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Mimic

Calvin Montgomery Rankin / Mimic

Nationality: American, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men #19 (April, 1966)

You know what I am? I'm the Mimic! I'm as powerful as all of you put together!

A young man who accidentally gained the ability to copy the knowledge, physical attributes, skills, and superpowers of anyone near him for a short amount of time. He grew more and more conceited as he grew up and desired the ability to absorb power and knowledge personally. He sought out the X-Men to copy their powers so he could use them to activate a machine his father told him would make his powers permanent, when actually it was supposed to cure him of them. He returned to antagonize the X-Men, either fighting against them or temporarily joining them to show off. Because he was exposed to them for so long, he retains the powers of the original five X-Men permanently. Mimic is of note for being the X-Men's first new member as well as its first non-mutant (Depending on the Writer, they go back and forth on this). Unfortunately, he wasn't with the team for long due to his brash nature.

He appears as a main character in Exiles in a somewhat reimagined form, being from a universe where he is without question a mutant and joins the X-Men with good intentions (eventually becoming their leader). This version has the ability to permanently absorb the powers of up to five people at a time, but has to "delete" old ones from his body to add new ones, and is usually used as The Leader within the team's dynamic.

See Exiles for tropes specifically relating to Mimic in his Exiles incarnation.

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• The Ace: In the school, Calvin soon became the best at any sport, mimicking abilities of the best players and without anyone knowing.
• All Your Powers Combined: He can copy anyone's powers as long as they're within a certain radius, but maintains the powers of the five founding X-Men (the ones he faced at the time) as a default.
  • The Mimic from Exiles had slightly different abilities, able to duplicate indefinitely the powers of any superhuman he encountered, but could only hold 5 power sets at a time, and only at half-strength. When he was turned into a Brood queen, his powers increased to the extent that he could duplicate the powers of all nearby superhumans.
  • Another reality's version of Mimic, with the same ability as the Exiles' version, had copied the abilities of Magneto, Professor X, Blink and Cannonball- the guy had definitely won the superpower lottery.^note For those not familiar with Marvel Comics: this Mimic had Magneto's vast magnetic power, Professor X's telepathic abilities, Blink's teleportation powers, and Cannonball's Flying Brick forcefield.
• Ambition is Evil: Portrayed this way in early appearances.
• Attention Whore: Pre-Character Development.
• Badass in Distress: In the lead-up to Extermination he was captured while shopping for groceries by a time-traveling younger version of Cable.
• Character Development: Originally Mimic was a stock Jerk Jock who was only in the superhero game for his own self-interest and self-aggrandizement. As time went on, his self-aggrandizing was subjected to Flanderization and he became a pathetic Attention Whore kind of figure, with his incredible powers completely overshadowed by his need for adulation. Then he got hit with a Humiliation Conga that ended with him a prisoner of the Thunderbolts, and after a brief relapse in Dark X-Men he finally matured for real, and his tragic friendship with the tortured Michael Pointer a.k.a. Omega. His Story-Breaker Power and lack of popularity kept him a second-string character, though, and while he managed to narrowly dodge being Killed Off for Real, he's since been Put on a Bus.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: During the Operation: Zero Tolerance event he and Risque were captured and tortured by soldiers of OZT Big Bad Bastion.
• Continuity Snarl: Is Mimic a mutant or isn't he? It all depends on who you ask and when you ask it.^note As of 2019 he's a mutant according to House of X.
• Death Is Cheap: Back in the '70s he was Killed Off for Real in a Heroic Sacrifice while fighting the Hulk. A decade later it was revealed that he had simply fallen into a coma, and when Wolverine came near him he subconsciously absorbed Wolvie's Healing Factor and revived. As of 2019 he's dead again, but considering his previous method of revival bringing him back should be easy when the writer comes along who wants to. And indeed, as of X-Men (2019) (not even a year later!) Mimic is alive again.
• De-power: During the '90s Mimic was depowered along with all of Earth's mutants by a device built by the High Evolutionary, a strong piece of evidence for those fans in the "Mimic is a mutant" camp.
• Diagnosis of God: Dark X-Men retroactively gave him one, as it was established in that series that he had been suffering from Bipolar Disorder for the past fifty years.
• He Cleans Up Nicely: It took the intervention of Norman Osborn of all people, but after a decade of rocking the hobo look Mimic finally cleaned himself up in Dark X-Men, and wouldn't you know, he pulled off squeaky-clean all-American just as well as his Exiles counterpart.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Over his long history he has battled the X-Men, the Hulk, Super-Adaptoid, Puppet Master and Factor Three, as well as serving Onslaught and briefly joining Excalibur. He was held prisoner by the Thunderbolts for his past crimes until being offered a place on Norman Osborn's Dark X-Men, in the genuine belief that he was becoming a Face. After receiving help from the Jean Grey's School X-Men, Calvin was offered a spot on their team which he accepted. He remained Face after, and ultimately sacrificed himself to protect Teen Cyclops.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Once in the 70's and again in 2018's Extermination story.
• Horrible Judge of Character: He continued working for Norman Osborn as a member of the Dark X-Men even after most of the other members of the team defected. Being a former villain himself, he desperately wanted to believe the best of Norman.
• Humiliation Conga: These happen to him fairly regularly:
  • After his first defeat at the hands of the X-Men, Professor X wiped his memories and sent him off to live what Chuck deemed to be an ordinary life.
  • His capture and torture at the hands of Operation: Zero Tolerance agents also falls under this.
  • As previously mentioned, he was captured and imprisoned for a time by the Thunderbolts.
  • After being captured by a deranged young incarnation of Cable he was chained up and his wings amputated so that they could be grafted onto the young incarnation of Angel (who acquired Celestial armor wings from the Black Vortex that Young Cable also amputated, being on a Frankenstein kick). And then he gets a bridge dropped on him.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Ignobly killed with a harpoon to the heart by D-list 90's villain Ahab in the Extermination story.
• Jerk Jock: Particularly in his origin story and early on. Over time he gradually grew out of this attitude.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He wasn't a very nice person early on and Professor X even denounced him as unworthy of being an X-Man due to his arrogance and recklessness, but as he matured Cal grew past his character flaws, becoming a devoted friend to Michael Pointer a.k.a. Omega, and after Professor X was deposed as leader of the X-Men he was even welcomed back to the team by Wolverine's X-Men faction. Ultimately he sacrificed himself to protect Professor X's first pupil, proving that Chuck couldn't have been more wrong about him.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: As part of his rampant Superdickery through the Silver Age, Professor X wiped Cal's memory of being with the X-Men after he decided that Mimic wasn't working out. Unlike some of the Professor's other mental victims (hi Vanisher!), Mimic was able to eventually recover his memories thanks to an, uh, convenient explosion.
• Mad Oracle: While around Nate Grey the X-Man he absorbed the power to see into the future. Specifically, he saw a Bad Future where he was married with a wife and child only to murder that child in a fit of Power Incontinence.
• Mood-Swinger: Justified, since he has bipolar disorder.
• Odd Friendship: With Michael Pointer, which doubles as Heterosexual Life-Partners. Also, more recently with Rogue.
  • In the House of M reality he has one with Bucky Barnes; the two work together on a black-ops squad and are on first name terms with each other, with Mimic even referring to Barnes by his "Buck" nickname.
• Phlebotinum Overload: He can absorb the powers of multiple mutants, but there is a limit to the number of powers he can absorb. During his stint as a Dark Avenger the X-Men were able to beat him by having a large number of students Zerg Rush him. He was also unable to fully mimic the power of the god-tier mutant Nate Grey, and much like Rogue's attempt to steal the power of Exodus, had to content himself with just one dollar from the Superpower Lottery winner's account instead.
• Power Copying: Mimic can take on the powers of any mutant he's around and his body altering itself to match (such as gaining Beast's physique and Angel's wings). Thanks to his time spent with the O5 X-Men, he's permanently copied their powers and, in the case of Angel and Beast, physical attributes.
• Progressively Prettier: His attractiveness seems proportionately scaled to how villainous he is in any particular storyline, going from a bearded hobo-lookalike while with the Brotherhood to looking like Warren's long lost twin brother in X-Men: Legacy. And then there's the heroic Exiles Mimic who has a very clean-cut all-American look to him.
• Put on a Bus: One of Marvel's many mutant bus passengers who have to hop aboard because their powers are too great to have around all the time. He's been in comas, prisons, you name it, and as of 2019 is MIA yet again after appearing to have made a Heroic Sacrifice... until House of X resurrects him, along with more or less every other mutant.
• Sixth Ranger: In another attempt to gain the X-Men's abilities, Mimic set his sights on joining their ranks, becoming deputy leader in the process when he blackmailed his way into joining the X-Men.
• Smarter Than You Look: He doesn't act like a very educated person and dresses like he's blind, but he's a college graduate and the son of a scientist.
• Story-Breaker Power: He's basically what Rogue would be if she didn't have to touch anyone to absorb their powers.
• The Atoner: Often the result of his arrogant behavior and his feelings of remorse in the aftermath.
• Those Two Guys: From Dark X-Men through X-Men Legacy he and Michael Pointer were inseparable. XML finally broke them up by way of putting the Power Incontinence-suffering Pointer on ice.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Often portrayed this way, as he missed out on the bulk of Charles Xavier's education but has an extraordinarily powerful and versatile mutation. In more recent years this has tapered off as he's acquired competence simply by virtue of being around as long as he has.
• Unwitting Pawn: Of both Onslaught and Norman Osborn.

Changeling

Kevin Sydney / Changeling

First Appearance

Notable Aliases: #2, Kevin MacTaggert, John Askegren, Jack Bolton, Martina Johanssen, Werner Reiman, Charles Sage, Francisco Zerilli, Professor Charles Xavier

Nationality: American, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men #35 (August, 1967)

The second-in-command of Factor 3, a replacement for the Brotherhood of Mutants that wanted to start World War III. The leader of Factor 3 was revealed to be an alien and his organization turned on him and was disbanded. He secretly joined the X-Men and was killed shortly after his covert membership was revealed. Morph from the animated series was based on him.

A parallel universe version of him is a constant member of the Exiles, where he's more of a wacky, Looney-Tuneish character who uses his ability to entertain.

The main universe version of Changeling had shapeshifting, and minor psychic powers. The Exiles version has more powerful shapeshifting powers.

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• All There in the Manual: His real name went unrevealed for over three decades before finally being revealed in the 2004 Official Marvel handbook, 36 years after the original Changeling died in X-Men #68.
• Back from the Dead: After being dead for decades, he was one of the many mutants resurrected by the Five, a group of mutants that lived on the mutant island of Krakoa and that specialized in bring fallen mutants from the dead. He reappeared in issue #2 of X-Force as part of the Dawn of X era.
• Bequeathed Power: Subverted — he got his Psychic Powers from Professor X in order to successfully impersonate him in his last days, but as it turned out Xavier was only pretending to be dying of cancer.
• Came Back Wrong: He was briefly resurrected by the voodoo villain Black Talon, but turned out to be a Minion With An Fin Evil for him and was quickly returned to the grave.
• Flat Character: The original Changeling was just a groveling suckup villain ala Toad who was chosen to help Charles fake his death because it would be such an unexpected twist. Averted with the animated series Morph, whose characterization is explored after his return from death and in the third season which devoted a whole episode to him.
• Heel–Face Turn: Turned on the Mutant Master after discovering it was actually an alien bent on worldwide genocide.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: In keeping with the spirit of golden age X-Men villains, Changeling wore a truly wince-inducing helmet, seemingly molded in the image of his favorite seashell.
• Heroic Sacrifice: While disguised as Professor
• Killed Off for Real: And aside from one instance as an undead, he's never come back from the dead.
• More than Mind Control: How Morph was compelled to make the Face–Heel Turn in the '90s animated series
• Psychic Powers: One of the main differences between Changeling and his counterparts (aside from atrocious fashion sense): Changeling has minor psychic powers, something no version of Morph has.
• Retcon: His Heroic Sacrifice was implemented to facilitate one of these, bringing back Professor X after an earlier "reveal" that he was dying of cancer.
• Redemption Equals Death: He was already dying anyway, but he died thwarting a subterranean king from destroying the world by pretending to be Professor X.
• Sycophantic Servant: He sucked up pretty hard to the Mutant Master before The Reveal that the Master was actually an alien. For a while there Changeling and Toad were in a kind of dead heat run for the most Renfield-like mutant in the Marvel U.
• Trickster Archetype: The later versions of him as Morph tend to fall under this trope, the original Changeling himself not so
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: A mainstay of all versions of this character. Interestingly, its efficacy has a clear progression: the original Changeling has the most basic form of this power, being only able to assume different human forms, while the animated Morph has a more functional version, being able to use it for Animorphism as well as some limited Ditto Fighter shenanigans via shapeshifting into mutants with physical mutations. Finally, the Exiles Morph has by far the most powerful version of this ability, being a Rubber Man who can shape himself into inanimate objects and regenerate his own muscle mass at will.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: In both in the 616 universe and the '90s X-Men cartoon he was Killed Off for Real before his character could properly be explored at all. His adaptational counterpart got to come back, but he didn't and, shockingly in a medium that has completely embraced Death Is Cheap, he remained dead until the mutant nation Krakoa made death a non-issue for mutants.

Polaris

Lorna Sally Dane / Polaris

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: The X-Men #49 (October, 1968)

I often find a terrifying comfort in the possibility of evanescing. I never asked to exist. Or to be like this. This clumsy and fumbling congregation of flaws. I think there's something wrong with me. I can still feel an itch in my head, like Saturnyne's not quite done with me yet... Sometimes I'm able to convince myself that there's no such thing as kindness in this world. No such thing as courage. I tell myself there's only redemption and penitence. There is only reticence and pain. I am — thankfully — often wrong on such things.

— Lorna Dane, X-Factor #4

Lorna Dane, better known as Polaris, is a Marvel Comics character created by Arnold Drake and Jim Steranko.

One of the first new additions to the X-Men after their founding lineup was established, Polaris has a long-rooted history with the team — most prominently, that she's the only biological child ^note since the 2014 retcon involving siblings Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch of Magneto. Initially contesting his claim to her parentage, it was eventually confirmed to be true. Not surprising, since they both share the exact same skillset.

She's also known for her romantic relationships with various X-Men. After a brief flirtation with Iceman (before he came out), she began a relationship with Alex Summers / Havok, the younger brother of stalwart X-Man Cyclops. They've spent the majority of their shared publication history in a state of "Will They or Won't They?" limbo, and almost got married at one point. Let's just say getting left at the altar didn't do wonders for her psyche.

Speaking of which, Lorna's struggles with mental health are another prominent aspect of her characterization. While it's never been spelled out as being anything specific, many have interpreted her Yandere-ish tendencies and depressive states as Bipolar Disorder. She was even manipulated into becoming the supervillain Malice for a few years, and once served as Pestilence in Apocalypse's Horsemen. What can we say — it seems to run in the family.

As a long-running character in the Marvel Universe, Polaris has appeared in various other media since being introduced. She showed up in a few episodes of X-Men: The Animated Series, as well as Wolverine and the X-Men (2009). In live-action, Polaris features as a regular on FOX's The Gifted (2017), portrayed there by Emma Dumont. This version of the character emphasized Lorna's issues with mental illness, as well as make reference to her familiar parentage.

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• Acquired Poison Immunity: One of the side-effects of her brief run as Pestilence is she gained an immunity to being drugged. While a prisoner of Vulcan, his people kept trying to keep her unconscious, only for her immune system to fight off the drugs with increasing speed, at which point Lorna would get loose and start breaking things.
• Action Girl: One of the most powerful and dangerous mutants on the planet, which is not surprising given that she inherited not only her father's mutant gene but also his powers.
• Angst Coma: Went into one when she learned the real reason behind her mother's dead. It took a literal act of god(dess) to wake her up.
• Atrocious Alias: She very, very briefly toyed with the name Magneta.
• Beta Couple: She and Alex are often seen as a sort of second-tier version of Alex's brother Scott and Jean Grey.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Lorna has a serious temper (not surprising, given the various horrible things that've happened to her). As Jamie Madrox once notes, every now and then she reminds people she is Magneto's daughter. Like, for example, making an evil alternate version of Captain America blow his own head off.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: According to X-Factor, she gets inexplicably angry around her birthday. It's because of her repressed memories of how her mother died.
• Brainwashed and Crazy:
  • By Erik the Red in the mid-'70s, to kill the X-Men. On the plus side, it's when she got the moniker "Polaris".
  • Her brief time as Pestilence. Fortunately, it wore off a lot easier for her than it did Gambit.
• Broken Bird: Repeatedly, especially since horrible things just keep happening to her.
• Brother–Sister Team: Seems to get along quite well with Quicksilver during their days in Serval Industries' X-Factor. At least, until the Scarlet Witch accidentally lets slip that he was meant to be spying on her for Havok.
• Brought Down to Normal: She lost her powers during Decimation by her half-sister, but soon got them back through Apocalypse repowered her using Celestial technology. It's not really known whether her X-Gene has been reactivated or it's simply the technology.
• Cain and Abel: With Zaladane, who might be her sister. "Might", because we've only got Zaladane's word for it, and nothing else has ever backed it up (Zaladane's protracted case of dead doesn't help).
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Due in part to the "severe trauma" thing, she got very protective of Havok during Chuck Austen's X-Men run. Finding Annie standing over him, Lorna threatened her with several scalpels.
• Cool Aunt: For Quicksilver's daughter Luna. She even allows the little girl to sit on her lap.◊
• Curtains Match the Window: Green eyes, green hair. Not to mention she usually wears green lipstick and often wears a green costume.
• Daddy's Girl: Depending on the Writer, but of Magneto's kids, she's the one closest to him (though given the current retcon, she's currently the only one of his kids still alive).
• Deadpan Snarker: Especially when written by Peter David (in fairness, everyone written by Peter David is a snarker).
• Demonic Possession: Gets possessed by psychic entities a lot, and often for prolonged periods (years of publication, in one case).
• De-power: Zaladane once stole her powers. Lorna got them back after Magneto killed her.
• Discard and Draw: For a time, Lorna's magnetic powers were replaced by the ability to absorb negative emotions to increase her strength, endurance, height and mass. She regained her magnetism powers and then lost them again during M-Day. They were eventually restored.
• Drowning My Sorrows: After the end of the "Hell on Earth" war and X-Factor being split up, Polaris is shown in a bar getting drunk. When the bartender tries to cut her off, she threatens to destroy the bar. This results in the police and Quicksilver getting involved and a brief fight where she actually pulls a gun on Quicksilver before she is subdued. She is horrified when she sobers up the next morning and realizes the magnitude of what she almost did.
• Emotion Eater: For a time she could feed on negative emotions to increase her physical abilities.
• Extra-ore-dinary: Her most common method of using her powers is to manipulate metal.
• The Friends Who Never Hang: During the time they were siblings (2002 to 2015), she and Wanda didn't exactly interact much (though in fairness, Wanda spent 2005 to 2012 being on a bus, and Lorna was in space between 2007 and 2011), something Lorna even notes when Wanda suddenly shows up to hang out with her in All-New X-Factor.
• Full-Frontal Assault: During Grant Morrison's New X-Men, she was found by the X-Men at ground zero following the total annihilation of Genosha completely naked and insanely raving about final electromagnetic messages sent by Magneto before violently lashing out at the team.
• Fun with Acronyms: Her middle name is "Sally", which means that her initials spell out LSD, this has not gone unnoticed.
  Gambit: Your initials are LSD?
  Polaris: Explains a lot, doesn't it?
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: Not often, but they have been known to glow when she's pissed.
• I Let Gwen Stacy Die: She blames herself for Rockslide’s death as he died saving her, especially since his death in Otherworld forever corrupted his resurrection.
• Leotard of Power: Most of her outfits include some form of leotard with a cape, as well as a tiara.
• Love Triangle: In the 60s, there was one between her, Iceman and Havok. It returned in the 00s, with the temporary inclusion of Nurse Annie.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Whether Magneto actually was her father was a long-running plot point for decades after her introduction. The early 00s eventually confirmed that he was.
• Magnetism Manipulation: Like her father, Lorna can sense and control magnetism, create magnetic energy pulses and magnetic force fields, and manipulate the Earth's magnetic field in order to fly. On good days, she's strong enough to contend with him for raw power, which is no small thing.
• Most Common Super Power: It's very easy to see how she could be the Scarlet Witch's sister.
• No-Sell: An alternate Malice tried possessing her during Blue. Lorna was soon able to fight her off, but not before Malice killed several people.
• Poisonous Person: During her period of time as Pestilence in Apocalypse's Four Horsemen.
• Power Loss Depression: Polaris was among the Mutants who lost their powers during M-Day. Issue #177 of X-Men Volume 2 opens with her lamenting how empty and lifeless she feels without her powers. For a time, she tries to keep her depowerment a secret before revealing what happened to her and leaving the team.
• Purple Is Powerful: Some of her outfits over the years have included purple, and she's every bit as dangerous as her father.
• Selective Magnetism: As with her father, writers can never decide if her powers are derived from her physically or psionically.
• Self-Made Orphan: Accidentally killed her mother and the man she considered her father at the age of 3, when her powers manifested whilst they were all flying a plane when she got upset due to a loud fight they were having over her mother's adultery.
• Shock and Awe: Some writers actually have her using electricity, which is indeed part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
• Signature Headgear: While she has doesn't wear it in every outfit, Lorna stands out for having a headdress similar to that of Wanda and her father Magneto.
• Sixth Ranger: She’s the first permanent addition to the team that wasn’t part of the original five.
• Took a Level in Badass: After being repowered by Apocalypse, she got a significant power boost. She even managed to severely hurt Vulcan, who until that point had been an Invincible Villain.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: During Chuck Austen's run, though she did have the justification of being at ground zero for the total annihilation of Genosha, which drove her insane. And again during All-New X-Factor, after finding out the truth about her mother's death, mixed with experiencing hell on Earth.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Common for most X-Men, but Lorna had a very nasty one. When she was three years old, her powers activated when she saw her mother and her mother's husband arguing about Lorna's real father and her mother's adultery. Her powers activated and took down the plane they were on. Magneto then showed up to rescue her, and had Mastermind use his Psychic Powers to block the memories of what really happened, which has been suggested as the root cause of her...less than solid mental health.
• Unstable Powered Woman: She was in Genosha the day that Cassandra Nova launched a genocidal attack that killed nearly every mutant in the nation. This was the original start of her personality becoming unhinged. Later, when her long-time Love Interest Havok decided to leave her at the wedding altar to be with a woman whom he just met, she went completely off the deep end, adopted a costume similar to her father Magneto and attempted to murder everyone there.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: The 2019 X-Factor claims as such, despite it not being a tremendous part of Lorna's personality beforehand.
• Will They or Won't They?: She had a mental breakdown after Alex left her at the altar. After 2012, they broke up in part because of Lorna's sudden spike in bad-temperedness.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Like dear old dad, excessive use of her powers has made her a little nuts in the past.
• Yandere: When she found out that her boyfriend was dating with Nurse Annie, she was not very happy (In fairness to Lorna, she was suffering from horrific trauma, and Alex dumped her right at the altar).

Havok

Alexander "Alex" Summers / Havok

Nationality: American, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men #54 (March, 1969)

Havok is a Marvel character created by Arnold Drake and Don Heck.

Scott Summers' younger and more rebellious brother. When Scott and he were orphaned during an alien-caused plane crash, Alex was adopted, Scott was stuck in the orphanage. Alex likes the X-Men, but resents Scott's position, so is usually a reserve member. Alex has the mutant power to project energy blasts from his hands, but Scott and Alex are immune to each other's powers, leading to fist-fights between them during conflicts. Occasionally sports an out-of-control temper and the power of a small sun. Is the long-time boyfriend of Lorna Dane a.k.a. Polaris, although the two eventually settled on being friends. Had his own series for several years, Mutant X, which involved him being trapped in a parallel world.

Alex was selected by Captain America to lead the Unity Squad, a team of Avengers which included mutants, in the aftermath of Avengers vs. X-Men in a bid to improve relations between humanity and mutants. He eventually resigned after having his personality temporarily inverted during AXIS. Alex rejoined his brother when most of the X-Men were thought dead and sacrificed his life buying Scott time to escape an army of O.N.E. Sentinels.

With the founding of the mutant nation of Krakoa, Alex was resurrected by the Five and joined his brother Scott in living at the Summer House in the Blue Area of the moon alongside the rest of the Summer's family, including his revived brother Vulcan. However, the traumas of the past several years have left Alex mentally unstable and a danger to others, resulting in him being placed on Mr. Sinister's Hellions, a team of mutants whose destructive or anti-social tendencies are being channeled for the good of Krakoa.

