Rise of the Brotherhood

Xavier's first five students were all adolescents when they joined the X-Men. The X-Men first publicly appeared as a team when they first battle the powerful mutant Magneto together with his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants I, who had captured the American missile base at Cape Citadel. The team's arch-nemesis Magneto (who controlled magnetism) felt that mutants should rule over normal humans. Magneto's character would later be fleshed out to reveal that he once shared a friendship with Professor X and that his decree that mutants must conquer or be conquered grew from his experiences as a Holocaust-or Nazi Slavery survivor.

The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants was introduced then. Magneto assembled the hopping Toad, the illusionist Mastermind, the speedster Quicksilver and his sister, the Scarlet Witch around himself and later Blob was recruited. The Brotherhood takes over a small nation in South America within hours, but Xavier and the X-Men travel there and fight the group, yet they have problems since they are unfamiliar with their new opponents’ powers. In the end the Brotherhood is driven off, but they left some bombs behind. Xavier throws himself in the way and looses his telepathy in the explosion. The second device, a nuclear bomb meant to erase the whole country, is disarmed by Quicksilver before he leaves.

Actually Pietro and Wanda are not evil Mutants but serve within Magneto’s group out of a debt. If not for Magneto, Wanda would have been lynched by an angry mob after she accidentally caused a barn to burn down in her native village.

The first members of Magneto's Brotherhood were Quicksilver, Toad, Scarlet Witch, Mastermind and Blob (joined later) who initiated the attack to humans.

Magneto (Erik Magnus Lehnsherr) manipulate magnetic currents to gain total control over all forms of electromagnetism, allowing him to levitate and manipulate all objects made of metal, project concussive blasts and force fields, selectively generate heat and electricity, manipulate blood-flow to the brain to cause aneurysms or unconsciousness, and increase his power to absorb cold and electricity

Quicksilver (Pietro Maximoff), son of Magneto who possesses the superhuman capacity to think and move at great speeds. His entire body is adapted towards the rigors of high-speed running.

Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff), daughter of Magneto who possesses the mutant power of affecting probability fields. By a combination of gestures and mental concentration, she creates a hex-sphere, a finite pocket of reality-disrupting quasi-psionic force, which upon reaching its intended target causes disturbance in the molecular-level probability field surrounding the target.

Toad (Mortimer Toynbee), a British, mutant with superhuman leaping ability. He has been observed reaching an altitude of twenty-four feet and covering a distance on the ground of thirty-six feet in a single leap.
 

Mastermind (Jason Wyngarde) a mutant with the power of illusion casting. He can psionically cause other people to see, hear, touch, smell, and/or taste things which to not actually exist.

After the encounter with the X-Men, Quicksilver and his sister, the Scarlet Witch, revolted at the thought of being terrorists, left the Brotherhood and soon joined the newest version of the Avengers led by Captain America after the founding members had taken an extended leave. At that time they were found by Magneto they were not aware yet that they were the lost younglings of Magneto.

During the following fight the Angel is kidnapped and brought to Asteroid M, where he is interrogated. The X-Men rescue their teammate and destroy the asteroid. Back home Xavier reveals to never have lost his powers; he simply tested how the X-Men would perform without mental help.

Then not only the immovable Blob was the subject of Magneto for becoming his allies, both Xavier and Magneto try to add the might of the Namor- The Submariner into their ranks, as he might be a mutant too. Being impressed by the Scarlet Witch’s beauty Namor first sides with Magneto, but after becoming aware of his tyrannical attitude he opposes him. Since Magneto can’t control the powerful Atlantean he attempts to kill him, but fails. Namor returns to his undersea kingdom and the Brotherhood escapes again.

Blob (Fred J. Dukes) mutant powers relate to the mass, strength, resilience and indestructibility of his obese body. His primary ability is to become virtually immovable at will as long as he is in contact with the ground.

Meanwhile, the American military was grateful to the X-Men for driving from the base, and initially the X-Men were publicly regarded as heroes. However, fear and distrust of mutants continued to rise, reaching one of its first peaks, perhaps, at the time that Dr. Bolivar Trask publicly revealed the existence of his mutant-hunting robots, the Sentinels. Over the last several years the X-Men have been publicly regarded with suspicion, and have been unjustly accused of various crimes. Indeed, since the end of Xavier's cooperation with the F.B.I., the X-Men have officially been regarded as outlaws.

The Beast briefly quits the X-Men since he is fed up with defending humanity that fears and hates mutants. Mastermind contacted Unus, the next candidate for membership in the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. He has to prove himself by bringing in at least one X-Man. He is tricked by the Beast, who uses an amplifier beam on Unus. At first he welcomes his increased powers, but then he discovers that he is unable to turn his power off. The X-Men blackmail him to turn down the Brotherhood's offer for reversing the effect.

The X-Men follow their mentor Xavier to Europe where he is hunting down an old enemy called Lucifer who is responsible for crippling him years ago. The villain has built a giant thermal bomb and attached it to his heartbeat to ensure that none will want to inflict physical harm on him. The X-Men are forced to fight the Avengers, who are investigating the vibrations Lucifer’s bomb emanates, to prevent them from attacking Lucifer. Meanwhile Xavier telepathically beats the foe without changing his heartbeat. After explaining everything to the Avengers, Cyclops and Xavier manage to permanently defuse Lucifer’s thermal bomb.

The X-Men investigate a wild man sighting in Antarctica and discover a tropical savage land in a gigantic cave deep below the ice. Both Angel and Marvel Girl are captured by savages, who intend to sacrifice them to a Tyrannosaurus Rex. The other X-Men ally up with Ka-Zar, the wild man they intended to find, and his pet sabretooth-tiger Zabu to rescue them. After the X-Men left Ka-Zar permanently seals off the secret entry to the tunnels that lead to the surface.

Registering a very powerful energy signature both the Brotherhood and the X-Men rush to recruit the new mutant. Magneto makes first contact and he and Mastermind try to impress the stranger with their abilities. They end up annoying their potential recruit who turns Mastermind to stone. As the X-Men arrive the Stranger leaves with Magneto and the Toad. Left behind are Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch who believe they have worked off their debt to Magneto and decide to return to their native Europe. Not far away the new mutant reveals himself to be an alien called the Stranger.

His people are interested in mutations and he picks Magneto and the Toad as his new specimen, since they insisted to ally with him. The X-Men can only observe as they depart to the stars. Back at home; Cerebro registers a new powerful presence.

