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CHARACTERS

“The Authorities”

Given the unique political nature of Mutant Town, the federal government has posted a special task force to monitor crime in the area and help to resolve any conflicts that may arise before they become fodder for the media and anti-mutant activists. Federal task force member, Alexei Vazhin is in charge of the operations in District X and was responsible for bringing XSE member, Lucas Bishop to Mutant Town. They work in conjunction with members of the 11th Precinct Police Department to keep the peace in District X.

Bishop (Lucas Bishop)
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #282

All District X appearances: X-Men Unlimited (2nd series) #2, District X #1-14, Mutopia X #1-5, Decimation - House of M: The Day After

Powers: absorb power from any energy source directed at him, allowing him to rechannel the energies as an augmented burst or store it within his personal bio-energy reserves, where the energy acts to fuel his strength, endurance, and recuperative abilities or can be discharged as concussive force blasts

Notes:
- Bishop is from about 80 years in the future. His presence in the present changed history and crucial events that shaped his native timeline were avoided. It’s unknown if this timeline is now a divergent timeline, or if it was altered.
- In his future timeline, Bishop was an X.S.E. officer (Xavier’s Security Enforcers), and policed the mutant society. With there now being an X.S.E. in the present he wonders whether history is repeating itself.
- Bishop carries a fake ID that identifies him as federal officer of the Australian police department, and he regularly works together with the NYPD on crimes involving mutants.
- He is now once again a member of the X.S.E (X-treme Sanctions Executive) and has authority to police mutants along with several fellow X-Men.

Ismael “Izzy” Ortega
First appearance: District X #1

All District X appearances: District X #1-14, Mutopia X #1-5

Powers: none, baseline human

Notes:
- A police officer, Izzy was the partner of Gus Kucharsky, until Gus was injured during a callout to an apartment where he was forced to kill two people. Izzy covered for him, an act that could soon come back to haunt him.
- He is a family man, husband to a mutant named Armena, and father to two children, Chamayra and Esteban.
- Izzy’s family left Cuba in 1980. His parents were poets and therefore disliked by the regime.
- Izzy’s sister, Laline is an agent for up and coming artists. She seems to have a special interest in mutants and helped launch the career of Nemesio Pietri.

Gustave “Gus” Kucharsky
First appearance: District X #1
Final appearance: District X #7 (committed suicide)

All District X appearances: District X #1, 3, 7

Powers: none, baseline human

Notes:
- Gus was a jaded NYPD officer with strong anti-mutant sentiments.
- After his forced retirement, Gus took his own life as revealed in District X #7.

Randolph Esposito
First appearance: District X #1

All District X appearances: District X #1, 4-5, 9, 11, Decimation - House of M: The Day After

Powers: none, baseline human

Notes:
- Esposito is the Chief of Police for the 11th Precinct aka District X.

Alexei Vazhin
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #263

All District X appearances: District X #8, 10, 13-14, Mutopia X #1

Powers: none, baseline human

Notes:
- Vazhin is a former Soviet agent with a long history of dealing with mutants. He was among the secret enclave of government officials who brokered a deal with Storm of the X-Men to form a mutant task force to police mutantkind.
- Vazhin has apparently taken on the dubious tasks of monitoring District X and insuring that activities there do not escalate tensions between mutants and humans.

Sashenka Popova
First appearance: X-Men Unlimited (2nd series) #7

All District X appearances: X-Men Unlimited (2nd series) #7, District X #13-14, Mutopia X #1-4

Powers: none, baseline human, given a bionic arm with a hidden gun slot in the hand in the House of M

Notes:
- Popova is an assassin who was employed by Vazhin to eliminate targets who threatened the stability of District X. She once targeted Absolon Mercator and was responsible for the death of Billy Bates.
- In the House of M reality, Popova was the leader of the anti-mutant terrorist group called the Sapien League. The root of her anti-mutant sentiment is attributed to the death of her sister who was seduced and abandoned by a mutant and left pregnant. Her mutant child ate its way out of her womb during childbirth. It is unclear if these same events transpired in the “real world” or only took place in the world crafted through the Scarlet Witch’s reality warp.
- In the House of M reality, Popova allowed herself to be transformed into a mutant-like form complete with a cybernetic arm in order to continue her vendetta against mutantkind. She was destroyed when she failed to escape after killing Chamayra Ortega.

Jerry Halliwell
First appearance: District X #6

All District X appearances: District X #6, 13-14

Powers: none, baseline human

Notes:
- Halliwell is a federal agent assigned to work with Bishop and Ortega by Alexei Vazhin. His exact governmental affiliation was clearly unmentioned by the stern investigator.

