2006-06-14 13:30:22 · 6 answers · asked by ? 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
When Magneto nearly killed Wolverine by extracting the Adamantium from his skeleton, Xavier telepathically shut down the mind of Magneto. However, the evil part of Magneto's psyche, combined with the darkest parts of Xavier's soul, resulted in the psionic entity, Onslaught, which went on a rampage in New York before being stopped with the seeming sacrifice of Earth's heroes.
Xavier was incarcerated for his part for the creation of Onslaught and was placed under the custody of the hydrid Sentinel, Bastion who interrogated him and used the information to launch an assault on the X-Men under the guise of the government sponsored Operation: Zero Tolerance. The operation was eventually shut down and Xavier escaped.
Magneto later resurfaced, holding the planet hostage with its own magnetic field before being granted sovereignty over Genosha. Initially occupied by the civil war and spread of the lethal mutant-targetting Legacy Virus, Magneto later gained the might of a united nation when the cure of the Legacy Virus was released. He prepared for a war on humanity but was stopped by an ad-hoc team of X-Men.
Genosha was later destroyed by Sentinels sent by Cassandra Nova, the evil twin of Xavier who also outed Xavier as a mutant. The Institute soon saw an influx of young mutants. Xavier formed the X-Corporation, a global search-and-rescue unit for mutants with headquarters all around the world, staffed by members of the splinter teams.
Kuan-Yin Xorn, one of the new X-Men recruited, was made to believe himself as Magneto. He launched an attack on the X-Men and Manhattan before being stopped by the X-Men. He managed to kill Jean Grey-Summers before being killed by Wolverine.
Xavier left the X-Men to travel to Genosha to help rebuild the island-nation leaving Scott Summers and Emma Frost to become co-headmasters of the Institute. The X-Men then reorganised into three teams.
M-Day later struck, depowering 90% of the mutant population. The Institute was declared a safe haven for all mutants by Cyclops. However, the Office of National Emergency soon sent Sentinels to guard the Institute.
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July 2001-April 2004 (Uniform era)
July 2001 saw a huge change in the X-titles. In preparation for that, many titles was cancelled in the months before that, including Mutant X, Gambit, Bishop, X-Man, X-Men: The Hidden Years and Generation X.
The arrival of Grant Morrison as writer saw the X-Men title renamed as New X-Men. The X-Men now no longer wore spandex, instead wearing leather uniforms, something also picked up by the new writer of Uncanny X-Men. The first arc of the New X-Men saw Genosha decimated by Sentinels sent by Cassandra Nova.
A third X-Men series, Xtreme X-Men, written by Chris Claremont, was launched featuring a team led by Storm searching for the diaries of the precog, Destiny.
The cast of the militant X-Force was replaced by a new cast. The new, media-savvy team consists of self-absorbed celebrities more interested in fighting for fame and fortune. X-Force ended in August 2002. The name of the team and title changed to become X-Statix.
Other titles released in the few months after July included Exiles, a reality-hopping team consisting of members of different realities and Agent X, which replaced Deadpool.
Other series launched during this period included: Wolverine, which was relaunched into the third series with a #1, in September 2001; Weapon X, featuring a new Weapon X program, in late 2002; Soldier X, which replaced Cable, but still featuring him; New Mutants (2nd series), the 'student book', in July 2003; Mystique, featuring the former villain working as an underground operative of Charles Xavier, in June 2003; Emma Frost, a solo issue for the X-Man, in August 2003.
Soldier X was cancelled in August 2003.
Titles still in existence at the end of this period of time included: Uncanny X-Men, New X-Men (renamed from X-Men), Xtreme X-Men, X-Statix, Exiles, Agent X, Wolverine, Weapon X, New Mutants, Mystique and Emma Frost.
2004 - October 2005 (Reload)
2004 saw the departure of Grant Morrison as writer of New X-Men. In his second last arc, Magneto (he later turned out to be an imposter) destroyed the Xavier Institute, attacked New York and eventually killed Jean Grey-Summers before getting killed by Wolverine. This brought about another round of changes in an event known as Reload.
New X-Men was changed back to be named as X-Men. It features the former cast of the Uncanny X-Men.
