The X-men Disband...what next?

[The Fury]

Lets say that...er...Domino goes on a probability changing rampage and kills 2 X-men and destroys part of the X-mansion that can be rebuilt and the X-men decide to leave and disband. (...hmm that rings a bell).

What happens next? Where do the individual X-men go? Would they join other teams and things ot just would they hang out with Angel and his millions sponging off him?

Or a few of them reform with a few loner characters who have never really been on a team before?

Give me details.

[Beast]

Beast, Iceman, and Angel reform the Defenders.

Cyclops and Emma re-open the Massachusets Academy together.

Wolverine returns to Canada. Hooks up with a reformed Alpha Flight.

Professor X stays in space after making things up with Lilandra.

Havok and Polaris get married and stay in space as members of the Starjammers.

Rachel regains the Phoenix and goes off into the White Hot Room with her mother.

More as they come to me. :D

[Siddon]

Domino kills Emma Frost and Nightcrawler

Cyclops loses his mind and gets committed

Wolverine starts his new team of Mutants who kick all sorts of ass the new team is lead by

Wolverine
Bishop
Deadpool
Juggernaut
Gambit
Sunfire
Lady Deathstrike
Jubilee

They will go by the name X-men F#$% Yeah and they will save the world from the evils of everyone. And they will all be drawn by Liefield with Liefieldian proportions.

[Affinity]

Wow, what are the chances of that?

LOL i made a funny! i feel like DDM.

[Frodo-X]

Wolverine starts his new team of Mutants who kick all sorts of ass the new team is lead by

Wolverine
Bishop
Deadpool
Juggernaut
Gambit
Sunfire
Lady Deathstrike
Jubilee

They will go by the name X-men F#$% Yeah and they will save the world from the evils of everyone. And they will all be drawn by Liefield with Liefieldian proportions.

Wow.....6 violent men, 1 violent woman, and Jubilee.

It's like one of those tests where you figure out which one doesn't fit in.

[Brian M.]

Domino is defeated by a reborn Phoenix/Jean Grey. Emma is dead. The Xavier also dies. Scott takes his Brother and Lorna and Jean up into space to help his Father.

The rest...go to Disney Land. The remaining Originals join SHIELD as a special Ops team.

[Gene M.]

Two words: PIZZA PARTY!

[Beast]

Two words: PIZZA PARTY!
Tack an orgy onto that, and you have a great idea. :D

[Canemacar]

Tack an orgy onto that, and you have a great idea. :D

You mean Austin's writing it?

[Frodo-X]

You mean Austin's writing it?

Nice one.
that is all

[Valmore]

If Scott Lobdell writes it they all end up having fits of angst for issues on end, followed by a trial.

[Cayman]

Kitty Pryde, Agent Of S.W.O.R.D.

[o1pickleboy]

X-Men Disassembled.

Domino alter probablity until the Onslaught persona takes over Xavier. The insane Xavier strikes and reactives the horseman programming in the X-Men(Gambit, Wolverine, Archangel, Polaris) and bring En Saben Nurs personally(what is left of it) to the forefront of Cyclops mind. The Evil Xavier and brainwashed X-Men attack the good X-Men. Almost to a standstill.

The Evil X-men start to take the uphand by Killing Iceman and Cannonball(both able to recover from their injuries) But the inpact of the death of these two cause the evil X-Men to question the programming. Enough for the remainin X-Men to escape and regroup. Deciding since Xavier doesn't have a mutant abliity anymore that is possessed by onslaught.(Cassie Nova) not Onslaught. The X-Men decide to strike at Onslaught in the Astral Plane. White Queen, Psylocke, Marvel Girl perform the strike. The battle is almost a complete loss until psylocke is killed (Onslaught spares Emma and Rachel at Scott request. Slowing regaining his senses) Rachel upset over psylocke death tapped into the phoenix force and destroys the astral plane.(kinda, it will reconstute itself) destroying the onslaught manifitation at the cost of Rachel going to the white hot room.

Without the Onslaught influence, the horseman X-Men start to regain their senses. Not all at once though. As they leave the team to go on soul quests seperatly. Emma now powerless with the astral plane leaves. Especial when Scott ends there relationship because he no longer trust himself. Emma returns to the bussiness world and using to connects with the Hellfire club to built Beast a lab to rebuilt Iceman's body.

Scott and Xavier leave to protect the X-Men from their betrayals and go to Sh'ar space with the Starjammers. (a new starjammer series)

Rogue follows Gambit to New Orleans to help him recover.(have adventures out there of course)

Logan goes to Japen to retrain his mind, with the help of old friends

Warren retires. Unable to live with himself after losing two of the closest people to him.(Iceman and his ex Psylocke)

Polaris returns to her father's side. Deciding that she is no better than him. Havok follows to keep them in check.

