New X-Men is a superhero comic book series published by Marvel Comics within the X-Men franchise.

After the end of Grant Morrison's run on X-Men vol. 2 (titled New X-Men) the title was used for a new series, New X-Men: Academy X during the X-Men Reload event. The title was later shortened to simply New X-Men in 2006 when the new creative team of Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost took over the series with issue #20.

Whereas most other X-Men comics mostly deal with established adult mutants, this series concentrates on the lives of young students residing at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning as they learn to control their powers.

After the 2007 crossover X-Men: Messiah Complex, the New X-Men title was canceled and briefly relaunched as Young X-Men for 12 issues. The series was written by Marc Guggenheim. After the first arc of Young X-Men, the characters began appearing in the pages of Uncanny X-Men. With the cancellation of Young X-Men the characters were folded onto the main X-Men books, appearing most prominently in the pages of X-Men: Legacy, Wolverine and the X-Men, and X-Men.

Founding

New X-Men begins where Grant Morrison's run on the former New X-Men ended. The school is rebuilt and Emma Frost and Cyclops are named the headmasters. They organize the students into several battle squads who train together.

The series focuses chiefly on two rival teams: the New Mutants, whose mentor is Danielle Moonstar, and the Hellions, whose mentor is Emma Frost.

New Mutants squad

The New Mutants squad's tutor is Danielle Moonstar. It is co-led by Wind Dancer and Prodigy.

  • Elixir (Josh Foley) - Foley is an Omega-level mutant who possesses healing abilities and is initially a rabid mutant-hater until he finds out he is one himself. Following the events of "M-Day" and William Stryker slaughtering many of his friends and his lover Wallflower, Elixir's powers morph so that he can now kill as well as heal with a touch of his hand.
  • Icarus (Joshua "Jay" Guthrie) - Guthrie is able to fly, sing hypnotically, and heal himself rapidly. Jay's wings are amputated in issue #20 and he is killed in issue #26 by William Stryker.
  • Prodigy (David Alleyne) - Alleyne takes on the knowledge and skills of nearby people. After being depowered, he regained the knowledge and talents he had acquired before "M-Day".
  • Surge (Noriko Ashida) - A Japanese immigrant who constantly absorbs static electricity and can discharge it as electric blasts or bursts of superhuman speed. She becomes a member of the X-Men while attending the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
  • Wallflower (Laurie Collins) - Collins exudes pheromones that alter the feelings of other people. She is killed in issue #25 by the Purifiers.
  • Wind Dancer (Sofia Mantega) - A girl from Venezuela who can control air particles, allowing her to fly and hear distant conversations. Wind Dancer loses her powers as a result of "M-Day". Following her de-powering, she joins a short-lived incarnation of the New Warriors.
  • Wither (Kevin Ford) - Ford is a member of the New Mutants for a short time before switching to the Hellions.

Hellions squad

The Hellions squad's tutor is Emma Frost. It is led by Hellion.

  • Dust (Sooraya Qadir) - Qadir is a shy girl from Afghanistan who can turn herself into a living whirlwind of dust. She joins the X-Men and is a student at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
  • Hellion (Julian Keller) - Keller is a mutant with the power of telekinesis. He joins the X-Men and is a student at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
  • Icarus (Joshua "Jay" Guthrie) - Guthrie is a member of the Hellions for a short time before switching to the New Mutants.
  • Tag (Brian Cruz) - Cruz could psionically "tag" a person so that others are compelled to run from or toward them. He is killed on the bus ambushed by the Purifiers along with several other depowered mutants.
  • Wither (Kevin Ford) - Ford can destroy organic matter with a touch. He is romantic rivals with Elixir for Wallflower. When Wallflower dies, Wither flees the school and becomes Selene's second-in-command. He is killed by Elixir during the "Necrosha" storyline.

Other squads

There are also other teams advised by different X-Men. For a complete list of students prior to "M-Day", see List of Xavier Institute students and staff.

