A # indicates revised information since last release, and a * indicates all-new
information since last release.
3) Who is/was (The Gen-X team):
3.0 - Banshee
- Real Name: Sean Cassidy
- Characteristics: Male, light red hair (short), green eyes, light skin.
- Age: ?
- Nationality: Irish
- Mutant Ability: Sonic scream (enables flight)
- Banshee is one of the teachers of Gen-X. His mutant power is that of a sonic-scream,
(capable of disintegrating steel, which he can direct to the target with incredible
accuracy, and can vary the level of sound from barely audible levels to a level capable of
being heard several miles away, this method can also be used to simply stun his opponents,
bring them out of unconsciousness and in some cases, even hypnotise them by modulating the
frequency of his "scream".) and by "riding" the sonic wave, he has the
power of flight. In his day, he's been an "Interpol agent in Europe, Lord &
Master of Cassidy Keep in Ireland, A police detective in New York City, a reluctant
villain in Nashville, Tennessee, of all places, and finally a globe hopping mutant
crusader." (Banshee, Uncanny #316). He was born & raised in Ireland and speaks
with an obvious accent. Banshee has a daughter named Theresa (Siryn of X-Force) and his
cousin is Tom Cassidy (Black Tom). He was an active member of the X-Men from Giant-Size
#1, but left due to the temporary loss of his powers. After regaining his powers, he was
generally referred to as an adjunct member. Banshee first appeared in X-Men (Vol. 1) #28.
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3.1 - Chamber
- Real name: Jonothan Evan Starsmore
- Characteristics: Male, brown hair (medium length), brown eyes, light skin.
- Age: 18
- Nationality: British
- Mutant Ability: Bio-psionic blast. Telepathic speech.
- Chambers' mutant power is a bio-kinetic blast, which during his first experience with
it, destroyed his chest and lower half of his face. Considering his situation, he seems to
be taking things quite well. Due to his not having any mouth or vocal cords left, he
"speaks" psionically, how he eats is yet to be explained. He joined Gen-X under
recommendation from Professor Xavier. He has (some would say quite rightfully), an
attitude problem, and is described as a "Psionic howl from the grave" type.
Chamber is supposed to eventually gain a flight-pack created by Forge which uses his
bio-energy as a power source, giving him flight capability.
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3.2 - Husk
- Real Name: Paige Guthrie
- Characteristics: Female, blonde hair (long), blue eyes, light skin.
- Age: 17
- Nationality: American (Kentucky)
- Mutant Ability: Transitional bodymorph/perpetual metamorph
- Husk is the younger sister of Cannonball (A member of X-Force, real name, Samuel
Guthrie). Her mutant power manifests itself in a "transitional bodymorph" or
"perpetual metamorph", the ability to shed her outer skin to reveal a new body
beneath, which has in the past been used to save her life when her "outer" body
has been damaged beyond normal chances of survival. The new body can consist of a
completely different form, or a barely changed one, which lasts for around an hour, and is
often highly unpredictable. The power appears to be capable of changing her into not only
different forms, but entirely different substances, as during Alter-X, she morphs herself
into some form of acid. Husk has at one time confronted the controller of the
"Upstart Game", The Gamesmaster, suggesting a new game involving the next
generation of mutants and those who guide them, this would suggest an almost certain
confrontation between Gen-X and the Gamesmaster. She tries to detach her identity from
that of her brother, often correcting her southern accent, (she replaces "A'hm"
with "I'm" or "I am" frequently as well as other changes). However,
she does seem to want to follow in the footsteps of her brother, being able to use her
powers for a useful purpose. She expresses good leadership abilities, and may have to
contend with the rest of the team for the position, as well as her desire to eventually
become one of the X-Men due to her hard training efforts (6pm jogs & study of the
danger-sphere layout etc.). Depending on the form she morphs into, she can sometimes gain
the power of flight. She has been described as a cross between Jean Grey and Will Rogers
(a 30's comedian/commentator).
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3.3 - Jubilee
- Real Name: Jubilation Lee
- Characteristics: Female, black hair (short), blue eyes, light skin.
- Age: 13 "and a half"
- Nationality: American (South California)
- Mutant Ability: Pyrotechnics, stealth
- Jubilee, is probably the best known character of the Gen-X team due to her association
with the X-Men. Her parents were killed in a car accident, and she ended up in a
state-home for a few months, before eventually running away and hiding out in a california
mall, surviving by using her powers to entertain the kids. After being rescued from a
group of would-be kidnappers (known as the M-squad), Jubilee managed to escape to
Australia using a portal created by Gateway (Uncanny #244), and hid-out unknown to the
X-Men amongst the buildings of their current home. Jubilee ended up saving Wolverine when
the X-Men were attacked by the "Reavers" and he became a sort of father-figure
to her. Former self-confessed California mall-rat, her mutant power is the ability to
generate pyrokinetic energy, which usually manifests itself in fire-work like missiles.