”Organized Crime”

‘Filthy’ Frankie Zapruder
First appearance: X-Men Unlimited (2nd series) #2

All District X appearances: X-Men Unlimited (2nd series) #2, District X #2-3, 5-6, Mutopia X #3-4

Powers: produces an intense body odor at all times from his pores, which changes to different scents based on his mood

Notes:
- “Filthy Frankie” is one of two major crime lords in District X.
- Zapruder was the originator of Toad Juice, a street drug derived from a mutant boy’s unique bodily secretions.
- Zapruder was arrested after a major public shootout with his rival gangster, Shaky Kaufman.

Zippermouth (Vincent)
First appearance: X-Men Unlimited (2nd series) #2

All District X appearances: X-Men Unlimited (2nd series) #2, District X #2-3, 5-6, Mutopia X #1

Powers: empathic ability to scan people in his environment and determine their mood and intentions

Notes:
- Zippermouth is one of Zapruder’s henchmen.
- In the House of M reality-shift, Zippermouth works as a security specialist at a concert venue in Mutant Town.

Colin
First appearance: X-Men Unlimited (2nd series) #2

All District X appearances: X-Men Unlimited (2nd series) #2, District X #2-3, 5

Powers: has inactive dangling tentacles from his chin

Notes:
- Colin is another of Zapruder’s henchmen.

Daniel “Shaky” Kaufman
First appearance: District X #2

All District X appearances: District X #2-6, Mutopia X #1-4

Powers: supercharged adrenal energy drives him into fits of tremendous violence

Notes:
- Kaufman was first mentioned in X-Men Unlimited (2nd series) #2.
- Kaufman is the owner of the Wildkat Klub and Daniel’s Inferno among other property assets in Mutant Town.
- Kaufman was arrested in District X #6 following a shootout with his rival, Frankie Zapruder.
- In the House of M reality, Kaufman was an unscrupulous media mogul who was married to Lara the Illusionist.

Mr. Punch
First appearance: District X #2
Final appearance: District X #6 (sacrificed himself to save his boss from an assassination attempt)

All District X appearances: District X #2-6

Powers: inactive pain receptors make him incapable of feeling physical assaults

Notes:
- Mr. Punch is extremely loyal to Daniel Kaufman and is one of his chief enforcers. Due to his mutation, he and Kaufman have developed a unique relationship. Kaufman uses “Mr. Punch” as a means of unleashing his anger-induced aggression.
- Mr. Punch was killed when he blocked a grenade fired by Frankie Zapruder. The intended target was his boss, Daniel Kaufman.
- In the House of M reality, Kaufman paid Stark Industries to build an army of robots that looked like Mr. Punch after he was killed by Zapruder.

Machine
First appearance: District X #13

All District X appearances: District X #13, Mutopia X #2-4

Powers: no known functional mutation

Notes:
- Machine worked as a bouncer at the re-built Wildkat Club.
- Machine was one of Kaufman’s bodyguards in the House of M reality-shift.

Erik
First appearance: Mutopia X #1

All District X appearances: Mutopia X #1-4

Powers: psi-sensitive mutation allows him to read minds and pick up on psychic activity in his environment

Notes:
- Erik is one of Kaufman’s personal bodyguards in the House of M reality. He did not appear in the previous District X series as most of the prominent characters did.
- Erik betrayed Kaufman rather than follow orders that he knew would get him caught by the authorities.

Jazz
First appearance: District X #2

All District X appearances: District X #2-4, 7 Mutopia X #1

Powers: blue skin, otherwise no known functional mutation

Notes:
- Jazz is a wannabe rapper with a penchant for weak rhymes.
- Jazz is also a small time drug dealer. He dealt Toad Juice for Daniel Kaufman and when the source for “Tee-Jay” dried up, he continued to sell other street drugs.
- In the House of M reality, Jazz was an international rap star with pro-sapien leanings under the name “Jazz-E-Jazz”.
- Jazz is one of the few residents of Mutant Town who retained his mutation following M-Day.

Toad Boy (Tarquin Berderaux)
First appearance: District X #2

All District X appearances: District X #2-4

Powers: grotesque physiology produces an addictive and hallucinogenic chemical in his body's secretions

Notes:
- Toad Boy’s mutation was obvious at birth but it wasn’t until puberty that his mutant secretions were activated.
- “Toad Juice” causes pleasant hallucinations in mutants but can be fatal to baseline humans.
- Tarquin’s mother was the first to discover his mutant powers… and the first to become addicted to their effects. Given that she did not show any extreme reactions to “Toad Juice” she is either a mutant herself or has some kind of special immunity to its negative side effects on humans due to her genetic relationship to Toad Boy.
- The full extent of Tarquin’s mutations was reversed by Absolon Mercator in an attempt to help them break free from the control of mobsters like Zapruder and Kaufman.

