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-Factor | 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
WARNING: There are unmarked spoilers on these sheets for all comics before Inferno (2021) (i.e. anything published before October 2021) and some characters listed here are Walking Spoilers for older stories.
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In General
- Human Subspecies: They are considered a separate sub-species of humans.
- Mutant: The most popular users of the name.
Darkveil
Darnell Wade
Nationanlity: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Iceman Vol 4 #4 (December, 2018)
A Brooklyn Native and friend of Iceman’s.
- Casting a Shadow: Darnell is a mutant with the ability to teleport herself and others through the Darkforce Dimension.
- Drag Queen: Darnell is a Drag Queen who’s persona is a tribute to superheroes.
Evangeline Whedon
Evangeline "Vange" Whedon
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: X-Treme X-Men Vol 1 #21 (April, 2003)
A lawyer with the Mutant Rights League, Vange is herself a mutant who can transform into a giant dragon-like creature. Evangeline used to be a successful prosecutor until others learned that she was a mutant.
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Constantly has to tell Teon to stop asking to mate repeatedly.
- Hello, Attorney!: She's an attractive defense attorney.
- Our Dragons Are Different: Her dragon form looks like a western-type wyvern dragon, with only four limbs instead of six.
- Perky Goth: Dresses in a gothic fashion but remains a competent and professional lawyer.
- Scaled Up: She is able to shapeshift into a dragon after coming into contact with blood.
- Sci-Fi Bob Haircut: She has her hair in a bob cut and she's a mutant that transforms into a dragon.
- Were Dragon: She's a woman that transforms into a dragon when she comes into contact with blood.
Fontanelle
Gloria Dayne / Fontanelle
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Gambit #1 (1999)
The very discreet daughter of the infamous Amanda Mueller aka the Black Womb. Born in 1950, she's also related to the Summers' Tangled Family Tree as the grandaunt of Christopher Summers. She was mostly seen in Gambit's solo series but also made cameos and brief appearances in the main series and other series. She's usually not that fond of interacting with other superheroes, unless she has to.
- Battle in the Center of the Mind: Subverted. When she tries to enter the dreams of Gambit, she's blocked through some kind of ectoplasma that prevented her from going any further. Her power wasn't enough to deal with it.
- Dream Walker: Calls herself a "dream therapist". Most of her power consists of sifting through people's dreams and finding out whichever she needs for intelligence or manipulate the dreamer into doing what she asks them to.
- Dreaming of Times Gone By: This is what she seeks to induce when using her powers.
- Coordinated Clothes: The only hint that she's indeed related to the Black Womb is that she often wears clothes that are oddly similar to her mother's outfit.
- Hollywood Old: Zigzagged. She looks like a regular mature woman and is among the rare older ladies from the franchise to play an active role as a mutant but, Depending on the Artist, she will display or not the usual knockout figure of comic book women.
- I Am Not My Mother: Implied. She never brings up her lineage or only very briefly. She doesn't seem to have that much love for her Evil Matriarch.
- Meaningful Name: "Fontanelle" may appear like a fancy fairytale name but is actually the name of the membranous spaces between a child's cranium bones.
- Ms. Exposition: Was instrumental in the revealing of Gambit's role in the Mutant Massacre.
- Never Mess with Granny: A strange case. Fontanelle is no fighter but isn't exactly the meek type and doesn't seem to fear anyone despite being clearly not fit for combat. Maybe being the Black Womb's daughter has something to do with it.
- Only in It for the Money: Fontanelle doesn't use her powers unless she's being paid for it. So New Son found out.
- Painting the Medium: Her speech bubbles consistently appear with a yellow tint.
- Psychic Powers: Inherited strong telepathic power from her mother.
- Refusal of the Call: Whether it is from her mother or from anybody else, Gloria prefers to monetize her powers and stay away from the usual ordeals that mutants may go through. Once her run-in with Gambit was over, she politely asked him not to call upon her again for at least a decade or so.
- Tangled Family Tree: As the Black Womb's daughter, she's an ancestor to the Summers brothers and their father.
- Telepathy: Wields a form of telepathy that allows her to enter the dreams of other people.
- Unknown Relative: Because she mostly keeps to herself, none of the Summers brothers is aware of Gloria's existence, even though she's apparently perfectly aware of theirs but doesn't wish to link with her great-grandnephews. It isn't known whether or not Corsair knows about her.
- Vague Age: Looks like a regular middle-aged woman but looks well-preserved enough to wear skintight costumes and bikini tops without eliciting disgust or ridicule. She apparently has an age-slowing gene.
Freakshow
Kevin Ellsworth
Nationanlity: Genoshan
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Excalibur #1 (May, 2004)
One of the few survivors of Genoshan, he worked with other survivors and Charles Xavier.
