] and a shake-up to the status quo.
The following arcs introduced several new students at Charles Xavier's school (including Beak, a deformed half-human birdman, Angel Salvadore, a young woman who sports the wings of a fly, the Stepford Cuckoos, and Xorn, a Chinese prisoner who can heal injured people and sports a black hole inside his helmet), and dealt with [[DarkerAndEdgier more mature]] themes. The series culminated in a storyline, "Planet X", that was over two years in the making - Xorn revealed himself to be {{Magneto}} (who was thought dead after Genosha was destroyed), and subsequently crippled Xavier while enacting a plan to turn Earth into a mutant haven and exterminate humanity in the process.
The series comprised nine story arcs (and one annual issue), including:
* ''E For Extinction'' (#114-116): Cassandra Nova makes her first appearance and uses an army of Sentinels to destroy Genosha, Emma Frost rejoins the team and Xavier (possessed by Nova) outs himself as a mutant on live television.
* ''The Man From Room X'' (Annual 2001): The team travels to Hong Kong and enlists Domino's help in rescuing a captive mutant named Xorn, who has many dark secrets. In the end, Xorn is persuaded to join the team.
* ''Imperial'' (#118-126): Several new students are introduced at the Xavier Institute, while the team goes into Xavier's mind to free him from Nova's influence. Meanwhile, Nova uses Xavier's powers to manipulate the Shi'ar into attacking the Xavier Institute.
* ''New Worlds'' (#127-133): The team revisits Genosha to look for survivors, as well as broker peace amidst rising mutant/human tensions, while Cyclops begins a "psychic" relationship with Emma.
* ''Riot At Xavier's'' (#135-138): One of Xavier's students, Quentin Quire, begins to mock his mentor's pacifistic teachings, and (along with a group of militant classmates, all hopped up on the mutant drug Kick) attempts to kill humans and cause a riot in retaliation.
* ''Murder At The Mansion'' (#139-141): After discovering Scott's psychic relationship with Emma, Jean freaks out and uses the power of the Phoenix to burn through the White Queen's defenses. Later on, Emma is found to have been shattered into thousands of pieces, prompting Bishop and Sage to begin an investigation into her death.
* ''Assault On Weapon Plus'' (#142-145): Fantomex, Cyclops and Wolverine journey to a dormant asteroid that houses the remnants of the Weapon Plus program, which is discovered to go back to at least WorldWarII, and results in Wolverine discovering his past.
* ''Planet X'' (#146-150): The series climaxes with Xorn revealing himself to be Magneto and throwing the entire Xavier Institute into chaos when he cripples Xavier again and attempts to exterminate humanity as a precursor to turning Earth into a mutant haven.
* ''Here Comes Tomorrow'' (#151-154): The final arc written by Morrison, which follows a group of mutants in the [[TimeTravel far future]] who discover Jean Grey inside a Phoenix Egg and attempt to free her, while Beast (under the influence of Sublime) attempts to destroy the X-Men (now led by a reformed clone of Cassandra Nova) once and for all.
* ''Bright New Mourning'' (#155-156): The only ''New X-Men'' arc not written by Morrison (Chuck Austen took over writing duties). The story was a bridge to the "Reloaded" series (which went back to the traditional ''X-Men'' title), and followed the team as they rebuild after the events of the "Planet X" arc.
The book resulted in a re-energizing of the franchise, and was critically and commercially acclaimed. However, the revelation that Xorn was actually Magneto in disguise was hastily [[{{Retcon}} retconned]] by Marvel after the run due to fan backlash. The series reverted back to the original ''X-Men'' title beginning at issue #157.
For the series ''New X-Men: Academy X'', visit the ''NewMutants'' page.
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* AlternateUniverse: "Here Comes Tomorrow".
* TheAntichrist: Sublime is eventually revealed to be this. His final body is even that of "[[Literature/BookOfRevelation the Beast]]."
* ApocalypseHow: Magneto's plan in "Planet X" is a Class 4 (species extinction) - he intends to repopulate Earth with mutants.
* ArcVillain: Cassandra Nova, Quentin Quire, Xorn and alternate-universe Beast.
* ArcWords: "Are these words from the future?" "White-hot room" (and sometimes just "white-hot" and "room" on their own), "Sublime," and "Rescue and emergency" qualify to a lesser extent.
* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Quoted almost word for word by Professor Xavier after Quentin Quire's "death":
-->"Quentin Quire was liberated from his physical cocoon and born into a higher world at exactly 4:32 this afternoon. I know how ridiculous that sounds, but in this case we believe it to be the literal truth."
* BackFromTheDead: Jean/Phoenix and Magneto during the "Planet X" storyline.
* BadassLongcoat: Fantomex.
* BadFuture: "Here Comes Tomorrow" - most of the X-Men (and humanity) are dead, with the few survivors being Fantomex's [[ArtificialIntelligence A.I.]] EVA, the Stepford Cuckoos and Wolverine.
* BareYourMidriff: Emma and Jean.
* BatmanGrabsAGun: In one of the earliest issues, Professor Xavier picks up a gun and promptly shoots Cassandra when it becomes clear that the X-Men are in over their heads in their battle with her, breaking his strict [[ThouShaltNotKill "No Kill" policy]]. [[spoiler: Subverted, though, in that it later turns that it was Cassandra's mind in the Professor's body, and that the Professor's mind was in Cassandra's body when it happened.]]
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: The Cuckoos in "Here Comes Tomorrow."
* BettyAndVeronica: [[LoveTriangle Jean and Emma to Scott]]. Resolved at the end of the series when Jean uses the Phoenix Force to convince Scott to let her go and be with Emma.
* BerserkButton: Jean's death does this to Wolverine, who promptly decapitates Xorn/Magneto.
* BigDamnHeroes: The Stepford Cuckoos take it upon themselves to stop Quentin Quire's riot. Sophie uses Cerebra (and some Kick) to boost their abilities while her sisters handle Quentin face-to-face. Sophie dies as a result, though this turned out to be orchestrated Esme.
* BiggerBad: Sublime. He was behind everything from the Kick drug to the creation of Weapon X (actually the tenth experiment of Weapon Plus), and may even have manipulated humanity into turning against mutants in the first place.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Beak and Angel, who come from similar backgrounds and meet when a group of students dares Angel to kiss the ugliest student in the school. They eventually raise a family together.
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: Used particularly effectively in issue #121, when Jean and Emma probe Professor Xavier's memories while he's trapped inside Cassandra's brain (yes, it's just as {{mind screw}}y as it sounds).
* BlackBugRoom: The TropeNamer. Cyclops is sent there by Cassandra in issue #116.
* BlessedWithSuck: Angel Salvadore has the ability to fly, but does so at the cost of not being able to consume her food properly (she has to vomit on it and digest it like paste).
