Exiles (Marvel Comics)
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 All time members, courtesy of X-Men Messiah Complex: Mutant files |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Exiles #1 |
| Created by | Judd Winick (writer) Mike McKone (artist) |
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| Base(s) | Panoptichron, the "crystal palace" outside space and time |
| Member(s) | Current Roster Morph Sabretooth Psylocke Cat Mystique Rogue Sage Gambit Former Supporting Crew |
The Exiles are a group of fictional comic book characters from Marvel Comics. The Exiles, created by writer Judd Winick and artist Mike McKone, consists of characters from different dimensions, or realities, which have been removed from time and space in order to correct problems (often called “hiccups") in various alternate worlds and divergent timelines in the multiverse. The team usually is made up of six members and each time a member is killed or returned to his or her home reality, a new member is introduced and joins the team. However, the series is notable for the number of characters who stay dead, in contrast to the frequent resurrections that occur in the main Marvel and DC continuities.
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[edit] Fictional team biography
The Exiles team consisted originally of Blink (Clarice Ferguson, from the Age of Apocalypse continuity), Mimic (Calvin Rankin), Magnus (son of Magneto and Rogue), Thunderbird (John Proudstar), Nocturne (Talia Josephine "T.J." Wagner, daughter of Nightcrawler and Scarlet Witch) and Morph.
When Magnus dies[1], he is replaced by Sunfire (Mariko Yashida). Sasquatch (Heather Hudson) arrives when Thunderbird becomes comatose during a battle with the world-eating Galactus[2].
The Exiles then discover there is a second team conscripted by the Timebroker, Weapon X[3], whose missions typically involve killing or maiming innocents and heroes. The two teams join forces to rescue a group of children from a Sentinel prison camp. However, the teams are told the second stage of the mission is to kill one of the children - David Richards (son of Rachel Summers and Franklin Richards) - who will apparently grow up to become a powerful super villain. Weapon X is willing to kill him, but the Exiles are not and the two teams fight until the Timebroker intervenes. Sabretooth (of the Weapon X team) agrees to stay behind and raise David Richards himself.
The Timebroker sends Blink home after a visit to a world plagued by a variant of the Legacy Virus, since the team had repaired her personal broken chain in time[4] and Magik (Illyana Rasputin) takes her place. Mimic then replaces Blink as leader, gaining the Tallus.
The Exiles arrive in the main Marvel Universe (Earth-616) where they meet the X-Men after Havok's cancelled wedding[5]. The Exiles team up with the X-Men against an evil Havok from the Mutant X universe, who shares a body with the good Havok. After Havok is subdued, the Timebroker arrives to personally eliminate the Mutant X Havok's consciousness.[6]
After Sunfire is killed by a Brood-infected Mimic[7], she is replaced by the Exiles' former teammate Blink. During the next mission[8], the Exiles and Weapon X are forced to battle each other until only six remain alive. Magik is killed by Hyperion when she attempts to switch sides and betray the Exiles. Hyperion is eventually defeated by Blink, who teleports his own heat vision into his back, paralyzing him. Gambit (of Weapon X) is allowed to deliver the killing blow against Hyperion with Magik's sword, which actually kills them both, leaving five Exiles alive and their mission complete.
The Exiles visit the main Marvel Universe for a second time[9] where they are joined by Namora, who replaces Magik, and are instructed to "leave their possessions and earn their wings". Reed Richards deduces this means they are to leave Nocturne behind (whose power involves possession) and have Beak join the Exiles, which is confirmed by the Timebroker.
[edit] The Timebrokers
The team are told by The Celestials to "beware the Timebroker, he is not what he seems"[10]. After this, the Timebroker's behavior becomes increasingly strange. Heather Hudson is removed from the team[11] without explanation and replaced with former Weapon X member Sabretooth. The Tallus orders the Exiles to kill Mimic and despite their refusal, they are allowed to move onto a new mission (normally a mission must be completed for the Exiles to move on). Next, the Timebroker replaces Beak with Holocaust[12], which they are informed is a punishment for disobeying previous orders.