Sibling Rivalry

X-men debuted their battle with Professor X's superhumanly strong stepbrother the Juggernaut and the mutant-hunting robot Sentinels; then X-Men often fought easily-forgotten mutant criminals, alien invaders and brutish monsters. 

Alerted to a powerful presence by Cerebro, the X-Men erect defensive mechanisms around the mansion. While their opponent breaches defensive line after line, Xavier fills in his students on the villain’s origin. It is his own stepbrother Cain Marko (Juggernaut). The fathers of the two were colleagues at a nuclear research plant and after Dr. Brian Xavier had died; his mother married Dr. Kurt Marko, who only wanted to get the Xavier fortune. Sometime later the couple died leaving young Charles with an older stepbrother Cain, a son from Marko’s first marriage. The rivaling brothers both served in the Korean War, where Marko stumbled over an ancient temple. Inside he discovered a magical ruby and was transformed into the Juggernaut, an unstoppable force, as the caves gave in. He was buried alive.

Now it seems he returned and as he reaches the mansion, the X-Men try to fight him, yet they are simply tossed aside. Now nothing can get in the way as the Juggernaut is about to attack his stepbrother Professor Xavier.

The Juggernaut has broken into Xavier’s mansion and is about to attack the professor, his stepbrother. The X-Men can only keep the unstoppable villain busy, while Xavier mentally calls for help with a new amplifying device. Finally the Human Torch responds and helps to distract the Juggernaut long enough for the X-Men to remove his helmet. Now vulnerable to Xavier’s telepathy the foe is easily beaten. But in the battle before all male X-Men have received some injuries.

Juggernaut (Cain Marko) possesses untold power, mystical in nature, which enhances his strength to an as yet unknown degree and makes him a seemingly irresistible, unstoppable being.

Later in the series, Cain Marko is working underground with Magneto to defeat X-Men and to take revenge for his stepbrother.

Mutant Hunter Arise

The X-Men are granted a vacation. From the newspaper Xavier learns about an anthropologist named Dr. Bolivar Trask, who considers mutants a menace. Xavier confronts him in a televised debate, during which Trask introduces giant robots called Sentinels, which are designed to guard humanity against mutants. Yet Trask is no specialist on cybernetic programming, which he learns the hard way, as the robots do not follow his orders. The Sentinels deduced that to safeguard humanity they need to rule it and so they capture Trask and order him to create more robots. Xavier mentally calls back the X-Men and they fight one of the Sentinels till it suddenly switches off without reason. The X-Men discover the headquarters of the Sentinels but are attacked by its defensive mechanisms.

The X-Men attack the headquarters of the Sentinels but Beast and Iceman are captured and pulled in. Xavier mentally disrupts the robots that operate the weapons allowing his other students to gain access. Inside Angel, Cyclops and Marvel Girl are able to free Iceman, but the Beast has already been brought to the Master Mold, the main Sentinel Unit, for interrogation. Xavier mentally observes as his student is put under a Psycho-Probe that forces him to reveal his origin. Fortunately the professor can intervene telepathically before Hank reveals too much, but Master Mold recognizes an uninvited presence and floats the room with micro-electric particles. Xavier’s astral self is in danger of disintegrating and at the same time all his students are defeated by the overwhelming number of Sentinels inside the fortress.

Xavier discovers a way to disrupt the frequency that the Sentinels operate on, while Dr. Bolivar Trask decides to destroy Master Mold and causes major damage in the Sentinels fortress, which explodes. The X-Men, who had been captives inside, barely make it out in time. A mysterious shadow is seen at Xavier‘s mansion.

After the X-Men defeated Master Mold and the Sentinel Fortress, Beast and Iceman were injured. They are taken to the hospital for a medical examination. The parent of the Angel plan to visit the school and Warren is send to the school because the professor has a bad feeling about it. However upon arriving, the Angel is taken out by an unseen villain. When the Professor looses mental contact with his student, he and Scott quickly move back to the school, but the unknown enemy takes them out as well.

All the X-Men, except Iceman, were all captured by Magneto, who placed them in a metal sphere attached to a gas balloon, sending them towards space to suffocate. As they stop by for a visit, Magneto captures Angel's parents and plans to use them to extract their body cells and duplicate them so he can create an army of mutants. Once the professor manages to free himself of a power restraining device and wakes up the X-Men, he mentally probes Magneto and learns of his plans. He telepathically checks on Iceman and sends him to the school, though he is still very weak from the injuries he earlier received. With Cyclops blasting tiny holes in the gas balloon and Marvel Girl slowing their descend telekinetically, the X-Men manage to send the balloon back to the ground, while the Iceman is engaged in a fight with Magneto. Things look very bad for the X-Men, but the Professor X has mentally contacted the Stranger, the alien that captured Magneto before, and he is on his way to re-capture him, forcing Magneto to flee in his Magna-car.

Next morning the Worthington’s awake with no memories of the entire day.

The X-Men are sent on a vacation by the professor for their hard work against the Sentinels and Magneto in the past few months. Bobby and Hank double date Zelda and her friend Vera Cantor, but they are confronted with a person named Calvin Rankin. He has the power to mimic people’s powers and skills. He learns about the secret identities of the X-Men. He later runs into Marvel Girl and by following her learns where the X-Men live. He pretends to want to join the team, but then fights them and kidnaps Jean to lure the team to an abandoned mine. There he intends to use their powers to recover a buried machine that was created by the Mimic's father and will make his abilities permanent, since the power currently only lasts for the duration when his target is near him. The X-Men manage to free Jean but are to late to stop the Mimic from operating his father's machine. Strange enough the machine didn't make his powers permanent, but instead it removes them entirely, as was the true intention of his father, who suspected that the abilities Calvin originally gained by a chemical accident would only cause him trouble.

Meanwhile, the Blob and Unus meet each other at a wrestling match and after finding out they are both mutants decide to work together. Dressed up as X-Men they rob a bank and at the same time frame their enemies for their crimes. However they are unaware that the idea stems not from them but from Lucifer who is manipulating them from afar. Still struggling with the idea that his powers might hurt innocent people one day, Cyclops secretly leaves the mansion only to run into the two villains. He faces Unus and the Blob, but the crowd sees only three mutants in the same blue and yellow costumes and turns on him. Alerted by the news, the other X-Men arrive and together they manage to drive Unus and the Blob off.