* BrainInAJar: One of the new students at the Institute is Martha Johannsen, a powerful psychic whose brain was severed by Sublime, leaving her as a disembodied brain on life support. Fortunately, she's still able to communicate with people telepathically, and the Professor constructs a special jar for her with antigravity capabilities.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Xavier after Cassandra takes over his mind, and Beast in "Here Comes Tomorrow".
* BreatherEpisode: "Assault on Weapon Plus". After all of the drama over Scott's infidelity and the attempt on Emma's life, Scott goes out for a nice "boy's night out" with Logan and Fantomex (which involves them battling some cyborgs and breaking into a space station). They get back just in time for [[DarkestHour "Planet X"]].
* CallBack: Just before Jean dies, she makes reference to [[TheDarkPhoenixSaga dying right after coming back as the Phoenix]].
* TheCameo: Though mostly absent, a few of the X-Men outside of the main five make brief appearances. Archangel appears after "Imperial" to give a few of the new students a flying lesson, and Storm can be seen helping with the cleanup of Genosha along with Thunderbird, Sabra and a few others.
** In addition, some of the auxiliary X-teams also appear as employees of the X-Corporation. Many of the members of X-Factor [[note]]M, Siryn, Rictor, Multiple Man, Cannonball and Darkstar[[/note]] work for the Paris branch, and a few former X-Force members [[note]]Warpath, Thornn, Feral and Sunfire[[/note]] work for the Mumbai branch.
* CivvieSpandex: The team (sans Emma) wears matching yellow-and-black leather jackets and pants for the duration of the series.
* CloningBlues: The Stepford Cuckoos have this to some extent. In particular, Esme ends up taking Kick so she can feel like an individual, and she ultimately rebels against the X-Men and joins Magneto. It's understandable that all of them might have some doubts about themselves, though, since [[spoiler: they were actually bred as weapons by Weapon Plus]].
* CompositeCharacter: Sort of. [[WordOfGod Morrison says that]] he gave Emma the ability to turn into diamond because he originally wanted to put Colossus in the team's lineup, but decided to combine his powers with another character after he was killed off in the "Legacy Virus" arc.
* DarkerAndEdgier
* DarkestHour: Issue #147 - Xavier has been crippled (again), Xorn has revealed himself to be Magneto and leaves with several of Xavier's students, Logan and Jean are on an asteroid that's hurtling into the sun, Hank and Emma are stuck on a small island in the middle of nowhere after the Blackbird crashes, and the rest of the team is scattered and unsure of what to do.
* DeadpanSnarker: Jean Gray as Phoenix, who starts by passively asking the mutilated Wolverine if his "eyes have grown back yet" and dies just after she remarks to Cyclops how she seems to come back [[LampshadeHanging only to die again soon after]].
* {{Deconstruction}}: The series explores many of the harsher aspects of how an oppressed minority of superhumans might function in the real world, with abuse of power-enhancing drugs, campus insurrection at the Xavier Institute, the homegrown culture of the "mutant ghetto", and even UsefulNotes/CheGuevara-esque idolization of Magneto figuring into the plot.
* DeconReconSwitch: {{Joss Whedon}}'s ''Astonishing X-Men'' (''New X-Men'''s direct sequel) continued most of the series' themes and plot arcs while recasting the X-Men as traditional superheroes, complete with their classic spandex costumes. Though every bit as dark and mature as Morrison's run, it managed to reconstruct the action and adventure of the Claremont era, showing that there's still a place for superheroics amidst the chaos and ambiguity of the modern world.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Genosha is unceremoniously destroyed at the end of the first issue of "E For Extinction", killing millions and leaving a few survivors to pick up the pieces. By the end of the "Planet X" arc, Jean is also dead.
* DrugsAreBad: Both Quentin Quire and Xorn/Magneto are revealed to be addicted to the mutant drug Kick, which enhances their powers and motivates the "Riot At Xavier" and "Planet X" arcs.
* EasilyForgiven: The rest of the team doesn't seem to bear Emma any ill will for seducing Scott behind Jean's back. Even Professor Xavier, who has very little tolerance for people using psychic powers to manipulate others, doesn't call her out on her using telepathy to exploit his confusion.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Esme Cuckoo's clothing style changes radically after she betrays the team and joins Magneto. Justified, since the change in dress makes it clear that she has definitively broken free from [[HiveMind the Cuckoos]] and become an individual (before that point, the Cuckoos always dressed identically).
* EvilCounterpart:
** Sublime's U-Men and and Quentin Quire's Omega Men both serve as this for the X-Men, though in varying ways:
*** The U-Men are humans who intentionally try to give themselves mutant powers by harvesting mutants' organs, and believe that it's their destiny to become a new superior species.
*** The Omega Men are rebellious mutant teenagers who enact brutal vigilante justice on any humans with anti-mutant tendencies.
** To a somewhat lesser extent, Cassandra Nova is this for Professor Xavier, essentially showing us how the Professor might turn out if he was mentally unstable and used his vast psychic powers for evil.
* EvilIsHammy: Cassandra, Xorn, and Sublime.
* EvilTwin: Cassandra Nova is Charles's twin sister, whom he killed in the womb in self-defense. Esme Cuckoo is a subversion, as she's an Evil Quintuplet.
* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: During the final battle with Xorn/Magneto, Fantomex opens fire on the villain, who of course deflects the bullets with his powers... right into the stasis tank imprisoning Xavier, freeing him. Given [[ManipulativeBastard who Fantomex is]], it's not hard to imagine this trope was at play here.
* FaceHeelTurn: Esme Cuckoo, who gets hooked on Kick, tries to murder Emma, and finally falls in with Magneto when he tries to destroy New York City.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Esme Cuckoo. After she turns on "Magneto," he shoves her metal earrings in one side of her head and out the other. ''Horizontally''.
* FanDisservice: Jean, who previously stripped down to her bra and pants while on Asteroid M as it's hurtling into the sun, [[http://www.alternatecover.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/6_newxmen148.jpg is stabbed in the gut by Logan]].
* FanNickname: "Xorneto" for the version of Magneto that appears in "Planet X", after a {{retcon}} established that it was actually Xorn in disguise.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Cyclops
** TheLancer: Jean Grey
** TheBigGuy: Wolverine
** TheSmartGuy: Beast
** TheChick: Emma Frost
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Quite a bit, actually, although it's often quite oblique, regarding both [[spoiler: John Sublime and Magneto. Everything Quentin says as he dies/ascends actually does double duty, being applicable to both.]]
* FutureBadass: Beak's grandson Tito Bohusk Jr., who is essentially Beak with full control over his flight powers--and ''without'' the angst or social awkwardness.
* GambitRoulette: Sublime's master plan to wipe out mutantkind is, for lack of a better term, ridiculously convoluted, doubly so [[FridgeLogic when you realize]] that he was controlling pretty much every character at one point or another, either through direct DemonicPossession or simply through subterfuge, meaning a couple of times one of his pawns will be defeated by another one.
* GentlemanThief: Fantomex.
