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This article is a list of story arcs for the Marvel Comics comic book series New X-Men.
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Grant Morrison's New X-Men
Grant Morrison's run on X-Men (vol. 2) (titled New X-Men) contained seven story arcs: "E is for Extinction," "Imperial," "New Worlds," "Riot at Xavier's," "Assault on Weapon Plus," "Planet X" and "Here Comes Tomorrow."
New Mutants (vol. 2)
Back To School
New Mutants Vol.2 Issues #1-6
Former New Mutant Danielle "Dani" Moonstar is convinced to return to the Xavier school as a mutant mentor & recruiter. Dani encounters her first recruit, Sophia Montega, by chance when the young girl is arrested for using her abilities to manipulate the wind in a effort to gain the attention of her neglectful father. Dani offers to take Sofia to the Xavier school to learn to control her abilities. At the school, currently in its summer session, Sofia meets fellow students Laurie Collins (Pheromone Control), Julian Keller (Telekinesis), and Cessily Kincaid (Mercury Metal Form). Professor Xavier accepts Sophia as a new student and enlists Dani to help him recruit other possible students. Dani helps in recruiting additional students Kevin Ford (Organic Decay) and David Alleyn (Telepathic Learning). Dani is also reunited with former New Mutant Xi'an "Shan" Coy Manh who agrees to move back to the school with her younger siblings.
On a recruiting trip to New York to recruit another student, Dani and Shan discover that the last potential student, Josh Foley, may be connected to a mutant-hate group called The Reavers; led by X-Men antagonist Donald Pierce. Pierce and the Reavers plan to kick-nap Sofia's wealthy father as a way to target her and other mutants. When the students stumble into Pierce's trap, a battle ensues. When a Reaver friend falls in battle, Josh unwittingly uses his mutant healing ability to recover him, outing himself as a mutant. As the battle turns in the students favor, Pierce arrives and mortally wounds Laurie Collins. Josh attempts to heal Laurie with his ability, while Kevin, in his anger strikes at Pierce in an effort to kill him by decaying his exposed flesh. Dani, unable to physically stop Kevin, must reluctantly use her mutant ability against him; generating a horrifying illusion that he is attacking Laurie instead of Pierce. This vision causes Kevin to halt his assault. The battle now over, Josh, not accepting he is a mutant, rejects the offer to join the school. Kevin, horrified by Dani's illusion, decides to leave the school, deciding he is better living alone where he cannot hurt others. Kevin's leaving wears heavily on Dani as she feels she has failed him. Josh Foley, upon returning home, finds that he is not welcomed back by his friends or family. He arrives to the school seeking admittance, being paired with a reluctant David Alleyn as a roommate. Dani informs Professor Xavier that she will not continue recruiting and will also leave the school. Before leaving Xavier has her attend a small meeting in his office with her recently recruited students. They are each asked who they would like as a faculty adviser and they all unanimously choose Dani as the person they trust most. This convinces Dani to stay at the school as a teacher/adviser.
The Ties That Bind
New Mutants Vol.2 Issues #7-12
The new students settle into the new semester. David, Sofia, and Laurie have become fast friends, while Josh feels rejected, primarily by David, due to his past as a Reaver. Laurie likes him regardless. Josh becomes friends with Julian and his group of friends. Dani encourages David to forgive and befriend Josh. She also mentions to David she is worried about former New Mutant Amara (Magma) who lies in a coma in the school infirmary. Josh and Julian decide to try to use Josh's healing powers to revive her and become heroes at the school. Amara revives, but quickly breaks out of the school, injuring the school nurse and leaving damage in her wake. The boys receive detention, and as a result, Josh's parents sign over his custody to the school, disowning him. Later, Julian rejects entry to a homeless mutant girl seeking help at the main gate. During parents week, Sofia has a bad encounter with her father, and in a moment of grief, Emma encourages her to switch to her as an adviser, but Dani quickly quashes the idea. Julian continues to run afoul of his adviser Northstar, and asks to be transferred over to Emma. When Julian learns from her that Josh had been a Reaver, he attacks him and David and Sofia come to his defense. Rahne Sinclair returns to the school, free of her Wolf powers, but more wild then before. Laurie Collins crush on Josh grows, but Josh's attention is interrupted by the arrival of Rahne. The students leave campus and discover the mutant Julian previously rejected may be involved in a electrical attach and robbery at the local coffee shop. Dani and Shan agree to look for her, but refuse to involve the students. Rahne feels this is a mistake and enlists them to find the girl first. Josh, David, Sofia, and Laurie leave with Rahne to find the girl. The team finds her buying drugs, but when they approach her, she pleads that she needs them to control her power. She losses control and injures some of the team. The students help to calm her and offer her the school's help. The girl, named Noriko, agrees. Back at Xavier's, Dani chastises Rahne for endangering her students, which Cyclops as headmaster, reinforces. Scott refuses her a teaching position and Rahne decides to leave the school after her visit. Josh befriends Rahne and a physical relationship results. Noriko "Nori" gains gauntlets from Hank McCoy to help control her electrical emissions. David befriends her, but she is reluctant to befriend anyone. At Rahne's request, Josh heals Rahne and her wolf power suddenly returns and she viciously attacks Josh. Laurie discovers them and scares Rahne from the school. With Josh badly injured, Dani and Shan call another healer, Angel, for help, but he is hours away. David and Nori determine that Josh could heal himself if he were awake. Nori shocks him awake as David guides him to heal himself. This works but has the result of turning his skin gold. Rahne is tracked down by Dani and convinced to return to the school. Later, Dani convinces Noriko to work at the coffee shop to make amends and repay the money she had stolen.