Eventually, the Exiles break free of the Timebroker and stage a raid on Panoptichron (also known as the "Crystal Palace"), home of the Timebroker and a location from which many parallel universes can be monitored. Here they discover that the Timebroker is an alien race of bug-like beings that found the Panoptichron and accidentally broke a series of timelines. Lacking the power to repair the timelines, they concocted this scheme of recruiting heroes from various worlds to do their work for them. Not only that, all previously "returned" heroes are actually in Panoptichron, frozen in blocks, along with the killed heroes. As a final twist, the evil Hyperion has broken free of his prison and has taken over Panoptichron. The Exiles defeat Hyperion, but at the cost of Namora and Holocaust's lives. Beak returns from stasis and saved the day by calling on two good versions of Hyperion for help, fulfilling his destiny as an Exile. Only Blink, Mimic, Morph, Sabretooth, Beak, and Heather Hudson remain to pick up the pieces.[13]
[edit] World Tour
The Exiles then return to Earth-616 to take Beak home. Unfortunately, Earth-616 is dominated by the House of M. During their stay, the Exiles run afoul of the body-hopping serial killer Proteus, who steals data from the Panoptichron and escapes from Earth-616, leaving Beak depowered back home[14]. The Exiles chase Proteus through several realities, including an alternate version of New Universe[15], an alternate version of 2099[16], Squadron Supreme[17], Future Imperfect[18], and Heroes Reborn[19], before finally bringing Proteus down by trapping him in Morph’s body, which does not decay, unlike all of Proteus’s other host bodies. During the “World Tour” of hunting down Proteus, Mimic is possessed by Proteus and dies, forcing the Exiles to pick up new members Longshot, Spider-Man 2099, and Power Princess to restore their diminished numbers.
[edit] Post-World Tour
The Exiles begin cleaning out the stasis gallery of former Exiles and Weapon X members and send them back home. Iron Man, Daredevil, and Angel are sent back to their respective realities alive, while every other Earth with a missing superhuman holds a funeral. Blink, at the suggestion of Power Princess, takes Mimic home to be buried with his X-Men instead of burying him in Panoptichron. Spider-Man, Sabretooth, and Heather Hudson all decided to visit their home realities[20]. Unfortunately, the Timebreakers ditch the Exiles when the Timebreakers believe that they are not saving realities as they should be. However, after using several squads of Wolverines to complete the next mission and failing, Logan (from Days of Future Past) and young James Howlett convince the Timebreakers that the Exiles are needed[21]. The Exiles finally resume their reality-saving missions for the first time since they discovered Panoptichron when they save a reality where the Silver Surfer has already destroyed the Earth and is trying to destroy Galactus, who is the restorer of worlds in this reality[22].
Then, Heather discovers an Earth inhabited by a disturbingly close approximation of the original Exiles team, complete with their own Timebroker. After the "classic Exiles" fight "the all-new Exiles" (as Morph put it), it is later revealed that the whole thing was a scheme orchestrated by the Grandmaster, who seeks revenge on the Exiles for freeing Professor X on their first mission and ruining a bet. The Exiles, past and present, join forces with the Wrecking Crew of that Earth to defeat the Grandmaster. The current team then leaves the Earth in the hands of the approximation Exiles.
The Exiles then take three weeks to save a chain of cracked realities, injuring Blink, Morph, and Spider-Man. They also discover that Proteus is possibly immune to metal while in Morph’s body. Meanwhile, former Exile, Thunderbird, is in the stasis gallery, dreaming of what might have been had he not become comatose.
[edit] Enter Psylocke
Later, Power Princess leaves the team to return to the Squadron Supreme and Psylocke is brought on board to replace her.[23] Blink, Longshot, and Spider-Man are brainwashed by Hydra leaving only Sabretooth to pick up Morph and Psylocke. They are sent to kill Reed Richards. Slaymaster's arrival makes them fail as Betsy faints before killing Reed. The world was erased, with the Exiles still there, but it was magically restored by Reed Richards, and Valeria Richards' amulet restores the world's population because they were being stored in the amulet. The Exiles are still there so they can help Psylocke recover from wounds inflicted by Wolverine, and to help rebuild the planet[24]. Meanwhile, another Slaymaster slays another Psylocke on another world.
After the Exiles return to Panoptichron, they find it empty, with no equipment, Timebreakers, or Heather. Blink and Morph eventually visit Heather, who thought the Exiles were dead and left Panoptichron. Heather is now pregnant and out of commission, so Psylocke stays behind to learn more about the Panoptichron while the other Exiles resume their missions. There she experiences visions which warn her of something bad to come, and an alternate version of Kitty Pryde appears from nowhere with no warning. The Exiles go to a seemingly perfect world led by Victor Von Doom but when Blink is caught by Reed Richards she begins to discover what hides behind this facade[25]. She then recruits Longshot and Morph, who also sense something amiss with this world. They flee with that world's Reed to begin a resistance. Meanwhile, Spider-Man 2099 meets Gwen Stacy and Sabretooth has a one-night stand with this world's Invisible Woman. In reality, she was assigned to get close to him so Doom could copy the Tallus, which he does. He then sends a team of soldiers to Panoptichron. They take out Psylocke and assume Kitty Pryde is a freaked out child, though she appears to be faking that. Then the soldiers are attacked by Thunderbird, who is no longer comatose[26]. Kitty Pryde (who goes by Cat), uses her phasing powers to make a diversion long enough to allow Thunderbird to free Psylocke. Together, they defeat the soldiers and send them home, just in time for them to see Doom's defeat, whose Earth is destroyed by Reed Richards as there is no way to turn the human back to their normal emotional state.