* GreatOffscreenWar: Sublime's takeover of Earth happens completely offscreen. After "Planet X", the action cuts straight from the present day to 150 years in the future.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Beak, who ends up joining Xorn/Magneto when he reformed the Brotherhood of Mutants, then regained his conscience and rejoined the X-Men as they made their assault on the Brotherhood's base.
* HeelFaceTurn: In the BadFuture caused by Sublime's rise to power, a reformed Cassandra Nova ends up leading the next generation of X-Men in resisting him. It's implied that Ernst may have been a reborn Cassandra all along.
* HeroicBSOD: Polaris is revealed to have been in this state for months when the team finds her on Genosha - she blamed herself for not being able to save the millions of massacred mutants, and became a nude, deranged recluse who wandered around the island.
* HiveMind: The Stepford Cuckoos, first introduced in this series, have this as part of their mutation. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that they were actually created to be like this by Weapon Plus]].
* ICanExplain: When Jean catches Scott with Emma, she says: "Don't tell me. You can explain..."
* ImportantHaircut: Esme Cuckoo cuts her hair short after she breaks free from the rest of the Cuckoos and joins Magneto. The haircut helps distinguish her from her sister clones, finally marking her as an individual instead of one-fifth of a HiveMind.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Poor Donald Trask.
* IronicEcho: "Did you think YOU would live forever, little speck?"
* KillEmAll: The ending of the "Here Comes Tomorrow" arc.
* TheLancer: Fantomex is this to Wolverine over the course of the series. In hindsight, it makes more sense - [[spoiler:Fantomex is a later participant of the Weapon Plus program]].
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: While none of them receive that much panel time, the Xavier Institute was filled with hundreds of students each with unique mutations. Most of them weren't properly identified until years later.
* TheManBehindTheMan: The later arcs, starting with "Murder at the Mansion," begin revealing a whole string of people behind other people: Angel Salvadore shot Emma Frost... under a psychic command from Esme Cuckoo... who gave said command at the behest of Xorn... who was possessed by Sublime. Furthermore, Sublime was ultimately revealed to responsible for everything bad that happened in the run, apart from ''maybe'' Cassandra Nova, and even then it's implied she at least got her tech from him if nothing else.
* ManInWhite: Fantomex.
* MetaOrigin: The series officially canonizes the fact that mutants can receive additional secondary mutations, highlighted by Emma's survival during the destruction of Genosha (she becomes an indestructible diamond form, at the cost of the temporary loss of her telepathy).
** The Weapon X program also gets this treatment. We learn that the "X" in its name is actually the Roman numeral for "10"--it's the tenth in a series of experiments devised by Sublime to create the perfect super-soldiers for combatting the mutant menace. The project began with in WorldWarII with the creation of Weapon I...better known as CaptainAmerica.
* MindScrew: "Here Comes Tomorrow" is classic Morrison, particularly the final scene taking place in the acid trip of a dimension that is the White Hot Room, which may be the afterlife, the realm of the Phoenix Force, the inside of the M'krann Crystal, or any combination of the three.
* MsFanservice: Emma, natch.
* NeckSnap: Emma does this to Cassandra at the end of the E For Extinction arc.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Morrison's run introduced the concept of "secondary mutations", with a few of the X-Men gaining new powers. Conveniently, Emma discovers her ability to transform into diamond right after a building falls on her.
* NoFourthWall: At one point in "Here Comes Tomorrow," Cassandra turns to the reader and says "I've had dreams, you know. Dreams with you in them."
* [[NotUsingTheZWord Not Using the S Word]]: Morrison wanted to distance ''X-Men'' from its roots as a superhero comic in favor of making it a more nuanced, realistic science-fiction comic--so the characters almost never use the word "superhero", aside from a scene in the first issue where Beast tells Professor Xavier "I was never sure why you had us dress like superheroes" when reviewing [[CivvieSpandex the new uniforms]].
* PartyScattering: Done intentionally by Xorn/Magneto to separate the team while he cripples Xavier in "Planet X".
* PsychicLink: The Stepford Cuckoos.
* PubertySuperpower: Both Beak and Angel manifested their powers when they were in their teens - Angel was thrown out of her home when her father discovered she could fly, and Beak fled his home after discovering his physical changes.
* TheRealRemingtonSteele: Xorn, who "reveals" himself as Magneto before being killed.
* {{Retcon}}: Xorn's reveal as Magneto was hastily swept under the rug as soon as Morrison's run ended. This was parodied in the fan film ''Death Becomes Them'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6J7FJmy1c Watch it here]])):
--> '''Magneto''': No, that was actually Xorn's twin brother, possessed by the sentient mold Sublime, pretending to be me, pretending to be Xorn.
--> '''Beast''': That defies all logic!
* RedHerring: When Cassandra first shows up, the X-Men theorize that she's the first specimen of a completely new species that's more advanced than both humans and mutants. This seems the most likely explanation for her strange physiology...until it turns out that she's actually professor Xavier's deranged twin sister, and that her messed up anatomy is the result of her creating her own body after existing as an incorporeal being on the astral plane.
* {{Retirony}}: Inverted. Midway through the run, Xavier announces that he wishes to retire and appoint Jean as the new Headmistress of the Institute in his place. Though he survives, Jean is killed, leaving Scott to become the new Headmaster instead.
* {{Rewrite}}: The Weapon X facility is explained to be just one of several such installations created throughout the world. CaptainAmerica is revealed to be "Weapon I" (from the Project: Rebirth program), while several other characters (including the Stepford Cuckoos) are revealed to be later test subjects.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Emma in the "E For Extinction" arc, who initially goes after humanity for destroying Genosha, but discovers the real culprit (Cassandra) and snaps her neck.
* {{Robosexual}}: Tom Skylark, apparently. He's '''good''' with machines. And depending on if that was ''all'' the mutants in the world who were blown up with the Xavier Institute, he and [[RobotGirl EVA]] may be the last people on the planet.
* RobotBuddy: Rover in "Here Comes Tomorrow" is a sentient, slightly dimwitted Sentinel (one of the few still left on the planet) who is commanded by future X-Man Tom Skylark.
* RuleOfSymbolism: ''Here Comes Tomorrow'' has a ton of ''[[Literature/BookOfRevelation Revelation]]'' imagery; Sublime takes the form of "[[TheAntichrist the Beast]]" and talks about all life receiving "[[NumberOfTheBeast his Mark]]," and his [[TheDragon second-in-command]], Apollyon, shares his name with the being prophesied to release the horrors of Hell to torment the wicked prior to Judgment Day, among them an endless plague of giant, human-faced locusts possibly represented by the Crawlers. In addition, the White Hot Room visually calls to mind ''Revelation'''s seriously {{mindscrew}}y version of Heaven, and the Phoenix herself the "Woman cloaked in sun" said to birth the world's savior. WordOfGod confirms Buddhist imagery as well, another basis for the White Hot Room being the crown chakra, which is also mentioned in the story as the place at which the Phoenix anchors itself to its host.