X-Men Reload
New Mutants Vol.2 Issue #13
The Xavier school and much of New York has recently been attacked by mutant terrorist Magneto, leaving much in ruins. Former New Mutants Dani, Shan, and Rahne were assigned the task of shuttling the summer students to safety, thereby sitting out the encounter. Donald Pierce, leader of The Reavers, lies in prison awaiting execution, but is given an offer of leniency in exchange for information on Kevin Ford who previously attacked him in New York. During transport to his hearing, Pierce escapes. Many former New Mutants arrive at the school to asses the damage. The FBI inform the team that Pierce has escaped and will likely seek revenge against Kevin Ford or Josh Foley, the former Reaver that betrayed him. The students are hid away from the school grounds, but Josh Foley agrees to return to the school to try to draw Pierce to him. The plan works and as Pierce and his Reavers attack, the New Mutant team quickly jumps to the defense of the school; swiftly defeating Pierce. Their battle complete, Dani considers if her true calling should be as part of an X-Men team vs. remaining with the students.
New X-Men: Academy X
Choosing Sides
Academy X Issues #1-6
Haunted
Academy X Issues #7-11
The students begin to notice mysterious events around the Xavier school. Several students begin encountering haunting voices, the movement and disappearance of items, and other mischievous behavior. The voices keep telling the students that they should leave the school. While many think the pranks are due to a prankster using his mutant powers, after a particularly dangerous encounter in the Danger Room with the students, Dani realizes that the entity might actually be a ghost and she and the students investigate further.
Elsewhere, many of the team leaders enroll in Scott Summers tactical leadership class. Julian demoralizes David in front of the class by indicating that he his power to temporarily absorb knowledge is insignificant in a tactical environment. Scott mentions that David ability to learn the tactics of his opponents could be very valuable for a field leader, but David still feels inadequate. David approaches Emma Frost to help him learn why he is not able to retain any of the knowledge he gains. Emma informs him that his mind has set up blocks as a safety mechanism. With the help of his Emma and his adviser Dani, David explores having Emma remove the blocks so that he may retain the knowledge he absorbs.
X-Posed
Academy X Issues #12-15
The student squads compete for the Prizegiving awards as a damaging secret becomes known to the school. The students are affected to various degrees, and one of the faculty, Rahne, leaves the school as a result. As the staff struggle to adjust to this ordeal, another more dangerous issue threatens the school; a mind-controlled Wolverine is lose on the grounds. All the available X-Men, and even a team of Avengers, are called in to capture him; but one of the X-Men, Northstar, is killed in the pursuit. Too add further insult to injury, Northstar's body is captured by The Hand before it can be buried. Not wanting to worry the students further, Scott and Emma decide that the planned memorial for Northstar will proceed without his body to allow the students some closure.
Toward the end of the school year, the faculty begin preparing for the school's spring dance. Shan and Dani struggle with the extra burden of covering for the absent faculty. For the students, anxiety runs high as each of them ponders if they will be asked to the dance by one of their classmates. The dance goes off with several hitches among the students, but is for the most part uneventful. The following day, the X-Men are called away by The Avengers on important business, and Dani is left to perform the Prizegiving ceremony alone. Near the completion of the ceremony, The Blob crashes into the school. Upset about not being invited into the new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, he intends to attack the X-Men single handedly to make a name for himself. With the X-Men away, and only Dani and Amara to protect the school, several New Mutants and Hellions join the fray to help defeat Blob.