Her power is usually seen as little more than sparks, but has the capability to be quite
destructive (During Gen-NeXt she tells of how she nearly destroyed a house in Hong-Kong
(which happened in Uncanny #258 due to her anger at thinking her friend Wolverine dead),
and Synch uses her power to obliterate some of the Phalanx in a huge explosion). She also
has an extremely good ability of escaping detection from hostile pursuers, good enough so
that she is able to elude electronic surveillance equipment (this seems to be a power that
was used once or twice, and has since been given up on by the writers). She is also a well
trained gymnast, is extremly agile as a result. One of her reasons for leaving the X-Men
is due to the fact that Wolverine was no longer there to look after her in the fatherly
manner she had grown accustomed to, and she realised that rather than relying on others,
she should learn how best to use her powers to survive. Her favourite phrase is "When
I was with the X-Men we used to..." (Gen-X #1). She is rarely seen without her yellow
overcoat and bubble-gum. She appears to be the comedian of the group.
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3.4 - M
- Real Name: Monet St. Croix
- Characteristics: Female, black hair (long), brown eyes, tan skin.
- Age: 16
- Nationality: Algerian
- Mutant Ability: Seemingly unlimited powers. Flight, Night-Vision, Strength, near
omnipotence, photographic memory.
- M is suspected to be the most powerful of the Gen-X team. She seems cool, calm &
collected. She has displayed powers of flight, night-vision, incredible strength
(suspected to rival that of the Juggernaut), extra-ordinary intelligence, and a
photographic memory. One of her many mysteries, is that her mind is somehow shielded from
being read telepathically or psionically. She seems almost too good to be true. As Bishop
puts it, "M is perfect.. beautiful, brilliant, rich, seemingly in complete control of
her powers.. it's almost... unnerving." (Bishop, Uncanny #318). Her family appears
very wealthy, as her affinity for large quantities of fine clothing and other items
suggests, (which were delivered to the school in several trucks). At least one of her
relations is known to be extremely rich. Her almost perfect control and comprehension of
her powers seems to suggest some form of prior training, perhaps from Gateway? She
considers boys to be "Yucky", which at the age of 16 suggests something out of
the ordinary (other than mutant powers). She is described as a cross between Jean Grey and
Rainman. It has been revealed that M is the sister of Emplate and that she has/had two
younger twin siblings and blames her father for the fate of the twins (which remains
unknown at this time).
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3.5 - Mondo
- Real Name: ?
- Characteristics: Male, Brown Hair (medium), ? eyes, light-tan skin.
- Age: 19
- Nationality: Samoan
- Mutant Ability: Absorbing mass from objects to enhance his own
- Mondo's first appearance is in a brief interlude in Generation-X #3. His first
appearance with the team is in Generation-X 95, where he decides to stay with the team
after they rescue him. Mondo has an ability to absorb the mass of living objects in order
to increase his own mass and strength, and remains in this state until he
"digests" the extra mass. He has a "don't worry, be happy" attitude,
which apart from helping to keep the rest of the team cheerful, lends him something of a
poor survival instinct, which Banshee and the White Queen plan to help him with.
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3.6 - Penance
- Real Name: N/a
- Characteristics: Female, red "hair" (spikes), blue eyes, red
"skin".
- Age: 14
- Nationality: Yugoslavian
- Mutant Ability: light "vacuum", super-tough/sharp skin
- Penance is currently a relatively unknown mutant who was rescued from the evil
power-draining mutant Emplate by Gateway and dropped on the front lawn of the School. Her
body is atrophied to a level of diamond-razor hardness and sharpness, making her
physically untouchable. Her body contracts so far in on itself that it can absorb the
light immediately around her, giving the appearance of her being always in shadow. She is
able to "internalise" negative energy. Her "skin" is capable of
cutting through incredibly tough substances (solid steel is little match for her, making
her far sharper than Wolverines adamantium claws). She was convinced by Chamber to join
Gen-X so that they could help her overcome some of the trauma she had experienced at the
hands of Emplate. Emplate has revealed that her real name is Yvette. She also appears to
be Emplate's "Meal of Choice" and somewhat succeptible to his will. She is prone
to seizures which temporarily incapicitate her. Her pysche makes it difficult for most
psionics to penetrate her pyschic defenses.