** The RuleOfSymbolism particularly comes into play with Sublime's decision to possess Hank [=McCoy=] for his final endgame, even though his only mutant powers are animalistic strength and senses. Story-wise, it stretches WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief a bit (Morrison specifically avoids saying ''how'' Sublime managed to conquer Earth and rule it for 150 years in Hank's body, and it's never explained why he didn't just do it when he was possessing Magneto or Quentin Quire), but it's allowed to slide because of the symbolic importance of Sublime using someone with the codename "Beast" as his host.
* TheRunaway: Beak and Angel.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Emma, to Scott.
* SoProudOfYou: Inverted. After Emma kills Esme, she cradles the dying girl and tells her that in spite of her turning against the X-Men, she's still proud of her.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: "Here Comes Tomorrow" - Humanity and mutantkind are doomed unless a man who just lost his wife immediately begins sleeping with another woman.
* StatusQuoIsGod: ''Averted''. Even with the many retcons made after Morrison's departure, this run still managed to make many lasting changes to the storyline:
** Professor Xavier "came out" as a mutant and revealed the true nature of the Xavier Institute to the world, turning it into a fully functioning school open to any and all mutants in need.
** Emma Frost (previously of ''GenerationX'') became one of the series' most indispensable characters.
** Jean became a semi-divine being [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence inhabiting another dimension]], leaving Scott to start a new relationship with Emma.
** Genosha ceased to be a political entity, though it still occasionally shows up as a backdrop in some stories.
** Professor Xavier's marriage to Empress Lilandra was officially annulled.
** Wolverine's backstory was completely overhauled, with the revelation that his ordeal with Weapon X was merely the tenth in a series of similar experiments dating back to WorldWarII.
** Though the infamous "Xorneto" retcon established that [[NotQuiteDead Magneto wasn't really killed off]], this run did mark the end of his role as a major villain in the series (as of this writing, he's allied with the X-Men).
** In an interview toward the beginning of his run, Morrison stated that the entire purpose of it was essentially to shake up the ''X-Men'' status quo so much that it would be nigh-impossible to [[SnapBack snap it back]]. He also appears to express his dislike for this trope through the mouth of Sublime in the final issue.
-->'''Sublime:''' The supermen fight and die and return in a meaningless shadowplay because ''we'' make them do it.
* {{Stripperific}}: Emma - this is highlighted by the final issue (#156), which has a cover photo of her (wearing a skintight pantsuit) hugging Cyclops while looking devilishly into the camera as she sticks her butt out.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: While this run is one of the biggest {{Base Breaker}}s in X-Men history, the one thing about it everyone seems to agree on disliking is the treatment given to [[EnsembleDarkhorse minor-but-beloved]] superheroines Risque and Darkstar; to wit, Risque has her organs harvested by the U-Men off-panel, and Darkstar is offhandedly shot by Fantomex--an action that he is actually ''praised'' for because she was BrainwashedAndCrazy and trying to kill everyone.
* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Partially averted. Magneto says that he tricked the Avengers and Fantastic Four into going on a wild goose chase while he enacts his plan to exterminate the humans, but this doesn't explain why any of the myriad superheroes/superhero groups in the city don't do anything to help. There's no way Spider-Man, Daredevil or Luke Cage would have stood by while people were herded into gas chambers.
** This is actually [[{{Handwave}} handwaved]] by Beak, who mentions that Magneto was keeping the other heroes busy with a false threat concerning a "black hole bomb" in Brooklyn.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted - Emma takes over as the school's resident teacher/therapist, and ends up counseling many of the students.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Comes back when Logan and Jean are stranded on Asteroid M together.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: In issue #150 (the final part of "Planet X"), Magneto says this after [[spoiler:killing Esme]]:
-->'''Magneto''': May the future forgive me. May history judge my actions, great or small. In the final reckoning... when I have given them paradise, and the world is free... those poor dead will not seem so many. Now, let the sky fall.
* WasItAllALie: Esme's boyfriend Kato turned out to be a shapeshifting member of the Imperial Guard, Stuff. A shocked Esme mentions that "Kato" read her poetry and told her he loved her, to which Stuff coldly replies "and like a fool you believed me."
* WhamEpisode: The "Planet X" arc is a concentrated sequence of these - Xorn reveals that he's Magneto, Jean finds Logan alive and well at the asteroid, the asteroid is destroyed and Jean becomes the Phoenix again, Xavier is crippled (again), Magneto enacts his plan to kill all the humans in New York and many mutants are killed, including Magneto, Esme (one of the Stepford Cuckoos) and Jean, just before the last panel reveals that the Phoenix Force is alive and well hundreds of years in the future!
* WhamLine: This is basically a Wham ''Series'', so there are bound to be a few of these.
** "[[OhCrap Where did she send those Sentinels]]?" - Issue #115; Scott and Logan realize Cassandra Nova has already won.
** "Professor Xavier tried to kill his twin sister when they were both in the womb. We need to talk." - Issue #121; Jean and Emma suddenly realize who Cassandra really is after probing the Professor's memories (particularly striking, as it's the only line of dialogue in the entire issue).
** "And it's Weapon '''Ten''', not X." - Issue #129; Fantomex drops an essential piece of {{backstory}} as casually as if he were talking about the weather.
** "What if the real enemy... was inside... all along?" - Issue #138; Kid Omega's FamousLastWords. Doesn't seem particularly whammy, until you reach the end of the series and realize this is ''far'' more literal than it sounds.
** "X-Men emergency indeed, Charles... the dream is over." - Issue #146 - Xorn reveals his true identity ([[ContinuitySnarl sort of]]).
** "...call me '''SUBLIME.'''" - Issue #152; the puppetmaster stands revealed, and it's... the StarterVillain? Did ''not'' see that coming.
* WholePlotReference: The "Here Comes Tomorrow" arc is heavily influenced by ''TheWizardOfOz''. Many of the characters are direct copies of those found in ''Oz'' (Tom and Rover are Dorothy and Toto, flying Nightcrawlers are the flying monkeys, Tito is the Cowardly Lion, etc.), and the ending strongly mirrors the film (someone wishes for something to be true, and goes to a wizard for help).
* WolverinePublicity: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] - one of the students asks how Logan finds the time to be on three teams at once.
* YouAreTooLate: In the first issue, Scott and Logan nail Cassandra after a brief, tense battle with her nano-sentinels...only to find that she already sent them to Genosha and nearly killed almost everyone on the island.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Ernst is a little girl with super strength, but her mutation has made her look like a little old woman.
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''New X-Men'' (2001-2004) is an American comic book series written by GrantMorrison, which follows the ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'s "Blue Team" as they attempt to stop several new threats against both mutants and mankind.