An Old Enemy

Lucifer has recruited the Blob and Unus to work to help him get his revenge on the Professor. The X-Men make quick work of the Blob and Unus, who end up on top of a subway train, heading out of town. When the Prof realizes who are behind those two, he tells Jean Grey the story of how he first met Lucifer in Tibet. Lucifer (who is from another planet) had taken control (mentally) of an entire city, and Charles helped some rebels overthrow him. But, as Lucifer fled, he triggered a trap, which fell on Charles and paralyzed him. The other X-Men return to the mansion, and then quickly take off to Lucifer's new hideout in the southwestern U.S.

Meanwhile Xavier and Jean have been trying to locate the person behind the scheme, but upon establishing contact Xavier is hit by a mental blast that paralyzes him. Using a mental-wave amplifier, Jean stays in telepathic contact with him, and the professor tells her the story about his first encounter with Lucifer. Years ago, Xavier discovered a city in Tibet being under some sort of alien mind-control. The professor managed to inspire a rebellion against Lucifer, and the alien was forced to abandon his base, however not before causing a block of concrete to fall and crush Xavier’s legs. Beast builds a distortion device that negates the professor’s paralysis. The X-Men load up their new plane and set out to face Lucifer, who already is contacting his race that he finally has the means to take over the planet.

Flying towards Lucifer's hidden base, the X-men witness a strange beam of light emanating from the sky and transporting objects into a mountain. Defensive mechanism prevents them from investigating the mountain, but once they see a suspicious river flowing into the mountain, they know how to get in. While Xavier stays behind at the plane, the X-Men make their way on the river on an ice raft, but a whirlpool sucks them down to an underground cave. Not before long the X-Men get captured by robots and are imprisoned inside a glass cube. Having lost contact with the team, the professor tries to focus his powers and fails to notice two robots sneaking up on him. He is captured and brought to Lucifer, who explains him the indestructible Dominus Device, a machine build by his alien race and is capable of enslaving entire worlds. The X-Men manage to escape when the robots try to move the cube to a different location. They set out to find Lucifer and destroy Dominus, but Xavier telepathically warns them not to hurt the machine. However they don’t understand at first and suspect the message came from Lucifer. Angel and Iceman even try to destroy the machine, but Scott and Jean intervene. When the robots appear to attack them they quickly learn why they shouldn't hurt the machine. Dominus can resist any form of attack and backfires it towards the attacker. The X-Men use this against the robots and outsmart them into firing their beams on the device. All remaining robots end up destroyed. The Supreme One, the leader of the aliens, angrily contacts Lucifer and since the machine is useless with the robots to operate it, the Dominus device is transported back to their planet, while Lucifer is disintegrated.

After facing the Sentinels, Professor Charles Xavier has designed a new training program for the X-Men. As they have recently faced several robotic menaces, he designed a huge robot called Colosso. He effectively blocks and countermeasures what the young mutants throw at him, until finally Cyclops again proves himself as a good leader and figures out Colosso’s weakness. Xavier is proud of his team’s performance and grants them a two-week vacation. From the beginning Warren is already courting Jean but the two haven’t noticed that Scott also loves her and Jean is seemingly had a crush on Scott.

Divided We Fall

Count Nefaria and his allies launch a plan to hold Washington, D.C, for ransom. He captures all the X-Men and claims he will get the X-Men to help him with his plan.

Meanwhile, Hank and Booby is in the Central Park where reports were received of mysterious X-Men in the vicinity. All five teenagers fall prey to a bunch of super-villains, by the names of Plantman, Unicorn, Eel, Porcupine and Scarecrow, working together with the Maggia. The X-Men are tied up and shackled and brought aboard a freighter that takes them to a hidden fortress of Count Nefaria, the mastermind behind it all. He reorganized the Maggia and brought in the five villains as his lieutenants.

Nefaria captured the two X-Men. Indeed, Nefaria has a machine that can create solid illusionary images from afar, as well as trap the entire city of Washington under an impenetrable crystalline dome. The fake X-Men are sent to the Capitol, where they demand a ransom of 100 million dollars, which one of them will pick up in three hours. The military calls in Professor Xavier as civilian adviser for mutant conditions and he secretly establishes contact with his students, right as they managed to break out of their prison cell in Nefaria’s fortress. Xavier tells them to go along with the Count’s plans, while he mentally studies his machines. Nefaria is surprised that the X-Men take up his offer and sends them to get the briefcase with the ransom. Not fully trusting them, he sends the quintet of Plantman, Porcupine, Scarecrow, Eel and Unicorn after them. However, it’s they whom he should be suspicious of, as the five villains decided to betray him and take the money for themselves. The X-Men pick up the briefcase, but a crowd of angry civilians gets into a fight with them.

The X-Men are thrown at with bricks and they don’t dare to fight back, fearing to hurt the innocent people. The villains come to help, but the Unicorn betrays his allies and attempts to get away with the money by himself. The military enters the fighting and shoots the Unicorn out of the sky. Xavier sees that there is nothing more he can do, so he retreats to a hotel. Among the confusion of a three-way battle between X-Men, villains and army, Cyclops hands the briefcase to Jean and tells her to get it to Nefaria on her own. She does as told and, not much later, the fight ends with the villains escaping and the X-Men heading back to Nefaria’s fortress after Jean. The Count followed all these events on a big tele-screen and eagerly anticipates Marvel Girl’s arrival. Before handing him the bag, she demands that he releases Washington from the dome, right as a mysterious stranger enters Nefaria’s command center. He easily works on the Count’s machine and, not only makes the force dome disappears, but also renders the machine useless. As the other X-men arrive, Nefaria flees with the money and boards a ship, where he is confronted the Unicorn. They decide to share, but the briefcase vanishes - it was an illusion created by Nefaria’s machine. The stranger, who turns out to be a Professor Xavier, thanks to new lightweight flexible metal braces, used the Count’s invention against him. The team is happy to have won, but Jean receives a letter with disturbing news – she has to leave the team.

Plague and Pendant

Jean Grey's parents make Jean enroll in a real college, so she's "leaving" the X-Men (no one has left for an entire issue so far!). At Metro College (in NYC, naturally), she sees the crazy ex-professor Dr. August Hooper, who turns out to be a new, misguided villain known as the Locust. He's growing enormous insects and releasing them on farms, planning to make a fortune on selling a pesticide made especially for them.