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3.7 - Skin
- Real Name: Angelo Espinoza
- Characteristics: Male, black hair (short), grey eyes, grey skin.
- Age: 15
- Nationality: American (South-Central Los Angeles)
- Mutant Ability: Skin manipulation
- Skin is a spanish/american boy with an excess quantity of skin, which he has the ability
to manipulate into virtually whatever form he desires. He is able to keep his skin in a
more-or-less normal form with a reasonably small level of concentration, and only
completely loses control when extremely frustrated, in which case, his skin virtually
melts off his body. Another property of this skin is that it is a dull-grey color, and
when it is in its "normal" position, it appears wrinkled & prune-like.
Angelo also smokes (cigarettes that is, not physically via a mutant power). It has been
shown that Angelo has some dark secrets in his past, probably concerned with some form of
illegal activities, as he wishes the idea that he is dead to remain the current thinking
of his "buddies" in Los Angeles. He expresses a desire for this to be especially
so in the case of someone named "Torre".
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3.8 - Synch
- Real Name: Everett Thomas
- Characteristics: Male, no hair, brown eyes, tan skin.
- Age: 16
- Nationality: American (St. Louis, MO)
- Mutant Ability:Bio-Sympathetic Aura (Mutant detection and power
"borrowing")
- Synch, has the ability to take on the abilities of other mutants around him by altering
his mutant "aura" to match that of the mutants around him. He is capable of
using the powers of more than one mutant at a time. For example, during the Phalanx
Covenant, he was simultaneously using Banshees' abilities of flight & sonic-scream,
and utilising the enhanced mass of Sabretooth. The range of this power is not determined,
but can reach further than for just a few meters, as he unknowingly used Banshees' power
when Banshee was at least a couple of blocks away. He can also absorb energy that hits his
body, and rechannel it for his own purposes, (redirect energy blasts towards his opponent
etc.) as well as this, he is capable of extending his aura to detect the presence of other
mutants in the area. He was a straight-A student before he accidentally synched with
Banshee and blew out all the windows in his, and the surrounding blocks with a suddenly
acquired sonic scream. He is able to use the acquired power(s) to a level as good as, and
sometimes better than, the original "owner" of the ability, this was shown
during the Phalanx Covenant when he uses Jubilees powers to generate a huge explosion, to
a level that Jubilee doesn't dare generate (but *is* capable of). He is somewhat
over-confident, but is able to stay calm in heated situations.
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3.9 - The White Queen
- Real Name: Emma Frost
- Characteristics: Female, white hair, blue eyes, light skin.
- Age: ?
- Nationality: American
- Mutant Ability: Telepathy/psionics/telekinesis etc.
- The White Queen, is an ex-X-villain, with incredibly powerful telepathic ability. She
was one of the leaders of "The Hellfire Club", (a society of rich & powerful
people, (of whom a large proportion were mutants) and a member of the "Inner
Circle" who plotted to take over the world using their wealth & influence. This
group was one of the X-mens greatest adversaries until they were eventually defeated. The
members of this Inner Circle named themselves after Chess pieces, with Emma Frost
obviously being the White Queen, Magneto as the White King (for a short time), Sebastian
Shaw as the Black King and Selene as the Black Queen. There were other members, but these
four were the main leaders. Only Emma Frost still uses her Inner-Circle name. Her powers
include the ability to mask her, and often other peoples presence from those around her.
She can also telepathically disguise herself, making her appearance to those around her
quite different to what she actually looks like, (simple things such as changing the
appearance of clothing, as well as more involved disguising). She is able to read minds
extremely well, create various mental illusions, alter memories (she once helped to heal
some of the New Mutants from severe depression by altering their depression-causing
memories), control thoughts (forcing them to do whatever she wants), and she can also use
powerful mind-blasts as a weapon which is a favourite trick. Essentially she has many of
the powers that Professor Xavier does, but is not as skilled or powerful in their use.
However, unlike Xavier, she has no compunctions against using her powers whenever, and for
whatever she desires. She used to teach another mutant group, the Hellions. She seems to
have little regard for others, but as hinted at by Professor Xavier, she may have more
heart than she herself suspects. In Uncanny #314 her mind took-over the body of the X-Man
Iceman, using his powers in ways he (Iceman) never knew of. This did no good for the White
Queens mental state as for a few issues afterwards she had to be physically, and
telepathically restrained. She owns a large corporation known as Frost enterprises and has
a large "town-house" built atop a skyscraper on the West Coast of San Francisco,
California, with a security system that "cost roughly half of the gross national
product of Paraguay" (Uncanny #317). She is one of the teachers of Gen-X who prefers
a more "hands-on" approach to the training . The White Queen first appeared in
X-Men (Vol.1) #122.