The remaining X-Men take a break to heal there wounds for a while. Peter and Kitty move in together and try to leave a normal life.

Mystique goes back to being a merc. But really spliting her time hunting Domino and watching Rogues back(without Rogue knowing)

Cannonball doesn't full recover. Remains in coma. Cable takes him to provindence and explains his immortal powers. Warpath follows.

Nightcrawler returns to the church and has a adventure or two in Limbo.


The students are taken into storm care and live and train under the protection of the Black Panther.



The Team reform when Rogue and Gambit uncover a plot by Sinster. Rogue, Gambit and Mystique all become fully aware of each other by then. Mystique calling in Forge to help her. Forge connected to Sage. Informs Sage who calls in Excaliber. After the fight Rogue realizes the need for a X-Men again.

Rogue, Sage, Forge, Gambit, Mystique, Nocturen, Dazzler, and Juggernaut all remain to be the New X-Men.

In a few issues. Rogue convinces Nightcrawler, and Collossus to return.(Kitty remain inactive due to having a bun in oven)

The other return slowly.

[Frodo-X]

Really thought this one through didn't you?!
It's good. Doesn't seem like anything too ridiculous for print. If I didn't know better I'd think it were a summary of an actual series.

[o1pickleboy]

Really thought this one through didn't you?!
It's good. Doesn't seem like anything too ridiculous for print. If I didn't know better I'd think it were a summary of an actual series.


It had elements of stories that have been kicking around in my head. To bad nothing ever makes it to paper with me.

The kicker is I only really killed off one character. since the phoenix has in a built in resurection.

[Canemacar]

I liked it. It would be a plausible way to "reboot" the X-franchise if need be.

[streator]

this happened in 'the shattering' arc.
it was eventually revealed to be a ruse but xavier indeed disbanded the team.

cyclops, jean grey, archangel, x-man, cable and skrullverine formed a team in the aftermath.

once skrullverine was revealed xavier got everyone back together.

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[Mikl C]

I love that Domino destroyed the mansion :D
Go girl.

[Metallurgique]

There was a time, from UXM #251 to UXM #270, where there was no actual team. The X-men from the outback era had either gone through the Siege Perilous (Dazz, Havok, Rogue, Colossus, Psylocke), left (Longshot), or were dead or presumed dead (Storm, Madelyn). Only Wolverine was left of that team and the whole unit was never actually reunited. At that time the Mansion had been destroyed (by Mr. Sinister in UXM #243), the Outback base had been taken back by the Reavers, the X-factor group was off in space fighting the Judgement War, and the New Mutants were in Asgard (on a long and, sorry to say, boring storyline).*

There effectively were no De-facto X-men, even if the Muir Islanders were presented as the "new team" on the cover of UXM #254. Legion, Lorna, and Sunder really weren't on the team and Forge was still with Freedom Force (as he had been since Fall of the Mutants). Charlie was off somewhere with Carol and the Starjammers, and Jubilee wasn't yet an X-man. Even when Forge and Banshee finally did get to New York, they ended up merging with X-factor and Cable, not really having a UXM team.

It's hard to think that this could happen in today's world, but other than Louise's overly-long stay in Asgard with the Mutants, there were excellent stories going on in this period (until Whilce Portacio, Rob Liefeld, and Jim Lee showed up, anyway).

My guess is, even if the mansion were gone (again, for like the eighth time) and some major characters died (again, for like the eightieth time), there'd still be a team. The TPB oriented team swapping and the overpopulated kitchen of the X-verse prevents there from being a core lineup anyway...

*these were among the reasons why, other than a few panels featuring Apocalypse and Caliban in X-factor and Magneto in a couple of non-x-books, the X-verse took almost no part in the MU-wide "Acts of Vengeance" crossover.

[o1pickleboy]

I liked it. It would be a plausible way to "reboot" the X-franchise if need be.

This has to be one of them "even a stopped clock is right twice a day things"

[Canemacar]

It would be better than something like M-Day for getting rid of unnecesary X-men.

[Faded]

Domino kills Forge and Cable, along with unspecified members of the 198.

And now there is like...10 mutants left!!1

She's like kray-zay, runs to Cerebro(a), and uses her erratic reality powers to repower all mutants filed in the Special_Folder Sage organized (ie everyone who has been introduced so far plus some).

Domino's craziness makes the mansion go BOOM!