A mad scientist called Dr. August Hopper confronts the X-Men. As his alter ego “the Locust” he wants to unleash a plague of giant insects upon the world, with an ionic device that he invented. Once the plague is unleashed he will create a cure under his true identity of Dr. Hopper so he came become world famous as the man who stopped the insect plague. He was one of the teachers of jean in Metro College, upon suspicion, Jean investigated his works and reported this to the team and they were able to defeat him too.

Naturally, the X-Men get involved, and Jean Grey helps out, too. During one battle, the X-Men interfere with the Locust's control of his insects and they turn on him. The X-Men save his life, and he repents his evil ways.

The team battled again with a mutant from San Rico, Central America who’s name is El Tigre. Cerebro picks up his mental ability upon arriving in New York while searching for the other half of the Pendant of Kukulcan. He joined the fragments and he became a reincarnated Maya god Kukulcan. He return to San Rico and trying to build an empire but X-Men fronted him and was defeated. But that battle Angel’s wings were badly injured and blaming Scott for doing it intentionally to have him get rid of Jean. Cyclops blames himself for the accident and he step down as the leader.

The Mimic

As they return from San Rico, they have learned that Jean had a problem with a new student, Calvin Rankin. Also Cerebro registers another mutant menace, thus Professor Xavier tried to recruit Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch and even Peter Parker the Spider-man but they refused his offer. At Metro College, Jean enjoys her friendship with Ted Roberts when, suddenly, there is an explosion in the chemical building. The blast restores Calvin Rankin’s powers and memory and, being the Mimic once more, he blackmails the X-Men into letting him join or he’ll reveal their secret identities. Secretly spying on these events, the Puppet Master takes control of the Mimic and intends to use him against the Fantastic Four, his archenemies. First, he tests him against the X-Men. The Mimic succeeds and defeats all of the X-men, before he departs to meets with the Puppet master. The X-Men follow him and, in the Puppet Master’s base, they encounter a giant android but, in time, overcome it. Against the Mimic, however, they seem to have no chance. Calvin Rankin tries to fight the mental influence, but it’s Warren who saves the day. Still unable to fly, the Angel followed his teammates by car. He surprises the Puppet Master and wrests the doll resembling the Mimic from his hand. The villain slips away in the confusion, while the Mimic realizes that, for all his powers, he is only a copy of other men.

Mimic (Calvin Montgomery Rankin) genetic scanning field allows him to mimic the natural strength and intelligence of others along with the superhuman powers of anyone in his vicinity and he is one of the X-men members who had wings like Angel

Professor Xavier mentally boosts the Mimic’s power, thus increasing the range of his copying talent, but he still can’t permanently keep the absorbed powers. With his arrogance and overconfidence, the Mimic is getting on the other X-Men’s nerves, though Xavier asks them for patience and reminds the team that they need him, especially with the Angel still recovering from recent injuries and a dangerous mutant menace about to attack them.

The Wail of the Banshee

Later that day, Cerebro alerts them to a new mutant in Manhattan midtown, but the signal is cut off before they can pinpoint it. It belongs to the Banshee, one of two operatives of a secret organization called Factor Three. While his partner, the Ogre, is busy uncovering the location of the X-Men’s headquarters, the Banshee sneaks out and uses his power to place dozens of citizens into a hypnotic trance, allowing him to steal a certain painting and some tobacco. The Ogre is angry with him, as the incident might have endangered their mission, and when they later attack the X-Men, indeed they have prepared themselves against a sonic attack and wear certain ear shields. Still, they are not strong enough to withstand the Banshee’s scream and they all pass out. The Ogre tries to escape with Professor Xavier as his prisoner, but is stopped by Marvel Girl, who just arrives from Metro College after having heard about the mutant criminals in the news. A battle erupts and, when the other X-Men come around, they manage to drive the foes away. By the time they attack a second time; Xavier has improved the ear shields and designed a special trap for the Banshee. After adding the sonic mutant’s powers to his own, the Mimic is also able to overpower the many technological gadgets of the Ogre. With him defeated, Xavier finally is able to switch off an explosive device rigged to Banshee’s headband. Actually, he is no loyal member of Factor Three but was just blackmailed into serving them. Though the X-Men still have no clue why Factor Three would want to kidnap their mentor, they have at least found a new ally in the Banshee.

While the other X-Men are ice-skating on a frozen pond, Scott wanders off into the woods where he tries once more to control his optic blast without wearing glasses; but it’s no use. Giving in to despair, he fires some random beams at full force, accidentally causing a rock slide. Within a hidden base inside the mountains, the noise alerts the super-Adaptoid to the outside world again and he remembers his task of creating an army of beings like him to take over the world. By the time he makes it outside, all, save Iceman, have returned to the school for some scheduled training sessions. The Adaptoid observes the mutant’s performance, and secretly follows him to Xavier’s to find more super-power subjects for his makeshift army. Meanwhile, at the school, the Mimic again annoys everyone with his attitude and a battle erupts between him and the other students. Xavier finally has enough of it and orders him to leave the school before shutting himself off in his lab to continue his study of the threat of Factor Three.

Later, the unsuspecting X-Men are attacked and stunned by the Adaptoid, right as the Mimic returns to the school to get revenge on them. Learning of the Adaptoid’s many powers and his ability to turn others into his equal, the Mimic volunteers for becoming a second Adaptoid. Though helpless, Cyclops reasons with his former teammate not to throw away his humanity and become a robotic servant, and Calvin realizes he is right. Before the transformation is complete, he opposes the Adaptoid. With him possessing all of the X-Men’s powers and the Adaptoid all those of the Avengers, it’s almost a draw, though ultimately Mimic tires while the Adaptoid does not. However, when the Adaptoid suddenly decides to duplicate the Mimic’s powers, an energy feedback occurs, caused by both of them having similar artificially enhanced powers. Actually, it was the Mimic who telepathically planted the suggestion in the Adaptoid’s mind, predicting this effect. Both lose all of their copied and absorbed powers and plummet to Earth. The Angel safely catches Calvin Rankin and the X-Men make up with him. Though his powers are now gone, Calvin Rankin has become a better person and once he was an X-Man.

Warlock Wakes

The Warlock, a mutant with incredible mental powers, including hypnosis and telekinesis, plans to conquer the world. Claiming to be Merlin the Magician from centuries ago, he wants to use a special machine to revert humanity back to the standard of King Arthur times, so that they will all tremble before his scientific might. However, before he finishes his plans, the Warlock surprise-attacks the X-Men, capturing Marvel Girl, whom he intends to become his queen, and Xavier, the only rival for his mental power. The Angel is accidentally snatched along, but he alone is no danger to the plans of the Warlock, who has built a secret underground base, which is a strange mix of medieval castle and modern science elements. The Warlock’s attempt to deactivate Xavier’s powers proves to be unsuccessful, as the Professor is able to summon the other X-Men.

