Contents 1 History 1.1 Origin 1.2 First Mission 1.3 Teon's Trial 1.4 Second Mission 1.5 Schism and Regenesis 2 Paraphernalia 3 Notes 4 Trivia 5 See Also 6 Links and References 6.1 Footnotes

History

Origin

After Hope Summers returned from the future, five mutant's X-Genes were activated across the globe. These were the first new mutants since M-Day other than Hope.^[1]

Hope and the X-Men race around the world to save these young mutants.^[2][3] Now with their powers stabilized, The Lights are the hope for the future of the mutant race. Under the direction of Hope and with the consent of Cyclops, the Lights have been begun training as a rescue team for any other new mutant manifestations.^[4]

First Mission

While still settling into life on Utopia, and experimenting with their powers, the Lights were called to their first mission: investigating a new mutant manifestation in Berlin.^[5] Although they encountered some setbacks, the team was able to pull together, convince the Sixth Light to be born, stabilize his powers and save Berlin from his mind control.^[6]

Teon's Trial

When the team arrived from Germany, they were greeted by the news that the Macik's want their son Teon back. While awaiting the trial and in an effort to distract her team from the looming legal proceedings, Hope insisted on adopting codenames. Later despite his normally animalistic nature, Teon was able to eloquently offer a sound case of why he needed to stay with Hope and the X-Men. Immediately after the trial, Laurie and Kenji began to speculate on the reason all of the Lights (themselves included) seemed to be so drawn to following Hope.^[7]

Second Mission

After the events in Germany and Teon's trial, Hope and her team continued to train and prepare for more new mutant activations. Thanks to the Stepford Cuckoos monitoring in Cerebra, Hope and the Lights were alerted almost immediately of activation of the Seventh Light's powers. They left quickly, but arrive just after Zee had committed suicide. The whole team took the death very hard.^[8]

Schism and Regenesis

After Kid Omega's attack on the United Nations, anti-mutant sentiment began to rise and world leaders began reactivating Sentinels.^[9] Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Mayor Sinclair expedite the grand opening of the Museum of Mutant History. Unfortunately, Kade Kilgore and his Hellfire Club used this opportunity to attack the X-Men. Despite Wolverine's objections, Cyclops ordered Idie to stop the Hellfire Club by killing them. These event lead to a giant super-Sentinel nearly destroying Utopia, and Cyclops and Wolverine parting ways because of philosophical differences.^[10][11]

The one thing Cyclops and Wolverine could agree on was Idie would be better off away from Utopia, so despite Hope's objections Idie left with Wolverine and others to resettle Westchester.^[12][13]

Already emotionally drained, tempers flared after Hope interrupted a kiss between Pixie and Gabriel. Later, Hope convinced Pixie to join the team to help them solve their transportation problem to prevent another Zeeshan from occurring.^[13] No-Girl also joined the team, invited by Kenji.^[14]

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: Pixie's teleportation^[13], and X-Jet^[15][16][5]
Weapons: Rifles and handguns^[4]

Notes

• The locations of the Lights thus far:
  • Hope Summers in Cooperstown, Alaska^[17]
  • Laurie Tromette in Vancouver, Canada^[1][18]
  • Gabriel Cohuelo in Mexico City, Mexico^[1][19]
  • Idie Okonkwo in Oyo, Delta State, Nigeria^[1][20]
  • Teon Macik in Kiev, Ukraine^[1][15]
  • Kenji Uedo in Tokyo, Japan^[1][16]
  • Sixth Light in Berlin, Germany^[5]
  • Zeeshan in Sheffield, United Kingdom^[8]

• Creators Matt Fraction and Kieron Gillen loosely based the Five Lights mutant powers on the the archetypal power-sets on the original five X-Men (with the exception of Gabriel).^[21]
  • Angel = Laurie Tromette
  • Beast = Teon Macik
  • Iceman = Idie Okonkwo
  • Marvel Girl = Kenji Uedo

• Although Kitty Pryde was acting liaison to the Lights for a time, Hope has made it clear she was not part of the team and was to serve in a purely advisory capacity.^[5]
  

Trivia

• The X-Men were first made aware of the Lights in X-Men: Second Coming #2, the first Light appeared on panel in Uncanny X-Men #526, worked as a team through much of Uncanny X-Men #526-529 and Generation Hope #1-4 , and they became an officially sanctioned X-Team with Cyclops' permission in Generation Hope #5.

• Many of The Lights come from the same geographic regions or nations as the All New, All Different X-Men team:
  • Hope Summers and Cyclops were both born in Alaska
  • Laurie Tromette and Wolverine were both discovered in Canada.
  • Idie Okonkwo and Storm both come from Africa though from Nigeria and Kenya respectively.
  • Teon originally comes from Ukraine while Colossus comes from Russia.
  • Both Kenji Uedo and Sunfire are Japan natives.
  • Sixth Light was born in Berlin, Germany^[5] and Nightcrawler hails from Germany.
  • Gabriel Cohuelo born and raised in Mexico City and (though it is a weak connection) Thunderbird was from an Apache reservation in Arizona in the American southwest.
  • Zeeshan was discovered in United Kingdom while Banshee was born in Ireland.

• Pixie and No-Girl are currently the only members of the team to have their powers prior to M-Day.

See Also

• 11 Lights (Earth-616) Members
  
• 40 Appearances of Lights (Earth-616)
• 20 Images that include Lights (Earth-616)
• Team Gallery: Lights (Earth-616)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Lights (Earth-616)

Links and References

• None.
  

Footnotes