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Uncanny X-Force was a comic book ongoing series published by Marvel Comics . Created by writer Rick Remender and artist Jerome Opeña , the first volume of the series continued the story of Wolverine and his X-Force team from the series X-Force , vol. 3. The title was relaunched after issue #35 as part of the Marvel NOW! relaunch event, and the new volume features Psylocke and Storm leading a new team of "outcasts and scoundrels". The second volume was one of two X-Force ongoing titles, along with Cable and X-Force .

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46-493: Uncanny X-Force, vol. 1, was launched in October 2010 to replace X-Force , vol. 3. This new series features members of the previous X-Force team, which was to have been shut down by X-Men leader Cyclops due to the existence of the team having been previously exposed and now operates without him knowing. Being led by Wolverine , the squad features new team members Psylocke , Fantomex , and Deadpool . According to Remender, "This

92-497: A Psylocke led team with an initial roster of Storm , Puck , Cluster and Spiral . As part of the "All-New Marvel NOW!" campaign, a new volume of X-Force was launched in February 2014, replacing Cable and X-Force and Uncanny X-Force vol.2. It was written by X-Men: Legacy author Simon Spurrier and illustrated by Rock-He Kim and Jorge Molina. It features a team of Cable, Psylocke, Fantomex and Marrow . The first mission of

138-721: A Guidance Counselor in the series Spider-Man and the X-Men . Under the All-New, All-Different Marvel re-branding, X-Haven was a sanctuary founded by Storm and her Extraordinary X-Men to protect mutants from the Terrigen Mist . The Jean Grey School for Higher Learning was temporarily teleported to a pocket dimension within Limbo with the help of Doctor Strange , the Scarlet Witch , and Wiccan . It also has magical defenses created by Magik to keep

184-414: A dystopian world ruled by X-Force, who, because of their policy of killing threats before they can harm anyone , now kill innocents who have a possibility of becoming criminals. Horrified, Psylocke attempts seppuku but is saved by the future version of herself. Upon X-Force's return to the present, they capture Mystique and argue over whether or not to kill Evan. During the commotion, Deadpool infiltrates

230-503: A heist at the Louvre . During a heated battle she decides to free Fantomex and stun Weapon XIII, stating that she is done with all three of them. Psylocke then rehabilitates Bishop, but they are attacked by the White Owl. Storm, Puck, and Psylocke are captured and have revenants, or evil clones, made of them. Bishop is eventually able to free them and are confronted by Spiral, who explains that she

276-452: A mischievous but good version of himself; and Cluster, a good, female version of himself. Psylocke pursues a relationship with Fantomex at the end of the story. Psylocke is expelled from Wolverine's School , so she and Storm go on a mission with Puck to hunt down Spiral , who is a drug dealer. It turns out Spiral is not selling drugs, but just using a new telepathic mutant named Ginny to make people think they are high. Bishop returns from

322-716: A riot by students led by Quentin Quire in New X-Men #134–138 (Jan.–May 2003). In the Planet X storyline of New X-Men #146–150, however, the X-Mansion was destroyed; the rebuilding process could be seen in New X-Men #155–156 (June 2004). In the wake of M-Day the mansion was infiltrated by followers of the Reverend William Stryker in an attempt to wipe out the students, resulting in some structural damage and several casualties. Then

368-600: A tracking device, then track down Cable and defeat Stryfe. Storm returns the X-Mansion and the two teams combine . Cyclops (Marvel Comics) Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.236 via cp1112 cp1112, Varnish XID 394625462 Upstream caches: cp1112 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 05:44:01 GMT Jean Grey School for Higher Learning X-Mansion and Xavier Institute are

414-429: Is a group of characters that have had their souls stained by evil forces in the past, a common thread connecting them. They've already made the hard compromises in the past; they've all taken life." The title had a three-issue " Fear Itself " tie-in mini-series, written by Rob Williams , with art by Simone Bianchi . The relaunched Uncanny X-Force is written by Sam Humphries and pencilled by Ron Garney , and features

460-399: Is a symbol that anyone, no matter who they are, can be redeemed. X-Force helps AoA Nightcrawler assassinate AoA Iceman. Wolverine and Betsy, with EVA, head to a meeting with Deadpool, who has improperly programmed a duplication machine to bring Fantomex back to life. Because Fantomex had three brains, he is resurrected as three different people: Weapon XIII, an evil version of himself; Fantomex,

506-470: Is confronted by EVA for his betrayal. Shadow King shatters Psylocke's mind after she refused to kill him but trapping him in the empty shell of Omega White instead. Daken tries to drown his father (the only way of killing someone with a healing factor) but Wolverine is saved by Deadpool. Deadpool tells him to stop Evan, who has donned the Apocalypse armor and is running rampant. Evan nearly kills Mystique and