As the school year ends, Sophia gathers the New Mutant's together for a team camp-out out by the lake to get them air out their differences and to re-bond together as a team.
House of M
Academy X Issues #16-19
New X-Men: Hellions
Hellions Issues #1-4
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Childhood's End
Issues #20-23
As a result of the Decimation event, in which the Scarlet Witch's magicks de-powered most of the mutant population, only 27 of the 182 students enrolled at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning still retain their powers, and the comic changed its name to simply New X-Men. In response to the increasingly desperate situation that mutants now faced, Emma Frost has disbanded all the former training squads (most of which had lost much of their membership to the Decimation) and integrated those students she deemed capable of combat, including new addition X-23, to a new team that is essentially a junior team of X-Men, while relegated the others to the sidelines and an unknown future, since Emma seems to have abandoned the general education program formerly in place at the school.
Crusade
Issues #24-27
Of the former New Mutants, Prodigy lost his powers; Wind Dancer left the school almost immediately, but Prodigy has been forced to stay to avoid widespread attacks worldwide against former mutants who are now seen as easy targets by mutant-haters. Forty-two of the other de-powered students were killed in an attack by the anti-mutant fanatic, Reverend William Stryker. Furthermore, Icarus was misled by Stryker into allowing his wings to be amputated, and was later killed by Stryker after serving his purpose in leading the former Hellion Dust to her apparent death (although the "vision" showed Dust disappearing as a threat, it was later revealed that the girl who had arrived in the burqa was actually X-23, Dust's roommate with a nearly undefeatable healing factor). A sniper working for Stryker was responsible for the shooting death of Wallflower. Elixir, who had a former romantic relationship with Wallflower and witnessed her death, killed Stryker using a more volatile and dangerous side to his powers. He was reduced to a near-catatonic state due to the stress and overstrain over this event, compounded with his inability to save any of his former classmates after Stryker's prior attack.
Nimrod
Issues #28-32
After a long and bloody battle that saw numerous students wounded and Quill murdered, The New X-Men were able to defeat the Purifiers and Elixir killed Stryker, which caused his gold skin to turn black. Soon after they received a visit from Ms. Marvel who informed them that Jay was dead and that he had written the letters NIMR on the ground next to him. David deduced that it was Nimrod and was proven right when they received a distress call from Forge, who was forced to repair Nimrod for fear that Storm may be hurt. They then went off, with David in tow, to help Forge, only to be shot down by Nimrod and attacked by a horde of robots. Forge tricked Nimrod into downloading into a new prototype body he had built that has a firewall to keep Nimrod from harming mutants. Nimrod was sent to help the New X-Men defeat the robots, but was mistaken for a threat. When he was attacked, his prime directive took over and he imploded part of the building.
Hellion protected the team from harm, and they attempted to defend themselves from Nimrod, but the robot proved to be unbeatable. Rockslide was incinerated, but was later reassembled with a new look, and the others were unable to defeat Nimrod until David and Forge figured out away to stop him by overflowing his power core. X-23, Mercury, and Surge managed to send Nimrod back in time. X-23 was severely injured, forcing Hellion to ask Emma Frost to push his powers to their fullest so he could make it back to the mansion for help. This caused him to increase his flight speed to above Mach-5 and even allowed him to destroy a Sentinel. Hellion forced Elixir to snap out of his catatonia to heal X-23 and then collapsed to the floor.
Mercury Falling
Issues #33-36
Wither has been living in Mutant Town with a strange woman who is revealed to be Selene, the Black Queen, who seduces him into using his powers to kill. Back at the mansion, a memorial is held to honor all the X-Men and students who have perished. David decides to stay at the mansion, and Hellion's "unlocked" powers have become too much for him to control when used.
Mercury is captured by Kimura. She is experimented on and tortured by scientists who use her living mercury to create a skin for Predator X. The New X-Men and some of the Astonishing X-Men, including Emma Frost, arrive to rescue Mercury. Kimura is mentally tortured by Emma, who also gives her telepathic commands her to kill the remaining members of the institute that tortured X-23.
Quest for Magik
Issues #37-41
The Institute students are transported from the school into Limbo by Belasco. He captures and tortures several of the students, questioning them on the whereabouts of Illyana Rasputin. The few students who evaded Belasco's capture, including Blindfold,Rockslide,Anole and Pixie, are attacked by a group of Belasco's monsters. Anole's right arm is sliced off during the battle with them. The group of students are then confronted by Illyana who offers her help. Back on Earth, Surge and Hellion, who had avoided capture by not being inside at the time, discover from O*N*E that Amanda Sefton, the current ruler of Limbo, was admitted to a hospital in Germany in a coma.