As a result the Exiles are scattered to various dimensions[27], much like Union Jack had done previously[28]. Psylocke, Thunderbird, and Cat are able to work on the equipment and retrieve Blink, Morph, and Sabretooth, and new members Mystiq and Rogue are brought along. Spider-Man 2099 finds a girlfriend and stays on the world he landed in. Longshot, once again, got lucky and landed in the Crystal Palace after the transport went wrong.
[edit] Die by the Sword
- See also: X-Men: Die by the Sword
Psylocke and Thunderbird traveled to Earth-616 to visit Captain Britain and Nocturne during New Excalibur's victory party[29]. However during the party Captain Britain is wounded by a strike force led by an armored lady called Rouge. While Betsy tries to care for her brother everybody else tries to fight, even Dazzler and Pete Wisdom who were about to have sex, but, realizing they can't win they teleport to the Panoptichron. There Dazzler discovers that Longshot, while alive, doesn't remember her and is about to kill herself to ease her pain when Mystiq comes to talk her out of it. TJ happily reunites with her former teammates while Sage is deemed the best option to care for Brian. Meanwhile Cat, using the scanner, realizes that Roma and Saturnyne are in trouble[30]. The Corps then suffers a lot of losses, despite Saturnyne's intervening. While Cat checks on Brian, Blink, Morph, Sabertooth, Thunderbird, and Dazzler join the battle field[31]. Dazzler battles Rouge-Mort,who has badly wounded Roma, and Longshot gets concerned about her, making both himself and Sage wonder why/how, while Morph battles Jasper by morphing into the Fury but his plan is quickly foiled. Sage, Psylocke, and Wisdom recruit Albion to their cause, who proves to be a match for James Jaspers until Jaspers turns into the Fury. Merlyn then comes to his daughter to finish the job[32]only to be beaten by Psylocke. Cap then makes his move on the Fury and with the help of Blink and Albion vanquishes him for now, leading to Merlyn's defeat. However this victory comes with a price as Roma dies, though not before transferring her knowledge into Sage's mind. Saturnyn then promises to free Albion from jail to lead the Corps while Sage and TJ switch teams with Longshot who now remembers the highlights of his past[33].
[edit] Exiles #100, Days of Then and Now
Blink, Nocturne, and Thunderbird decide to leave the team because they are physically and emotionally exhausted and need a break. They leave for Heather Hudson's reality so that Heather can keep track of Nocturne's progress as she continues to recover from her stroke. Sage struggles with her new knowledge gained from Roma and accidentally fights the other Exiles. Cat and Rogue explore the palace and almost die in a bungee-jumping accident, prompting Rogue to reveal flying powers.
Blink discovers an Earth they were supposed to save, but did not because they were chasing Proteus during the World Tour. Iron Man, Nighthawk, Wild Child, and Luke Cage from that reality died because they did not receive help from the Exiles. So Blink decides to help an alternate Quentin Quire by acting as the Timebroker through Gambit's old Tallus, which is given to him by the Nighthawk from the reality where the Exiles had battled Weapon X after Quentin is able to transport himself there on his own. Then he meets Mary Jane and Luke Cage, from the Vi-Locks reality, and an alternate Spitfire. Finally he ends up in the Age of Apocalypse where he saves Wild Child. Blink then sends all five heroes (Luke Cage, Quentin, Nighthawk, Spitfire, and Wild Child) to replace Iron Man, Nighthawk, Wild Child, and Luke Cage from Quentin's reality.
[edit] Current Status
The team went to Earth 6706 to recruit Gambit and found themselves in a three-way war between Namor, Ororo and the Black Panther. The team was separated with Rogue with Gambit and Namor, Mystiq in disguise with the Panther's team and Sabretooth and Psylocke with Ororo. They eventually reunited for a final fight against the Panther and would have died if not for Psylocke and Gambit's mother's powers. Their mission was eventually revealed to them and they left the Earth despite the fact that the Panther had taken control of it[34]. Meanwhile, Morph, Sage and Cat are sucked into a world were Kitty shifts to another form. Sage regains her telepathic powers, as they defend a man who has fallen in love with a dragon. After some fighting, the parents eventually surrender against true love and the dragon becomes human, while the Exiles are brought back to the Panoptichron, where Cat reveals that Gambit was listed as a member even before he was recruited. In the mean time, Hydra recruits a Wolverine-like-guy to her cause[35].
