The X-Men
The Original Team | '60s Members | '70s Members | '80s Members | '90s Members | 2000s Members | 2010s Members | 2020s Members
Other Teams
Children Of The Atom | Excalibur | Generation Hope | Generation X | New Mutants | New X-Men: Academy X | S.W.O.R.D. | X-Club | X-Corp | X-Force | X-Statix | X-Terminators
Antagonists
Rogues Gallery A To I | Rogues Gallery J To R | Rogues Gallery S to Z | Villainous Organizations | Acolytes | Arakko | Brotherhood of Mutants | Clan Akkaba | Children of the Vault | Externals | Hellfire Club | The Hellions | Marauders | Mojoverse | Morlocks | MLF | Orchis | Sentinels
Other Characters
Supporting Characters | Mutants | Xavier Institute | Krakoans | The Savage Land | Shi'ar | The Starjammers | NYX | Cable's supporting cast | Deadpool's supporting cast | Wolverine's supporting cast
Characters that have appeared in Children of the Atom.
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Main Cast
The Team In General
The Children of the Atom
- Ascended Fanboy: They all hero-worship the X-Men, to the point of completely basing their names and outfits on them. They actually get to take part in supeheroics and meet the X-Men.
- Kid Hero: They all go to the same high school, the Corbeau Preparatory High School.
- True Companions: It's clear that they are all best friends and would fight for each other.
Cyclops-Lass
Beatrice "Buddy" Bartholomew / Cyclops-Lass
Notable Aliases: ArchivistX
Nationality: American
Species: Human
First Appearance: Children of the Atom #1 (March, 2021)
Cyclops-Lass is the leader of a new superhero team that patterned her look on the X-Men's Cyclops.
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: A female Cyclops.
- Alliterative Name: Beatrice "Buddy" Bartholomew.
- Boyish Short Hair: Buddy has blonde hair cut short, making her look a bit androgynous.
- The Leader: Like Cyclops she leads her team.
- Socially Awkward Hero: Buddy appears to be good at fighting crime, but still nervous at the "talking" part, often stumbling over her words. Outside of the costume, however, she does stand up to some anti-mutant bullies in school, but is still too nervous to ever tell her crush she likes him.
Gimmick / Feint
Carmen "Carm" Maria Cruz
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Children of the Atom #1 (March, 2021)
Gimmick is a member of a new superhero team that patterned her look on the X-Men's Gambit.
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: A black, female and gay Gambit.
- Afro Asskicker: When out of costume, her hair is pulled up into a ponytail, but in costume, it's puffed out into a large afro.
- Affectionate Nickname: Carmencita.
- Alliterative Name: Carmen Cruz.
- All Love Is Unrequited: Has an enormous crush on Buddy. By the end of the Children of the Atom, Buddy reciprocate her feelings and are officialy dating.
- Black and Nerdy: She is a huge Dazzler fan and also designed all of the team's costumes.
- The Fashionista: Carmen is a rookie fashion designer, having her own youtube channel focused on her work (which is pretty popular), and she is a big fan of Jumbo Carnation.
- The Heart: She was this with her friends of the Children of the Atom, as many of them relied in her for advice or help. She also was this in the X-men team formed by the Goblin Queen.
- Nice Girl: Unsurprisingly, in the Dark X-men team. An example of this is when she confronted Marisol Guerra after she incapacitated the other members of her team. Instead of fighting her, she tried to connect and reason with her.
- Improbable Weapon User: While Gambit likes throwing kinetically-charged playing cards, Gimmick appears to throw kinetically-charged hairpins. They still do a good amount of damage.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: It's eventually revealed that she is a mutant with the power of shapeshifting. She can also use her powers to change her clothes or create personal accesories like gas masks for herself.
Cherub
Gabriel "Gabe" Brathwaite
Notable Aliases: Gumby
Nationality: American
Species: Human
First Appearance: Children of the Atom #1 (March, 2021)
A member of a new superhero team who patterned his look on the X-Men's Angel.
- Academic Athlete: He lampshades this in the second issue, narrating how people assume that he's skating by because he's a good basketball player, when actually he's been in advanced math classes for a while and his grades have only dipped when his father was in the hospital with cancer.
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: A black Archangel.
- Big Brother Instinct: Has a younger sibling whom he calls "Space Case".
- Disappeared Dad: His dad was a firefighter who died of cancer. It obviously still affects him and is implied to be one of the reasons he is part of a group that fights crime.
- Make Some Noise: He appears to be able to make sonic wings similar to Songbird, but can also shoot sonic blasts from his wrists.
Marvel Guy
Benjamin "Benny" Thomas
Nationality: American
Species: Human
First Appearance: Children of the Atom #1 (March, 2021)
Marvel Guy is a member of a new superhero team that patterned his look on the X-Men's Marvel Girl.
- Big Brother Instinct: Benny and Jay are brothers and Benny can get pretty protective of Jay.
- Knockout Gas: At first, it seems as if he has telepathy, but it's just a version of knockout gas.
- Spear Counterpart: A male Marvel Girl.
Daycrawler / Nighty-Nightcrawler
Jason "Jay Jay" Thomas
Nationality: American
Species: Human
First Appearance: Children of the Atom #1 (March, 2021)
Daycrawler is a member of a new superhero team that patterned his look on the X-Men's Nightcrawler. He's Benny's younger brother and, while Benny considers him annoying, he is also very protective of him.
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: An East Asian Nightcrawler.
- Atrocious Alias: While the others call him "Daycrawler", Jay insists that he be called "Nighty-Nightcrawler". The others don't like it.
- Flashy Teleportation: He can teleport similar to Nightcrawler, complete with "bamf" sound.
- Four-Fingered Hands: Averted. While in costume, his gloves make it appear as if he has three fingers on each hand, just like Nightcrawler. Out of costume, however, he has five fingers on each hand.
- I Shall Taunt You: Is generally the one taunting the villains during the fight.
- Keet: Imaging if Bart Allen was a teleporter instead of a speedster.
