1983

The X-Men:

Professor X/Charles Xavier

Cyclops/Scott Summers

Wolverine/Logan

Storm/Ororo Monroe

Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner

Colossus/Peter Rasputin

Sprite/Kitty Pride

Allies:

Lilandra

Binary

“New Mutants”: Cannonball [ability to release thermochemical energy and fly at jet speeds using this energy while encased in an impenetrable force field, superhuman endurance], Sunspot [solar absorption and rechanneling, superhuman strength, flight, projection of heat and light, concussive blasts], Wolfsbane [ability to shapeshift into a wolf-like humanoid or into a full wolf at will], Psyche [empathy, telepathy, illusion generation, psionic arrows, telepathic rapport with animals, ability to sense and fight impending death in others, ability to create solid objects out of psionic energy, superhuman strength, supernatural sword] and Karma [psychic possession, protection from mental attack, telepathy]*

Rogue

Mariko Yashida

Yukio

Foes:

The Brood

“Morlocks”: Callisto [superhuman senses, heightened strength, speed, agility and reflexes, accelerated healing factor], Sunder [superhuman strength, stamina and durability], Masque [ability to alter flesh and organs of living creatures], Plague [adapt to and absorb any disease, then spread it through touch] and Caliban, among other minor mutants

Silver Samurai [channel mutant energy into most commonly a katana blade, to create a tachyon field capable of cutting anything but adamantium, teleportation ring]

Viper [teleportation ring, enhanced lifespan, sharpened and elongated canine tooth with hollows inside them she keeps a special poison in them, to which she has immunity]

Mastermind

Synopsis:

Directed by Cyclops, they manage to block the hole and restore atmospheric pressure long enough to let the ship's automated repair system actually fix it. Storm’s Brood transformation begins, but stumbling into the galactic core floods her with enough power to halt and even reverse the transformation. Summoning the power of the galactic core itself, she lights up like a young star for a brief moment, killing the embryo and almost dying herself. A young Acanti (large but gentle creatures used by the Brood as starships) bonds with Storm seconds before she dies, in order to survive since it was so fragile and needed a stronger spirit. In return, its body’s natural healing abilities restored Storm’s body and health, and later with the help of Binary, who uses her solar affinity to liberate a former adult Acanti soul for the young Acanti to become more powerful, the other embryos are destroyed. Back to Earth, when they arrive to Xavier’s mansion, they find a new group of teenagers their leader took in as students. They call themselves “New Mutants” and fight briefly the X-Men out of confusion, interrupted by Xavier’s Brood transformation. Thanks to tissue samples of him collected by one of the Starjammers the last time he was on their ship, they manage to clone Xavier’s body and transfer his conscience still intact inside the Brood, to the new body. However he can’t walk due to a psychosomatic response of his mind to nullify the pain of his previous legs, he can walk, but his mind won’t let him. Kitty encounters a small dragon-like alien that saved her in the Brood city, hidden in the maintenance tunnel beneath the mansion. The creature somehow escaped with them. She keeps it as a companion and names it Lockheed. Wolverine decides to spend some time in Japan**. Angel is kidnapped by an underground civilization of renegade mutants known as Morlocks. They were unable to pass as normal due to the external physical changes their mutations caused, so they squatted in a network of abandoned interconnected tunnels beneath Manhattan. Their leader Callisto attempts to make Angel her mate. To set him free, Storm challenges Callisto to a hand-to-hand combat and the winner would become the leader of the Morlocks. Storm wins, but since she will not assume the role full-time, points Callisto as second in charge while she’s gone. Rogue asks for Xavier’s help, since she can’t control the inner struggle between her own persona and Ms. Marvel’s, she’s scared of what could ever happen to her if she can’t control her absorption power in the future, and even though it’s difficult to deal by the others, Xavier accepts her and makes her a probationary member of the X-Men. They're invited to Logan and Mariko’s wedding in Japan, but the ceremony is ruined by her half-brother; Kenuichio Harada (Silver Samurai), who intends to force her to surrender her leadership under clan Yashida’s empire, and Mastermind who returns to toy with her mind and later the X-Men's making them believe that Phoenix returned to kill them. As a result of these events, Mariko decides to keep Logan away until she has expunged the stain upon her clan’s horror, Storm changes drastically into a much stronger and violent persona (projecting all that even visually with a lot of leather and a Mohawk), Rogue earns the X-Men’s trust and Scott marries Madelyne Pryor, a girl he was dating lately that looks exactly like Jean.

* New Mutants started as spin-off series of the X-Men franchise in 1983, but its characters first appeared in 1982’s Marvel Graphic Novel #4.

** This is when the first “Wolverine” miniseries starts. It’s only 5 issues long, followed by “Kitty Pryde & Wolverine”, also 5 issues long, as a start for Wolverine's own series.