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Official Team Name

New Mutants

Team Aliases

Unknown

Status

Identity

Alignment

Universe

Base of Operations

1128 Mission Street, San Francisco, California; formerly Utopia, San Francisco Bay, California; Graymalkin Industries, Marin Highlands, San Francisco, California; Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Salem Center, Westchester County, New York; X-Factor's Ship

Affiliations

Team Leader(s)

Mirage; formerly Karma, Cannonball, Professor X, Magneto, Cable

Former Members
Bird Boy, Blink, Boom Boom, Cable, Cannonball, Cypher, "Domino", Karma, Magik, Magma, Mirage, Rictor, Rusty Collins, Shatterstar, Skids, Sprite, Sunspot, Warlock, Warpath, Wolfsbane, X-Man

Allies

Bird-Brain, Darkwind, Gosamyr, Hela, Magneto, Moira MacTaggert, X-Factor, X-Men, X-Terminators,

Enemies
Ani-Mator, Beyonder, Brood, Donald Pierce, Enchantress, General Ulysses, Genoshan Magistrates, Hela, Inferno Babies, Hellfire Club, Hellions, Loki, Marauders, N'Astirh, Project Purgatory, Reavers, The Right, Selene, Sentinels, Silver Samurai, Shadow King, Spyder, S'ym, Viper,

Origin

Place of Formation

Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Salem Center, Westchester County, New York

Creators

Chris Claremont, Bob McLeod

First appearance

Last appearance

Marvel Graphic Novel #4
(October, 1982)

New Mutants Vol 3 #50
(December, 2012)

History

Formation

Charles Xavier, founder of the X-Men, became increasingly worried after losing several students. The first Thunderbird died on his second mission, and Phoenix had committed suicide. In an attack by the Brood, Xavier believed that all of his X-Men perished. He vowed not to put any more young mutants in danger, but his friend Moira MacTaggert convinced him to form a new team of adolescent mutants. This time, he would only train them in the use of their special powers, and not send them out into combat.

Xavier was unaware that when the X-Men originally fought the Brood in deep space, the Brood had secretly infected him with a Brood queen embryo. Under the influence of the Brood queen, Professor X began admitting teenage mutants to his school of gifted students, thus forming the New Mutants.

Xavier recruited five youngsters while protecting them from attacks by Donald Pierce. Karma (Xi'an Coy Manh, Vietnamese girl able to mentally possess others), Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair, Scottish girl with the ability to shift into a lupine form), Mirage (Danielle Moonstar, Native American girl able to create illusions based on others greatest fears or wishes), Sunspot (Robert da Costa, Brazilian boy who gained strength due to solar energy), and Cannonball (Samuel Guthrie, American boy able to rocket through the air while near invincible).

Early Adventures

While the New Mutants were on an expedition in the Amazon jungle, they were captured along with Amara Aquilla by soldiers of Nova Roma and imprisoned. Now held prisoner by Selene, Amara was to be sacrificed. Selene used her mutant powers to drain Amara's life energy into her own body. Mirage attacked Selene causing her to release Amara from her control, but Selene knocked Amara into the pit of lava. Somehow, rather than harming Amara, her immersion in the lava awakened her latent mutant powers. Together, Amara, with her new-found powers, and the New Mutants defeated Selene and helped thwart Senator Gallio's attempt to kill Senator Aquilla and seize power. Amara was instructed to go to the United States with the New Mutants and there learn about modern civilization. Amara did so reluctantly and became a member of the New Mutants under the code-name Magma.

The New Mutants were joined by Magik (Illyana Rasputin, a Russian time-space teleporter trained to use magic by Belasco.

The Demon Bear fought the Mirage outside Xavier's mansion and nearly killed her. When the New Mutants then battled the bear Magik used her Soulsword to release Moonstar's parents from the spell they were under, returning them to their human forms. Moonstar was reunited with her parents, and she eventually recovered completely from her injuries, thanks to the Morlock Healer.

One night when the New Mutants were alone in the mansion, the techno-organic alien Warlock arrived and battled the New Mutants in the confusion that erupted. The mutants asked Doug Ramsey for help in communicating with the alien, and revealed their secrets to him. Doug succeeded in talking with Warlock, and both the alien and Ramsey soon joined the team. Ramsey chose the codename Cypher, as his mutant ability allowed him to decipher codes and languages. Warlock and Cypher shared a close bond, often sticking close together in battle.

Shortly afterwards, Xavier was called to Muir Island, where he met Gabrielle Haller again. The woman had asked Moira MacTaggert for help regarding her mutant son, David, who was suffering from multiple personality disorder, only Moira was in over her head.

Xavier and several New Mutants became trapped in the mind of Xavier's autistic mutant son David Haller. Xavier and the others had to deal with David's other personalities before reaching David’s core and returning back to reality.