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• Aborted Arc: His romance with Janet van Dyne and his kidnapping of her after his inversion is never brought up after AXIS.
• Always Someone Better: Mentions that he feels this way about his elder brother, Scott.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: His temper occasionally makes him come across as whiny and irrational (especially when he's fighting against his brother), something both Beast and Iceman have called him out on.
• Arch-Enemy: The Living Monolith and Sauron are his classic archenemies, though he hasn't fought either villain in many a moon.
• Back from the Dead: After being killed by Robert Callahan in order to save his brother he was resurrected by the Five on Krakoa.
  • He was killed again by Mister Sinister after a Hellions mission to Otherworld went awry and was just as quickly resurrected again.
• Badass Family: He's a Summers and more than lives up to the family reputation for butt-kicking mutants.
• Bash Brothers: Does this with his actual older brother, Scott, a few times after the pair are reunited.
• Battle Couple: Originally with Polaris, and then with Janet van Dyne during his tenure on the Avengers.
• Betty and Veronica: Veronica for Polaris.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: During his inverted personality phase in X-Men: Blue he was one of the conspirators plotting to unleash Mothervine on Earth to make millions of new mutants and use them to take over the world.
• Big Good: In Mutant X, Alex is the hero of the story and eventually becomes this, saving the entire universe in issue #32.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: He falls victim to this trope. A lot. The most severe case was when his personality was inverted during AXIS and he was one of the few individuals who was not cured by the end of the event, leaving his evil side in charge.
• Butt-Monkey: Even by Summers family standards, he never seems to catch a break.
• Cain and Abel:
  • Depends on the circumstances, though. Usually he and Cyclops get on well enough, but they have off days.
  • Also with Vulcan. Vulcan is normally immune to Havok and Cyclops's energy blasts, but neither of them are immune to Vulcan's energy blasts.
    • Unless he gets thrown into a sun. Then he can smack Vulcan around like there's no tomorrow, indicating it's a power thing.
• The Captain: For a while in the 2000s, he served as the captain of the Starjammer, leading the crew in a rebellion against his brother Vulcan after he became Shi'ar Emperor. He was exceptionally good at it, with Major-General Ka'ardum, Lilandra's chosen general, being genuinely impressed on his tactical acumen and surprised that Earth can spare someone with his talents. Alex just dismisses it as him being there to take down Vulcan and says that his father and older brother are the leaders, not him.
• The Chosen One: For Captain America, who prefers him to Scott and recruited him to lead the Avengers Unity Squad.
• Containment Clothing: His classic outfit is a suit specially designed to regulate his mutant power.
• Depending on the Writer: Havok's another one of those annoying Marvel characters whose basic personality traits are more or less a weathervane shifting to the needs of whoever the writer is that day. Sometimes he's honestly a better and more human leader than his brother (Chuck Austen's run and the Starjammers era), sometimes he's a weak-willed lackey content to serve as deputy leader (as a Genoshan, with Madelyne in Inferno, X-Factor Alex at points) and sometimes he's a barely-controlled psycho with a serious mad-on about his brother (Brotherhood Alex, also X-Factor Alex at points). The most consistent characterisation is that he's a very good leader, but he's got a lot of self-doubt relating to issues with/being overshadowed by his brother, so he tends to retreat from leadership unless circumstances force it upon him.
• Distressed Dude: Early in his history he was prone to enduring this at the hands of his personal stalker villain, the Living Monolith.
• Does Not Like Spam: He's really not a fan of cauliflower.
• Enemy Within: Actually two different occasions.
  • When he returned from the Mutant X universe his counterpart from that world came with him and hijacked his body. He was eventually taken care of by The Time Broker.
  • While Emma Frost managed to restore his original personality as the dominant one over his inverted evil side, that personality still exists within Alex and can resurface in moments of extreme anger or danger.
• Energy Absorption: Alex can absorb ambient cosmic energy from the atmosphere and redirect it. For many years, he had to wear a special suit to help him contain this energy, but he has since learned how to control it.
• Energy Ring Attack: He provides the trope image. Havok can absorb ambient cosmic radiation and release it in the form of plasma beams with a tell-tale concentric circle pattern. These waves will emanate from his body in all directions unless he purposefully tries to channel them in a single direction, usually along the length of his arms.
• Evil Costume Switch: During the Inferno storyline when he became the Goblin Prince to Madelyne Pryor (although the switch in question is really just his old suit reduced to tatters to match Madelyne's skimpy outfit). He also did this during his time in Genosha, trading his standard black suit for a magistrate's uniform.
• Fatal Attractor: Alex has a long list of exes, and most of them were either evil or mentally unwell in some way. The infamous anti-mutant Nurse Annie is the most well known example of this, but there's also Scarlett McKenzie (an agent of Sugar Man who seduced Havok to capture him for her boss) and Madelyne Pryor (who was currently in the throes of her breakdown into the Goblyn Queen and only got with Alex as a rebound). Even his most longtime love interest Polaris has had long periods of mental instability.
• Flight: Using the energy he fires as energy bolts, he can flight at around the speed of sound. This is a very infrequently used power of his, however, and wasn't even introduced at all until the 2010s.
• Hand Blast: Havok can produce blasts of superheated plasma from his hands that are devastatingly powerful.
• Happily Married: Averted. Though it is implied that alternate!Havok and Maddie Summers are this, Alex does not find himself attracted to her at all, despite them technically being married and him having feelings for the Maddy of his Earth.
• Hidden Depths: At least on paper; in practice, most of them are now a case of Informed Attribute.
  • He's a graduate-level geologist, which has more or less been completely forgotten about.
  • He was trained in martial arts by Wolverine, which is a more justified case of never coming up since he prefers to blast most of his enemies from range.
  • Apparently he's a big fan of Stephen King, which makes his taking up with a nurse named Annie a particularly eyebrow-worthy moment.
  • His leadership skills qualify as this, since they tend to drop in and out. This is partly justified due to Alex's chronic lack of self-confidence, which itself comes from being in the shadow of his older brother, one of the finest generals in the Marvel Universe.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: He had little to no interest in X-Men or mutant duties, preferring to just live a normal life. Jay and Miles describe him joining mutant teams as Alex ''giving up''.
• The Leader: Of S-Factor then Six and, later, of the heroes of Mutant X in general. He later becomes temporary leader of the Starjammers, and the leader of the Avengers Unity Division. Despite all these times, Kitty Pryde surmises that Alex is not fit for this position in Astonishing X-Men (2017).
• Like Father, Like Son: Inherited command of the spacefaring vessel the Starjammer from his father Corsair, and led his father's old crew in a long-running battle against the forces of the corrupt Shi'ar Emperor Vulcan, just as his father had battled Emperor D'Ken before him.
• The Load: His penchant for getting kidnapped, brainwashed, and needing to be rescued has resulted in him feeling like Cyclops' load.
• Man of Kryptonite: To the Living Monolith, as due to the experiments of Mr. Sinister on both their powers have a strange link and Alex absorbs the bulk of the Monolith's power whenever he's in close enough proximity.
• Long Lost Sibling: Though it's been so long now that you'd never know Cyclops didn't know about him all along.
• Love Martyr: Refused to give up on Madelyne Pryor long after everyone else did. He went to Hell and back trying to get her resurrected on by The Five, even though his last interaction with her involved her torturing him and trying to feed him to demons that she intended to unleash on Krakoa.
• Missed the Call: In regards to not being the leader of the X-Men.
  • After Avengers vs. X-Men, he's taken over as chief representative of the mutant race, although many of his fellow mutants and X-Men feel he isn't worthy of the position and disagree with him on a lot of issues. After his personality was inverted he resigned from the Avengers and joined Cyclops' mutant faction.
• Muscles Are Meaningful: Like his brother, he was originally weedy but got very jacked during the nineties as a way of showing his maturity and Character Development. Unfortunately the writing didn't often live up to this visual cue, and in hindsight it's become just another example of the Liefeldian nineties meme.
• Naïve Newcomer: As a newcomer to Earth-1298, Havok starts the series confused about the various differences between that universe and his own, though he quickly catches on.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: He actually liked his life as a Genoshan magistrate and probably would have stayed loyal to the regime if it hadn't been co-opted by the murderously insane Cameron Hodge.
• Odd Friendship: Due to his strange ability to pull the Cooperation Gambit with villains much more successfully than Cyclops, he's made friends with a few villains, including the Juggernaut and the Reavers.
• Papa Wolf: Though at first he is weirded out by the idea of having a son in Mutant X, Alex later becomes extremely protective of Scotty Summers and even allows the boy to call him "dad".
• Power Incontinence: The most obvious point of similarity with his brother.
• The Power of the Sun: What fuels his plasma blasts.
• Power of Trust: During the Chuck Austen era he trusted the Juggernaut when no one else would. This trust was rewarded, and even after his return to villainy Juggs has gone noticeable easier on the X-Men than he ever did prior to joining them.
• Pragmatic Hero: Is far more likely to kill than most of his teammates, particularly after he suffers a Despair Event Horizon.
• The Quisling: An uncharitable but not altogether inaccurate summation of Havok, as he is much more prone to trusting in the government and government regimes than Cyclops and has worked with several (X-Factor under Valerie Cooper, the Avengers Unity Squad under Captain America, etc). Some of these groups were more sympathetic to mutants than others, but as a member of the Genoshan Magistrates Havok willingly kidnapped mutants and forced them into slavery.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: His energy blasts are blue while Scott's are red. Ironically, with his hot-headed and unstable personality he's a much better red oni to Scott's cold and calculating blue.
• Replacement Goldfish: For his adoptive parents' recently-dead son.
• Required Secondary Powers: He's immune to most forms of radiation, a good trait to have when one's power is being a cosmic energy battery.
• Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: During the 90s he was the vessel for the Nexus of Reality, a job traditionally reserved for the Man-Thing.
• Sympathetic Slave Owner: During his time with the Genoshans, one of their slave mutants was bonded to his will as per Genoshan tradition — after he left them and took up with X-Factor, he found out that mutant was actually his X-Factor teammate Wolfsbane. Both characters were exceedingly uncomfortable with the situation, and Wolfsbane was eventually separated from this enslavement by the nominal villainess Haven.
• Tangled Family Tree: His introduction as a character is arguably the snowball that started the Summers family off into becoming the ur-example of this trope.
• The Unfavorite: In contrast to Captain America above who prefers Alex to Scott, perennial Summers stalker Mr. Sinister much prefers Cyke and always treats Havok with barely-concealed disdain. Even during the Hickman era when he recruited Havok to his mutant team, it mostly just seemed to be an excuse for Sinny to have him on hand as a personal Butt-Monkey.
• Took a Level in Dumbass: When we first met Alex, he was graduating college with a degree in geophysics and he had a good head on his shoulders. His judgement and decision making skills has declined heavily since then with his geophysics knowledge rarely if ever getting mentioned, maybe all that brainwashing took a toll on him.
• Two-Faced: While stopping Kang the Conqueror from absorbing the power of a Celestial, the left side of Alex's face was badly burned and left scarred. It remained that way for several years until Elixir healed him after his inversion to an evil personality was undone in hopes of a fresh start.
• Uniqueness Value: In Exiles it was asserted that Alex was the only Havok remaining in the Multiverse, the others all having been killed by the Timebroker. Naturally other versions of Alex have emerged since this, though interestingly most of them are dead now anyway.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • A major factor in his Cain and Abel dynamic with his brother is due to how Scott acts some times.
  • He betrayed Scott for Madelyne Pryor because he was disgusted at how he treated her.
• Weak-Willed: Has the dubious distinction of being one of the most frequently and successfully brainwashed members of the X-Men.

X-Men '70s Members

Banshee

Sean Cassidy / Banshee

Notable Aliases: Irish, Agent #215-66, Death

Nationality: Irish, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men #28 (January, 1967)

A detective and heir to a castle and fortune in County Mayo, Sean Cassidy was a former Interpol inspector with flight and sound manipulation abilities. After his wife died in a terrorist bombing, he blamed his cousin, causing him to run off with his daughter and driving a rift between the two. He was mind-controlled by an alien terrorist group but freed by the X-Men. Later, he joins the X-Men when the original five are kidnapped. Being about 10-15 years older than the rest of the recruits, he was only active for a short amount of time but still hung around as a reserve and as a mentor, who applied his experience in espionage and anti-terrorism to the younger members of the group. Deceased in 2005, he was briefly resurrected in 2013 and became a Horseman of Apocalypse. In 2019 he seems to be entirely restored, whereas he was a weird zombie previously before being outright killed again in Uncanny X-Men (2018).

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• Bound and Gagged: A few times, due to his vocal abilities.
• Cain and Abel: With Black Tom Cassidy, his cousin (or brother, in some continuities).
• Captain Ethnic: Wears green, ginger hair, 'faith 'n begorrah'.
• Cool Old Guy: Being a middle-aged former secret agent when he joined the X-Men he was older and more experienced than the rest of the X-Men (save Wolverine but we didn’t know that at the time). He took to mentoring Cyclops and the new recruits, being a better influence on them than the Professor.
• De-power: Went a long time without his powers after saving Japan from an earthquake machine. And again after Mystique slashed his throat in the early 00s.
• Depending on the Artist: Even in comparison to other X-Men of his generation. He went from ugly in the Sixties to handsome in the 70s, his hair inexplicably changed colour in the 80s (he was blond for nearly a decade before becoming a stereotypical redhead) and he started looking younger and burlier in Generation X in the 90s.
• Disappeared Dad: For his daughter, Theresa Cassidy, though in all fairness to Sean, he didn't know she was alive, or that his wife had even been pregnant in the first place, and his cousin made sure he remained unaware.
• Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: Sean smokes a pipe when he's relaxing. Although he seemed to have given up by the time he became a teacher.
• Dropped a Bridge on Him: Or rather, a 747. He came back, but took a surprisingly long time for an X-Man.
• Drowning My Sorrows: He took Moira's death poorly.
• Gender-Blender Name: "Banshee" (bean sí in Irish) literally means "fairy woman", so a male banshee is a contradiction in terms.
• Handicapped Badass: Sean for a time in the early 90's courtesy of a broken jaw preventing him from using his powers.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Forge. They're practically brothers.
• Hidden Depths: Has a deep appreciation of American Country and Western music.
• I Believe I Can Fly: Attempted to explain as him riding on soundwaves. No, just... no.
  • It came with a Funny Moment in the TV series, when he gave Wolverine a ride, Wolverine covering his ears for the whole journey.
    Wolverine: Next time, why don't we try sneaking in with a marching band?
    Banshee: If you think that's bad, you should hear me sing...
• I Choose to Stay: After the Proteus saga, Sean stayed behind on Muir Island while the rest of the X-Men went back to America, partly because without his powers Sean wasn't much use to the team, and also because of Moira.
• Love at First Sight: Fittingly, when he first saw Moira, he was rendered speechless.
• Make Some Noise: His power allows him to use sonic waves to both attack and to fly. In addition to the standard Sonic Scream, he can also "tighten" sound around him to create a barrier, use sonar, and change the tones of his voice to make it more persuasive and subtly influence people.
• No-Sell: As with Cyclops and Havok, Sean and Tom's powers don't effect the other, so their fights usually revolve around them fighting the old fashioned way.
• Officer O'Hara: Before becoming a superhero, he was an NYPD cop.
• Oireland: There's stereotypically Irish, and then there's literally owning a castle full of leprechauns.
• Older and Wiser: Than the rest of the All-New X-Men, save Logan.
• Out of Focus: Of mainline X-Men, he's had a grand total of two lines in the Krakoa era. Despite this, he placed second in the Hellfire Gala X-Men poll, and will be joining the roster of Mauraders.
• Progressively Prettier: In his first few appearances, he was uncomfortably close to the 19th century "Irish neanderthal" stereotype. When he joined the X-Men, he was intentionally redesigned to appear more handsome.
• Retired Badass: Quit active heroics to teach the younger students.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: As with most long-running comics, it varies, but at several points it's shown that smoking does not go well with voice-based powers. (When the team clashes with Alpha Flight, he accidentally gives himself a coughing fit so bad Ororo thinks he's being attacked.)
• Worf Had the Flu: One of the reasons given for his death was that his throat had been slashed by Mystique some years before, and he wasn't entirely up to his full strength at the time.

Sunfire

Shiro Yoshida / Sunfire

Notable Aliases: Famine, Taiyo Kaji, Japan's Ichiban (number one) Son

Nationality: Japanese, American, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men #64 (January, 1970)

Sunfire got his powers from his mother being poisoned by the radiation from the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. He vowed to use his radiation powers to fight a one-man war of revenge on the U.S., with the help of his Manipulative Bastard uncle Tomo. After his uncle revealed his true colors by murdering Sunfire's father, he surrendered himself to authorities. He was invited to join the new version of the X-Men, but only agreed to be on reserve status, because his temper and radiation powers combined means he doesn't play well with others.

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• All Asians Know Martial Arts: His Evil Uncle Tomo made sure he got a good training in martial arts. He is competent enough to fight back against several opponents without using his flame powers, which Rogue found impressive.
• An Arm and a Leg: He lost both his legs to Lady Deathstrike. Apocalypse was kind enough to replace them when he made him a Horseman.
• Anti-Hero: Shiro is rude, belligerent, more than a little racist... but he also loves his country and will do anything to defend it.
• The Atoner: Started drinking out of regret for his time as a Horseman of Apocalypse and was talked into becoming an Avenger by Wolverine so he could find a redemption.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: It’s rarely pointed out in his appearances (due to him being relatively secondary character), but his family is really messed up:
  • First, there's his Evil Uncle Tomo, who forced him into hating USA and killed his father.
  • Then there is his other Evil Uncle Shingen, a crime boss who was really abusive towards his daughter Mariko. He was killed by Wolverine.
  • Mariko herself became a crime boss despite being one of the nicer people in her family. She was killed by another crime boss, but eventually she got better and became the anti-heroic Scarlet Samurai. Mariko and Wolverine also had a foster daughter Amiko.
  • Then there is his paternal half-sister Leyu, who had exactly same powers. And outfit. And she called herself Sunpyre. She was killed by Mystique a year after being introduced.
  • Then there is his super villain cousin Silver Samurai, whom he tried to help to become a hero, but failed, which resulted in a conflict between cousins. After Samurai was killed, his son Shin took up his name and became a super villain himself. Sunfire once fought him with Wolverine.
  • He also had a cousin Yoshi, who died because of drug addiction.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Apocalypse brainwashed Shiro to make him a Horseman of Famine. Emma Frost freed him from Apocalypse's influence, but he then joined Mr. Sinister’s Marauders for a short time.
• Captain Ethnic: He's from the Land of the Rising Sun, his codename is Sunfire, his costume in designed after the Japanese flag, and his powers are basically solar radiation.
• Changed My Mind, Kid: During Giant-Sized X-Men, he agreed to join Charles's new X-Men team, but the minute he hears about what's happened loudly and angrily storms out... only to catch up with the team on the way to Krakoa, still grumbling and complaining the whole way.
• Clashing Cousins: His cousin is the criminal Silver Samurai. He tried to help him to reform, but was eventually betrayed by him.
• Combo Platter Powers: He is able to fly, controls fire and has some radioactive powers. In his short time as Famine he could also make enemies suffer from hunger.
• Crimefighting with Cash: Comes from a very wealthy Yashida clan, which has political ties.
• Death Is Cheap: Killed by a Knull-possessed Cable during the events of King in Black, because his fire powers make him a Man of Kryptonite to the symbiotes. He's quickly given a res.
• Distaff Counterpart: His paternal half-sister Sunpyre. Who just happens to have exactly same power set and costume.
• Evil Uncle: Not one, but two. The first one is Tomo who made him attack USA and later killed his father, the second is Shingen who is a crime boss.
• Face–Heel Turn: After House of M, he became a horseman of Apocalypse (not willingly), but after he broke off the brainwashing, he willingly served Sinister for a time.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Developed this dynamic with Rogue during her solo series.
• Flight: His powers include the ability to fly (he even flew in space couple of times).
• Good is Not Nice: Although he’s one of the good guys (well, most of the time), he’s not the nicest guy around and can be outright mean occasionally.
• Hand Blast: Shoots plasma beams.
• Handicapped Badass: His legs are now cybernetic due to Lady Deathstrike cutting them off.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: At first Shiro was shortly presented as antagonist, then became an X-Man (for about ten minutes) and Japan's beloved hero, then he got brainwashed by Apocalypse, then joined Mr. Sinister's Marauders and finally became an Avenger.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Attempted twice in Uncanny Avengers. Not only did Shiro survive both attempts, he actually got a power-up after the second one.
• Hot-Blooded: Shiro is extremely hot-tempered (no pun intended). He is usually the one who starts a fight without conversation. Also he’s not quite a good team player exactly for this reason.
• Immune to Bullets: Once melted the bullets after some gangsters tried to shoot him down. Averted when Wild Child injures him with bullets.
• Ineffectual Loner: Due to his arrogance and love of working alone, he was never a really good team player. However, he often uses the help of other heroes when he knows he can’t handle by himself. His team-ups include Iron Man, Sub-Mariner and, of course, the X-Men (particularly Rogue and Wolverine).
• Jerkass: Like Quicksilver, he's sometimes a good guy, sometimes a bad guy, often straddles the two lines and jumps between them even more often at times. The one thing that you can count on is for him to be unbelievably rude, obstinate, and just plain obnoxious; regardless of the side that he takes, he's invariably going to be that one guy that no one on the team likes.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: It's in there. Just don't expect him to show it. Or admit it. Case in point, the first time readers meet Mariko, she tells Wolverine her cousin had often spoken about the X-Men with respect. All we'd seen of Shiro was him blustering and insulting them the whole time, before storming out.
• Leeroy Jenkins: He's usually the first to get into battle, which gets him into trouble fairly often. Cost him his legs in the confrontation with Lady Deathstrike.
• My God, What Have I Done?:
  • After he finds out what his uncle did...
  • Also Shiro genuinely felt guilt about his time as a Horseman of Apocalypse and Sinister's Mook.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: When abducted by Apocalypse, Shiro chose to crawl through his base and try to rescue Gazer, another mutant Apocalypse had abducted. Unfortunately by the time Shiro got there Gazer's brainwashing had already sunk in, and Shiro was subsequently brainwashed himself for his troubles.
• Nuclear Mutant: While the original explanation for mutantkind was nuclear power anyway, Shiro is one of the few with a confirmed connection to it - his original origin was that his mom was at Hiroshima (Comic-Book Time means this obviously doesn't work anymore).
• One-Hit Kill: Well, not a kill (however it would be, had it been someone else opposing him), but the way he managed to beat Sabretooth with one punch is really impressive.
• Patriotic Fervor: Japan's national hero and very proud of his country.
• Person of Mass Destruction: His nuclear powers and Alpha-level mutant status make him this. After his power boost in Uncanny Avengers he was the one to destroy a space ship with the highly powerful Apocalypse Twins on the board and his Age of Apocalypse counterpart was capable of destroying a city and injuring Apocalypse no less.
• Playing with Fire: His solar-powered energy blasts are extremely hot.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: He's incredibly racist. In the 70s, he was also sexist on top of that.
• The Power of the Sun: Well, what do you expect from someone who goes by Sunfire?
• Took a Level in Badass: First after becoming Famine, second after getting power boost during his battle with Kang and the Apocalypse Twins.
• Took a Level in Kindness: While still kind of a Jerkass and his traits really Depending on the Author, Shiro seems to become much more level-headed than he was in his early appearances and especially during his Marauders days. For example, during his first encounters with other X-Men he constantly insulted his allies and was known more as a loner. Nowadays he seems to be less rude and caring more about his teammates. He even sincerely apologized to X-Factor after he was brainwashed into attacking them and befriended them after, something he would never have done in the 70s. He also seems to have developed good relationships with some other mutants, including Wolverine, Rogue, Gambit and Polaris.
• We Used to Be Friends: Didn't want to believe Rogue that his cousin Silver Samurai betrayed him and tried to reason with him, before Samurai attacked them.
• Would Hit a Girl: Punched Rogue at least on two occasions.
• Wreathed in Flames: His appearance from Decimation onward had Shiro looking like his Age of Apocalypse counterpart, though with the slight difference of still having his skin.

Colossus

Piotr Nikolaievitch "Peter" Rasputin / Colossus

Notable Aliases: Chrome Dome, The Destroyer of Worlds, Juggernaut, The Killer of Worlds, Little Brother, Pete, Peter Nicholas, Petey, Phoenix, The Proletarian, Russkie, Rasputin, War

Nationality: Russian, Soviet, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May, 1975)

Joined In: Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May, 1975)

A Russian mutant with the ability to transform the entirety of his body into organic, indestructible metal, Colossus was introduced as one of the "all-new, all-different X-Men" who followed in the footsteps of the original roster —alongside Storm, Nightcrawler, and Wolverine— who would also become stalwart mainstays of the team.

Despite his imposing appearance and immense strength, cultivated from years growing up on a Soviet collective farm, Piotr is characterized by his kind soul and love for painting. He may be a physical threat and reliable tank for the X-Men in battle, but violence is frequently his last resort in any given situation — which sometimes works against him.

He's also notable for his extensive relationships among the X-Men. His younger sister, Illyana Rasputin, became the demonic sorceress Magik, while his longtime (on-off) love interest is fan favorite —and eventual leader of the X-Men— Kitty Pryde. And that's not even mentioning his friendship with Wolverine, with whom he'd become the trope maker for the so-called "fastball special." He has a spanning network of relationships among the X-Men's rogues as well, having followed Magneto for a time as one of his Acolytes and having a supervillain older brother, Mikhail Rasputin.

As a longtime X-Man, Colossus has appeared frequently in other media. Most notably, he's appeared throughout the X-Men Film Series since its inception — primarily portrayed by Daniel Cudmore in the original trilogy, while Andre Tricoteux & Stefan Kapičić share the role ^note (through motion capture and voice acting, respectively) in 2016's Deadpool and its 2018 sequel, Deadpool 2.

Colossus has also appeared in just about every cartoon series featuring the X-Men, voiced by a variety of well-known voice actors like Nolan North and Tom Kenny, as well as (non-speaking) appearances in Marvel Anime: X-Men.

Also? He's canonically related to Rasputin the Mad Monk.

