Professor X
A prominant mutant rights activist and a well-known mutant, Charles Francis Xavier lost his job as a Harvard professor once he revealed he possessed psychic abilities. He has been asked by the President to head up Project: X-Men.
Wolverine
Lieutenant-Commander Logan is a special agent for SHIELD. Alongwith an adamantium-laced skeleton and claws, Wolverine possesses a mutant healing factor and heightened senses.
Cyclops
After losing his parents at a young age, Scott Summers was raised by his grandparents. He possesses the ability to fire powerful concussive optic blasts which can only be controlled with the use of a ruby-quartz visor.
Storm
A thief from Los Angeles, Ororo Munroe also possesses the ability to control the weather, which has aided her in avoiding capture many times.
Beast
Hank McCoy's brutish appearance conceals a great mind, which has placed him at the top of his senior class. He possesses superhuman strength, stamina, and agility.
Dazzler
Alison Blaire was living the life of a pop-star, until it was revealed that she's a mutant. With the ability to convert sound into light, she has allied herself with Xavier out of desperation.
Thunderbird
Unlike most mutants, John Proudster's gift of superhuman strength and speed have been a blessing, making him a top athlete in his Arizona high school, and the subject of many athletic scholarships.
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Born into a wealthy family, Monet St. Croix has everything--beauty, brains, money--as well as superhuman strength, flight, and latent telepathic abilities.
Psyche
The daughter of a former teacher of Xavier's, Jean Grey possesses powerful telepathic and telekinetic abilities, which she's still learning to develop.
Toad
The field leader of the Brotherhood, Mortimer Toynbee possesses powerful leg muscles which allow him to crush stone with his bare feet or to leap at incredible heights. He also possesses a prehensile tongue and his webbed hands and feet allow him to scale surfaces.
Nightcrawler
The German-born Kurt Darkholme is the youngest member of the Brotherhood, and also the most adament. He was saved by the Brotherhood's founder from an angry mob. In addition to his jet-black skin, prehensile hands, feet, and tail, as well as his demonlike appearence, Nightcrawler can also teleport from place to place.
Avalanche
Dominick Petros possesses the mutant ability to control vibrations - which he can use to stimulate a simple massage or tear open the earth itself. He seems uncomfortable with Toad's status on the team, and the two have come to blows on a few occasions.
Rogue
The young woman known only as Rogue possesses the mutant ability to absorb the powers and memories of anyone she comes into direct physical contact with. The effect this has on her mind or the duration it lasts has yet to be discovered.
Colossus
Ever since his mutant ability to convert his flesh into organic steel manifested, Piotr Rasputin became a slave to his father - a man who wanted to return Russia back to Communism. Freed by the Brotherhood, Colossus now uses his great strength in their service.
Sunspot
The son of a wealthy businessman, Roberto DaCosta was going to inherit DaCosta International. However, once his father discovered his son was a mutant who could harness the energy of the sun and use it to increase his strength, speed, as well as grant him flight and the ability to generate blasts of solar energy, he disowned him.
Iceman
Young Bobby Drake possesses the mutant ability to control sub-zero temperatures, which first manifested when he woke one day to find his entire home - his parents included - frozen in a block of ice. The Brotherhood's founder discovered him and offered him shelter. Iceman's power has a downside, however - his own body temperature is never very high, and so he must constantly wear several layers of clothing in order to keep his body warm.
Marrow
Born into poverty, things were harder for the young girl known as Sarah, due to the fact that her accelerated bone growth cause bone protrusions in her skin. Now, angry at the world that shunned her, Marrow uses her bone growths in order to strike back at a world that hates and fears her.
