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| Cerebro's X-Men | |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Uncanny X-Men (Vol. 1) #360 (October 1998) |
| Created by | Carlos Pacheco |
| In-story information | |
| Member(s) | Cerebro Grey King Crux Rapture Landslide Mercury Chaos |
Cerebro's X-Men are a team ofsupervillains appearing inAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics. They are a nanotechnology version of theX-Men created byCerebro after the supercomputer briefly goes rogue.[1]
This team was created and designed by Spanish artistCarlos Pacheco, who also drew them for the cover ofUncanny X-Men No. 360 (1998).[2] The characters appeared in two issues of theUncanny X-Men series and one issue of theX-Men series.[3] The team's primary purpose is to help Cerebro catalog allmutants on Earth, but Cerebro intends to cryogenically preserve the mutants it captures and its team kidnaps and fights other mutants.
Cerebro's X-Men featured in three issues:[3]
Cerebro, a device created by X-Men founderCharles Xavier to help locate mutants with theX-Gene, is confiscated by the mysteriousBastion duringOperation: Zero Tolerance.[3] Bastion attempts to access secret files and operate Cerebro, but the supercomputer activates acomputer virus to erase this information rather than letting it be stolen. However, the combination of Cerebro's power with Bastion's nanotechnology gives the supercomputer sentience. Cerebro creates a body for itself, escapes Bastion's headquarters, and tries to follow its original programming literally: find, catalog, and register mutants. However, a large part of its plan to catalog mutants is to capture and store them incryogenic chambers for further study. Cerebro begins its new mission by creating its own version of the X-Men, Professor X's team. It manages this by using Bastion's nano-technology to combine the profiles and powers of several mutants in Professor X's database to create new mutants. Cerebro takes on Xavier's appearance, posing as him to invite mutants into its team under the guide of "The Founder". It sets them a mission to kidnapPeter Corbeau, a scientist working on mutant defense technology for the US government. After Corbeau is captured, Cerebro's X-Men are then sent to find Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat, who the disguised Cerebro asks to "cure" him. Shadowcat manages to phase out Bastion's virus, though she does not know exactly what she has done because she thinks Cerebro is the real Professor X. Cerebro then orders its X-Men team to place her in cryogenic storage, so herDNA will be preserved for future study.[4]
Shadowcat manages to escape and findsWolverine,Rogue,Storm,Colossus,Nightcrawler, andMarrow, who had been searching for her. Eventually they encounter Cerebro and his X-Men, who are attempting to destroy the government's mutant tracking satellite, regardless of the potential threat to human life once its radioactive core is breached. Wolverine's enhanced senses confirm Shadowcat's suspicions that this "Xavier" is an impostor, and the real X-Men realize that if Corbeau's satellite is launched, then Cerebro won't be collect mutants before humans find them. The real X-Men fight and defeat Cerebro's X-Men, preventing the satellite from exploding.[5]
Cerebro escapes the lost battle and reveals their true origins to its X-Men team before deeming them failures and absorbing them into its own body. By doing this, it becomes an even more powerful cybernetic monster, and only the real Charles Xavier is able to subdue Cerebro, purging its systems and destroying the superpowered robotic body it had created.[6]
