Introduction
Squads:
Advocates - Alpha Squadron - Chevaliers -
Corsairs - Excelsiors - Exemplars - Hellions -
New Mutants - Paladins - Paragons - Storm's Squad -
Lower (Junior) School
Miscellaneous Students:
A-C, D-H, I-R, S-Z
Non-Mutant Students
Unknown Students
Classes, Faculty
Miscellaneous
D-H
Please find a below breakdown of all named students that were never confirmed to be part of any particular official squad.
Durie, Ruth
First Appearance: X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #36
Powers: None shown, had a small tail
Notes:
- Ruth was one of a number of mutants who had been kidnapped by the villain Poppa, who intended to sell her into slavery/genetic experimentation. She was rescued by Magneto, who sent her to Xavier's Institute.
- Likely depowered in M-Day. Fate unknown.
- Name revealed in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #13.
Dummy (Boswell, Dean)
First appearance: New X-Men (1st series) #135
Powers: exists as an astral intelligence housed in a shapeless gas form, keeps himself in a containment suit that approximates human proportions for him
Notes:
- Dummy’s gaseous form was fully released when his special containment suit was pierced by flying glass during the riot at Xavier’s depicted in New X-Men (1st series) #137. He has not reappeared.
Ernst
First appearance: New X-Men (1st series) #135
Powers: diminuitive body houses superhuman strength
Notes:
- The villainous Cassandra Nova was defeated when she was tricked into transferring her psyche into the body of the Shi’ar Superguardian called Stuff. It was long believed that Ernst was Cassandra Nova however the idea was firmly dismissed in Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men run.
- Ernst was briefly part of Xorneto's special class and Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
- Ernst has a very close friendship with her classmate Martha Johansson.
- Her name seemed to be an homage to artist Max Ernst who was a trailblazer in the DADA movement.
Elf (Wood, Natalie)
First appearance: New X-Men (1st series) #134
Powers: Light Generation
Notes:
- Elf was another background character given a name and powerset in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #13.
- Her name seems to be a nod to the actress of the golden age of Hollywood star of the same name who stared in such classics as West Side Story, Miracle and 34th Street and Rebel Without a Cause.
- Likely depowered in M-Day. Fate unknown.
Elsewhere (Vanderwall, Jaime)
First appearance: X-Men Unlimited (2nd series) #10
Powers: teleporter
Notes:
- Elsewhere was disatisfied with being a mutant, having the plan to drop out of the school. Beast encouraged her to stay in the Institute and offered to help her apply for colleges so she could pursue her love of writing. Initially excited and appreciative of his help, this shifted when she was rejected by her first choice college. In the aftermath, she met with Beast to passive-aggressively taunt him, saying that now she had lost her chance to be a writer she was going to become a teacher like him so she too could ruin lives.
- Likely depowered in M-Day. Fate unknown.
- Elsewhere's teleportation power looks very similar to Nightcrawler's, except hers included a "poof" instead of a "bamf.”
Eosimias (Lianje, Hong)
First appearance: New X-Men (1st series) #123
Powers: flight, tiger appearance
Notes:
- His real name was revealed in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #13.
- Likely depowered in M-Day. Fate unknown.
Flood (Walker, Eugene)
First appearance: Gambit (4th series) #10
Powers: Hydrokinesis
- Kitty Pryde assigned Flood to be “mentored” by Gambit after he was caught trying to steal the answers to her tests.
- Real name revealed in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #13.
- Likely depowered in M-Day. Fate unknown.
Forearm II (Tucker, Marcus)
First appearance: New X-Men (1st series) #117
Powers: slightly longer than normal arms
Notes:
- Forearm was one of many background students to appear in several issues of New X-Men.
- Forearm was among the students who followed Cyclops in opposing Xorn’s rampage in New York City. [New X-Men (1st series) #149-150]
- His name was never revealed in his handful of appearances. It was first revealed in The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Teams 2005. His real name was revealed in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #13.
- Likely depowered in M-Day. Fate unknown.
Gelatin (Brewster, Carlo)
First appearance: New Mutants (2nd series) #7
Powers: Gelatinous form
Notes:
- In the original article, the quote from DeFillipis/Weir was that “The “Pink Jello guy” was intended to be named “Carlo” after artist Carlo Barberi who created him.” His full name and codename were revealed in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #13.
- Likely depowered in M-Day. Fate unknown.