The Bacchae
First appearance: Fantastic Four (3rd series) #7

All District X appearances: Uncanny X-Men #450-451

Powers: armored warriors shielded from a significant amount of physical harm

Notes:
- The Bacchae is an international criminal organization comprised entirely of women. This Amazon-like crime cartel is based in New York City. Members of the Bacchae operate out of a posh club called Tartarus that caters to the business elite. The club is located in the Wall Street area of New York.
- In an attempt to broaden their influence, the Bacchae sought to take control of all the mutant-owned businesses in the downtown area. They targeted the Double Helix restaurant which brought them into conflict with the X-Men and New Jersey crime boss, Don Parisi.
- The Bacchae frequented the nightspot called Wannabees.

Other Citizens of Mutant Town

Armena Ortega
First appearance: District X #2

All District X appearances: District X #2-3, 5-9, 11 Mutopia X #1-5

Powers: depowered, formerly reflexively produced a transparent bubble of biological material around herself while sleeping

Notes:
- Armena is a Cuban immigrant who still feels a strong connection to her homeland.
- Armena is a teacher.
- Following the events of the House of M reality-shift, Armena lost her mutant powers.

Chamayra Ortega
First appearance: District X #2
Final appearance: Mutopia X #5 (died from gunshot wounds)

All District X appearances: District X #2-10, Mutopia X #1-5

Powers: self-propelled flight in the House of M

Notes:
- Chamayra was the oldest child in the Ortega family.
- In the House of M reality, Chamayra’s mutation was awakened by Absolon Mercator. Her abilities included unaided flight.
- Chamayra was accidentally shot by her brother but was saved through the powers of Mr. M. She died from internal bleeding months later when the effects of Mr. M’s powers were somehow reversed on M-Day when many other mutants lost their mutations.

Esteban Ortega
First appearance: District X #2

All District X appearances: District X #2-3, 5-11, Mutopia X #1-4

Powers: telekinetic in the House of M

Notes:
- Esteban is the younger of the Ortega children.
- Esteban demonstrated no mutant powers in his District X appearances but in the House of M reality where mutations were encouraged and manipulated into earlier manifestations, he possessed some form of psychokinetic powers.

Sonny Bean
First appearance: New X-Men #127
Final appearance: New X-Men #127 (shot by the police)

All District X appearances: New X-Men #127

Powers: grotesque mutation granted him enhanced size, strength, durability, red carbonized skin, horns, and an uneven physiology

Notes:
- Sonny was only twelve years old when he mutated into a large and monstrous form. His mother was fearful of the persecution he would face due to his appearance and administered a lethal dose of medication to her son and herself. She had no way of knowing that Sonny’s mutation was not yet complete and he would mutate into a unique form in the course of the next ten days.
- Sonny was shot and killed by police officers during an altercation with the X-Man Xorn who sought to help the young boy and his mother.

Mr. M (Absolon Zebardyn Mercator)
First appearance: District X #2

All District X appearances: District X #2-8, Mutopia X #2-4

Powers: absolute control over molecular structures enables him to heal living beings, repair damaged machinery, negate mutant powers, pass through solid objects, painfully or lethally scramble organic molecules, and produce heat, force, electricity, and nuclear explosions

Notes:
- Mr. M’s real name is Absolon Zebardyn Mercator. He lives in apartment 104 on McCarthy Avenue, District X. He is educated, but a loner, who only leaves his apartment at night. He is possibly a big drinker, but appears physically fit and healthy.
- Mercator grew up near Gent, Belgium. His parents sent him to live with relatives in the US after his powers manifested and he inadvertently killed another boy.
- In the House of M reality, Mercator was the founder and central leader of the Center for Illumination and Transformation. He uses his powers to unleash the untapped mutant potential in others, thus increasing the overall mutant population.
- Mr. M is among the mutants of Mutant Town who retained their powers following the worldwide events of “M-Day” during which the vast majority of mutant suddenly lost their powers and became normal humans.

