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Generation X alumni Synch just joined Marvel’s main X-Men team, but he’s not the first of those young mutants to graduate to the big leagues.
For much of the X-Men’s existence, the team was ostensibly tied to a school. While that’s a far more prominent part of the team’s world in some incarnations than others, there has almost always been at least one team of young mutants training somewhere on the periphery of the X-Men. While several of those teams have been called the New Mutants, the young X-Men of the ’90s were known as Generation X. And unlike some Marvel mutants, most of these young heroes eventually graduated to become members of the main X-Men team,
Since Synch is joining that club in the new official X-Men team debuting in X-Men #1, we’re taking a closer look at all of the Generation X-era students who went on to join one of Marvel’s main X-teams.
Jubilee
Jubilation Lee was fighting alongside the X-Men long before Generation X was even a thought, joining the team in Uncanny X-Men #252, by Chris Claremont and Rick Leonardi, after rescuing Wolverine during their time in the Australian Outback. While she had previously grown close to Wolverine and Charles Xavier by helping them through their respective lowest moments, Jubilee had also lived through one of her own as part of Generation X. Even after she had left that particular team, she found herself surrounded by many of the same former teammates as part of Banshee’s X-Corps. Things took a dark turn after the death of her close friend and fellow hero Skin. Jubilee soon joined Nightcrawler and Havok on the Uncanny X-Men squad to work through her trauma, at least for a short time. She later joined another main X-Men team after adopting the orphaned human infant Shogo.
Chamber
Following the move from Emma Frost and Banshee’s Massachusetts Academy to the Xavier Institute, Chamber was immediately offered a spot on the X-Men. While he initially declined their offer, a botched attempt at romance drove Chamber to change his mind in 2001’s Uncanny X-Men #395 by Joe Casey and Ian Churchill. His tenure was shaky from the start and stayed that way until he left only a few years after he joined. In that time, he helped to infiltrate the Weapon X Program and rescue mutants being held captive at the Neverland camp before being depowered on M-Day. After regaining his powers, he found his way back to the X-Men following the founding of Utopia and briefly worked alongside the team immediately before Krakoa’s formation.
Monet
Monet St. Croix was one of the Generation X veterans that followed Banshee as part of X-Corps along with Jubilee and Husk. Like so many of Banshee’s other endeavors, X-Corps didn’t last long, and so Monet spent the next few years jumping from one team to another. Eventually, she found a place with the X-Men proper while they were under Storm’s leadership during 2014’s X-Men #7 by Brian Wood and Terry Dodson. Her time at the school was brief, but she managed to make the most of it by helping to defeat the likes of Lady Deathstrike and the Asgardian Enchantress. Since then, she’s been a regular member of Magneto’s Uncanny X-Men team and joined the doomed team that perished during House of X.
Husk
After X-Corps fell apart, Paige Guthrie found a place for herself at the Xavier Institute where she met and became romantically involved with Archangel after they joined forces to stop Maximus Lobo’s Dominant Species. After this, she became a full-fledged member of the team in Chuck Austen and Sean Phillips’ Uncanny X-Men #413, helping to build a global outreach program for mutants in need and taking on the Hellfire Club in their plot to destabilize a foreign government. She also led the charge in finding Jubilee after her former teammate was turned into a vampire, putting her powers to good use to become what was effectively a living mass of wooden stakes.
Synch
Synch is only the latest Generation X veteran to join the X-Men, but he has already proven himself to be one of the most resilient mutants that the team could have asked for. He had sacrificed himself years ago to save his fellow Generation Xers and a group of human children, though like nearly all mutants, he was resurrected on Krakoa. In fact, he was one of the first mutants to be brought back due to his ability to borrow powers from others, hoping that he could act as a safeguard of sorts in case one of The Five had to step away or fell ill.
His power also made him one of the few mutants capable of surviving inside of the Children of the Vault’s eponymous and temporally displaced home. Along with Laura Kinney’s Wolverine and Darwin, Synch infiltrated the Vault where they shared a century together battling and spying on their foes. He and Wolverine also fell deeply in love while inside the Vault, but after all of them were killed by the Children and subsequently resurrected on Krakoa, he was the only one among them to remember their time together.
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