[edit] Tallus
The Tallus is a communications device, which is worn by the leader of the group, which was formerly used by the Timebroker to assign each mission. Blink wears the Tallus in the beginning, but it is later transferred to Sabretooth when Blink rebels against the Timebroker (later revealed to be Hyperion). Mimic also wears the Tallus for a time in Blink's absence. It is now used as a means of communication between its wearer and whoever is operating the crystal palace on various missions. It has a slightly different appearance for each wearer.
[edit] Weapon X
First seen in Exiles #5, they are a team that did more ruthless missions than the Exiles did. This team had various members and its roster changed more than the Exiles. Weapon X was originally composed of Sabretooth, Kane, Mesmero, Wolverine, Maverick, and Deadpool. The team was destroyed during the "A Blink in Time" arc, when the Timebroker wanted to downsize both teams in hopes of killing off the insane Hyperion, who abandoned missions to try to rule worlds.
[edit] Exiles characters
Whenever one of the Exiles dies, is sent home, or something happens to them, they are replaced by someone else, and thus the roster changes. The first occurrence is when Magnus dies in Exiles #2, and Sunfire comes on board to replace him.
[edit] Founding members
| Character | Real Name | Joined in | Notes |
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| Blink (Age of Apocalypse/Earth-295) | Clarice Ferguson | Exiles #1, rejoins in #37 | Team leader and Tallus holder; she is from the Age of Apocalypse and is sent "home" once in Exiles #22 but is actually sent to the Earth that Sabretooth was marooned on; returns to the team after the death of Sunfire. Left with Nocturne and Thunderbird to take vacation on Heather's earth. |
| Nocturne (Professor W's X-Men/Earth 2182) | Talia Josephine "TJ" Wagner | Exiles #1 | From a reality where she is the daughter of the Scarlet Witch and Nightcrawler. Becomes pregnant by Thunderbird but miscarries after his injury; ends up being swapped for Beak and spends time on Earth-616 as a member of New Excalibur. Currently on Heather's earth recovering from a stroke. |
| Morph (Earth 1801) | Kevin Sidney | Exiles #1 | Only long-standing member; was offered to be sent home once but declines, saying he needs the team and cannot abandon them or the Earths in peril. Currently possessed by Proteus. |
| Thunderbird (Earth 1100) | John Proudstar | Exiles #1, rejoins in #98 | From a reality where he is made into War of the Horsemen of Apocalypse; ended up brain-dead in Exiles #10; is replaced by Sasquatch. He still remains in the Stasis Gallery due to the fact that he is neither dead nor healthy and alive. Scans of his brain detect the presence of Alpha-waves, which indicate that he is dreaming. He seems to have woken up and somehow escaped the stasis wall at the end of issue #97, rejoining the Exiles in #98. He later leaves again to be with Nocturne. |
| Mimic (Earth-12) | Calvin Montgomery Rankin | Exiles #1 | Former Tallus holder; leads the team when Blink was sent home; accidentally kills Sunfire when he becomes implanted with a Queen Brood egg after a mission detour; possessed by Proteus of Earth-House of M; dies after Proteus sucked the life out of him. Blink personally returns Mimic to his reality's X-Men in Exiles #83. |
| Magnus (Earth-27) | Magnus Lehnsherr | Exiles #1 | From a reality where he is the son of Rogue and Magneto; died in Exiles #2 sacrificing himself to contain a nuclear explosion in a reality where Magneto was good and Xavier was evil; replaced by Sunfire. He is sent home in Exiles #83 with a note explaining his story, until then he was believed by his parents to have run away. |
[edit] Replacements
| Character | Real Name | Joined in | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunfire (Earth-2109) | Mariko Yashida | Exiles #2 | Replaced Magnus after he sacrificed himself; revealed to be gay; died from a collapsing building when Mimic went on a rampage while being possessed by a Queen Brood egg [36]. Her ashes are taken back to Legacy World[37] where she had a relationship with Mary-Jane Watson (that reality's Spider-Woman) during a mission detour[38]. |
| Sasquatch (Earth-3470) | Heather McDaniel Hudson | Exiles #10 | Replaced Thunderbird after he became brain-dead. Was possessed by Tanaraq when she was gravely injured [39], Tanaraq is purged from her body, leaving her powerless[40]. Is replaced by Sabretooth. Served at the teams communications base in the Panoptichron until she believed the entire Exiles team died[41]. She gets very drunk and returns to her home planet, where she becomes pregnant to her husband[42] |
