Characters / Generation X

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Sean Cassidy / Banshee

Notable Aliases: Irish, Agent #215-66, Death

Nationality: Irish, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men #28 (January, 1967)

Later, he joins the X-Men when the original five are kidnapped. Being about 10-15 years older than the rest of the recruits, he was only active for a short amount of time but still hung around as a reserve and as a mentor, who applied his experience in espionage and anti-terrorism to the younger members of the group.

Although Banshee technically wasn't a member of Generation X, he was a mentor and played a large role in their history.

Emma Grace Frost / White Queen

Notable Aliases: Perfection Phoenix, Black Queen, Storm (mind swapped), Ice Princess (Hellfire Club pole dancer name), Queen of Crystal Heart, Black King, Ice Queen, Diamond Lass

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men #129 (January, 1980)

Unfortunately, Trevor Fitzroy, a powerful time-traveling mutant, set loose a Sentinels attack on Emma and the Hellions to earn points in the Upstarts game. All but two of the Hellions were murdered, while Emma was left comatose. Coming out of her coma, Emma was shaken by the deaths of her students, and looked to redeem herself with the X-Men.

Working alongside Banshee, she served as the headmistress of Generation X, helping to train the next generation of mutants, leading them on missions, and often coming into conflict with unsavory elements from her past along the way. During the course of the series, she established herself as the de-facto Mama Bear of the X-Men, a trait that would carry over into all of her subsequent appearances. While still a harsh Ice Queen to a fault, don't you dare touch her students!

Everett Thomas / Synch

Nationality: American, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men (Vol. 2) #36 (September, 1994)

• All Love Is Unrequited: Jubilee wanted him, he wanted Monet (and thinks of Jubilee as a friend).
• All Your Powers Combined: His mutant power is using the powers of other x-factor gene mutants, at times using the abilities of multiple different mutants at once
• Back from the Dead: He was among the first mutants restored to life by the Five on Krakoa due to his powers enabling him to potentially serve as a replacement for one of the Five if they were tired, injured or killed.
• Came Back Strong: When he's resurrected it's noted by Cecilia Reyes that his powers have advanced. Now, they're passively always on and he can use them to more readily copy non-mutant superpowers. She theorizes it's a result of his experienced mind being placed in a mature post-activation body acting as a sort of jumpstart, like a second power activation.
• Cast from Lifespan: It's revealed in Hellfire Gala 2022 that using powers to "synch" with people that aren't in range from memory causes him to age rapidly.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: He had problems adjusting to all the changes to the world since his death (which even with the vagaries of Comic-Book Time are an awful lot) following his resurrection on Krakoa. The Five brought back Skin next so the two friends could help each other adjust to their return.
• First Love: He and Monet were this for each other.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Sometimes he wears a pair, despite not seemingly needing them.
• Killed Off for Real: For quite a while until Dawn of X.
• The Leader: He and Talon were promoted to Co-Leaders of the X-Men by Jean when she and Scott stepped down during the Hellfire Gala.
• Meta Power: Synch's powers give him an aura that allows him to "synch" with other superhumans, thereby gaining their abilities. The powers Everett "synchs" will fade if the superhuman he is "in synch" with leaves the vicinity. He has been able to copy powers from tissue samples as well. He can also use his aura to track other mutants.
• Power Copying: He could copy the powers of others but only when they were in his radius.
• Rank Up: After a fashion. He was introduced in the 1990s as part of the "next generation of mutants" and became a member of the student team, Generation X. After his death, three of his teammates (Jubilee, Husk and Monet) had stints with the main team. It is only during the Krakoan Age and Fall of X he becomes a member of the main team.
• Really 700 Years Old: Spent untold centuries if not millennia in the vault in which time passes much faster with X-23 and Darwin before being killed and resurrected by the Five. Unlike the others, he retained his memories but is at the physical age he was when he entered the Vault.
• Second Love: During the incalculable amount of time they've spent trapped inside the Vault, Synch and X-23 became a steadfast Battle Couple whose relationship ended in tragedy when Laura was forced to make a Heroic Sacrifice to ensure Everett could escape the Vault in time for Professor X to psionically download his consciousness for the resurrection protocol. Meaning that while Everett remembers everything they've went through together from start to finish, Laura doesn't remember a single thing about the love they had due to being resurrected from a back-up taken from before their mission into the Vault. This, understandably, leaves Synch entirely conflicted in regards how he can even approach her again. He finally reunites with her in issue #17 of the 2021 X-men series. She physically dies in #30 and her mind dies in 31.
• Took a Level in Badass: Between his improved powerset and the unfathomable amount of combat and survival experience he gained during his mission inside the Vault, Synch has taken enough levels in this to be chosen as an official member of Cyclops and Jean Grey's reformed X-Men team.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In Sins of Sinister, Synch dooms the entire timeline. He takes Hope's role among the Five for Hope's resurrection. As Hope had been unknowingly purging Sinister's tampering in the Resurrection protocol, Synch replacing her causes Hope to be resurrected with a Sinister-like personality, thus leading to the eventual corruption of the entirety of the Krakoan mutants.

Jubilation Lee / Jubilee

Notable Aliases: Jubes, Wondra

Nationality: American, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant, former Vampire

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #244 (May, 1989)

Jubilee was part of the team for its entire existence, establishing new relationships and developing her powers, becoming one of the most powerful members of the team. By the time the school was closed and the team disbanded, Jubilee had matured, moving to Los Angeles and becoming a part of the short-lived X-Corps.

Paige Elisabeth Guthrie / Husk

Notable Aliases: Hayseed

Nationality: American, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Rom Annual #3 (November, 1984)

Husk is a mutant with the ability to husk her skin to expose a new type and layer of skin underneath. A member of the Guthrie family, Paige followed in her brother Sam's footsteps and joined the Xavier Institute as a student. A member of Generation X, Paige has been a member of several teams of X-Men and eventually joined the faculty of the Institute, but has suffered from identity issues due to the nature of her power.

• Barbie Doll Anatomy: She's naked when using her powers.
• Big Brother Instinct: Don't ever hurt her brother Sam - which is understandable considering what happened to their other brother. This isn't seen often, since Cannonball, being an extremely experienced superhero and Nigh-Invulnerable when using his powers, is rarely hurt. However, a brutally powerful Offhand Backhand from a deeply unimpressed X-Man did the job, and left Paige outright furious (and ludicrously far out of her weight class, but that's another matter.)
• Broken Bird: During Wolverine & the X-Men, when she's suffering from outright personality shifts every time she husks thanks to problems with her powers, and had unresolved depression problems relating to the death of her younger brother, Jay Guthrie. She eventually pulled a Face–Heel Turn, before realising what was happening to her and getting help.
• Deep South: Like her brother, she's from Kentucky, though she has less of a telling accent, or rather tries to hide it
• Face–Heel Turn: When she joined the Hellfire Academy thanks to her powers affecting her mental state. She pulled Heel–Face Turn soon enough afterwards.
• Funetik Aksent: She slips into a Kentucky accent when scared or stressed.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Husk was revealed as this. Her brother was already the super-hero Cannonball, and she tried everything she could to get mutant powers to develop, almost killing herself a few times. Finally she just about gave up, crying and clenching herself... when her skin started flaking off like old wallpaper. She ripped and shredded and tore herself up, which for anyone else would have been scary as hell, but for her, it was the happiest moment of her life.
• Kid-Appeal Character: Initially she's the kiddiest kid of Generation X, with the fewest "adult" hang ups or desires, despite being two years older than Jubilee. Artie and Leech displace her by being even younger and kiddier.
• Magic Pants: Husk has the ability to transform her skin into any material she can think of, but she must tear off the existing layer to do so. This results in her being naked a fair amount of the time, but censor steam is omitted in some scenes where her new skin serves the purpose of a costume. She has specifically refused to revert to her human form on occasions because of her nudity.
• May–December Romance:
  • A relatively low key version for this trope, considering the age gap was only about 15 years, but for a while, she was in a relationship with Archangel. This has since fallen by the wayside.
  • She also dated Toad briefly, though that was a mutually toxic relationship partially inspired by her damaged mental state and Toad's desire for affection from anyone. He put her on a pedestal and kept her husks to have tea parties with, and her power-related mental instability had her lashing out at everyone around her - particularly Toad, the X-Men's perennial Butt-Monkey.
• Power Incontinence: Her power depends on her mental state, and when she's not entirely stable (which her powers can contribute to), she ends up manifesting a patchwork of skins.
• Self-Harm–Induced Superpower: She tears her skin apart to grant herself temporary superpowers based on the material of the skin underneath. It's often a Superpower Lottery (and she's been known to molt past her control) but with concentration, she can influence what she gets.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: During Wolverine and the X-Men, due to unresolved trauma over her brother's death, depression, and her powers affecting her sanity, leading to a temporary Face–Heel Turn.
• With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Her powers destabilise her mind for a period during Wolverine and the X-Men.

Angelo Espinosa / Skin

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #317 (October, 1994)

• Amazing Technicolor Population: Gray skin, then blue skin.
• Art Evolution / Progressively Prettier: Skin became increasingly attractive over the course of the book's run, going from downright ugly in his first appearances to basically becoming a grey-skinned Gambit with a goatee (though this could be explained by his gaining increased control over his powers as he practices with them).
• Back from the Dead: He was among the earliest mutants returned to life by the Five on Krakoa. This was due to him and Synch both being from the same time and being friends, so it was hoped they could help each other adjust to how dramatically the world had changed since they died.
• Blessed with Suck: He's got extra skin. Like, a lot. Like six feet of it. He keeps it all in normally, and it really just amounts to a limited ability to stretch, but it's still just really weird.
• Child Hater: Averted. When Leech and Artie joined the Academy, Skin wasn't very fond of the idea, claiming he didn't like children. In the next issue he helped Synch build them a treehouse in the biodome and he seemed to have a good time building it for them.
• C-List Fodder: One of the least outstanding members of the group, and the one who was dead the longest.
• Faking the Dead: Before his time with Generation-X, after a deal with a rival gang gone bad.
• Gratuitous Spanish: He used a lot of spanish expressions during the run of Generation X.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Subverted. After the Phalanx incident, Angelo had no interest in becoming an X-man and was planning to leave the school. It took a talk with Beast to convince him to give the Xavier Institute a shot.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Angelo could have an abrasive personality sometimes clashing with some of his teammates, but he wasn't hesitant to jump and defend his friends if they were in danger.
• Latin Lover: He wishes. He actually was pretty handsome before his mutation manifested.
• MamaDidntRaiseNoMutant: His mother hates mutants and believes they are of the devil. Angelo finds this out the hard way when he returns to Los Angeles and overhears his mother cursing his old friend, claiming that Angelo, who she believes to be dead, is now among the angels, and admits she would disown him from her life if she learned he was not a normal human.
• Momma's Boy: He loves his mother very much and he felt bad for faking his death knowing how much it would affected her.
• Rubber Man: He possessed approximately six feet of extra skin. He was capable of stretching, deforming, wrapping, expanding, and compressing this extra amount of epidermis, but with many more limitations than other examples. In addition, he had very little elasticity, and his bones remained solid and couldn't be reshaped. He could never turn into a bouncing ball; even if he could reshape himself enough for that, he wouldn't bounce. And Depending on the Writer, his stretching actually hurts.
• Smoking Is Cool: In his early appearances it was unusual seeing him without a cigarrette.
• Street Smart: His experience living in the hardest zones of Los Angeles had helped Angelo to be a quick thinker in battle a lot of times, like his encounter against the X-Cutioner or against a dragon when he and his classmates were transported to a magical dimension.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: To his credit he was creative with it in battle.

Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St. Croix / M / Penance

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Notable Aliases: Penance, M, White Queen

Nationality: French, Yugoslavian, Algerian, Monegasque, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Generation X #1 (November, 1994)

Monet St. Croix, sometimes known by the codenames "M" or "Penance", was created by Scott Lobdell & artist, Chris Bachalo in 1994. She first appeared in the crossover, Phalanx Covenant, before starring in Generation X with her classmates & their mentors, Banshee and Emma Frost.

Monet St. Croix possesses a wide variety of mutant powers which represent a near-perfect human being. Her powers include superhuman strength, superhuman speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, coordination, and balance; self-propelled flight; nigh-invulnerability; telesopic vision, night vision and enhanced hearing; an enhanced healing factor and the ability to read minds and perceive mutant auras. Her superhuman physicality, multi-hyphenate abilities, and arrogance have dubbed this Monegasque-Algerian mutant to be the "perfect" mutant. She is also one of Marvel's first Muslim superheroes, though she doesn't appear to actively practice anything in the Sunnah, unlike most of the others.

Over the years, she's worked with many teams since Generation X, such as Banshee's X-Corps, Multiple Man's X-Factor Investigations, Storm's X-Women, Magneto's X-Men, Sabretooth's Weapon X-Force.

With the founding of the mutant nation of Krakoa, Monet emerged as one of the co-CXO's of the reborn X-Corp, responsible for being the business face of mutantkind to the rest of the planet.