Illyana reveals that she can defeat Belasco with a Soulsword, but having lost her own, she persuades Pixie to allow her to create a new one from her soul. Before Illyana can finish, she is stopped by Anole, who regrows a new gargantuan arm, and Rockslide. Illyana tells the students that Pixie, who now has a "soul dagger" created from the fraction of her innocence and soul that was taken, is the key to stopping Belasco.
Surge and her group, having revived Sefton, break into Limbo and confront Belasco with the other students. It is revealed that Belasco wants Illyana back because he loves her. He attempted to resurrect her from the House of M version he sensed, but when Illyana came back soulless, Belasco banished her. Pixie kills Belasco with her Soulknife, losing more of her innocence. Illyana attempts to steal the rest of Pixie's soul, but memories of her past self come back when Colossus speaks to her. She sends the X-Men and students home, then retakes the throne of Limbo. At the Institute, Anole and Pixie are made members of the New X-Men.
World War Hulk
Surge, Hellion, Rockslide, Mercury, Dust, Elixir and X-23 are training with Beast when Hulk arrivies at the X-Mansion. Despite their best efforts, the team is eventually defeated by the Green Goliath, and are only saved by the arrival of the Astonishing team.[1] In #2 the Stepford Cuckoos, Prodigy, Pixie and other students are seen looking down on the X-Mansion watching the fight. When the Astonishing team is defeated, The Stepford Cuckoos send a telepathic call for help to the Uncanny team, X-Factor and Excalibur. In #3 after all X-Men were defeated and Hulk went to grab Professor X, Mercury launched an attack on him. He threw her towards the grave yard. Hulk asked what happened and Mercury explained the story. Hulk realized that he was being a hypocrite and went back to New York. Elixir helped heal all the injured X-Men too.
Children of X-Men
Issues #42-43
At the Xavier Institute, the New X-Men and students recover from their recent battles. Rockslide learns that he is a psionic entity that draws from the earth in order to create and reform his golem-like body. Mercury determines Indra to be the youngest student at the Institute, leading him to fear that he will be a priority target for the Purifiers. Surge kisses Hellion as a means of driving Prodigy away from the danger that seems to surround the team. This pushes David to allow the Stepford Cuckoos to unlock the psychic barriers in his mind that prevented him from remembering all of the information he had absorbed as a mutant; he also ends his relationship with Surge. Elixir slips into a depression because of the overwhelming potential of his Omega-level powers, and while he is shaken out of it by Loa's advances, the Institute staff fear that he could become "the next Magneto."
Meanwhile, the Purifiers, now led by Matthew Risman, lure Predator X into pursuing Dust using one of her spare niqabs, until it changes direction towards Alaska.
Messiah Complex
Issues #44-46
Following the detection of a new mutant in Alaska, Cyclops tells the new X-Men that they are being held back from action. Disobeying his orders, several of the New X-Men, along with Armor, confront the Purifiers in Washington. As they're engaged in combat with them, Lady Deathstrike and her Reavers appear, and badly wound Hellion. They manage to escape due to the intervention of the undercover Rictor, who calms Pixie enough for her to teleport them between the Church and The Institute. Iceman offers to go get them and bring them back to the school. Returning to the mansion for medical help, the students come under attack from Predator X, who had been feasting on the remains of the students buried on the grounds. Confronted by Armor and Gentle, they try to keep the monster back from the medical bay, where it sensed vulnerable and easy prey. Driven back, Pixie remembers that X-23 was able to kill one of the Predators in their first encounter and attempts to teleport it to Laura. However, her spell mis-fires and she teleports all the present students, Predator X, Beast and Nightcrawler to Muir Island, where X-23 and the rest of X-Force and the X-Men were in battle with the Marauders. During the final battle, Cyclops pits the New X-Men against the Marauders, realising the team would be unfamiliar with the abilities of the students. The resulting fight goes to plan, Pixie stabbing the Malice-possessed Omega Sentinel and Dust attacking Exodus internally while Emma Frost distracts him with a telepathic battle. In the fall out of the battle, with Professor X's life hanging in the balance, the future of the students is unknown.
References
- ^ "MONDO MARVEL PANEL LIVE! FROM LA". Newsarama. http://www.newsarama.com/WWLA_07/Marvel/mondo.html. Retrieved 2007-03-18.
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