Hanna Levy
First appearance: District X #2

All District X appearances: District X #2, 4-6, 8, Mutopia X #2, 4

Powers: metabolism designed only for eating insects aided by a prehensile and elastic tongue

Notes:
- Hanna has a degree in social history and is a researcher for a prominent historical journal. She seems to have a fondness for Mr. M.
- Hanna worked in the Center for Illumination and Transformation in the House of M reality.
- Hanna was one of the first mutants in Mutant Town confirmed to have lost her mutant abilities as a result of M-Day. After her ‘power’ to metabolize only insects faded, the insects throughout her apartment building attacked he. This drove Hanna into a psychotic panic and necessitated that the building be condemned.

Amazing Merwoman (Patricia Hamilton)
First appearance: District X #1

All District X appearances: District X #1-4, 6, Mutopia X #2-4

Powers: aquatic mutation gives her scales on her body, webbed fingers and toe, and the ability to breathe underwater

Notes:
- Patricia Hamilton worked at Daniel’s Inferno, a club owned by Shaky Kaufman until a human customer overdosed on Toad Juice. She left Kaufman’s employ and went to work for Lonnie Shakespeare when he opened his own club.
- Patricia came to America from England after being banned from competitive swimming due to her mutation.
- She is a friend of Bethany Danziger, the sister of murder victim, Jake Costanza. Their brief friendship may have been more than platonic.
- Patricia worked as a counselor at the Center for Illumination and Transformation in the House of M reality.

Lorelei II
First appearance: District X #1

All District X appearances: District X #1, 5, 8, Mutopia X #2-4

Powers: can animate her hair through mental control

Notes:
- Lorelei is an exotic dancer who works at the Wildkat Klub.
- Lorelei worked as an attendant to Absolon Mercator at the Center for Illumination and Transformation in the House of M reality.
- Lorelei is one of the few mutants in Mutant Town to retain her powers after the effects of the House of M reality shift.

Lonnie Shakespeare
First appearance: District X #2

All District X appearances: District X #2,4

Powers: unrevealed

Notes:
- Lonnie was the manager of Daniel’s Inferno until pressure from the cops and the death of a human customer led to his resignation. He opened his own club on Calley Avenue called “Shakespeare’s”.

Lara “The Illusionist“ King
First appearance: District X #5

All District X appearances: District X #5-6, 8, 12, Mutopia X #1-5

Powers: generates sensory illusions which can alter her physical appearance and reconfigure impressions of the environment

Notes:
- Lara works at the Wildkat Klub and is the highest paid “escort” in New York City. Her clients include actors, politicians and princes…anyone who can pay the $50,000 price tag for her company and the special effects created by her illusions.
- In the House of M reality, Lara was discovered by Daniel Kaufman who married her and made her a movie star. Using her illusory talents, Lara imitated famous actresses in her films though the Actors Guild required her to only mimic deceased actresses. Marilyn Monroe, Mae West and Marlene Dietrich were among the actresses she starred as.
- Following the events of the House of M, Lara was rendered powerless along with most residents of Mutant Town

Jake Costanza
First appearance: District X #1

All District X appearances: District X #1

Powers: none, baseline human

Notes:
- Jake initially dated his wife’s sister, Bethany Danzinger before being enthralled by her sister.
- Costanza was killed by Officer Gus Kucharsky who was under the mental influence of Jake’s wife.

“The Siren“ (Mrs. Costanza)
First appearance: District X #1
Final appearance: District X #1 (shot by a police officer)

All District X appearances: District X #1

Powers: produces a subsonic signal from her vocal chords while speaking which makes men fall madly in love with her and willing to cater to her every whim

Notes:
- Due to her powers Mrs. Costanza’s husband, Jake, grew violently jealous. He moved her to District X and kept her bound and gagged to prevent her from coming into contact with other men. Her sister eventually tracked them down and sought police assistance in freeing her sister. During the investigation, she took control of Officer Gus Kucharsky. While in her thrall, Kucharsky shot and killed both “The Siren” and her husband before trying to kill himself.
- “The Siren’s” maiden name may have been Danziger as that was her sister Bethany’s last name.

Bethany Danziger
First appearance: District X #1

All District X appearances: District X #1-4

Powers: apparently none, baseline human

Notes:
- Bethany came to District X in search of her sister, “The Siren”. There she befriended Patricia Hamilton. Their brief friendship may have been more than just platonic.
- Bethany was once engaged to her sister’s husband, Jake Costanza.

Nemesio Petri
First appearance: District X #6
Final appearance: District X #12 (killed by the Worm)

All District X appearances: District X #6-12

Powers: visionary who experienced flashes of future events and often translated them into his paintings

Notes:
- Nemesio was a homeless artist who channeled his precognitive visions into his artwork. He was discovered by Laline Ortega and his career as an avant-garde mutant artiste was launched. His visions continued to haunt him and he returned to life on the streets.
- Nemesio was obsessed with the accuracy of his visions, so much so that he willingly went to the place of his own death rather than allow one of his visions to not come to fruition.