- Put on a Bus: After being depowered following M Day, he made an appearance in Son of M when Quicksilver tried to restore his powers with Terrigen Mists. Since then he hadn't made more appearances.
- Sole Survivor: He is one of the few survivors of the Sentinel attack in Genosha.
- Transformation Horror: His mutant power allowed him into different monsters.
Gateway
Gateway
Nationality: Australian
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #229 (May, 1988)
Gateway is a mutant who can create wormholes. He was forced into serving the Reavers, but was rescued by the X-Men, whom he has since aided many times. He is Shard's and Bishop's ancestor. He was murdered by Ultimaton while helping X-force.
- Barefoot Sage: He's a stereotypical Hermit Guru who wears only a loincloth and no shoes.
- Beware the Quiet Ones: As X-Force (2019) showed, just because he rarely speaks, it doesn't mean he will go easy on you.
- Captain Ethnic: And how! He is of Aborigine descent, either grew up on or has spent the majority of his life in the Outback, and is even stated to be "in tune with the spiritual force of his people" which somehow allows him to use his abilities.
- Casual Interstellar Travel: His teleportation power has no known limits and he has used it to transport the X-Men all the way into other dimensions.
- Death Is Cheap: He has been killed multiple times, including an assassination by the Marauders during their hunt for future-seers, and later a Neck Snap compliments of Ultimaton, but as more of a Plot Device than an actual character he never stays dead for long.
- Deus ex Machina: With Professor X in space at the time, Gateway was introduced to fill Chuck's usual all-knowing role for the X-Men. Unfortunately he was never as developed as the good professor, and few writers have had any interest in developing him, turning him into one of these.
- Dimensional Traveller: Can travel to other dimensions.
- Dream Walker: Has the power to appear in people's dreams (to more directly deliver exposition, of course).
- Flat Character: He teleports people places, and knows everything, and... that's about all there is to him.
- He Knows Too Much: During the Messiah Complex storyline Mr. Sinister's Marauders target Gateway as part of their systemic effort to assassinate every mutant on the planet with precognitive powers. Obviously, they were not successful.
- Hermit Guru: Lives the life of an ascetic in the grueling outbacks of Australia.
- Loincloth: Wears one of these... and very little else.
- Magical Native American: Or rather, Magical Aboriginal Australian.
- The Mentor: He served as one for Manifold, who also teleports and is an Indigenous Australian.
- Minion with an F in Evil: To the Reavers.
- Mr. Exposition: Pulls a real hat trick in being able to hand out exposition dumps like candy while also usually barely speaking. In the absence of direct dumping, he tends to favor Psychic Dreams for Everyone.
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: He is considered an unofficial member of the X-Men.
- No Name Given: He has never been identified by anything other than his handle, which was not even chosen by him but rather given to him by the Reavers.
- The Omniscient: Called "trans-realm clairvoyance" but in practice is this, as he is specifically stated to be capable of viewing other times, dimensions, and physical planes whenever he chooses, past or present. He is also described as a living repository of all of humanity's knowledge.
- Psychic Powers: Has powerful (if extremely plot specific) psionic abilities.
- The Quiet One: He prefers to communicate with his Telepathy, so most who have met him believe him to be mute. Getting more than a sentence out of him is a rare occasion.
- Retroactive Precognition: Revealed as having this late in his history, when the reveal was made that he was Bishop and Shard's great-grandfather.
- Telepathy: Called "psionic speech", this is eventually revealed to be his preferred method of communication.
- Tangled Family Tree: He is, or rather will be, the great-grandfather of the time-displaced X-Men Bishop and Shard.
- Thinking Up Portals: His primary mutant ability allows him to create his rather creatively titled "Trans-Dimensional Gateways".
- Walking Shirtless Scene: As an ascetic stereotype, Gateway has never been seen wearing a shirt, or anything other than his Loincloth.
Hub
Hub
Nationanlity: Genoshan
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Excalibur #2 (June, 2004)
One of the few survivors of Genoshan, she initially worked for Unus and his gang of mutants.
- Defector from Decadence: She initially worked for Unus and his faction, but as she started to develope serious doubts about his leadership, she ended joining Xavier's group.
- Put on a Bus: After being depowered following M Day, she made an appearance in Son of M when Quicksilver tried to restore her powers with Terrigen Mists. Since then she hadn't made more appearances.
- Sole Survivor: She is one of the few survivors of the Sentinel attack in Genosha.
- Teleportation: Her mutant power which made her very valuable following the destruction of Genosha as there were few methods to move through the island or outside of it.
Infectia
Josephine / Infectia
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: X-Factor #21 (May, 1988)
A young and bubbly mutant born with the ability to sense other people's biological structure and alter it with a kiss. She is in fact the person responsible for Beast's altered form and who indirectly made him expand his intelligence.She was one of the first casualties of the Legacy Virus.