However, with Marvel Girl under the Warlock’s thrall, they don’t dare to attack him directly. Instead, Xavier accepts a challenge from the Warlock for his X-Men to compete in a duel. Evidently the Warlock underestimates the mutants, who deal with his armed men and knights rather swiftly. When he tries to escape deeper into his castle along with Jean, the X-Men follow, setting off several booby-traps. Her teammates being in danger knocks Jean back to her senses and, together, the X-Men defeat the Warlock, sending him into some semi-comatose, regenerative state.

On their way back home, the X-Men are all lost in their thoughts. While Xavier is concerned about the imminent danger of Factor Three, Scott and Jean ponder their unresolved feelings for each other, unsure whether the other is interested too.

Destructing Cobalt Man

Professor Xavier decides that the X-Men deserve a weekend off and, while most of them are happy to have some spare time, Scott volunteers to help the Professor with his experiments. Xavier, however, asks him to return some books to Jean at Metro College, hoping that they will finally open about their unspoken feelings for each other. Warren offers Scott a ride, saying that he is done with the secrecy and they should make Jean decide between the two of them today. However, upon arriving, they find Jean in the company of Ted and Ralph Roberts, two brothers always competing with each other. In fact, that afternoon, Ralph hurts his head in a pole-vaulting contest with Ted. After everyone is introduced, Ralph, a successful scientist, invites the others to his cobalt research company to show them around. Warren has no interest to compete with yet two more men for Jean’s affection and decides to give up on her. Instead, he enters a nightclub and runs into a childhood friend, Candy Southern. They bring each other up to date and get along well. At Roberts Research, Ralph shows Ted Roberts his latest invention, a cobalt armor based on the suit of the Avenger's Iron Man. To demonstrate its superior capabilities, he puts it on but, suddenly, the bump on his head causes Ted to change personality. Now calling himself the Cobalt Man, he considers Iron Man a traitor and intends to hunt him down. Ted has no chance to convince his brother otherwise and, after changing into costume, Cyclops and Marvel Girl try their best to stop him, ending up trapped underneath some debris. They quickly contact Professor Xavier, who alerts the other X-Men, thus disrupting the double-date of Hank and Bobby with Zelda and Vera and, also, Warren’s meeting with Candy. Eventually, all X-Men make it to the Stark Industries building, where they face off against the Cobalt Man, who has nearly exceeded the suit’s two-hour limit and is about to turn into a radioactive bomb. With teamwork, they overcome the foe, short-circuiting the armor by encasing him in ice and melting it. Afterwards, Ralph is brought back to his senses and has to admit that the cobalt armor is too dangerous. Much to Jean’s concern, it seems that, during the battle, Ted Roberts figured out her secret identity.

Crimson Cosmos

It’s Bobby Drake’s birthday and the X-Men are having a good time at the Coffee A Go-Go, along with friends Zelda, Vera and Candy, until a gang of bikers crashes the party. Their leader, Rocky Rhodes, is angry with Zelda having refused to date him. Not able to use their powers openly, the five mutants still find a way to subdue the bikers and continue their evening. Scott and Jean finally open up a little to each other, Scott revealing his fears of accidentally hurting a loved one and Jean offering her support in any way. Warren really feels for Candy and reminds himself to take it slow, as he isn’t fully over Jean yet.

Back at the mansion, Xavier is attempting to cure his stepbrother, Cain Marko, by leeching off his Juggernaut powers with a special machine using his own mental energies to empower it. The experiment fails, the machine exploding, and, as Xavier is rendered comatose, the Juggernaut find himself alive and well, plus the Professor’s mental power transferred to him. Sensing the X-Men gone, he prepares a set of traps for them. Later that night, when they return, they find the mansion dark and Xavier not responding. They search the house, only to eventually end up in the basement, where the Juggernaut attacks them. One by one, the X-Men are knocked out, until he stands triumphant. Just as he intends to wreck the house to bury the X-Men alive, he finds himself mentally contacted by Factor Three, who reveal the machine malfunctioning being their doing and inviting to join them. Realizing the enormous power this organization must have, the Juggernaut agrees and departs for the next airport. As the X-Men come around, they take the comatose Xavier to the mansion’s infirmary, only to learn that there is nothing they can do for him. Instead, they plan to pursue the Juggernaut.

After defeating the X-Men and damaging the mansion to a certain degree, the Juggernaut walks away, intent to find a plane that can take him to Europe and Factor Three. The X-men tend to their comatose mentor and Marvel Girl uses a mental-wave amplifier on him to uncover what Xavier has learned from the Juggernaut’s mind. She finds images from hundreds of years ago, when the Ancient One, back then a young mystic, defeated the guardian of the Ruby of Cyttorak and banished him to the Crimson Cosmos inside the Ruby. The X-Men try to locate the Ancient One for help, but it’s the astral form of Dr. Strange who answers instead. While the other X-Men pursue the Juggernaut, he magically transports Cyclops and Marvel Girl to Korea, where they make their way to the temple and eventually into the Ruby as well. Inside the Crimson Cosmos, after defeating the former guardian with rather unusual means, they uncover a second gem, the so-called prototype or spirit form of the Ruby of Cyttorak. Once they are transported back, they rush to the Metro Aircraft plant, where their teammates have been keeping the Juggernaut busy. Just about when the three X-men are overpowered does Cyclops arrive with the ruby and its rays have a weakening effect on the Juggernaut. When he wrests it from the X-Man’s hands, he find himself pulled into the Crimson Cosmos, with no means to get out. On their way back home, the X-Men celebrate their victory, only to discover that in their absence the unconscious Professor Xavier has been kidnapped by Factor Three.

This Boy, This Bombshell

Fortunately, Iceman of the X-Men recognized the beautiful young woman and rescued her from being run over by an approaching car. The shock of nearly dying snapped Lorna out of the hypnosis. Dazed and confused, she was taken to Xavier’s mansion by Bobby, who was more than attracted to her. The other X-Men weren‘t too fond of Iceman jeopardizing their whole operation by taking a stranger to their home, but they weren’t as grim when Lorna turned out to be a mutant herself. Not only did Cerebro react to her presence, but her true hair color was revealed when she took a shower, washing out the brown dye.