The series was a retitling of the then-ongoing second volume of the ''X-Men'' series which began in the early 90's, and shared the series' numbering. Morrison, a critically-acclaimed writer known for his high-profile works at DCComics, was brought onboard to revitalize the title and introduce a number of new story elements. The series started with a shocking development, as the new villain Cassandra Nova directed an army of Sentinels to destroy the mutant island Genosha, resulting in [[DroppedABridgeOnHim millions of deaths]] and a shake-up to the status quo.
The following arcs introduced several new students at Charles Xavier's school (including Beak, a deformed half-human birdman, Angel Salvadore, a young woman who sports the wings of a fly, the Stepford Cuckoos, and Xorn, a Chinese prisoner who can heal injured people and sports a black hole inside his helmet), and dealt with [[DarkerAndEdgier more mature]] themes. The series culminated in a storyline, "Planet X", that was over two years in the making - Xorn revealed himself to be {{Magneto}} (who was thought dead after Genosha was destroyed), and subsequently crippled Xavier while enacting a plan to turn Earth into a mutant haven and exterminate humanity in the process.
The series comprised nine story arcs (and one annual issue), including:
* ''E For Extinction'' (#114-116): Cassandra Nova makes her first appearance and uses an army of Sentinels to destroy Genosha, Emma Frost rejoins the team and Xavier (possessed by Nova) outs himself as a mutant on live television.
* ''The Man From Room X'' (Annual 2001): The team travels to Hong Kong and enlists Domino's help in rescuing a captive mutant named Xorn, who has many dark secrets. In the end, Xorn is persuaded to join the team.
* ''Imperial'' (#118-126): Several new students are introduced at the Xavier Institute, while the team goes into Xavier's mind to free him from Nova's influence. Meanwhile, Nova uses Xavier's powers to manipulate the Shi'ar into attacking the Xavier Institute.
* ''New Worlds'' (#127-133): The team revisits Genosha to look for survivors, as well as broker peace amidst rising mutant/human tensions, while Cyclops begins a "psychic" relationship with Emma.
* ''Riot At Xavier's'' (#135-138): One of Xavier's students, Quentin Quire, begins to mock his mentor's pacifistic teachings, and (along with a group of militant classmates, all hopped up on the mutant drug Kick) attempts to kill humans and cause a riot in retaliation.
* ''Murder At The Mansion'' (#139-141): After discovering Scott's psychic relationship with Emma, Jean freaks out and uses the power of the Phoenix to burn through the White Queen's defenses. Later on, Emma is found to have been shattered into thousands of pieces, prompting Bishop and Sage to begin an investigation into her death.
* ''Assault On Weapon Plus'' (#142-145): Fantomex, Cyclops and Wolverine journey to a dormant asteroid that houses the remnants of the Weapon Plus program, which is discovered to go back to at least WorldWarII, and results in Wolverine discovering his past.
* ''Planet X'' (#146-150): The series climaxes with Xorn revealing himself to be Magneto and throwing the entire Xavier Institute into chaos when he cripples Xavier again and attempts to exterminate humanity as a precursor to turning Earth into a mutant haven.
* ''Here Comes Tomorrow'' (#151-154): The final arc written by Morrison, which follows a group of mutants in the [[TimeTravel far future]] who discover Jean Grey inside a Phoenix Egg and attempt to free her, while Beast (under the influence of Sublime) attempts to destroy the X-Men (now led by a reformed clone of Cassandra Nova) once and for all.
* ''Bright New Mourning'' (#155-156): The only ''New X-Men'' arc not written by Morrison (Chuck Austen took over writing duties). The story was a bridge to the "Reloaded" series (which went back to the traditional ''X-Men'' title), and followed the team as they rebuild after the events of the "Planet X" arc.
The book resulted in a re-energizing of the franchise, and was critically and commercially acclaimed. However, the revelation that Xorn was actually Magneto in disguise was hastily [[{{Retcon}} retconned]] by Marvel after the run due to fan backlash. The series reverted back to the original ''X-Men'' title beginning at issue #157.
For the series ''New X-Men: Academy X'', visit the ''NewMutants'' page.
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!!The series contains examples of:
* AlternateUniverse: "Here Comes Tomorrow".
* TheAntichrist: Sublime is eventually revealed to be this. His final body is even that of "[[Literature/BookOfRevelation the Beast]]."
* ApocalypseHow: Magneto's plan in "Planet X" is a Class 4 (species extinction) - he intends to repopulate Earth with mutants.
* ArcVillain: Cassandra Nova, Quentin Quire, Xorn and alternate-universe Beast.
* ArcWords: "Are these words from the future?" "White-hot room" (and sometimes just "white-hot" and "room" on their own), "Sublime," and "Rescue and emergency" qualify to a lesser extent.
* AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Quoted almost word for word by Professor Xavier after Quentin Quire's "death":
-->"Quentin Quire was liberated from his physical cocoon and born into a higher world at exactly 4:32 this afternoon. I know how ridiculous that sounds, but in this case we believe it to be the literal truth."
* BackFromTheDead: Jean/Phoenix and Magneto during the "Planet X" storyline.
* BadassLongcoat: Fantomex.
* BadFuture: "Here Comes Tomorrow" - most of the X-Men (and humanity) are dead, with the few survivors being Fantomex's [[ArtificialIntelligence A.I.]] EVA, the Stepford Cuckoos and Wolverine.
* BareYourMidriff: Emma and Jean.
* BatmanGrabsAGun: In one of the earliest issues, Professor Xavier picks up a gun and promptly shoots Cassandra when it becomes clear that the X-Men are in over their heads in their battle with her, breaking his strict [[ThouShaltNotKill "No Kill" policy]]. [[spoiler: Subverted, though, in that it later turns that it was Cassandra's mind in the Professor's body, and that the Professor's mind was in Cassandra's body when it happened.]]
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: The Cuckoos in "Here Comes Tomorrow."
* BettyAndVeronica: [[LoveTriangle Jean and Emma to Scott]]. Resolved at the end of the series when Jean uses the Phoenix Force to convince Scott to let her go and be with Emma.
* BerserkButton: Jean's death does this to Wolverine, who promptly decapitates Xorn/Magneto.
* BigDamnHeroes: The Stepford Cuckoos take it upon themselves to stop Quentin Quire's riot. Sophie uses Cerebra (and some Kick) to boost their abilities while her sisters handle Quentin face-to-face. Sophie dies as a result, though this turned out to be orchestrated Esme.
* BiggerBad: Sublime. He was behind everything from the Kick drug to the creation of Weapon X (actually the tenth experiment of Weapon Plus), and may even have manipulated humanity into turning against mutants in the first place.
* BirdsOfAFeather: Beak and Angel, who come from similar backgrounds and meet when a group of students dares Angel to kiss the ugliest student in the school. They eventually raise a family together.
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: Used particularly effectively in issue #121, when Jean and Emma probe Professor Xavier's memories while he's trapped inside Cassandra's brain (yes, it's just as {{mind screw}}y as it sounds).
* BlackBugRoom: The TropeNamer. Cyclops is sent there by Cassandra in issue #116.