- Back from the Dead: After years dead, she was finally resurrected by the Five in Krakoa. But she chose to live in the Limbo Embassy as she had broken the krakoan laws a couple of times.
- Beehive Hairdo: Her usual hairstyle.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Stated that she had studied under her geneticist father, and displayed a knowledge on which genes to temper with with her ability to get the wanted results. This could have made her a major threat. However instead of any grand plans or grabs for power, Infectia was purely interested in her own pleasure and quickly got bored of her plans if they proved too difficult to achieve.
- Civvie Spandex: She had no actual costume, just the get-up you see in the picture.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: She dies peacefully in The Beast's arms, as he fulfils her modest dying wish to see the sunset for one last time.
- Killed Off for Real: Courtesy of the Legacy Virus.
- Kiss of Death: Not literally but close enough. She would typically kiss the ones that would become her "Anti-Bodies" so as to mutate them. The more power they would use, the quicker they would die.
- Mook Maker: Her powers would put the ones she mutated under her control.
- Only One Name: Was never given a proper last name, she's only known as "Infectia" or by her true first name "Josephine".
- Power-Upgrading Deformation: The effect of her powers was to mutate the Muggles she would kiss into powerful mutants, usally gifted with super strength among other things but it also morphed them physically and they would increase in size and power, until they disintegrated from overusing said power.
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: Inherited her father's fortune and dropped out of high school, resulting in her behaving a bit like an airhead.
- Small Role, Big Impact: A dramatic case. She is at best a C-list fodder (she's very powerful but way too fickle and frivolous to be anything more than a nuisance) and only appeared in a few issues back in the late 80's to early 90's but through her interaction with the X-Factor she was the one who returned the Beast to his blue, furry appearance and genius level intellect. She wanted to "experiment" her powers on a mutant to see what it would cause. She was aiming to do it to Iceman first but Hank, who at the time had been returned to his original human appearance from the 1960s and was suffering from a virus that turned him into a childlike imbecile, interrupted her and got kissed instead causing him to re-grow his trademark blue fur and restored his genius intellect.
- Too Powerful to Live: She could literally create mutants with her powers or permanently alter other mutants she would kiss. Given how flighty she was about it, it could have become a huge problem had she lived long enough.
- Zeerust: Having debuted in the 80's and dying in the early 90's her design looks unsurprisingly dated, maybe one of the reasons why she wasn't brought back.
Jazz
John Arthur Zander
Nationanlity: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: District X #2 (June, 2004)
An aspiring rapper and one of the few mutants that kept his powers following M-Day.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: His only mutant powers was to have blue skin.
- Dreadful Musician: He wanted to become a rapper, but he was extremely mediocre.
- Sinister Suffocation: Johnny Dee killed him by strangling him with one of his voodoo dolls.
Jen Askani
Jen Askani
Nationanlity: Askani
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: X-Factor Vol 1 #65 (April, 1991)
A member of the Clan Askani, sent back in time to bring the young Nathan Summers to the future, where he could survive the techno-organic virus Apocalypse infected him with and become Cable.
- Aborted Arc: On her first appearance, it's all but outright said she is in fact Rachel Summers, last seen disappearing into the future - she's a time-traveling redhead in the remains of an X-Men outfit who even refers to Nathan as her little brother, which doesn't exactly leave much room for doubt. Then, in X-Factor issue #68, suddenly, nope, she's no relation to the Summers at all. All that stuff about "kin" was just really poetic language. We should note that the storyline she appears in had three people behind it, and Chris Claremont was the one doing the scripting, while Jim Lee and Whilce Portacio were the ones doing plotting, which may account for this.
- Artificial Limbs: Her right arm appears to be mechanical. Much like Cable's, as a matter of fact...
- Facial Markings: Has a bird-like marking on her forehead, which looks tremendously Phoenix-y. But she's not Rachel, honest.
- Fiery Redhead: Even if she's not Rachel, she does have red hair, and she's a tough one, whoever she is.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Much like a certain Kyle Reese, she knew the means of going to the future was a one-way trip regardless, because it was her idea. She intercepts Beast before he can touch the security field around Nathan, which would've killed him. It doesn't do her much good, but she manages to last long enough to get Nate to the future.
- Heroic Willpower: Whoever she is, the process she used to get to the past destroys her physical body. She has to keep herself running on sheer stubborn willpower, and it's implied that's done her no favors in the mind department.
- Retcon: The "Jen" bit came several years later. In her introductory arc, she's just Askani.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Appears in X-Factor issue 65, dies in issue #68, never appears again, but she's the one who took Nate into the future ruled by Apocalypse.
Jennifer Ransome
Jennifer Ransome
Nationanlity: Genoshan
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Uncanny X-men Vol 1 #235 (June, 1988)
A mutant from Genosha that helped the X-men to free her nation from the Magistrates' regime
- Action Girl: Becomes one after her mutant powers activated.