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• Arch-Enemy: Mikhail Rasputin, Mr. Sinister and Proteus are his three most recurring and dangerous foes.
  • In X-Men: The Animated Series his Arch-Enemy was Omega Red.
• As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Marginal example, "Piotr" is the polish version of Peter, due to being Russian his name should be spelt "Pyotr"
• Bash Brothers: Most long-runningly with Wolverine, though he has also been half of this with Deadpool and Exodus.
• Battle Couple: With Kitty Pryde. Also, during his stint with X-Force, with Domino.
• Berserk Button: During the 70s, any insult toward Storm was likely to set him off. At one point, Wolverine (pre-character development) yelled at her when she took off on her own during a fight, and Colossus promptly picked him up and tossed him into the distance.
• Beware the Nice Ones: He's a calm, gentle artist. But upset him seriously and you'll end up with his metal fist in your face. Or, in the case of Riptide, twisted in half.
• Big Brother Instinct: to Illyana... initially. No wonder he is hurt after learned that she was Evil All Along in Avengers vs. X-Men.
  • And yet, even after threatening to kill her if he saw her again, he still cares for his "Little Snowflake". Illyana still cares about him too, and both make amends not too long after.
• Big Brother Worship: He deeply respects his own big brother Mikhail, even after the latter's turn to supervillainy, and never gives up on him even at his worst moments. This eventually pays off, as Mikhail was ultimately able to overcome his insanity and the mental manipulations of Mr. Sinister long enough to make a Heel–Face Turn and Heroic Sacrifice for his little brother's safe.
• The Big Guy: He's physically huge (7'5" in his armored form), and his abilities to both ignore and dish out great amounts of damage makes him one of the most powerful X-Men. In the early days he was usually the one to take on people like Juggernaut and Gladiator because he was the only X-Man who would even have a chance against them.
• Big Little Brother: Despite being younger than Mikhail, he's the larger of the two.
• Brainwashed and Crazy:
  • Arcade once brainwashed him into believing he was the Proletarian, a Russian enforcer.
  • Apocalypse also brainwashed him into becoming one of his horsemen at one point.
• Bruiser with a Soft Center: An archetypal example, as he is a comic book strongman whose greatest passion is painting.
• Cain and Abel: Kinda sorta with Mikhail, depending on how Ax-Crazy the latter is that day.
• Cain and Abel and Seth: Ironically enough Illyana is the Cain in this trope, given that she predates Mikhail in terms of creation and has also played a more antagonistic/corrupting role to Piotr in recent years. As this trope and the Rasputins go, Piotr is the Abel, Illyana is the Cain and Mikhail is the latecomer Seth.
• The Cape: After Captain America, he's the best example in the Marvel U. Ironically, the only time he's actually worn a cape was during his Face–Heel Turn stint with the Acolytes.
• Chrome Champion: He can transform at will from a normal (though fairly large and muscular) flesh-and-blood human to what the comics refer to as "organic" osmium steel.
• Chummy Commies: Introduced during the Cold War as a kindhearted Soviet immediately onboard with Professor X’s suggestion that his powers be used for the good of “the whole world”.
• Despair Event Horizon: During the late 80s to early 90s he was put through a long Trauma Conga Line which culminated in him losing both of his siblings. Losing Illyana in particular was his Event Horizon, driving him to renounce Xavier's ways and join Magneto as one of his Acolytes.
• Determinator: Another good reason not to piss him off.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Took this approach toward Kitty Pryde in X-Men: Gold: Persistence appears to have paid off; at the end of issue #20 she asked him to marry her...only to get cold feet and leave him at the altar in issue #30.
• Extra-ore-dinary: He even provides the trope image.
• Face–Heel Turn: Joined Magneto for a while after the aforementioned death of his little sister. His personality didn't change all that much, though, and between this and being Out of Focus his turn to the 'dark side' wasn't very well received. He went back to the X-Teams within a couple of years.
• Fake American: In-universe. Piotr speaks English with a noticeable American accent, so when he passed through the Siege Perilous and ended up amnesiac in New York, he was assumed by everybody (including himself) to be a local.
• Fake Defector: In retrospect he was one of these in his defection to the Acolytes, though he wasn't originally intended to be such (even though he betrayed his comrades almost from the get-go by allowing the X-Men to teleport onto Avalon unhindered).
• Famous Ancestor: His is the infamous Mad Monk Rasputin.
• Fantasy Metals: His armoured form is made with a metal called osmium, the densest element known to man. His power exchanges osmium from this other place with carbon atoms in his own cells to make a super-strong steel alloy.
• Fastball Special: He and Wolverine cornered the market on this, their Combination Attack being both the Trope Maker and Trope Namer.
• Faster Than They Look: It's been commented many times throughout the years that his metallic form is both much faster and more agile than people would think.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • His love for Illyana is not, strictly speaking, a negative, but if it comes down to his Snowflake or anyone else, Piotr will go for Illyana, regardless of anything else.
  • As noted in Heroic Sacrifice Peter will always try to take the bullet for someone else. This gets him in trouble a few times.
• Flat Character: With a liberal dose of Good Is Boring, as unlike his more multifaceted teammates Piotr has been given little characterization over the years beyond "Bruiser with a Soft Center and Incorruptible Pure Pureness". To be fair, this seems to be the way fans like him, as an attempt in the '90s to inject some Darker and Edgier angst into him was not well received and the idea has not been revisited, but if you ever wonder why he always seems to be in the background compared to the likes of fellow 2nd-gen X-Men like Wolverine or Storm, well, this is why.
• Gentle Giant: Colossus is one of the strongest member of the X-Men, and his favourite activities include painting.
• Good Hurts Evil: His Incorruptible Pure Pureness has been shown to be as harmful as his metal body when it comes to most demons and Legions of Hell.
• Heroic Build: He has a very muscular body.
• Heroic Russian Émigré: He was only a farmboy in rural Russia until Xavier recruited him. He became one of the most recognizable mutant heroes, and is generally one of the kindest and most honorable people on the team.
• Heroic Sacrifice: To stop the Legacy Virus, which had infected and eventually killed his sister, Piotr sacrificed himself so that no other mutants would fall victim to it's curse. Don't worry though, he got better.
  • He has a tendency towards this in general. It's part of the reason Kitty breaks up with him once and for all.
• Hidden Depths: He's the team tank and one of the strongest and toughest heroes of the Marvel Universe. He's also a capable painter, and one of the sweetest and most truly gentle people you'd ever want to meet.
• Hopeless Suitor: In the 70s, he had a huge crush on Storm (and due to his innocent nature wasn't exactly good at hiding it). However, Storm didn't return the affection, and the idea eventually vanished, mostly because everyone had a crush on Storm under Chris Claremont's pen.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl:
  • Many times over with Kitty Pryde, who is ever the Tiny Girl to his Huge Guy.
  • Also the case with Kayla, the purple water-bender he lives with in the Savage Land in X-Force (2019).
• Hunk: He's extremely muscular and good-looking.
• Husky Russkie: He's Russian, and very big and muscular even when he's not transformed.
• Implacable Man: You piss him off and nothing will stop him. Riptide found this out the hard way. After the events of Fear Itself, he became The Juggernaut for a time.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: As mentioned above, Colossus is one of the nicest, gentlest, and most decent-hearted of all the X-Men. His "purity of spirit" has been shown to be harmful to the various incarnations of The Legions of Hell, whenever the X-Men have gone up against them - in a crossover with Doctor Strange, he was able to literally open the gates of Hell, he was so pure. Though this turned out to be the first hint something wasn't right about "Hell", as Strange noted that good-hearted as he is, only one guy was supposed to be able to do that. Though he has killed (most famously when he snapped Riptide's neck during the Mutant Massacre), he has to be pushed very far to do it, and it usually involves righteous rage, which doesn't detract from his "purity" in any way.
• Innocent Fanservice Girl: A rare male example. While Colossus is consistently portrayed as one of the most shy, naive and innocent character in the X-Men, his costumes are usually extremely skimpy and revealing.
• The Juggernaut: Literally, after he gains the Power of Cytorrak. Like Cain Marko before him, he becomes a walking engine of destruction that cannot be stopped by physical force. At least, on a good day; Cytorrak eventually starts to weaken his powers because he's not destructive enough.
• Knight Templar Big Brother: He will go through hell and back for his siblings and in Illyana's case has literally gone through hell for her sake.
• Made of Iron: Can take a beating even in his un-armored form, but even tougher when steeled up.
• The Mafiya: He's a member of the Russian mob in Ultimate X-Men.
• Magic Pants: Almost literally; his classic uniform's pants completely disappear when he transforms, leaving only his boots, due to being made of Unstable Molecules. WHY they do this, only the Professor knows...
• Man of Kryptonite: Serves this role whenever the supervillain Proteus is around, as metal is Proteus's Weaksauce Weakness and Colossus is made of it. Because Proteus is a Reality Warper of Physical God proportions, Colossus was forced to Shoot the Dog and kill him, making him the one being Proteus is afraid of when he came back (because of course he came back).
• Martial Pacifist: At heart, he's an artist. He doesn't like violence. But over the years he's become extremely good at it, and as probably the strongest and most durable X-Man, he tends to be first on the front lines.
• May-September Romance: His and Kitty's relationship dates back to roughly when she was thirteen or fourteen^note She turned 15 in an issue of Excalibur, some time after their break-up. and he was at least eighteen (but certainly not more than twenty). This caused him a lot of angst at the time. When a depressed Kitty wants to consummate their relationship before a battle, he refuses due to her age. Things like this disturbed then-Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter to no end, finally leading him to not only demand in no uncertain terms an end to the relationship arc, but to personally write a story arc in Secret Wars (1984) in which Colossus falls in love out of nowhere with alien healer Zsaji (for whom the Human Torch also had the hots - no pun intended) to force a "breakup" story in Uncanny X-Men. They finally consummated their relationship in Astonishing X-Men.
  Wolverine: About damn time.
• Middle Child Syndrome: Averted — Even though he is the middle child there is no evidence that Piotr was regarded with any less love or affection than his siblings, even with his older brother was a famous cosmonaut.
• Mother Russia Makes You Strong: His origin story has him being raised on a Russian collective farm, and he was clearly a hard worker even before his mutation kicked in.
• Mr. Fanservice: He's frequently noted in-universe to be very good looking. It helps that, in order to show off his armored form, his costumes tend to leave a fair amount of him uncovered. His good looks are best summarized in Astonishing X-Men when Emma Frost praises how attractive he was.
  Observer: He's a good looking boy, isn't he?
  Emma Frost: If you like the tall, muscular, square-jawed, unbelievably gorgeous type....I suppose he's all right.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Len Wein came up with the name Peter Rasputin, based on two famous Russian figures: Peter the Great and Rasputin the Mad Monk. Ironically enough, decades later the latter would be retconned into an ancestor of Peter's family.
• New Child Left Behind: During an arc in the Savage Land Piotr, somewhat reluctantly, lost his virginity to a native. Some time later on another mission there he reconnects with her and her new son. It's implicit then that the son is his, but she decided not to tell him. Bloodlines definitively shows he's his son, and in an alternate future he developed the same power set.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: His armored form is extremely hard to damage, even compared to a lot of the other heavyweights in the Marvel Universe.
• Not Brainwashed: All the X-Men thought Piotr had been brainwashed when he made the decision to join Magneto's Acolytes, but no, he was just burned out and at the bottom spiral of a Despair Event Horizon.
• Only Sane Man: During his time as an Acolyte, as he and Only Sane Woman Amelia Voght were the only two members of their ranks who did not worship Magneto as a divine mutant messiah.
• Personality Powers: Piotr has a very protective and self-sacrificing personality, and just so happened to manifest a mutant ability that more or less allows him to be the ultimate human shield. Even his Super-Strength, which more aggressive personalities would use for destructive purposes, is most often used by Colossus to help or support his teammates, the natural use of it for a person without a selfish bone in his body.
• Sealed Inside a Person-Shaped Can: Piotr after becoming the avatar of Cyttorak.
• Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: While they are both very manly physically, in terms of their personalities he and Wolverine are this, with him being the Sensitive Guy to Wolverine's Manly Man.
• Spock Speak: Frequently, but especially after his revival.
• Straight Gay: Ultimate universe only.
• Stripperiffic: A very rare male version. His main costume is very revealing, consisting of his boots, armbands, a red speedo and leotard that's open at sides revealing most of his upper body. This is probably the reason he's almost always in his metal form whenever he's wearing it.
• Stronger Sibling: In terms of pure strength he's easily the strongest of the three Rasputins, and he's also easily the most stable and moral among them.
• Super-Strength: Initially stated to be in the impressive 70-ton range when he was in his teens, but this was bumped up a bit following the Mutant Massacre due to physical maturity and a side-effect of Magneto's treatment on him after getting injured by Riptide, so he's now in the godlike "Class 100" strength (able to lift more than 100 tons) these days.
• Super-Toughness: Even when unarmored he's a big guy with some degree of this.
• Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Colossus is very much tall, dark-haired and really handsome.
• Technical Pacifist: Originally he was one of these, but over the years as his world has grown Darker and Edgier Piotr has had to accept using lethal measures here and there, though he still prefers only to kill when absolutely necessary.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Averted. Piotr is possibly the gentlest and kindest-hearted member of the team, but he will kill someone if necessary. He killed Moira's son Proteus in cold blood, simply because he was so dangerous, there was literally no other option. And when he realised the Marauder Riptide was enjoying killing helpless people he broke his neck with just one hand. In fact, it's because Piotr is usually so kind-hearted that you know when he kills someone, things have gotten very, very serious.
• Token Good Teammate: He served as this during his time as a member of Magneto's Acolytes, in contrast with the far more vicious or bloodthirsty members of the team.
• Too Dumb to Live: A justified example during one of his first times facing Magneto. He turns into his metal form to fight...the guy who controls metal. This was very soon after the 2nd generation's introduction, and the point is made several times that the new team, while powerful, lacks experience and cohesion, and isn't ready to handle Magneto (which is why they're even in a position to have that particular fight in the first place).
• Trauma Conga Line: Starting from the 80s onwards, his sister was abducted by a demon, aged into young adulthood, then aged back down. His parents and everyone he knew on the farm he grew up on were murdered, and then Illyana caught the Legacy Virus and died.
• Unwitting Pawn: Of Illyana.
• Villainous Legacy: Colossus: Bloodlines show that his last name isn't a coincidence, he really is descended from the Mad Monk himself. On his death bed Grigori, who was apparently a mutant, used his powers to imbue his essence into the unborn children of all the women he slept with in a kind of mutant breeding cult with Mister Sinister. This had the effect of corrupting everyone descended from him, as pieces of him drove them to madness and eventually suicide, redistributing his essence to the rest until the final survivor ended up with all of him thus resurrecting him completely.
• We Used to Be Friends: He and Exodus were comrades in the Acolytes and Piotr initially was convinced that Exodus had a "firmer grasp of Magneto's commandments" than the traitor Fabian Cortez. In a more recent and darker example, his relationship with his sister Illyana his also gone this way.
• Will They or Won't They?: Piotr and Kitty in particular have had a strife-ridden relationship. The latest installment in the story of their relationship happens in X-Men Gold. After Piotr proposed to her and Kitty asked for time to think about it, Kitty proposed back in Gold #20. Unfortunately, in Gold #30, Kitty decided to back out at the last minute because of their history, to the point where her powers trigger when he tries to put the ring on and vanishes in front of all their friends. AND THEN, in #31, she's surprised and upset when he tries to leave without saying good-bye.
• The Worf Effect: Frequently in his earlier years, Colossus would be beaten away by the latest enemy of the week. It even got to the point where he started grumbling about it to himself.

Thunderbird I

John Proudstar / Thunderbird I

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May, 1975)

An Apache Indian and Vietnam veteran with the mutant abilities of superspeed, strength, and invulnerability - and super-tracking which was basically a standard requirement for all Native American superheroes throughout the 20th century. He joined the X-Men solely for excitement and glory, despite resenting "the White Man". He died in vain, and acted against orders - trying to keep a minor supervillain from getting away, causing a plane crash that he did not survive. His younger brother, James Proudstar (Warpath), would eventually become a member of the X-Men and X-Force.

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• Anti-Hero: The major factor leading to his character's death. Claremont wanted to kill off one of the characters early in his run (for the shock value, apparently), and Thunderbird was chosen because, as Claremont put it "everything he had, Wolverine had too, plus claws."
• Back from the Dead: After being dead for 46 years (not counting a very brief resurrection that did not last long) John is finally brought back life on Krakoa by the Five thanks to the improvements the Scarlet Witch made to the resurrection protocols in X-Men: The Trial of Magneto.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: The Classic X-Men reprint series included a new backup story in which the X-Men react to his death, and while the word "suicide" is never used it's clear that they think it was exactly that. Storm and Nightcrawler remember times when he seemed obviously troubled and wish they had reached out to him, Banshee wonders "what demons drove [him] to such a mad decision", and Wolverine concludes that he "checked out" because of something that happened to him while he was a Marine.
• Dramatic Irony: A flashback had Logan ruminating that John would likely last the longest of all the new X-Men.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Seemed to exist in a perpetual state of "pissed off".
• Famed In-Story: After his death a legend was built up around him due to him being the first X-Men to die in the field. After his revival by the Five, John was extremely uncomfortable with finding himself remembered more for his death than anything he had done in life by thousands of mutants in a culture he had little connection to.
• Ineffectual Loner: Not to mention a total dick.
• Irrational Hatred: He took an instant dislike to Cyclops (well, in fairness, he took a dislike to everyone). As the first issue of X-Men: Red vol 2 shows, he'll quite happily punch the crud out of anyone related to Scott as well. Including the categorically insane and violent (and possibly unkillable) Vulcan.
• Jerkass: Like Sunfire, he was rude as hell, completely unwilling to work with others, and just generally not a pleasant person.
• Jerk Justifications: An issue of Classic X-Men suggested Thunderbird was initially genuinely interested in becoming an X-Men, and on his first night Iceman attacked him in a fit of childishness, bringing John back to square one.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Basically, if he hadn't been an impetuous moron, he'd probably still be alive today. He was, however, and his decision to jump onto a moving jet to stop a villain from escaping wound up being the bit of blind idiocy that killed him.
• Lightning Bruiser: Superhumanly strong and quite fast as well.
• The Nicknamer: Tended to refer to Cyclops as "One-Eye".
• Not So Invincible After All: Dies on his second mission, having been previously thought of as effectively invulnerable.
• Proud Warrior Race Guy: His sole driving motivation with the team was to prove the Apache were still a strong people.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Killed off in his third appearance.
• Senseless Sacrifice: The supervillain whose jet he was killed bringing down? Still around today, and way more powerful than he was back then.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Classic X-Men revealed that he had lied about his age to join the Marines, and returned home from war with some major issues as a result. It's strongly implied that his PTSD was a factor in the recklessness that got him killed.
• Super-Strength: Not as strong as Colossus, but strong enough to stop a running bison.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He was questioning his decision to join the team up until his death.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Lasted a grand total of three issues. Even flashback issues and retcons haven't been able to add much, since his time with the X-Men was so short.

X-Men '80s Members

Lockheed

Lockheed

Notable Aliases: Frumious Bandersnatch

Nationality: Flock, Krakoan

Species: Flock

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #166 (February, 1983)

Lockheed is a purple, winged, quadrupedal alien that resembles a small dragon. He is the longtime companion of Kitty Pryde with whom he shares a special bond. He is a valued member of the X-Men and founding member of The Pet Avengers.

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• Breath Weapon: He wouldn't be a dragon without a fire breath.
• The Dreaded: Played for Laughs. Lockheed is feared by all the Brood. When the Brood fled in terror from him, the X-Men assumed that he was some terrible monster that the Brood was very afraid of.
• Familiar: The relationship between Kitty Pryde and her pet dragon, Lockheed, fits the trope fairly nicely, despite not being of a supernatural nature.
• Killer Rabbit: Lockheed, a tiny sapient alien dragon that befriended Kitty Pryde. He's so adorable that most people tend to forget the "sapient" and "dragon" parts.
  • In his introduction, the Brood were running terrified from him as he burnt their nests. The X-Men assumed he was some terrible monster until they finally saw him...
• Non-Human Sidekick: Small but intelligent, he's Kitty Pryde's partner. He also gets along with Magik.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Has many traits which western society considers common to dragons. He's reptilian, he has wings he uses to fly, he has a long snout with sharp teeth, breathes fire, and demonstrates intelligence beyond that of an animal. He is different from other dragons in that he's about the same size as a domestic cat, is purple, didn't say a word for many years despite being capable of speech, sometimes stands on his hind legs, and seems to have opposable thumbs on his front legs, He's a Flock, which are aliens that look very similar to dragons.
• Parrot Pet Position: Lockheed often rides on Kitty Pryde's shoulder, though in a twist on this trope he actually considers her to be his pet.
• Purple Is Powerful: His body is purple and he should not be underestimated because of his size.
• Runaway Groom: Actually Lockheed did not abandon his fiancée at the altar out of malice, but rather the abandonment of The Flock and his fiancée because he went to Earth with Kitty Pryde after he met her and saved her from a swarm of Brood on the Brood homeworld. As he recovers from the wounds obtained from fighting Doctor Doom, his astral form is seized by the Flock and put on trial for treason for abandoning his species and his fiancée. After managing to explain his motives and save his teammates from a piloting accident, he is officially exiled from his race, but on friendly terms.
• Shoulder-Sized Dragon: He's small enough to ride on Kitty's shoulder.
• Team Pet: He, when Kitty Pryde is on the team, most of the time. Lockheed isn't harmless, though — when roused to fighting fury, he's single-handedly routed Brood hunter packs and utterly annihilated an entire squad of alien Sidri hunters. Both have given respectable fights to experienced X-Men. He can also speak and has actually been spying on the X-Men, albeit benevolently, for quite some time.
• This Is My Human: Some X-Men stories imply that Lockheed regards Kitty Pryde this way. In Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men, it is revealed that Lockheed is very intelligent, and was working for S.W.O.R.D. to spy on the X-Men. Presumably he was doing so in part to protect "his girl".

Phoenix II / Marvel Girl III / Prestige

Rachel "Ray" Anne Summers/Grey / Prestige

Nationality: American (Earth-811)

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men #141 (January, 1981)

"I'm not my mother. I'm not Phoenix. I'm my own woman... and before I'm done... they'll wish I were the Phoenix."

— Rachel Summers, Uncanny X-Men #468

Rachel Summers, or Rachel Grey, and also known with the alias Phoenix, Marvel Girl and Prestige, is a Marvel Comics mutant superheroine who is associated with the X-Men. She debuted in X-Men #141 (January 1981), as part of the Days of Future Past storyline. Her first appearance in the main Marvel Universe would come three years later in New Mutants #18. She was created by Chris Claremont, John Byrne, and John Romita, Jr..

Rachel is the daughter of Cyclops and Jean Grey from an alternate dystopian future timeline where Senator Robert Kelly was assassinated, and as a result, the Sentinels were allowed to take over the world. Rachel used her telepathy to send Katherine Pryde's mind to the past so she could save Senator Kelly. Katherine succeeded but their timeline remained unchanged, so Rachel used the Phoenix Force to go back in time and find out what had gone wrong. Rachel discovered she was stuck into an alternate timeline where her mother was dead and her father married to Madelyne Pryor. She'd join the X-Men and later Excalibur.

Rachel remained with the team until her parents' wedding in X-Men #30. Then she travelled to another far-flung remote future where the Earth was a desert world ruled by Apocalypse. Rachel founded the Askani in order to oppose him, and brought Scott and Jean to the future to raise Cable.

However, the events of The Twelve changed the timeline, and Rachel was kidnapped by a cyborg soldier called Gaunt. She was rescued and brought back to the present by her brother Cable, and attempted to lead a normal life until circumstances forced her to join the X-Men again.

Rachel was Marvel's first (of many) "child from the future" characters, one of the best known, and one of the very few who stuck around. In addition to her mother's telepathy and telekinesis, Rachel can also send her astral form through time and across realities. She doesn't do this often though, since outside her stint with Excalibur - who were frequently involved in multiversal shenanigans - the rules of time travel make it largely ineffective.

