Generation X (comics)

Generation X is a fictional superhero team appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. A spin-off of the X-Men, the team was created by writer Scott Lobdell and artist Chris Bachalo. Generation X debuted during the 1994 "Phalanx Covenant" storyline, and appeared in their own monthly series in September 1994 with Generation X #1 (November 1994).^[1]

Generation X consisted of teenage

Unlike the X-Men and New Mutants, Generation X did not attend

• Chamber
  (Jonothon "Jono" Starsmore), a British mutant who produced huge blasts of energy from his upper chest. When his powers first manifested, they destroyed the lower half of his face and chest, leaving him with only his limited telepathic powers with which to communicate, and releasing him from any necessity to eat, drink, or breathe. Because of this, he is characteristically sullen and bitter.
• Gaia, formerly the otherworldly Guardian of the Citadel of the Universal Amalgamator, which could potentially be misused to combine all sentient consciousnesses into a single entity.^[3] She was freed by Synch^[4] and eventually joined the team,^[5]
  but soon left to explore this world.
• Icarus
  .
• Jubilee (Jubilation Lee), a Chinese-American "mall rat" from Beverly Hills, California
  who could produce explosive energy. Jubilee had been a junior member of the X-Men in the early 1990s, and joined Generation X to learn more about her powers.
• M (Monet St. Croix), a "perfect" young woman born into a rich family from Monaco who could fly, possessed super strength and had telepathic abilities. Her arrogant manner was an annoyance to her teammates and her habit of going into deep trances or fugue states when deep in thought was a mystery to her teachers. Mysteries surrounding the St. Croix family would play a big part in the series.
• Juggernaut and Black Tom Cassidy.^[7]
• Penance, a silent, childlike and mysterious mutant who possessed diamond hard, red skin and razor-sharp claws. Penance appeared mysteriously at the Massachusetts Academy and at first, little was known about her. According to the Generation X Ashcan, the writers originally intended her to be a girl named Yvette from Yugoslavia. A hint of this can be seen when her mind is read by Emma Frost, revealing Eastern European tanks on the march in her memories.^[8]
  This background was later changed by the following creative team.
• Skin (Angelo Espinosa), a former reluctant teenage gang member on the streets of East Los Angeles who possessed six feet of extra skin. He could stretch his extremities, but mostly considered his mutation, which caused him to have sagging gray skin and painful headaches, a curse.
• Synch (Everett Thomas), an African-American teenager from St. Louis, known for his pleasant, supportive temperament, who could copy the powers of other mutants/superhumans within physical proximity.

Volume 2

Following the

• Bling!
  (Roxanne "Roxy" Washington), an openly bisexual student with body made of diamond-hard material.
• Eye-Boy (Trevor Hawkins), one of the new mutants to manifest their powers after the war between the X-Men and Avengers whose body is covered in eyeballs, which gives him expert marksman skills and the ability to see through illusions, track peoples auras, see electrical and magical waves, and spot people's weaknesses.
• Hindsight (Nathaniel Carver), a new student who can use psychometry to see someone's past through skin contact.
• Omega level
  mutant possessing advanced cognitive and telepathic abilities.
• Morph (Benjamin Deeds), an average college student who has the power to shapeshift and chemically induce people into liking him.
• Nature Girl (Lin Li), a quiet student with heightened affinity for the natural world.

After the series

Banshee

Banshee, distraught and possibly suffering from a breakdown, founds the X-Corps, a group of mutant adventurers who came into conflict with the X-Men over their questionable methodology and membership. Among the group are several former members of the Brotherhood of Mutants. It is revealed that Banshee was having the new Mastermind, the daughter of the deceased original Mastermind, manipulate the Brotherhood's members into having them work with him. However, it turns out that Mystique was posing as one of the members, Surge, and she is working with the new Mastermind behind Banshee's back. Mystique helps the brainwashed members to revolt; two members of the X-Corps are killed and Mystique stabs Banshee through the throat before being stopped by the X-Men. Banshee survives the attack and recuperates in the hospital.

In 2006's X-Men: Deadly Genesis, Banshee is killed by Vulcan, Cyclops and Havok's long-lost brother, while attempting to rescue an airplane full of innocents. Later, Banshee's daughter Siryn takes the title of Banshee in his honor.^[9] Sean is latter resurrected by the Apocalypse Twins by the Death Seed as a Horseman of Death.

Chamber

Chamber starred a four-issue mini-series, X-Men Icons: Chamber, written by Brian K. Vaughan. In it, he went undercover at Empire State University as a student to find out who killed six openly mutant students.

Later, after a reluctant recruitment into the X-Men, Chamber was an active part of the team in battles with long-time X-Men villains

He subsequently reappeared as an attendee of the Excelsior support group (with his mouth and chest destroyed once more, supposedly in a bar fight) within the Runaways series, claiming he was "only there for the free pizza", despite once again no longer having a mouth with which to eat. It was revealed (to the reader, not to the rest of Excelsior) that he was merely someone posing as Chamber.

A mini-series titled Generation M debuted in November 2005, focusing on the after-effects from House of M, in which Scarlet Witch uses her hex/mutant powers to wish for "no more mutants". The first issue revealed a powerless Chamber (on life-support, due to missing the bottom of his face and most of his chest).

Chamber later showed up in