Generation X/Characters

Characters that have appeared in Generation X -

Main Cast
Sean Cassidy / Banshee

A detective and minor Irish nobleman, Sean Cassidy was a former Interpol inspector with flight and sound manipulation abilities. After his wife died in a terrorist bombing, he blamed his cousin, causing him to run off with his daughter and driving a rift between the two. He was mind-controlled by an alien terrorist group but freed by the X-Men. 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.


 * Big Brother Mentor
 * Cain and Abel: With Black Tom Cassidy, his cousin (or brother, in some continuities).
 * Captain Ethnic
 * Did Not Do the Research: His creators didn't find out that the mythical Irish banshee was a One-Gender Race of females until it was too late.
 * Actually, writer Roy Thomas wanted Banshee to be a woman. But when he was introduced in the sixties, he was supposed to be the villain, and the editors thought the idea of a female villain was just too unusual to work.
 * The etymology of his codename doesn't help. Derives from "bean sidhe"("woman of the sÃ­de" or "woman of the fairy mounds"). The sidhe (People of the mounds) in Irish Legend being a powerful, supernatural race, comparable to the fairies or elves. His codename specifically identifies Sean as a fairy woman.
 * I Believe I Can Fly: Attempted to explain as him riding on soundwaves. No, just...no.
 * It came with a Crowning Moment of Funny in the TV series, when he gave Wolverine a ride.
 * Make Me Wanna Shout
 * Officer O'Hara
 * Oireland
 * Older and Wiser
 * Perma-Stubble: Has this for a while.
 * Retired Badass
 * Retired Badass

Emma Grace Frost / White Queen

See X-Men.

Everett Thomas / Synch


 * All Love Is Unrequited: Jubilee wanted him, he wanted Monet (and thinks of Jubilee as a friend).
 * All Your Powers Combined
 * Bald Black Leader Guy: Or at least, Bald Black Level-Headed Guy. The team didn't really have an official leader.
 * Goggles Do Nothing: Sometimes wears a pair.
 * Heroic Sacrifice
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Mega Manning

Jubilation Lee / Jubilee

See X-Men.

Paige Guthrie / Husk


 * Barbie Doll Anatomy/ Magic Pants: She's naked when using her powers.
 * Deep South
 * 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
 * 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 time, but censor steam is not used in all scenes if her new skin serves the purpose of costume. She has specifically refused to revert to her human form on occasions because of her nudity.
 * May-December Romance: For a while, she was in a relationship with Archangel. This has since fallen by the wayside.
 * Squick: Her power is to tear off her outer layer of skin and reveal a new form underneath.

Angelo Espinosa / Skin


 * 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.
 * 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.
 * C-List Fodder
 * Faking the Dead: Before his time with Generation X, after a deal with a rival gang gone bad.
 * I Just Want to Be Normal
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Latin Lover: He wishes.
 * Rubber Man: Of sorts
 * Squick: His powers, see above.
 * What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: To his credit he was creative with it in battle.

Monet St. Croix / M


 * Absolute Cleavage
 * Alpha Bitch
 * Ambadassador
 * Ambiguously Brown
 * But Not Too Black
 * Combo-Platter Powers
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Flying Brick
 * Fusion Dance
 * Nigh Invulnerable
 * Overly Long Name: Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St. Croix
 * Promethean Punishment: Emplate turning her into Penance.
 * Retcon - Here's the story of the whole mess.
 * Superpower Lottery: Monet St. Croix had flight, superstrength, superspeed, nigh-invulnerability, telepathy, telescopic vision and genius-level intellect. Autism too, but it was treated as a superpower more often than not. She could also merge with her siblings (or her siblings could merge to form her), and the siblings had powers of their own.
 * Tangled Family Tree: Hell yeah
 * Veronica: For Synch's Affections.

