X-Men

Mutants--a small percentage of the human population who carry the mutated X-gene that gives them superhuman abilities that became to emerge in the 1970s and 1980s--are feared and distrusted by the majority of humanity because of the majority of mutants' inability to control their powers.

Professor Charles Xavier--a mutant rights activist and secretly powerful mutant telepath himself--transformed his family estate in Massachusetts into a school for young mutants to learn to control their powers and continue their normal education called the Xavier School. However, a year after the formation of the Avengers, Xavier reluctantly decided to train a group of his young students to become the X-Men, heroes dedicated to protecting their fellow mutant and man alike.

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