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X-Men (2024) is a comic book title from the X-Men franchise as part of the X-Men: From the Ashes initiative, following the end of the Krakoan Age. The writing team consists of writer Jed MacKay and artist Ryan Stegman. It is the seventh series to use the X-Men title.

Following the end of the Krakoan Age, Cyclops has put together a new team of X-Men, consisting of Beast, Magneto, Temper, Quentin Quire, Magik, Juggernaut and Psylocke.

The first issue was released on July 10, 2024.

Notable storylines created during this run includes:

• Raid on Graymalkin
• X-Manhunt
• Age of Revelation

X-Men (2024) contains the following tropes:

• All for Nothing: How the Chairman, the original Beast, feels about 3K's actions after his trip to the future: Age of Revelation. Telling 3K he felt nothing but shame that Doug managed to achieve what 3K wanted, where their only purpose was to be made scapegoats and forced underground. However, for the worse, the Chairman now has the means to produce the X-Virus with intentions to change the future that serves their goals now.
• Anti-Hero Team: As Cyclops points out to a ONE agent in issue #3, his squad is just one step away from acting like The Brotherhood instead of the X-Men. It has an assassin, a terrrorist, a supervillain, Illyana Rasputin and Magneto. They're heroic figures now, but without purpose they could turn into something very dangerous.
• As Long as It Sounds Foreign: In issue #31, Chinese-American Ben Liu takes umbrage about Chinese mutant Shen Xorn's name, muttering that the laowai (his foreign/American companions) think it is a normal Chinese name.
• Brought to You by the Letter "S":
  • Per the promo image, Juggernaut has a large red X crossing his helmet.
  • In the last page of the first issue, the four leaders of 3K sit around a round table, and a large "X" is formed between them.
• The Bus Came Back:
  • In issue #4, Trevor Fitzroy, introduced in the early 1990s titles, brings back the Upstarts, this time with members of mutant team O-Team, who first appeared in 2000s X-Statix.
  • In issue #10, a new incarnation of the New Hellions, from John Francis Moore's late-1990s X-Force (1991) run, appear: King Bedlam, his brother Jesse Bedlam, Boom-Boom, Fantomex and Locus.
  • In issues #10-11, the Villain of the Week is Xanto Starblood, whose last appearance was over a decade prior in Wolverine and the X-Men (Marvel Comics).
  • Issue 17 reveals that The Doctor is Astra, who appeared in House of X as a cameo, but hasn't had a significant appearance since Magneto: Not a Hero.
• Cain and Abel: Issue #14 reveals that Piper has a parasitic sister inside her. Said sister, Robin, manages to inhabit the body of the dead Acanti nearby and make it her body... and proceeds to attack Piper. As it turns out, she was fully aware inside Piper's body, having been imprisoned in Piper's own flesh when Piper was born and could do nothing but watch. The end result is that she wants Piper dead out of rage, and while she's stopped from finishing the deed after seeing her mom, she admits to Cassandra Nova that she will never forgive Piper.
• Call-Back:
  • The Hellions destroying O*N*E facilities and infrastructure is a clear call-back to Avengers doing the same thing to Orchis. Both issues were written by Jed MacKay.
  • Cyclops' father Corsair makes a triumphant reappearance in issue #11, only to get punched out by Magik for leaving her and her team for dead back in New Mutants (2019).
  • With his focus on turning humans into superhuman beings, mentioned clone-creation and contempt for humanity (referring to them as flatscans), The Chairman strongly resembles John Sublime.
  • X-Men #21 has Sugar Man relocating to the Spire Vile on Arakko, the former headquarters of Tarn the Uncaring.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Oya calls out Magneto on Krakoa being a False Utopia while everyone else has rose colored glasses about it.
• Clone Angst: Beast is a bit troubled that, having been resurrected from a much earlier memory template, he has no memory of Krakoa.
• Continuity Snarl: Magneto acts very differently at the beginning of this series than he did at the end of his Resurrection of Magneto book. Murewa Ayodele confirmed that the From the Ashes writers weren't really informed of what would happen in the final stages of Krakoa. Magneto having Resurrection Sickness at all that's attributed to the Resurrection Protocols given the same series depicts his resurrection as entirely unrelated to them.
• Costume Evolution: Per the promo image, the members of the X-Men have all changed up their costumes.
  • Cyclops is back to wearing an outfit that shows off his hair, similar to the outfit his time-displaced self wore.
  • Psylocke is wearing a full bodysuit with a leather jacket.
  • Temper, formerly Oya, is wearing a black bodysuit with orange accents on one side and blue accents on the other.
  • Juggernaut is wearing a black version of his usual red costume with a giant "X" on the front of his helmet.
  • Quentin Quire is now wearing a black outfit with pink highlights and pink gloves.
  • Averted with Magik, who's wearing the X-Men costume and Limbo armor she started wearing during the 2013 Brian Michael Bendis run.
• Force and Finesse: Quentin has almost unlimited potential as an omega-level telepath and he's very powerful because of it, but he lacks skill. Kwannon isn't nearly as powerful, but she's incredibly skilled and precise with what she has.
• Four Lines, All Waiting: As of January 2026, this book has a Sugar Man plotline, a ONE plotline, a 3K plotline, Trevor Fitzroy and King Bedlam plotline and RLDS plotline going on at the same time.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: After Jen joins in the field, the field team is exactly 4 men (Cyclops, Beast, Juggernaut and Kid Omega) and 4 women (Magik, Psylocke, Temper and Jen).