Jonothon Evan Starsmore / Chamber


 * Anti-Hero: Type I
 * Badass 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.
 * Disability Superpower
 * Goth
 * How Do I Shot Web?: He would be able to reconstruct his face, if he knew how.
 * I Just Want to Be Normal
 * Jerkass
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold
 * Luke, I Am Your Father: He's a distant descendant of Apocalypse, and recently got the markings to prove it.
 * 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.
 * Psychic Powers
 * Required Secondary Powers: Not needing to eat, breathe or drink as well as communicating telepathically.
 * Wangst

Penance / Hollow


 * Blessed with Suck
 * Dark Age of Supernames
 * Nigh Invulnerability
 * One Steve Limit: Was Penance until Speedball became Penance, then she became Hollow.
 * Promethean Punishment: She was the result of Emplate's punishment of M.
 * Retcon: Penance
 * 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.
 * Wolverine Claws: On her hands, feet and hair

Mondo


 * Big Beautiful Man: Though Scott Lobdell claimed he was more "big boned".
 * Combo-Platter Powers: Depending upon what he absorbs.
 * Chrome Champion
 * Cloning Blues
 * Dishing Out Dirt
 * Extra Ore Dinary
 * Fast Tunnelling
 * Mega Manning: Organic or inorganic material, not mutant powers.
 * The Mole: Mondo's clone.
 * Sizeshifter
 * Super Strength
 * Wild Samoan: The real Mondo.

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


 * Ambiguously Brown
 * Ambiguous Gender: As M-Plate
 * Fusion Dance: Emplate + The M-Twins = M-Plate
 * Becoming the Mask: Monet / M, see below.
 * Different As Night and Day: Nicole's your normal talkative 8-year old, but Claudette suffers from severe Autism.
 * Fusion Dance: Merged to become their sister, Monet while she was Penance, then when she got her body back, they became Penance
 * Tangled Family Tree
 * The Rainman: Claudette
 * Uncanny Family Resemblance: When the twins merge to disguise themselves as Monet.

Leech


 * Bad Powers, Good People
 * 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 depowering mutants by a villain.
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Artie
 * Only One Name
 * Power Nullifier: Leech has the ability to suppress energy around him, this includes electrical energy and a mutants ability.
 * Progressively Prettier
 * Third Person Person

Arthur "Artie" Maddicks / Artie


 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Leech
 * Mind Over Matter: Had limited telepathy to "mind-lock" people and prevent them from acting.
 * Progressively Prettier
 * The Speechless
 * What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Artie can telepathically project images from his mind.

Franklin Richards


 * Astral Projection
 * Goo-Goo Godlike
 * Lamarck Was Right
 * Mind Over Matter
 * Reality Warper
 * Seers
 * Story-Breaker Power
 * Superpower Lottery: His Reality Warping powers and insane amount of Psychic Powers.
 * Telepathy

Gaia


 * Kid From the Future: Or rather, from an alternate dimension.
 * Mind Over Matter
 * Put on a Bus: No return trip as of yet.
 * Reality Warper
 * Telepathy
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Pink hair for her.

Clarice Ferguson / Blink


 * Amazing Technicolor Population: Lavender skin
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Blink gained quite a fan following after a fairly short-lived existence in their mainstream storylines. She got an upgraded role in the Age of Apocalypse storyline. She was so popular that she survived the destruction of that universe and became a main character in the Exiles spinoff (though it took five years).
 * Facial Markings
 * Monochromatic Eyes
 * Sacrificial Lamb
 * Teleporters and Transporters
 * You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Purple is her shade.

Japheth / Maggott

A south African teenager from a poor family. As a child, his family thought he was dying from stomach cancer because his abdomen constantly bulged and he was constantly hungry. Actually, he was going through a mutation in which his stomach turned into a pair of semi-autonomous slugs. To feed, Japheth had to have the slugs burst out of his stomach, feed on any substance, then return, giving him a burst of superstrength. Japheth joined the X-Men for only a short time before vanishing and reappearing years later to be killed in a Canadian concentration camp for mutants.