Monet St. Croix provides examples of:

• Absurdly Sharp Claws: In her Penance form, her fingers become sharp claws so sharp that they can damage Black Panther's vibranium armor, which absorbs kinetic energy and harmlessly releases it outward as scattered waves.
• Accuser of the Brethren: It's an Open Secret among her sisters Claudette and Nicole, as well as her father Cartier, that her brother Marius played a role in the death of Jamila, the children's mother and Cartier's wife. While Cartier kicked Marius out of the house and the twins later banished him to another plane of reality, all Cartier really wanted from Marius was an explanation. He's willing to make amends with his son after getting it, but learning the details only embitters Monet against Marius further.
• Action Fashionista: Monet has a very glamorous wardrobe and sometimes likes to wear fancy clothing during combat.
• Action Girl: A female heroine, her Flying Brick powers have her be a great front-line fighter.
• Act of True Love: Emplate thought she did this for Sabretooth in Uncanny X-Men. She attacks when he feeds on Creed & Callisto, telling him to deal with her & leave them alone. After she left with him, he was surprised how quickly she came just to save the others & sensed affection when it came to Creed◊.
• Alpha Bitch: In Generation X she functions as the snobby Rich Bitch popular girl of the academy, even having a rivalry with Jubilee (the closest thing the book has to a protagonist).
• Amazonian Beauty: Depending on the Artist. She's always considered attractive and some artists give her a muscular body to illustrate she's a Flying Brick. In X-Factor (2006), she has noticeable abs during her Full-Frontal Assault under Cortex's Mind Control, and many characters notice how toned her legs are.
• Ambadassador: More so in X-Factor (2006) where she was instantly violent when it came to making any kind of case about anything.
• Ambiguously Brown: Monet is the daughter of a dark-skinned French father and mother of Algerian citizenship and indeterminate ethnicity. She is always depicted as brown-skinned, with the precise hue varying from issue to issue in Generation X. Since the book was canceled however, Monet's skin progressively got lighter until she was pasty pale in the 2006 X Factor series. Fans complained, and she got some melanin back. Whenever she gets too light again, there's an outcry that Marvel is trying to make her "less black" for nefarious purposes, and when it gets too dark, there are cries that she was never black in the first place. It was never stated that she is or isn't. She and her siblings (who are more consistently dark-skinned, the few times we see Emplate's human form) are most likely mixed, though colorists should settle on a tone and stick to it.
• Amicable Exes: Despite a disastrous one night stand with Madrox (Where she was furious with him when he reveals his dupes slept with her and Siryn on the same night) she didn't hold a grudge against him for long and their friendship only deepened with time, with her later becoming a Shipper on Deck for Siryn and Madrox.
• Amusing Injuries: During World War Hulk tie in of X-Men, the Hulk is rampaging through campus grounds of the Xavier Institute, claiming it's pathetic mutants he doesn't even recognize are trying to defend Professor X. Monet introduces herself, boasting that she's invulnerable, so Hulk knocks her out of the sky and beats her into the ground to test it. Concluding that she was telling the truth, Hulk kicks Monet out of North Salem and into New Jersey, where invulnerability won't be his problem.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Nicole & Claudette from time to time. In New Mutants #1, they are seen in miniature Penance forms that mimic Monte's & Monet is shown to be yelling at them.
• Arch-Enemy: Her brother Marius / Emplate is her personal nemesis. He greatly resents her for having the Parental Favoritism and Superpower Lottery as well as having to endure her smug and arrogant personality his whole life, and is now completely dedicated to ruining her life.
• The Artifact: Penance was originally a mutant from Yugoslavia who was an abused captive of the bone marrow eating predator Emplate. "M" was to be two be two scared girls pretending to be something they were not. Monet St. Croix was never existed, but Generation X editor wanted the character to be real, hence the "real" Monet" was inside Penance, which was "revealed" to be a prison body Emplate used on his sister, who their younger sisters were impersonating in his absence. The twins took Monet's place in the Penance body, but were eventually freed. The Penance body then wandered as "Hollow", as the Penance named got passed to Speedball during Civil War. Hollow still exists, but fell into Comic-Book Limbo and the Penance body became an alternate form Monet can take on semi voluntarily during House of X, granting her cutting and piecing attacks and increased telepathic resistance at the cost of dampening her own telepathy.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: She rejects Amora the Enchantress's offer to become a goddess in exchange for abandoning the X-Men, because of the efforts of X-Man Banshee and the Generation X team in caring for her sisters while Monet was trapped in the Penance body and helping Monet escape from her brother. She may not be very nice to the other members in kind, in fact she resents the doting they did on her while she was mute, but the X-teams are Monet's teams!
• Been There, Shaped History: More recent than most, but according to Monet, she had a part in the Marvel universe's versions of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie getting together.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: With Sabretooth in Uncanny X-Men (2016). During their snark-off in issue one, Psylocke cuts in to ask if they are still bickering & why they don't just Get a Room!.
• Berserk Button:
  • Monet hates being under the mental thrall of others due to her time under the control of her brother, Emplate, and transforming her into the identity of Penance. She punches Cortex through his chest after he takes control of her for a couple of issues and is furious with Pip the Troll when he transfers his mind into her body to escape death.
  • Don't hurt anyone she actually cares about. Especially her father or sisters.
  • Mentioning Heaven after her resurrection is also a very bad idea.
• The Beautiful Elite: Monet is the daughter of a Monégasque ambassador and multicorporate CEO, as well as an Algerian of aristocratic descent. Between her beauty, which makes her the Lust Object of numerous men; wealth; fame; and winning of the Superpower Lottery, it is little wonder she has an ego the size of a continent. Interestingly enough, Monet herself rarely comments on her physical appearance, knowing others will do it for her.
• Betty and Veronica:
  • In Generation X she was the Veronica to Jubilee's Betty for Synch's Archie, being the arrogant, stuck-up beauty — and she won without much contest.
  • It's reversed in Uncanny X-Men (2016) with Sabretooth where she may have been the Betty to Mystique's Veronica. Bunn noted that they wouldn't get along well, and with Mystique being a former off & on lover to Creed, that may have come up later. Monet is far from a teddy bear, but she's an angel of virtue compared to Raven.
• Big-Breast Pride: She enjoys flaunting her beauty in whatever way she can, which is why so many of her outfits expose a lot of her cleavage.
• Big Brother Instinct:
  • Monet is very loving toward Nicole & Claudette. Nicole says she's the only one who doesn't treat them like freaks. When they were inside Penance, Monet made sure they were as comfortable as could be.
  • Zigzagged with Emplate, who declares his love for Monet. He admits feeding on her wasn't his finest moment but he has to feed to stay anchored to the world. He mocked her affection for Creed and later warned her that he would eventually kill her.
• Big Ego, Hidden Depths: Reveals she hides a lot of her trauma behind her egomaniac attitude during a therapy session with Doc Samson. She has to be the superior jerk because she's still suffering from her time as Penance. Every day, she has to make the choice not to kill herself and gets her strength from the arrogant "M" persona.
• Birds of a Feather: She's a former antagonist of an X-team who wound up joining them, but has remained a jerk. She wound up dating Quicksilver, another former antagonist of an X-team that wound up joining them, but remained a jerk.
• Blessed with Suck: Monet is not an affectionate person and does not like being touched. As such, the Penance body has "diamond sharp" that can cut the naked skin of humans just by brushing up against it, so that she won't have to "worry" about it anymore, though tougher creatures like sasquatches can handle it just fine. He hair is also sharp, so she's forced to wear it in the same style as Emplate, and she has trouble manipulating even the simpliest of objects thanks to her claws.
• Brainy Brunette: She's a highly intelligent woman with long brown, or black, hair.
• Broken Ace: Monet is a Superpower Lottery winner, beautiful, intelligent, and acts as if nothing ever fazes her. But during her therapy sessions, she confesses her "M" persona is mostly a front and she suffers from severe trauma due to what her brother Emplate did to her during the time she was stuck as Penance.
• Bunker Woman: An extreme case when she's trapped in the Penance body by Emplate, where she was imprisoned for years, unable to have her cries for help heard.
• The Bus Came Back: After Cartier learns that the twins have "returned", he transfers all of his children out of the Massachusetts Academy, so that he can start taking better care of them, believing he had been a neglectful father. While that's the last we see of Nicole and Claudette for decades, Monet returns to Generation X.
• Butt-Monkey: X-Factor (2006) has a lot of fun putting the prideful Monet into a lot of comical situations, usually taking advantage of her Super-Toughness to take the brunt of attacks that would be fatal to other characters. She never ends up truly hurt, but it annoys her to no end and they often have comical side effects on her appearance, like leaving her hair a mess or ruining her clothes.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Her voluptuous proportion is one of the things that make her a Dude Magnet. During her Alpha Bitch phase in Generation X, she was often put into contrast with the flat-chested Jubilee, who is implied to resent Monet due to it. Even Shatterstar, who's openly gay, would often admit to being distracted by her breasts, claiming they defy gravity. She's since developed telekinesis, so she can make them literally defy gravity if she so chooses.
• Cain and Abel: She's a heroine whose greatest personal enemy is her brother Marius St. Croix / Emplate.
• Came Back Wrong: Her first death & resurrection in X-Factor (2006) leaves her depressed and numb. She didn't want to hear anyone mentioning a Heaven that she didn't see & sneered that Darwin just saw her as something Hell spat out. She's still recovering from the experience when she joined Storm's X-Men.
• Celebrity Superhero: Monet is a heroine with an open identity who is quite famous and popular for a mutant and has even posed for Vanity Fair twice. She adapts to Cassandra Nova publicly outing Charles Xavier as a mutant and ruining most x-mutants' chance at a secret identity quite quickly.
• Character Death: Like many superheros, she's had a few of these.
  • In X-Factor (2006), she's critically injured during her encounter with Pluto and is dying when she fights Strong Guy, who finishes her off. When he becomes the new King of Hell he brings her Back from the Dead and expels her from hell.
  • She dies again in X-Men, digging her way out of some rubble, making a note to herself to stop dying.
  • In House of X, she gets killed off-panel when she takes on numerous enemies to protect Jean.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: If Monet has eyes for a guy, she won't take kindly to other girls getting too cozy.
  • When Jubilee wanted to spend time with Synch, Monet shows a literal case of the trope when making it clear that it's not gonna happen.◊
  • She also showed a slight case of this with Sabretooth during Uncanny X-Men (2016). The two of them seemed to have something building over the series. After Monet is possessed by Emplate, her negative emotions are amplified by his influence. She murders Inhumans in cold blood due to the grief of losing Maddrox to Terrigen mist. Sabretooth finds her and they talk briefly, with him telling Monet that Rachel Grey came with him. Monet wonders where she is - sarcastically saying she'd love to catch up. Creed explains that he sent Rachel back in order to speak with Monet alone. She promptly retorts by asking if he's protecting his new friend, being quick to question him & showing disapproval about his partnership with Rachel, saying that she doesn't like it◊
• Civvie Spandex: For the first half of X-Factor (2006), up until the renumbering, Monet's outfit tended to be whatever she was wearing at the time.
• Close-Call Haircut: Deadpool tied napalm bombs to her hair & when they exploded, they left a large bald spot on the right side of her head.
• Combat Clairvoyance: Monet once mocked an opponent for thinking being invisible would give them an edge against her, then proved her point by knocking them out of the air, explaining that having telepathy as well as enhanced hearing makes it easy for her to prevent people from sneaking up on her.
• Combat Stilettos: Monet often wore high-heeled boots during X-Factor (2006).
• Combo Platter Powers: Flying Brick powers, the ability to merge with any mutant member of her family encountered thus far, with different combinations having an entirely different personality and powers. This goes, in fact, for all of the St. Croix siblings except for Nicole (who hasn't displayed solo powers just yet.) Also, Telepathy, eventually telekinesis, and heightened intelligence. However, she may just have Psychic Powers, her Flying Brick powers being a manifestation of that, like the 'Psionic Superman' theory that was popular in the 80s and 90s.
• Comic-Book Time: One of the beneficiaries. See, since she's one of the Generation X crop, she should logically be around the same age as her classmate Jubilee. Except Jubilee's been a perpetual teenager, having reached adulthood twice only to have it reverted, while during her X-Factor (2006) days Monet was allowed to grow up and be depicted in her mid-twenties, around the rest of the cast, presumably to cause less raised eyebrows about relationships with characters such as Madrox, Strong Guy, Darwin, and Sabretooth who all have a good few years on her as a character, as well as age when she first came on the scene.
• Condescending Calmness: She enjoys speaking in an overtly polite and calm manner even when arguing or insulting others, to show off her "rich upbringing" and how superior she is. She especially liked doing this in her interactions with Jubilee in Generation X, as it would eventually annoy the temperamental teen.
• Cool Big Sis: Monet's younger twin sisters think highly of her, calling her the only person who never treated them like freaks due to their spell-casting powers and Claudette's autism. After Monet is restored to human form, they have a happy reunion.
• Covers Always Lie: Many cases in X-Factor & Weapon X where she's black◊ on the covers but white◊ in the interiors. This was due to uncredited artists like David Yardin, who disliked that Monet had became light skinned and made sure she'd at least have brown skin on the covers.
• Critical Hit: She was dying from brain hemorrhaging before taking on Guido in Hell & when he got serious, all it took was one good hit to finish her.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • With her temper and brawler nature, she's received a few of these, such as being kicked into space by Hulk, rag-dolled by Pluto, then clobbered and killed by Strong Guy while still recovering from the thrashing Pluto gave her.
  • Monet also dishes these out, such as when she broke thorugh several walls of Archae's complex to get at Amora the Enchantress before Amora could do anything, breaking several of Amora's bones and threatening to kill her if she tried to unparalyze herself or attack in any way.
• Deadpan Snarker: One of her main traits is her snarky lines delivered with Condescending Calmness or passive-aggressive insults.
  • In Generation X, she often engaged into Snark-to-Snark Combat with Jubilee, who would complain Monet usually got the "last dig".
  Monet: [after saving Jubilee from falling debris] That was certainly a valid attempt at a rescue. Though I don't understand what you were planning to do without the use of my superior strength.
  Jubilee: Way I see it, M - if you can press that slab and pat yourself on the back at the same time... How heavy could it be?
  Monet: Should I drop it? Then we'll find out for sure.
  • An X-Factor (2006) example is when the team is waiting for Siryn to have her baby.
  Guido: How long's it been now?
  Monet: About three minutes later than the last time you asked.
• Daddy's Girl: She grew up being her father's favored child, and they became very close, to the point he's one of the few people she's openly affectionate with.
• Death Is Cheap: Like many Marvel characters, she's died a few times but won't stay dead. Her first death and resurrection in X-Factor (2006) did at least make her traumatized for a while.
• Defiant to the End: Her sacrifice in House of X #4 - she sends Jean off of the Orchis base in an escape pod before turning to face them, despite being outnumbered & overwhelmed.
• Depending on the Artist: Her skin color varies wildly from artist to artist, and sometimes from panel to panel, usually varying from various shades of brown and black, but she sometimes was so light-skinned she looked like a caucasian woman. Her hair color also tends to flip-flop from brown to black.
• Depending on the Writer: Many writers downplay many of her Superpower Lottery abilities so she won't have a Story-Breaker Power.
• Did They or Didn't They?: She & Synch shared a passionate kiss one night in the school library before she suggested going someplace private. After this, they're not seen again.◊ In the next chapter, they're shown holding hands, which is their first public couple-display.◊
• Disappointing Older Sibling: Monet has noted on a good few occasions that Emplate is a pathetic disgrace to their family legacy.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Due to her Pride and Inferiority Superiority Complex, she dislikes when people (such as Jubilee or Sabertooth) show concern for her and gets defensive and snappy.
• Dude, Not Funny!: In X-Factor (2006), Pip the Troll winds up hijacking Monet's body via Brain Uploading to save his own life after his body is shot. Polaris and Rictor find the situation hilarious until Shatterstar points out how a horrible violation it is, prompting both to shut up. When Monet does get control of her body back, she's absolutely livid with them for laughing at her, with the exception of Shatterstar.
• Dungeon By Pass: She gets the advantage over Enchantress Amora during the final fight with Archea's Sisterhood by diving through several walls of Achea's base in a straight line towards Amora, before the Enchtress knows what hit her.
• Eating the Eye Candy: Synch, Guido, Darwin, Madrox, and Longshot have admired her looks. In return, she herself isn't above noticing the male form, notably Sabretooth whom she volunteers to watch lift heavy stuff from their aircraft.
• Effortless Amazonian Lift: Due to being a Flying Brick, she's easily able to carry her male teammates, and seems to enjoy doing so to emasculate them.
• Everyone Can See It: When it came to her & Sabretooth, a total of seven characters have suspected more to their relationship.
  • Psylocke was the first in Uncanny X-Men (2016) #1 when she notes how much they bicker, suggests they Get a Room!, and thinks they may be flirting. In the finale, she compared them to Starkweather & Fugate.
  • Callisto was next, mockingly stating St. Crox was Creed's "little girlfriend" at first, and later during a spat, she cuts in to warn them of the situation but wryly apologizes for interrupting "whatever's going on" between them.
  • Emplate says he detected affection from Monet when it came to Creed before guessing that she's bored with handsome, cultured men. Much later, he threatens to gut her with a warning that Creed will do it eventually which causes Monet to snark at him looking down on the guys she hangs around.
  • Deathstrike in Weapon X (2017). When Creed is briefing them on Monet and the mission to save her, she instantly notes Monet as his ex-girlfriend, which makes Creed defensive.
  • Domino becomes a Shipper on Deck as soon as she hears Deathstrike's comment, thinking it adorable. When she sees Creed shyly trying to speak with Monet, she gushes, tells Monet about how he wanted to save her, and how nobody believed his protests.
  • After hearing Domino's Love Informant ramble, Deadpool promptly asks if they're going to kiss which causes Creed & Monet to tell him to shut up.
  • Finally, Omega Red tells everyone to focus on love after they finish with war. But later when Creed & Monet finally talk about what happened between them, Omega Red is watching them with a grin.
• Exaggerated Trope: Her Rich Bitch nature in X-Factor (2006) is dialed up, sometimes bordering on hatefulness. As seen in her debate with Siryn.