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552-520: Is reopened at the X-Mansion, but the name remains "The Xavier Institute for Higher Learning" despite the younger student body. The fourth generation of mutant teenagers, featured in Grant Morrison 's New X-Men (2001–2004) and in New Mutants (2003–2004; relaunched as New X-Men: Academy X , July 2004–Feb. 2008), study at the mansion until it is destroyed during the 2007–2008 story "Messiah Complex" and

598-622: Is sentenced to death, Psylocke saves him and betrays her brothers. However they are then ambushed by a man known as the Skinless Man , who seeks vengeance against Fantomex after he was flayed alive due to Fantomex's thieving. He cuts off Fantomex's face but is stopped by Psylocke; eventually it is revealed that the demon is a future incarnation of Jamie Braddock . Captain Britain is unable to kill his brother, so Psylocke possess him and kills Jamie to prevent his demonic ascension. When Daken returns from

644-448: Is trying to save Ginny and wants X-Force to help her. Bishop also realizes that the White Owl is actually Cassandra Nova . The White Owl unleashes the revenants upon Earth after sacrificing a telepath named Philip. The White Owl can only be stopped by the death of a telepath, so she kidnaps Psylocke. The White Owl revives a revenant based on Psylocke original body before she transformed into her Japanese body . X-Force eventually overcomes

690-520: Is unknown what their intentions were. The Church of the Shi'ar have become major investors. The school's location is concealed by a projected image of a Jehovah's Witness chapter, as revealed in Ultimate X-Men #1. The mansion is purposely demolished by Iceman in " Ultimate Requiem " following the events of the " Ultimatum " storyline. This is because the team had been devastated by Magneto's attack and

736-637: The Captain Britain Corps to be put on trial in Otherworld for his murder of the Apocalypse child. Psylocke is also abducted. Wolverine, Deadpool and the Age of Apocalypse version of Nightcrawler attempt to rescue them both but land in the middle of a battle against a demon which wishes to access the base of the Captain Britain Corps so that it can spread its influence across the multiverse. When Fantomex

782-653: The Terrigen Cloud becomes toxic enough to mutants that they die from M-Pox, Storm has the mansion (renamed X-Haven ) moved to Limbo to keep mutants safe from the Terrigen while a cure is sought. After Medusa destroys the Terrigen Cloud so the mutants could survive, Kitty Pryde moves the mansion from Limbo to Central Park, New York , and renames it the Xavier Institute for Mutant Education and Outreach . Following

828-701: The Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters . The X-Mansion is also the worldwide headquarters of the X-Corporation . The X-Mansion's address is 1407 Graymalkin Lane, Salem Center , located in Westchester County, New York . The school's motto is mutatis mutandis . In a 2011 edition of the comic, Wolverine re-opens the school, at the same address, under the name of the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning . After

874-491: The "Onslaught" storyline. In Operation: Zero Tolerance , Bastion forced Jubilee to reveal the mansion's defenses. He then stripped down the mansion, having everything inside the mansion removed, even down to the paint on the walls. After defeating Bastion, the X-Men moved back into the mansion, as detailed in X-Men #70 (Nov. 1997). The X-Mansion survived an assault by the Shi'ar in New X-Men #122–126 (March–July 2002) as well as

920-528: The Brotherhood's base to try rescuing Evan but is stopped by Daken, the Blob and Omega Black; he is then brought in front of Evan and tortured by Omega Black. Meanwhile, Nightcrawler betrays X-Force to get his revenge on Blob; he incapacitates EVA (now sentient after Fantomex's death) and Wolverine. Nightcrawler kills Blob by teleporting a shark inside of him and letting it eat him from the inside out. Following this, he

966-675: The Demons away. Following the War between the Inhumans and mutants which resulted in the destruction of the remaining Terrigen Cloud, Kitty Pryde, now the new Headmistress of the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning had Magik teleport the school back to Earth, more precisely to Central Park, New York City and renames it as the Xavier Institute for Mutant Education and Outreach. It was demolished after

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1012-697: The Life Seed to fuel the World, Archangel plans to extinguish all life on Earth and reset evolution, enlisting Ozymandias , Dark Beast, the Final Horsemen, Autumn Rolfson and her son Genocide , as well as the AoA Iceman and Blob in his army. X-Force is initially outmatched until the timely arrival of the AoA X-Men evens the odds, while Fantomex reluctantly releases the young clone of Apocalypse to fight Archangel. Although

1058-516: The School in hope of shelter. In the darker continuity of Mutant X , the X-Mansion is run by Magneto, who had long ago taken up Professor X's dream. The mansion is vaporized in a nuclear explosion. In the Predator vs. Wolverine miniseries, which takes place in an alternate reality, the X-Mansion was damaged in an attack by a Predator in order to lure out Wolverine, whom it was hunting. In issue #2,