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• All-Loving Hero: At heart, under her spiky temper, enough that for a while, the Phoenix entrusts her with all of its power - and we mean all of it.
• Alternate Timeline: The universe she is from, Earth-811, was originally one of the possible Bad Futures of Earth-616, but was later retconned into being a completely Alternate Universe that paralleled Earth-616 (except for a few details revolving Jean Grey's relationship to the Phoenix Force) up to Senator Kelly's assassination.
• Alternate Self: Averted; In an otherdimensional space where inhabitants' alternate selves can be manifested, Rachel can only summon aspects of her past, meaning she is apparently wholly unique in the multiverse. This saddens her, as this means her tragic life is the only one in which she could exist.
• Ambiguously Gay: Another Claremont character, see her "special friendship" with Kitty. The ambiguity comes from Claremont refusing to outright say it, and every other writer ignoring it in favour of having both dating guys exclusively.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Phoenix, when she was Phoenix Force Avatar.
• Anti-Hero: Of the Knight in Sour Armor variety, although she started as a Pragmatic Hero or Unscrupulous Hero.
• Anti-Hero Substitute: Zig-Zagged. At first glance, she's one to her mother, Jean Grey - she certainly the style, as well as the whole 'younger and angrier' aspect. However, unlike her mother, she held the Phoenix Force for years without losing control, and proved to be an All-Loving Hero like her mother (if a more sarky version), on the grounds that Vengeance Feels Empty.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: During one of Excalibur's stops on the Cross-Time Caper, Rachel temporarily burns out her powers (causing the team to be temporarily stranded, since her powers are what allowed them to jump between universes). In the meantime, she's able to fight instead by copying Kitty Pryde's ninja skills. Kitty never taught Rachel any of those skills, she was simply able to duplicate them by watching Kitty use them. Once.
• Badass Longcoat: Her costume from Schism to ResurrXion sported a long red trenchcoat with many tails, resembling the tailfeathers of a bird.
• Bad Future: Rachel escaped from, pretty much, the ultimate Crapsack World. One of her driving motivations is preventing it from coming about, or at least preparing her students to face it.
• Betty and Veronica: In Excalibur she was the Veronica, Shadowcat was the Betty, and Alistaire Stuart was the Archie.
• Big Sister Instinct: For young Nathan Summers, before he became Cable. When Nathan was still young and had to be sent to an alternate future after he was infected by Apocalypse's Techno-Organic Virus, Rachel mentally took Scott and Jean to have a honeymoon to the future so that they could raise young Nathan properly.
• Bodyguarding a Badass: In House of M reality, she becomes bodyguard for Psylocke, who is an Action Girl herself.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: She has a tendency to get mind-controlled into being a Hound or turning against the X-Men. 2018 alone saw her brainwashed at least three times. ^note She's controlled by Mesmero in Gold, Cassandra Nova in Red, and Ahab in Extermination.
• Break the Cutie: Put simply, near every event in her life has served this purpose in some way or another.
• Brought Down to Badass: Just slightly before War of Kings, the fragments of Phoenix power she still had in her unceremoniously up and left mid-fight. This still left Rach with her Omega-level telekinetic powers.
• Celibate Hero: Rachel had a relationship with a grown-up Franklin Richards in her own timeline, who was killed before her eyes. After that, she wasn't interested in romance for a long time.
• Chew Toy: Rachel is one of those characters who goes through a hell of a lot of misery with very little positive gain. Over and over and over again.
• Civvie Spandex: Danskins and leg warmers, before becoming Phoenix.
• Clothing Damage: Her green outfit from her X.S.E. days got shredded during her time in outer-space, and without the necessary resources to rebuild, she was forced to improvise with what she had.
• Comic Book Death: In the 90s, she got shunted off to Cable's future, where she lived out her life and died of old age. This got undone when that future stopped existing, and Rach managed to come back to her early 20s.
• Dark Feminine Light Feminine: With Shadowcat, in terms of fashion sense (and perhaps backstory) if nothing else. Her personality, however, isn't especially dark.
• Depending on the Artist: The size and shape of her Hound markings and her eyes, which, though usually green, are sometimes coloured blue - which would be just about the only feature she inherited from her father (whose eyes are blue behind the optic blasts).
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Galactus. Though technically, Rachel's own consciousness was in a coma while the Phoenix took him on. Just before that, however, she'd gone toe to toe with Necrom, the Anti-Phoenix, who hurled planets at her, reignited stars to try and destroy her, and was condensing the multiverse into a singularity to feed off and allow him to ascend to godhood. She won, albeit barely.
• Divine Parentage: According to her creator, Chris Claremont, Rachel's father isn't Scott Summers, but the Phoenix Force itself. This is quietly ignored by everyone else. That being said, there is a general acknowledgement that she has a somewhat special relationship with the entity in question.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: To an extent as a teacher at the Jean Grey School during Wolverine and the X-Men to the point of being being noticeably grumpier than usual. Then again, if you had to teach Kid Gladiator and keep Omega class teenage rebel and generalised irritating little twit Quentin Quire in check, you'd wind up more than a little annoyed. When Logan asks her about this, she explains that she feels like the Bad Future that she came from is coming for them, and they have to be prepared.
• Evil Costume Switch: Subverted in Excalibur. She eventually ditches her original spiked red bodysuit (which was based on her Hound costume) and settles for the blood-red ensemble of Dark Phoenix. But she's not pulling a Face–Heel Turn; she just prefers these colours over "Light" Phoenix's costume. "[Dark Phoenix] might have been a threat to the universe... but she had great taste in clothes!"
• Facial Markings: Her Hound marks are almost always tattoos but sometimes scars, depending on the writer/artist - their shape, number, and coverage also depend (recently, they've usually been depicted as two reddish triangular tattoos pointing inward on her cheerks). A Phoenix emblem flared up over her left eye during her Marvel Girl years when she used her powers, even when she didn't have the Phoenix Force fragment. Her Hound marks are concealed telepathically, but she drops the illusion when she wants to be more intimidating. Or when she's too pissed off to concentrate on it.
• Fanservice Pack: By the time Excalibur was formed, she was insanely hot (but that's Alan Davis for you).
• Fiery Redhead: Not only does she fit the personality trope, but she also happened to manifest her powers in the form of giant birds made of fire when she was Phoenix Force Avatar. She still displays a non-Phoenix fiery aura these days.
• Genocide Survivor: Rachel is a survivor of an anti-mutant genocide that happened in the timeline she came from.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: And glowing tattoos, come to that.
• Hot Wings: Starting with taking on the Phoenix mantle, and in later comics depicted as blue flames instead of yellow.
• Hunter Of Her Own Kind: In the future, when she was a Hound.
• Identical Grandson: Zizagged. She does look incredibly like Jean, and is often drawn as such, to the point where the only differing features are her usually short hair, Hound markings (which are often concealed), and Depending on the Artist, blue eyes (like her father), though she's usually drawn with green eyes. However, she's also sometimes drawn looking utterly dissimilar.
• I Have Many Names: Rachel Grey, Marvel Girl, Phoenix, Mother Askani, R'chell, Revenant, Prestige.
• I Have No Son!: Inflicted on her by her own grandmother, just before the other woman was horribly killed by the Shi'ar Death Commandos.
• In-Series Nickname: Ray.
• I Was Quite a Fashion Victim: While some of her costumes were dodgy, there have been worse. However, her buzzcut and her mullet are close competitors for the title of 'worst hairstyle in comics'. Thankfully, she has a much nicer bob cut these days.
• Kid from the Future: She's the daughter of Scott Summers and Jean Grey in the "Days of Future Past" timeline's future, who goes back in time and joins various X-Teams. Quite possibly the Trope Codifier for it.
• Lady-In-Waiting: In House of M reality, she becomes lady-in-waiting for Psylocke, princess of British Empire.
• Last of Her Kind: She's one of the last of the Grey family line after most of her family were brutally murdered by Shi'ar Death Commandos. The only currently extant other examples are Cable, Nate Grey, and Jean herself after her resurrection - and also possibly Maddie Pryor, though no one's seen her around recently.
• Legacy Character: She has taken on both of her mother's identities, as Phoenix and Marvel Girl.
• Made a Slave: Her childhood and adolescence were spent as a Hound, a brainwashed and tortured slave of an oppressive government.
  • And again, after she came back from the dead, courtesy of Elias Bogan. Mind Rape was also involved. The X-Men at least managed to save her that time, though it did alter the look of Rachel's powers.
• Mindlink Mates: Siblings example. She created a psi-bond with Cable shortly after his birth. It is unknown if that link still exists, however.
  • Of a sort with Korvus - she absorbed the power of his Phoenix Blade and it led to a mental connection and them dating, as well as influencing her personality for the darker. In the end, Rachel recognised this and broke up with him, presumably breaking the link too (though her mother taking back the Phoenix fragment she absorbed might also have been behind it), though they remained on good terms.
• Mind Rape: Unusually susceptible to this, especially considering her powers and their scale - though, in fairness, the perpetrators are usually enormously powerful beings like Selene, Elias Bogan, Maddie Pryor, and Emma Frost (who noted that the only reason she could do it was because Rachel was all raw power and no skill). Her background and conditioning as a Hound might have something to do with it. It has also diminished considerably as she got telepathic lessons from Emma Frost.
  • She's also more than capable of dishing this out, as Quentin Quire found out when he tried to taunt her by bringing up her memories of her horrific childhood. The result was Quire getting a Psychic Nosebleed and keeling over about two seconds later.
• Most Common Superpower: Originally averted: in her first appearances, Rachel was skinny, flat-chested and rather unattractive, since she came from a concentration camp, being explicitly compared to a Holocaust victim by Wolverine (who, having served in WWII, would know). Of course, she filled out eventually (which, considering that her mother's vast power-set includes the Most Common Superpower, is not exactly surprising) - something helped by her visit to the Mojoverse's Body Shoppe.
• Ms. Fanservice: When she disappeared in Uncanny X-Men, Rachel was a stick-thin tomboy who usually wore gym clothes. When she reappeared in Excalibur, she had a much more developed "movie-star" figure (as she had spent time in the Mojo Universe) and wore a skintight, stiletto-heeled, spike-studded, red leather catsuit when on duty, and as little as possible off duty. This was followed by a skirt during her Marvel Girl days. She's toned it down since she came back from space, but she still looks like a younger (or older, around Teen Jean, who Rachel dubbed 'Baby Momma') version of her famously drop dead gorgeous mother and still has a tendency towards tight clothing.
  • Lampshaded at one point during Excalibur when she and Kitty go shopping, dissatisfied with the conservative suit and pumps Kitty picks out for her she uses her powers to re-arrange Kitty's outfit to resemble something Rachel normally wears. Kitty immediately thinks that she looks like a hooker.
  • Later, also during Excalibur, she ends up disguising herself as Rachel, right down to costume, and grumbles at how Rachel possibly fits into something so ludicrously tight.
• Nom de Mom: After Cyclops hooked up with Emma Frost after Jean's death, she started using her biological mother's last name to voice her disgust, and has kept it ever since.
• "Not So Different" Remark: The Phoenix, while possessing her comatose body, gets one of these from Galactus in Excalibur after she attacked him in a misguided attempt to protect a world, since overextending her Phoenix powers shortens the lifespan of the universe. Unusually for this trope it actually does give her a new perspective on Gally.
  "Who is the greater evil, Starchilde? I, the devourer of life that has run its course... or you, who denies existence to future generations?"
• Noodle Incident: Her transformation into a reptile-humanoid thing is either treated as this, or quietly ignored these days.
• The Phoenix: She kept the motif even after ditching the actual cosmic critter itself. Rachel's connection with the Phoenix isn't in a constant state of retcon like her mother's; she and the Phoenix were merged for years, then separated via a fairly complicated (though simple by Summers/Grey family standards) Time Travel storyline. She also never went Dark Phoenix like Jean, despite generally being more the hot-tempered of the two, but she came close to it a couple of times.
• Progressively Prettier: As mentioned above, originally, Rachel, in both actual art and in spoken dialogue concerning her is shown to be borderline emaciated, with a very unflattering buzz-cut. These end up being removed later on.
• Psychic Powers: Telepathy and telekinesis.
• Scaled Up: An infamous heroic example; during a 2005 trip to the Savage Land, she was brainwashed by a telepathic member of a race of lizard people into believing herself to be one of them. Because of the strength and fine-control of her telekinesis, her body started gradually morphing into a lizard-woman. Once she snapped out of it, she reversed the change in the space of a single issue. Aside from occasional jokes, it has been quietly ignored ever since.
• Sensor Character: When she was a Hound, she was forced to use her psionic abilities to detect and hunt down mutants in a dystopic alternate future. She's regularly called on by other characters to employ those skills, and eventually reconciles herself to using them for that.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: She came from a future where mutants were outlawed, hunted down by the military or locked into concentration camps. She was drugged, brainwashed and forced to use her telepathic abilities to track down mutants. Wolverine once compared her to Holocaust survivors.
• Ship Tease:
  • A metric ton's worth with Kitty Pryde. One issue has her being heartbroken over Kitty being... together with a just-back-from-the-dead Colossus. Chris Claremont, creator of both characters, enthusiastically fanned the flames by saying that Rachel was actually the love of Kitty's life. It is possible that he meant this in a Platonic Life-Partners sense, but considering that this is the same man who codified the Mystique/Destiny relationship and tried to reveal Nightcrawler as their son, with Mystique having transformed into a man to impregnate Destiny, it seems unlikely.
  • One issue has a brief moment between her and Nightcrawler... which didn't get mentioned again or go anywhere for 12 years. Letters to the editor have noted that their recent romance seemed to come out of nowhere.
• Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: Like her mother, she has red hair and green eyes (though, Depending on the Artist, they can come out blue).
• Sins of Our Fathers: Rachel was almost killed because of the crimes her mother had committed as Dark Phoenix. Of the entire rest of her mother's family, however, she is the Sole Survivor.
• Sole Survivor: From a technical point of view, of the Grey family line, who were all murdered by the Shi'ar Death Commandos on the belief it would prevent the Phoenix taking any of them as hosts.
• So Proud of You: Rachel has been on the receiving end of several of these:
  • In the third issue of "Adventures of Cyclops and Phoenix", after discovering Rachel is still mind-linked to Nathan, struggling to protect her brother despite being in a coma herself, Scott stays beside her bed and states he's proud of being her father:
    Scott: Sorry... I never treated you much like a daughter when I had the chance. I just wanted you to know... How very proud I am to have been your father.
  • When they meet again after Grant Morrison's run, Cyclops reiterates she makes Jean and him proud◊.
    Scott: I'm glad you kept Jean's name. You make us both very proud.
• Spikes of Villainy: Originally, Rachel's Hound uniform was depicted as black with metal studs around the neck and wrists, down her front, and along the outside of her arms and legs. Her Excalibur catsuit was an adaptation of this: red with spikes instead of studs, and none on the legs. Alan Davis consistently drew the black studded uniform in flashbacks, but other artists instead put Rachel in the very same red. The outfit mix-up may have started with Days of the Future Present, where Rachel refers to her costume as her "Hound uniform" even though it's really a variation.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Looks exactly like Jean, only with shorter hair.
• Superpower Lottery: Like her mother, Rachel has telekinesis and telepathy so powerful, it's almost limitless even when she's not Phoenix.
• Superpowerful Genetics: She inherits her mother's psychic powers.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: During periods when Jean Grey has been rendered temporarily dead or otherwise unusable, she has been substituted numerous times, most notably by Rachel.
• Tangled Family Tree: Obviously.
• Vengeance Feels Empty: A recurring theme with her, surprisingly.
  • During her return to the Days of Future Past reality, she spares Ahab, largely on these grounds, being content with the Sentinels having been reprogrammed to preserve life.
  • During War of Kings, she gets the chance to head-splode the Shi'ar Death Commando who led the extermination of her family. She doesn't enjoy it, and promptly breaks down in tears.
  • During her time on the all-female X-Men, she saves the life of the Shi'ar official who suggested the 'exterminate the Grey family' plan in order to prevent another Phoenix host arising... though, granted, after being conflicted over the point. Instead, her ultimate response is to telepathically force him to feel how she feels, to make him understand, and leaves it at that.
• The Worf Effect: Like all incredibly powerful psychics, whenever the plots needs it, Ray tends to be taken out of action. In fact, X-Men: Gold, X-Men: Red, and Extermination saw her get brainwashed no less three times in the span of a few months (though, granted, in the latter two cases it was by a hideously powerful telepath - Cassandra Nova - and a man who dedicated a lifetime to brainwashing mutants, especially Rachel - Ahab).
• Your Mind Makes It Real: When she's brainwashed anthropomorphic dinosaurs in the Savage Land into believing she's one of them she starts to telekinetically rewrite her own DNA and make it true.

Forge

Forge

Notable Aliases: Maker, Skitch

Nationality: American, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #184 (August, 1984)

A Cheyenne Indian, born to be a shaman. He ran from his responsibilities and joined the military, only to conjure up some badassery in Vietnam and releasing the Trickster. Then he worked for the US government as their gadget man, only to create the gun that stripped Storm (accidentally: it was meant to be Rogue) of her powers. He nursed her back to health, then got a What the Hell, Hero? for it when she found out he was at fault. Sacrificed the X-Men (at the time) with their permission to lock away the entity he had released, after it wreaked havoc in Dallas. He eventually joined the X-Men and wanted to marry Storm, but ultimately left her (and the team) for Mystique when he felt Ororo didn't love him. You can imagine how well that relationship went, and he regretted his actions when Storm went on to marry the Black Panther. It is theorized he'll become the founder of the X.U.E. (Xavier's Underground Enforcers) in Bishop's future.

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• Anti-Hero: Originally usually presented as mixed traits from type II and IV, but debatable as he technically started out as a weapon-dealing, ex-Vietnam war criminal, so Warren Ellis probably had a good point in interpreting him as type V or a Designated Hero Villain Protagonist.
• Artificial Limbs: His right hand and leg are cybernetic.
• The Atoner: He joined the X-Men to make up for making a superhuman-depowering gun. And also in the hope of getting into Storm's pants.
• Ditzy Genius: In X-Men Evolution and Wolverine and the X-Men cartoon.
• Felony Misdemeanor: Storm fans hated Forge for breaking up with her just as she was going to accept his proposal, leaving her for Mystique. Debate over who was wrong for the break up can get intense, but the two ex-lovers eventually met up and agreed that both were at fault to some extent.
• Florence Nightingale Effect: Storm first, then Mystique.
• Gadgeteer Genius:
• Literal Disarming: He had his bionic hand (and leg) removed by Cameron Hodge during the X-Tinction Agenda crossover to make him less dangerous. It was also twisted payback for deliberately putting himself in stasis so nobody could find the X-Men's plan by scanning his mind.
• Magical Native American: Doesn't come up very often.
• Mr. Fixit: His mutant ability helps him build machines by simply imagining what they should do, rather than working out the pesky details.
• No Name Given: He has only ever been referred to as Forge.
• Older Than They Look: Since his origin is still entrenched in Vietnam with no Retcon yet to update him to a more current war for his backstory, he's fallen into this trope. By now, he'd have to be in his early 60s at the least to have served in the Vietnam War.
• Science Wizard: Forge's mutant power gives him a natural intuition for inventing mechanical devices. He also has some knowledge of Native American magic though he rarely uses it.
• Techno Wizard: A classic example.
  • In X-Men (2019), this was actually expanded upon; he's actually the most powerful mutant of his power classification, and the only reason he isn't considered an Omega-level mutant^note which, in Hickman's run, is established as mutants who have registered/reached an undefinable upper limit of their power's specific classification is due to having been surpassed by non-mutant humans (i.e., Tony Stark).
• Totally Radical: In X-Men Evolution cartoon. Made rather funny because he actually looked a LOT like Fez from That '70s Show.
• The Vietnam Vet: He served in Vietnam, but Comic-Book Time is not in effect.

X-Men '90s Members

Bishop

Lucas Bishop

Notable Aliases: Red Bishop, Archbishop, Bish, Sergeant, Major

Nationality: American, Krakoan

Species: Human Mutant Cyborg

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #282 (November, 1991)

Bishop, full name Lucas Bishop, is a time-traveling cop from the future who found himself stuck in the past after chasing there a mutant criminal rebellion started by Trevor Fitzroy. He took on the task of terminating with extreme prejudice the remnants of the rebellion, but the task proved too difficult and he ended up being captured by the X-Men, who were interested in stopping his violent ways. It's then revealed that he comes from a post-dystopic future in which humans and mutants joined forces to stop a Sentinel takeover, after which a special force named Xavier's Security Enforcers was created to police the mutant population. Now without a way to return, but with possibly a way to avoid such a Bad Future, Bishop became an X-Man and lent his big guns and military training to their cause.

Post-Decimation he underwent a rather drastic Face–Heel Turn and turned into an Evil Counterpart to Cable, losing an arm along the way, dividing his time between time travel, scheming, and attempting to shoot Cable with very large guns. And global scale genocide. After Avengers Vs. X-Men, he returned to the modern day, where his allegiances have been messy.

He got four limited series including the self-titled Bishop series, where he tracked and fought Mountjoy; XSE, which showcased his past (future); and its sequel — Bishop: Xavier's Security Enforcers. He also teamed up with Gambit to oppose Stryfe in Gambit and Bishop: Sons of the Atom, where he ended up being possessed by a Phoenix-like cosmic entity named Bete Noir. He also starred in the series Bishop: The Last X-Man from 1999 to 2001, in which he was trapped in another alternate timeline. He appeared regularly in District X from 2004 to 2005, a police procedural set in a mutant ghetto in New York City. Finally, He also starred in the House of M tie-in, Mutopia.

He is portrayed by Omar Sy in X-Men: Days of Future Past.

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• '90s Anti-Hero: A solid one on the trail of Cable: a big, rugged vigilante with large weapons and hailing from a dark future. Unlike Cable, however, Bishop is actually more of an early Deconstruction of the trope, as his violent methods only caused him trouble both in and out of the X-Men after he came to present time. Also, he is a downplayed example, as while Cable was a professional warzone survivor, Bishop was just a hardcore police officer and never quite went into outright Sociopathic Hero territory.
• The Ace: Was this during his X.S.E (Xavier Security Enforcers — the mutant policing force created after the Summers’ Rebellion) days as he was the youngest cadet ever (until his sister Shard broke his record the following year) admitted on the force. He was also in charge of a three man unit that was considered the best on the force.
• And Show It to You: He kills the future version of Cannonball by ripping his heart out with his cyber-arm's tentacles.
• Anti-Climax: For years he was convinced Gambit would betray and destroy the X-Men. As it turns out, the culprit in Bishop's future was Onslaught. The two patched things up with a simple apology from Bishop, and actually became Fire-Forged Friends after the fact.
• Anti-Hero: Started out more as Unscrupulous Hero, and softened to Pragmatic Hero over the years before his Face–Heel Turn. Now he's back to being an Anti-Hero.
• The Apprentice: Was put under Storm's tutelage. Although it was more of a formality, as Bishop was quite trained already, he appreciated it much.
• Arch-Enemy: Trevor Fitzroy and Cable.
• Artificial Limbs: Gained (or more accurately, stole) a mechanical arm after losing his left arm to the mutant-eating monster Predator X.
• Awesome Aussie: His parents were Austalian (his mom was an Australian Aborigine) and he was conceived there. (By the time he was born, the entire continent was a radioactive wasteland. We did mention he was from a Crapsack Future, yes?) He is also very badass (when he's not trying to kill children).
• Ax-Crazy: After his Face–Heel Turn, he more or less dropped any pretense of heroism and became a really, really nasty piece of work.
• Bad Future: Actually a post-bad future, as Bishop's native timeline was a society that had successfully rebuilt itself after a war against the Sentinels. However, it wasn't exactly an utopia either, as the need for an elite mutant police with big guns can attest.
• Bash Brothers: With Gambit after their reconciliation.
• BFG: Bishop's powers aren't obvious at first glance, so like Cable, readers might think that his gigantic weapons are his power.
• Big Brother Instinct: He is (or, more accurately, was) very protective of his little sister, Shard.
• The Big Guy: He developed into this role after joining X-Men. It helps that he's one of the physically biggest members (one of his earliest appearances has him at least a head taller than the already pretty tall Cyclops and Gambit, and Colossus is notably not an entire head taller than him).
• The Bus Came Back: He returned after Avengers Vs. X-Men.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: He's so huge and muscled that Colossus of all people in his armored form has trouble restraining him — though that might have something to do with how he can translate absorbed energy to Super-Strength.
• Chess Motifs: Not overtly, but the issue that introduced Bishop had Professor X playing chess with Forge and winning by checkmate with a bishop...
• The Chew Toy: He has the particularly nasty Running Gag of being often possessed by bad guys: first by Mountjoy, later by Bete Noir, then by the Demon Bear, and finally by Cassandra Nova (and that without counting a psychic virus created by the Shadow King).
• Combat Tentacles: His artificial arm could deploy several tiny tentacles.
• Continuity Snarl: His Face–Heel Turn was the result of this as Messiah Complex stating that Hope was responsible for his state of his Bad Future—which flew right in the face of what was established, which was one of the X-Men themselves (Professor X by way of Onslaught) losing their shit, killing most of the X-Men^note Gambit was implied to have been the Sole Survivor as a character in Bishop's time named the Witness, looked like an older LeBeau and talked like him, which led Bishop to believe Gambit betrayed the team, and attacking the world.
• Cowboy Cop: As he comes from the dystopian future, he started off as a brash mutant cop who had difficulty with adjusting the X-Men before finally settling down until his Face–Heel Turn. Also deconstructed, as in his own time, he was a By-the-Book Cop — it's just that the book was so different, that in this time, he came off as an Ax-Crazy Vigilante Man. As he's adjusted to the present day, he's edged ever closer to what we would consider a By-the-Book Cop (another way that he serves as a foil to Cable, whose Cowboy-ness waxes and wanes, but never disappears).
• Demonic Possession: Has been possessed many times, but Bete Noir and the Demon Bear are the only examples that qualify as demonic.
• Determinator: One thing that is frequently noted about him, including by Cable (a starring example of this in his own right), is that he just. Does. Not. Give. Up. Ever.
• Divergent Character Evolution: Inverted with his thematical relationship to the other 90's X-Man antihero, Cable. Although Bishop started as a mild deconstruction of everything Cable represented, he ended up taking a lot of traits from him when he became bent on chasing Cable and Hope. This includes an artificial arm (which was actually reverse engineered by Forge after Cable's), a shiny eye (both of his eyes are, but artists of this period liked to draw him with a single eye glowing red a la Terminator) and a much darker personality (to the extent he did much worse things than Cable would have even considered).
• Enemy Mine: Bishop and Gambit are forced to ally with Stryfe to try to stop the Bete Noir, which is finally accomplished by Stryfe's Heroic Sacrifice. This continues after he's revealed to have survived, as Bishop needed some help in his task of killing Hope, but he ends up betraying Stryfe when their goals divert.
• Energy Absorption: His power allows him to absorb several kinds of energy, including psychic energy, as well as redirecting it in the form of laser blasts.
• Evil Counterpart: Of Cable during his villain run. Before that, he was somewhat like Cable's civilized counterpart.
• Face–Heel Turn: For a time. His attempt to kill Hope turned him against the rest of the X-Men.
• Facial Markings: As he comes from the Bad Future, he has an 'M' (for Mutant) branded on his right eye (it's apparently a genetically engineered disease "branded to his DNA", and can't be removed by anything).
• Fights Like a Normal: Subverted. He does use his powers when fighting, but he doesn't bother to if he can solve it with his gun.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: Being from a Bad Future, he had serious problems with the whole "don't kill people" thing for a time.
• Future Badass: Subverted in that he has not born yet in this era, but he's a badass from the future nonetheless.
• Genius Bruiser: Bishop is an angry black man who is The Big Guy with an unending array of BFGs...but he also plays chess in his head with Charles Xavier, is a homicide detective who frequently investigates cases involving mutants, and is in general a well–read, sensitive gentleman and a surprisingly good cook. ...when he isn't angry and shooting you.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: When using his powers, his eyes glow red.
• Graceful Loser: After getting stranded in an apocalyptic future by Cable, thus losing all his chances to kill Hope (and being, you know, in an apocalyptic future, presumably forever), Lucas just sits down and muses "well played, Nathan" with a melancholic smile.
• Guile Hero: Deceived one of the Morlocks into blasting him with an energetic ray, which only added to Bishop's energy reserves, by making the mook believe he would be screwed if hit.
• Heel Realization: After failing in his mission to kill Hope and getting stranded in a lost future, Bishop ponders his own role in shaping her and for the first time wonders whether he was really doing the best thing. We don't get to see what comes out of those thoughts, as the next time we see Bishop he's possessed by the Demon Bear, and the very next he is left in a coma after getting his mind scrambled.
• Inspector Javert:
  • To Gambit, who he suspected of being the X-Men's traitor (it turned out to be Onslaught), which he apologised for.
  • Briefly to Nate Grey, because Nate was an unknown factor as someone who wasn't from his past, having hopped over from the Age of Apocalypse timeline. The fact that Nate was also a Person of Mass Destruction with an attitude problem and an unfortunate habit of Power Incontinence, while Bishop was a former cop precisely specialized in delinquent mutants who abused their powers, didn't help at all. This was stopped in its tracks by Rogue, who cussed them both out for being macho idiots, and had the advantage of being someone who Nate was at least grudgingly willing to listen to.
• Irony:
  • Part of the reason he stayed in the "present" was to prevent a member of the X-Men betraying them, only to later turn traitor himself.
  • During Decimation, when the X-Mansion was placed under armed guard by the Sentinels, Bishop not only didn't have any objections, he was about the only X-Man who supported the idea. It admittedly fits his mutant-cop mindset, but considering his future was troubled by Sentinels of all things...Then again, considering that M-Day was the beginning of his Face–Heel Turn thanks to realizing that his future was going to happen In Spite of a Nail, it's possible that this was a symptom of his having secretly crossed the Despair Event Horizon.
• Karma Houdini: Given how much pain and suffering he caused (even wiping out entire alternate worlds just to get to Hope!) it is quite jarring how easy the X-Men have forgiven him. On the other hand, when he had his mind essentially reset, he was distinctly displeased, as while he'd made a Heel–Face Turn while stranded in a desolate future, he felt a) it was still his mind and his problem to deal with, b) he didn't deserve that kind of forgiveness.
• Knight of Cerebus: Not that the X-Men weren't dark before him, but according to Archangel, Bishop's presence and future made Xavier rethink many of his ideas and realize they had to take the initiative if they wanted to survive.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Has forgotten his attempts to kill Hope Summers and Cable, courtesy of Storm — which he wasn't exactly pleased about, on the grounds that awful as they were, they were his memories. Unfortunately, Amnesia Missed a Spot.
• Last-Name Basis: Over the years, Bishop didn't have a first name until in one X-Treme X-Men issue revealed it to be Lucas. Until then, there was even ambiguity about whether "Bishop" was meant to be a surname or a codename (in one issue, where Storm asked him to call her Ororo, Bishop expressed confusion at the concept and said that she could call him...Bishop). It didn't help that his sister Shard Bishop had the opposite case and was referred in a First-Name Basis.
• My Greatest Failure: The situation that led to the death of his sister Shard in the future, as well as the one that ended up with his partners Randall and Malcolm dead in the present.
• No Social Skills: He acknowledges himself he’s not good with people and laments that the XSE didn’t include a course on it.
• Phlebotinum Overload: Bishop can be overloaded given enough time and fuel... this usually results in a fairly splashy explosion, though he himself is rarely injured from it (except maybe his uniform).
• Principles Zealot: a) Mutants must be officially policed (if possible, by mutants too) and b) Violence Really Is the Answer and toning it down is just a matter of PR.
• Prophet Eyes: When using his powers, his eyes would turn either this or Red Eyes, Take Warning.
• Put on a Bus: When Cable and Hope had enough of him chasing them through different timelines, Cable managed to scramble Bishop's time-travelling teleportation device which stranded him in a very deserted distant future.
• Reformed, but Rejected: Since he's returned from the future. However, as of 2017 he has returned to working with the X-Men with no evidence of mistrust or resentment. It is possible his actions regarding Hope most likely have been erased thanks to a certain cosmic rest.
• Scary Black Man: After he turned into a baby-hunting villain in the 2000s Cable series. His artificial left arm doesn't seem to help either.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: The Bete Noir when it possessed Bishop.
• Ship Tease:
  • With Storm. Jubilee even asked him if they were dating, and Bishop's answer was he wasn't very sure about it.
  • With Sage. He clearly began to develop feelings for her, but whether she returned them was never made clear, and neither ever acted on it in any case.
  • Briefly, during Decimation, it was hinted he and Val Cooper were developing a relationship, though Bishop bristled when the others asked him about it. This was Cut Short by his Face–Heel Turn.
• Superhero Packing Heat: A defender of this idea, the biggest in X-Men only behind Cable.
• Taking the Bullet: He saved the entire team from Onslaught by taking his psychic blast.
• Tangled Family Tree: Throughout his history, he's been shown and implied to be related in one way or another to Gateway, Storm, M, and Neal Shaara. (Who are Australian, Kenyan-American, Algerian-Monacan and Indian, respectively.)
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Went from being one of the more level-headed X-Men to a brutal hunter willing to maim or kill anyone who stood in the way of his mission of killing Hope Summers.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behaviour: A time-travelling Madrox and Layla Miller once met Bishop as a pre-teen. He was scornful of any Mutant who claimed to be the next evolutionary step, and outright told them he wished he had a chance at killing Hope Summers. Several years later, when he was somewhere in his early teens, he told Hecat'e he'd kill her if she messed with Shard.
• Undying Loyalty: To Storm.
• Virtual Sidekick: For a time, Bishop was accompanied on his adventures by a holographic version of his deceased sister, Shard.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: In his timeline, Hope grew up to kill thousands of humans in seconds, which was what led to mutants being placed into concentration camps. He wanted to kill Hope to ensure history wouldn't repeat itself.
• Would Hurt a Child: Zig-zagged. The impetus of his Face–Heel Turn was trying to kill Hope Summers before she became a threat, even when she was no more than a few weeks old, but the few times he had her in his sights, he never actually managed to pull the trigger.

