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"Phalanx Covenant"
Cover ofX-Factor 106 (Sept 1994), art bySteve Lightle
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Publication date	September – October1994
Genre	Superhero Crossover
Title(s) "Generation Next":    The Uncanny X-Men #316–317    X-Men vol. 2, #36–37 "Life Signs":    Excalibur vol. 1, #82    X-Factor vol. 1, #106    X-Force vol. 1, #38 "Final Sanction":    Cable vol. 2, #16    Wolverine vol. 2, #85
Main character(s)	X-Men X-Factor X-Force Excalibur Phalanx
Creative team
Writer(s)	(Cable,Wolverine) Larry Hama (Excalibur,The Uncanny X-Men,X-Factor) Scott Lobdell (Excalibur,X-Factor) Todd DeZago (X-Force,X-Men) Fabian Nicieza
Penciller(s)	(Cable) Steve Skroce (Excalibur) Ken Lashley,Steve Epting (The Uncanny X-Men) Joe Madureira (Wolverine) Adam Kubert (X-Factor) Jan Duursema,Roger Cruz (X-Force) Tony Daniel (X-Men) Andy Kubert

"Phalanx Covenant" was acrossover storyline that ran throughMarvel Comics'X-Men family of books in September and October 1994. One of its unique aspects was that the X-Men themselves only played a minor role in the story.

The X-Men are attacked bymutant-hating humans who have used the alienWarlock's techno-organicPhalanx virus to turn into techno-organic beings themselves. With these powers, the Phalanx are able to change their shape and assimilate organic matter. The Phalanx are also ahive mind and they are programmed to destroy all mutants.

The Phalanx Covenant was told in three separate storylines:

• Generation Next: With the X-Men gone,Banshee,Emma Frost,Jubilee, andSabretooth have to save the next generation of mutants from Phalanx agents led by Harvest. This storyline also planted the seeds for Marvel's next mutant title,Generation X.
• Life Signs:X-Factor,Excalibur, andX-Force discover that the Phalanx are losing their hive-mind programming and becoming more independent. The rogue PhalanxDouglock takesForge,Wolfsbane andCannonball on a mission to prevent the Phalanx Shinar from contacting the alien Phalanx.
• Final Sanction:Cable,Wolverine,Cyclops, andPhoenix reunite to rescue the X-Men by infiltrating the main base of the Phalanx.

Generation Next

• Uncanny X-Men #316
• X-Men (Vol. 2) #36
• Uncanny X-Men #317
• X-Men (Vol. 2) #37

Life Signs

• X-Factor #106
• X-Force #38
• Excalibur #82

Final Sanction

• Wolverine (vol. 2) #85
• Cable #16

The comics were collected into theOrigin of Generation Xtrade paperback, published in 1996. A second printing was published on June 1, 2001 (ISBN 0-7851-0216-7).

• The X-Tinction Agenda: included events that led to the creation of the Phalanx.
• Uncanny X-Men #291: Steven Lang is recruited from an institution to guide the mutant-hating group that will become the Phalanx.
• Uncanny X-Men #305–306, and 312–313: The X-Men battle early Phalanx prototypes and face the real deal for the first time.
• Excalibur #78–80: Douglock joins Excalibur.

• This storyline was re-imagined by Marvel inillustrated novel form on October 17, 1995.
• The Phalanx Covenant was adapted into the two-part fifth-season premiere ofX-Men: The Animated Series withBeast as the central character. The Phalanx were conceived to be fully alien and not mutant hating humans who were infected with the technology, becoming more like theTechnarchy, withCameron Hodge working along with them serving much the same role as in the comics. During the two-parter, Beast teams up with Warlock, Forge (part of X-Factor),Mister Sinister,Amelia Voght (who was working onMuir Island at the time) andMagneto.
• The Phalanx were also the primary inspiration for the 1995Sega Genesisvideo game,X-Men 2: Clone Wars.

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