* BlessedWithSuck: Angel Salvadore has the ability to fly, but does so at the cost of not being able to consume her food properly (she has to vomit on it and digest it like paste).
* BrainInAJar: One of the new students at the Institute is Martha Johannsen, a powerful psychic whose brain was severed by Sublime, leaving her as a disembodied brain on life support. Fortunately, she's still able to communicate with people telepathically, and the Professor constructs a special jar for her with antigravity capabilities.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Xavier after Cassandra takes over his mind, and Beast in "Here Comes Tomorrow".
* BreatherEpisode: "Assault on Weapon Plus". After all of the drama over Scott's infidelity and the attempt on Emma's life, Scott goes out for a nice "boy's night out" with Logan and Fantomex (which involves them battling some cyborgs and breaking into a space station). They get back just in time for [[DarkestHour "Planet X"]].
* CallBack: Just before Jean dies, she makes reference to [[TheDarkPhoenixSaga dying right after coming back as the Phoenix]].
* TheCameo: Though mostly absent, a few of the X-Men outside of the main five make brief appearances. Archangel appears after "Imperial" to give a few of the new students a flying lesson, and Storm can be seen helping with the cleanup of Genosha along with Thunderbird, Sabra and a few others.
** In addition, some of the auxiliary X-teams also appear as employees of the X-Corporation. Many of the members of X-Factor [[note]]M, Siryn, Rictor, Multiple Man, Cannonball and Darkstar[[/note]] work for the Paris branch, and a few former X-Force members [[note]]Warpath, Thornn, Feral and Sunfire[[/note]] work for the Mumbai branch.
* CivvieSpandex: The team (sans Emma) wears matching yellow-and-black leather jackets and pants for the duration of the series.
* CloningBlues: The Stepford Cuckoos have this to some extent. In particular, Esme ends up taking Kick so she can feel like an individual, and she ultimately rebels against the X-Men and joins Magneto. It's understandable that all of them might have some doubts about themselves, though, since [[spoiler: they were actually bred as weapons by Weapon Plus]].
* CompositeCharacter: Sort of. [[WordOfGod Morrison says that]] he gave Emma the ability to turn into diamond because he originally wanted to put Colossus in the team's lineup, but decided to combine his powers with another character after he was killed off in the "Legacy Virus" arc.
* DarkerAndEdgier
* DarkestHour: Issue #147 - Xavier has been crippled (again), Xorn has revealed himself to be Magneto and leaves with several of Xavier's students, Logan and Jean are on an asteroid that's hurtling into the sun, Hank and Emma are stuck on a small island in the middle of nowhere after the Blackbird crashes, and the rest of the team is scattered and unsure of what to do.
* DeadpanSnarker: Jean Gray as Phoenix, who starts by passively asking the mutilated Wolverine if his "eyes have grown back yet" and dies just after she remarks to Cyclops how she seems to come back [[LampshadeHanging only to die again soon after]].
* {{Deconstruction}}: The series explores many of the harsher aspects of how an oppressed minority of superhumans might function in the real world, with abuse of power-enhancing drugs, campus insurrection at the Xavier Institute, the homegrown culture of the "mutant ghetto", and even UsefulNotes/CheGuevara-esque idolization of Magneto figuring into the plot.
* DeconReconSwitch: {{Joss Whedon}}'s ''Astonishing X-Men'' (''New X-Men'''s direct sequel) continued most of the series' themes and plot arcs while recasting the X-Men as traditional superheroes, complete with their classic spandex costumes. Though every bit as dark and mature as Morrison's run, it managed to reconstruct the action and adventure of the Claremont era, showing that there's still a place for superheroics amidst the chaos and ambiguity of the modern world.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Genosha is unceremoniously destroyed at the end of the first issue of "E For Extinction", killing millions and leaving a few survivors to pick up the pieces. By the end of the "Planet X" arc, Jean is also dead.
* DrugsAreBad: Both Quentin Quire and Xorn/Magneto are revealed to be addicted to the mutant drug Kick, which enhances their powers and motivates the "Riot At Xavier" and "Planet X" arcs.
* EasilyForgiven: The rest of the team doesn't seem to bear Emma any ill will for seducing Scott behind Jean's back. Even Professor Xavier, who has very little tolerance for people using psychic powers to manipulate others, doesn't call her out on her using telepathy to exploit his confusion.
* EvilCostumeSwitch: Esme Cuckoo's clothing style changes radically after she betrays the team and joins Magneto. Justified, since the change in dress makes it clear that she has definitively broken free from [[HiveMind the Cuckoos]] and become an individual (before that point, the Cuckoos always dressed identically).
* EvilCounterpart:
** Sublime's U-Men and and Quentin Quire's Omega Men both serve as this for the X-Men, though in varying ways:
*** The U-Men are humans who intentionally try to give themselves mutant powers by harvesting mutants' organs, and believe that it's their destiny to become a new superior species.
*** The Omega Men are rebellious mutant teenagers who enact brutal vigilante justice on any humans with anti-mutant tendencies.
** To a somewhat lesser extent, Cassandra Nova is this for Professor Xavier, essentially showing us how the Professor might turn out if he was mentally unstable and used his vast psychic powers for evil.
* EvilIsHammy: Cassandra, Xorn, and Sublime.
* EvilTwin: Cassandra Nova is Charles's twin sister, whom he killed in the womb in self-defense. Esme Cuckoo is a subversion, as she's an Evil Quintuplet.
* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: During the final battle with Xorn/Magneto, Fantomex opens fire on the villain, who of course deflects the bullets with his powers... right into the stasis tank imprisoning Xavier, freeing him. Given [[ManipulativeBastard who Fantomex is]], it's not hard to imagine this trope was at play here.
* FaceHeelTurn: Esme Cuckoo, who gets hooked on Kick, tries to murder Emma, and finally falls in with Magneto when he tries to destroy New York City.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Esme Cuckoo. After she turns on "Magneto," he shoves her metal earrings in one side of her head and out the other. ''Horizontally''.
* FanDisservice: Jean, who previously stripped down to her bra and pants while on Asteroid M as it's hurtling into the sun, [[http://www.alternatecover.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/6_newxmen148.jpg is stabbed in the gut by Logan]].
* FanNickname: "Xorneto" for the version of Magneto that appears in "Planet X", after a {{retcon}} established that it was actually Xorn in disguise.
* FiveManBand:
** TheHero: Cyclops
** TheLancer: Jean Grey
** TheBigGuy: Wolverine
** TheSmartGuy: Beast
** TheChick: Emma Frost
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Quite a bit, actually, although it's often quite oblique, regarding both [[spoiler: John Sublime and Magneto. Everything Quentin says as he dies/ascends actually does double duty, being applicable to both.]]
* FutureBadass: Beak's grandson Tito Bohusk Jr., who is essentially Beak with full control over his flight powers--and ''without'' the angst or social awkwardness.
