X-Men

Salem Center

Westchester County, NY

*Exemplar Squadron*

Colossus, Gambit, Storm, Wolverine

*Excelsior Squadron*

Iceman, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Shadowcat,

*Paladin Squadron*

Banshee, Psylocke, Sunfire, Thunderbird

**Neo X-Men**

*Paragon Squadron*

Colossus, Marvel Girl, Shadowcat, Storm, Warpath, Wolverine

*Acolyte Squadron*

Bishop, Blink, Dazzler, Forge, Shard,

*Advocate Squadron*

Berzerker, Feral, Havok, Hellion, Marrow

## **Overview**

The X-Men are a team of Mutants run by Professor X who use their natural born abilities to fight crime and shed a positive light on Mutant-kind.

## **History**

### Beginning of the X-Men

Charles Xavier is a telepath who perhaps happens to have one of the most powerful minds amongst his fellow Mutants with Jean Grey being his only form of competition. Charles was born in 1968 in Westchester County, New York, and after discovering his gift decided to find other blessed like he was. In college he studied genetics and used his abilities to further enhance the capabilities of his telepathy. In his free time Charles volunteered for the Human Genome Project in hopes of finding more like him. During the project he met Erik Lensherr, Moira MacTaggert, and Raven Darkholme where it took no time at all for Xavier to use his telepathic abilities to discover that two of them were gifted with their own special abilities, while one was fascinated by the science behind their genetic mutation. Charles and Erik became great friends and rather quickly while Raven took comfort in Erik for seeing her true beauty when she's blue and not hiding behind some *Homo sapiens* like façade, meanwhile Moira took fancy to Charles as they had an on and off again romance.

Charles learned that their Human Genome Project research was being used to hunt down other Mutants like them in order to weaponize them. Charles and Erik had two very different methods as to how to handle the situation. Erik wanted to end the lives of those hunting Mutants before his life and other Mutants lives were ended first. Charles wanted to retreat back to his Graymalkin Estate and recreate the machine the government had made, but customize it to enhance his psychic abilities and find fellow Mutants in need of help. By

Erik headed to Charles pleads and followed him to the mansion recreating the machine they once used before, this time calling it Cerebro. By the year 2000 Charles and Erik set out on a crusade to find Mutants like them and help them hone their abilities so one day they can be accepted by society. Moira was in love with the idea and was at the forefront of helping Charles locate them and bring them in to the new Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters where they would focus on academic studies as well as war tactics if ever need be. Charles, Erik, Moira, and Raven found quite a few Mutants looking for refuge after being shunned by their families. They located Mutants such as Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Hank McCoy, Bobby Drake, and Warren Worthington III. Erik and Raven located the likes of Fred Dukes, Dominikos Petrakis, St. John Allerdyce, Morty Toynbee, Vincent Paladino and Erik's three children that were hidden from him, Pietro Maximoff, Wanda Maximoff, and Lorna Dane.

### First Class

Charles Xavier wanted to instill ideals about bringing peace and unity by using peace and unity as their weapon. Erik and Raven had a different idea when they saw a fellow Mutant get beaten and lynched just for being born the way they were. Erik wanted to fight violence back with violence and that was merely unacceptable to Charles, so Erik divided the team into two. Those who shared the same values as him followed as they abandoned Charles and the rest of the Mutants. Erik took Raven, Fred, St. John, Vincent, Dominikos, Morty, Pietro, Wanda, and Lorna.

The remaining Mutants stayed with Charles and began training in fear of what consequences might come from Erik's actions. Erik dubbed himself Magneto and called his group the Brotherhood of Mutants as they were a brotherhood who stuck by each others sides no matter what. Charles Xavier was called Professor X by his fellow students as he called them his X-Men.

### Giant Size

Charles, Moira, and Hank began improving Cerebro to find more Mutants who need aide and before Magneto gets to them. The team later adds a few new additions in Anna-Marie Darkholme, Piotr Rasputin, Sean Cassidy, Remy LeBeau, Ororo Munroe, Kurt Wagner, Kitty Pryde, John Proudstar, Shiro Yoshida, and a strangler known as Logan. The team has since continued to grow and spinoff into subdivisions doing everything in their power to keep Magneto's oncoming war at bay as well as whatever the *Homo sapiens* such as the MRD and the Friends of Humanity have planned.

### Days of Future Past

A potential dystopian timeline is created after the events of the assassination of Senator Robert Kelly, Charles Xavier, and Moira MacTaggert by the Brotherhood of Mutants run by Mystique at this time occurs. A timeline in which Bolivar Trask's invention the Sentinels, cybernetic mutant hunters, overthrow the government and kill as many Mutants and *Homo superiors* that disobeyed orders as they could led by Master Mold. Those who obeyed were apprehended and imprisoned in Internment Camps. What few Mutants that escaped the Internment Camps or hid from the clutches of Master Mold and the Sentinels, formed a Neo X-Men. The surviving and escaped mutants consists of Colossus, Marvel Girl, Shadowcat, Storm, Wolverine, Bishop, Blink, Forge, Shard, Sunspot, Berzerker, Feral, Havok, Hellion, and Marrow. The team was broken up into three squadrons. Paragon, Cavalry, and Advocate. They do what they can to free their fellow Mutants from Internment Camps and destroy the Sentinels in hopes to change the future for the better.

## **List of X-Men Members**

* The X-Men has been broken up into sub-teams over the years. X-Force is their special operations unit, New Mutants are the newest inductees into Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters who are being trained to hone their gifts, and X-Factor despite being slightly exiled by members of the X-Men due to their tactics of eliminating Mutant traffickers once-and-for-all, Charles Xavier still has a place in his heart for his former students and other Mutants on the team that he reinstated their designation numbers.
* The original team consisting of Charles Xavier, Erik Lensherr, Raven Darkholme, and Moira MacTaggert was never officially the X-Men.
* Moira while married to Charles kept her maiden name and left the institute in order to continue her Mutant research on Muir Island in constant communication with her husband.