- Amazonian Beauty: Her mutant power allows her to increase her own phisical height and mass.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: She was forced through the mutate process to become one of the many mutant slaves of Genosha, hopefully she got better.
- Childhood Friend Romance: With Philip Moureau, who despite being a human and the son of a Magistrate, joined the rebellion alongside his girlfriend Jennifer.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Starts to have these after siding with Magneto when he takes over Genosha and witness his ruthless methods.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: She gave one to Charles Xavier when he joined them on a travel to Genosha, calling out his hipocresy.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Last time she appeared was before the Sentinel attack of Genosha, and it is unknown if she survived or perished along side the majority of the residents of Genosha.
Jumbo Carnation
Jumbo Carnation
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: New X-Men #134 (January, 2003)
A popular mutant fashion guru from Mutant town whose brutal murder by a gang of anti-mutants helped catalyzed Quentin Quire's Start of Darkness.
- Ascended Extra: He literally made only one appearance consisting of a handful of pages before he died. Then he was resurrected and shown to be a part of Emma Frost's entourage in Marauders.
- Back from the Dead: He's resurrected by the Five on Krakoa and becomes Emma Frost’s personal fashion designer.
- Big Fun: Jumbo is overweight but never shown to be anything but a Nice Guy.
- Came Back Strong: In Marauders #23, it's shown that his mutations extend beyond "four arms" into the classic Brick powerset of Super-Strength and Super-Toughness, and he's also learned how to fight, as Emma Frost takes him with her as part of a team to stop a Mêlée à Trois between Irish crooks, Russian mobsters, and Verendi bio-enhanced soldiers.
- Death by Origin Story: For Quentin.
- Despair Event Horizon: He apparently crossed this after he was attacked by some anti-mutant assholes, which is why he overdosed on Kick.
- Driven to Suicide: At first everyone thought he was murdered by a bunch of humans, but further investigation revealed Jumbo died from a self-administered overdose of Kick.
- Hidden Depths: Alongside designing fabulous clothes he also prefers to spend his evenings doing crochet work.
- Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Zigzagged. In his original depiction, Jumbo may have four arms but he’s a Non-Action Guy and an absolute sweetheart with no known fighting capabilities. He's not even able to defend himself from a hate crime beating despite his mutation enhancing his durability. After his resurrection, whilst he doesn't like to fight, he's shown to be quite capable at it due to his powers.
- Nice Guy: A true sweetheart whose only desire is to create beautiful clothes for other mutants, which is why his assault and suicide are so horrible.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: His real name has never been mentioned.
- Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: After being resurrected he handwaved to the public that his very high profile death was simply faked. The circumstances make it believable.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He's in one issue of New X-Men where he’s murdered but it's what sends Quentin Quire off the deep end.
- Super Costume Clothier: As a fashion guru with has four arms, he also designed a clothing range for other mutants. Thanks to his own experiences he had a focus on things like shirts with more than two sleeves, pants with extra legs or with them in nontypical positions, selling them through the X-Factory Store.
- Super-Strength: Is strong enough to lift a human over his head and then slam him into a concrete floor hard enough to create a body-sized crater.
- Super-Toughness: In his own words, his skin is made of Teflon; we don't know precisely how durable he is, but he is shown taking a shot from a flamethrower to the face and being unharmed because the incendiary chemicals just slide harmlessly off of him.
- Throw the Dog a Bone: Considering how undeserved his death was, his resurrection and place of prominence with Emma Frost are a well earned break for the poor guy.
- Took a Level in Badass: After being revived on Krakoa, he ditched the pacifism and became strong enough that Emma Frost actually calls him to help fight off an attempt to destroy a stockpile of Krakoan medicine.
Legion
Legion is the illegitimate son of Professor Charles Xavier, who famously founded the X-Men. Raised by his single mother Gabrielle Haller in Israel, David grew up not knowing his father, who was similarly oblivious to the boy's existence for much of his adult life.
After becoming the Sole Survivor of a terrorist attack, the intense trauma sustained by David ultimately led to the manifestation of his mutant abilities — namely, the ability to absorb and cycle between distinct personalities in his head, allowing him to spontaneously develop their own mutations for himself to use. Because of it, David is one of the more visible avatars for mental illness in pop culture, and especially superhero fiction; whether or not this is a good thing depends on the reader.
Though initially introduced as an antagonist in New Mutants, David is often portrayed as an anti-hero more than anything else, and his moral compass isn't as easily defined as his father's — though Xavier himself is also prone to doing some seriously shady stuff.
In 2017, Legion became the subject of an eponymous television series on FX, portrayed by Dan Stevens. The TV version of the character is somewhat different from his comic book counterpart because he was born in America as David Xavier, the legitimate son of Charles Xavier and his wife Gabrielle. note David was given up for adoption while he was still a baby and was taken in by the Haller family. His struggle with mental illness is emphasized, and plays a major role in the series.