Joseph

Joseph

Notable Aliases: Max Eisenhardt, Erik Magnus Lehnsherr, Joey, Mags, Joe

Species: Human mutant clone

First Appearance: X-Men Vol 2 #46 (November, 1995)

Joseph was a younger clone of Magneto, created by Astra. He sacrificed himself to repair Earth's magnetosphere, which had been altered by Magneto. He has recently returned to cause trouble for the redemptive Magneto.

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• Betty and Veronica: During that time when Joseph was introduced, there was a Betty and Veronica love triangle with Rogue as the center figure, Joseph as the Betty, and Gambit as the Veronica.
• Evil Twin: Joseph was a much younger 'copy' of Magneto. Since at the time Magneto was villainous and Joseph was an X-Man, he counts as a Good Twin.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Started off as a straight clone of Magneto. He lost his memory after getting hit on the head during a fight with the real deal, and became good. After his death, Astra restored him, and implanted a copy of Magneto's old memories into his mind, making him evil again.

Dr. Cecilia Reyes

Doctor Cecilia "Cel" Reyes

Notable Aliases: Forcefield (S.W.O.R.D. code name), "Cecelia" (presumably misspelled), "Doc Reyes", "Doc", 'Celia, "Mutie doctor"

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men Vol 2 #65 (June, 1997)

A hard-working New York doctor who definitely did not want to be a superhero, at all, ever. Unfortunately for her, the bad guys didn't care. She quit as soon as possible, but not before having a neat love triangle with Beast and Iceman. Cecilia has since served as a recurring ally of the X-Men while attempting to maintain her normal medical career, but with the founding of Krakoa she joined the new mutant nation as a doctor in the Healing Gardens.

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• Barrier Warrior: Her forcefield powers make her near-invulnerable, but are seldom used offensively.
• The Call Knows Where You Live: Justified, not only were all mutants being targeted during Operation Zero Tolerance by the Sentinels, Xavier kept track on where potential recruits for his X-Men lived and Iceman took it upon himself to check up on her. Cecilia wasn’t just outed as a mutant to her mutant-hating coworkers, Iceman took her with him on an adventure to face the leader of Zero Tolerance.
• Going Cold Turkey: She was briefly hooked on a drug that boosted her powers, Professor X helped her kick the addiction.
• Hospital Hottie: She's a doctor and plenty good looking.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: She prefers to work as a normal doctor than to work in a superhero team. When the mutant nation of Krakoa is founded, she seemingly has abandoned this desire and now lives on Krakoa as one of the leading doctors of the island's healing gardens.
• The Medic: She still serves this role for the X-Men on occasion, including patching up Magneto after he brought Kitty Pryde back from space.
• Sassy Black Woman: Though ironically she is a Puerto Rican; but then again, she was raised in the Bronx.
• Secret Public Identity: Due to the whole 'not wanting to be a superhero at all ever' thing, she refuses to take one.
• Slashed Throat: While performing an autopsy on several biologically enhanced soldiers killed by Krakoa's X-Force, she is caught off-guard by a smaller version of the soldier emerging from inside the corpse which slits her throat. Cecilia bleeds out, but Sage notes that due to her importance she will be bumped up to the top of the Five's resurrection list.
• Twofer Token Minority: She's of African-American and Puerto Rican descent.

Marrow

Sarah / Marrow

Notable Aliases: Sarah Rushman, the bony little lass

Nationality: American, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Cable #15 (September, 1994)

A former mutant terrorist. Originally created by a writer with the intention to die in a one on one fight with Storm, it was after some executive meddling and other factors that she was revealed to be still alive. Later she was picked up again as one of three new and unusual recruits to join the X-Men after a crossover (the others were Cecilia Reyes and Maggot).

At first a troublemaker for the other X-Men, she managed to become a stable and accepted part of the team. However, after some failed attempts by writers and artist to make her more appealing, she mysteriously disappeared from one issue to another, without any explanation ever given.

Afterwards she reappeared in a one-shot as SHIELD sleeper agent, was part of the ill-fated Weapon X series and finally got depowered on M-Day while keeping her mutated appearance. After a brief appearance as enemy in X-factor she was once again absent for several years. She has now returned in the 2014 X-Force series as a core cast member.

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• All Love Is Unrequited: Poor Marrow, whomever she’s crushing on is either not interested in her or has a girlfriend already (both aren’t unheard of though). Averted when she was brainwashed however, as she went on a date with Spider-Man, but that didn’t last either.
• And Show It to You: Subverted, Marrow was on the receiving end of this trope courtesy of Storm, who tore out Marrows’ heart after she’d rigged it to a bomb.
• Anti-Hero: Nominal Hero originally. She had mutant supremacist leanings and was the loose cannon on a team with Wolverine, but eventually healed and reformed during Alan Davis' run, at the end of which, she probably didn't qualify for more than Classical Anti-Hero. After that she turned to downright villain and finally back to her original form.
  • Davis' attempt was seen as Character Development by many readers.
• Bad with the Bone: Thanks to her powers, Marrow is literally made of this trope, though she often favors knives over blunt weaponry. Depending on her level of control at the time, this can extend into other kinds of projectiles, such as spikes/needles, or boneshards straight out of her body.
• Basement-Dweller: In the first few weeks as an X-man, Marrow lived in their basement, specifically in the Danger Room. Justified since her people, the Morlocks, normally lives in the sewer, so it comes naturally to her.
• Blood Knight: Before Davis' got a hold on her. Back again after she disappeared. In X-force she openly states she is just there to have "fun".
• Body Horror: Her power, by the by, was to grow bones out of her body, usually in the form of outward jutting spines or claws.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Courtesy of SHIELD, her Blood Knight tendencies were turned up to eleven and she developed a split personality.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Mixed with being Put on a Bus. She disappeared two issues without explanation and has only reappeared in satellite titles, she was never shown or mentioned again in the core titles.
• Dark Age of Supernames: Subverted, for someone who comes from the 90's, has the power to grow knives out of the body and was more anti than hero, she has a surprising soft and normal codename.
  • This was almost played straight, as her codename was originally "Sheath," but this was rejected by the editors for sounding too sexual.
• A Day in the Limelight: Randomly was chosen as a fighter in Marvel vs. Capcom 2. Her only appearance in the Vs Series.
• Executive Meddling: The reason she is still alive and why someone like her joined the X-Men in the first place.
• Freudian Excuse: Well, if you'd been born with bones sticking out all over your body and had the only people who ever cared for you massacred before your eyes as a child, how well-adjusted would you be?
• The Friend No One Likes: This happens on several teams, often justified given Marrows’ confrontational attitude and parttime Jerkass behavior, but her teammates aren’t completely without fault either.
  • Averted in her Gene Nation days, justified since she was the leader.
  • When she was part of the X-Men, Marrow didn’t interact well with the other members, either by being extremely confrontational, eating like a pig or just being intentionally creepy. Storms’ solution to Marrow’s attitude and temper problems is to let her get private lessons from Wolverine. Cue beatings and verbal put downs, which resulted in Marrow planting a bone dagger in Wolverine’s throat. Marrow would’ve died from Wolverine’s berserker-rage if Cannonball hadn’t bullrushed him.
  • While Marrow was a member of X-Force, consisting of Meme, Fantomex, Cable, Domino and Doctor Nemesis, she suffered heavily from mental instability from the trauma of losing her child, which manifested in childish behavior, lack of respect/personal boundaries and even more frequent bouts of aggression. Though the rest of the team had their own issues which they dealt with, suck as a general lack of trust in their teammates.
• Healing Factor: The other reason why she survived the heart removal, and how she can remove the bones from her body without bleeding to death. Strangely not official part of her powerset.
• Heel–Face Revolving Door: Good grief, Marrow’s moral alignment practically changes with each new recurring appearance! She started out as a Nice Girl amongst the Morlocks, then grew into a terrorist leader, who then joined the X-Men and helped save the earth. She was later brainwashed by SHIELD to act as an assassin, who then went rogue killing Life Model Decoys. After that she joined Weapon X where she committed several murders and took part in imprisoning numerous mutants in concentration camps, including some she knew. Then she joined a mutant resistance group against Weapon X, which she subsequently took control over and reformed into a terrorist organization, killing numerous civilians aside from Weapon X personnel. Her next stint at “heroics” was with X-Force to act as mutant SWAT team killing any threats to the mutant nation. Her latest appearance has seen Marrow become a member of the villainous Helllfire Club under Emma Frost.
• Lighter and Softer: Her development under Davis.
• Lovecraftian Superpower: Her Body Horror powers also give her some serious advantages like superhuman endurance, pain resistance, healing and strength.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Her reaction to finding out she volunteered for dangerous experiments to regain her super powers while being pregnant and having been told the risk.
• No Social Skills: Marrow is extremely confrontational and has difficulty connecting to people emotionally — or even understanding herself. Of course, living in the sewers for most of your early childhood with a bunch of other maladjusted freaks and spending your teenage years fighting for your survival in a horrible pocket dimension does that to you. Archangel was the only one for whom she showed a soft spot, due to viewing him as a Messianic Archetype.
• Odd Friendship: While in X-Force Marrow seemed to eventually develop one with Doctor Nemesis, based on their mutual love of Coffee.
• Only One Name: Her first name is Sarah and that's how she's known when she's not referred to as Marrow. If she even has a last name is unknown.
• Plot-Relevant Age-Up: Her first appearance was as a bald little girl before this happened to her.
• Progressively Prettier: Prime example of the trope. Part of it was deliberate in-universe: as she learned to control her powers better, there was less of the whole "bones jutting out of her at random" thing. With effort, she can maintain Cute Monster Girl status (the pink hair and the horns aren't going anywhere.) Of course, Depending on the Artist kicks in, and you can even have her looking like her Body Horror day-one self in one comic and her "cute girl with horns" look in another though both stories take place and are released around the same time.
• Remember the New Guy?: An early Retcon established her as a survivor of the Morlock Massacre storyline.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: For a time, Marrow spat as many curse words as was possible into her sentences during her X-Force days. Psylocke messed with her mind so it came out as utter gibberish/kiddie friendly expletives, to the entertainment of the rest of the team.
• Slasher Smile: Can pull that off towards civilians and mooks, doesn't work on actual heroes or villains though.
• Smarter Than You Look: She was able to memorize the entire subway and sewer tunnel system under New York as a 5 or 6 year old child. Likewise, having the time table of all subway trains in her mind. Also her short stint as sleeper agent showed that she is capable of learning and understanding scientific theories. It seems only her violent upbringing and resulting personality stops her from showing/using her intelligence openly.
• Sole Survivor: She’s the only member of Gene Nation who hasn’t died.
• Spike Shooter: She can shoot the spikes that form from her body.
• Suicide by Cop: In the fourth X-Force volume, the mutant slaver Volga (the man responsible for the loss of her unborn baby) provokes her into doing this to him following his capture and torture by the team, knowing his goose was cooked either way. This earns her a What the Hell, Hero? from Cable.
• Super-Toughness: Her bones grant her an improved amount of durability, she’s been rammed into concrete walls and gotten back up, fought a feral Wolverine and could walk away and not once, but twice has jumped from the top of the Brooklyn Bridge and landed in the water without injury. Short version: Girl’s tough.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Her combat style is simply to overpower the enemy with strength and/or speed, as she learned during her childhood. However, missing any kind of formal training she is all but useless against people who can balance this out with skill as Storm quickly demonstrated.
• Vague Age: Seemingly in her late teens to early twenties, but due to having grown up in another dimension where time passes differently, even Marrow doesn’t know her own age.
• Wolverine Claws: With enough control over her powers, she can produce these in bone form.
• Wolverine Wannabe: Marrow is a less straight example, where instead of Wolverine Claws she's able to grow bone protrusions out of anywhere from her body, which she can then break off and use as handheld blades. Though much like Wolverine, she possesses a Healing Factor that seals wounds made from said breaking of her bones off.

Maggott

Japheth / Maggott

Nationality: South African, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #345 (June, 1997)

A South African teenager from a poor family. As a child, his family thought he was dying from stomach cancer because his abdomen constantly bulged and he was constantly hungry. Actually, he was going through a mutation in which his stomach turned into a pair of semi-autonomous slugs. To feed, Japheth had to have the slugs burst out of his stomach, feed on any substance, then return, giving him a burst of superstrength. Japheth joined the X-Men for only a short time before vanishing and reappearing years later to be killed in a Canadian concentration camp for mutants. However, he eventually returned but has had little involvement in any major (or minor) events.

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: His skin is blue and his hair is silver.
• Back from the Dead: He was revived by the techno-organic virus and used as a soldier by Selene during the Necrosha story. He seems to be one of the few mutants who was permanently brought back from that, as he is seen several times afterwards in various gatherings of numerous mutants.
• Blessed with Suck: His powers, not only can he not control his slugs, when they have to give back the energy from what they’ve devoured, the eat their way back into him (a very painful process for him).
• Casanova Wannabe: Big time, when he was an X-Man he hit on any women on the team, doesn’t matter if they’re hostile or married.
• Extreme Omnivore: The slugs within his body sure can eat.
• Fluffy the Terrible: He calls the slugs Eany and Meany.
• Healing Factor: Played with, Maggott himself cannot heal injuries, but whenever his slugs needs to return, they eat their way into him and somehow closes the wounds behind.
• Jive Turkey: It's South African slang, but it's often completely impenetrable.
• Lovecraftian Superpower: These seemed to be going around in the late 90s X-Books.
• Older Alter Ego: Originally Maggott is just a skinny teenager with normal skin complexion, but when he powers up by his digestive matter-eating slugs, his skin turns blue and becomes musclebound to fight.
• Shoo Out the New Guy: To a point that you'd think the Trope Namer is a Shout-Out to him! He was only with the X-Men for a brief time before joining Generation-X for two issues before leaving.
• Super-Strength: What his extreme digestive system gave him.
• Totally Radical: Speaks in South African slang all the time.

X-Men 2000's Members

Thunderbird III

Neal Shaara / Thunderbird III

Nationality: Indian, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men (Vol. 2) #100 (May, 2000)

A young man from an upper class family in Calcutta, Neal joined the X-Men after his mutant abilities manifested when Bastion attempted to turn him into a Prime Sentinel. After training on Muir Island under Moria MacTaggert's supervision he joined Storm's X-Treme X-Men team before eventually departing with Lifeguard to search for her brother Davis.

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• I Believe I Can Fly: Using the "superheated air" trick. He leaves a very visible fire trail behind him, which lent itself to problems during stealth missions.
• Legacy Character:
  • And one that doesn't make much sense, either. The Indian from India with fire powers is named after the Native American Indian with super strength, speed, and endurance...?
  • Apparently it was a last minute name swap. There were originally plans to name him Agni (after the Hindu god of fire), but then editorial realized naming a fictional hero after a god still worshipped by one of the world's largest faiths might result in... issues.
• Love Triangle: Directly involved in the break-up of Psylocke and Archangel.
• Naïve Newcomer: Who later became a mentor to two other naïve newcomers, despite still being the new guy himself!
• Playing with Fire: Solar plasma, technically, but it amounts to the same thing in practice. Only more so.
• Put on a Bus: After the events of X-Treme X-Men's second arc, he and Lifeguard set to Walking the Earth in search of her brother. They've only been seen a handful of times in the last eight years, even though they're two of the mutants who explicitly kept their powers after M-Day.
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: His brother Sanjit went missing, and Neal and a police officer named Karima Shapandar went looking for him, only to wind up captured by Bastion's goons, where they learned Neal's brother had been turned into a Prime Sentinel. The same fate befell Karima, who had started developing feelings for Neal, but when Bastion tried assimilating Neal it just awakened his Mutant powers. Sanjit overcame his programming to save Neal and Karima, only for the later to tell Neal to get away before her own programming kicked in.

Sage

Tessa / Sage

Notable Aliases: Tessa, Lady Tessa, Diana Fox, Britannia

Nationality: Balkans Region, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men #132 (April, 1980)

Born in a war-torn Balkan country, Sage saved the life of Charles Xavier in Afghanistan and returned with him to America. As he put together the first generation of X-Men, Sage's existence was kept secret as he sent her undercover into the Hellfire Club to spy on Sebastian Shaw. After years spent by Shaw's side passing information to Xavier her true allegiances were revealed and Sage has since been a member of several X-Teams. With the founding of the mutant nation of Krakoa, Sage plays a key role as the overseer of Krakoa's gateway network, monitoring all arrivals and departures from the island's control center.