Xtreme X-Men was cancelled and Chris Claremont took over as writer of Uncanny X-Men, with the cast of Xtreme X-Men appearing in it.
Astonishing X-Men was launched as the 3rd core X-Men title and was written by Joss Whedon and pencilled by John Cassaday. It features the former cast of the New X-Men.
New Mutants was renamed New X-Men: Academy X.
Several new titles were launched in 2004 including: Cable/Deadpool, featuring Cable and Deadpool; Excalibur (3rd series), featuring Professor X and Magneto working together with survivors of Genosha to rebuild the nation; X-Men Unlimited (2nd series), featuring stand-alone stories; District X, featuring Bishop working for the NYPD to police Mutant Town, the part of New York with a predominant mutant population; X-Force, a 6-issue mini-series featuring former members of Cable's X-Force; and Madrox, a miniseries featuring Multiple Man, Strong Guy and Wolfsbane (all former members of the government-sponsored X-Factor).
Solo titles for some X-Men were also launched in 2004 including: Gambit, Rogue and Nightcrawler. However, all three were cancelled near the end of 2005.
This period saw the cancellation of the following series: Mystique, Emma Frost, X-Statix, Excalibur (3rd series) and Weapon X.
Titles still in existence by October 2005 included: Astonishing X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, X-Men, New X-Men: Academy X, Exiles, District X, Cable/Deadpool and X-Men: Unlimited.
House of M
In 2005, the House of M event occurred.
For more on House of M, click here.
October 2005-Present (Decimation)
The event after the House of M is called Decimation and once again brought another round of changes to the X-titles. Decimation saw 90% of the mutant population depowered.
New X-Men: Academy X was renamed New X-Men (2nd series).
New Excalibur was launched. This series is similar to the British-based team in the first series of Excalibur which was launched in 1988. The lineup consists of Captain Britain, Pete Wisdom, Dazzler, Juggernaut, Sage and Nocturne.
X-Factor was launched right out of the Madrox miniseries and features a X-Factor team dedicated to learning the cause of M-Day. The lineup consists of Multiple Man, Strong Guy, Wolfsbane, M, Siryn, Rictor and Layla Miller.
Several mini-series were also launched which deals with Decimation.
Titles still in existance currently: Astonishing X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, X-Men, New X-Men, X-Factor, New Excalibur, Wolverine, X-Men Unlimited, Exiles and Cable/Deadpool.
2006-06-14 16:11:42 · answer #1 · answered by Zholla 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's really good. Not only does it follow the comics storyline very, very well, but it ties in with the former three x-men movies: especially the last one, X-men 3: The Last Stand. Everything seems to fit in perfectly. The only thing I think that you might have a problem with is not having the watcher get confused in the plot. Everything you mentioned has a lot of new characters that are yet to be mentioned at all. The movies, sadly, focused only on the more well-known characters, altering the plot-line as they went along - in filming. I personally would love to see this in the theaters, though. Anything X-men is cool. Btw, the ending could be a lot more dramatic if Jean was there, and Apocalypse's powers were clearly stated. I only think so because Jean is a main asset to the Men team, and Apocalypse should be explained greatly why everyone fears him... because of his power. And the last scene should be the ACTUAL part where he is rising from wherever he comes from. Lil. :] Good luck, and that's all I have for suggestions/ comments. Just profiling the characters, mainly, and the rest should flow smoothly.
2016-03-27 04:09:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Umm that's a pretty loaded question--try wikipedia (first try X-Men in general and it'll branch off from there) because they have a pretty comprehensive database of the comics as far as whats happened.
2006-06-14 13:34:27 · answer #3 · answered by erodreus2 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
to the person above me....the movie is alot different from the comics
2006-06-14 13:38:39 · answer #4 · answered by yams 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
storm is the new leader, the bold dude in the wheelchair and the girl that had an evil thing in side of her that killed that dude that can shoot rays out of his eyes is dead. i went to see the new x-men movie today!it was good !!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-06-14 13:36:37 · answer #5 · answered by blackdragon12 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
erm, what ZhollaMychalis said!!! i was gonna put down a similar answer, but he's done a more thorough job!
2006-06-15 01:36:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