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.
Dropped a Bridge on Him - or rather, a 747.
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

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

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.