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3.10 - Artie & Leech
- Real Name: Artie Maddicks and
- Characteristics: Artie - Pink & Bumpy, Leech - Green, no visible nose
- Age: ?
- Nationality: Artie - American, Leech - Morlock
- Mutant Ability:Artie - Telepathic picture projection, telepathic paralization.
Leech - Mutant ability cancellation.
- Artie Maddicks was about 10 years old when he suddenly became pink and bumpy, and
developed the ability to project pictures. He also has enough telepathy to follow the
actions of others, and paralyze them. Artie has been demonstrated to do these on pe ople
as far as two miles away. Despite his great power, he is a very sensitive and caring boy,
and terribly brave for his age. He is also shown to be quite resourceful, tracing his
projections to leave messages. Leech was a member of the Morlocks, who li ved in the
tunnels beneath New York. Leech has the ability to suppress the mutant ability of anyone
in his range. Leech likewise is a brave and kindly soul who was not always happy with the
Morlocks because his actions would sometimes cause great pain to the affected mutant
(albeit indirectly). Leech and Artie bonded almost instantly, and have not been parted in
any substantial way since. Artie's first appearance was in X-Factor #2, and Leech's first
appearance was in X-Men #196. They first met each other in X-Factor #9.
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4) Who is/was? (The good-guys)
4.0 - Blink
- Real Name: Clarice Ferguson
- Characteristics: Female, purple hair, light grey skin, blue eyes.
- Age: ?
- Nationality: ?
- Mutant Ability: Spacial Shearing, Teleportation
- Blink (real name, Clarice Ferguson - although during the Phalanx Covenant, her name was
shown to be stored in Cerebro as Clarice Fergeson), was a short-lived character who gave
her life to destroy the Phalanx known as Harvest, so that M, Husk, Skin, Jubilee, Synch,
Banshee and the White Queen would have a better chance of surviving. Her mutant power was
that of some form of multi-dimensional teleportation. She was able to shift sections of
objects around in space, fragmenting them. She could also simply remove the object from
normal space, causing it to end up who knows where. Blink is now presumably deceased. She
first appeared in Uncanny #317, and died in X-Men (Vol. 2) #37 (One issue later).
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4.1 - Gateway
- Real name : ?
- Characteristics: Male, grey/black hair, blue eyes, tan skin.
- Age: ?
- Nationality: Australian
- Mutant Ability: Teleportation portals
- Gateway, is a mysterious Australian aboriginal character who VERY rarely speaks. He is
known to have spoken twice. "Hello Child" to Jubilee in Uncanny Annual #14, and
"Penance" to Banshee in Gen-X #1, although he has telepathically had an entire
conversation with Chamber. He is always seen to be sitting in a lotus position, and does
little else other than creating portals large enough for several people to travel through
at a time. He possibly has some sort of link to M (Relative?), due to the fact that in
Gen-X #1 she refers to him as "Mentor". It is later revealed that Gateway has
indeed trained M in the past. To what extent remains to be seen. He also plays the flute.
Very little is known about him due to his lack of communication, although he seems to be
hiding something from his past. Gateway first appeared in Uncanny #229.
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5) Who is/was (The bad-guys)
5.0 - Emplate
- Real Name: ?
- Characteristics: Male, grey/black hair, yellow/red eyes, grey skin.
- Age: ?
- Nationality: ?
- Mutant Ability: Absorbtion of mutant ability
- Emplate was the first evil-mutant that the newly formed Gen-X team went up against. He
was first encountered at Logan airport when Chamber arrived from Britain. Emplate then
tried to absorb Chambers' mutant energy using his own mutant ability. He was driven off by
the Gen-X team after he failled to detect who and what M was. He appears to be a powerful
mutant, with the ability to siphon off the energies of other mutants as his source of
sustenance. He held Penance captive for a long time, using her energies as his food before
she was rescued by Gateway. He is also able to hide dimensionally, standing just outside
of normal space, able to observe, but not be observed, and can enter normal space whenever
he desires. As far as is known, Chamber and M have been the only mutants he has not been
able to successfully absorb power from. Emplate has the ability to possess people to his
will by using some sort of psychic vampirism technique. His captives exhibit his trademark
"Mouths on the hands". He has also revealed that he is Monet's older brother.
His driver, "DOA" is also a mutant, whos intentions and abilities are unknown.
Emplate was first seen in Gen-X #1.
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5.1 - The Phalanx
- Name: Host independant
- Characteristics: Host independant appearance, golden/metallic "skin".