While the other X-Men investigated the happenings in San Francisco, Iceman was assigned to watch over their house guest. However, the mansion was soon invaded by some of Mesmero’s forces, who kidnapped both him and Lorna.

In the villain’s base, she was placed in a mutant energy stimulator, which caused her latent mutant powers of magnetism to manifest. When she emerged from the machine, she was no longer plain Lorna Dane, but Magneto the Second. Mesmero had easily manipulated her into believing that she was Magneto’s daughter. For Lorna, everything made perfect sense, as only shortly before had she learned of her being adopted, and having a mutant terrorist for a father also explained her parents‘ evasive behavior regarding the subject.

Mesmero (Vincent) an American with an ultra-hypnosis can be direct to drain the will power of others or initiate certain sensations within their brains, like pain or sleep

When the X-Men arrived on the scene, Lorna was torn between the friendly people she just had met and a father she never knew. A bit hesitant, she eventually sided with Magneto and the X-Men fled, as they had no chance of defeating the assembled might of Mesmero’s army. Later that day, though, Cyclops came up with the cover identity of “Eric the Red” and returned to the complex in disguise, to infiltrate Mesmero’s organization. As such, he got several chances to talk to Lorna and make her see the wrongness of Mesmero’s plans.

Meanwhile, Iceman visited Lorna’s adoptive parents to research the “truth” about Lorna’s heritage. From them, he learned about the plane crash and, as far as the Danes were concerned, the two people who died had been Lorna’s parents.

When the X-Men started another attack, aided by their mole, Cyclops, Bobby filled in Lorna on what he had learned, and the green-haired woman was relieved to hear that she could not be the villainous Magneto’s daughter. She quickly switched sides and, though still inexperienced in the use of her powers, she did her best to help dismantling Mesmero’s organization.

Iceman had romantic feelings for the green-haired mutant and, at first; Lorna seemed to return his affections. Not sure whether she was cut out for superhero life, she decided not to join the X-Men, but instead moved into an apartment in Manhattan to be close by. She couldn’t have picked a worse time, though, for it was right then that the mutant-hunting Sentinels were reactivated. Lorna was among the first targets of the giant robots and, in full shock, she didn't even fight back when she was captured by them and taken to the Sentinels’ base. It was there that she first met Cyclops’ younger brother, Alex Summers, who too had been caught. Alex and Lorna hit it off right from the start, a fact that Larry Trask, the Sentinels’ commander, used to his advantage. By threatening to torture Lorna, he blackmailed Havok into helping him.

Before long, though, the X-Men came to the rescue and the Sentinel base was shut down. Having needed to be saved already for the second time, Lorna realized that she couldn’t stand by the sidelines anymore and fully joined the X-Men. Partially, though, her decision might have been influenced by her growing attraction to Havok as well.

When the senior members had troubles in the Savage Land, Xavier sent Havok and Lorna after them. There, they met Ka-Zar and Lorna Dane realized that she had no codename to introduce herself with. She came up with Magnetrix, but had to confess that it sounded ridiculous. Havok teased her with calling her by that name a few times, before she dropped it again.

Not as experienced as the rest of the group, Alex and Lorna found themselves in a similar position. They were given the easier tasks or completely left out of missions when they seemed too dangerous. This only strengthened their bond and their friendship soon grew into love. Iceman, however, had trouble accepting Alex and Lorna as an item and felt cheated. After all, it had been he who had introduced Lorna to the X-Men and he felt like he had first rights. More often than not, the hotheaded youth started the fights with Alex over Lorna, and he even temporarily quit the team because he couldn’t stand seeing them together.

Havok (Alex Summers), Cyclops' rebellious brother who produced powerful "plasma blasts"

Polaris (Lorna Dane), who possessed magnetic powers and was originally believed to be Magneto's daughter

Two other new young mutants, Lorna Dane who was believed as Magneto’s child and Scott Summers' brother Alexander Summers, alias Havok, became reserve member of the X-Men, although it is unclear whether they actually became members of Xavier's school. They served as non-combatant members.

Havok actively joined the X-Men and began a relationship with Lorna Dane, much to the anger of Iceman, who too showed a romantic interest in the magnetic mutant. While the senior X-Men were busy in the Savage Land, Havok and Lorna were approached by Xavier about the imminent invasion of the alien Z’Nox. They had never met the professor before, so they weren’t as shocked as the other team members, who believed their mentor dead, while he in isolation had been preparing defenses against the aliens.

Doomsday

Previously, before they fought back again Cain and the kidnapping of Factor Three. Professor Charles invited amazing Spider-Man but Peter Parker refused the offer. Also he tried to offer the twin Pietro and Wanda Maximoff to become an exam but they too declined.

While trying to raise airfare to fly to Europe to track the Factor Three, but the X-Men encounter Mekano. After stopping Mekano, the hoodlum's wealthy father provides the necessary airfare, and the X-Men head off to Europe to attempt to rescue Professor X.

The X-Men are captured by Factor Three and put on trial for crimes against mutantkind. Fred Duncan had the X-Men disband briefly, but the team later reunited, and finally, Xavier revealed to the four male X-Men that he was still alive.

The group turned out to be several evil mutants the X-Men had fought before, all gathered by the so-called Mutant Master. At first hopelessly outclassed, the tides turned when the Mutant Master was revealed as a Sirian alien, who wanted to prepare Earth for the invasion of his race. In the aftermath of this victory, Xavier proudly declared that the X-Men had fully graduated, gave them individual uniforms and allowed them to work more independently.

The X-Men then assisted Xavier in defeating the Z'nox.

Sensing a danger from the stars, another dangerous race, called the Z’Nox, planning to invade Earth, the professor knew that he needed some time alone to prepare for the menace.

He awakened Jean Grey’s slumbering telepathy and shared part of his own mental might with the repentant villain, Changeling, who sought redemption as he was dying of a fatal disease. Xavier asked the Kevin Sidney the Changeling to take his place with the X-Men, only Jean being aware of the switch, so that his absence wouldn’t be noted. Isolated in a secret, psi-shielded chamber beneath the mansion, the professor began to work on the task at hand, undisturbed by the X-Men’s regular struggles. However, things didn’t run that smoothly and, when shortly afterwards the Changeling fell at the hands of Grotesk, the X-Men believed their mentor to be dead.