Gregor Smerdyakov
First appearance: District X #1

All District X appearances: District X #1, 7-8, 12, Mutopia X #1-5

Powers: arboreal mutation caused his body to take root if stationary for too long, ultimately transformed him into an inanimate tree-like being with assorted root systems, branches, and even mutated fruit

Notes:
- Gregor took medication to suppress his unusual mutant talent. When he ventured into the underground with his friend, Nemesio he forgot his medication and ended up evolving into a sentient tree-form when he fell asleep.
- Gregor lived with his sister Mitya and her young son Mikhail.
- In the House of M reality, Gregor’s fruit possessed qualities that enabled Absolon Mercator to unleash the genetic potential of latent mutants. Together, they founded and operate the Center for Illumination and Transformation.

Mitya Smerdyakov
First appearance: District X #1

All District X appearances: District X #1, 9, 11

Powers: apparently none, baseline human

Notes:
- Mitya is Gregor’s sister and the mother of Mikhail. She takes care of her brother as best she can but is often exasperated by his mutant condition.

Mikhail Smerdyakov
First appearance: District X #1
All District X appearances: District X #1, 11-12

Powers: apparently none, baseline human

Notes:
- Mikhail adores his uncle Gregor and does his best to look out for him while his mother is working.

Sylvette “Sylvie” Lauziere
First appearance: District X #2

All District X appearances: District X #2, 13-14

Powers: minor feral mutation with pointed ears, a prehensile lion-like tail, and a thin layer of fur on her body

Notes:
- Sylvie is a waitress at her father’s restaurant, the Café Des Artistes.
- Sylvie and her father are French.

Juicers
First appearance: District X #1

All District X appearances: District X #1, 3-4, 7, Mutopia X #5

Powers: male - chameleonic skin causes various colors and patterns to flow over his body; female - manifest photonic energy as a luminescent orb projected from her hands

Notes:
- This pair of Toad Juice addicts have appeared throughout the District X series. They appear to be a couple.
- The Juicers appear to have lost their mutant powers as a result of M-Day.

Manfred Jones
First appearance: District X #2

All District X appearances: District X #2, Mutopia X #2

Powers: minor physical mutation

Notes:
- Manfred is the manager of a tenement building in Mutant Town located on McCarthy Avenue. Among his tenants are the Falcones.
- In the House of M reality-shift, Manfred is a wealthy real estate owner with multiple, upscale apartment buildings in Mutopia X.

Arturo Falcone
First appearance: District X #2

All District X appearances: District X #2

Powers: spawns quasi-sentient creatures out from inside his body, creating different lifeforms depending on his mood and emotional state

Notes:
- Mr. Falcone was working as a garbage man but lost his job due to his mutant nature. He appears to be a bit of an alcoholic.

Mrs. Falcone
First appearance: District X #2

All District X appearances: District X #2

Powers: none, baseline human

Notes:
- Like many in Mutant Town, Mrs. Falcone is a human who must live day-to-day with the mutant nature of her loved ones.

Primo and Matti Falcone
First appearance: District X #2

All District X appearances: District X #2, 7

Powers: apparently none, baseline human

Notes:
- The Primo brothers make extra cash on the streets of Mutant Town selling the mutant vermin that their father spawns.

Carrie
First appearance: District X #7

All District X appearances: District X #7, 10

Powers: outermost epidermis bunches up and wrinkles unnaturally, prompting her to shed her skin every few weeks or so

Notes:
- Carrie is the Ortega family’s babysitter.

The Worm (Winston Hobbes)
First appearance: District X #7
Final appearance: District X #12 (killed by Izzy Ortega)

All District X appearances: District X #7-12

Powers: heightened strength, darkness-adapted vision, venomous fangs and spitting ability, tunneling power based on sharp claws and ability to digest soil

Notes:
- Winston Hobbes was a young mutant, given away by his parents when still young.
- Winston never recovered, and surrounded himself with reminders of their existence. He died at the hands of Izzy Ortega after he savagely attacked the Tunnel Rats.
- The Worm killed a number of people in his quest for his parents including his former social worker, Nemesio Pietri and Melek’s wife, Sarah.

