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Xavier Files Entry #124: Doug Ramsey Update

Austin Gorton — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000

With "Age of Revelation" ending, we figured it was the perfect time to update the Xavier Files entry on the New Mutant turned Heir of Apocalypse, Doug Ramsey!

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Entry 121 – Anole

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 13:30:45 +0000

Name: Victor Borkowski Code Names: Anole First Appearance: New X-Men #2 (Aug ‘03) Powers: Lizard boy Teams Affiliation: X-Men About I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the best thing about the New X-Men kids is their design. They all look unique and they all have great, simple, personality traits that can be applied to a...

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Entry 120 – Widget

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 13:00:12 +0000

Name: Kate Pryde Code Names: Widget First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #141 (Jan ‘81) Powers: Dimension-Hopping Teams Affiliation: Excalibur About What gets weird about comics, well one of the things that gets weird about comics, is how years of alternate timelines and realities end up shaping the “real” comics. The ideas in The Dark Knight Returns end up shaping the...

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Entry 119 – Molly Hayes

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 24 May 2018 13:00:37 +0000

Name: Molly Hayes Code Names: Princess Powerful, Bruiser First Appearance: Runaways #1 (July ‘03) Powers: Strength Teams Affiliation: The Runaways About Comics, especially comics in the mid-00s, had a tendency to go dark. This is the era of gritty realism, of The Ultimates and Identity Crisis, so a dash of hope was refreshing. Marvel tried to tap into that...

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Entry 118 – Juggernaut

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 17 May 2018 13:00:53 +0000

Name: Cain Marko Code Names: Juggernaut, Kuurth: Breaker of Stone First Appearance: X-Men #12 (July ‘65) Powers: Strength, Nothing can stop him Teams Affiliation: Exiles, X-Men, The Brotherhood, Excalibur, Thunderbolts About I was never close to my step-brothers (well, ex-step-brothers now – long story). It isn’t that we openly disliked each other, or even that we couldn’t find some...

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Entry 117 – Storm

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 10 May 2018 14:00:32 +0000

Name: Ororo Munroe Code Names: Storm First Appearance: Giant Sized X-Men #1 (Oct ‘75) Powers: Weather Control Teams Affiliation: X-Men, X-Force, The Crew, The Avengers, Fantastic Four About The word unless provides a lot of insight. It is one thing to say someone will do something, it is another to understand what would make them...

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Entry 116 – Kid Apocalypse

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:00:07 +0000

Name: Evan Sabahnur Code Names: Kid Apocalypse, Genesis First Appearance: Uncanny X-Force #7 (Jun ’11) Powers: Apocalypse Ones Teams Affiliation: X-Men About Philosopher John Locke once said, “If we will attentively consider new born children, we shall have little reason to think that they bring many ideas into the world with them.” His thought was that...

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Entry 115 – Penance

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:00:18 +0000

Name: It depends Code Names: Penance, Hollow First Appearance: Generation X #1 (Nov ’94) Powers: Diamon hard, razor sharp skin Teams Affiliation: Generation X, The Loners, Avengers Academy About I’ve been doing this site for like two and a half years now. In that time, I have tried to make things like the Summer’s family tree...

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Entry 114 – Random

Zachary Jenkins — Sat, 07 Apr 2018 13:00:58 +0000

Name: Marshal Evan Stone III Code Names: Random First Appearance: X-Factor #88 (Mar ’93) Powers: Protoplasmic Form Teams Affiliation: X-Factor, The Acolytes, The Utopians About Back when I talked about Fantomex, I talked about the “cool character”. Someone who seems hand-crafted by a committee to tick every box that a twelve-year-old boy might think is neat....

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Entry 113 – Scarlet Witch

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 29 Mar 2018 13:00:28 +0000

Name: Wanda Maximoff Code Names: Scarlet Witch First Appearance: X-Men #4 (Mar ’64) Powers: Hex magic Teams Affiliation: The Brotherhood, The Avengers About With over 50 years of continuous universe building, Marvel Comics can take characters in pretty bonkers directions. As all progress eventually gets regressed to the mean, momentous events get recontextualized, retconned, or...

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Entry 112 – Phoenix

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 12:21:10 +0000

Name: Jean Grey Code Names: Phoenix, Marvel Girl First Appearance: X-Men #1 (Sept ’63) Powers: Telepathy, Telekinesis Teams Affiliation: X-Men, X-Factor About Fans mock the idea of death in comics. To many, it feels irrelevant, temporary, a stopgap and not a real change. For media properties that have lasted decades and decades, there is a real...

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Entry 111 – Pixie

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 21:16:05 +0000

Name: Megan Gwyenn Code Names: Pixie First Appearance: New X-Men #5 (Nov ’04) Powers: Flight, hallucinogenic dust, soul dagger, teleportation spell Teams Affiliation: X-Men, The Lights About An important aspect of character design is the silhouette. You want the shape of your character to identify them before anything else. You can see how this works in practice...

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Entry 110 – Forge

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 14:00:55 +0000

Name: Forge Code Names: Maker First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #184 (Aug ’84) Powers: He makes stuff Teams Affiliation: X-Men, X-Factor, X-Force About By trade, I am an engineer. I take a concept and turn it into stuff. In practice this involves a ton of meetings and a liberal use of the Microsoft Office Suite combined with...