  • The Advocates squad leader is Rogue. This squad consists of:
  • Boggart (Robin Wise) - Wise possesses superhuman strength and green skin. He is depowered during "M-Day".
  • Naiad (Aurelie Sabayon) - Sabayon has the ability to breathe underwater. She is depowered during "M-Day".
  • Pinpoint (Gerard Cooper) - Cooper possesses telescopic vision. He is depowered during "M-Day".
  • Trovão (Pedro de Noli) - De Noli has the ability to create sonic booms. He is depowered during "M-Day".
  • Umbra (Patrick Nesbitt) - Nesbitt has the ability to manipulate darkness. He is depowered during "M-Day".
  • Xenon (Shaun Kennedy) - Kennedy has the ability to generate light. He is depowered during "M-Day".
  • The Alpha Squadron squad leader is initially Northstar (Jean-Paul Beaubier), but he is later replaced by Karma. The squad consists of:
  • Anole (Victor Borkowski) - Borkowski has reptilian mutations that give him enhanced strength, speed, durability, reflexes and stamina. He also has a prehensile tongue, wall crawling abilities, the ability to blend into his environment and regenerative powers. He joins the X-Men and is a student at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
  • Indra (Paras Gavaskar) - Gavaskar can create a psionic exoskeleton and weapons from his skin. He is the youngest mutant at the school. He joins the X-Men and is a student at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
  • Kidogo (Lazaro Kotikash) - Kotikash can shrink to four inches tall. He is depowered as a result of "M-Day".
  • Loa (Alani Ryan) - Ryan can disintegrate matter by phasing through it. She is enrolled at the Avengers Academy.
  • Network (Sarah Vale) - Vale has the ability to communicate with machinery. She is depowered during "M-Day" and killed on the bus ambushed by the Purifiers along with several other depowered mutants.
  • Specter (Dallas Gibson) - Gibson can merge his body with his shadow, granting him superhuman strength, speed and durability. He can see in complete darkness and is immune to all Darkforce attacks. He is depowered as a result of "M-Day".
  • Three-In-One (Celeste, Mindee and Phoebe Cuckoo) - The Cuckoo sisters are able to combine their telepathic abilities and they possess the ability to transform into an organic diamond form. They join the Extinction Team as students of the New Charles Xavier School for Mutants.
  • The Paladins squad leader is Kitty Pryde. The members that are named are:
  • Armor (Hisako Ichiki) - Ichiki has the ability to create a psionic exoskeleton. She joins the X-Men and is a student at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
  • Blindfold (Ruth Aldine) - Aldine possesses telepathy, the ability to see the future as well as the past, and clairvoyance. She joins the X-Men and is a student at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
  • Wing (Edward Tancredi) - Powers neutralized by Ord; apparently committed suicide afterward in the Danger Room.
  • The Paragons squad leader is originally Rahne Sinclair, who is replaced by Magma (Amara Aquilla). The squad consists of:
  • DJ (Mark Sheppard) - Sheppard changes music into energy blasts, blinding lights, flight or a force field. The style of music determines the ability. He is depowered during "M-Day" and killed on the bus ambushed by the Purifiers along with several other depowered mutants.
  • Pixie (Megan Gwynn) - Gwynn is a hybrid mutant and fairy. She can fly and her wings create a hallucinogenic dust. She also has magical powers. She joins the X-Men and is a student at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
  • Trance (Hope Abbott) - Abbott has the ability to create an astral projection of herself. This form is capable of flight and producing energy blasts. She joins the X-Men and is a student at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
  • Wolf Cub (Nicholas "Nick" Gleason) - Gleason possesses wolf-like physiology that gives him enhanced strength, senses, speed, agility and endurance. He also has razor-sharp claws. He is killed by Donald Pierce.
  • Preview (Jessica Vale) - Vale has the ability to see minutes into the future. She is depowered during "M-Day". She is Network's sister.

The Excelsiors, led by Iceman, are mentioned but the members are never named. The Exemplars, led by Beast, are unknown as well with the exception of Angel Salvadore. Storm's squad, mentioned in New X-Men, has one survivor, Gentle.

Decimation

In the aftermath of the Decimation event known as M-Day, the mutant student body in the academy dropped from 182 to 27. At least 45 depowered students were killed and, of the remaining students, Emma Frost picked a select group to train as New X-Men. These new X-Men were Dust, Elixir, Hellion, Mercury, Rockslide, Surge (appointed leader), and X-23. As time progressed, several members were added or earned the right to be on the team, such as Anole, Gentle, Pixie, and Prodigy. The rest of the students were instructed to remain on school grounds, some providing assistance to the current X-Men teams and trainees. Some M-Day survivors and depowered students either left the mansion or died during villainous attacks by William Stryker and other enemies. Many of the students who were killed were resurrected during the Krakoan Age.

Young X-Men

The Young X-Men series launched as part of the X-Men storyline "Divided We Stand" in April, 2008. Written by Marc Guggenheim and pencilled by Yanick Paquette, it featured a line-up of Blindfold, Dust, Rockslide, Wolf Cub, and three new characters: Graymalkin, Ink, and Cipher. The first arc involved the group being formed by Donald Pierce, who thanks to changes inflicted upon him by the Purifiers, impersonates Cyclops as part of an elaborate plot to kill the young mutants who he sees are the last generation of mutants born prior to M-Day. The group are manipulated into fighting members of the New Mutants before Pierce is ultimately exposed. In the end, per Blindfold's prediction at the start of the series, Donald Pierce murders Wolf Cub before being captured by the group and taken into custody by the X-Men.