Now there is like 20 (exaggerated...there's more; its a symbolic number ;)) X-Men and no home. General Lazer thinks its now perfect to strike. Then while the dramatic smoke clears, why its SCANNERCHAMBERJUBILEECECILIAREYESXOrNIGUESS, powers and all.

Meanwhile, with Xavier forced into slavery for the Shi'ar and Rachel camping out trying to save him, the X-Men need a new name.

The Muties/Mutants/Le Freaks/whatever remain at ground zero, flee to the Morlock Tunnels, and rebuild their bases there. Because of their lack of committment to either side of Civil War, they are now completely on their own and are no longer invited to the 'Assasinate the probability alterer/murderer' meetings, poker parties at ben's, or linewide crossover events. :(

And Rogue stays single. :)

[darkwolf]

Domino Kills Jean and Cable an almost destroy the world.
Xavier leaves and goes to his beloved Lillandra and stops teaching mutants.
X-leaders ( Scott, Ororo, Rogue, Logan and Warren ) decide to leave Earth with all mutants that want to do so.
They create a Xworld on another star system. This world is ruled by Scott and Ororo ( they finally admit they love each other and marry ) and the X adventures continue, saving other planet, defeating galactic invaders and powers ( Galactus and others ). new title- X-Space
Not all X-members leave. Forge, Emma, Sage and Mystique stay. The government rebuilds the sentinels and kill them all.
A new law is passed and all super powered people must be arrested and sent to camps. Many leave earth but many are killed in the process. The world will be ruled by SHIELD. People find out that the CIVIL WAR was BS and that Cap and Iron Man are behind all this.

[The Fury]

Nice suggestions so far. Incoroirateing current Marvel storylines like Civil War is a good thing in this case. Kinda like if they want to stay in the US of A and fight the good fight they gotta register.

(Although I still find it funny that people are actually going with the Domino thing. :D)

[rilokyle]

I definitely would have Havok and Polaris get married and have kids and go on missions together. OBVI.

[Canemacar]

Not sure how it would all go down, but there are some things I'd like resolved and some things I'd like to see touched upon during a Dissembled event so that the X-men could be reassembled after it with a fresh new take.

Cyclops: He needs to work out his lady troubles. For whatever the reason, he has a history of treating his women badly(running out on Maddie, scorning Jean and having an affair with Emma). The underlying issue(and I think there is one) would need to be adressed or at least brought up so it can be expanded upon.

Jean: She would need to be stripped of the Phoenix Force and leave Scott. I don't see the separation(from Scott or the Phoenix) lasting forever, but she needs time away from both so she can develop as her own character. I also want Scott to have to work to get her back.

Storm: I'd like to see how the marriage works out. I don't like how it was pretty much retconed into existance(I know they have had a history but not much). It should've been built up before the marriage was announced. However, it does open up some interesting new storylines for the X-men. i could maybe see Storm creating her own X-team out in Africa. BP would pretty much have to foot the bill too.

Gambit: I'd like to see it established that he's isn't even par Summers. I prefer the idea of him as being Sinister's son(and not a clone) because it makes a lot of sense and doesn't complicate the Summers mess. Naturally, DeathGambit would be done away with(but not before we got some development out of it). He and Rogue would finally hook up for good and put the angst to the chopping block. The new focus of his character is on who he is behind all the flash and bravado. There's a lot of potiential there that hasn't been explored properly.

Rogue: She'd finally gain a small measure of control over her powers. She and Gambit hook up and stop with all the angst. Her new direction would focus more on her intimacy issues and her tendancy to ignore her problems or try to cover them up with a badass additude.

Nightcrawler: It's revealed that the Draco was wrong. Less focus is placed on the priestly side of him and he is shown as more of the swashbuckler. His relationship with Mystique would need some focus.

Beast: He becomes Ape-Beast again. New conflicts are introduced to his character to replace, or at least expand upon, the "I'm smart but look like an animal" paradox

[Darkwave]

Nightcrawler: It's revealed that the Draco was wrong. Less focus is placed on the priestly side of him and he is shown as more of the swashbuckler. His relationship with Mystique would need some focus.

*applause*


Beast: He becomes Ape-Beast again. New conflicts are introduced to his character to replace, or at least expand upon, the "I'm smart but look like an animal" paradox

*More applause*

My problem with both the Draco and Cat-Beast is that both are completely predictable cliches. The "Man vs. animal" Cat-Beast thing is just horribly boring and unimaginative, as is the "I'm a truly good person but born of demons..." thing. It seems like both have been done to death many times before, both in comics and in traditional literature.