- Age: Host independant
- Nationality: Host independant
- Mutant Ability: N/a
- Essentially, the Phalanx are (or more accurately, were) a horde of techno-organic
creatures capable of assimilating living matter (other than mutants for an unknown
reason), into themselves which they can use to increase their own abilities. They are all
individual beings, but their intelligence is part of a collective (not dissimilar to
Star-Trek: The Next Generation's "The Borg"). The original aim of the Phalanx
was to obliterate all mutant life from the planet, but they ended up destroying far more
normal humans than mutants. The Phalanx are thought to no-longer exist after their final
destruction in Cable #16. The last Phalanx (Harvest) was killed by Blink (See 4.0) in
X-Men (vol. 2) #37.
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6) Who is/was (Acquiantences/Neutral)
6.1 - Gail Edgerton
- Real name : Gail Edgerton
- Characteristics: Female, brown hair, parapelegic
- Age: ?
- Nationality: British
- Gail and Chamber had a relationship in the past, before Jonathon's powers manifested
themselves. She was apparently present at the time of Chambers first manifestation and was
paralyzed by the accident. Shortly afterwards, Jonathon left her without a word. She
presumably is a human and resents the accident that left her paralyzed. She fell under
Emplate's control for a while to exact revenge on Chamber, but turned against Emplate in
the end.
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9) What is Generation Next?
Generation Next was a four issue crossover that happened when all the X-Books
crossed over to the Age Of Apocalypse. Generation Next was the name of the team given to
an alternate reality's version of Generation-X. The Alternate Reality came about when
Professor Xavier's son Legion went back in time and accidentally killed Professor Xavier.
This prompted the Age of Apocalypse, where Apocalypse ruled the world.
The team did not exist is it does in this reality because Charles Xavier never founded
the team. Instead, Magneto formed the team with headmasters Peter and Katya Rasputin. The
team consisted of Chamber, Husk, Skin, Vincente, Mondo, and Know-It-All (presumably
Monet).
8) When was Gen-X first seen?
The appearance of the Gen-X team in current continuity has been:
1) Jubilee (Uncanny #244)
2) Husk (X-Force #32)
3) M (Uncanny #316)
4) Synch (X-Men #36)
5) Skin (Uncanny #317)
6) Chamber (Gen-X #1)
7) Penance (Gen-X #1)
8) Mondo (Gen-X #3)
9) Artie & Leech (X-Fac #2, Uncanny #196) Their appearance in the Gen-X comic
book has been:
1) Husk Gen-X #1.
2) Jubilee Gen-X #1.
3) M Gen-X #1.
4) Synch Gen-X #1.
5) Skin Gen-X #1.
6) Chamber Gen-X #1.
7) Penance Gen-X #1.
8) Mondo Gen-X #1.
9) Artie & Leech Gen-X #6.
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The Massachusetts Academy, founded in 1700 as a boarding school, was formerly one of
the most prestigious private high schools in the United States, with a total enrollment of
approximately 1,000 students. In recent years, the Academy was purchased by the Hellfire
Club. It continued to operate as a prep school, with Emma Frost serving as the Chairman
and Headmistress. At the same time, underground facilities on campus were used as a secret
training facility for the Hellions. When Emma Frost became comatose (following her battle
with a mutant known as Fitzroy and the Sentinels), control of the Academy was transferred
to Professor Xavier. The property is no longer being used as a leading prep school, but is
employed solely for the training and education of Gen-X students.
The new school has replaced the "Danger-Room" training area of the New York
academy, with "The worlds only fully operational bio-sphere" as Banshee puts it,
or "Danger Grotto" as Jubilee puts it. (Banshee/Jubilee, Gen-X #1). The school
also hosts similar technological capabilities to the X-Men HQ in
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10) Miscellaneous Information
It unfortunately does not look as if Blink from the Alter-X time-line will cross
over into current continuity and "re-join" the Generation X team. She was a
character with a lot of promise, but looks as if she may just be dropped.
According to the Gen-X Ashcan, Chamber will at some stage gain a device designed by
Forge of X-Factor, which using Chambersa bio-energy as a "power source" will
give him the capability of flight using it's rocket-pack like design.
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I would like to thank the following people for their help with the information
contained in this file. I apologise for any omissions and mistakes in advance!
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Jeff Wickel........................... taper@yvax.byu.edu Husk-FAQ Author.
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Jonathan Lee...................... umlee185@cc.UManitoba.CA
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Extra special thanks go to Mike Lavin for his huge amounts of assistance with the
various sections of this file! (Full credit for the history of the Massachusetts academy
goes to him.)
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preview, Uncanny X-Men, X-Men, Generation-X, and various InterNet Sources (as listed
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