First appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel #4
Last appearance: New Mutants (1st series) #100 [re-named to X-Force II]
Membership: Karma, Wolfsbane, Psyche/Mirage II, Sunspot, Cannonball II, Magma, Magik, Cypher, Warlock II, Bird-Brain, Rusty, Skids, Boom-Boom, Rictor
Teachers/Mentors: Professor Charles Xavier, Magneto, Cable
Allies: Moira MacTaggert, Stevie Hunter, Sprite, Cloak, Dagger, Tom Corsi, Sharon Friedlander, Lila Cheney, Hrimhari, Gosamyr
Karma (Xi'An Coy Manh)
First appearance: Marvel Team-Up (1st series) #100
Powers: - possession talent enables her to override the thought processes of others, allowing her to manipulate their bodies as an extension of her own will
- initial limitations kept her from using her power on more than one person at a time, and required her to keep her own body still
Membership stints
- Marvel Graphic Novel #4 to New Mutants (1st series) #6 [was believed dead]
- New Mutants (1st series) #34 to New Mutants (1st series) #54 [quit to search for her missing siblings]
Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair)
First appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel #4
Powers: - genetic lycanthrope able to metamorphose into a fully lupine form or assume a transitional form with enhanced strength, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, animal-like senses, razor edged canines and claws, thick brown fur, and an elongated snout
Membership stints
- Marvel Graphic Novel #4 to New Mutants (1st series) #97 [stayed in Genosha along with Havok to oversee the actions of the new government]
Mirage II (Danielle Moonstar)
Former aliases: Psyche
First appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel #4
Powers: - generate astral energy from her mind that she can use to access the mental impressions of others, manifesting spirit-forms representing their intense fears or desires, personalized concepts such as "friends" or "home," or shaping images of other expectations
- initially summoned only fear-images and was unable to control her power's manifestation
- animal telepathy allows her to communicate with higher forms of animal life, excluding humans, helped establish a psychic link between her and Wolfsbane, in the latter's wolf forms
- later inducted as one of the Valkyries of Asgard, allowing her to sense the presence of impending doom around others in the form of their personal image of death, and fight death itself for their soul if she wished
- later experienced a hyper-evolution of her spirit-forms, enabling her to create tangible representations of fears or desire, but only one at a time and she could only disperse one spirit-form by creating another, trained her mind vigorously to wish for her personal spirit-lance at will
Membership stints
- Marvel Graphic Novel #4 to New Mutants (1st series) #87 [stayed in Asgard to help restore the Valkyrie's reputation]
Sunspot (Roberto DaCosta)
First appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel #4
Powers: - absorb sunlight and metabolize it into bio-energy that permeated his body to increase his strength, endurance, and resilience
- initial limitations in his solar processing made him substantially weaker at night
Membership stints
- Marvel Graphic Novel #4 to New Mutants (1st series) #36 [takes some time off after disagreeing with Magneto’s training methods]
- New Mutants (1st series) #43 to Fallen Angels #1 [runs away after accidentally injuring Cannonball]
- New Mutants (1st series) #59 to New Mutants (1st series) #99 [leaves to take care of the family business after being informed of his father’s death]
Cannonball II (Samuel Zachary Guthrie)
First appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel #4
Powers: - release thermochemical energy as an impenetrable blast field, rocketing him through the air at the speed of sound, impervious to physical harm and able to extend that invulnerability to whatever he carried
- initially limited by poor maneuverability
Membership stints
- Marvel Graphic Novel #4 to New Mutants (1st series) #100 [team becomes X-Force II]
Magma (Amara Juliana Olivians Aquilla)
First appearance: New Mutants (1st series) #8
Powers: - geothermal power allows her to assume an energized state that gives off intense heat and light while enabling her to ignite and direct flames, manipulate the planet’s tectonic plates, causing seismic upheavals, summoning volcanoes to the surface, and telekinetically propelling bedrock, either in its normal state or superheated by her power into a molten form of "magma blast"
- initially her powers were highly responsive to her emotional state, causing tremors if she lost her temper
Membership stints
- New Mutants (1st series) #12 to New Mutants (1st series) #57 [transfers to the Massachusetts Academy]
Magik I (Illyana Nikolievna Rasputin)
First appearance: Giant-Sized X-Men #1
Powers: - able to command the stepping disks native to Limbo, opening portals that use that dimension as a stepping stone between different points in time and space
- initially lacked fine control over her power, accidentally traveling into the past or future
- Sorceress Supreme of Limbo, possessing tremendous power in her realm but significantly limited abilities on Earth, can summon her Soulsword forged out of mystical promethium metal from her own soul, able to disrupt magical spells and enchantments, also manifests a form of mystical armor whenever she draws her Soulsword