  Siryn: I've had it with your holier-than-thou attitude..
  Monet: You're lecturing me about being Holy? You're the one who thinks God is out to get you because you lost your baby.
  Siryn: Don't you dare bring that up!
  Monet: Too late. What are you gonna do? Scream at me?

• Face–Monster Turn: After she's merged with Emplate in Uncanny X-Men (2016) & later became the villain of Generation X (2017).
• Filler: An interview with Bunn states that he and Hickman were in talks before he started on Uncanny. He was told not to change too much regarding the X-Men, and that many of the books around this period going forward were placeholders. That being the case, Creed & Monet's relationship was something that happened during a transitional point and wouldn't be acknowledged going forward. We already saw some of his developments fizzle such as Monet being White Queen of the Hellfire Club which, was forgotten ever since, with Emma Frost very much still White Queen in Hickman's run.
• First Love: Synch, her first serious Love Interest in Generation X. After his death, she yells at Jubilee that he was the first person she ever had romantic feelings for.
• Flanderization: When written by PAD in the X-Factor book, Monet is significantly more prone to anger and violence, possessing very little of the sophistication and careful passive aggressiveness that she is well known for.
• Flying Brick: A super strong and super tough heroine here who's capable of flying.
• Full-Frontal Assault: Under Cortex's Mind Control, she strips naked in front of Darwin to seduce him, but when he doesn't fall for it Cortex has Monet try to kill him instead, leading to several issues with Monet fighting completely nude. (Cortex's Mind Control gives her some purple techno skin that makes her have a Barbie Doll Anatomy or has some Scenery Censor cover up her nudity). When the Mind Control is eventually severed, Monet is so furious at Cortex she attacks him without bothering to put some clothes back on.
• Fusion Dance: Largely unexplored but she and her siblings can fuse with each other and create a unique person, such as M-Plate. Her young twin sisters can also fuse into an exact copy of her, and impersonate Monet for years.
• Genius Bruiser: She's as trained as most X-Men in combat, hits like a truck and is also a talented corporate executive, ambassador, criminal investigator, is good at fixing electronic devices and skilled at navigating digital communication networks.
• Good Is Not Nice: Monet is a legitimate heroine who risks her life to save people, but she's also an abrasive Rich Bitch with a huge ego who often seems incapable of being nice, but it does take her a wind-up to truly cause harm. And if you upset her... you're screwed. Just ask Ballistique, if she ever recovers from what Monet did to her.
  Monet: [as she tears Ballistique's mind to shreds] Go on. Say I "can't". It'll be funny. I'll laugh like this: Ha. Ha.
• Hates Being Touched: She's not an affectionate person and dislikes being touched by others.
  • When Layla tries to check on her after she's threatened by Polaris. Monet defensively says she is fine & tells Layla not to touch her.
  • In Uncanny X-Men (2016), Storm has a brief reunion with her & Psylocke where the latter hugs her but she's promptly snubbed when she puts supportive hands-on Monet.
  • In House of X 5, Storm reaches out for her & asks that she prove she's the real deal after her resurrection. Monet instantly withdraws & tell her "No touching", which was all the proof Storm needed.
• Gratuitous French: In the Generation X books, she would oftentimes speak in short bursts of French when frustrated with a situation or her teammates.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Played up in X-Factor (2006) when she was prone to a violent disposition & temper whenever she gets displeased, in contrast to the snarky and condescending politeness she previously had, and regained in later books.
• Head-Turning Beauty: She's often described as being beautiful by other character and narrators, and often causes a physical reaction on people when they first meet her. Even her bitter rival Jubilee admits Monet is drop-dead gorgeous and even referred to her as "Miss Perfect". Some characters even though her beauty was enhanced by her x-factor gene.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: She's snobbish, arrogant and often acts self-absorbed, but she does want and enjoy working as a heroine and cares deeply about her loved ones and fellow mutants, even if she doesn't like to show it.
• Hypocrite: X-Factor (2006) had this as a major flaw of hers.
  • She's a reckless hothead who prefers solving things violently but is quick to point out the recklessness of others. At one point, Layla calls her out by saying she's is the last one who should tell anyone how to act when she just got done getting clobbered by Pluto.
  • She admitted to Doc Samson that she's still traumatized by her brother's abuse & chooses not to kill herself daily. However, she mocked Siryn for the way she grieved the death of her father & child.
  • She expressed the belief that the dead shouldn't be revived & only those who can't let go tamper with such things. She seemed touched after Guido resurrected her, ignoring her earlier rants about the dead.
  • After learning Guido was resurrected without a soul, she calls him a freak & monster in his presence. When Darwin reacts the same way after her resurrection, she takes great offense and punches him.
  • Monet's Berserk Button is having her mind messed with. That hasn't stopped her from using or threatening to use her telepathy in ways that cause severe and sometimes permanent harm, like when she put Ballistique in a coma as retribution for shooting Guido.
  • When Pip the Troll accidentally had his consciousness transferred into Monet's body, Monet is furious at Lorna and Rictor for finding it funny. However, Monet herself is often insensitive to the plight of other people, as seen when she mocked Siryn's grief over her dead baby.
• Home Nudist: Early on in X-Factor (2006)', Monet is in the privacy of her room, shrugging off her robe and dancing to the tune of "I'm Too Sexy" naked. Naturally, Rictor barges at that moment and gets a full-frontal view while the viewer sees her Toplessness from the Back. She promptly gets a Naked Freak-Out and tosses Rictor out of her room.
• Honor Before Reason: Subverted. Mordo abducts Monet's father Cartier to lure her into a trap so he can drain her energy and put his cancer into remission. When they are attacked by the Mutant Response Division, Mordo agrees to create a portal so they can escape but notes that doing so would be taxing on his body. Monet offers to let him drain her in exchange for saving them. Despite Guido, Darwin, and Cartier pointing out that Mordo had kidnapped her father and would likely never keep any promise he made to her, Monet seemingly still insists on fulfilling her end of the bargain. However, Monet doesn't actually let Mordo drain her and uses her telepathy to make him think she did. Guido thinks that Monet got the idea from Layla when she mentioned the old and weak Doctor Doom from the Bad Future she and Jamie went to but Monet insists she came to the idea herself.
• Hulking Out: How her transformations into Penance work, after it becomes her own ability and not a prison body — she tends to transform whenever she loses her temper and turning into Penance makes telepathy more difficult.
• Immune to Bullets: Depending on the writer they either compacted against her body and fall harmlessly to the ground, or bounce off, potentially putting unintended targets at risk.
• Iconic Outfit: She has two iconic hero costumes, the first being the blood-red skintight suit she wore in Generation X (which gets many variations) and the other being her second X-Factor (2006) costume, which is a black-and-white suit with red outlines.
• I Gave My Word: She'll keep her word, even if she makes a deal with a super-villain. She may only keep her deal to the very word, but only Emplate has made her drop this.
• Inconvenient Attraction: Even those who hate Monet's guts find her attractive, even those who are otherwise heterosexual women or homosexual men, especially if they are of incompatible orientations and hate her guts! Some joke that it is yet another one of her mutant powers, some more seriously consider the possibility.
  • In Generation X she loathed her time stuck as Penance and particularly resented how Jubilee treated her during that time because she felt "like a pet", which is why she acted more hostile to Jubilee than even her sisters expected her to after Monet came back to normal.
  • Her therapy session in X-Factor (2006) reveals she has been constantly suicidal after the torture her brother inflicted on her, having daily recurring nightmares, and putting up an insufferable arrogant cover to keep herself from being Driven to Suicide day after day.
• Insufferable Genius: During Generation X, she was portrayed as one of the most academically accomplished students, and would be so arrogant and smug about it that even her teachers would get annoyed.
  Monet: As I've said in the past, there is precious little I don't know.
• Interclass Friendship: With everyone in Generation X. Monet comes from generational wealth, with both of father and grandfather being secret champions of mutant rights as allies of Xavier, while her teammates all come from much more modest backgrounds.
• It's All About Me: She's very self-absorbed and often worries about herself at the expense of others. When Guido catches a villain during their date, she was pissed that he'd be focused on anything but her company.
• It's All My Fault: When Guido is mortally wounded by Ballistique, she blames herself since she was the one who helped return Ballistique's memories in the first place. Later, she's told by Layla that in the future she knows where Guido died, Monet drives herself almost mad from the guilt, and one of the reasons Layla decided to go against destiny and bring Guido Back from the Dead was to spare Monet from that.
• Karmic Transformation: Courtesy of Emplate when he becomes fed-up with her superior attitude.
• Kid Hero All Grown Up: She was first introduced as part of a mutant teen, and joined Generation X instead of the X-Men, but after that has usually been consistently portrayed as a young adult, which contrasts with her classmate Jubilee who is a perpetual teenager.
• Killerina: Monet has practiced ballet since she was a young girl, and if she is angered enough she will kill people.
• Lack of Empathy: In X-Factor (2006) Issue #2, a Mutant who has lost his powers chews out Monet for showing off hers when many of them had just been depowered. Her response, as usual, is arrogant indifference.
• Logical Weakness: Flying Brick she may be, but Monet still needs to breathe. Chloroform will knock her out the same it does anyone else.
• Leg Focus: When her clothes get ruined & she has to wear Madrox's shirt, Guido & Longshot take notice of her legs. The latter goes into detail that they're very toned & her calf muscles are well-developed.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: She has long black hair, which was used to emphasize her maturity feminity in contrast to short-haired tomboyish Jubilee in Generation X.
• Love Hurts: She usually ends up hurt whenever she falls in love with someone.
  • Synch was murdered in an explosion at the school.
  • Her night with Madrox was a one-night-stand by one of his dupes, tainting what she considered the happiest thing in her life at the time.
  • Her relationship with Guido takes a turn for the tragic when he dies and Came Back Wrong, becoming The Soulless, and starts doing awful things for "her" sake.
  • Creed was a villain morally inverted by a non-permanent spell. She reunited with him after their first fallout only to lose him again when he was killed, sent to Hell, and reverted to his evil self.
• Lust Object: She's often the subject of the lust of her male classmates and teammates, as even when they're turned off by her abrasive and arrogant demeanor, many still end up physically attracted to her good looks, which just feeds her ego. In X-Factor (2006), all of her male teammates end up lusting after her, particularly Darwin and Guido, who both have her Vanity Fair spread. Rictor and Shatterstar are also notable given they're both gay yet still find her extremely attractive. This is Played for Laughs when one of Madrox's clones seduces and sleeps with her, meaning Madrox ends up with the knowledge that she's amazing in bed but he wasn't the one who lived the experience.
• Male Gaze: Issue #200 of X-Factor (2006) has a top panel shot of her ass.
• Mayfly–December Romance: Her and Sabretooth, as he's a Long-Lived old man while she's a young woman in her twenties.