| Magik (Earth-4210) | Illyana Nikolievna Rasputin | Exiles #22 | Replaced Blink. Killed by Hyperion [43]. She is not replaced by anyone since the Timebroker is trying to downsize both the Exiles and Weapon X teams. Sent home for burial in Exiles #83. |
| Namora (Earth-2189) | Namora McKenzie | Exiles #46 | Alternate female version of Namor; killed by Hyperion[44]. Sent home for burial in Exiles #83. |
| Beak (Earth-616) | Barnell Bohusk | Exiles #48 | Traded places with Nocturne; replaced by Holocaust; returned home in Exiles #71. He was depowered as a result of Decimation and is currently a member of The New Warriors while using a power suit, now known as Blackwing. |
| Tanaraq (Earth-3470) | Tanaraq | Exiles #57 | Gains dominance over the body of Sasquatch; is purged from Heather's system[45]. |
| Sabretooth (Earth-295) | Victor Creed | Exiles #59 | From the Age of Apocalypse reality, same as Blink; picked by Hyperion to distract Blink from leading; replaced Sasquatch after her power loss. |
| Holocaust (Earth-295) | Nemesis | Exiles #60 | Also from the Age of Apocalypse reality as Sabretooth and Blink; replaced Beak; killed by Hyperion[46]. Not sent home for burial because Hyperion absorbed his energy-based body. |
| Longshot (Mojoverse) | Longshot | Exiles #74 | As part of a bargain Heather Hudson made with Mojo which allowed the semi-memory wiped Longshot to join the team in exchange for Mojo to have the ability to view more dimensions in the Multiverse than he had access to previously and receive video feed of the Exiles to turn into a "reality show". Longshot recently left the team to try and resume his life with Dazzler. |
| Spider-Man (Earth-6375, now Earth 22056) | Miguel O'Hara | Exiles #76 | From the 2099 approximation. Joined when Proteus, in the body of Hulk 2099, publicly unmasked him, ruining his life in his home universe. With the desire to help the Exiles track down and catch the villain who did this to him, Spider-Man was the first member to join the team voluntarily[47]. Spider-Man later revisited his home reality, making sure his family was safe after his identity was exposed. Later quit the Exiles after settling on Earth 22056 with a new girlfriend. |
| Power Princess (Earth-712) | Zarda | Exiles #78 | From Squadron Supreme. Joined in Hyperion's place to help the Exiles catch Proteus and a Squadron appointed liaison to watch the Exiles[48]. Recently quit the team to return to the Squadron Supreme[49]. |
| Proteus (Earth-58163) | Kevin MacTaggert | Exiles #69 | From the visit to House of M, Proteus has been the first enemy the Exiles had to hunt through realities and their second antagonist. He was successful in attempting to possess Morph, but was brainwashed by Blink (with help from a device from the Squadron Supreme). As a result, Proteus only has access to Kevin Sidney's memories, therefore believing that he is, in fact, the real Morph. |
| Psylocke (Earth-616) | Elisabeth "Betsy" Braddock | Exiles #90 | From New Excalibur. Powers and abilities include: telekinesis, a mastery of ninjutsu, and an immunity to telepathy, reality alterations, and spells. |
| Cat | Katherine "Kitty" Pryde | Exiles #98 | Somehow appeared in the Panoptichron at the end of Exiles #96, joined with Thunderbird in #98. Keeps shifting from one alternate Kitty Pryde shape to another. |
| Mystiq (Earth 797) | Raphael-Raven Darkholme | Exiles #99 | A male version of Mystique who had a child with Destiny (though both the child and her died). Was saved by Sabertooth when he was attacked by soldiers at his lover's grave. Joined the team when they went to pick him up again. |
| Rogue (Earth 1009) | Anna Raven | Exiles #99 | An apparent criminal who lived in Japan. Was saved from the Avengers by Morph and tagged along when the team went to get him. |
| Sage (Earth 616) | also known as Tessa | X-Men: Die by the Sword #5 | New resident of the Panoptichron and liaison of the team to it. |
| Gambit (Earth 6706) | Remy | New Exiles#4 | Son of a Sue Storm and a black Namor. Joined the Exiles willingly. |
[edit] Wolverines
After the Timebreakers fired the original Exiles Team, they gathered multiple squads consisting solely of alternate versions of Wolverine. The last Wolverine squad was formed in Exiles #85 and consisted the following members
| Character | First appearance | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Patch (Earth-181) | Exiles #85 | Apparently from the same Earth as Weapon X's Daredevil. Killed by Sabretooth. |