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• The Alcoholic: She takes to drinking to fill her racing brain in X-Force. She comes to the realization that she is an Alchoholic after months of this.
• Ascended Extra: Tessa made her first appearance in "The Dark Phoenix Saga" as Sebastian Shaw's assistant and was revealed to be a much more important character later.
• Awesome by Analysis: An inevitable result of her "computer-like" mind.
  • She'll always open with an attack to the enemy's weak point.
  • She can usually predict exactly how her enemy will attack, and counter perfectly. Villains, having plot armour, will instead comment on how well she fights, before knocking her away.
  • She'll take only a few moments to examine a blood-splatter at a crime scene to discern how two people fought.
  • She once fought a man that declared himself a master of a martial art she'd never heard of, downloaded everything she could find about it while fighting him, and then derided his choice of fighting style as she knocked him unconscious.
• Badass Bookworm: In terms of melee combat prowess, her skills were stated to be "as nasty and deadly as Wolverine's...maybe even a little bit worse!".
• Becoming the Mask: In New Excalibur, Sage tries to infiltrate Albion's organization, which she succeeds at, only to become her false identity. Things go horribly worse from there.
• Combat Stilettos: A prerequisite for any ex-Hellfire female.
• Combo Platter Powers: Potentially justified. Her demonstrated powers include:
  • A super-intelligent mind that is "more powerful than a billion supercomputers".
    • Perfect, instantaneous recall.
    • Instantaneous learning.
    • High-speed mental calculation.
    • Unstoppable hacking skills.
    • Makes her own gadgets.
  • Ridiculously precise aim.
  • Voluntary control over her own immune system.
  • Manipulation of powers in other mutants.
  • Telepathy.
    • Mind Control.
    • The ability to resist and reflect psychic attacks.
    • Channelling the powers of mutants into other mutants.^note Stated to be something any telepathic mutant can do
  • When suffering a case of Enemy Within she loses control of the telepathy and demonstrates telekinetic flight, to her surprise. When her alter ego takes over, she demonstrates Super-Strength and cosmetic shapeshifting.^note While Sage's underlying abilities appear to be applied telepathy and telekinesis, it was not made clear that her alter-ego's abilities are the same.
• Dark and Troubled Past:
  • She spent her early teenage years in a war-torn land as a lone warrior, and has killed a lot of people.
  • When Charles Xavier rescued her from that life, it was only to train her to be his spy in the depraved Hellfire Club. She later made it clear she deeply resented him for this.
• Depending on the Artist: Her shades have been drawn with significant differences by almost every artist, including appearing as regular spectacles, bulky visors, or a visor over a single eye.^note Her appearances in Dawn of X have had as many interpretations for her eyewear as there have been artists.
• Emotionless Girl: She is pretty emotionless sometimes, though occasionally shifting to The Stoic level when really, really worked up. Naturally, she's such an expert at Perp Sweating that her gaze alone accomplishes what Wolverine's famed "claw on either side of neck; dare me to pop the middle?" approach cannot.
• Enemy Within: Inverted. After recovering from Becoming the Mask, she is bequeathed a dying goddess' knowledge, leading to her "mask" — Diana — personality trying to take over. Diana is so heroic, she ends up sacrificing herself to save Sage's life, knowing Sage would never do the same for her.
• Facial Markings: Has a pair of black markings below her eyes.
• Fights Like a Normal: Sage's powers enhance her mind and body, rather than providing a natural force advantage. She uses modern weapons that can benefit from her uncanny precision, such as rifles, hand guns, and knives. If unarmed, she'll try to take a weapon from someone else before trying to fight hand-to-hand.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Downplayed. Her obvious gadgets are her cybernetic shades and the related computer surveillance network. She's far more secretive about what other gadgets she has in her Utility Belt.
• Goggles Do Something Unusual: In X-Treme X-Men, Sage starts wearing "cybernetic shades", serving as both Everything Sensor and Holographic Terminal.
• Happy Ending Override: Her (involuntary but not unwelcome) ascent to god-like omniscience was undone when the next series of Exiles was written, leaving her and her previous team in suspended animation.
• Instant Expert: A single lesson in any skill will be enough for the rest of her life.
• Mission Control: This is her main function at Krakoa, monitoring all movement to and from the island and directing traffic through Krakoa's gateways or directing responses to hostile incursions.
• Most Common Super Power: From her early corset wearing Hellfire Club days to being an X-Man, she's drawn with big D-cup size breasts.
• My Skull Runneth Over: When the goddess Roma, daughter of Merlin is dying, she bequeaths her cosmic-level knowledge directly into Sage's mind, leading to a case of Enemy Within that makes it very hard to deal with the mind phantoms. The only way Sage can survive is to become god-like herself.
• No Name Given: She was originally introduced as "Tessa", though it was later revealed that this is not her first legal name. Sage only ever uses her codename, even when talking to herself.
• Of Corsets Sexy: She used to wear corsets when she was in Hellfire Club.
• Omniglot: She claimed to be fluent in over one hundred and twenty languages.^note It's hard to tell if she's been slacking, just how many human languages are documented well enough to learn without a teacher?
• Photographic Memory: She's able to store everything that she experiences in a photographic memory and retrieve it immediately without the typical human pause for thought. She's also unable to forget any mistake she's ever made.
• Powers as Programs: Sage understands how mutant powers work because she can telekinetically perceive a mutant's DNA and has the raw computational power to accurately model the power in action. Altering that DNA allows her to initialise or alter powers in other mutants.^note That she has these abilities makes her fellow mutants very nervous.
• Psychic Block Defense: Sage typically turns her psychic powers inward, making her mind nearly impenetrable. Not only does this allow her to No-Sell almost any psychic manipulation attempt, she can also reflect such attacks.
• Shout-Out: She's been likened to a Mentat from the Dune series.
• Snap Back: In the second volume of Comic Book/X-Treme X-Men, she is encountered in another universe by a team of multiverse-travelling X-Men with no explanation of how she got there. This event being so improbable, the new writer had to insist that she was actually the original character, not some alternate version.
• Sociopathic Hero: After growing up in war-torn countries, she considers societal rules optional. She will be tactless, avoid parties, and kill a room full of enemy soldiers when her teammates aren't watching.
• Super-Empowering: In X-Treme X-Men, Sage demonstrates the ability to "jump-start" powers in other mutants.
  • Saved Beast's life when he was dying, but inadvertently caused him to mutate into his cat-like form.^note Chris Claremont inserted this scene to explain Beast's new appearance in Grant Morrison's New X-Men, which was being released simultaneously at the time.
  • Enhanced Rogue's power, giving her full recall of all psyches and their powers that she ever absorbed.
  • Unlocked Slipstream's power for the first time, after identifying him as a latent mutant.
  • Restored Gambit's powers to him after he lost them.
  • Temporarily enhanced Gambit's powers to allow his own low-level healing factor to heal a case of blindness.
  • May or may not have enhanced Lifeguard's powers, causing her to lose the ability to regain human form.
• Techno Wizard: Though she lacks true Technopathy, she has created computer systems so capable that she can effortlessly hack not only every muggle system connected to the Internet, but the security systems of alien invaders. ^note When a technopathic enemy does manage to Mind Control her through her own tech, she retaliates with a black hole.
• Telepathy: Subverted. She has high-level telepathic abilities, and was trained by Charles Xavier, but her natural and preferred expression of this power is a permanent Psychic Block Defense that works in both directions.
• Utility Belt: Her costumes usually include a utility belt and additional scattered pouches, but she rarely pulls anything out of those pockets.
  Black Tom Cassidy: Why you wearing that, love?
  Sage: I was told we were going into the field. I wanted to be ready for anything.
  Black Tom Cassidy: It's like you got measles, but the measles is pockets.
• Wine Is Classy: Before Krakoa-as-a-nation, she was frequently seen drinking red wine.

Wraith

Hector Rendoza / Wraith

Nationality: American, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #392 (May, 2001)

A Mutant from Boston who was recruited when Magneto kidnapped Charles and most of the X-Men had left on a mission to obtain Destinies diaries.

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• De-power: He was among the many mutants that lost their powers during M-Day.
• Expy: He was a young mutant who could not pass for regular human and was introduced being rescued from a mob by Jean Grey who used her powers to freeze said mob. This was the exact manner in which Professor X recruited Nightcrawler.
• One-Steve Limit: Shares the codename of Wraith with Zak-Del and John Wraith.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: Hasn't been seen since 2001.

Omerta

Paul Provenzano / Omerta

Nationality: American, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #392 (May, 2001)

A super strong and bullet proof mutant who was introduced as a mafioso wannabe to help rescue Xavier from Magneto.

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• Alliterative Name: Paul Provenzano.
• All There in the Manual: Paul never took the name "Omerta" in canon, but that was his original name to begin with in the X-Men database.
• Back from the Dead: After being killed at the Neverland concentration camp alongside Maggot and other mutants, he returned after 17 years through unspecified means, although without his powers.
• Logical Weakness: His invulnerability doesn't cover the human basic needs of oxygen, neither they protect him from gas.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Paul was virtually invulnerable, although he was proved to be possibly hurt, as Northstar was able to make him nose-bleed, using his super-speed to punch him. He was even immune to Magneto's attempt to manipulate the iron within his own blood.
• Official Couple: With Wendy Sherman/Stinger, even having a child together.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: More like politically incorrect Nominal Hero. He was only recruited because most of the recently X-Men left to locate Destiny's diaries, otherwise they wouldn't have recruited an asshole who wanted to takeover a local crime ring. He does join but even then he's shown to be homophobic towards Northstar. He does get better.

Sunpyre

Leyu Yoshida / Sunpyre

Nationality: Japanese, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #392 (May, 2001)

The younger half-sister of Shiro Yoshida, aka Sunfire, Leyu possessed the same mutant abilities and poor attitude as her older sibling. She responded to Jean Grey's call for help to rescue Xavier from Magneto on Genosha, but left the X-Men immediately after that mission. Leyu then joined Banshee's short-lived X-Corps, where she was murdered by the mutant criminals recruited into the faction by Banshee.

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• Back from the Dead: After 18 years real time of being dead, she’s resurrected by the Five on Krakoa.
• Captain Ethnic: In her first appearance, she’s wearing the same outfit as Shiro.
• Distaff Counterpart: To Shiro.
• Flying Firepower / Playing with Fire: She has the same powers as Shiro.
• Jerkass: She does not get along with Jean.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Notice how most of the tropes here also apply to her brother Shiro.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: She lasted only seven issues before being murdered, and never got the chance to stand out much against her brother as a distinct character.

Xorn

Kuan-Yin Xorn / Xorn

Notable Aliases: Magneto

Nationality: Chinese, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: New X-Men Annual #2001 (September, 2001)

Xorn is a mutant with a tiny star inside his head. After joining the X-Men, he became addicted to the drug Kick and began to believe himself to be Magneto.

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• Becoming the Mask: Xorn's character was originally supposed to be Magneto in disguise, though this was later retconned. In the revised continuity, Xorn is a Chinese mutant who, under the influence of a drug called Kick, took on Magneto's identity in order to enforce his supremacist ideals, eventually convincing himself that he really was the person he was impersonating.
• Creepy Twins / Those Two Guys: With Zorn in ''Way of X"
• Evil Twin: Inverted. Austen's run introduces his good twin brother, who has the same powers and the personality he pretended to have.
• Identical Stranger: Xorn's real face happens to look just like Magneto's.
• The Medic: Had some ill-defined healing abilities, and they often didn't work, or he had a zen-sounding reason to not do it. That's because he healed Xavier by fixing his spine using his magnetic powers on the nano-sentinels. He couldn't heal most of the people he was asked to.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: He frazzles a bunch of U-Men when they try to kill his students.

Chamber

Jonothon "Jono" Evan Starsmore / Chamber

Notable Aliases: Decibel, The Blue Banshee, Blue Boy

Nationality: British, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Generation X #1 (November, 1994)

A London native whose power has horribly disfigured his face and upper torso, Jono has long struggled with being a mutant and the expectations that come with being an X-Man. He is one of several descendants of Apocalypse, although he rejects that heritage and wants nothing to do with Clan Akkaba.

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• Anti-Hero: Type I.
• Back from the Dead: He was killed by Harpoon of the Marauders while burning them to death for killing several Morlocks, but was returned to life a few months later by the Five on the newly founded mutant nation of Krakoa.
• Badass Longcoat: He is quite fond of them, and most of his official X-Men uniforms include a longcoat.
• Blessed with Suck: Chamber's mutation gave him the ability to emit fire from his mouth and chest area. His inability to turn it off eventually completely destroyed his lower jaw and most of his chest. He didn't really feel any pain from it, but he's still missing his jaw and has a nearly completely exposed ribcage.
• Breath Weapon: Though he can't turn it off and it caused him to lose his lower jaw.
• Brought Down to Normal: Lost his powers and his deformity during the Decimation.
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Jubilee in the 2017 Generation X series. They share a kiss at one point, along with other tender scenes. In the final chapter, Paige tells him that he and Jubilee look good together. The current status of their relationship is unclear since his death at the hands of Harpoon and subsequent revival on Krakoa.
• Energy Being: Very, very heavily implied.
• Handicapped Badass: He's lost most of his lower jaw and chest, but he's a competent fighter in spite of his injuries.
• How Do I Shot Web?: He would be able to reconstruct his face, if he knew how.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: After losing a huge amount of his body, you can't blame him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Through character development.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: He's a distant descendant of Apocalypse, and post-Decimation he got the markings to prove it (turns out they were always there; he blew out everything from mouth-level to midriff, and didn't get healed until some years later, real-world time. To everyone's shock, he was restored with... an Apocalypse-like jaw and the markings of Apocalypse's followers on his chest. He basically said something to the effect of "When did I ever ask to be healed?").
• Make Some Noise: During his brief stint with the New Warriors, Jono wore a sonic rig that could turn sound into energy constructs.
• Power Degeneration: He had an explosive power that blew off his jaw and upper chest prior to joining the team. Using his power slowly widened the explosive area, he near literally had part of his face and chest "on fire".
• Power Limiter: During his time with Generation X, it was hinted a (and even explicitly stated in a novel by writer Scott Lobdell ) that he was only ever accessing a fraction of his true potential, which is something approaching the level of X-Man or Phoenix. The reason for why he doesn't seems to be psychological. However, this has never been fully explored since Lobdell left the X-Books.
• Psychic Powers: He needs them to talk.
• Required Secondary Powers: Not needing to eat, breathe or drink as well as communicating telepathically. In fact, his name comes from the fact that he is a chamber for raw psionic energy. (The fire being psionic energy is also why he gets thought speak... which is actually a really fine-tune use of his power for someone who otherwise can only blow things up with it.)
• Status Quo Is God: Both were brought back during the "Age Of X" storyline (Thanks to a Reality Warper), and remained even after things were returned to normal.

Stacy X

Miranda Leevald / Stacy X

Notable Aliases: Ripcord, Mira, X-Stacy

Nationality: American, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #399 (December, 2001)

Originally a mutant working at a brothel in Nevada, Stacy X became a member of the X-Men using her Pheromone powers to help out her team. Depowered during M-Day she joined the New Warriors when she suddenly had her abilities back in Vengeance. A later appearance in Domino revealed she was using make up to simulate her old appearance and was possibly suicidal. As of Way Of X she's now officially repowered again and has made it a mission to look after the abandoned children of Krakoa while spreading information on safe sex.

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• Anti-Hero: Type I-II, at least at first. She's almost saintly by the time Hickman's run.
• Black Bra and Panties: Wears a leather pair.
• Brought Down to Normal: Lost her powers after House of M thanks to the Scarlet Witch. Somehow she appeared to have gained them back during the Vengeance miniseries, but a later story revealed she was using make-up to simulate her old appearance.
• Combat Stilettos: Wears a pair of black knee-high stiletto heels.
• Fetish: Particularly for her clients — she's a successful prostitute despite having scaly skin and snake eyes.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Seems to prefer it over any other article of clothing.
• Hidden Depths: In later years Stacy has begun to receive more noticeable depth due to the changing perceptions of sex workers and sexually active women such as herself beyond being exotic eye candy.
  • Under her creator Joe Casey, she gradually started to open up to the other members of the team. Later writers ignored this.
  • Her appearance in the Domino annual revealed how deeply unhappy (and possibly suicidal) she was without her powers since they allowed her to experience the world on a deeper, more meaningful level than most people.
  • When mutants start abandoning their babies in Krakoa, Stacy creates an unofficial orphanage for them.
• Holier Than Thou: Isn't afraid to call people out on this when they start questioning her line of work, and does so to Nightcrawler, now a leader in mutant government for the fall out of the "Make More Mutants" law forcing her to start up an orphanage for all the babies getting born.
• Orphanage of Love: Creates one in Krakoa.
• Pheromones: She can control other's pheromones through skin contact, producing sensations and physical reactions in anyone she touches. Being a former prostitute, she usually used this power to cause orgasmic pleasure, although she once used it to relieve the pain of a terminally ill man who couldn't be helped with traditional drugs.
• Punny Name: Stacy X has the power to induce ecstacy with a touch. Or nausea, but that's not punny.
• Snake People: She's a sexy, sexy, snake-woman, it's mainly skin and eyes but she is a flexible fighter.
• Snakes Are Sexy: In-Universe, it's part of what makes her exotic for where she works and distinctive.
• Stocking Filler: In several scenes.
• Walking Swimsuit Scene: What her outfit looks like.
• What the Hell, Hero?: She calls out Nightcrawler on his unfounded moral outrage to her promoting safe sex on Krakoa by pointing out the "Make more mutants" creed has led to people giving birth to children they're carelessly abandoning. While she's doing what she can to look after the abandoned newborns until they're adopted, she's taking steps to stop more unwanted pregnancies and prevent the spread of STDs.

Lifeguard

Heather Cameron / Lifeguard

Nationality: Australian

Species: Shi'ar/Mutant hybrid

First Appearance: X-Treme X-Men #6 (December, 2001)

Heather and Davis Cameron were a lifeguard and a surfer, respectively, living in Surfers Paradise in Australia. Unbeknownst to them, their father is an underworld crime lord known as Viceroy, and upon his death they were attacked. Together with Storm and Neal Shaara (the new Thunderbird), they managed to defeat their attackers. Heather discovered she was a mutant with the power to manifest whatever was necessary to save the life of someone in danger around her, including her own. Her power enabled her to manifest wings, golden armor, the ability to breathe underwater, and many other less noticeable adaptations. Heather soon joined the splinter team of X-Men, and formed a romance with Thunderbird.

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• The Cameo: She appeared very briefly in X-Force (2019) at a party on Krakoa.
• Facial Markings: Manifested alongside her powers. Its design tends to change, along with her powers.
• Most Common Super Power She has a big bust. Which is currently golden.
• Put on a Bus: Sent to the Xavier's School Indian Branch.
• Shapeshifter Mode Lock: She remains stuck in a half Shi'ar form.
• Statuesque Stunner: Her current height is 7ft tall, and even before that she was still 5'10"/178cm tall.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Of a sort. Her power is to develop whatever physical ability best helps her save lives, initially specifically someone else's life and not her own. Wings, armored skin, multiple limbs, Super-Strength... the thing is, she can't predict the form it'll take. She hasn't looked fully human in some time.

Slipstream

Davis Cameron / Slipstream

Nationality: Australian

Species: Shi'ar/Mutant hybrid

First Appearance: X-Treme X-Men #6 (December, 2001)

He and his sister Heather lived perfectly normal lives at Surfers Paradise in Australia. They did not know that their actual father was an underworld crime lord known as Viceroy, and upon his death they were attacked. When Heather's life was endangered, Davis was informed by Sage that although he was never meant to be a mutant (his latent mutant gene was supposed to be passed down to his children) his mutant power might be helpful to her. He agreed to let her activate it, gaining a teleportational ability in the form of the "warp wave". Together with Storm and Thunderbird III, he and his sister manage to defeat their attackers. Following these events, both siblings join Storm's team of X-Men. Davis had a brief romance with Storm.

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• The Bus Came Back: After eighteen years he returned, albeit in the background of a single panel where he is helping to fight an incursion of bio-engineered soldiers on Krakoa.
• De-power: It was confirmed that he was one of many mutants who lost their powers on M-Day. He has since been seen on Krakoa using his powers, suggesting he either got them back somehow or died and was revived with them by the Five.
• Put on a Bus: Left the team after a fight with his sister Lifeguard.
• Teleportation with Drawbacks: He can create a tunnel through space and 'surf' through it, taking others with him. It's hinted that if he 'wiped out', the portal could collapse and he and his passengers would be beyond screwed.
• What Have I Become?: Has a Freak Out after seeing his sister in Shapeshifter Mode Lock and quits the team.

Husk

Paige Elisabeth Guthrie / Husk

Notable Aliases: Hayseed

Nationality: American, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Rom Annual #3 (November, 1984)

Husk is a mutant with the ability to husk her skin to expose a new type and layer of skin underneath. A member of the Guthrie family, Paige followed in her brother Sam's footsteps and joined the Xavier Institute as a student. A member of Generation X, Paige has been a member of several teams of X-Men and eventually joined the faculty of the Institute, but has suffered from identity issues due to the nature of her power.

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• Barbie Doll Anatomy: She's naked when using her powers.
• Berserk Button: Hurting her brother, Cannonball - which is understandable considering what happened to their other brother. This isn't seen often, since Cannonball, being an extremely experienced superhero and Nigh-Invulnerable when using his powers, is rarely hurt. However, a brutally powerful Offhand Backhand from a deeply unimpressed X-Man did the job, and left Paige outright furious (and far out of her weight class, but that's another matter).
• Broken Bird: During Wolverine & the X-Men, when she's suffering from outright personality shifts every time she husks thanks to problems with her powers, and had unresolved depression problems relating to the death of her younger brother, Jay Guthrie. She eventually pulled a Face–Heel Turn, before realising what was happening to her and getting help.
• Deep South: Like her brother, she's from Kentucky.
• Face–Heel Turn: When she joined the Hellfire Academy thanks to her powers affecting her mental state. She pulled Heel–Face Turn soon enough afterwards.
• Funetik Aksent: She slips into a Kentucky accent when scared or stressed.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Husk was revealed as this. Her brother was already the super-hero Cannonball, and she tried everything she could to get mutant powers to develop, almost killing herself a few times. Finally she just about gave up, crying and clenching herself... when her skin started flaking off like old wallpaper. She ripped and shredded and tore herself up, which for anyone else would have been scary as hell, but for her, it was the happiest moment of her life.
• Kid-Appeal Character: Initially.
• Magic Pants: Husk has the ability to transform her skin into any material she can think of, but she must tear off the existing layer to do so. This results in her being naked a fair amount of the time, but censor steam is omitted in some scenes where her new skin serves the purpose of a costume. She has specifically refused to revert to her human form on occasions because of her nudity.
• May–December Romance:
  • A relatively low key version for this trop, considering the age gap was only about 15 years, but for a while, she was in a relationship with Archangel. This has since fallen by the wayside.
  • She also dated Toad briefly, though that was a mutually toxic relationship partially inspired by her damaged mental state and Toad's desire for affection from anyone. He put her on a pedestal and kept her husks to have tea parties with, and her power-related mental instability had her lashing out at everyone around her - particularly Toad, the X-Men's perennial Butt-Monkey.
• Power Incontinence: Her power depends on her mental state, and when she's not entirely stable (which her powers can contribute to), she ends up manifesting a patchwork of skins, as her character image shows.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: During Wolverine and the X-Men, due to unresolved trauma over her brother's death, depression, and her powers affecting her sanity, leading to a temporary Face–Heel Turn.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Her powers destabilise her mind for a period during Wolverine and the X-Men.

Xorn II

Shen Xorn / Xorn II

Nationality: Chinese, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men #157 (2004)

Shen Xorn is the brother of Kuan-Yin Xorn and wanted to make up for the horrible deeds of his brother. Unlike his brother, he has a black hole for a head, rather than a star. Following the Decimation, Shen was depowered. More recently, he has been in contact with Magneto's Uncanny X-Men.

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• Aborted Arc: When he was first introduced, he claimed that it was not Magneto who had attacked New York (which was true, and turned out to be his evil twin) but also that it was "someone else... someone I still sense within your midst." This was never referenced again, and turned out to be complete horse manure with the revelation that it was in fact Xorn I who attacked New York.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Related to the Aborted Arc entry; Xorn apparently knew the identity of the person pretending to be Magneto and claimed to know who it was and that it was someone within the X-Men's midst, but never got around to telling them who it was. The meta explanation for this is that it was Chuck Austen trying to ape Chris Claremont by dropping a bunch of dangling plot hooks on the way, but like the other hints (Cassandra Nova implied to possess Carter and Gambit being turned into a blind precog), this was forgotten and buried after Austen's departure.
• Continuity Snarl: Comes with being (a) Xorn, he's where the ball starts rolling, trying to undo the "Xorn was Magneto" story by saying that no, that Xorn was a real guy who thought he was Magneto, and...
• Combo Platter Powers: He's got Telepathy, is The Needless, and can be a Gravity Master via the miniature black hole in his head.
• Cool Helmet: Same as his brother Xorn.
• Creepy Twins / Those Two Guys: With Zorn in Way of X
• Death Is Cheap: X-Men: Blue has him supposedly sacrifice himself to destroy Bastion. He returns in the first issue of House of X.
• De-power: He was said to have lost his powers on M-Day, but befitting his continuity-snarled backstory turned up again with them later.
• Deus Exit Machina: An amusing literal example, as he was the exit machina that sucked Exodus's Brotherhood away from their attack on the X-Men and out of reality.
• Gentle Giant: Not by Western standards, but at 6'2 both him and his brother are much taller than the average Chinese person.
• Glowing Eyes: Has these through his mask.
• Magical Asian: Well, with mutant power instead of magic, but he's still the stock "serene wise master who can kick ass when he wants and is usually meditating" character this trope describes.
• One-Steve Limit: With his brother, Xorn. In fairness, it's their family name. Alternate versions, starting with the Ultimate universe, tend to get around this by having Chen's name be spelled "Zorn".
• Put on a Bus to Hell: Serving double duty as the bus, he dragged Black Tom, Nocturne and most of the Brotherhood away with his black hole. They turned out to have been dragged off to Mojoworld, the poor bastards.
• Redeeming Replacement: The first Xorn was a madman who thought he was Magneto at his worst. This Xorn is the serene Buddhist ally to the X-Men his brother pretended to be.
• Replacement Goldfish: Like Kwannon / Psylocke II above, he is this on a meta level. Even though Xorn I's persona was completely fake, fans liked it so much that the writers decided to give him an identical twin brother in the form of this guy.
• Ret-Canon: The Zorn name is taken from the Ultimate incarnation of the Xorn brothers, where Chen goes Zorn to differentiate him from his brother.
• Spell My Name With An S: His name has also been spelled as "Shen Xorn".
• Technical Pacifist: He's a nice guy who'd rather not fight. But that black hole head makes him very dangerous when pushed.
• Unrealistic Black Hole: Doesn't get more unrealistic than having a black hole for a head!

Armor

Hisako Ichiki / Armor

Notable Aliases: The Shield

Nationality: Japanese, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Astonishing X-Men (Vol. 3) #4 (October, 2004)

A young student at the Xavier Institute, Hisako was taken under the wing of Wolverine after being abducted alongside several X-Men to Breakworld. After proving herself to be a great asset to the team, Hisako continued to serve as a back-up member of the X-Men until finally graduating and joining the team on a permanent basis. On Krakoa she joined the New Mutants squad to seek out and help mutants who had yet to make it to the new mutant nation.

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• Achilles' Heel: Her armor proves vulnerable to Frickin' Laser Beams since, as she puts it, "The armor has to let light through". She also shows vulnerability to adamantium, though flesh cannot reach through, so the Trope Namer Wolverine Claws don't always reach to her.
• Ambiguously Bi: She's shown flirting and going on three-way dates between herself, Pixie and young Cable. Also a case of Polyamory.
• Ancestral Weapon: Her armor is described as being powered by the line of her ancestors, and actually becomes more powerful when people in her family die.
• Ascended Fangirl: A great admirer of the X-Men, now she's a relatively prominent member.
• Breakout Character: Of Joss Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men.
• Cute Bruiser: Hisako is a 5'4" (1.52 meters), 112 pound (50.8 kilos), cute and quippy Japanese girl. She can also flip over tanks.
• Depending on the Artist: Anything from the shape, size and color of her armor tends to change with every new artist, and sometimes even by the same artist during the same story.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Introduced with a rather long Hime Cut, in the subsequent years she went for a chin-length hime style, and during Age of X-Man she cut it all the way to Boyish Short Hair. Nowadays she has a more, open-to-the-sides style. For the Hellfire Gala she has actually regrown it back to her long hime cut, albeit more stylized.
• Fastball Special: Does it with Wolverine a couple of times (with Hisako doing the throwing).
• Field Promotion: How she made the team.
• Future Badass: According to at least one timeline, she grows up to lead the X-Men.
• Instant Armor: Since it's made of energy, her armor manifests instantly.
• Kid-Appeal Character: Complete with becoming Wolverine's sidekick; she is basically the successor to Kitty, Jubilee, and Movie Rogue in that respect.
• Little Miss Snarker: Fitting for a former Wolverine sidekick, she's short and can get pretty snarky.
• Platonic Life-Partners: With Glob Herman of all people.
• Running Gag: Complaining that her codename sucks, though she seems to be over it by now.
• Secret-Keeper: Decides to hide the fact that Manon and Maxime altered the memories of Beak, Angel, and their kids to make them think that Beak's parents died peacefully years earlier instead of being murdered by cartel members seeking Krakoan medicine, as revealing it after the fact would only cause more pain to them and get the kids in trouble.
• Sixth Ranger: Never part of the Academy X teams, she still joins them for a mission during Messiah Complex.
• Sizeshifter: Kinda, her body remains the same size, but she can make her armor grow hundreds of feet tall, as well as becoming strong enough to beat Fin Fang Foom into submission with seemingly little effort.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: When she and Wolverine aren't busy being Mentor/Sidekick, most of their interactions come off as this.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Calls out Manon and Maxime for their alteration of Beak, Angel, and their children's memories, and explains to the twins that they can't just "help" people get over grief by changing their memories and that they denied them an actual grieving process.
• Wolverine Claws: Has shown the ability to shape her armor into these, although only seen using them once in actual combat - against a non-human opponent.