 * Brother Chuck
 * C-List Fodder / We Hardly Knew Ye
 * Extreme Omnivore
 * Nausea Fuel: his mutant powers; His digestive system is outside of his body, in the form of two giant bug things that can eat anything.
 * Older Alter Ego: Originally Maggott is just a skinny teenager with normal skin complexion but when he powers up by his digestive matter-eating slugs, his skin turns blue and becomes musclebound to fight.
 * Shoo Out the New Guy: To a point that you'd think the Trope Namer is a Shout-Out to him!
 * Squick
 * Totally Radical

Villians
Marius St. Croix / Emplate / M-Plate


 * Alas, Poor Villain: After his sisters threw him in a Pocket Dimension after her hurt M, he was tortured by an unknown force in the dimension. He now must forever wear a respirator.
 * Ambiguous Gender: As M-Plate
 * Assimilation Plot: Also as M-Plate
 * Blessed with Suck
 * Combo-Platter Powers
 * Complete Monster
 * Fusion Dance: Emplate + The M-Twins = M-Plate
 * I'm a Humanitarian: But only for mutant bone marrow.
 * Invisibility
 * Lovecraftian Superpower: Uses his fanged mouths in the palms to see and "read" mutant auras, and feed on mutant marrow.
 * Intangible Man
 * Mega Manning: After feeding on mutant marrow.
 * Monochromatic Eyes
 * Our Vampires Are Different
 * Power Palms: Used in feeding on mutants.
 * The Unfavourite: His father loved Monet more and it took it's toll on their relationship.

George Baker / D.O.A.


 * Battle Butler: For Emplate.
 * Cheshire Cat Grin
 * Fun with Acronyms: No one know's it's meaning however.
 * The Igor
 * Teleporters and Transporters: Has a lepton imploder (an interdimensional portal maker) in his jacket.

Adrienne Frost / White Queen


 * Cain and Abel: She and her sister, Emma.
 * Evil Redhead
 * Killed Off for Real: By Emma, after her actions got Synch killed.
 * Most Common Superpower
 * Psychic Powers: Adrienne has psychometry in which she can read "psychic imprints" that people leave on objects that they have handled and sometimes can even look into the future of the person or object she touches.
 * Rich Bitch
 * Smug Snake
 * Tyrant Takes the Helm: Of the Massachusetts Academy, but only briefly.
 * White Collar Crime: She stole millions from the London branch of the Hellfire Club.

Bastion

X-Men.

Thomas Cassidy / Black Tom

X-Men.

Chimera

X-Men.

Dirtnap


 * Chest Insignia: His smiley face, follows him on everything he transforms into.
 * Heroic Sacrifice
 * Killed Off for Real
 * Mega Manning
 * Powers as Programs
 * Voluntary Shapeshifting
 * You Dirty Rat: A rat is his default transformation.

Bianca LaNeige


 * Casual Interstellar Travel
 * Cleavage Window
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * Evil Albino
 * Most Common Superpower
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * Rich Bitch
 * The Rival: To Emma
 * Wrench Wench

Recurring Characters
Gateway

X-Men.

Daria / Sentinel Girl


 * Bald Women
 * Defector From Decadence
 * Facial Markings: A red mark on her forehead.
 * Frickin' Laser Beams: From her palms.
 * Heel Face Turn
 * Heroic Sacrifice
 * I Believe I Can Fly
 * Magic Skirt
 * Ridiculously-Human Robots
 * Robot Girl
 * Rocket Boosters
 * Tomato in the Mirror: Apparently didn't discover she wasn't human until a couple issues after her first appearance.

Miguela Tores


 * Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!
 * Facial Markings: A green scar over her right eye.
 * Psychic Powers
 * Spicy Latina

Cordelia Frost


 * Black Sheep: That's saying something with her Big Screwed-Up Family.
 * Dirty Coward
 * The Empath: Described as the "Professor X of empaths" by her sister, Emma.
 * Good Smoking, Evil Smoking
 * Psychic Powers
 * More Than Mind Control
 * Rich Bitch
 * Smug Snake

Cartier St. Croix


 * Ambadassador
 * Ambiguously Brown
 * Badass Normal: He's the only one in his family that's not a mutant.
 * But Not Too Black
 * The Patriarch: Father to Monet, Marius and the twins.
 * Skunk Stripe

Chief Authier and Tracy Authier


 * 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: Guess...
 * Damsel in Distress: Tracy
 * Secret Keeper: Both for Generation X.
 * Telepathy: Chief Authier
 * Twofer Token Minority: The Cheif is a half-Huguenot, half-Ojibwe mutant. His unseen wife is a woman who's half-Armanian and half-Jewish. Which makes Tracy a quarter Huguenot, Ojibwe, Armanian, Jewish female, but she's not a mutant.

Tristan Brawn


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