• Meaningful Rename: As of House of X, she can transform into her Penance form at will, and as such she starts going by the alias Penance again rather than M.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's a Proud Beauty whose ego is well-earned, having a curvaceous and toned figure that's often emphasized by Male Gaze panels and the form-fitting and revealing outfits that she wears. This gets played up in X-Factor (2006) where she ends up naked in many scenes (with Toplessness from the Back or Censor Shadow), suffers from Clothing Damage, commonly sunbathes on the roof in a tiny bikini, and wears a skintight costume with a Navel-Deep Neckline.
• My Sibling Will Live Through Me: When Nicole & Claudette think she's dead, they merged to form a lookalike. When the truth is revealed, they feel guilty for taking their sister's life and free her from Penance by switching places with her.
• Naked on Revival: Like the rest of Cyclops' team in House of X #5, she's naked when she gets revived into a new husk body after her death.
• Navel-Deep Neckline:
  • Her X-Factor outfit◊ had a plunging neckline until Pip the Troll insulted her about it and she adjusted it. It returned in Weapon X (2017) and Uncanny X-Men (2018).
  • One of her Hellfire Gala costumes had a plunging neckline that showed off her Sideboobs.
• Nay-Theist: In X-Men volume 4 she proclaims that the gods are real, and they didn't give M any virgins or feasting halls when she died, so she's using her second shot at life to spite them.
• Neck Lift: Was on the receiving end of a psychic one from a ticked Polaris until the latter was calmed down by Layla.
• New Powers as the Plot Demands
  • She develops telekinesis after Generation X
  • After the her "practical invulnerability" gets pushed to it's limit, she starts developing accelerated healing
  • The Penance body and it's relationship to Monet was originally described as a prison Emplate used to more easily control her. Her twin sisters had to enter it for her to exit it, it took considerable effort to get the M twins out in turn, and the Penance body then began operating independently as "Hollow", though editor Joe Quesada insisted "Hollow" in fact still had someone inside of her/it. House of X gave Monet the ability to summon and discard the Penance body at will, though not always entirely by will alone, as if she didn't have enough powers. Eat your heart out, Emma!
• Non-Idle Rich: She comes from an extremely wealthy family and doesn't need to work a day in her life, but decides to work as a heroine with other mutants just for her own ideals. She's also been a criminal investigator, a corporate executive and an ambassador.
• No Romantic Resolution: With Creed as of Weapon X (2017). They had a heartfelt convo while a giant heart loomed behind them◊ as Creed prepared to tell her something, but doesn't get the chance. The book ended with lobotomized Creed running into the Saskatchewan woods and Monet in Aspen wondering what happened to him, which is the last we see of their relationship. We also never learned what Creed wanted to tell her earlier.
• The Nothing After Death: When asked about her experience of being dead, she describes it as just being nothing. According to her, there's either this or Hell if you're lucky.
  Monet: Shut up!! There's no Heaven! Okay? There's no nothing! I know because I didn't see anything! That's what's waiting for you when you die! The emptiness of nothing! No puffy clouds! No angels! Just blackness and eternity, unless you're lucky enough to wind up in Hell so you can suffer forever! You got that?
• Not So Similar: One would be forgiven for thinking Monet to be a next-generation version of Emma Frost, as they both come from wealthy backgrounds, are rightfully snooty, and have psychic powers, along with a physical, diamond-hard form. However, Emma comes from new money, while Monet is from old money. Emma's diamond body is a natural part of her mutation, while the Penance form is a prison designed to punish Monet and she sees it as a renmant of abuse. Once the Monet was released from the Penance body, she made it clear that she strongly disapproves of Emma's criminal past and her affiliation with the Hellfire Club, and that she doesn't believe people can easily change their ways. This is likely why Monet was the first to alert the other students of how Emma might be slipping back into old behavior, which results in the closure of the Massachusetts Academy.
• Oblivious to Love: Guido & Darwin had obvious feelings for her but she didn't know until they confessed. Especially clueless with Guido whose kiss left her confused at how weird he was acting.
• Official Couple: Has been in one with Synch, then Sabretooth and then with (of all people) Quicksilver.
• Old Flame: What she is for Creed in Weapon X (2017). Many assumed they had a Secret Relationship in Uncanny X-Men (2016), but it's ambiguous. Here, Deathstrike follows that thought, calling her Creed's ex. Even though he got defensive at the insinuations, the Ship Tease very heavily implied lingering feelings, despite them not seeing each other in a few months to over a year.
• OOC Is Serious Business
  • The sand papered M wanting private time with Synch and the two being found holding hands. As it turns out, he was the first person she ever had romantic feelings for
  • After Synch dies, Monet angrily yells at Jubilee, who tears up and approaches Monet for a hug, which Monet accepts and reciprocates.
  • During X-Factor (2006), Darwin has a blatant and unrequited crush on her, so when she suddenly starts making moves on him, he realizes something's tremendously wrong. She's being controlled by Cortex and tries to murder him.
• Overly Long Name: Her full name is Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St. Croix.
• Parental Favoritism: She is the favored child of their father. When Nicole & Claudette thought she'd been killed, they merged and assumed her identity since their father wouldn't be able to bear losing Monet. This is partly why her brother has a grudge against her.
• Partial Transformation: As of House of X, she can shift part-way between her regular appearance and her Penance form, usually just going with the massive razor fingers.
• Passive-Aggressive Kombat: She likes to insult others while keeping a veneer and politeness and Condescending Calmness.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Do not make Monet mad, because the last thing needed is a telepathic Flying Brick with a desire for revenge.
  • An attempt to shoot headmaster Sean resulted in Monet catching the bullet and throwing it right back.
  • When a man in Paris led a pogrom against some Mutants than apparently left a young girl orphaned, Monet broke into his jail cell and impaled him to the wall with the bars, via his hands.
  • After Ballistique caused the death of Strong Guy, she used her telepathic powers to Mind Rape her into oblivion.
• Pet the Dog: At one point in X-Factor (2006) (during her most Jerkass phase), she buys a new iPhone, and after noticing Terry staring jealously at it, buys one for her as well, along with one for Layla Miller and Rahne (both of whom she really doesn't like)... and then crushes Rahne's in an act of spite for Rahne leaving.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: With Synch after he gets killed, and the cover for Weapon X (2017) 27 gave off this vibe with Creed◊.
• Politeness Judo: In Generation X, despite being unbearably smug and arrogant, she'd often get away with her behavior by acting politely with headmaster Sean and pretending she didn't know what she was doing.
• Pride: Her entire character is centered around the immense ego she acquired thanks to her privileged upbringing, great beauty and her vast powers.
• Privileged Rival: In Generation X, she was the privileged Alpha Bitch rival to Jubilee, an orphaned street urchin who was the closest thing to a protagonist as the relatable viewpoint character of the book.
• The Proud Elite: She was born into wealth and status, leading to her becoming haughty and arrogant. The fact she was born beautiful and with a Superpower Lottery only heightened her ego, to the point she's one of the few mutants with little angst over her mutant status and past.
• Proud Beauty: Monet is hot and she knows it. A lot of her ego seems to come from her beauty.
  Rictor: [about the X-Factor Investigations office] What a dump. Kind of a come-down for a high-toned girl like Monet St. Crox.
  Monet: Actually I've done wonders with beautifying the interior. To begin with, I moved in.
• Public Exposure: X-Factor (2006) shows she's posed nude for a Vanity Fair cover & taken at least one topless photo which Guido secretly carried around. Godiva Hair preserves her modesty in both of them.
• The Punishment: Emplate trapped her inside of Penance as punishment for her high-handed attitude towards him. The name even comes from him saying that the new form will be her penance for her attitude.
• Race Lift: Goes back & forth between black◊ & non-black◊. Her father is black in most depictions◊ but has been white in two cameos, adding to the confusion. She was most commonly black in Generation X, though she could be a much lighter shade of brown in any given panel, and progressively lost melanin after the book ended until she was pale white in the 2006 X-Factor series. Fans called out Peter David, even though he was the writer, not the artist, and Monet has usually gone back to fluctuating between different shades of brown skin since.
• Rich Bitch: She was born to a rich family and grew up being pampered and spoiled, which is the source of her abrasive and arrogant personality as a woman. She could be so entitled and unpleasant that she'd make Emma Frost (her teacher) look humble in comparison.
• The Rival: In Generation X, it seemed like the rookie M was a hotshot had everything money could buy, was good at everything she tried, and was eager to make comparative veteran Jubilee look worse. Then it was revealed Monet was being impersonated by her little sisters, who were only acting the way they figured Monet would, and were sweet to Jubilee once the ruse was discovered. Jubilee was eager to meet the real Monet only to learn she was even more insufferable than the sisters pretending to be her ever were. Monet proceeded to enter a more subtle rivalry with Emma Frost, who was Monet's equal in social class but not in social standing, since she was Montets teacher. M thought she was the one who should be teaching the White Queen! Jubilee and Monet bonded after Synch's death, with Monet still being mean to Jubilee, but no meaner than she is to anyone else and no longer actively trying to show Jubilee up. Montetand Emma's rivalry faded as Emma's sheer number of appearances without Monet around ticked up.
• Same Character, But Different: On two separate occasions. During X-Men vol 4 in 2014 and Pak's Weapon X (2017). Both books depicted her as a much nicer & more openly caring person, contrasting her typical Rich Bitch nature.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: She's not above throwing her considerably large bank account at a problem if need be.
• Second Love: Sabretooth was a possible case when the relationship existed. She was with Synch, Madrox, Strong Guy, and Darwin prior to him. Madrox ended as a short fling, Darwin was a one-night stand, and Synch is her First Love -leaving him & Guido.
  • Guido was too shy to confess his feelings until his death & resurrection, which left him with no soul. Monet renounced him for being a monster but went on a date with him after heavy persuasion on his end. The Bad Date began their descent into enemies but an alternate future shows that they could have become lovers if Monet had been understanding of Guido's actions on the date.
  • Creed was trickier due to different writers in Uncanny X-Men to Weapon X, along with cancellations. But he seems to be in the lead. They had a Belligerent Sexual Tension in Bunn's Uncanny with some insinuating there was more going on. Monet sometimes egged on the insinuations, as noted above with Psylocke. Pak took a comedy route & removed the belligerence, making them more awkward. However, when they finally address their fall-out, a giant heart loomed behind them◊, seemingly confirming their feelings.^note Bunn has called them a torturous love, which confirms the romantic insinuations were deliberate & that he saw them having feelings of love for each other. It's unknown if he was going for Ship Tease to a Relationship Upgrade or Subtext to a Relationship Reveal. An interview linked above in Filler points to the latter when he said it was a hinted romance.^note When Monet first comes up in Weapon X (2017), Deathstrike tells everyone she's Creed's ex-girlfriend which ran with the narrative of them being a couple in Uncanny. Due to Pak's more comedic take, Creed & Monet are more awkward with each other and get defensive about their relationship. Meanwhile in Uncanny, as noted, neither of them ever denied any insinuations. So while takes were different, Pak & Bunn combined did seem to write Monet and Creed as having serious feelings for one another.
