X-Men: Generation X

Generation X was a Marvel Comics superhero team, a 1990s-era X-Men junior team. Created by writer Scott Lobdell and artist Chris Bachalo, the team formed in Generation X #1 (November 1994) more...

Generation X consisted of teenage mutants designed to reflect the cynicism and complexity of the series' namesake demographic. Unlike its predecessor the New Mutants, the team was not mentored by X-Men founder Charles Xavier at his New York estate but by Banshee and former villain Emma Frost at a splinter school in Boston

Generation X was one of the most distinct and acclaimed X-Books during its first few years but floundered after its original creators left in 1997, leading to cancellation in 2001.

The team

A superhero team consisting of teenage mutants was nothing new in 1994. The original X-Men of the 1960s had been teenagers and another group of teens, the New Mutants, existed from 1983 until 1991.

Unlike the X-Men and New Mutants, however, Generation X did not attend Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in upstate New York or learn from Professor Xavier himself. Instead they trained at the Massachusetts Academy, located in Boston, Massachusetts, and were mentored by Banshee, an Irish X-Man who possessed a "sonic scream," and the former villain Emma Frost, a sexy, aristocratic telepath.

Furthermore, the team's creators intentionally avoided the trend in X-Books and other comics in which each super hero team includes a "Wolverine character" (rebellious loner), a "Cyclops character" (stoic leader), a "Colossus character" (soft-hearted strongman), etc. Generation X consisted of:

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