Not to be confused with L.E.G.I.O.N. (DC Comics), a modern day predecessor to the Legion of Super-Heroes.
See: New Mutants.
Leon Nunez
Leon Nunez
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Young X-men #1 (April, 2008)
A mutant tattoo Artist who’s tattoos can empower people.- Super-Empowering: He can bestow superpowers on to people via the he gives them.
Lorelei Travis
Lorelei Travis
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: District X #1 (July, 2004)
A exotic dancer living in New York City's Mutant Town. Lorelei had prehensile hair and was one of the handful of mutants to retain her powers after M-Day. Like most surviving mutants she sought the protection of the X-Men and became a resident of Utopia.
- One-Steve Limit: Shares first name with the Asgardian of the same name.
- Prehensile Hair: Similarly to Medusa of the Inhumans, her mutant power is prehensile hair. Unlike Medusa, it's otherwise completely normal in all other qualities such as length, strength and durability.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Absolon, since he was murdered due to the manipulations of Johnny Dee and General Lazer, and has never returned while she's still alive.
- Statuesque Stunner: Officially stands at 5'11"/180cm tall (which is coincidentally the same height as Medusa) and very beautiful.
- Traumatic Haircut: Got most of her hair cut by anti-mutant racists. Her hair was restored by the healing powers of Mister M.
Luca Aldine
Luca Aldine
Blindfold's older brother.
- Cain and Abel: Luca and Blindfold. Luca was the one who blinded Blindfold when they were children.
- Faceless Eye: After Luca was executed, his psyche lived on as a pair of glowing blue eyes.
Michael Nowlan
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First appearance: X-Factor vol 1. #5 (March, 1986)
An American military veteran turned to drugs, only to discover his Mutant power to amplify the powers of others. This ability made Michael a potent target for the newly reawakened Apocalypse.
- Back from the Dead: Dies in X-Factor #6, but S.W.O.R.D. confirms he was revived on Krakoa.
- Drugs Are Bad: A heroin addict before he got drafted, he relapsed after his powers activated because they helped dampen it down. Being as it was the 80s, X-Factor repeatedly blast Michael as the worst, with only Beast offering to try and help him detox.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: His backstory had him serving in Vietnam, which did not help his mental state.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Only made two appearances, but it's Michael who's responsible for the first meeting between the X-Men and Apocalypse.
Mister M
Absolon Mercator / Mr. M
Nationality: Belgian
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: District X #2 (August, 2004)
A Omega-level mutant who can manipulate subatomic particles. He resides in New York City's Mutant Town, where he tries to keep a low-profile but frequently ends up dealing with dangerous situations. Absolon retained his powers after M-Day and joined many of the 198 on the grounds of the Xavier school, but he was murdered due to the manipulations of Johnny Dee and General Lazer, who viewed him as one of the greatest remaining mutant threats.
- Back from the Dead: Might've survived his death during The 198 but turning into butterflies. In the Krakoa era, he is up and around, but has gone... missing. He eventually turns up in Knights of X, revealing that he now rules an entire realm in Avalon. A small problem with this is that the realm is now entirely made up of the Siege Perilous.
- Messianic Archetype: Played up at this in his first appearance, though by the Krakoan era he mostly just seems to want to be left alone.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Lorelei Travis.
Morgan Red
Morgan Red
Nationality: American, Krakoan
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance:Marvel Voices: Pride (Vol. 2) #1 (June, 2022)
Escapades best friend since childhood.- I Just Want to Be Normal: Downplayed. He has no problem with the fact that he's a mutant. However, he doesn't like being drawn into the crazy adventures that the being part of the X-Men and Krakoa entails, and only reluctantly goes along with it because his Best Friend Escapade has made friends among the New Mutants.
- Transmutation: He/They can turn up to eight ounces of organic material into chocolate.
Rhapsody
Rachel Argosy / Rhapsody
Nationanlity: American, Krakoan
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: X-Factor Vol 1 #79 (June, 1992)
A former music teacher.- Accidental Murder: She accidentally killed her anti-mutant boss when he fired her making her whole situation worse.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: When her powers manifested so did her blue skin.
- Cool Teacher: She was a good, caring and effective teacher before her powers kicked in making her firing and subsequent fate even more unfair.
- Curtains Match the Windows: She has blue eyes and her powers turned her once blonde hair blue.
- Elegant Classical Musician: A gorgeous woman who is talented violinist making her all the more hotter.
- Magic Music: In her hands it certainly is. With music she can alter emotions, induce hallucinations or fly.
Ruby Summers
Ruby Summers
Nationality: American (Earth-1191)
Species: Mutant
First Appearance: X-Factor Special: Layla Miller #1 (August, 2008)
A daughter of Scott Summers and Emma Frost from the same future Bishop comes from, and member of the Summers Rebellion. Notable for her ruby quartz skin.
