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Biographies

Here are the backgrounds of all the X-Men along with a quote by them that I found in an issue of the comic. This is going to take time so please, have patience. These quotes are long but good, and shows a little about each one of the charaters.

Jubilee

Storm

"Jubilation Lee is the youngest mutant in the mansion. Until this week--though she would admit it to no one--living here had been the greatest adventure of her troubled, sad life. But it's not a game now. It's not an adventure anymore. Even little children can die if they live in this house. That makes things... serious... and Jubilee has fought long and hard to prevent her life from getting serious because if it does, if she lets it all in, it would drown her--it would rip her apart--and then what would happen to her? At one time Kitty Pryde had been in Jubilee's place. She had been the youngest one in the house. And Kitty knows full well how lonely that can be... especially if you refuse to answer the door when company comes knocking..."(X-Men #24)

"A bridge is needed between two halves of the world-a synthesis, a blend-a person who is both one and the other, whose mind comprehends and whose hands command the machines...yet whose eyes--and soul--look upon them with the wisdom of ages. Is this the mountain I was meant to climb, the purpose--the destiny--I have so long sought? A bridge, not simply old ways and new, but races as well--between humanity and it's mutant children! I have no powers, my body cannot fly. But I no longer mind, for my heart and soul--where it truly matters--I soar higher than the stars!"(The Uncanny X-Men #198)

Gambit

"Wolvie an' I are two of a kind--loneres who never thought they needed nobody--that is, 'til th' X-Men adopted us, took us into their home an' showed us what family was all 'bout. We may not have always gotten along the best Wolvie, but if there's one thin' I've learned with my time with the X-Men--you never let down your family--an' the X-Men are th' only family we got."(X-Men Unlimited #25)

Professor X

I have walked down this path of memories before, too many times. In the beginning the challange seemed so simple the world was entering a period of dynamic accelerated evolution--across the face of the globe, children were exhibiting strange and wondrous abilities which set them apart from the baseline genetic model of humanity. The popular press proclaimed this new generation, mutants. And poceeded to demonize them. As objects of such unreasoning fear and hatred--branded as outcasts merely because of an accident of birth--it would have been easy for them to succumb to the temptation of fulfilling that very fear--to become the enemies of the human race and its predators. Both sides needed a becon of hope that represented the best of what this new species had to offer. That hope was embodied in my school, where young mutants would be taught proper control over their abilities, together with a moral framework that would inspire them to utilize their powers for the betterment of this world and it's people. But I also knew that there would be those who would not hesitate to use such talents to exploit their neighbors, to plunder and pillage. They needed to be fought. The planet needed protectors. And so I founded the X-Men. They numbered five in those first, almost carefree days. They thought they were embarking on the greatest of adventures. Since then, their example has inspired others to follow in their footsteps, either as a member in the core team, or in offshots of their own. That is a legacy to be proud of."(Uncanny X-Men #379)

Archangel

"His name is Warren Worthington III. But he's been called other things: friend, lover, angel, X-Man, pretty boy, freak, billionaire, playboy, hero, mutant, mutie, Archangel, Death. In a relatively short lifetime, he's been so many things to so many people... that, at times, he's not sure sure who he is himself. Something's different. He can feel it. He tries to remember what happened...what's changed... but all he can remember is that he was looking for something. Something elusive.. it was like looking for day in the night. The darkness swirled around him. Enveloped him. Welled up inside him. The darkness was upon him. Figures tumble to the ground.. and it's only then--at this hour, his darkest hour--that he sees the light. It's always been there. It never left."(Wolverine #147)

Psylocke

"Elisabeth Braddock can feel the darkness reaching for her, but it's not until she's actually wearing the helmet that the X-Man named Psylocke fully realizes what she's doing. What she's putting herself through. The device she wears is called Cerebro, and it can amplify even the most latent telepathic abilities to a stagering degree. That is the last thing that she wants to do right now... the last thing she should do. But even though she can acknoledge the ricks.. she can't disavow the need. Cerebro pulses to life. For the first time in months, Betsy Braddock's mind is free to roam. So into the darkness her mind soars... free as a bird."(Wolverine #146)

Wolverine

Colossus

"If there's a difference between man an' beast, beats me what it is. After all man started as beast. Sure, they say man evolved a more advanced brain around the limbic or 'repilian' mind, makin' him more than a 'mere' animal, but the limbic's still there, maybe sleepin' at the core of what man's become, but always ready to awaken and in me, it's a light sleeper, wakin' hard and fast. I'm a mutant, more evolved than the average man in some ways, maybe less in others. Because I sometimes revert to the limbic state and get downright feral, even lost in a bestial rage, they call me Wolverine. But I'm really Logan; a man, not a beast, and there's gotta be a difference. Maybe the difference between man and beast is simple, animals focus on survival, but man can think beyond, to death and even beyond that, to survival after death. That should make man more thatn animal, but all too often there's greater nobility in beasts, so maybe they have souls too. There's somethin' I heard at a funeral once an' I never forgot written by John Donne, a rare man who restores faith in man, 'Death, be not proud, though some have called thee mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so one short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more death shall die.' Kinda flowery for such a small fire, but nice an' brassy too as if havin' a soul lets ya spit in death's eye, an' live to tell about it in a better place. An' if that don't hold true for animals as well as men you can keep heaven, an' I'll go with the beasts."(Game, back of X-Men Unlimited #25)

"Once upon a time, we were heros. All new. All different. Friends. Heros. X-Men. I left to mourn a family, accompanied be the only family I have left. The world as always, I have found to be a harsh place. But I also found warmth in the places I forgot that I can always look. True to word, tovarisch. Both then... as well as now. It is nice. It will have to be. Nice enough."(X-Men: Liberators #4)

Shadowcat

"When you first joined the X-Men you were an innocent jewish girl out of the suburbs of Chicago and barely into the throes of adolescence. You somehow managed to live through those turbulant years and emerged a seasoned confident adult. You've watched as injured and overmatched friends fight beyond what they should be capible of fighting. You've known love--good and bad--and accepted both as a passage of life. You've seen one time enemies become your allies and former friends become your foes. Yet one thing has remained a constant. The X-Men are a family--a group of outcasts brought together in the singular prusuit of one man's dream--the dream of peace. This family has grown through the years, but yet it has never changed. It is still a family that will stand at one another's side when in need--be it in battle or in grief. You may hate the life..hate the pain...but, looking around you, you know that this is where you truly belong--that when it is finally your time to go, that you would like nothing more than to die exactly as you lived--as a hero--as an X-Man."(X-Men Unlimited #26)

Rogue

"'Member back when ah first joined the X-Men? Up 'til that point, we'd been enemies, ah was young an' misguided back then, but that's beside the point. You don't know how nervous ah was when ah first walked through that door an' was introduced to you as part of the team--ah guess ah expected yer response, but ah'd be lying if ad didn't say it hurt--you hated me, an' ah couldn't blame you either. Ah'd almost accidently killed one of yer best friends, Carol Danvers. She survived, but ah absorbed her Ms. Marvel powers... permanently. It took her years t'recover. Ah don't know if ah ever will. Ah so desperately wanted to prove mahself to you... to all of you... but you wouldn't give me the chance. Ah found mah chance when ah took a blast from the gun of Viper meant for you an' your lady Mariko. Found out ah wasn't as thought in the process. You saved me by givin' over to me yer healin' factor. Though ah almost died, ah wouldn't have changed a thing. Ah had proven myself in yer eyes. You never told me you forgave me fer what ah did to Carol, but it was left in the past where it belonged."(X-Men Unlimited #25)