Morph (Kevin Sidney) metamorphic shape-shifter, limited telepathic and psychokinetic powers. More often called as Changeling

Jean Grey still sworn to secrecy, the team even held a funeral for Xavier.

Months later after he had worked out his plans and the Z’nox were about to attack, Xavier revealed himself again to the team. Using his own and the X-Men’s powers in concert, Xavier harnessed humanity’s entire mental energy to chase the aliens away. The ordeal nearly killed him, though, and it took a device of Dr. Bruce Banner the Avengers' Hulk to awaken him from the coma he fell into.

At first there seemed to be some after-effects to the procedure, as Xavier acted sterner than usual, treating the X-Men as he had in the very beginning when they were less experienced. During that time, he also became romantically interested in Teri Martin, the mother of a young mutant girl he was trying to help, but felt there was no room in his life for romance.

Secret Wars I

X-Men business continued as usual, until an organization called the Secret Empire started kidnapping mutants to use them as a power source, even some of the X-Men among them. Together with Captain America, Xavier and the remaining X-Men freed them, and exposed the Empire’s dark schemes.

Shortly afterwards, the X-Men encountered a group called the Promise. They wanted to wait for the time after the final confrontation between humans and mutants and only stepped out of their cryogenic chambers every ten years to check on the world’s status and to recruit more members. In one of these occasions, they targeted Lorna and Alex, as they had not yet been indoctrinated by Xavier and could be easier influenced. However, not all within the group agreed with the ways of leader Thomas Messenger and he was killed by Lucy Robinson, who also helped to free Alex from the chamber that would have put her in suspended animation for ten years. With the rest of the team fighting the Mole Man, Havok was the only one that could go to New York and try to aid the Fantastic Four in their battle against Namura and Magneto. Yet Alex never reached his destination, as an angry mob thought he was part of Magneto’s and Namura’s invading army and so he had his first painful confrontation with anti-mutant hysteria.

Iceman couldn’t accept that Lorna had chosen Alex over him. The two males often battled and, on one occasion, Havok lost control of his plasma burst, accidentally injuring Bobby. Shocked, Alex immediately quit the team.

A few months later, Xavier sent Lorna after him to ask him to come back. On her way to the southwestern deserts of the United States, Lorna was recognized by the Hulk, who mistook her for his former green haired lover Jarred. Once he saw his error, the Hulk felt deceived and grew angry. Before things became serious, Havok intervened and battled the raging Hulk, demonstrating a control over his abilities he never had before. Realizing that he could make it as a hero, Havok agreed to come back.

On their way back to rejoin the X-Men, the pair was captured by the Secret Empire; the X-Men did not investigate as Xavier assumed that Lorna had not succeeded in making Alex return and, instead, chosen to retire with her lover together. Only long weeks later, the X-Men became aware that more and more mutants disappeared and, finally, they rescued their friends with the help of the Falcon and Captain America of the Avengers.

Rescue the X-Men

Professor Xavier had gotten a reading on an extremely powerful mutant on the island of Krakoa. The X-Men, Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Angel, Iceman, Havok, and Lorna, immediately set out for Krakoa. They land on the island and are hit by a force that Cyclops does not see. When he woke up, he was on the Blackbird and his power was gone. The autopilot forced him away from the island and took him back to the mansion. Once he talked to Professor Xavier, his power came back stronger than ever.

On a mission to the Island Krakoa to investigate readings (from Cerebro) of a powerful mutant on the Island the X-Men were captured, only Cyclops made it off the Island. The original team of X-Men was trapped by the mutant entity known as Krakoa the living Island. Cyclops returned to the school and told Xavier what had happened to the other X-Men. Xavier therefore was obliged to recruit new X-Men to rescue his original team and to defeat Krakoa.

The Professor leaves him no choice but to rescue the X-Men and recruit new members to help Cyclops. With the help of Cerebro, Charles was able to choose a few. His first stop is in Winzeldorf, Germany; a mob is chasing a blue, elfish person named Kurt Wagner, the Nightcrawler. The mob consumes Kurt when a voice in their heads tells them to stop. Charles Xavier wheels himself over to Kurt and tells him that he is a mutant, and that he has a school for people like him. Kurt says he will join to Professor. In Quebec, Canada, the man known as the Logan comes into a board meeting. There he meets Professor Xavier who tells him he is a mutant and asks him to join him at his school. A Canadian official tries to stop Wolverine from leaving, but he just pops his claws and says it’s a free country. As Wolverine and the Professor are leaving, the Canadian official says Wolverine hasn’t heard the last of this. Professor Xavier then goes to a cinema in Nashville, Tennessee to recruit the X-Men’s one time enemy Sean Cassidy, the Banshee. Xavier’s next stop is Kenya, where he meets Ororo Munroe, the Storm. A clan leader tells Ororo that there is drought, and she uses her power to create rain. Ororo, too, joins Xavier, who tells her that her powers are needed in a world that would hate and fear her. In Osaka, Japan, Xavier recruits Shiro Yashida, Sunfire, over a cup of tea. In Lake Baikal, Siberia, a farmer named Piotr Rasputin, Colossus, sees a runaway tractor that is about to run over his little sister. His skin turns into metal and Piotr destroys the tractor, saving the little girl. Professor Xavier talks to Piotr and his parents, and he decides to join the Professor. Professor Xavier’s last stop is Camp Verde, Arizona, where John Proudstar, Thunderbird, outruns and tackles a wild buffalo. John Proudstar also joins Professor Xavier. The mutants that Xavier has gathered are all in costume inside the mansion in Westchester. Xavier introduces Cyclops and tells them that they have been gathered together to save the X-Men. Cyclops shows them Cerebro and tells them what happened to the X-Men.

Sunfire (Shiro Yashida), a hot-tempered Japanese mutant who wielded an "atomic flame".

Thunderbird I (John Proudstar), an Apache man who possessed super strength and speed.

Banshee (Sean Cassidy), an Irish mutant who possessed a "sonic scream".

Colossus (Piotr Rasputin), a quiet, reflexive Russian who could turn his body into "organic steel".

Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner), a rascally German who possessed great agility and the ability to teleport. Nightcrawler also had a freakish appearance including blue skin, glowing eyes and a devil-like tail.

Storm (Ororo Munroe), a strong-willed Kenyan woman who controlled the weather. Storm would become the X-Men's leader in times of Cyclops' absence.