• Good Is Not Nice: These X-Men, rather understandably, prioritize their fight against mutant oppression over any superheroics.
• Indirect Serial Killer: Maxine Danger's "Danger Room", a think tank of psychopaths she organized to destroy the X-Men, has a woman confessing to a desire to kill everyone who talked anyone within earshot of her prison cell into suicide and a man who manipulated his small community into slaughtering each other.
• Lame Pun Reaction: In issue #25, Clone Hank McCoy discovers the true meaning of 3K: it means 3,000, also written in Roman numerals as M-M-M, the latter being an acronym for "Make More Mutants". Clone Beast comments on how it's a bad pun that only himself (Original Beast/Chairman) would make.
• Meaningful Rename: Idie Okonkwo has changed her code name from Oya to Temper.
• The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: At the end of issue #1, four mysterious characters are introduced discussing the new phase post-Krakoa: The Zealot, The Doctor, The Means, and The Chairman. It's later on revealed that Cassandra Nova is The Zealot, Astra is The Doctor, Wyre is The Means and the original Beast is The Chairman.
• Orange/Blue Contrast: In the promo image, Temper is wearing a black outfit with a blue side and an orange side. In the first issue, she's shown to have one blue eye and one orange eye.
• The Psycho Rangers: 3K has their own version of the X-Men; Psychovore, Timebomb, Constellation, Juice, Schwarzschild and Galatea.
• Rank Up: Quentin Quire was previously a student at Xavier's in the early-2000s, then a student at Wolverine's Jean Grey School in the early-2010s, followed by a stint in X-Force during the Krakoan Age, and finally becomes a member of an X-Men team alongside traditional members like Cyclops and Psylocke.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Paula Robbins, police chief of Merle, actively seeks good relations with the X-Men.
• The Remnant: The first issue deals with Fourth School, a remnant of ORCHIS who try to recruit people to become something greater than even AI.
• Renegade Splinter Faction: Cypher is attacked at his home by a death squad of rogue O.N.E. agents calling themselves Z.E.R.O., as they saw his status as an Heir of Apocalypse as the new biggest threat to humanity. This is quickly proven to be a case of The Extremist Was Right.
• Resurrection Sickness: Magneto's powers are on the fritz and it's believed to be due to a previously unseen flaw with the Resurrection Protocols presenting itself.
• Revisiting the Roots: This run on X-Men inherits a writing style that originates from the X-Men books written during the early 90s, featuring many obscure villains from said decade as well as highly packed action.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After the team saves Wolverine, he decides to bail and try to stay out of things. Logan's story continues over in his solo series, leading to him joining Rogue's X-Men team.
• Shout-Out: In issue #31, Quentin suffers a psy-spike and describes the feeling as "someone throwing up in his mind", which Xorn and Magneto link to Cassandra Nova. This is in reference to New X-Men #117, where Cassandra Nova masquerading as Xavier's body casts a psychic attack on cat-shaped Beast and asks him in mocking tone what he feels when "someone is throwing up in his soul".
• Significant Monogram: The 3K collective is called thus because its members believe that, by the year 3,000, mankind will eventually be replaced by a new Krakoa and mutantkind. Beast also figures out another meaning, as the Roman numeral for 1,000 is M, meaning 3 M's, or "Make More Mutants". It's this kind of pun that leads Beast to realize 3K was started by the original Beast.
• Super-Empowering: Cassandra Nova figured out a way to convert regular adult humans into mutants, with new recruits Ben Liu and Jen Starkey having been prior victims of hers. Their version of the X-Men is comprised entirely of formerly powerless humans having undergone the process.
• Super Supremacist: 3K's Evil Plan is to supplant humanity by killing or converting as many "flatscans" as possible.
• Took a Level in Badass: Cypher of the New Mutants makes his return, having gained a Compelling Voice after being named an Heir of Apocalypse and taking the name "Revelation". He also still has Bei the Blood Moon as a Violently Protective Girlfriend.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: The Upstarts and 3K both have teleportation that they use to escape capture by the X-Men.
• We ARE Struggling Together: The 3K X-Men have internal trust issues stemming from the fact that they came from different organizations. They're all ex-Orchis, but Galatea was a part of S.H.I.E.L.D, Timebomb of A.I.M and Constellation of S.T.R.I.K.E for instance. As a result when Schwarzschild goes down, the chain of command is completely ignored as Galatea won't follow Timebomb and Psychovore backs Galatea.
• We Can Rule Together: Wyre tries to incite another Face–Heel Turn in Beast by offering to let him join 3K, and makes it clear that he won't force him. This is eventually revealed to be because 3K's chairman is the original Beast.
• Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: Basically how Cyclops and his team defeat the 3K X-Men led by Schwarzschild; once Schwarzschild is taken out of action, Cyclops recognises that all he and the rest of his team have to do is sit back and wait for the other team's conflicting past memberships to drive them to attack each other, whereas if any of Cyclops's team had attacked their enemies would have united against the X-Men.
• Wham Shot: At the end of issue #3, after Cyclops is able to drive off Agent Lundqvist and O*N*E*, Cyclops dives into the bathroom of the diner they were in as he fights off a panic attack, suggesting that the torture Orchis put him through during Fall Of The House Of X was very bad.
• Working with the Ex: Temper (formerly Oya) and Quentin have dated before in Wolverine and the X-Men.