Cerebro's X-Men

Fictional team of supervillains

Cerebro's X Men are a team of supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. They are a nanotechnology version of the X Men created by Cerebro when the supercomputer briefly goes rogue. This team was created and designed by the Spanish artist Carlos Pacheco, who also drew them for the cover of Uncanny X Men No. 360 (1998). The characters appeared in two issues of the Uncanny X Men series and one issue of the X Men series. The team's primary purpose is to help Cerebro catalog all mutants on Earth, but Cerebro intends to cryogenically preserve the mutants it captures and its team kidnaps and fights other mutants.

Cerebro/The Founder – The X Men's mutant detecting computer, given physical form when a nano tech computer virus corrupted its systems. Crux – Cristal Lemieux is a French ice skater with a cocky attitude and the ability to fire blasts of flame or ice. When Crux uses her powers, the right half of her body turns into fire while left turns into ice. Crux was patterned after the powers of Iceman and Sunfire, and the personality of Jubilee. Carlos Pacheco wanted to call her Geisher, a pun between geyser and geisha, because at first she was a Japanese girl, not a French one. She was designed after Sunfire, Iceman, Storm, and Avalanche. Geisher was supposed to have the ability to manipulate the four elements but her look referenced only fire and ice like Equinox, a Marvel villain created by Len Wein and Gil Kane. Grey King – Addison Falk is a super intelligent telepath with the ability to psionically neutralize mutant powers. He also possesses telekinetic abilities and is able to move, lift, and manipulate matter with his thoughts. When he utilizes his telekinesis, he was surrounded by a corona of psychic fire in the shape of a bird (like the Phoenix Force). Grey King also wore a Phoenix like costume and had red hair. It was revealed Cerebro patterned the Grey King after the mutant power template of Jean Grey / Phoenix, (formerly the Black Queen of the Hellfire Club's inner circle), and the personality template of Magneto (who had once forged an alliance with that same organization, becoming the White King). Landslide – Lee Broder is a Southern redneck with ape like strength and agility and also sporting big hands and big feet. Carlos Pacheco designed this character by combining Blob and Beast. Mercury – Not to be confused with Cessily Kincaid of the New X Men, Mercury is a hitman who can turn his skin into metal and has razor sharp claws on his fingers. Mercury is patterned after the powers and personality of Colossus and Wolverine. Carlos Pacheco initially combined Magneto and Colossus to create Silverface who could mold his own body. The character finally appeared as Mercury in the comics. Rapture – Sister Joy is a blue skinned nun with large dove like wings, flight, and sword fighting skills. Rapture is shown to be in love with Grey King. Rapture had red hair and a skull charm on her costume, showing that she was created from the power template of Archangel, the appearance of Mystique, and the personality of Nightcrawler. Carlos Pacheco created the character mixing Mystique, Archangel, Nightcrawler, and Shadowcat; Carlos first called her Spook but finally she appeared as Rapture. Chaos/Kaos – Dan Dash is an autistic man believed to be the brother of a flight show pilot named Dwayne with the power to fire concentric waves of explosive plasma from his glowing red left eye. Chaos was patterned after the powers of both Cyclops and Havok. Carlos Pacheco named him after Kaos, the Spanish translation for Havok. The correct spelling of Kaos is caos, which means chaos in English.