- The Ageless: Sort of. She doesn't age in her ruby quartz form, but she hasn't shifted down in several decades, out of fear of what might happen if she does (such as aging to death in an instant).
- Dating Catwoman: At the time of the Rebellion, she was dating Trevor Fitzroy, knowing full-well who he was and what he would become, though at the time Trevor was just a badly-dressed jerk with little interest in mutantkind. Then a time-travelling cyborg blew a hole through his brains. Ruby had hoped she'd be able to ameliorate Trevor's worst aspects, but alas You Can't Fight Fate.
- Eye Beams: She's got a version of her dad's powers, only they come out solid black, rather than Scott's glowing red. Also, they have some limits Scott doesn't; after every shot, it takes ninety-three seconds for her to shoot out another.
- Gemstone Assault: She has skin made of ruby quartz.
- Lamarck Was Right: She's inherited both of her parents' powers, and uh... one or two other aspects. She's also got Scott's incredible aim.
- Meaningful Name: Scott and Emma really loaded the deck for her with that name...
- Most Common Superpower: And unlike her mother (who canonically had augmentation), there is no indication that her breasts are anything but natural.
- Ms. Fanservice: Like Emma, Ruby has a fondness for outfits that show off her body (though in black, rather than Emma's fondness for white).
- Nigh-Invulnerable: Courtesy of her skin being made of ruby quartz. It'd take a hit from a Hulk to put a crack in her, and fortunately there aren't many of those around in Bishop's future.
- Red Is Heroic: Ruby has red, ruby skin and is a rebel hero.
- The Remnant: She and her dad are what's left of the X-Men by the time Layla Miller found them.
- Steven Ulysses Perhero: Invoked in-universe. When Ruby was born, she had normal human skin but Layla told Scott and Emma to name her Ruby even before they knew what her powers would be.
Santi Sardina
Santi Sardina
A young mutant with charisma powers.
- Alliterative Name: Santi Sardina.
- Blessed with Suck: His mutant power is "positivity absorption", which basically means that he absorbs or takes credit for others' accomplishments, having other people praise him continually for things he didn't do. What sucks about this is that his power is always on. This is why he decided to contribute artwork anonymously.
- Power Incontinence: His "positivity absorption" power is always on, which means that he gets praise nonstop for unintentionally taking credit for the accomplishments of others. He eventually grew to hate this, so he decided to become an anonymous artist so he can take credit for only his own accomplishments.
- Stealing the Credit: His mutant power is basically this, as he absorbs credit for others' accomplishments.
Shola Inkosi
Shola Inkosi
Nationality: Genoshan
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Mekanix #1 (October, 2002)
A mutant that survived the massacre of Genosha, after the death of his parents he briefly moved to Chicago where he teamed up with Kitty Pryde and Karma before returning to Genosha to help Xavier and other survivors.
- Mind over Matter: Shola is a very powerful telekinetic and has been able to perform incredible feats despite his lack of experience, like destroying wild sentinels in Chicago.
- Put on a Bus: After being depowered following M Day, he made an appearance in Son of M when Quicksilver tried to restore his powers with Terrigen Mists. Since then he hadn't made more appearances.
- Shell-Shocked Veteran: He is deeply traumatized by the destruction of Genosha and the deaths of his family, he still has nightmares about it.
- Sole Survivor: One of the few survivors, he lost his family during the Sentinel attack.
Shortpack
Shortpack
Mystique's handler. He has the mutant power of shrinking to eight inches and also short-range telepathy. He was also the handler of Agent 16, who died on his watch, something which he hasn't gotten over.
- All Love Is Unrequited: He was secretly in love with Agent 16, Prudence Leighton.
- SizeShifter: He has the power to shrink to eight inches tall.
- Telepathy: He is able to read minds at a close distance.
Tanya Trask
Tanya Trask / Madame Sanctity
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Askani'son #1 (1995)
The daughter of Bolivar Trask, Tanya's Mutant power of time travel accidentally catapulted her into a future ruled by Apocalypse, where she was found by the Clan Askani.
- Alliterative Name: Tanya Trask.
- Hell-Bent for Leather: She tends to wear an identical leather catsuit to Rachel Grey's Hound outfit, just in yellow.
- Mental Time Travel: One of her powers.
- Mind over Matter: One of her powers is telepathy.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Trying to travel back in time to prevent her dad making the Sentinels, against Clan Askani rules, she inadvertently gave him the motivation to continue.
- Power Incontinence: Her time travel powers, when they first came in, jumped her further and further into the future, until she finally wound up in the 31st century ruled by Apocalypse.
- Remember the New Guy?: Bolivar and Larry's appearances hadn't indicated her existence.
