XAVIER INSTITUTE YEARBOOK (2024 UPDATE): Page 18 of 21

Last Updated: 
12th February 2024

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
Cla
sses, Faculty

Non-Mutant Students

There were a tiny minority of non-mutant students. It could logically be assumed that they were asked to leave the school post M-Day, given the rising danger. They are listed below.

Lambert, Walter

First appearance: Chamber #1

Powers: none, baseline human

Notes:

  • Walter was a human exchange student from Empire State University.
  • Walter is a paraplegic and uses a wheelchair. How this came about was never revealed.

Walker, Seth
First appearance: Nightcrawler (2nd series) #1

Powers: Natural mystic, capable of creating binding (silencing) spells and protection spells using knotted rope and clay.

Notes:

  • Nightcrawler met Seth Walker when he was tasked with Storm to investigate the death of 13 orphaned children at a psychiatric hospital. Out of the massacre, Seth was the only survivor. His magical abilities had innately saved him from a mass sacrifice by Satanists lead by his lead clinician, Dr. Fields. Fields had intended to use the children as “gateways” to free the 14 demons, a demon named Pazuzu was trapped in Seth. Seth was unaware of this but was instinctively crafting 14 figurines out of clay. Dr. Fields eventually kidnapped Seth and began the ritual but luckily the X-Men had tracked him down and Kitty Pryde phased Seth while the demon was emerging which saved his life. Amanda Sefton then used the figurines that Seth had been crafting to bind the demons to the clay, trapping them again. After this, Seth was enrolled in the Xavier Institute. [Nightcrawler (2nd series) 1-4]
  • Seth was 10 when he was introduced, so presumably he was part of Karma's lower school.
  • His appearance very much seemed to be based on actor Haley Joel Osman, who had gained fame as the child actor in the film the Sixth Sense in 1999, which depicted a boy who had the unusual ability to see and communicate with the dead.

Unclear Status

D'Ancanto, Marie

First appearance: X-Treme X-Men (1st series) #31

Powers: none, baseline human

Notes:

  • Marie was introduced as a prospective suicide bomber at a Lila Cheney show. Her attempt was foiled by some X-Men who were present at the gig. The team took sympathy on her when they found out she had been maimed and her family had been accidently killed by some local teenage mutants. Prior to this, she had been "pro-mutant" and even babysat mutant local mutant children. After the death of her family, she was radicalized online by the group, Purity.
  • While she was tried for her crime, she was released when the X-Men arrested the mutants who killed her family. After her trial she was released to the custody of her lawyer Evangeline Whedon. [X-Treme X-Men (1st series) #31-35, 40]
  • The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z #13 claimed she was a student at the school, whereas Heroic Age: X-Men #1 stated she was merely living at the mansion. As an employee of Evangeline Whedon, the X-Men's lawyer, the issues in which she was seen in the school may have simply been her working for Whedon. [Uncanny X-Men (1st series) #450 and 466]