* GambitRoulette: Sublime's master plan to wipe out mutantkind is, for lack of a better term, ridiculously convoluted, doubly so [[FridgeLogic when you realize]] that he was controlling pretty much every character at one point or another, either through direct DemonicPossession or simply through subterfuge, meaning a couple of times one of his pawns will be defeated by another one.
* GentlemanThief: Fantomex.
* GreatOffscreenWar: Sublime's takeover of Earth happens completely offscreen. After "Planet X", the action cuts straight from the present day to 150 years in the future.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: Beak, who ends up joining Xorn/Magneto when he reformed the Brotherhood of Mutants, then regained his conscience and rejoined the X-Men as they made their assault on the Brotherhood's base.
* HeelFaceTurn: In the BadFuture caused by Sublime's rise to power, a reformed Cassandra Nova ends up leading the next generation of X-Men in resisting him. It's implied that Ernst may have been a reborn Cassandra all along.
* HeroicBSOD: Polaris is revealed to have been in this state for months when the team finds her on Genosha - she blamed herself for not being able to save the millions of massacred mutants, and became a nude, deranged recluse who wandered around the island.
* HiveMind: The Stepford Cuckoos, first introduced in this series, have this as part of their mutation. [[spoiler: It's later revealed that they were actually created to be like this by Weapon Plus]].
* ICanExplain: When Jean catches Scott with Emma, she says: "Don't tell me. You can explain..."
* ImportantHaircut: Esme Cuckoo cuts her hair short after she breaks free from the rest of the Cuckoos and joins Magneto. The haircut helps distinguish her from her sister clones, finally marking her as an individual instead of one-fifth of a HiveMind.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Poor Donald Trask.
* IronicEcho: "Did you think YOU would live forever, little speck?"
* KillEmAll: The ending of the "Here Comes Tomorrow" arc.
* TheLancer: Fantomex is this to Wolverine over the course of the series. In hindsight, it makes more sense - [[spoiler:Fantomex is a later participant of the Weapon Plus program]].
* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: While none of them receive that much panel time, the Xavier Institute was filled with hundreds of students each with unique mutations. Most of them weren't properly identified until years later.
* TheManBehindTheMan: The later arcs, starting with "Murder at the Mansion," begin revealing a whole string of people behind other people: Angel Salvadore shot Emma Frost... under a psychic command from Esme Cuckoo... who gave said command at the behest of Xorn... who was possessed by Sublime. Furthermore, Sublime was ultimately revealed to responsible for everything bad that happened in the run, apart from ''maybe'' Cassandra Nova, and even then it's implied she at least got her tech from him if nothing else.
* ManInWhite: Fantomex.
* MetaOrigin: The series officially canonizes the fact that mutants can receive additional secondary mutations, highlighted by Emma's survival during the destruction of Genosha (she becomes an indestructible diamond form, at the cost of the temporary loss of her telepathy).
** The Weapon X program also gets this treatment. We learn that the "X" in its name is actually the Roman numeral for "10"--it's the tenth in a series of experiments devised by Sublime to create the perfect super-soldiers for combatting the mutant menace. The project began with in WorldWarII with the creation of Weapon I...better known as CaptainAmerica.
* MindScrew: "Here Comes Tomorrow" is classic Morrison, particularly the final scene taking place in the acid trip of a dimension that is the White Hot Room, which may be the afterlife, the realm of the Phoenix Force, the inside of the M'krann Crystal, or any combination of the three.
* MsFanservice: Emma, natch.
* NeckSnap: Emma does this to Cassandra at the end of the E For Extinction arc.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Morrison's run introduced the concept of "secondary mutations", with a few of the X-Men gaining new powers. Conveniently, Emma discovers her ability to transform into diamond right after a building falls on her.
* NoFourthWall: At one point in "Here Comes Tomorrow," Cassandra turns to the reader and says "I've had dreams, you know. Dreams with you in them."
* [[NotUsingTheZWord Not Using the S Word]]: Morrison wanted to distance ''X-Men'' from its roots as a superhero comic in favor of making it a more nuanced, realistic science-fiction comic--so the characters almost never use the word "superhero", aside from a scene in the first issue where Beast tells Professor Xavier "I was never sure why you had us dress like superheroes" when reviewing [[CivvieSpandex the new uniforms]].
* PartyScattering: Done intentionally by Xorn/Magneto to separate the team while he cripples Xavier in "Planet X".
* PsychicLink: The Stepford Cuckoos.
* PubertySuperpower: Both Beak and Angel manifested their powers when they were in their teens - Angel was thrown out of her home when her father discovered she could fly, and Beak fled his home after discovering his physical changes.
* TheRealRemingtonSteele: Xorn, who "reveals" himself as Magneto before being killed.
* {{Retcon}}: Xorn's reveal as Magneto was hastily swept under the rug as soon as Morrison's run ended. This was parodied in the fan film ''Death Becomes Them'' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL6J7FJmy1c Watch it here]])):
--> '''Magneto''': No, that was actually Xorn's twin brother, possessed by the sentient mold Sublime, pretending to be me, pretending to be Xorn.
--> '''Beast''': That defies all logic!
* RedHerring: When Cassandra first shows up, the X-Men theorize that she's the first specimen of a completely new species that's more advanced than both humans and mutants. This seems the most likely explanation for her strange physiology...until it turns out that she's actually professor Xavier's deranged twin sister, and that her messed up anatomy is the result of her creating her own body after existing as an incorporeal being on the astral plane.
* {{Retirony}}: Inverted. Midway through the run, Xavier announces that he wishes to retire and appoint Jean as the new Headmistress of the Institute in his place. Though he survives, Jean is killed, leaving Scott to become the new Headmaster instead.
* {{Rewrite}}: The Weapon X facility is explained to be just one of several such installations created throughout the world. CaptainAmerica is revealed to be "Weapon I" (from the Project: Rebirth program), while several other characters (including the Stepford Cuckoos) are revealed to be later test subjects.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Emma in the "E For Extinction" arc, who initially goes after humanity for destroying Genosha, but discovers the real culprit (Cassandra) and snaps her neck.
* {{Robosexual}}: Tom Skylark, apparently. He's '''good''' with machines. And depending on if that was ''all'' the mutants in the world who were blown up with the Xavier Institute, he and [[RobotGirl EVA]] may be the last people on the planet.
* RobotBuddy: Rover in "Here Comes Tomorrow" is a sentient, slightly dimwitted Sentinel (one of the few still left on the planet) who is commanded by future X-Man Tom Skylark.
* RuleOfSymbolism: ''Here Comes Tomorrow'' has a ton of ''[[Literature/BookOfRevelation Revelation]]'' imagery; Sublime takes the form of "[[TheAntichrist the Beast]]" and talks about all life receiving "[[NumberOfTheBeast his Mark]]," and his [[TheDragon second-in-command]], Apollyon, shares his name with the being prophesied to release the horrors of Hell to torment the wicked prior to Judgment Day, among them an endless plague of giant, human-faced locusts possibly represented by the Crawlers. In addition, the White Hot Room visually calls to mind ''Revelation'''s seriously {{mindscrew}}y version of Heaven, and the Phoenix herself the "Woman cloaked in sun" said to birth the world's savior. WordOfGod confirms Buddhist imagery as well, another basis for the White Hot Room being the crown chakra, which is also mentioned in the story as the place at which the Phoenix anchors itself to its host.
