Mythos: X-Men
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| Mythos: X-Men | |
 Cover to Mythos: X-Men #1. Art by Paolo Rivera |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
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| Publication date | March 2006 |
| Main character(s) | Professor X Cyclops Jean Grey Iceman Angel Beast |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Paul Jenkins |
| Artist(s) | Paolo Rivera |
Mythos: X-Men is a story written by Paul Jenkins, and fully painted by Paolo Rivera, based on the fictional "X-Men". It was released in March 2006, and created as a remake of Uncanny X-Men #1 (September 1963). It is meant to bridge the gap between the origin story portrayed in the movies and the origin stories portrayed in the comics.
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[edit] Storyline
The comic opens with Magneto torturing and killing three young males who had recently killed a twelve year old girl because she was a mutant.
It then cuts to a session in the Danger Room where the original five X-Men begin a training session with Professor Xavier watching over them. Professor X then gets a mental image of Magneto breaking into Cape Citadel. The X-Men leave at once on their first ever combat mission. Magneto quickly kills everybody at the government facility and disarms the X-Men as he looks for a safe in one of the buildings. Differing slightly from the original, Professor X comes down to meet and talk with Magneto personally. Magneto tells him all about the uses of the facilities and how the government plans to register and track all mutants.
It ends with a news helicopter showing up and Magneto leaving Professor X and the X-Men alone and stunned.
[edit] Characters
[edit] Mutant Heroes
| Team | Leader | Members |
| X-Men | Professor X |
[edit] Villains
The only villain in this issue is Magneto, before the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
[edit] Differences
Although this issue is based on Uncanny X-Men #1, there are a few differences. The themes are changed to match with those that have become the general overall tone of the X-Men comics. Those themes are the ones of racism and war. Professor Xavier is brought out to confront Magneto face to face in this issue, whereas in Uncanny X-Men #1 he does not do this. What follows is a conversation between Magneto and Professor Xavier that describes the anti-mutant sentiments that are already being felt by the world, and showing us that Cape Citadel is actually a facility being used for anti-mutant purposes. It is designing ways to track and register all mutants, which is why Magneto attacked it in the first place. In the original Uncanny X-Men #1 it was more or less just a big fight between the X-Men and Magneto, whereas this one digs much deeper, and attempts to connect it to the rest of the series and the movies better.