| Zombie Wolvie (Earth-6195) | Exiles #85 | Not the same Zombie Wolverine who first appeared in Ultimate Fantastic Four 22-23 and Marvel Zombies #1-5. The original Marvel Zombies version became a member of The Galactus as of Marvel Zombies #5. Killed when Elsie Dee's internal bomb went off. |
| Albert Dee (Earth-50211) | Exiles #85 | An android built to destroy Wolverine, Elsie Dee's acolyte. Killed in the blast when Logan attacked Brother Mutant. |
| Elsie Dee (Earth-50211) | Exiles #85 | An android built to destroy Wolverine, Albert Dee's acolyte. Detonated her internal bomb to weaken Brother Mutant. |
| Weapon X (Earth-520) | Exiles #85 | Logan, right after his adamantium was implanted on him by the Weapon X Program. Assumed dead in the Exiles attack on Brother Mutant. |
| James Howlett (Earth-1880) | Exiles #85 | He has just discovered his powers and thusly has assumed neither Logan's nor Wolverine's identity. The only Wolverine Exile to return home alive from the team introduced in Exiles #85. |
| Major Logan (Earth-811/DotFP) | Uncanny X-Men #141/Exiles #85 (as an Exile) | He apparently survived his demise at the hand of the Sentinels thanks to his healing Factor. He, Marvel Girl III, Hyperstorm and Kate Pryde are the only known survivors from the X-Men in this timeline. Killed by an energy blast as he nearly killed Brother Mutant. His death echoes the one featured in the Days of Future Past timeline (although a Sentinel, not another mutant, killed him in that timeline). It is not clear if this storyline takes place before or after events in the Earth X universe. Thus this character may come from a (further) divergent reality. |
| Others | Exiles #85-86 | 43 other Wolverine versions were to be seen on issue #86 cover, a Hulk, a clown, and a Thing version were featured in the comics and at least 3 were on the Panoptichrons screen at the end of #86. 27 of them died, according to Heather Hudson (including 6 of the 7 main). Other versions included female Wolverines, Brother Xavier and a Deadpool-like version. |
The mission of these Wolverine Teams was to eliminate the Brother Mutant, but he(?) captured and hypnotized them. Finally, the last Wolverine Team manages to kill the Brother Mutant, with the help of the First Exiles Team. In the end, seventeen Wolverines perished during the fight. James Howlett was the only member sent home.
[edit] Other characters
In Exiles there has been a number of special heroes, villains and others. Some of them are even significant in more than one reality and/or story.
| Character | First appearance | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Timebroker/Icon/Lady (Nowhere, nowhen) | Exiles #1 | The apparent founder of the Exiles, supposedly a construct of the Exiles and Weapon X'ers collective subconsciousness, later revealed to be an interface created by the Timebreakers to lure conscripts into cooperating. The Timebroker interface is now used for communication when the Tallus can not be used. It has been seen in four forms: a butler for the Exiles, a lady for Weapon X and Icon, a mini-Heather for when she was in charge, and a Wolverine-look-alike butler for the Wolverines. |
| Spider Woman (Vi-Locks/Earth-8545) | Exiles #23 | Sunfire's lover from the Earth that had been infected by the Vi-Locks. It was to her Earth that Nocturne and Sunfire were sent when the Vampire King disrupted their teleport in Exiles #32 and #34. Considered Sunfire's true love, it's on her Earth that Morph had her buried. |
| Power Fist (Vi-Locks/Earth-8545) | Exiles #23 | Leader of Mary-Jane's Avengers. Later recruited by the Exiles to replace another Earth's self who shouldn't have died. |
| Nighthawk | Exiles #45 | Took Morph away from the rubble after his fight with Weapon X's Ms Marvel and was inspired by the Exiles to become a hero. Was later recruited by Quentin Quire in order to replace andother Earth's Nighthawk who shouldn't have died. |
| Timebreakers (Nowhere, nowhen) | Exiles #63 | A race of insectoid aliens. They recruited both the Exile and Weapon X teams. They have a hive-like societal structure. They used to maintain the systems in the Crystal Palace. |
| Hyperion (Earth-712) | Exiles #64 | From Squadron Supreme. Battled Hyperion from Weapon X in Exiles #65 and asked Beak to keep an eye on the Exiles. Proteus took advantage of it to slow the Exiles down in Exiles #76-78 and he almost joined the team but Power Princess stepped in instead. |
| Hyperion (Earth-5764) | Exiles #64 | Blind Hyperion who was recruited by Beak to help defeat Weapon X's Hyperion. He then returned to his Earth after leaving the Exiles in Beak's "care". |