Near the conclusion of second Secret War, the Beyonder erased the New Mutants from history. After they were restored, they had to relearn the use of their powers. Xavier asked Magneto to help lead the X-Men against the beyonder. After the initial battle, Magneto chose to stay at the school, wanting to redeem himself.

During Magneto's trial at the International Court, Fenris attacked seeking revenge on Xavier and Magneto for their father’s earlier defeat by them. Xavier was injured and went into space with Lilandra to recover. He made Magneto promise to take over the school as headmaster and continue teaching the New Mutants in his name. Magneto agreed.

Headmaster Magneto

During a mission to return their teammate Bird Brain to his home island, the villainous Ani-Mator captured the New Mutants, but thanks to the friendship made with Bird Brain, the humanoid animals that the Ani-Mator had made, came to their rescue. During the battle, Doug wanted to help their friends but felt that his powers could not help, and if he tried to fight with his hands, he would get in the way. But when the Ani-Mator aimed a gun at Wolfsbane while she was fighting a Smile-Face, Doug couldn't stand still and hurled into the way, and was shot to death by the Ani-Mator.

Sy'm used Magik during Inferno, forcing her to use spells that would weaken the dimensional barriers and transform her into the demonic Darkchylde. She found a way to stop Inferno, although she knew it risked her no longer existing. Colossus found a badly damaged armor, but Illyana was still alive inside. Opening it, he found Illyana had returned to her natural age. Her Souldsword magically came into Shadowcat's possession, eventually ending up resting in a rock outside of Excalibur's lighthouse headquarters.

Doug's death and Illyana's sacrifice have drove Magneto far away from his students as he blamed himself for his death as well as homo sapiens. The New Mutants were left without a headquarters of their own and lived temporarily at X-Factor's. Tabitha Smith, Rictor, Rusty Collins and Skids joined the team when the X-Terminators and the New Mutants merged.

When Hela attempted to take over Asgard, Dani and the other Valkyrior were infected with a mystical fever. Hela planned to use Moonstar to gather humans to her forces to defeat Thor. Transported back to Asgard, Moonstar fell under the sway of Hela and nearly killed Odin. Hela was defeated by the combined forces of the New Mutants and the Asgardians, and the New Mutants were returned to Earth; all except Moonstar who chose to stay behind, hoping to repair the damage as a Valkyrie.

Cable and X-Force

Cable took command of the New Mutants to guide Cannonball's ascension into the Externals.

The New Mutants were captured by the X-Men's enemy Cameron Hodge and taken to the island of Genosha, a mutant-repressive nation with advanced anti-mutant technology. Hodge had developed a cybernetic body and attempted to siphon off Warlock's shape-shifting power so he could change his robotic body at will. Hodge was confronted by the combined might of the X-Men and New Mutants, while Warlock was still imprisoned. Although Hodge's plan was thwarted by the New Mutant Wolfsbane, Warlock appeared to have died, his energies leeched from him, reducing him to ashes. Later, Warlock's ashes were scattered over the grave of Doug Ramsey.

When Sunspot's father died (killed by the External Gideon), Bobby went with Gideon, who was an old friend, to take over his father's business. Gideon, however, was looking for the next External, mistakenly thinking that it was Sunspot. With the addition of Feral, Shatterstar, and Warparth, the team reorganized into the original X-Force under Cable. The name "New Mutants" was later used by the New Mutants Training Squad.

New Mutants Reunited

After years of each New Mutant doing his own thing, X-Men leader Cyclops gave Cannonball permission to assemble his team again.

While on a mission to investigate a possible mutant case in Westcliffe, Colorado, Karma and Moonstar disappeared prompting the rest of the New Mutants team to investigate. After finding a lead pointing to a little girl the group found a catatonic Karma and a concrete box that held the mutant Legion. The personalities in Legion's body wanted to kill Dani because she could help Legion get them under control. Legion located Dani in a jail cell and was about to kill her when Sam stopped him. Dani told Sam to let her out but Sam refused, saying she'll be safer in the cell since she didn't have her powers anymore. Sam and Roberto went off to fight Legion leaving Dani behind. Unbeknownst to them, one of Legion's personalities had the ability to project himself and was stalling them while he prepared to kill Dani but was stopped by Magik and Magma. They freed Dani as Legion retreated, Sam apologized but got punched in the face by an angry Dani. When asked where she was going Dani replied "to make myself useful"; she returned brandishing numerous firearms and told the others that they're going after Legion.^[1] However Sam told Dani to go, she wasn't a mutant anymore and to stop pretending she was because one of the most powerful mutants on earth wanted her dead. Dani, upset got into a van and drove away only to turn back minutes later after her teammates were badly beaten, running over Legion. After a brief battle with him, Magik managed to regain control of his body. Sam tried to apologize but Dani limped away, ignoring him.^[2]

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: X-Men Blackbird, interdimensional teleportation using Magik's powers, flight using Warlock's aircraft form.
Weapons: None known.

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