** The RuleOfSymbolism particularly comes into play with Sublime's decision to possess Hank [=McCoy=] for his final endgame, even though his only mutant powers are animalistic strength and senses. Story-wise, it stretches WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief a bit (Morrison specifically avoids saying ''how'' Sublime managed to conquer Earth and rule it for 150 years in Hank's body, and it's never explained why he didn't just do it when he was possessing Magneto or Quentin Quire), but it's allowed to slide because of the symbolic importance of Sublime using someone with the codename "Beast" as his host.
* TheRunaway: Beak and Angel.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: Emma, to Scott.
* SoProudOfYou: Inverted. After Emma kills Esme, she cradles the dying girl and tells her that in spite of her turning against the X-Men, she's still proud of her.
* SpaceWhaleAesop: "Here Comes Tomorrow" - Humanity and mutantkind are doomed unless a man who just lost his wife immediately begins sleeping with another woman.
* StatusQuoIsGod: ''Averted''. Even with the many retcons made after Morrison's departure, this run still managed to make many lasting changes to the storyline:
** Professor Xavier "came out" as a mutant and revealed the true nature of the Xavier Institute to the world, turning it into a fully functioning school open to any and all mutants in need.
** Emma Frost (previously of ''GenerationX'') became one of the series' most indispensable characters.
** Jean became a semi-divine being [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence inhabiting another dimension]], leaving Scott to start a new relationship with Emma.
** Genosha ceased to be a political entity, though it still occasionally shows up as a backdrop in some stories.
** Professor Xavier's marriage to Empress Lilandra was officially annulled.
** Wolverine's backstory was completely overhauled, with the revelation that his ordeal with Weapon X was merely the tenth in a series of similar experiments dating back to WorldWarII.
** Though the infamous "Xorneto" retcon established that [[NotQuiteDead Magneto wasn't really killed off]], this run did mark the end of his role as a major villain in the series (as of this writing, he's allied with the X-Men).
** In an interview toward the beginning of his run, Morrison stated that the entire purpose of it was essentially to shake up the ''X-Men'' status quo so much that it would be nigh-impossible to [[SnapBack snap it back]]. He also appears to express his dislike for this trope through the mouth of Sublime in the final issue.
-->'''Sublime:''' The supermen fight and die and return in a meaningless shadowplay because ''we'' make them do it.
* {{Stripperific}}: Emma - this is highlighted by the final issue (#156), which has a cover photo of her (wearing a skintight pantsuit) hugging Cyclops while looking devilishly into the camera as she sticks her butt out.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: While this run is one of the biggest {{Base Breaker}}s in X-Men history, the one thing about it everyone seems to agree on disliking is the treatment given to [[EnsembleDarkhorse minor-but-beloved]] superheroines Risque and Darkstar; to wit, Risque has her organs harvested by the U-Men off-panel, and Darkstar is offhandedly shot by Fantomex--an action that he is actually ''praised'' for because she was BrainwashedAndCrazy and trying to kill everyone.
* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Partially averted. Magneto says that he tricked the Avengers and Fantastic Four into going on a wild goose chase while he enacts his plan to exterminate the humans, but this doesn't explain why any of the myriad superheroes/superhero groups in the city don't do anything to help. There's no way Spider-Man, Daredevil or Luke Cage would have stood by while people were herded into gas chambers.
** This is actually [[{{Handwave}} handwaved]] by Beak, who mentions that Magneto was keeping the other heroes busy with a false threat concerning a "black hole bomb" in Brooklyn.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted - Emma takes over as the school's resident teacher/therapist, and ends up counseling many of the students.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Comes back when Logan and Jean are stranded on Asteroid M together.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: In issue #150 (the final part of "Planet X"), Magneto says this after [[spoiler:killing Esme]]:
-->'''Magneto''': May the future forgive me. May history judge my actions, great or small. In the final reckoning... when I have given them paradise, and the world is free... those poor dead will not seem so many. Now, let the sky fall.
* WasItAllALie: Esme's boyfriend Kato turned out to be a shapeshifting member of the Imperial Guard, Stuff. A shocked Esme mentions that "Kato" read her poetry and told her he loved her, to which Stuff coldly replies "and like a fool you believed me."
* WhamEpisode: The "Planet X" arc is a concentrated sequence of these - Xorn reveals that he's Magneto, Jean finds Logan alive and well at the asteroid, the asteroid is destroyed and Jean becomes the Phoenix again, Xavier is crippled (again), Magneto enacts his plan to kill all the humans in New York and many mutants are killed, including Magneto, Esme (one of the Stepford Cuckoos) and Jean, just before the last panel reveals that the Phoenix Force is alive and well hundreds of years in the future!
* WhamLine: This is basically a Wham ''Series'', so there are bound to be a few of these.
** "[[OhCrap Where did she send those Sentinels]]?" - Issue #115; Scott and Logan realize Cassandra Nova has already won.
** "Professor Xavier tried to kill his twin sister when they were both in the womb. We need to talk." - Issue #121; Jean and Emma suddenly realize who Cassandra really is after probing the Professor's memories (particularly striking, as it's the only line of dialogue in the entire issue).
** "And it's Weapon '''Ten''', not X." - Issue #129; Fantomex drops an essential piece of {{backstory}} as casually as if he were talking about the weather.
** "What if the real enemy... was inside... all along?" - Issue #138; Kid Omega's FamousLastWords. Doesn't seem particularly whammy, until you reach the end of the series and realize this is ''far'' more literal than it sounds.
** "X-Men emergency indeed, Charles... the dream is over." - Issue #146 - Xorn reveals his true identity ([[ContinuitySnarl sort of]]).
** "...call me '''SUBLIME.'''" - Issue #152; the puppetmaster stands revealed, and it's... the StarterVillain? Did ''not'' see that coming.
* WholePlotReference: The "Here Comes Tomorrow" arc is heavily influenced by ''TheWizardOfOz''. Many of the characters are direct copies of those found in ''Oz'' (Tom and Rover are Dorothy and Toto, flying Nightcrawlers are the flying monkeys, Tito is the Cowardly Lion, etc.), and the ending strongly mirrors the film (someone wishes for something to be true, and goes to a wizard for help).
* WolverinePublicity: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] - one of the students asks how Logan finds the time to be on three teams at once.
* YouAreTooLate: In the first issue, Scott and Logan nail Cassandra after a brief, tense battle with her nano-sentinels...only to find that she already sent them to Genosha and nearly killed almost everyone on the island.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Ernst is a little girl with super strength, but her mutation has made her look like a little old woman.
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