• Serial Escalation: Part of her purpose in Generation X is to be brattier than Jubilee ever was
• Sex for Solace: Slept with Darwin at the end X-Factor (2006) because she was numb after being brought back from the dead and used him as a way to feel something again.
• Sex Goddess: After an incident where at the same night Madrox slept with Siryn while a clone of his seduced Monet, Rictor became curious and asked Madrox how they compared, and Madrox admitted Monet was wilder and better in bed than Siryn -comparing the latter to an ocean wave washing over you while Monet is the monsoon. Monet herself is smugly aware of her sexual prowess and later tries to trick Madrox into admitting that she's better in bed than Siryn.
• Shapeshifter Mode Lock: During the first third of Generation X, she is locked in her Penance form, courtesy of her brother. And since she's mute, she can't tell it to anyone.
• Ship Sinking:
  • She has a lot of Ship Tease with Guido / Strong Guy in X-Factor (2006), but it all came to an end during a bad first date which is summed up during their argument◊. It also officially ends whatever cordial relationship they had left. That soon after he killed a kid to become the Lord of Hell just to save her didn't help her opinion of him.
  • Darwin confessed his love at the end of X-Factor (2006) & was coldly rejected. Monet slept with him but it's made clear sex was all she wanted, and Darwin admitted to himself she didn't love him after their night together.
  • Sabretooth getting reverted to his evil self put a lid on anything he & Monet could have had. It doesn't help that she also doesn't know where he is or whatever happened to him after seeing him get killed in Weapon X (2017).
• Ship Tease: A long one with Sabretooth in Bunn's Uncanny X-Men (2016) & Pak's Weapon X (2017). The biggest fuel was Everyone Can See It, as shown above. However, other teases are as follows.
  • Monet has two instances of Eating the Eye Candy when it comes to him◊. As we see in one instance, she openly admits to doing so.
  • When he finds Monet in limbo, he mentions working with Rachel, whom he sent back so he could talk with her alone. Monet asks if he's protecting his new friend, then gives a threatening grin while admitting she doesn't like it.
  • The extent of Creed's protectiveness of her, which he's only shown with lovers. Not counting his mother.
  • When talking about Emplate, Creed says it seems like she feels sorry for him. Digging at him slightly, M flippantly admits to having a soft spot for monsters before nudging him aside while mockingly calling him "frail", a name he used with her against her wishes.
  • A debatable moment comes up which is similar to the above. Creed talks about Psylocke dancing across a midfield dealing with Archangel. Monet smirks & comments that he of all people should appreciate someone having a soft spot for the dormant killer.
  • After her Emplate curse, Creed goes to her room to speak with her, kneeling down & tenderly cupping her face as he does so◊, which is usually a more intimate gesture in fiction.
  • Weapon X (2017) has a possible Interrupted Declaration of Love from Creed, who just wants to say -but he's cut off by Omega Red. Also, during the scene, there's a giant heart behind them◊, which only adds to the romantic insinuation.
  • After Creed tells everyone of the mission to save Monet, Yuriko concludes that she's Victor's ex-girlfriend, which Domino instantly finds adorable.
  • Domino ships them & gushes at Victor's apparent feelings for M. The only reason she stayed on the team was to save M when she learned of her history with Creed.
  • She later has a somewhat Love Informant ramble to M when telling her how Creed wanted to save her and nobody believed his flustered argument that she was just a friend.
  • Finally there's the aforementioned Weapon X (2017) cover in Please, Don't Leave Me.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Synch, Madrox, Strong Guy, and Inverted Sabretooth.
• Skewed Priorities: Shows this on occasion, which money & Super-Toughness can do. One example in 'X-Factor (2006) is when she was shot by an assailant & more concerned about the damage to her shirt than the fact someone was shooting at her.
• Smash Sisters: In X-Factor (2006), she and Siryn often end up pairing and fighting together and Siryn is her closest friend in XF-Investigation and refuses to let their brief Love Triangle with Madrox damage their relationship. When Siryn disbands the Detroit branch of X-Factor in depression, Monet is the only one to accompany her to Ireland.
• Statistically Speaking: In the comic books, M being annoyingly perfect and fully aware of it is a Running Gag. Stronger than Strong-Guy? Sure. More indestructible than Colossus? Why not? Faster than Banshee? What can't she do? Her official power ratings in the Marvel handbook are surprisingly low.
• Smug Super: Why, yes, Monet does know she's a super-strong, gorgeous, rich woman, and she's not about to hide it from anyone. She is also known as the girl who had everything (including being so good-looking that some people thought it was a mutant power) and being arrogant with it. It was especially galling during the time after House of M when so many mutants lost their powers. Monet still had her multiple powers and would go around showing off her flight. Depowered but still grotesque Dreg-level mutants in Mutant Town would yell at her to stop flaunting as it offended them, but she'd tell them off and keep on showing them up.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: Monet used to be genuinely arrogant, for which her brother punished her for years with the Penance body. After her sisters granted Monet freedom by taking her place in the Penance body, Monet began forcing herself to look down on others while revel in her gifts and privileges, partly out of defiance towards her brother, and partly because it's the only way she knows how to stave off the suicidal tendencies her time as a captive brought about.
• Status Quo Is God: After twenty one years of no longer being "Penance", which was retconned as a prison body she was free of, going by "M" or "Monet" as herself, Johnathan Hickman "revealed" that the Penance body is something she can take on willingly, and Monet returns to being known as Penance.
• Stupid Sexy Flanders: Monet is so pretty that no matter how skinny or muscular she gets she attracts guys who prefer women of the opposite body type, and even draws the attention of heterosexaul women, and homosexual men. Some have speculated jokingly, others seriously, enhancing her attractiveness is one of Monet's mutant powers.
• Suddenly Ethnicity: In X-Factor (2006), she defends her religion at an anti-Muslim protest. She openly identifies as Muslim, saying her mother was Algerian and most Algerians are Muslims. Other than this, she shows no Muslim practices or beliefs, and in fact expressed some anti religious or at least anti spirtual opinions. Some Muslims do claim the status solely due to it being the faith they were born into and won't pratice anything commanded by the Sunnah short of being forced to at gunpoint, similar to how many Jews aren't religious but still call themselves Jews. It has historically made trade and political manuevering far easier, and would fit with Monet's upper class roots, but Muslims of this type usually aren't vocal defenders of the faith either, for obvious reasons.
• Super Mode: During House of X #4, she prepares to fight off the Orchis by transforming into Penance! She then proceeds to slash her way through the army.
• Supermodel Strut: She's described as walking as if she was on a catwalk, fitting with her being a Proud Beauty.
• Superpower Lottery: She has Flight, Super-Strength, Super-Speed, Super-Toughness, Super-Reflexes, Telepathy, telescopic vision, night vision, mutant aura vision, enhanced hearing, a perfect memory, genius intellect and in later stories full-on telekinesis. Since running into the rare foe that can hurt her, she's developed accelerated healing. She can merge with her siblings or her siblings could merge to form her, and the siblings had powers of their own. During House of X, she developed the ability to freely transform into Penance, the razor-sharp, clawed body. Domino calls out this when she says it's like Monet was caught in an explosion at a super-power factory.
• Super-Toughness: Bullets bounce off of her, but if she faces something strong enough, she can be injured such as the internal damage she suffered by Pluto, and when Strong Guy got serious in their battle, his blows finished her off by hitting her where she was still recovering from Pluto.
• Tangled Family Tree: By X-Men standards, the St. Croix family tree isn't that tangled - there's Monet, her creepy evil brother, and their three little sisters (where ever they've gotten to). The Penance body remaining in existence after all the St. Croix siblings are free from it, and starting to move on its own, her own, and developing loyalties to the X-teams complicates things, however. Some materials have also suggested she's related to Bishop somehow, and he's got his own tangled family tree...
• Team Prima Donna: During Generation X, she was such a Spoiled Brat she'd frequently question the teaching methods and knowledge of her own teachers Banshee and Emma, much to their irritation.
• Tears of Remorse: When Guido is shot during an anti-mutant protest, a horrified Monet flies him to the hospital, shedding a few tears. While in the waiting room, she completely broke down, telling Siryn it was all her fault.
• Throwing Off the Disability: Originally the Penance body was a punishment that rendered Monet mute. She's since made her her own, voice and all.
• Time-Delayed Death: After being clobbered by Hades, she's revealed to be dying from brain hemorrhaging.
• Token Flyer: In Generation X, Monet was the only one of the kids who could fly without assistance. Synch said Chamber should have been able to fly after doing so when copying his powers, but given their different body types, it's possible Chamber truly can't use his own abilities in such a manner, and Synch is powerless on his own.
• Toplessness from the Back: Twice in X-Factor (2006). The first time is when she is stripping naked in her room while dancing to Right Said Fred's "I'm Too Sexy". The second is when she, while under Cortex's control, is trying to seduce Darwin, stripping down to nothing.
• Tsundere: Type A, as shown in Hidden Heart of Gold. Also when she cries to Jamie after empathizing with an abuse victim & threatening to clobber him if he told anyone about her weak moment.
• Ultimate Lifeform: She has been called "the perfect human/mutant" by various parties, including Professor Charles Xavier, due to her mix of Flying Brick, Telepathy, and other powers, in addition to her beauty, intelligence, and physical fitness, with all of her physical attributes superior to humans and even other mutants. Jubilee would mockingly say that Monet's power was "being perfect", something that Monet matter of factly agreed with.
• Undying Loyalty: For all her faults in Generation X, she actually became fairly close and loyal to her mentor Banshee / Sean, to the point she only got involved again in X-Men business for his sake after her father almost convinced her to leave that type of life behind.
• Vanity Is Feminine: Her entire character is centered around being proud, egocentric, and vain, so it's no coincidence she's a fairly feminine woman.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Has a bickering dynamic with the majority of her friends, such as Sean Cassidy, Jubilee, Siryn, and Madrox, as she's Rich Bitch who has a hard time showing affection to anyone but close family.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: She learned how to control her Penance form during the Krakoa era, and since then she's been able to freely shapeshift into her Penance form at will.
• Walk on Water: Does this at one point after she declares herself a Muslim, using her flight powers. It doesn't escape the notice of the Presbyterian Wolfsbane, who asks if she's doing so to deliberately offend.
• Wardrobe Wound: It's a Running Gag that since she's a Flying Brick with Super-Toughness, attacks rarely harm her, but they do destroy and ruin her clothes whenever she's not wearing her hero costume.
• Women Prefer Strong Men: As noted above, she eats the Creed eye candy when he's unpacking the Blackbird, even telling him to come on so she can continue to do so while he's doing the heavy lifting.
• Woman Scorned: When she finds out Madrox was with her and Siryn simultaneously (via Self-Duplication), she clobbers the messenger dupe and then demands Madrox bring out the one who seduced her. Since he couldn't will certain dupes into existence, she clobbers him to force out more dupes and beats them all until she can get the right one.

