PHALANX
Real Name: Invalid
Powers:Each individual Phalanx has the ability to adapt to mutant powers, regenerate themselves, create weaponry out of themselves, imitate individuals, and assimilate any non-mutant lifeforms and inanimate objects.
Significat Relatives: Each phalanx is part of a colective, so... um, they're all related to each other i guess....
The Phalanx threat started in Colorodo, where Archangel and Jean Grey came across Warrens dead ex-girlfriend, Candy Southern. Turns out she was some kind of killer robot under the sway of Cameron Hodge, who was also some kind of freakish robot. Candy died, and Hodge got away. A few weeks later, The X-Men were ambushed in New Jersey by some fools who, when hit, eveporated into techno-mesh. Rogue absorbed one of thier memories, and the only fathomable word she could come up with was "Hodge"...
About a month later, Storm, Yukio, and Gambit are attacked by several Phalanx, and dispite the odds being set against them, they triumph. But still, these were aparently just tests, as it turns out humans were willingly and unwillingly being turned into Phalanx...
A few weeks later, Banshee returned to the X-Mansion to play catch-up. He found the place over-run with Phalanx impersonating the X-Men, and was able to free Sabertooth, White Queeen and Jubilee. The four escaped, blowing up half the X-mansion, and went in search of the Phalanx's new targets, the soon-to-be-members of Generation-X. The X-Men had been captured, and it was up to Cable, Wolverine, Cyclops, and Pheonix to save them. Meanwhile, Excalibure, X-Force, and X-Factor and Professor X Teamed up to destroy a huge phalanx nest, which, when matured, would have sent out "spores" that would randomly assimilate anyone within 100 miles.
It turns out other allies of the X-Men had been assimilated, too. Jeans sister Sara, and Doug Ramsey and Warlock (both deceased) were merged together to make a new entity called Warlock. And besides Cameron Hodge, another of the X-Mens enemies, Stephan Lang, was a Phalanx too (apparently the brains of the operation on earth). Surprisingly, Lang helped the X-Men out, but in turn was killed by Hodge (who was dying along with the rest of the Phalanx).
The phalanx recently almost destroyed the Shi'ar empire, but some of the X-Men (Gambit, Bishop, Beast, Rogue, Joseph, and Beast's chick Trish Tilby) interviened and saved thier avain asses (By doing something out of Star Trek, no less...). At the end of that story, it was insinuated that the phalanx were headed to earth, but there's been no sign of them, yet...
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