Andrea Hobbes
First appearance: District X #9 (flashback only)

All District X appearances: District X #9-10

Powers: minor physical mutation

Notes:
- Andrea and her husband Walker abandoned their monstrous son, Winston aka The Worm at a young age entrusting him to St. Jerome’s hospital. Afterwards, they built a quiet life in Mutant Town with their second child who looked more human than either of them or Winston.

Walker Hobbes
First appearance: District X #9 (flashback only)

All District X appearances: District X #9-10

Powers: minor physical mutation

Notes:
- The Hobbes abandoned their monstrous son, Winston aka The Worm at a young age entrusting him to St. Jerome’s hospital. Afterwards, they built a quiet life in Mutant Town with their second child who looked more human than either of them or Winston.

Carol Campbell
First appearance: Madrox #2

All District X appearances: Madrox #2, 4-5

Powers: pyrotechnic with no natural immunity to her own powers

Notes:
- Carol engaged the services of X-Factor Investigations when she suspected her husband was cheating on her via astral projection.
- Carol lives in Mutant Town with her husband, Ned.

Ned Campbell
First appearance: Madrox #3
Last appearance: Madrox #5 (heart attack)

All District X appearances: Madrox #3-5

Powers: psychic projector who could release his consciousness into an ectoplasmic form

Notes:
- Ned is married to Carol Campbell. He was investigated by X-Factor Investigations at his wife’s request. She suspected he was having a psychic affair.
- Ned was a paraplegic. It was not revealed whether this occurred through some accident or was a part of his mutation.
- Ned died of a heart attack after his astral affair was discovered by Wolfsbane and the two engaged in battle.

Kim
First appearance: Madrox #4

All District X appearances: Madrox #4-5

Powers: unrevealed

Notes:
- Kim was involved in a psychic affair with Ned Campbell prior to his death.
- It is unknown if Kim is himself a mutant, though he does reside in Mutant Town.

Carl
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #451

All District X appearances: Uncanny X-Men #451

Powers: minor physical mutation

Notes:
- Carl is one of Bishop’s informants in Mutant Town.

Felon (Bobby Soul)
First appearance: NYX #6

All District X appearances: NYX #6-7

Powers: astral projector able to leave his body, travel in a spectral state over vast distances, and possess the bodies of other people, forcing them to act as a "host" for his spirit and then rendering them unconscious when he abandons their form

Notes:
- Bobby Soul does odd jobs for a pimp named Zebra Daddy to earn extra cash. He lives with his “L’il Bro” in an apartment in Mutant Town.
- After the death of Zebra Daddy, Felon offered a home to X-23, Cameron Palmer, Kiden Nixon and Tatiana. Given that X-23 was later seen working in Mutant Town, it is likely that the group accepted his offer.

L’il Bro
First appearance: NYX #6

All District X appearances: NYX #6-7

Powers: psychometric visionary, able to mentally locate and keep track of people he has previously encountered by pinpointing their psi-signatures, can visually display his locator power as animated figures of the people he is "viewing"

Notes:
- L’il Bro appears to be autistic. Despite this, his mutant powers seem to function in a purposeful, if not intelligent, way.

Kiden Nixon
First appearance: NYX #1

All District X appearances: NYX #6-7

Powers: realign herself into a faster timestream, altering her perceptions so that events occurring in real time appear to be moving in slow motion and allowing her to move with relatively much greater velocity and force

Notes:
- Kiden witnessed the death of her police officer father when she was very young. When her mutant powers manifested, her father’s spirit seemed to guide her in her efforts to cope. She lived on the streets and met other wayward mutants in her travels, often at the direction of her father’s spirit.
- Kiden’s ‘ghost’ appears to be connected somehow to L’il Bro. The exact dynamic between this autistic young mutant and the vision of Kiden’ slain father is not entirely clear.

Tatiana
First appearance: NYX #4

All District X appearances: NYX #6-7

Powers: cardiopulminary genetic adaptation causes her to assume the animalistic traits of different creatures by coming into contact with their blood, giving her varying levels of heightened strength, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, senses, and predatory instincts, in addition to physical changes such as fur, feathers, and razor sharp fangs and claws

Notes:
- Even before her mutant powers manifested, Tatiana had an affinity with animals and kept a small menagerie in her apartment.
- Along with Kiden, X-23 and Miss Palmer, Tatiana found a home in Mutant Town with Bobby Soul.