Membership stints
- New Mutants (1st series) #15 to New Mutants (1st series) #73 [sacrifices her magical might, de-aged to a six year old child]
Cypher (Douglas Ramsey)
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #180
Powers: - psionically produces an intuitive translation field within his own brain, deciphering the syntax and meaning of any language he is exposed to, enabling him to interpret and communicate using the language from that point on, ranging from spoken and written languages to body language and computer code
Membership stints
- New Mutants (1st series) #21 to New Mutants (1st series) #60 [shot by the Ani-Mator]
Warlock II
First appearance: New Mutants (1st series) #18
Powers: - bio-mechanical body can be reconstructed into any organic or technological shape he can imagine, as well as energy generators, sensor equipment, and to increase his physical size and strength, merge with computer systems to download information and schematics, transmode virus infects living matter on contact, transforming it into techno-organic material that he can use to sustain himself by draining its lifeglow
Membership stints
- New Mutants (1st series) #21 to Fallen Angels #1 [goes after Sunspot when he runs away]
- New Mutants (1st series) #59 to New Mutants (1st series) #95 [apparently killed during Cameron Hodge’s failed attempt to infect himself with the transmode virus]
Bird-Brain
First appearance: New Mutants (1st series) #56
Powers: - basic animal evolved into a humanoid possessing greater-than-human strength, stamina and reflexes, a hollow bone structure, large feathered wings allowing for flight, bird-like agility, aerial maneuverability, and eyesight
Membership stints
- New Mutants (1st series) #58 to New Mutants (1st series) #61 [remained on Paradise Island with his fellow specimen]
Rusty (Russel Collins)
First appearance: X-Factor (1st series) #1
Last appearance: X-Men (2nd series) #42 [life-force drained by Holocaust]
Powers: - pyrokinesis allows him to ignite oxygen molecules to start fires anywhere in his line-of-sight, and focus concentrated jet streams of pyroplasmic from his fists; natural immunity to heat and burning
Membership stints
- New Mutants (1st series) #76 to New Mutants (1st series) #82 [arrested by Freedom Force]
Skids (Sally Blevins)
First appearance: X-Factor (1st series) #7
Powers: - generates a deflection field around herself and others that disperses kinetic impact, reflects energy assaults off itself, and negates friction so that she can glide across its surface
Membership stints
- New Mutants (1st series) #76 to New Mutants (1st series) #82 [arrested by Freedom Force]
Boom-Boom (Tabitha Smith)
First appearance: Secret Wars II #5
Powers: - generate "time bombs," spheres of transitory solid energy that detonate on a delayed time cycle, releasing immense concussive power
Membership stints
- New Mutants (1st series) #76 to New Mutants (1st series) #100 [team becomes X-Force II]
Rictor (Julio Esteban Richter)
First appearance: X-Factor (1st series) #17
Powers: - generates waves of vibration out from his body to cause any nearby objects to shake, crumble, shatter or disintegrate, destabilize the ground beneath him to cause earth tremors, and focus his emissions into vibe-quakes, tightened seismic shockwaves with tremendous concussive force
Membership stints
- New Mutants (1st series) #76 to New Mutants (1st series) #98 [leaves to check up on Wolfsbane in Genosha]
Professor X (Prof. Charles Francis Xavier)
First appearance: X-Men (1st series) #1
Powers: - enormous mental strength gives him alpha-level telepathic abilities, allowing him to read minds, project his thoughts at others, release his astral form to travel great distances in reality or enter the psychic plane, stun others into paralysis or unconsciousness, and manipulate perceptions, memories and thought processes
Tutoring stints
- Marvel Graphic Novel #4 to Uncanny X-Men #200 [almost dying, transported to the Starjammer for treatment]
Magneto (Max Eisenhardt)
First appearance: X-Men (1st series) #1
Former aliases: Magnus, Erik Lehnsherr, Michael Xavier
Powers: - high electrolyte count increases his personal bio-magnetic field and aligns it with Earth’s electromagnetic field to give him total mastery over magnetism, allowing him to levitate and manipulate anything containing metal, release magnetic energy as concussive blasts and protective force fields, generate intense heat within metal, draw forth electricity from magnetic fields, manipulate iron in the bloodstream to cause aneurysms, unconsciousness, or biological ruptures, and increase his power by absorbing electricity or intensely cold temperatures
Tutoring stints
- New Mutants (1st series) #35 to New Mutants (1st series) #75 [New Mutants part ways with him]
Cable (Nathan Christopher Charles Summers)
First appearance: New Mutants (1st series) #87
Former aliases: Nathan Winters, Askani’Son, Chosen One
Powers: - cybernetic parts grant him augmented strength, infra-red vision, and a series of hidden weapon components
Tutoring stints
- New Mutants (1st series) #89 to New Mutants (1st series) #100 [team becomes X-Force II]