| Doctor Strange | Exiles #65 | Did not go to Tibet and thusly did not have any powers but in turn was the best doctor of the Multiverse. Helped heal Morph and Mimic after the second fight against Hyperion. He was killed by Deadpool who tried to escape from the Panoptichron. |
| The elderly pair | Exiles #96 | Cockrum look alikes who claimed to be the former owners of the Panoptichron. They have appeared to Psylocke to warn her about an impending threat (Rouge-Mort's army and Mad Jim Jaspers) and have brought Blink back from the future after a teleportation gone wrong. They temporarily stayed at the Panoptichron with the team. |
| New Excalibur | X-Men: Die by the Sword #1 | Psylocke's brother's team. Consists of Nocturne and 616 versions of Dazzler (Longshot's wife), Pete Wisdom, Captain Britain, and Sage. |
| Roma and Opal Luna Saturnyne | X-Men: Die by the Sword #1 | Majestrix of the multiverse, guardian of all reality and a Courtney Ross counterpart, Roma's servant. |
| Mad Jim Jaspers (Earth-238) | X-Men: Die by the Sword #1 | A former English prime minister fused with the Fury during the House of M, turned mad and attacked Roma. |
| Rouge-Mort and her squad | X-Men: Die by the Sword #1 | A strike force apparently linked to Mad Jim Jasper. |
| Captain Britain Corps | X-Men: Die by the Sword #2 | Defenders of the Multiverse, one for each reality. |
| Quentin Quire | Exiles: Days of Then and Now | From an Earth where Hulk took control of the Annihilation Wave, killing almost every hero. Led by Blink to recruit some heroes to save his own Earth. |
| Spitfire | Exiles: Days of Then and Now | Chosen by Blink to replace an Earth's Iron Man after being led to become a hero by Quentin Quire. |
| Wild Child (Earth-295) | Exiles: Days of Then and Now | Sabertooth's "dog". Driven mad by the loss of his master, he was saved by Quentin and sent to replace another Earth's self who shouldn't have died. |
[edit] Line-ups
The Exiles' line-up is known to change quite often, here is a list of its various compositions: By issue number
| 1 | 2-11, 42 | 12-22, X-Men: Unlimited #1 | 22, 26-371 2 | 37, 43-452 3 | 45-46 | 46-48 | 48-594 | 59-60 | 60-62 | 62-64 | 65-71 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blink | Blink | Blink | Magik | Magik | Namora | Namora | Namora | Namora | Namora | ||
| Morph | Morph | Morph | Morph | Morph | Morph | Morph | Morph | Morph | Morph | Morph | Morph |
| Mimic | Mimic | Mimic | Mimic | Mimic | Mimic | Mimic | Mimic | Mimic | Mimic | Mimic | Mimic |
| Nocturne | Nocturne | Nocturne | Nocturne | Nocturne | Nocturne | Nocturne | Beak | Beak | Beak | Holocaust | Beak |
| T-Bird | T-Bird | Sasquatch | Sasquatch | Sasquatch | Sasquatch | Sasquatch | Sasquatch | Sabertooth | Sabertooth | Sabertooth | Sabertooth |
| Magnus | Sunfire | Sunfire | Sunfire | Blink | Blink | Blink | Blink | Blink | Blink | Blink | Blink |
| Timebreakers6 | Timebreakers | Timebreakers | Timebreakers | Timebreakers | Timebreakers | Timebreakers | Timebreakers | Timebreakers | Timebreakers | Timebreakers | Heather Hudson |
| 71-74 | 74-76 | 76-78 | 78-80 | 80-82 | 82-90 | 90-93 | 94-98 | 98 | 99-X-Men: Die by The Sword #5 | New Exiles #1-4 | New Exiles #4- | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morph | Morph | Morph | Morph | Morph | Proteus5 | Proteus | Proteus | Proteus | Proteus | Proteus | ||
| Sabertooth | Sabertooth | Sabertooth | Sabertooth | Sabertooth | Sabertooth | Sabertooth | Sabertooth | Sabertooth | Sabertooth | Sabertooth | Sabertooth | |
| Blink | Blink | Blink | Blink | Blink | Blink | Blink | Blink | Blink | Blink | (on leave)7 | (on leave) | |
| Longshot | Longshot | Longshot | Longshot | Longshot | Longshot | Longshot | Longshot | Longshot | Nocturne(on leave)7 | (on leave) | ||
| Spider-Man 2099 | Spider-Man 2099 | Spider-Man 2099 | Spider-Man 2099 | Spider-Man 2099 | Spider-Man 2099 | Spider-Man 2099 | ||||||
| Power Princess | Power Princess | Power Princess | Psylocke | Psylocke | Psylocke | Psylocke | ||||||
| T-Bird | T-Bird | (on leave)7 | (on leave) | |||||||||
| Mystiq | Mystiq | Mystiq | ||||||||||
| Rogue | Rogue | Rogue | ||||||||||
| Heather Hudson6 | Heather Hudson | Heather Hudson | Heather Hudson | Heather Hudson | Heather Hudson | Heather Hudson | Psylocke | Psylocke/Cat | Cat | Sage/Cat | Sage/Cat | |
| Gambit |
Note 1: The longest time a team has been together
Note 2: Issues #23-25 and #38-40 focused on Weapon X with no appearances by the Exiles
Note 3: Issues #41 and #42 feature Nocturne telling Blink her story at the time of the beach break in issue #11, Blink and Nocturne are the only Exiles featured during this story and only appear in "present" in #42.
