Earth is the third planet from the sun; it is home to humans and mutants.
History[]
Emergence of Mutants[]
During the course of humanities evolution, a number of individuals developed what would be called an X-Gene. This gene allowed those who had them to gain special abilities and in the future, this class of people would become known as Mutants.
Pre-Discovery[]
The first mutant, named Apocalypse, appeared during ancient Egypt thousands of years ago. Possessing the ability to inhabit the body of other Mutants amassed a plethora of abilities from the Mutants who bodies he inhabited and would come to seen as a god by the people of ancient Egypt. He also had four servants known as the Four Horsemen of Apocalypse who would serve and protect him during his body transference ritual. When the people of ancient Egypt grew tired of Apocalypse ruling over them, they enacted a plan: they ended with his Horsemen dead and Apocalypse trapped beneath rubble underground for millennia.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine[]
Logan and Victor Creed, whom fought in important wars of American history, were the next earliest known mutants. By the time of World War II, mutants became a more widespread phenomenon though humanity at large continued ignorant of their existence.
X-Men: First Class[]
The next mutants Charles Xavier, a mutant with the ability to read and control minds, and Erik Lehnsherr, a man with the ability to manipulate metal, would go on to effect image of mutants and the world in irrevocable ways. In 1960, the existence of mutants had been revealed during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Sebastian Shaw is a man who sought to eliminate humans, so that Mutants could achieve what Shaw believed to be their birth rights as the dominant species on the plant. His plans, however, were thwarted by a group of mutants led by Charles and Erik. The latter of the two men who had a personal grudge against Shaw, after the man killed his mother and experimented on Erik for years during World War II. Despite their heroic actions, mankind grew to fear and hate this new subclass humanity. Charles and Erik also severed ties with each other, with Erik
The first team of X-Men.
believing that Shaw's ways were the ideal solution and went on to form the mutant terrorist group the Brotherhood of Mutants, while Charles believed that mutants and humans could coexist and he formed his own group the X-Men, who would work to protect both humans and Mutants and to try a mend a bridge of cooperation between the two. In the end, despite their heroic actions, they exposed mutants to the world in irrevocable ways.
X-Men[]
Charles and Erik have continued to fight over the way to gain mutant freedom. Erik attempted to gain mutant rights by using a machine designed to turn humans into mutants. However the machine had the effect of also killing the human who it transformed unknown to Erik. When Erik attempted to capture mutant teenager Marie D'Ancanto, AKA Rogue, by sending Sabertooth he was thwarted when X-Men members Cyclops and Storm drove him off and saved both her and the mutant who she was accompanying, Logan. Magneto eventually managed to capture Marie D'Ancanto, now named Rouge, and attempted to have her power the machine by using her mutant ability to absorb ones power, knowing this would kill her and took her to the Statue of Liberty to use the machine on a nearby summit who were gathered to discuss the growing mutant epidemic. Fortunately, the X-Men (now joined by Logan who had taken the code-name Wolverine) managed to arrive just in time and proceeded to defeat The Brotherhood, rescue Rouge, and destroy the machine in the process; saving the members of the summit. Magneto who himself had been defeated was taken into custody by the authorities.
X2: X-Men United[]
Colonel William Stryker sought to rid the world of mutant-kind by using a combination of his son Jason and Charles Xavier's powers with Cerebro to mentally kill all mutants in the world. His plan nearly backfired at him and not only nearly caused homo sapiens' extermination, but also a full-out war between mutants and humans.
X-Men: The Last Stand[]
The billionaire businessman Warren Worthington II sought to cure his son of his "ailment" and used his corporation to create a mutant cure, using a mutant child as the source. The cure was supposed to be used to cure mutants and make them human again but it was also used as a weapon by USA military in case dangerous mutants posed a threat to lives.
Learning of this mutant supremacist, Magneto lead an army to the headquarters of Worthington Labs, in San Francisco, to destroy it before it was used to exterminate mutant-kind. However, the X-Men once again managed to stop him and with fellow mutant and ally Hank McCoy inducted into the United Nations as an ambassador things seemed to be looking up for mutant kind.
X-Men: Days of Future Past[]
In 1973, the Sentinel Program was used after Bolivar Trask was killed by Mystique. Later on, with her DNA, they create the Sentinel Mark V, a Sentinel that can adapt to it's environment. With these, the Sentinels would take over the world, exterminating mutants, those with the mutant gene, and those that supported mutant resistance, thus leaving the worst of mankind left. Few survive. However, this is fixed when Wolverine is sent back in time to stop Mystique.
Notable Inhabitants[]
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Appearances[]
- Earth-10005 (7 films)
Gallery[]
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