Jonothon "Jono" Evan Starsmore / Chamber

Notable Aliases: Decibel, The Blue Banshee, Blue Boy

Nationality: British, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Generation X #1 (November, 1994)

A London native whose power has horribly disfigured his face and upper torso, Jono has long struggled with being a mutant and the expectations that come with being an X-Man. He is one of several descendants of Apocalypse, although he rejects that heritage and wants nothing to do with Clan Akkaba.

• Back from the Dead: He was killed by Harpoon of the Marauders while burning them to death for killing several Morlocks, but was returned to life a few months later by the Five on the newly founded mutant nation of Krakoa.
• Badass Longcoat: He is quite fond of them, and most of his official X-Men uniforms include a longcoat.
• Blessed with Suck: Chamber's mutation gave him the ability to emit fire from his mouth and chest area. His inability to turn it off eventually completely destroyed his lower jaw and most of his chest. He didn't really feel any pain from it, but he's still missing his jaw and has a nearly completely exposed ribcage.
• Breath Weapon: Though he can't turn it off and it caused him to lose his lower jaw.
• Brought Down to Normal: Lost his powers and his deformity during the Decimation.
• Clark Kenting: He wears a thick coat and a gater mask. This in truth would be a decent enough disguise for just about anyone else but Chamber, who is missing most of his face anyone and thus not hiding much of anything to anyone who has gotten a good look at him. Despite these facts, it mostly works, for some reason. He is one of the few x-mutants to keep it up even after Charles Xavier is outed as a mutant by Cassandra Nova, to keep it up even into the Krakoan Era, when Krakoa returns to use his body to give mutants their own island nation, which Chamber joins!
• Childhood Friend Romance: With Jubilee in the 2017 Generation X series. They share a kiss at one point, along with other tender scenes. In the final chapter, Paige tells him that he and Jubilee look good together. The current status of their relationship is unclear since his death at the hands of Harpoon and subsequent revival on Krakoa.
• Classical Anti-Hero: He's very powerful and genuinely altruistic. He's also bitter, sardonic and a bit of a social outcast, even before one factors in that his "powers" come from an x-factor gene, and thus come with fear and loathing from the general populace who are concerned with being "replaced", even before one takes into account his "gifts" not only disfigure him but highlight his disfigurement. Nobody wants to be Chamber, even if he is powerful.
• Disability Superpower: He's got the "power" of surviving without his mouth, neck and most of his frontal torso. He can't be suffocated, because he's already past the point of needing to breathe.
• Energy Being: He's mostly an energy being, with what's left of his biological body being a "chamber" for that psionic energy
• Green-Eyed Monster: Synch uses Chambers powers "better" than Chamber does, with his first try, both achieving flight and not blowing off his jaw. This is implied to be because Synch is merely copying the abilites, not actually taking on Chambers "true" form, but it also implies Chamber isn't using his abilities to his fullest, and after years of trying, still isn't getting there.
• Handicapped Badass: He's lost most of his lower jaw and chest, but he's a competent fighter in spite of his injuries.
• Hard Light: During his brief stint with the New Warriors, Jono wore a sonic rig that could turn sound into energy constructs.
• How Do I Shot Web?: He would be able to reconstruct his face, if he knew how.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: After losing a huge amount of his body, you can't blame him.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Through character development.
• Luke, I Am Your Father: He's a distant descendant of Apocalypse, and post-Decimation he got the markings to prove it (turns out they were always there; he blew out everything from mouth-level to midriff, and didn't get healed until some years later, real-world time. To everyone's shock, he was restored with... an Apocalypse-like jaw and the markings of Apocalypse's followers on his chest. He basically said something to the effect of "When did I ever ask to be healed?").
• Power Degeneration: He had an explosive power that blew off his jaw and upper chest prior to joining the team. Using his power slowly widened the explosive area, he near literally had part of his face and chest "on fire".
• Power Limiter: During his time with Generation X, it was hinted a (and even explicitly stated in a novel by writer Scott Lobdell) that he was only ever accessing a fraction of his true potential, which is something approaching the level of X-Man or Phoenix. The reason for why he doesn't seems to be psychological. However, this has never been fully explored since Lobdell left the X-Books.
• Psychic Powers: He needs them to talk.
• Required Secondary Powers: Not needing to eat, breathe or drink as well as communicating telepathically. In fact, his name comes from the fact that he is a chamber for raw psionic energy. (The fire being psionic energy is also why he gets thought speak... which is actually a really fine-tune use of his power for someone who otherwise can only blow things up with it.)
• Status Quo Is God: Both were brought back during the "Age Of X" storyline (Thanks to a Reality Warper), and remained even after things were returned to normal.
• Telepathy: Speaking without physically being able to talk only. Even the separated M twins are more versatile than Chamber on this front.

Penance / Hollow

Notable Aliases: Penance, M, Monet St. Croix, Penny, Yvette

Nationality: British, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Generation X #1 (November, 1994) ^note Monet as Penance; Generation X #40 (July, 1998) ^note Twins as Penance; Generation X #57 (September, 1999) ^note Third Penance

• Absurdly Sharp Blade: Pretty much all of her is this.
• Blessed with Suck: Even her skin is diamond sharp, so unless she's around people with Super-Toughness, skin to skin contact has to be fleeting and done with utmost caution. Even those who can handle her skin might still be cut by her hair, and even those who hand that, by her claws, and all over her being so sharp limits her ability to interact with common human tools. Also, she's mute.
• Comic-Book Limbo: What became of the Penace body following first Avengers Academy series is anyone's guess. With Hickman giving Monet the ability to freely take on a less restrictive Penance form in House of X, during the Krakoan era, where the gimmick was bringing back as many characters as possible no less, it's doubtful the possibly empty Penance body will ever resurface, though she occassionally appears in flashbacks, including the Red Goblin series, of all places!
• Conflicting Loyalties: Hollow joins the Avengers Academy, and has fun with the rest of the students. When the Avengers attack the Jean Grey School and start detaining the students, however, Hollow's allegiance shifts to Cyclops.
• Dark Age of Supernames: Penance was mildly antagonistic at first, but joins the team quickly and is by the X-Men's increasingly unorthodox standards, is a super hero, despite not sounding so heroic
• Legacy Character: The Penance body has had several inhabitants. In her original Mysterious Past Wild Child form, she was revealed to be the true Monet St. Croix. She was freed only by her sisters (see below) taking up residence. When they were freed, the body was thought to be empty... yet eventually began to act on its own, but later scratched the word "home" to show that whoever she is now, she still sees Gen X as her friends. There is little attempt to answer the "did the body become sentient on its own, or is yet someone else stuck in there, and if so, who?" question.
• Nigh-Invulnerability: She's hard as diamond and as tough as steel
• Non-Malicious Monster: "Penny/Hollow" has hurt many people, mostly because she was being forced to by a super villain her because she was scared and she doesn't have an easy was of communicating to other that her body is inherently dangerous, or her appearance is so off putting to those seeing her for the first time that no attempt at deescalation is made.
• One-Steve Limit: Was Penance until Speedball became Penance, then she became Hollow.
• The Punishment: She was the result of Emplate's punishment of M for being too arrogant.
• Retcon: What her true identity was revealed to be was far from the original plan. She was at first to be a Yugoslavian captive and subordinate of the bone marrow eating predator Emplate, unrelated to the St. Croix family otherwise, with Monet not even being a real person but someone the twins made up.
• Soulless Shell: After the M-Twins were freed from her body.
• Tangled Family Tree: The St. Croix family when she was M and then the twins.
• Too Many Belts: Her uniform is nothing but belts.
• Touch of Death: Not to Rogue's level, let alone Wither's, but she's every bit as razor-sharp as she looks, and the material she's made of is also rather dense, said to be diamond-hard. Though nobody would ever come out and say she's Wolverine-level in this respect, she is the go-to person for slashing apart the otherwise-undamageable bad thing and has had some impressive feats. This makes touching anyone without gravely harming them quite difficult.
• The Voiceless: Originally she was a mute girl. It is later "revealed" that muteness is part of the punishment that comes with the penace body, so those trapped in it cannot call for help.
• Wolverine Claws: On her hands, feet and hair. Functionally, they're supposed to make sign language or building tools of escape difficult, though there's precious little Penace can't hack apart.

Mondo

Nationality: Samoan, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Generation X #3 (January, 1995)

• Advertised Extra: Appeared in promotion material before the series started, including some bonus pages appearing in issue #1, but did not appear as part of the team until issue #11, had only two brief stints on the team and his character was rarely focused on, usually as a villain.
• Big Beautiful Man: Though Scott Lobdell claimed he was more "big boned".
• Big Fun: He’s mostly a Nice Guy now and is treated as if he and his clone were one and the same by the Gen X team.
• Combo Platter Powers: Depending upon what he absorbs.
• Extra-ore-dinary: He can copy the texture of metal to increase his strength and toughness
• Heel–Face Turn: Upon the establishment of the mutant nation of Krakoa, Mondo moved there with Black Tom Cassidy. He has since struck up a friendship with several of the New Mutants and Chamber.
• Material Mimicry: He can copy the properties of various substances.
  • Chrome Champion: If he copies the texture of metal.
  • Dishing Out Dirt: He can turn into rock or earth if he copies it.
• The Mole: Mondo's clone in the Massachusetts Academy was not a friend to the student body, though he pretended to be. The student body largely retains this "friendship" when they meet the real one, but he doesn't know them
• Only Known by Their Nickname: It's not clear if Mondo is really his name or it's just his codename.
• Sizeshifter: He can change the composition of his body and take in more matter he has copied the texture of to increase his mass.
• Super-Strength: He's a very big and strong guy, and he can change the composition of his body to increase his mass by taking in more matter.
• Wild Samoan: The real Mondo isn't a fellow Generation X student but a wild child who doesn't know the team and thus rejects their friendly advances, fighting on the side of Black Tom Cassidy.

Nicole and Claudette St. Croix / The M-Twins / M-Plate

Nationality: Algerian

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Generation X #31 (October, 1997)

• Ambiguously Brown: Like their sister Monet, their skin changes from tone depending on the series, though their less prone dropping all the way to pasty white.
• Ambiguous Gender: As M-Plate, a fusion that involves their brother.
• Becoming the Mask: When they were impersonating Monet/M. Though, when looking back, there were telltale signs that something about Monet just didn't add up. Such as a complete refusal to allow anyone to read her mind, as well as occasional behavior that would be far more appropriate for a child rather than a teenager, such as being interested in climbing trees, etc.
• Big Sister Worship: Both twins think Monet is the most amazing person in the world to the point where they are completely willing to give up their autonomy in order to preserve Monet's existence. They do so again when they fuse into the Penance body to allow the real Monet to be free from it.
• Cheerful Child: They act very mean as Monet, but when they stop pretending to be her the twins turn out to be pretty kind and affectionate, while it turns out they fell short of how insufferable Monet actually is.
• Demoted to Extra: The only members of the St. Croix clan to not return after Generation X ended, despite having been who we thought of as Monet for quite some time. They have shown up again following the Inversions debacle, but mostly in bit parts acting as satellite characters to Monet.
• Didn't See That Coming: Their near perfect immitation of Monet was exposed when a blast from a new stealthy model of "Prime Sentinel" broke their Fusion Dance apart.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Jubilee was part of the X-Men team that saved "Monet" from the Phalanx, and "Monet" quickly set out at proving she was better than Jubilee. This turned out to be a depressingly accurate interpretation of how Monet would really behave, only the twins weren't condescending enough!
• Fusion Dance: All four St Croix siblings share this ability to merge into new lifeforms by combining with one another.
• Heroic Sacrifice: To free the true Monet from the Penance body, they had to take up residence in it themselves.
• Hollywood Autism: Claudette's autism diagnosis amounts to her being mute, having a Kubrick Stare as her default expression, and only rarely acting on anything. When they merged to form Monet, the most immediately apparent difference between them was "Monet" suddenly having "catatonic blackouts" that their father attributed to trauma, after the twins "disappeared". Thus "Monet" got enrolled in the Xavier Institute, and transfered to the Massachusetts Academy, joining Generation X.
• Irritation Is the Sincerest Form of Flattery: After Monet develops the ability to transform into a Penance body form of mostly her own free will, Nicole and Claudette follow suit with their own miniature Penance forms. Something they do in them is shown to cause Monet to yell at them in a Funny Background Event.
• Parental Favoritism: While Monet was the presumbed favorite child of their father, the twins were the favored children of their mother. Unfortunately, their mother died before their father, and when they thought Monet died, they decided to take her place for his sake
• Polar Opposite Twins: Nicole's your normal talkative 8-year old, but Claudette suffers from what is referred to as autism but presents more as "perpetually staring in a given direction, but insanely powerful on the rare occasion that she acts."
• Put on a Bus: Cartier transfered all three sisters out of the Massachusetts Academy, so that he could start taking better care of his kids. Monet returned, Nicole and Claudette did not.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: "Monet" is egostistical and snide because that's how Claudette and Nicole believe Monet would be, and they miss her deeply.
• Tangled Family Tree: Worse when part of your powers is merging with any family member to become a whole new person who isn't the sum of your parts. The Penance body remaining in existence and beginning to act independently of both Monet and the twins is what cements their family as an example of this trope.
• Telepathy: They share their older sister's telepathic powers. Synch syncing with their telepathy allowed him to discover Monet was in the Penance body, after the twins learned from Emplate but refused to share their finding with anyone else.
• Thinking Up Portals: The twins can create portals to other planes of reality, which they used to banish their brother, Marius, and his "red pet", blaming Marius for the death of their mother, declaring him not welcome after their father had thrown him out of the house, and not realizing the red thing was Monet.
• Uncanny Family Resemblance: The twins look indistinguishable from Monet when they merge.

Leech

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #179 (March, 1984)

• Amazing Technicolor Population: He has green skin.
• Bad Powers, Good People: Negating powers within your near vicinity normally would be a dangerous ability, but Leech is a pretty nice person.
• Break the Cutie: Poor Leech has been through a lot of hell, from being a survivor of Morlock Massacre to an unwilling pawn used for de-powering mutants by a villain.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Artie for a while. Then with Franklin Richards, whom he's roommates with in the Future Foundation.
• Only One Name: His true name is completely unknown, so he only goes by his mutant name Leech.
• Power Incontinence: Accidentally de-powering those who were trying to save him was a big problem for him. He has gained some control as time goes on.
• Power Nullifier: Leech has the ability to suppress energy around him, this includes electrical energy and a mutant's ability.

Arthur "Artie" Maddicks

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Factor #2 (March, 1986)

• Amazing Technicolor Population: Artie has pink skin.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Leech.
• Mind Over Matter: Had limited telepathy to "mind-lock" people and prevent them from acting.
• Those Two Guys: With Leech during Generation X. Even after losing his powers, he kept hanging with Leech during their days in the Future Foundation.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Artie can telepathically project images from his mind.

Franklin Benjamin Richards

Notable Aliases: Powerhouse, Avatar, Ego-Spawn, Frankie, Hyperstorm, Kid Franklin, Psi-Lord, Richard Franklin, Squirt, Tattletale

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant, currently disguised as depowered human mutate

First Appearance: Fantastic Four Annual #6 (November, 1968)

Gaia

Nationality: American

Species: Alien mutant

First Appearance: Generation X #37 (April, 1998)

• The Ageless: Claims to have visited Earth 600 years ago, and looks to be in her early/mid-twenties.
• Kid from the Future: Or rather, from an alternate dimension.
• Last of Her Kind: Claims to be the sole survivor of her home galaxy.
• Power Dyes Your Hair: She had to warp reality to get it to turn pink naturally.
• Put on a Bus: She joined during Larry Hama's run, leaves the school shortly into Jay Faerber's to experience the world, and hasn't been seen since.