I prefer the older characterizations of both Nightcrawler and Beast because those characterizations were both believable and original.

[Faded]

Here's my serious one: :o

Cut to Civil War: X-Men's current events. The war continues on. Mammomax, Caliban, and various other members of the 198 are shown to be unconscious. Lifeguard, Forge, Random, and Shatterstar are shown to have died.

Meanwhile, the Neverland Concentration Camp approaches General Lazer with an offer he can't refuse. Using their headquarters to imprison mutants (under the guise of SHRA purposes), the 198 and some captured X-Men are relocated to their hidden location.

The team formerly known as the X-Men are no longer public and are in hiding. They decide to reside in Rogue's home as seen in X-Treme X-Men after the mansion is destroyed. They are still searching for their captured teammates, but months have passed and their whereabouts are seemingly unknown. They are faced with great difficulty especially without the technology they had previously.

However, once a mysterious reality wave helps slightly tip the scales for mutants by repowering a small percentage of mutants (all mysteriously X-allies), Cecilia Reyes emerges with Rockslide with information to help find the lost Neverland Camp.

198 Captured: Sabretooth, Cable, Rockslide (eventually escapes), X-23, Pixie, Bling!, Trance, Indra, Match, Wolf Cub, Wolfsbane, Magma, Strong Guy, Siryn, Pete Wisdom, Sage, Husk, Gambit, Lila Cheney, Gateway, Mammomax, Peepers, Prism, Erg, Blindfold, Caliban, others.

[Canemacar]

You might want to include a second, simultaneous plot that follows the captured X-men.

[Faded]

You might want to include a second, simultaneous plot that follows the captured X-men.

Yeah, definitely. I'd use another series to follow them, show more about what happened during Neverland v.1.0 (especially with a lot of escapees now prisoners again), why Prism is captured despite being a lackey for Sinister, X-23 reacting to something quite similiar to her past, the effect it has on the kids, and some of the crazy things they're doing behind closed doors and all that.

[rwsmith]

Wolverine: Stays busy with adventures in his solo books and New Avengers

Beast: Joins the Mighty Avengers and returns to ape form

Scott and Emma: Re-open the Massachusets Academy together; still guest-star in New X-men*, which is now based out of the Mass Academy (*---change the name of the book to New Mutants)

Storm: Remains with the Black Panther as a guest-star in his book

Xavier: Remains in space with Lilandra and the Shi'ar

Havok and Polaris:They get married and have the next big X-men wedding, then they retire and try to live normal lives

Bishop, Shadowcat, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Marvel Girl, and Gambit: The Uncanny book; this team becomes the new X.S.E.* and are sanctioned by the O.N.E. (*---I wouldn't change the name of the book, though, as the X-men name is sure to sell more copies than something like X.S.E.)

Rogue, Iceman, Cannonball, Mystique, Cable, Warpath, and Darwin: The adjectiveless book; this team becomes the new X-Force* and they are an outlaw team (*---I would change the name of this one, as X-Force is pretty well known)

So, basically, the only team really disbanding is the Astonishing team. This would allow the X-men to go in new directions and for both core X-men books to have a distictly different flavor. It also allows some of the B and C-listers to move to the forefront, as many A-list characters (Wolverine, Beast, Cyclops, Emma, and Storm) are no longer with the X-men at all.

Keep Brubaker and Carey on the books for awhile longer, and have Dave Finch rotate with Billy Tan on Uncanny X-men and Mike McKone rotate with Chris Bachalo on X-Force.

[Omega Alpha]

Domino kills Forge and Bishop, who are useless and boring, but still it has quite an impact and here is what happens:

Emma Frost re-opens the Massachusets Academy with Cyclops, whom signs up in the 50 state initiative plan, since mutants are registred anyway, although he's still openly criticizes the mandatory register and don't hunt heroes (so everbody ends up hating mutants even more), and creates the new X-factor, the Massachusets heroes, with Bobby, Hank, Warren, Rachel (who becomes Summers again and stops whining), and Gabriel, who is almost arrested, but argues that if Bullseye and Lady Deathstrike get a pass, so can he. Emma doesn't go in missions anymore because it mess up her hair, and she and Cyke eventually marry and have some very emotionally messed up Omega-Level mutants.

Wolverine joins Cap. America Avengers, and is happier than ever, saying Cap. is 90 times more boyscouttish than Cyclops, and they can argue and fight even more (with Wolverine losing everytime, of course) and he can dedicate himself to harass Spider-Woman full time now.