Wolverine (James Howlett), a gruff Canadian government agent who possessed accelerated senses and a regenerative "healing factor". A covert agency had bonded the fictitious metal alloy called adamantium to Wolverine's skeleton, which included a set of three razor-sharp foot-long claws on each hand. Wolverine's origins would become one of the series greatest mysteries.

Cyclops tells the group that they will go to Krakoa and defeat the powerful mutant. Sunfire says he will have no part in this. The group departs on the Stratojet and Sunfire changes his mind and catches up with them.

The team arrives at the island and Cyclops splits them up into assault teams: Storm and Colossus are the North team, Banshee and Wolverine are the East team, Sunfire and Nightcrawler are the South team, and Cyclops and Thunderbird are the West team. Cyclops drops the team off and then lands the Stratojet and exits. He realizes he forgot the portable Cerebro, but when he turns around the Stratojet is gone. A temple then comes up from the ground and Cyclops and Thunderbird decide to explore it. On they’re way to the temple, some vines attack them, but they easily get through.

Storm and Colossus decide to go to the temple also, but an avalanche attacks them. Ororo uses wind to blow the rocks towards Colossus who hits them away with a tree. Colossus and Storm meet up with Cyclops and Thunderbird. A giant crab attacks Wolverine and Banshee. Wolverine rips into the crab with his claws while Banshee hits it with a sonic blast. They meet up with the others as well. Sunfire and Nightcrawler are attacked by a swarm of ravenous birds, but they finally make it to the temple and meet up with the others. Striking together, Storm, Sunfire, Cyclops and Colossus break through the door in the temple and they see the X-Men hooked up to a series of branches. They free the X-Men and bring them outside, but then the island takes the form of a beast – the mutant they are searching is the island itself.

Krakoa says that it was created by the many atomic tests in the Caribbic Sea. The radiation mutated every single organism in the area, till they merged and become one powerful being. Krakoa announces to feed on the X-Men and it only let Cyclops escape to bring more mutants to feed. The X-Men all attack Krakoa with all their might, but Professor Xavier telepathically contacts Cyclops and tells him that they’re doing this wrong. Xavier holds the island telepathically at bay while Storm creates a tempest. Her electric lighting bolts then channel into Lorna, recharging her powers. Xavier loses control of Krakoa’s mind, while Cyclops and Havok follow Storm’s example and use their energy beams on their green haired teammate too. Lorna screams in agony, having never wielded that much energy before, as her magnetic power now cuts through the ocean and Earth’s crust down towards the molten core of the planet.

Krakoa starts to lose its humanoid form. On Cyclops’ command, the X-Men hurry off the island. They get on an ice-raft and Iceman creates an ice dome to protect them, as finally the forces of gravity, disrupted by Lorna Dane‘s magnetic beam, kick back in. The effect is the same as squeezing soap through a wet fist and Krakoa is propelled into space. The X-Men survive and get back on the Stratojet, which rises from below the ocean surface. As Angel says, their only problem now is that there are thirteen X-Men.

Thus, the new recruits led by Cyclops came from various countries: the Irish Banshee, the Soviet Colossus, the German Nightcrawler, the African Storm (who was born, however, in the United States), the Japanese Sunfire, and the American Indian Thunderbird. Most of these new members were adults, and were already quite adept in using their superhuman abilities. These "new" X-Men, together with the original members, dealt successfully with Krakoa, and all returned safely to Xavier's mansion.

When the old and new X-Men together fought the mutant island Krakoa, Lorna displayed her major power potential for the first time. Jean telepathically removed Lorna’s inner blocks of insecurity and Lorna absorbed the electric energy of Storm’s lighting and the blasts of Cyclops and Havok, building up such an intense magnetic beam that she disrupted the Earth’s magnetic field around the island. When the gravimetric forces kicked backed in, it had an effect like wet soap being squished through a hand and the island was hurled into space.

Apache's Fall

Sunfire wants not to be part of the X-Men and the original X-Men also decide to leave to explore a life outside of super-heroing. Only Cyclops stays. The new X-Men trained in the Danger Room and Cyclops and Thunderbird have an argument.

In Colorado, Count Nefaria and his Ani-Men take over the Valhalla Norad Base and arm the Doomsmith System. With the Avengers busy, the X-Men go to stop him but their ship is blown apart, and the team is falling out of the sky.

The X-Men are falling from the sky but they get down safely, as Storm and Banshee carry them down. The X-Men get inside Valhalla and fight the Ani-Men. They try to disarm the Doomsmith System, but discover it is already useless as viable command relays were destroyed by their battle with the Ani-Men. Count Nefaria tries to escape on a plane, but Thunderbird jumps on to the wing. Thunderbird takes the plane apart to get to Nefaria, but the plane crashes, and Thunderbird dies. Most of the team members leave the group, especially Cyclops who mourns for his best friend Thunderbird.

Then Xavier welcomes back Moira MacTaggert to the mansion and introduces her as the new housekeeper for he is planning to go on a vacation. Cyclops accidentally damages an N’Garai cairn and releases a giant beast named Kierrok that attacks the X-Men. Every time they deal a blow to Kierrok, he gets stronger and they get weaker. Xavier goes inside its mind and discovers that the cairn must be sealed to defeat Kierrok. Storm manages to do so with a bolt of lighting, right before she is pulled inside by the demons.

Meanwhile, in an underground installation, Dr. Lang is working on Project Armageddon, which will capture all mutants. Colonel Rossi intends to shut down the project, but Dr. Lang arranges for Colonel Rossi’s plane to crash.

Unknowingly, Magneto reformed the New Brotherhood of Evil Mutants soon afterwards with the mutants the Toad, the Blob, Mastermind, Unus the Untouchable, and Lorelei. Magneto attempted to create his own mutant with unlimited power named Mutant Alpha.

In an encounter with the loose-knit super team the Defenders, the already unstable Mutant Alpha unleashed his powers, reducing the Brotherhood to a state of infancy.

After the X-Men’s historic battle against the mutant island Krakoa, which required the recruitment of an entire new line-up of international mutants, the original team, including Havok, left the X-Men. Alex and Lorna decided to enroll in a college in Nevada for geophysical studies but, soon after, the pair were attacked and brainwashed by a Shi'Ar agent, in the guise of Eric the Red, who gave Lorna the codename Polaris.

Later, the Shi’Ar Operative Eric the Red restored magneto to adulthood, but it is unrevealed how the other members of the Brotherhood regained adulthood.