Clarice Ferguson / Blink

Nationality: Bahamian, American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #317 (October, 1994)

Japheth / Maggott

Nationality: South African, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #345 (June, 1997)

Marius St. Croix / Emplate / M-Plate

Nationality: Algerian

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Generation X #1 (November, 1994)

• Affably Evil: Emplate resents Monet St. Croix, but most mutants are simply meals to make last as long as possible, no hard feelings. He knows the process is unpleasant and will try to make it somewhat bearable until the victim inevitably dies, provided they aren't friends or associates of Monet's anyway.
• Ambiguous Gender: As M-Plate, a fusion that includes two of his sisters, while Marius himself is male
• Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Played against him. When Emplate kidnapped Escapade from the Avengers Academy, she was fully under the impression that he was going to creepily put the moves on her, since she was being offered a dress and dinner. Emplate immediately confirms that while he has every intention of using her as a food and power source, he will not sexually violate her because he doesn't swing that way.
• Assimilation Plot: As M-Plate, he plans to make use of a machine meant to fuse all sapient consciousnesses together, which Gaia lost her own galaxy over refusing to let previous would be visionaries make use of.
• Big Bad: He's behind a lot of other Generation X villains, commanding mutants from all over the world, as well as the villain of an Avengers Academy arc. He also become a third of perhaps the greatest threat the original Generation X ever faces, when he merges with two of his sisters to become M-Plate.
• Big Brother Instinct: Monet is a part of Magneto's X-team in Uncanny X-Men and works closely with the reformed Sabretooth, whom she seemed attracted to. During their fight, Emplate threatens to gut Monet & warns her that Sabretooth would do it eventually. She responds in kind.
  M: That's kind of sweet. Looking down your trunk-like nose at the boys your little sister hangs around. Now that you've done your brotherly duty, you can leave.
• The Beautiful Elite: Before his transformation, Marius as just as attractive◊ as everyone else in his family. Interestingly enough, the loss of his beauty is one of his lesser complaints.
• Blessed with Suck: While powerful, if he didn't feed on enough marrow, he'd eventually be drawn back into an Eldritch Location where he would be horribly tortured by the creatures therein. Despite this, he seemed to have fun being evil.
• Bookworm: Emplate reveals that, upon feeling he was the least valued of his three siblings, he retreated into literature, which likely explains his penchant for Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness.
• Cain and Abel: He sees to ruin the life of Monet, his sister, because she is not only the favorite child of his father, but she is insufferably arrogant, unlike Claudette and Nicole, the favored children of his mother. While he will kill Monet if it seems like a good idea at the time, he mostly has designs of making her suffer for as long as it takes to teach her humility.
• Combo Platter Powers: He has hand mouths that let him suck out a target's bone marrow, as well as various Mind Manipulation abilities and dimensional crossing tricks
• Dark Lord on Life Support: He wears that mask because breathing on Earth starts to become difficult for him if he goes too long on it without eating enough mutant bone marrow
• Dreadlock Warrior: Though it's not usually apparent, as the Emplate transformation has robbed Marius's hair of it's color and Afro texture, when he starts regaining his more human traits his hair becomes dreadlocks, and he's still a dangerous individual.
• The Exile: First he was kicked off the family property and barred from interacting with the rest of his blood relatives again, after Marius played a role in the death of his mother, Jamila, and refused to explain what it was to his father, Cartier. Then he was banished from the space-time Earth 616 resides by his sisters, Nicole and Claudette, after they caught Marius violating his exile and presumed that he had done something to Monet. Cartier eventually welcomes Marius back, after Marius final explains what his role Jamila's death was, but he has since twice managed to get himself booted again.
• Fusion Dance: Emplate + The M-Twins = M-Plate.
• Horror Hunger: His mutation causes him an immense hunger for the bone marrow of other mutants. And while he can feed on others, it does not provide him any true satisfaction.
• I'm a Humanitarian: But only for mutant bone marrow.
• I Am a Monster: Emplate outright describes himself as being a monster when he introduces himself in the narration of an issue that provides further details of his backstory. Though he was responsible for the death of his mother, it was not intentional.
• Lovecraftian Superpower: Uses his fanged mouths in the palms to see and "read" mutant auras, and feed on mutant marrow.
• Monochromatic Eyes: Usually downplayed, as Emplate usually has pupils, but there are rarely any whites in his eyes.
• Our Vampires Are Different: A vampire who feeds not on blood but bone marrow, favoring the bone marrow of humans with the x-factor gene in particular. Very similar to that of Selene, as well as being a practitioner of dark magic. Unlike her, however, Marius is more interested in sating his hunger rather than being a figure of egomaniacal adoration.
• Picky People Eater: He thinks subsisting on bone marrow is far worse than drinking blood, but bone marrow is what his body requires, and mutant bone marrow is what gets him the best results. And he specifically likes mutants who not only have high levels of invulnerability, but literal, hard bodies such as Penance, Bling, and Mettle.
• Power Copying: After feeding on mutant marrow.
• Power Palms: Used in feeding on mutants.
• Pragmatic Villainy: The only food that actually makes Emplate feel full and lets him comfortably exist on the mortal plane is the bone marrow of humans with the X-Factor gene. The island nation of Krakoa was founded in response to visions of the future where humans with the x-factor gene are wiped off the face of the Earth. Emplate wants to stay on Earth as long as he can and eat mutant bone marrow for its own sake besides, so living on and doing what he can to ensure the success of the island nation of Krakoa is in Emplate's vested interest, even before he becomes aware of many other benefits of citizenship.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes are usually red, and he's among the most persistent enemies of Generations X, having also menaced other X-teams and the Avengers Academy.
• Riches to Rags: The St Croix are an incredibly wealthy, well-connected and respected family. They live in *Monaco,* of all places and Monet once mentioned the family tours the infamously privileged French Riviera. Unfortunately, once his mutation manifested itself and he killed his mother in a fit of hunger, Marius was exiled from the family home.
• Tragic Monster: In the Avengers Academy Infinity series, more of Marius' backstory is revealed, and he outright describes himself as being a monster.
• The Un-Favourite: Though he is the oldest of the four children, Marius was aware that Monet was his father's favorite, and it took its toll on their relationship.

George Baker / D.O.A.

Notable Aliases: DOA

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutate

First Appearance: Generation X #1 (November, 1994)

• Amazing Technicolor Population: He has grey skin.
• Battle Butler: For Emplate.
• Fun with Acronyms: No one knows its meaning, however.
• Teleportation: Has a lepton imploder (an interdimensional portal maker) in his jacket.

Oswald Boeglin/Bulwark

Nationality: German

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Generation X #12 (December, 1995)

A German mutant recruited by Emplate to attack Generation X

• Dumb Muscle: He was super strong but wasn’t very smart, as M was able to trick him by guiding him to Leech so he would lose his powers temporary.
• Gratuitous German: He was constantly using German expressions during his fight against M.
• Killed Off for Real: After years in limbo, he ended being one of the many victims of Weapon X’s Neverland.

Vincente Cimetta/Vincente

Nationality: Italian

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Generation X #12 (December, 1995)

A mutant recruited by Emplate to attack Generation X

• Canon Immigrant: He originally debuted in the pages of Age of Apocalypse.
• Elemental Shapeshifter: He could turn himself into any kind of liquid or gas.
• Giver of Lame Names: He originally introduced himself as Misty, only to quickly say that it was a joke.
• Super Smoke: Vincente could turn his body into any kind of gas, from knockout to poisonous.

Allan Rennie/Murmur

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Generation X #12 (December, 1995)

A mutant recruited by Emplate to attack Generation X

• Body Horror: He has a large mouth on his chest.
• Mummy: He is completely covered in bandages.
• Put on a Bus: He only appeared once during Emplate’s group attack at the group. Years later was confirmed to be depowered during M-day.
• Teleportation: His mutant power. He could open portals within his line of sight.

Adrienne Frost / White Queen II

Notable Aliases:

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Generation X #48 (December, 1998)

Sebastion Gilberti / Bastion

Notable Aliases: Arnold Rodriguez, Master Mold, Nicholas Hunter, Nimrod, Template

Nationality:

Species: Sentinel

First Appearance: X-Men (Vol. 2) #52 (May, 1996)

Thomas "Tom" Samuel Eamon Cassidy / Black Tom Cassidy

Notable Aliases: Barrington, White Bishop

Nationality: Irish, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men #99 (June, 1976)

Chimera

Notable Aliases: Gaslight Frail

Species: Human mutate

First Appearance: Wolverine (Vol. 2) #97 (January, 1996)

Dirtnap

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Wolverine (Vol. 2) #95 (November, 1995)

• Because You Were Nice to Me: The reason why he ended siding with Generation X against M-Plate. During their travel to save Synch, they saved Dirtnap a couple of times, much to his surprise, and Penance shared some food with him (cheese ironically).
• Chest Insignia: His smiley face follows him on everything he transforms into.
• Collector of Forms: A mutant shapeshifter who has to absorb someone before he can shapeshift into their likeness. Back in his first appearance in Wolverine, trying to absorb Logan didn't work, as Wolverine's healing factor easily outpaced the absorption process and Dirtnap had to retreat.
• You Dirty Rat!: A rat is his default transformation. It is not his original form.

Bianca LaNeige

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutate

First Appearance: Generation X #40 (July, 1998)

• Arc Villainess: She is the villainess of issues 40 and 42 through 44, but has not appeared since that point.
• Casual Interstellar Travel: She gained access to this after enslaving Innocent Aliens
• Cleavage Window: Her outfit comes with one.
• Corrupted Character Copy: She's Snow White if she didn't wait for a huntsman, seven dwarfs, forty giants, desert bandits, three dragons or a prince to save her from the Evil Queen, but became as evil as that queen in the process of fighting back. If she didn't relent even as that queen became a little less evil and lost interest in her.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive: She has resorted to illegal business practices to regain enough of a fortune to fund her revenge against Emma Frost.
• Didn't See That Coming: LaNeige strove to give herself Psychic Powers so that she could beat Frost at her own game, only for LaNeige and Frost's psychic powers to both short out due to Psylocke's battle with the Shadow King, resulting in Emma defeating Bianca in hand to hand combat, which Emma had becoming better trained in thanks to her affiliation with the X-Men.
• Evil Albino: Biance has lost most of her melanin, including all of her skin pigmentation, save her lips, which are blood red.
• He Who Fights Monsters: In seeking to defeat a member of the Hellfire Club, Bianca has in turn become a member of the Hellfire Club every bit as nasty as Emma Frost used to be
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Both as a member of the Hellfire Club, and after returning from, well, hell.
• Light Is Not Good: She's as white as Emma Frost's clothing, and almost as bad as Emma Frost used to be
• Meaingful Name: Her name basically translates into "Snow White", and she's at odds with a semi reformed queen of evil who nonetheless wrong Bianca for no other reason than for her own selfish ambitions.
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Has red eyes and she's a dangerous woman.
• Rich Bitch: Just as rich as Emma, and quite the bitch.
• The Rival: To Emma Frost.
• Wrench Wench: As the head of LaNeige Industrial Concepts, she had a personal hand in designing and constructing many of their protypes, including the one that sent her to a hell dimension when she tried to invoke the powers of hell on Emma Frost.

Johnston Coffin

Nationality: American

First Appearance: Generation X #63 (May, 2000)

• Ax-Crazy: His methods of correction are needlessly brutal and sadistic to say the least, and it’s heavily implied that’s he’s only doing this just to have the opportunity to murder children.
• And I Must Scream: You don't want to know what he did to the kids from his first prison three decades ago, but needless to say it ends with Gen X having to Mercy Kill them.
• Arc Villain: For the Correction arc (issues 63 to 66). He has not appeared since.
• Combo Platter Powers: Heightened endurance, heightened reflexes, energy control, and probably more.
• Disney Villain Death: Although, if he really is Made of Evil, this may not be enough to kill him. Either way, he hasn't been seen since.
• Evil Old Folks: Elderly and an unrepentant war criminal.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: His eyes are glowing and he's an all-around monster.
• Hellhole Prison: Runs one of the most hellish in all fiction.
• Made of Evil: Claims to be this.
• Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Well, mundane for the Marvel Universe, anyway; he claims to be Made of Evil, but other characters suspect he's simply a powerful mutant, and it's never confirmed either way.
• Names to Run Away from Really Fast
• Politically Incorrect Villain: Wanted by the UN for crimes against humanity. So of course the US Government gives him a job instead. He doesn't seem to like Hispanics much, either.
• Rape as Drama: If the creepy grin he gave when he mentioned he was considering leaving the female Gen Xers alive is any indication...
• Red Eyes, Take Warning: Here◊.
• Scare 'Em Straight: It's noted in the issues that he was given a blank check to do what he pleased to America's teenagers in order to prevent another Columbine, but this is probably no longer the case due to the sliding timescale and it's implied in the final issue of the arc that he doesn't really care about doing that anyway and took the job so he could torture and kill lots of kids.
• Taxidermy Is Creepy: He's not adverse to stuffing and mounting people as trophies, and his prize possession is the skull of a child he personally shot between the eyes.
• Would Hurt a Child: Let's put it like this; having your head crushed? That the second-worst thing that can happen to you under his watch.