Ariel

Ariel

Notable Aliases: "She Who Speaks Like Water Running Across the Stones"

Nationality: Coconut Grove, Krakoan

Species: Coconut Grove mutant

First Appearance: Fallen Angels #2 (May, 1987)

An alien from a glamourous planet, Ariel has the natural ability to teleport through doorways. She gathered young mutants to form the Fallen Angels and later discovered that she was also a mutant, albeit one of her alien species.

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• Human Aliens: Looks pretty human with the exception of the the bright multicolored hair.
• Portal Door: Can make them.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: She was last seen taking Rogue to the new Jean Grey Academy during AvX and hasn't been mentioned since.

Glob

Robert Herman / Glob

Notable Aliases: The Inhuman Torch

Nationality: American, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: New X-Men #117 (October, 2001)

"Yeah! Knocked out the lady... with no super-strength. Dang it, even when I'm a hero I'm a jerk."

Glob was a student at Xavier's mansion and a member of the Omega Gang under the leadership of Quentin Quire. Although he was one of the X-Men's most troublesome and problematic students for years, Glob eventually sought to change himself for the better. After the rise of Krakoa, Glob frequently assists the New Mutants while also maintaining a chicken coop on the island.

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• Abusive Parents: His father was a member of a group of anti-mutant bigots who dragged young Robert to anti-mutant rallies. When his mutation manifested, his father would beat him for any reason he could find. Eventually his mother snuck him out of the house in the middle of the night and dropped him off at Xavier's school, warning him to never call or come home.
• Animal Lover: Developed an affinity for chickens in the Age of X-Man, which carried over to his time on Krakoa as he maintains a coop.
• Apologetic Attacker: As he's about to kill his old friend Kid Omega in Wolverine and the X-Men (Marvel Comics), he sends him a psychic apology, explaining that he was too scared to deny his evil commanders and enforcers. Kid Omega, in response, apologizes for what he's about to do.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Though he was originally a mutant extremist with no qualms about torturing and killing humans, he mellowed out significantly with age. This was until he confronted the owner of the website dedicated to doxing mutants, whom he bluntly told that if one more mutant was hurt because of this site, he would track him down and kill him, even if it meant facing Krakoa's capitol punishment for killing a human.
• Blob Monster: His skin is biogenic paraffin wax, making him see through with his skeleton and organs all visible.
• Boomerang Bigot: He was raised to hate mutants by his father, only for him to turn out to be one. He hated himself for awhile after before turning his hatred towards humanity for rejecting and mistreating him.
• Call to Agriculture: On Krakoa he built a chicken coop which he tends to in between missions. This is seemingly influenced by the life he lived in the alternate Age of X-Man reality.
• Character Development: Started out as a violent member of Quinten Quire's Omega Gang who once tried to set a bus of humans on fire. Now he is a full-fledged X-Man who seeks to solve conflicts with as little violence as possible, even when fighting gang members who threaten the lives of mutant children.
• Face–Heel Turn: Joined the Hellfire Academy after coming to believe that his classmates and the X-Men didn't respect him. It didn't stick, as he rejoined the Jean Grey Academy after the Hellfire Academy was shut down.
• Immune to Fire: Fire and heat have little effect on him, at most briefly catching him on fire. However, in Age of X-Man, he is visibly much smaller after melting a significant amount of his wax onto Armor, and he might be in danger if he burns long enough for it to reach his bones or organs.
• Immune to Mind Control: He's the one person, bar Bishop (who has all kinds of alternate reality hijinks to render him immune), who was unaffected by Nate Grey's reality warp in Age of X-Man. It's not clear why, though given that everyone in the world got their greatest desires (in theory), it might have come from that. Unfortunately, no one else is similarly immune.
• Odd Friendship: Develops one with Mojo of all beings in X-Men: Black due to their their unconventional and unattractive forms.
• Reformed Bully: Started out as a stupid, cruel thug for Kid Omega. Starting with Spider-Man and the X-Men, he started to show a selfless side, and by the time Krakoa came along, he was a fully positive influence to younger mutants and chickens.
• Secret-Keeper: Along with Armor he is the only one who knows that Manon and Maxime altered Beak and Angel's memories, but is hiding this fact due to the extra distress and complications that would arise from revealing the truth.
• Super-Strength: He is quite strong and able to easily subdue normal humans in hand-to-hand combat.
• Super-Toughness: It's nearly impossible to hurt him thanks to the unique make-up of his skin. Even a bomb strapped to his chest didn't leave a scratch on him. The most he has ever been hurt has been when he was strapped to the front of a rocket to substitute for a heat-resistant tip to get back to Earth, and that was only a few broken bones.
• Took a Level in Badass: In the hellish Age of Apocalypse mental simulation that he, Rockslide, Pixie, and Armor were trapped in with Nate Grey, when Legion was trying to keep the latter locked away. It lasted five minutes, but it felt like months, and Glob became powerful enough to take Rockslide in a fight.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Several levels: after his history of rioting and betraying the school, Glob mellowed out considerably, starting with learning lessons in heroism from Spider-Man's special class at the institute. This change is acknowledged in New Mutants (2019), in which Glob tells Magik that he had an epiphany one day about how he had become a hateful man like his father and wanted to change.
• Wreathed in Flames: His body is made of what is essentially living wax, making him highly flammable. He isn't hurt by this so in combat he can light himself on fire.

Petra

Petra

Nationality: American, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men: Deadly Genesis #1 (January, 2006)

Petra was a mutant with the power to manipulate earth.

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• Attempted Rape: Her foster dad attempted this, but she managed to stop him with the first conscious use of her powers. She then ran because he realized she was a mutant and she knew he might kill her.
• Back from the Dead: Subverted. She was thought to have been resurrected by the Five on Krakoa until it was pointed out she died before Cerebro existed. It turned out the Petra seen on Krakoa was an energy construct Vulcan created.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: She's roasted alive by a very angry Krakoa.
• Dishing Out Dirt: She's a geokinetic. While homeless in New York, she carved a home for herself out of a rock bluff in Central Park and made money by turning coal into diamonds.
• Domino Mask: Has a green one.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: As with the rest of her team, because Professor X wiped everyone's memory of her. And just to add insult to death, even after Darwin and Vulcan come back from the dead, neither seem to give any particular thought to either girl again. X-Men: Legacy at least indicated that Charles feels guilty about their deaths.
• Foster Kid: She was put into the foster system after her parents died. She was stuck in a small room with five kids, a foster mom who smoked and didn't care about the kids, and a foster dad who tried to rape her.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She spends most of her time getting drunk at the Summer House on the moon. Not surprising that she wouldn’t want to spend time on Krakoa.
• Light Feminine Dark Feminine: She's the Light to Sway's dark, being blonde with a green and white costume.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: As she died, she used her powers to try and save the still barely alive Darwin and Vulcan. Unfortunately, this had the side effect of saving Vulcan, who when he returned to Earth came back pretty damn pissed.
• No Name Given: We never learn her given name, and even the X-Men's gravestone for her just calls her Petra.
• Parental Abandonment: His parents and brother died in a rockslide when she was young, with her being the only survivor thanks to her abilities.
• Remember the New Guy?: Petra, along with Darwin, Vulcan and Sway, was introduced in Deadly Genesis claiming they'd been around before the All-New team.
• Survivor Guilt: After figuring out what her mutant power was, Petra felt guilty about her family's deaths, believing that she either caused the accident or could have saved them.

Sway

Suzanne Chang / Sway

Nationality: Hong Kong, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men: Deadly Genesis #3 (March, 2006)

Sway was a mutant with time-stopping powers, and was a member of the X-Men.

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• Back from the Dead: Subverted. She was initially thought to have been resurrected by the Five on Krakoa until it was pointed out she died before Cerebro existed. It was revealed the Sway who'd been hanging around Vulcan was a construct he created.
• Cleavage Window: Her suit came with an opening for her cleavage.
• Cruel and Unusual Death: Sway's sliced in half by a Krakoa construct.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: The same deal as Petra.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: She spends most of her time getting drunk at the Summer House on the moon. Not surprising that she wouldn’t want to spend time on Krakoa.
• Light Feminine Dark Feminine: She's the Dark feminine, with her black hair and red and black costume to Petra's blonde hair and white and green outfit.
• Meaningful Name: Her code name, Sway, references her ability to stop time and follow the sway of time through echoes of past events.
• Parental Abandonment: She and her parents were caught in the middle of a drive-by shooting during a gang war in Chinatown. She survived thanks to stopping the bullets coming towards her, but her parents were not so lucky.
• Time Stands Still: She can slow down the passage of time. She can also see echoes of past events, and the first time she did this allowed her to follow the car with her parent's killers to their hideout and alert the police.

X-Men 2010's Members

Weapon XIII / Fantomex

Charlie Cluster-7 / Weapon XIII / Fantomex

Nationality: N/A (initially believed to be French)

Species: Human mutate/Sentinel hybrid

First Appearance: New X-Men #128 (August, 2002)

Fantomex is a highly evolved and technologically advanced mutate, developed by the Weapons Plus program to be Weapon Xlll. He is highly cunning, skilled in misdirection, and has a ship that is an extension of his nervous system named E.V.A.

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• Anti-Hero: Fantomex is ultimately a good guy, but he can be horrifyingly ruthless on occasion.
• Back from the Dead: Dies towards the end of his run in X-Force, but later gets resurrected through cloning. Each brain of his gets a different body.
• Badass Longcoat: And a Spy Catsuit.
• Bad Future: It's implied that in the averted "Here Comes Tomorrow" future, he became Sublime's lieutenant Apollyon.
• Captain Ersatz: Diabolik and Fantômas. He even has Diabolik's Spy Catsuit and E.V.A. is named after Diabolik's girlfriend Eva Kant. His name is an obvious play on Fantomas, and like the Mexican comicbook Fantômas, he never removes his mask.
• Captain Ethnic: While it eventually turned out that he was faking it, Fantomex appeared to be a suave, deceptive French superthief. This has led to him derogatively being called "Faux-Frenchie" on a couple of occasions.
• Consummate Liar: His mutant power is implied to be misdirection.
• Dual Wielding: Handguns.
• Designer Baby: He was bred in a artificial womb, his genes were modified by nanomachines that enhanced his physique and intelligence.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He does sincerely love his mother, or at least his mother figure. Tragically, she later gets murdered not long after he offs the child version of Apocalypse.
• Future Badass: E.V.A. lives on after he dies, apparently, and becomes a vital member of the X-Men with a fully realized personality.
• Gender Bender: His 'nice' brain is cloned into a female body.
• Gentleman Thief: His persona is that of a master thief with a suave sense of humour. When he gets ruthless however, he's capable of dropping the act.
• Grand Theft Me: He can control E.V.A.'s actions and see from her point of view with concentration.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Dies saving Betsy. He later gets resurrected, albeit with each of his three brains in a different body.
• Master of Illusion: Thanks to E.V.A.
• My Greatest Second Chance: Partially out of remorse and partly because he wonders if the rest of the team were right, Fantomex actually creates a clone of Kid!Apocalypse to see if someone with his power could grow up to be a good person, rather than a dictator bent on cleansing the world of humanity.
• Nigh-Invulnerable: He feels no pain due to having a remotely-stored nervous system; while he can be hurt, it doesn't deter him.
• Nominal Hero: Apart from the time Sabretooth was brainwashed into joining, and not counting brainwashing incidents, he's arguably the most ruthless (and at times, downright awful) person to have ever been an X-Man. For instance, he once killed hundreds of brainwashing victims to take out the guy doing the brainwashing, figuring restoring them one by one would take too long. Even his X-Force teammates are frequently creeped out by his cold-blooded pragmatism.
• Pet the Dog: His love of his mother is one of the few hints that Fantomex has some redeeming traits.
• Psychic Link: With his autonomous nervous system E.V.A.
• Rule of Cool: The entire Fantomex thing? Basically entirely done because he thinks French guys are cool (and maybe because he first surfaced in Paris).
• Screw Yourself: One of the many strange results of having his three brains cloned into separate bodies.
• Split Personality: Fantomex has three different brains, likely a hold-over from his status as Weapon XIII. It's said this is why he could act as a hero, and then murder a child. Captain Britain, who hated his guts before, even said it was a testament to his character that he was able to function at all with his different personalities. They are described by Shadow King as noble, a trouble-maker, and a vile place. In the last issue, each brain gets a separate body. One identical to the old body, another with a mostly-black suit, described as not very nice, and a final, female body, with a white suit, who claims to be "the nicest".
• Voluntary Shape Shifting: E.V.A. can change shape at will.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Fantomex points out how the Captain Britain Corps find the shooting of one kid "evil", regardless of the work he's done to raise Genesis as a savior. Yet, they're perfectly OK with skinning a man alive and erasing another from existence.
• Would Hurt a Child: If we're getting specific, Would Shoot A Child In The Head. And YMMV whether he does or does not cross the Moral Event Horizon in doing so.

E.V.A.

E.V.A.

Species: Sentient techno-organic being

First Appearance: New X-Men #129 (September, 2002)

An extension of Fantomex's nervous system. Following Fantomex's death, she evolved to take a humanoid form.

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• Robot Girl: Evolved a female humanoid form.

Frenzy

Joanna Cargill / Frenzy

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Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Factor #4 (May, 1986)

A former enemy of the X-Men, devout Acolyte of Magneto, and one of Apocalypses' earlier minions, with the mutant power of being functionally invulnerable. She declared her intention to join the X-Men after the Age of X event, becoming a staff member of the newly reopened Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.

After the mutant nation of Krakoa was founded, Frenzy eventually joined S.W.O.R.D., reformed as a Krakoan space agency, as Earth's mutant ambassador due to the number of alien species that valued strength and fighting skills.

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• Abusive Parents: She comes from a military family, where both she and her father idolized her older brother. Joanna was a sickly, unplanned second child, and her father was actively abusive towards her. After her brother was killed in action, her father went off the deep end and nearly killed her, but then her powers kicked in.
• Adaptational Nationality: She's Genoshan in the animated series, unlike her mainstream counterpart who is American.
• Ambadassador: She's chosen as S.W.O.R.D.'s ambassador by Abigail Brand, and she's reintroduced duking it out with the Power-Skrull (who has become an ambassador himself).
• Ascended Extra: Originally Cargill was just a Mook working for the Alliance of Evil, a C-List Fodder team of nobodies working for eventual X-Factor Big Bad Apocalypse. She went onto become one of the most prominent members of the Acolytes before joining the X-Men.
• Badass Boast: Gets a good one in during her fight with the Omega Sentinel Karima Shapandar:
  Cargill: Microwaves, huh? Nasty. Trying to cook me from the inside out. Only my inside's the same as my outside, you walking obscenity. Harder than steel. Harder than anything. Harder than you.
• Blind Obedience: Throughout all her appearances Cargill has exhibited a compulsive need to seek out a powerful male authority figure to pledge herself to and then obey without question. These authority figures have ranged from Apocalypse to Magneto to Exodus to Cyclops, but no matter who they have been Cargill's devotion has been absolute. One would think now that she is following a hero that she could finally get some much needed therapy to break the cycle, but of course Therapy Is for the Weak according to her.
• Blue Is Heroic: Her outfits after joining the X-Men for good are clear blue.
• Bondage Is Bad: Her outfit in the Alliance of Evil.
• Broken Pedestal: Both Magneto and Exodus are this to her, with Magneto breaking after his depowering around House of M and Exodus breaking after Professor X convinced him to disband the Acolytes in X-Men Legacy. Currently Cyclops is her Pedestal of choice.
• Brutal Honesty: In "All New Inhumans #11" she explains to Crystal that no matter how many mutants she does help out, and while she is better than most, there will always be a next time until they destroy the terrigen cloud.
• The Brute: Both her powers and her personality lend themselves to this role, and she's usually happy to fill it.
• Character Development: Like many second-gen Acolytes, Cargill gets a nice plate of development in the Mutant Empire book trilogy, giving her lots of Hidden Depths (did you know she's a huge fan of classic Brotherhood member Pyro's horror novels? Now you do!) and a personality somewhere between Punch-Clock Villain and Noble Demon. She's also been one of the few Acolytes to get this in the actual comics, turning over a new leaf after Age of X.
• Dark Action Girl: Since becoming an X-Man she's become a particular scary take on this.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Why she decided to join the X-Men, because her time in the Age of X reality gave her a place to channel her anger.
• Evil Is Bigger: At a massive 6'11"/211cm tall, Frenzy was the second largest Acolyte, being eclipsed only by The Big Guy Javitz. Of course, as she's become more good over the years her depicted height has shrunk considerably, to the point of it now being firmly in Informed Ability territory.
• Eye Scream: Magneto once shot a laser into her eye to stop her from killing a comatose Xavier, apparently damaging part of her brain in the process. It doesn't seem to have had any permeant effect, though, after Xavier recovered and later returned to help her.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: By S.W.O.R.D. (2020), she keeps the sides of her head shaved, but has regrown her Braids of Action she had back in the nineties.
• Fantastic Racism: Doesn't like humans. Or de-powered mutants. Even if that mutant is Magneto. Growing out of this mindset was one of the most difficult parts of her integration into the X-Men.
  Cargill: Human lovers! If you were true mutants, you would follow the teachings of Magnus!
• The First Cut Is the Deepest: According to S.W.O.R.D., Cyclops is the first and only man she's ever romantically loved, but since he doesn't love her back... well.
• Freudian Excuse: During the Avengers vs. X-Men crossover her background got some fleshing out, where it was revealed she had an abusive Archnemesis Dad and a passive mother. Think Jack Torrance's parents and you've about got it.
• Good Feels Good: She came to feel this way during the Age of X, a storyline in which she (along with most of the X-Men) was brainwashed by Legion and made to believe they were all part of an alternate reality. The Cargill in this reality was a member of the X-Men, and after it ended she was one of the few who chose to retain her memories of it, as she found she had enjoyed the feeling of being a hero and an X-Man. This ultimately resulted in her joining the X-Men for real.
• Good is Not Nice: Yet another former supervillain who's joined the X-Men. Frenzy will do the right thing if she's asked or ordered to, but her first instinct is almost always to hit somebody, and she genuinely has a hard time caring whether or not baseline humans die.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: Joanna doesn't bother with weapons, preferring to fight with her fists, and she's very good at it too.
• Happily Married: In the Age of X, to Basillisk (Cyclops). She still has some feelings for Scott afterward, even if he doesn't reciprocate.
• Heel Face Brain Washing: In Eve of Destruction storyline, Jean Grey was desperate to find a new team, and quickly to save Professor Xavier. She acknowledges that one of Magneto's lieutenants, Frenzy, has been captured by the US Army. Not only does Jean enter her mind to get the info she needs on Genosha (Magneto's island) and its defenses, but she thinks that having a superpowered guide in that hellhole would be a good idea, so she just rewrites Frenzy's mind and makes her an X-Men enthusiast (so fanatically devoted to the X-Men cause, all of a sudden, that it was creepy).
• Heel–Face Turn: Was a former villain, now a hero, thanks to being inspired by her Age of X persona to become a better person. By 2015, she had officially gone from a terrorist willing to participate in attacks on human children to a hero laying her life on the life even for other species like The Inhumans.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Her outfit from the mid-00s until she joined the X-Men was a leather top and pants combo. In black, naturally, and with matching gloves (also in leather).
• Hopeless Suitor: After Age of X, she got a bit of a crush on Cyclops, since in that reality they were lovers (Joanna's powers making her immune to his optic blasts). Of course, even if Scott hadn't been with Emma Frost, he just doesn't reciprocate.
• Important Haircut: In the "Age of X" crossover, Frenzy was a X-Man in good standing and Cyclops's lover. When reality snapped back to normal, Frenzy had to do some soul-searching to decide what she wanted to do next. That came along with shaving half of her head, changing her outfit, and deciding to join the X-Men.
• Karma Houdini:
  • She killed Sharon Friedlander and got away with it completely; the X-Men don't even seem to remember it anymore.
  • She also got away with murdering Trish Tilby's cameraman Kevin and his mutant lover Caroline in the Mutant Empire trilogy, with the only consequences she experiences being frozen in a block of ice by Iceman.
• Last-Name Basis: Usually just addressed by her last name, like the other members of the Acolyte Power Trio. This ended when she became an X-Man and she usually goes by her codename now.
• Lightning Bruiser: Frenzy has respectable levels of superhuman strength combined with some degree of military training. She can be terrifying in a fistfight.
• Mook Lieutenant: Something of a late bloomer in this role compared to Unuscione and Voght. As an X-Man, she has slipped back into taking orders from others.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: Aside from her attempts to assassinate Senator Kelly, she also murders Kevin and Caroline in the Mutant Empire books for no other reason than "They pissed me off." As Iceman notes, Joanna is not out of control or insane when she does this either, which just makes it all the more heinous.
  • Happens during the first arc of X-Men: Legacy. Xavier alive? Kill him. The man formerly known as Magneto objects? Kill him too.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: Her mutant ability, with the usual requisite dose of Super-Strength to go with it. Her skin is mentioned to be harder than steel, and she has been able to withstand most forms of conventional injury, extreme environmental temperatures, and even microwave radiation courtesy of Omega Sentinel.
• No-Sell: A lot of cases, as comes from her powers, but apparently one of the benefits of her powers is at least some immunity to Mind Rape from a god of evil.
• Personality Powers: Frenzy started out as a gender-swapped Angry Black Man and got the brutish, confrontational powers one would expect of such an archetype. Even after she mellowed out (to an extent) through Character Development, she's still a very blunt and direct person, with blunt and direct powers to match.
• Pet the Dog: Her, Unuscione and Milan were the ones who gently coaxed the mutant teenager Neophyte out of hiding, staying with him for two days straight at the abandoned church he'd holed up in.
• Power Trio: Don't let her role as The Brute on her first mission fool you: Cargill is one of the three "Power Woman" Acolytes who act as Mook Lieutenants to the rest of the second generation.
• Proud Warrior Mutant Girl: Quite proud of her mutant heritage and not afraid to fight for her people.
• The Rival: As an Acolyte she would usually face off against Gambit in battle. This was not forgotten, as after her reformation she has had a romantic arc with him.
• Scary Black Woman: An archetypal example in her first appearance, as well as for about the first ten years or so of her existence. Even today she can be quite a scary lady, though as an X-Man she is usually on the side of good.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: In one what-if tale where Avalon isn't destroyed Cargill joins Exodus's Acolyte faction, the 'Isolationists' who advocate bailing on Earth completely and taking Avalon into deep space.
• Smart People Know Latin: Played with in a 2007 annual: in the midst of fighting Mystique, Cargill refers to Ultimao Ratio Regum, translating it as "the last and strongest argument". Mystique corrects her, identifying the phrase's actual translation as "the last argument of kings".
• Status Quo Is God: An eyebrow-raising case given all the work put into redeeming her, but for her appearance in House of X Cargill was shown as arriving in her 2000s Acolyte duds and with a gang of X-villains including Azazel, Lady Mastermind, Masque, and Marrow, not even chaperoning them but clearly among them, as if her long post-Age of X character arc simply never happened. In effect she's still with the X-Men, but just as another forgettable face in the many character panels that are mostly what the miniseries is composed of, as opposed to the trusted member of the X-Men that she spent several years working her way into becoming.
  • This changes a bit when she becomes ambassador of Abigail Brand's new S.W.O.R.D. Agency, which is made up of both X-Men and even a few former Acolytes.
• Statuesque Stunner: She's easily one of the tallest X-women at 6'11"/211cm tall, and one wouldn't call her bad looking, temperament aside.
• Super-Strength: Mentioned specifically at one point as having strength on par with Spider-Man.
• That Man Is Dead: When Magneto lost his powers on M-Day, she was insistent that he was essentially dead and gone. Then she tried to ensure this.
• Took a Level in Badass: Back in The '80s and The '90s Cargill's track record as a fighter wasn't anything to write home about, with her usually being dispatched in one panel by a random X-Man. Since then she's thrown down with Omega Sentinel (and won), was a standout member of the Age of X and even held her own against her former mentor Exodus in X-Men Legacy.
• Unstoppable Rage: Her codename's fitting. Frenzy has a vicious temper that often gets the best of her.
  "Frenzy. To name it is to own it."
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: She moved to Westchester to get away from Cyclops, and promptly started up with Gambit.
• Would Hurt a Child: Possibly. During her villain days she participated in the school bus attack mission with Unuscione and the Kleinstocks, but her Freudian Excuse revealed much later indicates she takes a dim view of hurting children.

Blink

Clarice Ferguson / Blink

Nationality: Bahamian, American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #317 (October, 1994)

Blink is a purple-skinned mutant born with the ability of teleportation —and later, dimensional hopping abilities— Blink is notable for being one of very few characters whose alternate universe counterpart is more popular than their "prime" self, with her "Age of Apocalypse" counterpart being a popular member and leader of the Exiles.