- Sanity Slippage: Bouncing around time did a number on her sanity, and even after she got a handle on her powers the strain of using them could put further pressure on her mind.
- White Sheep: The only known member of the Trask family to not be involved in the making or use of Sentinels at all.
Threnody
Melody Jacobs / Threnody
Nationality: American
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: X-Men #27 (1993)
A young mutant with extremely unstable powers fuelled by death, she was encountered by the X-Men who reluctantly entrusted her to the care of Mr. Sinister. She spent some time as Sinister's assistant, using her powers as a kind of bloodhound in his service, before tiring of this and fleeing. By sheer chance she crossed paths with Nate Grey, while fleeing Sinister's Marauders, and after being saved by him the two became close. Sadly this was not to last as Threnody ran afoul of the unstable Madelyne Pryor, but while her powers proved capable of conquering death itself conquering her status as C-List Fodder was another matter. After severing her ties with Nate for good she disappeared for many years, and after a brief alliance with Deadpool she is yet again MIA.
- Aborted Arc: In her last appearance in her original arc in the '90s, an epilogue was shown of her giving birth to a child, initially believed to have been fathered by Nate (
Word of God later confirmed he wasn't the father, leaving open the question of who - or what - was). This was subsequently mothballed for nearly twenty years real-time before being resolved in, of all things, an arc of Deadpool. - Animate Dead: After being resurrected, it's one of the many things she can now do.
- Brainy Brunette: Not originally one, but when Sinister took her under his care he allowed her to interface with his entire system network. As she tells the X-Men when they come to 'rescue' her:Threnody: I've learned so much since I've been here. About the world — about history, about science... about everything!
- Ironically this education initiative leads to her own undoing, as she provokes Madelyne Pryor with knowledge she gleaned from Sinister's data banks.
- Break His Heart to Save Him: Does this to Nate in her last appearance.
- Bullying a Dragon: She taunts Madelyne Pryor with her knowledge about Maddie's Clone Angst. This does not end well for her.
- Came Back Wrong: After being killed by Madelyne Pryor she resurrected as a kind of Elite Zombie, neither living nor dead. To make matters worse, her powers grew stronger too and she started raising the dead wherever she went.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Threnody has a low-key history of this, starting from the moment she turned against her benefactor Mr. Sinister (who admittedly is a Card-Carrying Villain of the first order) to join up with Nate Grey. From there she left Nate to join the Abomination's Forgotten, turned on the Abomination to rejoin Nate, turned on Nate after a long absence (admittedly for his own good) to disappear from many years and join up with the Assassin's Guild, who she then turned on to join Deadpool, who she then turned out when he wasn't keen on feeding her demonic baby, at which point she disappeared again. Low-key or not, that is one busy revolving door.
- Crazy Homeless People: Introduced this way, with the narrative gradually revealing it was her powers that drove her to that state. She also spent some time in the sewers of New York as one of the Abomination's Forgotten.
- Damsel in Distress: Tagging along with Nate Grey meant Thren found herself menaced by all sorts of villains, from the Marauders and Mister Sinister to Exodus and Holocaust. She never played this trope fully though, and always contributed to her own survival whenever and however she could.
- Dark Is Not Evil: She is dark-skinned and her powers are fuelled by death, yet even in her darkest moments she is not malevolent.
- Deal with the Devil: Makes one with Mr. Sinister and forced the X-Men to do so as well by proxy, as they begrudgingly respect her wishes and allow her to accept his offer.
- Death Is Cheap: Particularly so in her case, thanks to her mutant powers.
- Descent into Addiction: A notable drawback of her powers. Even after being stabilized by Sinister, she is still attracted to the energy of the dying, and has been known to do things like wander through hospital wards to get her death energy fix. It's also why she was both drawn to Nate Grey and prone to leaving him - he was dying, slowly, thanks to the flaw in his powers, and his raw energy made him a walking buffet to her.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Quite a bit of it. She was given a file in 1992's "Stryfe's Strike Files" (technically her first appearance, but not counted as it amounts to little more than a teaser). Both this entry and her first actual appearance established quite a few things about her that were immediately ignored or changed: that she was an Emotion Eater (changed to mutant Necromancer); that her powers could only draw sustenance from the pain of mutants infected with the Legacy Virus (changed to draw sustenance from any death energy, be it from mutants or humans) and that she was an early-onset mutant whose powers manifested when she was still a child (changed to having a normal life until her powers manifested in adolescence, as is the norm for most mutants).
- Emotion Eater: In her first appearance she was described as an "empathic emotion absorber", before her powers were fully fleshed out.
- Enfant Terrible: Whoever the father is, as of 2018 Threnody's baby is definitively this. It's a monstrous creature that has not aged in 19 years of our time, requires life force rather than food to sustain itself, and seems to drive Threnody to her worst actions. What exactly the baby is or where it came from has yet to be revealed, but it's definitely not something that will bring any good to the world.