X-23
First appearance: NYX #3

All District X appearances: NYX #6-7, Uncanny X-Men #450-451

Powers: accelerated cellular regeneration augments her natural strength, speed, agility, endurance, and reflexes, expands her perceptions to give her animal-like senses, and grants her an accelerated healing factor that can stave off poisons, suppress the aging process and repair damaged cells and tissue within minutes, two retractable claws made of razor tipped and extremely dense bone extend from each forearm through the back of her hand and one from each foot between the toes, adamantium metal has been surgically bonded to her skeleton and claws to make them virtually unbreakable

Notes:
- X-23 was originally created for the X-Men: Evolution cartoon series.
- X-23 worked as a prostitute foe a pimp named Zebra Daddy when she first arrived in NYC.
- After moving in with Felon in District X, X-23 took a job as a waitress at Wannabees.

Cameron Palmer
First appearance: NYX #1

All District X appearances: NYX #6-7

Powers: none, baseline human

Notes:
- Miss Palmer was a teacher of Kiden’s who got swept up in the drama of the young mutant life. She was shot as a direct result of Kiden’s powers’ earliest manifestations. During the months of rehabilitation it took her to recover, Cameron’s marriage fell apart and she sunk into a deep depression. When she tried to kill herself, Kiden was guided to her side by the ‘ghost’ of her father.
- Miss Palmer lived on the streets with Kiden and her friends until they were taken in by Bobby Soul.

Key Players in Mutant Town

The following characters have strong connections to Mutant Town but do not necessarily reside there. This includes business owners and those who are employed in Mutant Town as well as frequent visitors and mutie-loving humans.

Jumbo Carnation
First appearance: New X-Men #134
Final appearance: New X-Men #134 (drug overdose)

All District X appearances: New X-Men #134

Powers: multiple arms, change his skin into a teflon state

Notes:
- Jumbo was a famous mutant fashion designer who created fashions fit for and inspired by the various and inhuman forms of himself and other mutants.
- Jumbo was jumped by a group of anti-mutant thugs and died shortly afterwards from an overdose of the mutant-enhancing drug called Kick.

Billy “The Porcupine“ Bates
First appearance: District X #13
Final appearance: District X #14 (shot by Sashenka Popova)

All District X appearances: District X #13-14

Powers: offensive morphing power lets him sprout razor tipped spikes from his face, body, and right arm, fire these spikes as projectile bolts, and distort his left arm into a misshapen, extended form with elongated fingers and claws

Notes:
- Billy inadvertently killed a group of human patrons at the Cafe Des Artistes who were harassing Sylvie. He took her “hostage” which led to a police standoff. Rather than allow the situation to become a catalyst for anti-mutant strife in Mutant Town, Alexei Vazhin hired Sashenka Popova to assassinate Billy Bates. He then paid Sylvie and her father off to keep them quiet about the incident.
- Billy had a huge crush on Sylvie.

Multiple Man (Jamie Madrox)
First appearance: Giant Size Fantastic Four #4

All District X appearances: Madrox #1-5, House of M - Decimation: The Day After

Powers: utilize the kinetic energy released upon impact as a catalyst agent to initiate a complete and total replication of his body‘s cells, splitting off exact duplicates of himself with whom he shares an empathic link, operate independently, and can be absorbed back into himself later

Notes:
- A long-time ally of the X-Men, Madrox has opened up shop in Mutant Town as a private investigator.
- He continues to work there after the effects of M-Day helping to protect those in need and investigating the cause of the phenomenon.

Wolfsbane (Rahne Sinclair)
First appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel #4

All District X appearances: Madrox #1-5, House of M - Decimation: The Day After

Powers: genetic lycanthrope able to metamorphesize into a fully lupine form or assume transitional stages between human and animal that possess various degrees of enhanced strength, speed, agility, endurance, reflexes, animal-like senses, and other aspects such as razor edged canines and claws, thick brown fur, and an elongated snout

Notes:
- After an affair with a student at the Xavier Institute became public, Rahne left her teaching position and agreed to come to work for Jamie Madrox as part of X-Factor Investigations.

Strong Guy (Guido Carosella)
First appearance: New Mutants (1st series) #29

All District X appearances: Madrox #1-5, House of M - Decimation: The Day After

Powers: deformed and expanded muscle mass gives him enormous strength and durability, absorb kinetic energy upon impact and metabolize it to augment his strength and musculature for a brief period, during which he must expel the excess energy or else risk serious deformation

Notes:
- After a brief relationship with his long-time employer, Lila Cheney, went south, Guido came to work with Jamie Madrox as the muscle behind X-Factor Investigations.

Lefty
First appearance: Madrox #1

All District X appearances: Madrox #1, 5

Powers: eight prehensile squid-like tentacles extend from her back, able to use their suckers to grab onto things and wrap around them

Notes:
- Lefty is the bartender at the Power Plant bar.

