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X-Factor (comics)
- Cyclops (Marvel Comics)In Avengers vs. X-Men in 2012, Cyclops killed his mentor, Professor X. The Phoenix Force had concentrated in him alone.
- Jean GreyJean Grey is a Marvel Comics character who has died and returned many times. Her tie to the cosmic force that defines her keeps being rewritten. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created her, and she first appeared in The X-Men #1 in September 1963.…
- Iceman (Marvel Comics)Iceman, born Robert Louis "Bobby" Drake, was at the center of a quiet scene in April 2015, in issue 40 of All-New X-Men. A teenage version of Bobby was pulled aside by Jean Grey, who had read his mind. She told him something he had never…
- Havok (character)Havok, the Marvel Comics hero whose real name is Alexander Summers, carries a power he has never fully tamed. The comics call the result "plasma blasts", and for years Alex needed a specially built suit to keep from harming the people…
- Sabretooth (character)Sabretooth, the Marvel Comics villain whose real name is believed to be Victor Creed, makes a point of finding Wolverine on his birthday. Writer Chris Claremont described the ritual in his own words. On every one of his birthdays, he said,…
- Polaris (Marvel Comics)Lorna Dane, the Marvel Comics mutant known as Polaris, first appeared in The X-Men #49 in October 1968. Readers then waited decades to learn who her father was. She controls magnetism, much as the X-Men's early enemy Magneto does, and fans…
- Gambit (Marvel Comics)Remy LeBeau, known to readers as Gambit, is a Cajun thief from New Orleans who became one of Marvel Comics' X-Men. Writer Chris Claremont and artist Jim Lee created him. When he joined the team, few of his new colleagues trusted him, and…
- Mystique (character)Mystique, the blue-skinned shapeshifter of Marvel Comics, has an earliest recorded appearance in her own stories that dates to the years around 1900. At that time she lived in a male guise as a consulting detective. She formed a romance…
- Quicksilver (Marvel Comics)Quicksilver, the Marvel Comics speedster whose real name is Pietro Django Maximoff, first appeared in The X-Men #4, dated March 1964. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby created him. He can move and think at extreme speeds, and that second half of the…
- Warren Worthington IIIWarren Kenneth Worthington III first learns what he is at Phillips Exeter Academy, when feathered wings begin to grow from his shoulder blades. He believes at first that he is a freak, a mistake of nature. Then a fire breaks out in his…
- Beast (Marvel Comics)Beast, the Marvel Comics hero Dr. Henry Philip McCoy, has a greatest fear, and it is a ball of string. In one X-Men story, that fear became a rescue tool. A psychic assault stripped away his higher human consciousness and left only animal…