Havok and Polaris go live in the desert, have a couple of Omega-Level mutants, and are very happy until she becomes nuts again for a while and kills Alex in front of the children. See their mother kill her father makes the children disturbed, and it doesn't help that they end up being raised by Scott and Emma.

Xavier stays with the Shi'ar and forms an intergalactic force to bring equality to all races in the space. They are called the X-aliens. Lilandra is crazy and becomes his bitch.

Rogue hooks up with Gambit again and they and Nightcrawler, Quicksilver, Polaris (after she killed Havok) and Chamber form a team composed of children (or descendents, Chamber would add) of supervillains who try to stop their evil parents' (or ascendants, Chamber would add) plans as they live hidden and suspect of a traitor among them. They are called "The Fugitives" and the title receives lots of praise for it's very original concept.

Darwin spends years trying to commit suicide, but is unsucessful. So he finally gives up and becomes the star of a reality show in which he has very dangerous adventures. He becomes a millionaire and eventually marries Lila Cheney.

Colossus and Kitty get married, and they have an Alpha-level son, but she becomes tired of supporting Pete, a painter who doesn't sell, and after he bangs another chick (again), she divorces him and and he joins Scott's X-factor, only because he needs the money.

Aurora joins briefly Scott's X-factor and stars a relationship with Bobby, but dumps him after he becomes obsessed with a game called "i'm Bobby, you're Jean-Paul".


Psylocke kills herself because she can't deal with her powers changing every week. But not before an orgy with all the original X-men, including Jean, who comes back from the White Hot Room just for that. Strangely, Bobby wakes up in the other day unable to sit down right.

Cannonball and Husk get married and have 25 Alpha-level mutants (hey, they're from Kentucky, that's normal!:D ).

[rwsmith]

Actually, in looking at my post-X-men: Disassembled line-ups, I think they'd be better off if they just kept the current line-ups in Uncanny and adjectiveless with some slight modifications.

So, instead of Havok and Polaris tying the knot and retiring, have it be Colossus and Kitty instead. That way the entire Astonishing cast is truly disbanded, and the other two X-men books can get a push and move to the forefront.

Uncanny: Havok, Polaris, Nightcrawler, Marvel Girl, Warpath, Darwin, and Bishop (replaces Xavier)

X-men/X-Force: Rogue, Iceman, Cannonball, Mystique, Cable, and Caliban (replaces Sabretooth)

Wolverine joins Cap. America Avengers, and is happier than ever, saying Cap. is 90 times more boyscouttish than Cyclops, and they can argue and fight even more (with Wolverine losing everytime, of course)...

Not to rain on your "I hate Wolverine parade" or anything, but Logan beat Cap in Wolverine: Origins. In fact, he would've killed him if Hellion hadn't intervened. :)

[Omega Alpha]

I love Wolverine, i was making fun of him, read the rest of the post:)

But he and Cap. were always toe-to-toe, i know, but for comedy effects it would be better to see Logan get his ass kicked every issue:)

[Canemacar]

Wolverine: Stays busy with adventures in his solo books and New Avengers

Beast: Joins the Mighty Avengers and returns to ape form

Scott and Emma: Re-open the Massachusets Academy together; still guest-star in New X-men*, which is now based out of the Mass Academy (*---change the name of the book to New Mutants)

Storm: Remains with the Black Panther as a guest-star in his book

Xavier: Remains in space with Lilandra and the Shi'ar

Havok and Polaris:They get married and have the next big X-men wedding, then they retire and try to live normal lives

Bishop, Shadowcat, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Marvel Girl, and Gambit: The Uncanny book; this team becomes the new X.S.E.* and are sanctioned by the O.N.E. (*---I wouldn't change the name of the book, though, as the X-men name is sure to sell more copies than something like X.S.E.)

Rogue, Iceman, Cannonball, Mystique, Cable, Warpath, and Darwin: The adjectiveless book; this team becomes the new X-Force* and they are an outlaw team (*---I would change the name of this one, as X-Force is pretty well known)

So, basically, the only team really disbanding is the Astonishing team. This would allow the X-men to go in new directions and for both core X-men books to have a distictly different flavor. It also allows some of the B and C-listers to move to the forefront, as many A-list characters (Wolverine, Beast, Cyclops, Emma, and Storm) are no longer with the X-men at all.

Keep Brubaker and Carey on the books for awhile longer, and have Dave Finch rotate with Billy Tan on Uncanny X-men and Mike McKone rotate with Chris Bachalo on X-Force.

You should have Gambit and Rogue switch places(since I'm assuming you're trying to keep them on seperate teams). Rogue would be a lot more likely to work for O.N.E. than Gambit.