Gateway

Nationality: Australian

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #229 (May, 1988)

Daria / Sentinel Girl

Species: Prime Sentinel (formerly human)

First Appearance: Generation X #20 (October, 1996)

• Animesque: Much like Jubilation Lee, the main character she interacts the most with, Sentinel Girl owes much of her design to popular Japanese animated works fo the 1980s, and is often drawn in styles more invocative of them than what Marvel was usually doing in the 1990s
• Because You Were Nice to Me: She helps Jubilee escape after Jubilee helps get Sentinel Girl undercontrol when Sentinel Girl starts malfunctioning, even though it could have very well turned fatal for Jubilee.
• Catholic School Girls Rule: Her uniform is meant to invoke this.
• Defector from Decadence: Abandoned her role as Sentinel and helped the mutants.
• Energy Weapon: From her palms.
• Facial Markings: A red mark on her forehead.
• Heel–Face Turn: She overcomes her programmed directive of identifying and killing humans with the x-factor gene, for the sake of helping Jubilee escape from other sentinels and the humans using them to hunt Jubilee's kind
• Magic Skirt: She flies through the air but her skirt never flies up
• Ridiculously Human Robots: Outwardly she looks just like a human.
• Tomato in the Mirror: Apparently didn't discover she wasn't human until a couple issues after her first appearance.

Miguela Tores

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Generation X #21 (November, 1996)

• Badass Longcoat: Wears a blue coat as part of her wardrobe.
• Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!: She seems to think so, and it's what turned Skin off of her and the gangster lifestyle in general.
• Facial Markings: A green scar-tattoo over her right eye.
• Spicy Latina

Cordelia Frost

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Generation X #3 (January, 1995)

Cartier St. Croix

Nationality: Monacon

Species: Human

First Appearance: Generation X #2 (December, 1994)

• Ambadassador: Apparently. Cartier is a member of Professor Xavier's mutant underground, which includes such notable combatants as Mystique, Yukio and Sabra, though how he contributed to it is unclear, as his on panel relationship to the x-mutant teams is asking the various schools to help his daughters.
• Ambiguously Brown: He's a dark skinned, short dark haired, usually Afro textured haired, sometimes not, citizen of Monaco and France whose son has Afro textured hair, in Marius's more human form anyway, but whose daughters do not. We know his nationality, but not his ethnicity, other than it's something besides white European.
• Badass Normal: He's the only surviving member of his family that's not a mutant that's seen on panel, and he's also a member of Xavier's Mutant Underground, which isn't exactly something people concerned with their safety join.
• Fiction 500: He's one of the richest men alive, who married a wife worth quite a bit of money herself. None of his children would ever have to work, barring a disaster that ruined the family forture, or personal screw ups that caused Cartier to disown them, as what happened after Marius played a role in the death of family matriarch Jamila and refused to admit to it.
• Get Out!: He banishes his son Marius from the family after he becomes clear to Cartier that Marius played a role in getting Jamila, wife of Cartier and mother of Marius killed, and refused to admit to it.
• Hypocrite: He's dedicated for fighting for human rights, including human mutants with the X-Gene, but he does not want his children following in his footsteps, even then Cartier himself was inspired to take up the cause after his own human rights activist father died. Cartier sends "Monet" to the Xavier Institute, but only because he doesn't know how to handle the "blackouts" that "Monet" has been having after her younger twin sisters "disappeared" and doesn't want to lose a fourth child. Seeing, Marius, Nicole, Claudette and Monet all alive and more or less healthy convinces Cartier that the schools associated with the X-teams have served their purpose and there's no need for Monet to continue to attend any of them, much less risk her life for the sake of others. Cartier does respect Monet's wishes to continue to be a super hero, and a private investigator, and a corporate face of mutant self determination, and an ambassador, however, even though he dislikes her courting the danger that comes with these ventures.
• It Runs in the Family: His father was a human rights activist who helped human mutants with the X-Gene in particular. Cartier continued the cause after his father died, and three of his daughters, Nicole, Claudette and Monet, have also contributed to the cause in their own ways, even though he'd rather they did not.
• Non-Idle Rich: Cartier is obscenely rich, and also plenty busy. He's the former president of multiple corporations, as well as a member of Xavier's mutant underground, just like his own father before him.
• Parental Neglect: After seeing Claudette, Nicole, Monet and Marius all alive and together, Cartier blames himself for Marius's turn to predatory feeding on mutants, and promises to revoke the exile of Marius if Marius will just explain what his role was in the death of Marius's mother and Cartier's wife. He then pulls Monet, Nicole and Claudette out of the Massachuttes Academy, so that he can keep his kids close and make up for lost time. Monet, his favorite child, ends up returning to the Massachuttes Academy, however, as she feels indebted to Headmaster Sean Cassidy, and isn't as ready to forgive Marius as Cartier is.
• Parents as People: Cartier is very interested in increasing his already massive fortune, but he's slowed down on that a bit as social justice and peace making become more passionate work for him. He's also passionate about making his children happy, though also wants them to live up to their full potential, and is often at a loss at how to help them achieve one or both of these things. That four of his children are mutants and one has a severe case of autism, and his wife who best knew how to handle the twins was almost certainly killed by his son, often leaves Cartier at a loss.
• The Patriarch: Father to Monet, Marius and the twins.

Chief Authier and Tracy Authier

Nationality: American

Species: Human

First Appearance: Generation X #33 (December, 1997)

• "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: Tracy stole special items from Jublilee, Husk and Skin and forced them to tell her why they were special to them before she gave them back.
• Da Chief: Authier is chief of a police unit, and constantly addressed as such so you won't forget it!
• Damsel in Distress: Tracy has no super human abilities, little combat ability and is a target of her father's enemies, as well as other neer do wells. Luckily her father is capable, and their Generation X friends are also willing to see her out of danger
• Secret-Keeper: Both for Generation-X.
• Telepathy: Chief Authier can read and manipulate minds
• Twofer Token Minority: The Chief is a half-Huguenot, half-Ojibwe mutant. His unseen wife is a woman who's half-Armenian and half-Jewish. Which makes Tracy a quarter-each Huguenot, Ojibwe, Armanian, Jewish female, but she's not a mutant.

Tristan Brawn

Nationality: American

Species: Human

First Appearance: Generation X #51 (May, 1999)

• Badass Normal: Standing up to his grandfather, Hunter Brawn, having him arrested for ordering the death of Mr. and Mrs. Lee, Jubilee's parents.
• Romantic False Lead: To Paige, complicating things further for her and Jono.
• Secret-Keeper: For Generation-X.

Kid Omega

Bling!

Eye Boy

Morph

Lin Li / Nature Girl

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

Debut: Wolverine and the X-Men Vol 2 #1 (May, 2014)

Another new student at the Jean Grey School after Hope restored the mutant gene. Lin is a quiet student who can commune with the nature around her, a power that includes talking with and controlling animals and plants, and limited range control over the weather.

Unfortunately for Nature Girl, her connection to the Earth and its creatures eventually drives her to begin killing humans who are harming the planet as she can no longer bear to listen to the pain the world is in and thus becomes a fugitive on the run from the Quiet Council of Krakoa.

• Alliterative Name: Lin Li.
• Bald Mystic: In a 2021 Infinity Comic, she goes bald after suffering a nightmare of being punished by the Quiet Council. She claims this is a sign of her powers evolving.
• The Beastmaster: She is able to control and bond with all sorts of creatures, including the Bamfs, hellish imps who were imprinted with Nightcrawler's blood. She weaponises it by pouring the pain of an entire biome into Jean Grey's mind when the latter is trying to restrain her.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She can be downright terrifying at times, at one point recruiting a small army of rats to attack and interrogate D.O.A. Then, she goes off the deep end.
• Brutal Honesty: Although she is nice, talking with animals and plants who tend to be far more straightforward than people has made her quite blunt.
  Trevor: How are you so calm right now Lin?! What if these vultures dropped us?!
  Lin: We'd die instantly. There'd be no pain.
  Trevor: YOU'RE NOT MAKING THINGS BETTER!
• Cloudcuckoolander: Due to being better at talking to animals and plants instead of other people, many of her statements can sound confusing or make little sense without her knowledge of the world around her.
• Depending on the Artist: The size and shape of her antlers can vary significantly depending on who is drawing her. They tend to normally be around a foot long and stick sideways out of her head, but other times they are a few feet long and sometimes go straight up.
• The Empath: She can feel what animals and plants feel. She can weaponize this against telepaths by bombarding them with all the pain of a species like flies that are killed en masse on a global scale.
• Face–Heel Turn: The pain of the Earth and its creatures slowly dying to mankind's pollution and lack of care drives her mad (though it's indicated that being forced to leave the Age of X-Man reality, which for her was a paradise, the very prospect of which left her in tears, really did not help). After killing a convenience store clerk in a fit of rage Nature Girl begins a campaign to hunt down and murder polluters, poachers, and others harming the world. While some of the X-Men and Quiet Council sympathize with her rage and goal, a number of her victims clearly do not deserve death and she is very publicly breaking Krakoa's laws against killing humans.
• Green Aesop: In the X-Men Unlimited (2021) storyline X-Men Green, it's shown what she’s up to since moving to Krakoa. Despite living in a mutant paradise that she can communicate with, she’s still in pain because she can feel that the rest of the Earth is still being polluted by humanity.
• The Grinch: With good reason: an X-Men holiday special revealed that around Christmas time all she can hear are the screams of slowly dying trees.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Being able to talk with animals and plants, and command them to a certain extent, proves to be very useful when tracking people down or finding out details about a crime or event that happened without human witnesses. Later, her power set evolves, becoming a full fledge elemental.
• Heel–Face Brainwashing: Her turn to extremism was sparked by Curse wishing to become her friend and using her powers to make it so.
• Horned Humanoid: Has deer antlers and can use them to brutal effect like slitting the throat of a poor clerk.
• I Reject Your Reality: Her response to Gaea calling her out for the murderous nature of her vengeful crusade has shades of this.
• Never My Fault: No matter how many people, even Gaea herself, tell her that her methods to save the environment do more harm than good she rejects them all as not caring enough to do what needs to be done. She loses a lot of allies in her crusade and rationalizes their loss for her cause every step of the way.
• Out of Focus: After being a fairly prominent supporting character since her introduction, during the first couple years of Krakoa Age she was only a background character with just a few appearances. She then became the main character of the X-Men Unlimited (2021) storyline "X-Men Green".
• Pay Evil unto Evil: Some of her targeted victims include poachers who are hunting endangered animals for sport.
• Physical God: Becomes this when she moves into the Omega category in X-Men Green. Unfortunately, it coincided with her mental decline.
• "Reason You Suck" Speech: Delivers more than one on the way that mutants are doing nothing for nature, and humankind as a whole. At the end of X-Men Green, she receives a brutal one from none other than Gaea, Mother Earth herself, who points out that a) humans and mutants are her children too, b) whatever wounds they do her, they'll heal, even if they take millions of years, and there is no excuse for her behaviour, c) Lin could have been an inspiring figure who bridged the connection between humanity/mutants and the natural world, rather than a vengeful one. When Lin refuses to back down, Gaea dismisses her and says that she will walk the Earth without her blessing.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: After witnessing a turtle washed up on the beach, dead of plastic waste, she goes on a rampage to stop all the pollution, starting with stabbing an innocent, if not callous, clerk in the neck just because he worked for the store whose brand was on the waste.
• Talking to Plants: Another one of her powers.
• Took a Level in Badass: She goes from fairly average to a full blown elemental in X-Men Green, flattening Iceman and Firestar, briefly taking out Jean and Synch, and taking an entire X-Men team to overpower.
• The Voiceless: Hardly spoke a word in her first appearance.
• Weather Manipulation: She can control and affect the weather in a certain area.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Her murderous campaign is meant to save the world and near-extinct species from further harm at the hands of humans. She gets so extreme that she ultimately rejects a plea to stop from Gaea herself and the associated "Reason You Suck" Speech.

Nathaniel Carver / Hindsight

Nationality: American

Species: Human mutant

Debut: Generation X Vol 2 #1 (July, 2017)

Introduced as a new student at the Jean Grey Academy, Nathaniel was quickly assigned to Jubilee's class of students who were not believed to have the potential or desire to become X-Men or ambassadors of mutantkind.

• Abusive Parents: His mom used to whip and abuse him. He eventually managed to escape her and live with his dad, but after making physical contact with him one day discovered that his father knew what she had been doing and left Nathaniel with her anyway.
• Conspicuous Gloves: Always wears gloves to avoid setting off his psychometry. Although he still usually wears his sleeves rolled up, giving the excuse "Fashion is suffering and all that jazz."
• Hates Being Touched: Wears gloves and avoids skin-to-skin contact with people due to it triggering his power and allowing him to see their traumatic memories and private thoughts.
• Just Friends: Tells Benjamin Deeds that he just wants to be friends despite their attraction to each other due to Nathaniel's powers. He eventually forgoes this and begins a relationship with him after they were almost killed by Emplate.
• Psychometry: His mutant ability lets him see the history of objects he touches. Unfortunately, if he touches people, he also tends to see their most traumatic memories or innermost thoughts. This makes it difficult for him to have relationships, as he broke up with a previous boyfriend after kissing him and discovering he had feelings for another guy.