Danger Room

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Contents 1 History 2 Characteristics 3 Notes 4 Trivia 5 See Also 6 Links and References 7 References

History

The Danger Room was created by Charles Xavier to train his X-Men. In the early books it was filled with traps, projectile firing devices, and mechanical dangers such as presses, collapsing walls and the like intended to challenge the trainee. Meanwhile, an observer is in the overhanging control booth managing the room's mechanisms to oversee the exercise while ensuring the subject's safety. Later the Danger Room was upgraded with robots for the X-Men to fight against.

After befriending the Shi'ar race the X-Men rebuilt the Danger Room with Shi'ar hard-light holographic technology. These upgrades were largely added by Beast. The Danger Room is located in the lower part of the Xavier Institute; every destruction of the latter led to a rebuilding, and usually upgrading, of the Danger Room. The training facility has endured a lot of damage over the years, usually from X-Men trainings or X-Men going rogue, as Colossus did during The Muir Island Saga. Supervillains have often taken over the facility, most notably Arcade. It is suggested in the X-Men Official Guide that the objects in the danger room are holograms surrounded by force fields. It is also revealed that the Danger Room can display holograms in only 32-bit colour.

The Danger Room has taken up sentience, attacked the X-Men and traveled to Genosha to kill Professor Xavier. As a sentient it has been named "Danger" and taken on a female appearance. Xavier was revealed to have known the Danger Room's sentience and chose not to reveal it, much to the dismay of the X-Men who seem to view this deception as a taking on of Magneto's former ideals. ^[1]

With its female appearance destroyed by Beast, "Danger's" consciousness was presumed to still exist within the conflicted consciousness of a Sentinel that destroyed Genosha. However, "she" was shown back in her humanoid form, where "she" infiltrated S.W.O.R.D. headquarters to speak with Ord of the Breakworld.

With the Danger Room gone, the X-Men have resorted to using the empty room to train with their students. Also, the student Prodigy has built a "Danger Cave" underneath the X-Mansion which acts similarly to the Danger Room.

Characteristics

The Danger room is a spherical room that can produce holographic images that feel, smell, sound, and most likley can even taste like real things.

• Viewing Deck: The Danger Room has a circular viewing deck attached to the ceiling, which also holds all the controls that power the room.

Notes

• The appointing of the name "Danger Room" was first used by Xavier in Uncanny X-Men 2 after which the narrator descibes it as "a huge unfurnished chamber which houses countless hidden perils!"
  

Trivia

• The Danger Room was shown at the beginning of X-Men: The Last Stand. It was being used to train the students Iceman, Shadowcat, Rogue, and Colossus. Wolverine and Storm were advising the training session. Also it appears like it's Days of Future Past the Danger Room is using to train the students. The thing that is chasing them looks like a Sentinel.

See Also

• Appearances of Danger Room
• Location Gallery: Danger Room
• Images related to Danger Room
• Fan Art Gallery: Danger Room

Links and References

• None.

References