1104-489: The Skinless Man; in retaliation for his brutal murder of Fantomex, Deadpool kills the Skinless Man. Mystique is saved by Nightcrawler, and Wolverine is forced to confront Daken as Sabretooth escapes. In the battle, he ends up drowning Daken because of a message given to him by the dystopian future version of himself – that Daken will kill the students if he is allowed to live. In the end, Deadpool tells Evan that to him, Evan

1150-466: The World , as a presence calling itself Weapon Infinity has started manipulating the timestream within. Fantomex is attacked by a group of Deathlok cyborgs based on the Avengers who apparently want to kill him and take possession of the World. With the aid of a rogue Deathlok unit the team travels inside the World and faces Deathlok versions of themselves while Deadpool kills the architect of Weapon Infinity,

1196-647: The X-Mansion is shown to be an orphanage for troubled kids that is run by Professor X and the teachers include Storm and Beast . Some of the orphans include kid versions of Deadpool , Scott Summers , Wolverine , Angel , and Colossus . In the Ultimate Marvel universe, the X-Mansion does not differ much. However, it is not entirely funded by inheritance. Though the school originally was funded from Magneto 's inheritance, allowing them to neither accept nor seek out donations. Its policies have since changed after Magneto's departure and Xavier's subsequent control over

1242-480: The X-Mansion. The name of the school is now the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Its grounds are in fact a spawn of Krakoa the Living Island. In the first issue of Wolverine and the X-Men an entirely new school is built on the grounds. It is funded mainly with scientific advancements by the students and diamonds from Krakoa. After Wolverine dies in the " Death of Wolverine " storyline, Spider-Man becomes

1288-535: The X-Men subsequently disband and close the institute. Though protected by high-tech defenses, the X-Mansion has often been breached by the supervillains and evil mutants faced by the X-Men. Indeed, the X-Mansion has been destroyed and rebuilt several times. It was demolished in a battle with the Sidri in The Uncanny X-Men #154 (Feb. 1982) and atomized by Mister Sinister in The Uncanny X-Men #243 (April 1989). It

1334-560: The basketball court is the hangar, which houses many transportation vehicles, as well as aircraft such as the X-Men Blackbird . There is also a cemetery with memorials for deceased X-Men like Thunderbird and others. In the Age of Apocalypse reality, the remains of the X-Mansion were the headquarters for a mutant resistance cell against Apocalypse – a mutant that had conquered North America. The Mansion survives, and many new mutants come to

1380-418: The clone (now calling himself "Genesis") is unable to defeat him, the fight gives Psylocke an opening to stab Archangel with the Life Seed, killing him. Angel later appears, seemingly fine, but it soon becomes clear the Life Seed removed any trace of both Archangel and Warren inside him. Wolverine sends Genesis and Angel to the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning . Fantomex is abducted by Captain Britain and

1426-497: The common names for a mansion and research institute appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . The mansion is depicted as the private estate of Charles Francis Xavier and serves as the base of operations and training site of the X-Men . It is also the location of an accredited private school for mutant children, teenagers, and sometimes older aged mutants, the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning , formerly

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1472-742: The dead, he plots to destroy X-Force by creating a new incarnation of the Brotherhood of Mutants with Mystique , Sabretooth , the Skinless Man, the Blob of Age of Apocalypse , the Shadow King , and the Omega Clan . In their first attack, they capture Genesis ( Evan Sabahnur ) in to order to train him to become evil and the new Apocalypse . They then ambush X-Force, the Skinless Man kills Fantomex (tearing his heart out), destroys Cavern X, and kills Gateway . As his last act, Gateway saves X-Force by teleporting them to

1518-555: The end of the Krakoa Age, the X-Mansion has been converted into a prison to house the mysterious Inmate-X, later revealed to be Charles Xavier himself, forcing the remaining members of the X-men to forge a newly acquired base of their own. The X-Mansion is the inherited property of Charles Xavier ( Professor X ) and has been in the Xavier family for ten generations including two known mutants in

1564-428: The enigmatic Father, erasing the attacking Deathlok strain. The rogue Deathlok joins the team and Fantomex is revealed to be growing a clone of the child Apocalypse deep inside the World, unbeknownst to the rest of the team, watched over by Ultimaton . Warren's "Archangel" persona continues to grow stronger, leading X-Force to seek advice from Dark Beast , a former servant of Apocalypse. The evil Dr. McCoy proposes that