- Femme Fatalons: More of that Early Installment Weirdness, as she was drawn with these in her first appearance but never again after.
- Girl of the Week: What her romance with Nate Grey ended up being.
- Long Bus Trip: She hasn't been seen since X-Man #58 in 1999, and indeed hasn't even been mentioned save for exactly one blink-and-you'll-miss-it name drop in a Civil War (2006) tie-in book (she's brought up as a potential recruit for the Initiative).
- The Bus Came Back: After 19 years of riding that bus Threnody finally returned in 2018's Deadpool: Assassins title, where she has defected from the Assassins Guild to help the titular murder-happy antihero.
- Minion with an F in Evil: While working for Mr. Sinister and again as a member of the Assassins Guild.
- Monster Progenitor: Became one of these after her resurrection.
- Navel-Deep Neckline: Her top is open in the middle leaving her cleavage and midriff very much exposed.
- Necromancer: She can basically use the energy of the dead (and Death itself) to fuel her life force and her powers. With it, she can cause instant death or Animate Dead, among other things.
- Night of the Living Mooks: Post-death she was shown to resurrect the dead wherever she went. In a twist on this trope, her "zomboids" were mostly benign, as they derived all the sustenance they needed from being in her presence.
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: After being killed by Madelyne Pryor, Threnody became an undead mutant vampire.
- Our Vampires Are Different: A mutant vampire powered by necroplasmic energy.
- Power Limiter: Given this by Sinister in the form of those gadgets affixed to her face. She accepted these fetters willingly as without them her powers were beyond her control, but Madelyne brutally ripped them out when exacting her Disproportionate Retribution.
- Professional Killer: 2018's Deadpool: Assassins reveals that at some point between leaving Nate Grey and the present day Threnody made her way to New Orleans, where she found employment in the Assassins Guild.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Post-resurrection she has these when using her powers.
- Sphere of Destruction: Before her powers were stabilized by Sinister she uncontrollably generated these whenever she absorbed too much emotion/death energy. These 'death spheres' were powerful enough to vaporize ordinary humans instantly.
- With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: As she tells Nate Grey after the fact, her powers were originally so strong she could sense the energy of the dying all around the world. Naturally, this was cracking her up a bit, though she held up better than many other examples of this trope.
Tran Coy Manh
Tran Coy Manh
Nationality: Vietnamese
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Marvel Team-Up #100 (December, 1980)
The twin brother of New Mutant Karma, Tran shared the same power as his sister to possess the minds of others. He told his uncle Nguyen Ngoc Coy of his ability and went to work for him in a criminal empire based out of New York City.
- Back from the Dead: It only took him thirty years, pretty much a record by X-Men standards. During the Krakoa era, Xi'an has him revived by the Five, if only just to get him out of her head.
- Cain and Abel: The Cain to Karma's Abel, as well as their little siblings.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Growing up in war-torn Vietnam would screw anyone up. Give a screwed up teenager the power to take over other people...
- Dragon with an Agenda: While he was working for his uncle Nguyen, he was planning on overthrowing him... once he'd gotten rid of his sister first.
- Enemy Within: Lives within the psyche of his sister.
- People Puppets: Nowhere near as hesitant as Xi'an to take people over, and much stronger. He's capable of possessing four people at once with no strain whatsoever. Oh, and did we mention those four were the Fantastic Four?
- Retcon: Tran and Xi'an's origin owed a lot to the Vietnam War, which was still recent when they were introduced in 1980. Less so these days.
- Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: The first thing he did with his powers? Make a soldier smash his head against a post. Note that Tran and Xi'an feel what the people they're controlling feel and think...
Ugly John
Steve / Ugly John
Nationality: Australian
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: New X-Men #114 (July, 2001)
A mutant who was rescued by Scott and Logan but then killed when they stopped on their way to the mansion to fight Cassandra Nova.
- Back from the Dead: He was resurrected by the Five on Krakoa.
- Non-Action Guy: His mutation pointedly does not present him with any defensive abilities. Forge specifically mentions him when he talks about mutants who need an external way to defend themselves when Krakoa is attacked.
Wicked
Wicked
Nationanlity: Genoshan
Species: Human mutant
First Appearance: Excalibur #1 (May, 2004)
One of the few survivors of Genoshan, she worked with other survivors and Charles Xavier.
- Necromancer: Her mutant power allows her to summon and control the spirits of the dead. This comes in handy after the massacre of Genosha.
- Sole Survivor: Her parents died during the Sentinel attack, and she is one of the few survivors.
- Stripperiffic: Wicked usually dresses in provocative gothic clothes. Even the ghosts of her parents call her out for her outfits.
- The Bus Came Back: After being depowered during Decimation, she finally recovered her powers during the Krakoan era, assisting Kitty Pryde and her Marauders.