Note 4: Tanaraq control Sasquatch's body in issues 57-59. He is then purged from her body by Shaman and she loses her powers
Note 5: Thanks to a device made by the Squadron Supreme, Proteus believes himself to be Morph
Note 6: This line indicates the operator of the Panoptichron
Note 7: Nocturne rejoined the team in Die by the Sword #5 (swapping with Longshot) but left with Blink and T-Bird for a vacation on Heather's Earth in Exiles #100.
[edit] Collections
- Exiles Vol.1: Down the Rabbit Hole (paperback, ISBN 0-7851-0833-5)
- Exiles Vol.2: A World Apart (paperback, ISBN 0-7851-1021-6)
- Exiles Vol.3: Out of Time (paperback, ISBN 0-7851-1085-2)
- Exiles Vol.4: Legacy (paperback, ISBN 0-7851-1109-3)
- Exiles Vol.5: Unnatural Instincts (paperback, ISBN 0-7851-1110-7)
- Exiles Vol.6: Fantastic Voyage (paperback, ISBN 0-7851-1197-2)
- Exiles Vol.7: A Blink in Time (paperback, ISBN 0-7851-1235-9)
- Exiles Vol.8: Earn Your Wings (paperback, ISBN 0-7851-1459-9)
- Exiles Vol.9: Bump in the Night (paperback, ISBN 0-7851-1673-7)
- Exiles Vol.10: Age of Apocalypse (paperback, ISBN 0-7851-1674-5)
- Exiles Vol.11: Timebreakers (paperback, ISBN 0-7851-1730-X)
- Exiles Vol.12: World Tour Book 1 (paperback, ISBN 0-7851-1854-3)
- Exiles Vol.13: World Tour Book 2 (paperback, ISBN 0-7851-1855-1)
- Exiles Vol.14: The New Exiles (paperback, ISBN 0-7851-2236-2)
- Exiles Vol.15: Enemy of the Stars (paperback, ISBN 0-7851-2390-3)
- Exiles Vol.16: Starting Over (paperback, ISBN 0-7851-2391-1)
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Exiles #2
- ^ Exiles #10
- ^ Exiles #12
- ^ Exiles #22
- ^ Uncanny X-Men #425-426
- ^ Exiles #28-30
- ^ Exiles #37
- ^ Exiles #43
- ^ Exiles #46-48
- ^ Exiles #53
- ^ Exiles #59
- ^ Exiles #60
- ^ Exiles #62-65
- ^ Exiles #69-71
- ^ Exiles #72-74
- ^ Exiles #75-76
- ^ Exiles #77-78
- ^ Exiles #79-80
- ^ Exiles #81-82
- ^ Exiles #83
- ^ Exiles #84-85
- ^ Exiles #86-87
- ^ Exiles #89
- ^ Exiles #93
- ^ Exiles #96
- ^ Exiles #97
- ^ Exiles #98
- ^ Exiles #32-34
- ^ X-Men: Die by the Sword #1
- ^ X-Men: Die by the Sword #2
- ^ X-Men: Die by the Sword #3
- ^ X-Men: Die by the Sword #4
- ^ X-Men: Die by the Sword #5
- ^ New Exiles #1-4
- ^ New Exiles #5-7
- ^ Exiles #37
- ^ Exiles #66
- ^ Exiles #34
- ^ Exiles #57
- ^ Exiles #58
- ^ Exiles #94
- ^ Exiles #95
- ^ Exiles #44
- ^ Exiles #64
- ^ Exiles #58
- ^ Exiles #62
- ^ Exiles #77
- ^ Exiles #79
- ^ Exiles #90
[edit] External links
- Reality Check: The Exiles Resource Center
- UncannyXMen.Net: Exiles, Current Title Information
- Alternity
- Exiles on Marvel.com
- Information on Gambit from New Exiles