1610-658: The events of Extermination . As a result of Professor X betraying mutantkind and turning himself into the authorities, the X-mansion undergoes renovations by the US government to be converted into a correction facility for him. This results in the newly-reformed X-men relocating their headquarters in Alaska, the birthplace of Scott Summers. Here, the team decides to reorganize into three factions all while simultaneously returning to their original roots as mediators of human-mutant coexistence. In

1656-592: The facility. Later, the students question and ridicule the unlikeliness of the facility simply being funded by inheritance. It is then revealed that numerous donors fund Xavier's projects and remain anonymous due to heavy anti-mutant sentiments present in public opinion. One of the biggest donors was the Hellfire Club , who were revealed to have an ulterior motive for doing so. In Xavier's conversation with Lilandra Neramani , it's discovered that S.H.I.E.L.D. were former financiers before their falling out with Xavier; it

1702-541: The future possessed by the White Owl Demon and hunts Ginny. Storm and Psylocke attempt to cure Bishop, but the demon possesses Ginny. Weapon XIII kidnaps Fantomex, so Cluster seeks help from Psylocke. Pyslocke and Cluster travel to Madripoor to hunt Weapon XIII. Weapon XIII uses his power of misdirection (which Fantomex and Cluster not longer possess) to confess his love to Psylocke. She agrees to stay with him only if he allows her to kill Fantomex, who betrayed her during

1748-493: The lineage, both becoming detached from the family. Little else is known about them or their mutations. As Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, the X-Mansion was the training site of the first two generations of teenage X-Men: In X-Men vol. 2 #38 (Nov. 1994), the X-Mansion was renamed from Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters to the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, as most of the X-Men were adults rather than teenagers by this time. Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters

1794-540: The mansion was not rebuilt for a considerable length of time. Rather, the X-Men and their students relocated to a new base of operations in San Francisco. Under the name Graymalkin Industries , the new X-base is not run as a school, but rather as a sort of community center for mutants who wish to develop their powers. After the events of X-Men: Schism , Wolverine and half of the X-Men return to Westchester, New York and

1840-566: The mansion was severely damaged when the Danger Room became sentient and summoned local machinery to attack the structure. The mansion was also damaged when Mr. Sinister's new team of Marauders attacked the mansion. A fight between the Hulk and several mutants heavily damaged the mansion. In the Messiah Complex storyline, the mansion was completely destroyed by attacking Sentinels. Unlike past times,

1886-491: The middle of the main courtyard is the Phoenix Memorial Statue, dedicated to the memory of Jean Grey . Notable rooms include the Danger Room and a room containing Cerebro . The Headmasters Office of Cyclops and Emma Frost is on the top floor. The basketball court is a popular hang-out. It was the site of a basketball game in X-Men #4 (Jan. 1992) in which the X-Men used their mutant powers. Directly below

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1932-479: The new team is an assassination job to kill Apocalypse , reborn in the form of a child and being indoctrinated by Clan Akkaba on their Moon base. After defeating Apocalypse's Final Horsemen and getting to the young Apocalypse, no one on the team can summon up the courage to kill a child. When the group resigns to bring the child back with them and to reeducate him, Fantomex fires a shot in the child's head, killing him. Fantomex discovers there's something wrong with

1978-453: The revenants and Psylocke sacrifices her revenant in order to stop the White Owl. Later the team breaks up since Bishop is upset that Storm erased several of his memories. Hope Summers, who is with Cable's X-Force team , tracks him and tries to kill him. Cable attempts to stop the battle but is kidnapped by his evil clone Stryfe , who unlike Cable is still an Omega-level telepath. The two X-Force teams initially clash, but reconcile. They build

2024-588: The team accompany him back to his lab in the alternate Age of Apocalypse universe, where he can retrieve a "seed of life" to counteract the "seed of death" that is driving Warren mad. Once they reach the Earth-295, Dark Beast betrays them and cuts them off from their universe, leading X-Force to seek the help of the AoA's X-Men . They eventually acquire a new Life Seed and use Gateway to return home but discover they are too late as Archangel has completely overtaken Warren. Using

2070-466: Was rebuilt by a future Franklin Richards in moments but reverted to its destroyed state after the time-traveler became confused. Certain portions of the mansion, such as extensive sub-basements, survived both demolitions. When Onslaught revealed himself and fought the X-Men ( X-Men #54 (June 1996) and Onslaught: X-Men ), the mansion took heavy damage, though was quickly repaired in-between issues after

2116-641: Was relocated to the Massachusetts Academy in Western Massachusetts (a Marvel created town or region called Snow Valley somewhere in The Berkshires ), which served as the training site of the third generation of teenage X-Men beginning in Generation X #1 (Nov. 1994). The Massachusetts Academy closes permanently in Generation X #75 (June 2001). Shortly thereafter, the school for young mutants

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