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• Amazing Technicolor Population: Has purple/lavender skin.
• Ascended Extra: Introduced to be a Sacrificial Lamb, she was loved so much that she was brought back: first in Age of Apocalypse, whose Blink gets to survive the Snap Back and become the leader and main character of Exiles. The original Blink returned after Exiles was canceled.
• Evil Counterpart: She became this to her Age of Apocalypse incarnation following her Face–Heel Turn. Ironically, not only is she the mainstream (albeit less used) version of her character, but she has never even encountered her other universe self as of yet.
• Face–Heel Turn: Instead of accidentally killing herself she transported herself to a different location and her mutant power allowed her to arrive intact. Unfortunately, no-one knew this or was in any position to rescue her, leaving her just a little angry. Selene finds her, and lies to Clarice that the X-Men did know, they just couldn't be bothered saving her. Blink believes this. Also, Selene uses some magic to control her.
• Facial Markings: Sports them.
• Heel–Face Turn: After Necrosha, and with a bit of help from Doctor Strange, Clarice is de-eviled.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Before Generation X was founded, 616 Blink sacrificed herself to destroy Harvest and was presumed dead until years later...
• Heroic RRoD: Can teleport as far as the Moon, but it'd take a hell of a lot out of her.
• Lost in Imitation: The Exiles Blink is so well-known that all adaptations' versions of Blink resemble that one and not this one. That even extends to this one when she's brought Back from the Dead.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: Though she doesn't know that, she is a descendant of none other than Apocalypse.
• Monochromatic Eyes: Hers are green. It's a family trait, going back to Victorian times.
• Most Common Superpower: Well-endowed.
• Non-Indicative Name: Her name comes from the sound made when she teleports.
• Portal Cut: Blink's power was to "blink" things to shreds in a way that only works in a comic book... thankfully.
• Put on a Bus: Just sort of dropped off the face of the Earth after the end of the Abnett and Lanning New Mutants run... until 2020's S.W.O.R.D. (2020), where she turns up as one of S.W.O.R.D.'s teleporter team.
• Sacrificial Lamb: Introduced to die, basically.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: At the end of Necrosha, she flees as Selene's scheme fails.
• Teleport Gun: The energy bolts/crystals (Depending on the Artist) she can fire function this way.
• Teleport Spam: Can rapidly use her Thinking Up Portals power.
• Thinking Up Portals: It was really hard to tell at first what she was doing that made a "bliiiink!" sound effect and resulted in shredded enemies (or non-enemies when it first activated, hence her reluctance to use it.) However, it turns out that this is her true power. In its unrefined state, it's bad news - imagine if, from your waist and above, every molecule in your body was transported a fraction of a centimeter to the left. Now imagine a dozen cuts like that through your body everywhere. Ouch. But Exiles Blink can create portals to any place she can think of, and with external help, even cross dimensions. She can also fling energy bolts that teleport the target where she wishes. Gen-X Blink can now use her powers in this way since her return.
• Weaponized Teleportation: Portal Cut style Thinking Up Portals use.

Bloodstorm

Ororo Munroe / Bloodstorm

Notable Aliases: Storm

Nationality: American (Earth-21710)

Species: Vampire Mutant

First Appearance: X-Men: Blue #10 (October, 2017)

An alternate reality version of Storm turned into a vampire by Dracula.

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• Alternate Self: Of both the main universe Storm and the one from Mutant X.
• Daywalking Vampire: Apparently, Bloodstorm is not harmed by direct exposition to sunlight.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: To remind us she's a vampire.

Trinary

Shilpa Khatri / Trinary

Nationality: Indian

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men: Red #1 (April, 2018)

A mutant from India with technopathy, Trinary was arrested by the Indian government after stealing money from the twenty-five richest CEOs in the country to give money to every working woman in India. She was rescued by Jean Grey's Red Team and subsequently joined them. Following the establishment of the mutant nation of Krakoa, Trinary worked alongside Cypher and Sage to monitor technological developments relating to Sentinels and the Mother Mold, until joining X-Corp.

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• Abusive Parent: Her father discovered she was a mutant and what she had done and turned her in to India's Mutant Defense Force.
• No Name Given: Her real name was not revealed for several years until the fifth issue of X-Corp.
• Oblivious to Love: Had no idea that Gentle had a crush on her and was trying to ask her out until Laura explained it to her.
• Technopath: She can control any digital technology around her, including Sentinels. She can feel technology nearby as well, allowing her to detect the nano-Sentinel tech that Cassandra Nova infected people with.

Pyro II

Simon Lasker / Pyro II

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men: Gold (Vol. 2) #1 (June, 2017)

When Simon manifested his mutant powers, Mesmero appeared to him in the form of Charles Xavier and brainwashed him into taking the name Pyro and joining a new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants working for anti-mutant activist Lydia Nance. After finding out who Mesmero really is and discovering who they were working for, Simon left the group in disgust and joined up with the X-Men.

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• Brainwashed and Crazy: This is why he joins the Brotherhood.
• Defector from Decadence: He was fine with doing some bad things for money, but working for Lydia Nance was just too much for him◊.
• Everyone Has Standards: He was disgusted when he learned that the Brotherhood he joined was really just a false-flag operation set up by humans to make mutants look bad, and quit on the spot, even refusing his share of the money he'd been promised.
• Heel–Face Turn: He worked with Mesmero to frame the X-Men and land them in prison, but joined the X-Men when he found out he was working for Lydia Nance.
• Good Costume Switch: Simon's original costume was modeled after St. John Allerdyce's. He acquires his own X-uniform after joining the X-Men.
• Playing with Fire: It's in his name.
• Superior Successor: Unlike the original Pyro, Simon can create fire as well as control it.
• Straight Gay: He and Iceman have a one-night stand towards the end of X-Men: Gold.

Gazing Nightshade

Gazing Nightshade

Nationality: Madripoorian

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men: Blue #6 (August, 2017)

A member of the Raksha, a group of vigilante mutants from the island nation of Madripoor who were influenced by Patch, aka Wolverine, during his time on the island. Her gaze causes people to enter a trance-like state of sorrow fueled by their deepest regrets.

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• Aborted Arc: The last issue of X-Men: Blue ends with her and her fellow Raksha being recruited by Polaris and Danger to become a new team of X-Men operating in Madripoor. They have not been seen or mentioned since then, and Polaris is currently residing on Krakoa while Danger's location is unknown.
• Anti-Hero: She and Raksha did not have issues with killing criminals they fight, reasoning that they would just be released right back onto the street by the corrupt law enforcement of Madripoor. The time-displaced X-Men challenged them to change this attitude.
• Blindfolded Vision: Despite covering her eyes whenever she's not using her powers, she doesn't seem to have an issue with her sight.
• Brutal Honesty: She tends to be very straightforward when criticizing or disagreeing with someone, or just in normal conversations when pointing out awkward truths.
  Polaris: The "Code of Patch" didn't really teach you about subtlety?
  Gazing Nightshade: It taught us that nuance is a waste of time.
  Polaris: Yeah... you and my father are going to get along famously.
• The Empath: In addition to being able to make people suffer from their regrets, she can simply sense those regrets and help advise how to come to terms with them.
• Jumped at the Call: She was the most trusting member of the Raksha towards the X-Men and Magneto, and joined the temporary X-team put together by Polaris when the original five are in space during the Mothervine crisis. She continued to wear her X-Men uniform even after departing the team.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Like the other Raksha her actual name is unknown.
• Ship Tease: She and the time-displaced Beast were attracted to each other, but never had the chance to pursue it before the original five X-Men decided to return to their correct spot in the timeline.
• Tears of Blood: She cries tears of blood when using her power, and those affected by it do the same.

Morph

Benjamin "Benji" Deeds / Morph

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: All-New X-Men #3 (February, 2013)

A post-AvX mutant whose power appeared while in school. He was originally scouted by Scott's team, but a meeting with the time-displaced O5 X-Men interrupted the recruitment. Scott then approached him later, after his parents and the school abandoned him, and managed to get him on-board. He's a ShapeShifter who mimics those who he is facing and has attributes that allow him to infiltrate secure locations, although it turns out that is just one of his abilities.

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• Ambiguously Bi: He once told Emma Frost he was gay to avoid having to hit on a woman. On the other hand, he demonstrated an attraction to Magik, and she caught him checking out her ass (Yana promptly warned him she would likely break him). He later started a relationship with a male student.
• Charm Person: His powers allow him to make the people he's with feel good and thus safe around him, letting him convince them to do what he asks as long as they aren't aware of his power.
• Glamour: His powers are a variant of this.
• Involuntary Shapeshifter: He has no control over his powers yet, but Emma is working with him on it.
• Legacy Character: Initially averted. Emma wanted to call him Morph, but he was against it. However, he eventually came to accept the name.
• Nice Guy: He's one of the very very few people who has patience for Quentin Quire.
• Walking Techbane: When using his powers technology can be scrambled, including audio and visual.

Triage

Christopher Muse / Triage

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: All-New X-Men #1 (January, 2013)

A post-AvX mutant whose power was brought to light when his friend fell over and hit her head, dying on the spot. His Healing Hands brought her back to life and he was arrested by the police unlawfully, only to be rescued by Cyclops, Magneto, and Eva Bell.

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• Back from the Dead: He is one of many dead mutants revived by the Five who now lives on Krakoa.
• Casanova Wannabe: Has hit on all the female teammates he's had at one point or another.
• Distressed Dude: He was captured by General Robert Callahan of the Office of National Emergency who tried to force Triage to use his abilities to help them. He refused and was executed by being administered the X-gene cure.
• Goggles Do Nothing: But they look awesome.
• Healing Hands: Has, multiple times, brought the dead back to life.
• Jumped at the Call: He loves being a mutant and is happy to be an X-Men.
• Name Amnesia: The Stepford Cuckoos threatened Triage with making him forget his own name when his lascivious teen boy thoughts offended them.
• Necromancer: After the X-Men graphic novel No More Humans, it turns out that his ability is really life force manipulation. He can even revive a long dead body but only as a sentient zombie.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: On the trip to Tabula Rasa.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: He wears a suit most of the time.
• Ship Tease: With Irma/Mindee.
• Shoot the Medic First: Attempted in both Uncanny X-Men runs. Only he can heal himself.
• Super Power Lottery: Among healers, anyway, as he can raise the dead.

Hijack

David Bond / Hijack

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 3) #6 (July, 2013)

A post-AvX mutant who whose power appeared when he was in the middle of being dumped by his girlfriend. While experimenting in a parking lot he is attacked by two security guards and shot while trying to get away. The Stepford Cuckoos and Magik arrived to bring him to safety and he joined as the team's Technopath.

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• Jumped at the Call: He started experimenting with his power the moment after he got it.
• Older Than They Look: The rest of the new Uncanny X-Men are teenagers or in their early twenties. Hijack looks like he's in that age group, but recently during an argument with one of the Stepford Sisters, it comes out that he's actually 30.
• Police Brutality: A victim of it.
• Technopath: Can control vehicles with his voice.

Tempus

Eva Bell / Tempus

Nationality: Australian

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: All-New X-Men #1 (January, 2013)

A post-AvX mutant whose power awoke when a fight broke out between her brother and a boy she had a crush on and enclosed an entire block in a time bubble for twenty hours. She was accosted by the police and rescued by Cyclops, Emma Frost, and Magneto. She later joined his new team.

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• Action Mom: During her trip to the future she get married and has a child, and being a reality/time warping superhero she naturally qualifies.
• Awesome Aussie: She took out the Avengers with a single bubble, sealing them away for hours.
• Broken Pedestal: For most of the Uncanny X-Men she is one of Cyclops' biggest supporters and even has an obvious crush on him. Her admiration and belief for him are shattered after the events of her time traveling adventures and using Xavier to erase a dangerous mutant from existence that could have destroyed everyone. She becomes disillusioned with Cyclops' plight for a Mutant Revolution and blames him for how things have gotten so bad to begin with.
• Butterfly of Doom: Her powers make this a very real concern. Once Eva learns to travel through time, she can make changes in the past but can not anticipate the effects. during the Uncanny and All-New X-Men annuals, an insignificant change made in the past wiped the family she started in the future from existence.
  • Notably averted when she wipes Matthew Malloy from existence. Even though one of the manifestations of his mutant power destroyed an entire Skrull army during the events of Secret Invasion, this apparently had no effect on the timeline.
• Catchphrase: Her gratuitous "Crikey!" that she'd yell to remind us that, yes, she is Australian. Thankfully it went away after a few issues.
• Happily Married: When she's stuck in the future for several years she settles down, gets married and has a child to form a happy family. She loses it all.
• Hot for Teacher: Has an extremely obvious crush on Cyclops, to the point where all the students knew. This pretty much dies out by the Last Will & Testament of Charles Xavier.
• Jumped at the Call: Like Triage, she loves her role as an X-Man.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's subject to a handful of upskirt shots, and her torn suit in Issue #17 of Uncanny X-Men is conveniently revealing.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Tempus's powers first manifest from the stress of her overprotective brother starting a fight with the boy she likes.
• Older and Wiser: After she comes back from her time traveling adventures she acts significantly more mature than her teenage teammates.
• Plot-Relevant Age-Up: In Issue #17 of Uncanny X-Men she looks somewhat older after having gone missing in time for several pages. It has been noticed by Cyclops that she's aged several years, in fact. The annual showed that she spent at least seven years in the distant future and raised a child.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: Since using her ability, her hair has gained white streaks in it.
• Power Incontinence: How she met the X-Men in the first place. She couldn't control her powers and ended up getting the wrong kind of attention. The annual reveals that the second time it happened sent her not only to the Wild Wild West, but to the Year 2099 as well.
• Put on a Bus: Has never been seen since the end of Will & Testament of Charles Xavier.
  • The Bus Came Back: Comes back in House of X #5 as one of the Five, where her temporal abilities aid in mutant resurrection.
• Superpower Lottery: Her ability can take out the Avengers, including the Hulk, after less than a week of training. What's more, it seems that she can displace time as well, with Issue #10 hinting that she has multiple levels of Time Manipulation abilities.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: In terms of her powers, she's viewed as this for Kiden Nixon for some readers.
• Time Master: She has this potential, judging by things so far.
  • Time Stands Still: Her power at first manifests as a localized version of this, sealing anything within the bubble she creates in time until it dissipates. She herself is immune should she be inside the bubble, although time flows differently within it. It's hinted that she doesn't completely stop time, but slows it down to the point where taking a single step would require a hundred years to pass outside the bubble.
    • More than hinted at, Doctor Strange once showed up in her bubble in the A+X books and explained that no one can stop time completely, not even her, but he's never seen anyone this strong at it. He was only able to talk to her in the bubble by speeding up time for himself. (Note that the series itself is not-canon)
  • Time Travel: Within the time bubble she can jaunt things forwards or backwards in time, such as sending someone a minute into the future to avoid an attack.
    • As her abilities improve, it's heavily implied that her time travel abilities break one of the fundamental laws of time travel in the Marvel Universe: She can alter her own reality's past.^note In other time travel stories, changing the past leads to a divergent future and a new universe. IE, Days of Future Past created a split in the timeline, leading to both Earth-616, where the bad future was averted, and the bad future of Earth-811.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Big time, due to being subjected to Break the Cutie during her time trip. To the point that she erases people out of existence.

Goldballs / Egg

Fabio Medina / Goldballs / Egg

Notable Aliases: Egg

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 3) #1 (April, 2013)

A post-AvX mutant who whose power appeared one day after being pickpocketed. He was tasered by the police and about to be arrested when Cyclops' new team appeared to rescue him. Following a quick battle with Sentinels, he joined the team but soon left after being dragged to Limbo. He was then taken into SHIELD custody before being rescued again by Cyclops' team.

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• Atrocious Alias: If you can take a name like "Goldballs" seriously, kudos to you.
• Character Shilling: When he showed up as a supporting character in the also Bendis led Miles Morales solo, Ganke is revealed to have been a huge fan of Fabio for some time. A part of this excitement is joy at seeing a chubby hero represent.
• Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?: Fabio's parents hit him with this in Issue #8 of Uncanny X-Men.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: As Magneto points out in House of X, Goldballs's gold balls are actually eggs that, with the assistance of other mutants, can be used to resurrect dead mutants. Magneto casually mentions that he saw Fabio's ball-shooting abilities as a stupid power until he learned of what it was really capable of.
• Police Brutality: A victim of it.
• Power Incontinence: Shoots off his balls when panicked, and also generates them in his sleep.
• Put on a Bus: He's abruptly removed from Miles' solo after being the victim of a school shooting.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Temporarily after he got sent to Limbo. He returned two issues later.
• Took a Level in Badass: Issue #11
• Transplant: He became a supporting member of the Spider-Man 2016 comic, serving as Miles Morales roommate.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: He shoots flesh-toned balls from his body. Compare that to his teammates.

ForgetMeNot

Xabi

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men: Legacy #300 (May, 2014)

"It's better to do something that matters and not be noticed than the other way around. Now comes the hard part. Actually doing something that matters."

A long-time member of the X-Men who has been a key figure in many of their victories over their most fearsome foes... except nobody knows about him due to his unfortunate mutant power of being immediately forgotten when not being looked at.

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• Forgettable Character: Thanks to his mutant ability, anyone who sees him instantly forgets about it the moment he is no longer in sight. His existence could be deduced by the impact he has on the world, including the food he eats, nobody would remember that it was him who had that impact. The one character who could remember his existence was Xavier, who set up a psychic reminder in his own head, but after his death in Avengers vs. X-Men there was no one left who remembered ForgetMeNot, at least until Fantomex revealed that he knows about him.
• No Name Given: His actual name is never given, although he likely does have one given that if the power had manifested at birth instead of during puberty he likely never would have survived to adulthood.
• Perpetual Frowner: ForgetMeNot often has a downcast look due to how the nature of his powers leaves him isolated.
• Remember the New Guy?: Part of his character and power set, apparently he spent years in the background helping X-Men pull off impossible victories because other life forms couldn't keep him in their heads, nor could most computers.
• What You Are in the Dark: Everything he does is in the dark, due to no one being able to recall him. He could simply walk away from the X-Men without anyone noticing and try to live another life, and at one point does consider letting Omega absorb his ability entirely to be normal, but decides to continue on being a hero anyway.

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Talon

Laura Kinney / Talon

Nationality: American, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: NYX #3 (February, 2004)^note First appearance, X-Men (2019) #18 February, 2021) ^note After divergence through time in the Vault

When Laura Kinney went into the Vault with Synch and Darwin, they ended up spending centuries in there fighting for their lives while only a short time had elapsed on the outside. She and Synch eventually fell in love and became a Battle Couple, but Laura had to sacrifice herself so Synch could escape. With Laura thought dead they fast-tracked her resurrection and there was now a young Laura who did not remember her time in the Vault due to her Cerebro backup only having updated up to before she entered. A year later Forge entered the Vault on a mission to rescue Darwin, only to find that the elder Laura had in fact not died and was being held in stasis by the children of the Vault. She was subsequently rescued, happily reunited with Synch and placed on the X-men team as Talon.

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• Character Death: Her body is destroyed by the High Evolutionary, Synch takes his mind into his to preserve her and in the very next issue her mind is erased because Synch's body can not take the strain of maintaining it.
• Depending on the Artist: Depending on the artist she either looks like a very fit woman in her 40s or she can look like a woman in her 20s who just happens to have some white streaks, a la Rogue.
• Duplicate Divergence: While this Laura is technically the original, Duggan treats them both as Laura that diverged at a point. While Young Laura is pretty much the same as she was before she entered the Vault, this Laura is somewhat grumpy and short with others such as Jubilee, with whom the whole younger Laura is very close. This Laura is much more like Logan than than the outgoing Laura we’ve come to know.
• Eternal Love: She and Synch became a Battle Couple while fighting in the Vault for centuries. They both stayed relatively young due to her healing factor.
• Grumpy Old Man: She’s not as patient as her younger self and has a small circle of who she can deal with.
• The Leader: She and Synch are promoted to co-leaders of the X-Men when Jean and Scott step down at the 3rd Gala. They still lead the X-Men when Krakoa falls.
• Older Than They Look: Due to her time in the Vault she’s several hundred (if not thousand) years old but looks like a very fit woman in her 40s or 50s.
• Other Me Annoys Me: She had a talk with her other self and made it short, but was clear with the latter that she didn’t want to know her.
• Satellite Love Interest: Basically served as this to Synch. She did nothing on her own.
• Stuffed into the Fridge: Is basically killed to motivate Synch through tragedy to take the war to Orchis, even though they have nothing to do with her death.
• Wolverine Claws: Well of course. She is the clone of the original.
• You Are in Command Now: She and Synch look genuinely shocked when Jean and Scott step down from the team and leave them as leaders at the third Hellfire Gala. Nonetheless, after Orchis destroys Krakoa as a nation, she takes up the mantle.

Rasputin IV

Rasputin IV

Nationality: Krakoan

Species: Human mutant Chimera

First Appearance: Immoral X-Men #2 (March, 2023)

A refugee from the Sins of Sinister timeline who joined the X-Men after Krakoa was destroyed by Orchis.

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• All Your Powers Combined: Colossus's steel form, Shadowcat's intangibility, Unus's nigh-unbreakable forcefields, Quire's Omega-level telepathy and Laura Kinney's healing factor. That being said, as X-Men 27 points out, some templates give her more than others. She gets more from Colossus than Quire for example. From most to least it goes Colossus > Unus > Shadowcat > Quire > Laura Kinney.
• Barrier Warrior: Thanks to Unus's DNA. Oddly, she can use her force fields offensively, while Unus can only use them to protect himself. It's possibly she also has some telekinesis from Quire.
• The Captain: She was specifically bred to be this, albeit one genetically brainwashed into being a puppet serving a horrible mutant-supremacist regime. This is lampshaded: Sinister notes that the figurehead of their army needs to be both a genuinely heroic and inspirational figure who can rally others around her to serve the cause while also being unflinchingly loyal enough to said cause to not get the idea to rebel against her masters, as she is too powerful to control otherwise. For his own purposes, he removed the genetic brainwashing, meaning that she became this for real.
• Captain Patriotic: Sinister designed her personality to be unflinchingly and sincerely dedicated to Krakoa (and in a surprisingly prescient move for him, to make sure she didn't get any ideas like overthrowing everyone else).
• Chrome Champion: She's always in her organic steel form, and was intended to be a hero of Krakoa.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: She spends 900 years in a Crapsack Universe that has perverted the promise of Krakoa in every conceivable way and beyond, all the while following a liar who promised to restore the universe and Krakoa, but was actually just using her in his goal to Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence. She fought tooth and nail against everyone around her as they all had their own agenda and had to watch as Sinister killed Trillions of mutants in his goal. When the Moira engine is reset, she is redirected in the past and gets to experience Krakoa in all its glory. She can’t hide her joy when she sees it. As a bonus, she gets to deliver Sinister to the Quiet Council. Unfortunately, not long after Krakoa falls to Orchis.
• Fatal Flaw: She's overall too trusting. To wit, she trusts Sinister and works with him, thinking that he wished to save the universe. Additionally, when she reappears once the timeline has been reset, she trust Mother Righteous who almost certainly does not have the best intentions. Of course, she's been specifically bred to be trusting to others, especially those in authority over her and who are (supposedly) working in the best interests of Krakoa.
• Gone Horribly Right: Sinister designed her to be his best creation. As he admits in the end, he did too good a job, not even including a self-destruct mechanism (just in case anyone else managed to use it).
• Horrible Judge of Character: Understandable since she's a force-grown clone who has specifically been bred and raised to trust anyone who she is told is an authority with Krakoa's best interests in heart, but she takes Sinister as entirely sincere on account of not having had any experience with him, and since he's her creator has no reason not to trust him. Once she realises he's a self-serving Godhood Seeker, not The Atoner he claims to be, she almost immediately allies with Mother Righteous - not realising that she's another equally villainous Sinister clone.
• In Spite of a Nail: A version of her had previously existed in one of the alternate timelines Moira experienced. Apparently Rasputin is just the inevitable result of Sinister's tinkering.
• Long-Lived: Sinister creates Rasputin 100 years into the future. 900 years later she's exhausted by her ceaseless mission, but has barely aged. Laura Kinney's healing factor presumably helps in that regard, as it's been established that she also ages very slowly.
• No Social Skills: To be fair she spent the first 900 years with a lying Mr. Sinister as her only companion and Kamala is her first actual friend. So when she hears Xavier took memories from Reed Richards it’s all she needs to go into fight mode when the team visits the Fantastic Four. And it takes a good bit to calm her down.
• Restraining Bolt: Initially designed to be conditioned as utterly loyal to Krakoa, Sinister undoes this when he goes rogue, and takes her with him in his escape.
• Rule of Cool: Sinister admits in his notes that while it was difficult getting the Soulsword for her, the end result is worth it.
• Sole Survivor: Due to escaping the timeline, she appears to be the only survivor, with Ironfire and Moira being the only ones left behind.
• Wide-Eyed Idealist: Somehow, nearly a thousand years wandering the nightmare reality Sinister's actions have made does nothing to blunt her unshakable belief everything will work out. Until she realises Sinister's not telling the truth - and even when she does, the equally villainous Mother Righteous is able to manipulate her just as easily

Woofer

Woofer

Nationality: American

Species: Human Mutant

First Appearance: X-Men #22 (May, 2023)

A mutant from Chicago who was rescued from Orchis by the X-Men. When Orchis destroyed Krakoa and framed Mutantkind, leaving them criminals in the eyes of the law, he was deported to Arakko. Unfortunately Arakko was in the middle of a civil war and not welcoming to their “cousins from Earth”. He was inducted into the X-Men by Kate Pryde as an informant, collecting information of who’s on Arakko and what goes on there.

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• Make Some Noise: Emphasis on the word “some”. He’s somewhat of a reversal of Dazzler’s powers in that he can convert light into sound, but they aren’t very strong sounds so he can’t really weaponize it.
• Non-Action Guy: He’s not on the team to fight, he’s on the team to gather information on Arakko.
• Power Incontinence: His power seems to always be on, so he can’t control it very much. Shown when two New Yorkers take pictures with him using the flash. Cue the sound effects.
• Written Sound Effect: The sound his powers make a written as “Pok”.

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