When the X-Men franchise is relaunched with the relocation of the X-Men to San Francisco following the events in Uncanny X-Men, the characters relocate to California. The series is ultimately canceled with issue #12 and many events of the series (such as Dust being mortally wounded during the team's fight with the New Mutants) would be ignored by later writers.

X-Men: Legacy, X-Force and Wolverine and the X-Men

Most of the characters (most notably Pixie, who was granted full X-Men membership)

Contributors

{| class="wikitable"

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! Issue(s)

! Writer(s)

! Artist(s)

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| colspan=3 | As New X-Men: Academy X

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| 1-2

| rowspan=8 | Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir

| Randy Green

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| 3-4

| Staz Johnson

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| 5-8

| Michael Ryan

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| 9

| Carlo Pagulayan

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| 10-11

| Paco Medina

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| 12-13

| Michael Ryan

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| 14-15

| Paco Medina

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| 16-19 "House of M"

| Aaron Lopresti

|-

| colspan=3 | As New X-Men

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| 20-23

| rowspan=8 | Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost

| Mark Brooks (Issue #23 with Paul Pelletier)

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| 24-28

| Paco Medina

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| 29

| Duncan Rouleau

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| 30-31

| Paco Medina

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| 32

| Mike Norton

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| 33-37

| Paco Medina (Issue #37 with Skottie Young, Niko Henrichon)

|-

| 38-43

| Skottie Young

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| 44-46 '"Messiah Complex"

| Humberto Ramos

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| colspan=3 | New X-Men: Hellions (related reading)

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| 1-4

| Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir

| Clayton Henry

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|}

Collected editions

Trade paperbacks

{| class="wikitable"

! Title

! Material collected

! width=110 | Publication date

! width=110 | ISBN

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| New Mutants Vol. 1: Back to School

| New Mutants (vol. 2) #1-6

| March 2005

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| New Mutants: Back to School - Complete Collection

| New Mutants, vol. 2 #1–13; X-Men Unlimited #42-43

| January 2018

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|-

| New X-Men: Academy X - Complete Collection

| New X-Men: Academy X #1–15; New X-Men: Academy X Yearbook #1; New X-Men: Hellions #1–4;

| December 2018

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|-

|New X-Men Childhood's End - Complete Collection

|New X-Men #16-32

|January 2019

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|-

|New X-Men Quest for Magik - Complete Collection

|New X-Men (2004) 33-39, 40-42 (A Stories), 43; X-Infernus 1-4, Saga; material from X-Men Unlimited (2004) 14; X-Men: Divided We Stand 2

|July 2019

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| New X-Men: Academy X Vol. 1: Choosing Sides

| New X-Men: Academy X #1-6

| January 2005

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|-

| New X-Men: Academy X Vol. 2: Haunted

| New X-Men: Academy X #7-11

| July 2005

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| New X-Men: Hellions

| New X-Men: Hellions #1-4

| November 2005

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| New X-Men: Academy X Vol. 3: X-Posed

| New X-Men: Academy X #12-15, New X-Men: Academy X Yearbook

| January 2006

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| House of M: New X-Men

| New X-Men: Academy X #16-19, Secrets of the House of M

| March 2006

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|-

| New X-Men: Childhood's End, Vol. 1

| New X-Men #20-23

| May 2006

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| New X-Men: Childhood's End, Vol. 2: Crusade

| New X-Men #24-27

| August 2006

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| New X-Men: Childhood's End, Vol. 3: Nimrod

| New X-Men #28-32

| December 2006

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| New X-Men: Childhood's End, Vol. 4: Mercury Falling

| New X-Men #33-36

| June 2007

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| New X-Men: Childhood's End, Vol. 5: Quest for Magik

| New X-Men #37-43

| December 2007

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| X-Men: Messiah Complex

| X-Men: Messiah CompleX one-shot, Uncanny X-Men #492-494, X-Men #205-207, New X-Men #44-46, X-Factor #25-27, X-Men: Messiah CompleX - Mutant Files

| November 2008

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Hardcovers

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! Title

! Material collected

! width=110 | Publication date

! width=110 | ISBN

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| X-Men: Messiah Complex

| X-Men: Messiah Complex one-shot, Uncanny X-Men #492-494, X-Men #205-207, New X-Men #44-46, X-Factor #25-27

| April 2008

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|-

|}

References

  • New X-Men at Marvel.com
  • New X-Men at Marvel.com
  • Confessions of a New X-Men Reader—look back on Morrison's tenure