- Gelatin's family attended during Parents Weekend and he was seen hugging a woman in the background indicating that he had not been rejected by his family. [New Mutants (2nd series) #8]
Ghazikhanian, Carter
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #411
Powers: strong potential for telepathic and telekinetic abilities
Notes:
- Carter was introduced by Chuck Austen along with his mother "Nurse Annie.” Annie was taking care of an amnesiac Alex Summers. Sensing her loneliness, he used his nascent telepathic abilities to send them both on dates with each other. When Havok did regain his cognitive abilities, he briefly went back to Lorna before leaving her at the altar for Annie. For a time, the trio became a family unit.
- Carter's age fluctuated between artists but he seemed to be anywhere between 6-10 and is a likely candidate for the "lower school.”
- Carter and his mother left the Institute in X-Men (2nd series) #164, in part due to the danger that pervaded the Institute. At the time, Carter was in the presence of a female “imaginary friend,” who appeared to be a malevolent psionic presence.
- It has never been revealed whether or not Carter retained his mutant abilities after M-Day. His mother Annie did appear during Marjorie Liu's Astonishing X-Men (3rd series) run but Carter was not with her and the matter went unmentioned.
- Carter had a very strong bond with Havok, Squidboy and Nicholas Gleason (Wolf Cub).
- For readers of the Mutant X series, Havok's relationship with Carter was reminiscent of the one he had with his alternate reality son, Scotty Summers, another child telepath/telekinetic.
- The identity of Carter's father was an ongoing mystery during the course of his publication history. All that was known was that he was an "evil mutant" who was abusive to his mother. There had been some foreshadowing that it was intended to Magneto. On the 18th March 2023 episode of the "Cerebro" podcast, writer Chuck Austen confirmed that, yes, he had been hinting that Carter's father was Magneto but the concept was squashed by editorial, leaving the mystery unresolved.
- Carter is of Armenian descent.
- Carter is a fan of the TV show Spongebob Squarepants. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #411]
Glob Herman (Herman, Robert)
First appearance: New X-Men (1st series) #117
Powers: physically composed of mutated bio-paraffin, a form of living wax, which augments his strength, speed, and resilience by increasing his mass, decreasing friction, and padding his internal organs from assault, and can also be flicked off his body in tiny rivulets of wax
Notes:
- Glob Herman was injured after setting himself aflame and going on a rampage. When he recovered from these injuries, he was sent to a human jail to atone for the crimes he committed as a member of the Omega Gang.
- Post M-Day, he retained his powers and was seen among the mutants again with no explanation in Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia #1.
- During Schism, Glob sided with Wolverine and enrolled in the Jean Grey School for Gifted Youngsters.
- Despite his delinquent past, he went to his “seeming” death alongside most of the X-Men in Uncanny X-Men (5th series) #10 (though in reality was misplaced in the Age of X pocket dimension).
- He joined the mutant nation of Krakoa after it's foundation.
Gloom (Lewis, Jordan)
First appearance: X-Treme X-Men #20
Powers: release a nerve-dampening darkness that temporarily disables another person’s ability to see
Notes:
- Likely depowered in M-Day. Fate unknown.
- Name revealed in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #13.
- Gloom was a younger mutant and may have been part of the lower school.
- Gloom's look seemed to have two big inspirations, one the protagonist from "Loom" (a PC game from 1990) and the Stars Wars aliens, the Jawas.
Hitch-Hiker (Laughlin, Conor)
First appearance: X-Men Unlimited (2nd series) #6
Powers: Telepathic possession
Notes:
- Real name revealed in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #13.
- Likely depowered in M-Day. Fate unknown.
- Conor was discovered by Rogue and Rachel Summers by accident. They attended a local hospital after they found an injured man on the side of the road. While there Rachel was possessed by Conor, who was angry with his father, a doctor at the hospital. He had just been admitted and was in an isolation room, as he was suddenly severely immune-compromised (possible side effect of his mutation). Rogue managed to convince Conor to release Rachel and subsequently his father to allow her to take him to Xavier's. Rogue was confident that Beast would be able to do something about Conor's health.
- Given his apparent age, he was a likely candidate for Karma's lower school.
Hothead (Caruso, Germaine)
First appearance: New X-Men (1st series) #156
Powers: heat-casting power allows him to create flames from his hands
Notes:
- Germaine was romantically involved with Mindee, one of the Stepford Cuckoos.
- He was killed by a riotous mob in Salem Center that gathered in response to Xorn I/"Magneto’s” destruction of Manhattan. He has not reappeared.
- His codename and surname were revealed in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #13.
Hydro (Crichton, Noah)
First appearance: New X-Men (2nd series) #20
Powers: breathe underwater
Notes:
- Depowered in M-Day and drowned in the X-Men's pool.
- Real name revealed in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #13.