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Entry 109 – Sunspot

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:04:29 +0000

Name: Roberto da Costa Code Names: Sunspot, Citizen V First Appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel #4: New Mutants (Nov ’82) Powers: Superstrength, energy blasts Teams Affiliation: New Mutants, X-Force, Hellfire Club, Avengers About We all love heroes, that’s why you are reading a blog post about a random X-Men character every Thursday. They are aspirational figures that show...

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Entry 108 – Oya

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 15 Feb 2018 14:00:32 +0000

Name: Idie Okonkwo Code Names: Oya First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #528 (Nov ’10) Powers: Temperature Control Teams Affiliation: X-Men About When I was a wee lad, my parents were a bit overprotective about the intersection of religion and magic. I wasn’t allowed to see Pocahontas because of the spiritual themes. My mother had a sit down with...

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Entry 107 – Gladiator

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 21:36:36 +0000

Name: Kallark Code Names: Gladiator First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men #107 (Oct’77) Powers: All of the ones Superman has but powered by his confidence and will Teams Affiliation: Shi’ar Imperial Guard, Annihilators About Beyond anything else, Superheroes are unified by willpower. It is the most important weapon in any hero’s arsenal. It is what gives Spider-Man to lift...

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Entry 106 – Cecilia Reyes

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 14:00:13 +0000

Name: Cecilia Reyes Code Names: N/A First Appearance: X-Men #65 (June ’97) Powers: Personal force field Teams Affiliation: X-Men About One failing of the X-Men as a metaphor is the focus on super heroics. It is a necessary evil of the genre that any thoughts on social issues or character development have to be coupled with six...

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Entry 105 – Wolverine

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 14:00:31 +0000

Name: Logan, James Howlett Code Names: Wolverine, Weapon X First Appearance: Incredible Hulk #181 (Nov ’74) Powers: Enhanced senses, healing factor, claws Teams Affiliation: X-Men, Avengers, Alpha Flight, X-Force, Defenders, Fantastic Four, Weapon X About It’s almost a parody how much little boys want to be a cowboy. It isn’t founded in any sort of reality, it...

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Entry 104 – Fantomelle & Culpepper

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:00:36 +0000

Name: N/A Code Names: Fantomelle & Culpepper First Appearance: Wolverines #2 (Jan ’15) Powers: Misdirection, External Nervous System/Fox Friend, Total Control Over Her Body’s Position In 6 Dimensions Teams Affiliation: N/A About One of the most omnipresent things to come out of superhero culture is merchandise. Whether it is the three-foot-tall stuffed Batman my dad had as a...

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Entry 103 – Karma

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:00:45 +0000

Name: Xi’an Coy Mahn Code Names: Karma First Appearance: Marvel Team-Up #100 (Dec ’80) Powers: Mind Control Teams Affiliation: New Mutants, X-Men About My grandfather served in Vietnam. Like many people, he didn’t talk about it when he came back. Something about the horrific conflict stayed impressed on his soul throughout his entire life. It wasn’t until the...

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Entry 102 – Quicksilver

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 14:00:38 +0000

Name: Pietro Maximoff Code Names: Quicksilver First Appearance: X-Men #4 (Mar ’64) Powers: Super Speed Teams Affiliation: The Brotherhood, The Avengers, X-Factor, Knights of Wundagore About There is an old tradition in superhero comics for villains to be redeemed and heroes to turn wicked. In the last few years, the Avengers membership has included Sabretooth and Doctor Doom while...

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Entry 101 – Danger

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 14:00:24 +0000

Name: Danger Room Code Names: Danger First Appearance: Astonishing X-Men #7 (Jan ’05) Powers: Hard light projection Teams Affiliation: X-Men, X-Club, X-Factor About In the video game series Marathon, a precursor to Halo, the self-awareness of artificial intelligence is a common theme. The AI pushing for greater awareness first becomes melancholy, then angry, and finally jealous. In theory,...

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Entry 100 – Professor X

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 14:00:37 +0000

Name: Charles Francis Xavier Code Names: Professor X First Appearance: X-Men #1 (September ‘63) Powers: Telepathy Team Affiliation: X-Men About When the X-Men were initially conceived all those years ago, it was about students at a school. For whatever reason, it only took seven issues for the original five X-Men to graduate. This left the series in...

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Entry 099 – Lifeguard & Slipstream

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 14:00:39 +0000

Name: Heather & Davis Cameron Code Names: Lifeguard & Slipstream First Appearance: X-Treme X-Men #5 (November ‘01) Powers: Adaptive protective biology & the ability to surf the Warp Wave Team Affiliation: X-Men About In 1966, Jack Kirby began working off a Stan Lee Fantastic Four pitch, “Have them fight God”. Working in the Marvel Method, Stan looked...

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Entry 098 – Archangel

Zachary Jenkins — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:00:55 +0000

Name: Warren Kenneth Worthington III Code Names: Angel, Archangel, Death First Appearance: X-Men #1 (Sept ‘63) Powers: Flight, razor-sharp flechettes, healing blood Team Affiliation: X-Men, Champions, Defenders, X-Factor, X-Force, Horsemen of Apocalypse About The original five X-Men are often criticized for telling a story of persecution and bigotry through the eyes of a group of WASP-y kids...

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