Doc
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #450

All District X appearances: Uncanny X-Men #450

Powers: generates a molecular scanning field which allows him to probe people and objects down to the atomic level, analyzing the composition of their physical structures, detecting foreign particles or bodies, and cataloging flaws or abnormalities in their formation

Notes:
- “Doc” is the mutant coroner at the City Morgue who is assigned specifically to District X.

Matthew
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #451

All District X appearances: Uncanny X-Men #451

Powers: no known functional mutation

Notes:
- Matthew is a mutant chef who has opened a restaurant in Mutant Town called the Double Helix. His girlfriend, Jade Parisi is the daughter of a Jersey crime boss.
- Before opening his restaurant, Matthew befriended X-23. He provided her with food when she first moved to Mutant Town.

Jade Parisi
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #450

All District X appearances: Uncanny X-Men #450-451

Powers: none, baseline human

Notes:
- Jade is the financial backer of a restaurant called the Double Helix in Mutant Town, which she has opened with her mutant boyfriend, Matthew.
- Jade is the daughter of a Jersey crime boss.

Geech
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #451

All District X appearances: Uncanny X-Men #451

Powers: superhuman strength, endurance, reflexes, and resistance to physical injury

Notes:
- Geech is the superhuman enforcer for Don Parisi. He was sent to Mutant Town to find Don Parisi’s daughter Jade. This brought him into direct conflict with Storm’s XSE team.

Laline Ortega
First appearance: District X #7

All District X appearances: District X # 7, 9, Mutopia X #5

Powers: none, baseline human

Notes:
- Laline is the sister of Ismael Ortega. She is an agent for aspiring artists and has a clear affinity for mutants.
- Laline discovered artist Nemesio Pietri on the streets and helped to launch his art career. It was also implied that she might have been more than just his agent.

Those Who Live in Darkness / “The Tunnel Rats”

These mutants have elected to live outside of normal human society in much the same way that the Morlocks did. They resided in the upper tunnels under Mutant Town in an area dubbed “Chud City” by the police. After crackdowns by the police, “Those Who Live in Darkness” coordinated several blackouts in an attempt to persuade the police to leave them in peace. Further threats to remove their children from what was deemed an unacceptable living environment prompted a split in the community. The majority opted to return to the surface but a handful, lead by Melek, chose to dwell deeper in the tunnels. Their subterranean exodus was cut short when they were attacked by the Worm. The majority of this mutant tribe was killed in the massacre.

Melek the Telepath
First appearance: District X #8

All District X appearances: X-Men Unlimited (2nd series) #8-12

Powers: telepathic projector able to view distant events and communicate from miles away

Notes:
- Melek is the leader of a band of mutant outcasts called the Tunnel Rats who live in the sewers underneath Mutant Town.

Sarah
First appearance: District X #9
Final appearance: District X #12 (killed by the Worm)

All District X appearances: District X #9-12

Powers: unrevealed

Notes:
- Sarah appeared to be Melek’s wife. She was killed by the Worm in his attack upon the Tunnel Rats who ventured deeper into the subway tunnels under District X.

Dzemal
First appearance: X-Men Unlimited (2nd series) #2

All District X appearances: X-Men Unlimited (2nd series) #2, District X #7, 9-11

Powers: wing-like flaps under his arms enable him to glide short distances

Notes:
- Upon arriving in the US from Bosnia, Dzemal was recruited by Frankie Zapruder. He did some small “jobs” for Zapruder before realizing the depths of his criminal operations. He was “liberated” from Zapruder’s service by Bishop.
- Dzemal’s father was a professor in Bosnia but now works as a taxi driver in New York City.
- Dzemal was among the many youth in Mutant Town to become addicted to Toad Juice.
- When Dzemal ran out of money, he found a new home with the Tunnel Rats.

Ahmed
First appearance: District X #9

All District X appearances: District X #9

Powers: telekinetic

Notes:
- In concert with Melek’s telepathic powers, Ahmed helped to execute the citywide blackout in an effort to dissuade authorities from harassing the Tunnel Rats.

Bugman
First appearance: District X #9

All District X appearances: District X #9-11, Mutopia X #2, 5

Powers: insect-like mutation gives him green skin, irridescent yellow eyes, and small antenna

Notes:
- In the House of M reality, Bugman was an employee of the Daily Bugle as a driver for a paparazzi photographer.
- Bugman lost his mutation as a result of M-Day. He was excited to revert to a handsome human appearance with the possibility of finally scoring with the ladies.