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Enemies
Cassandra Nova
Real Name: Cassandra XavierFirst Appearance: New X-Men #114 Group Affiliation: None Mutation: Cassandra Nova is a "mummudrai," a being composed of living emotional energy. As the dark reflection of Charles Xavier, Cassandra possesses vast telepathic and psychokinetic powers. The body she's crafted for herself is also capable of healing itself quickly. As a mummudrai, Cassandra Nova was conceived without a body and forced to craft one out of her twin brother Charles' cells. While still in their mother's womb, Charles sensed the evilness in Cassandra and tried to kill her. A stillborn baby, she was deposited in the sewers, where she gathered to herself bits of human excrement that she used to formulate a facsimile of life. Years later, Cassandra devised and carried out a plan of revenge against her brother. She took control of a group of Sentinels, sent them to wipe out the population of the mutant island nation Genosha, and attacked the X-Men. Professor X apparently shot her to death, but it was later revealed that she had actually switched minds with him, leaving his mind inside her dying body. In the guise of Professor X, Cassandra outed Charles and the school as mutants, turned Beak against Beast when Beast discovered her secret, and mind-controlled the forces of the Shi'ar Empire into trying to destroy the X-Men. She continued her rampage unopposed, until the combined forces of Professor X and Jean Grey expelled her from Professor X's body. The bodiless Cassandra was then tricked by Emma Frost into entering the body of the synthetic Shi'ar creature named Stuff. In Stuff's body, Cassandra's mind was rehabilitated and reprogrammed. She later reappeared as the Special Class student Ernst. 
The U-Men
First Appearance: New X-Men 2001 AnnualProminent Members: John Sublime (leader) Base of Operations: New York City, New York; formerly Hong Kong The U-Men were a group of human fanatics led by John Sublime. Sublime believed that all humans should be mutants. He called this third species Homo perfectus. To achieve their goals, the U-Men began abducting mutants and dissecting them to remove the organs that were the sources of their powers. The U-Men then grafted these organs into their own bodies, with varying degrees of success. Believing the rest of the world to be tainted and unclean, they wore special "clean suits" and only breathed pure oxygen. The U-Men often came into conflict with the X-Men, once when they kidnapped and attempted to dissect Angel Salvadore, and another when they tried to do the same to the Special Class, who were camping out in the woods near Xavier's Institute. They were stopped by Xorn, while his students teamed up to defeat an individual U-Man. 
The Omega Gang
First Appearance: New X-Men #135Members: Glob, Kid Omega, Radian, Redneck, Tattoo Base of Operations: Xavier's Institute for Higher Learning The Omega Gang was formed by Quentin Quire, one of Xavier's Institute's most brilliant students. Quentin took a hostile stance against humankind after learning that mutant fashion designer Jumbo Carnation had seemingly been murdered by a group of humans. He grew addicted to the power-amplifying drug Kick and led four of his classmates to form the Omega Gang. Dubbing himself Kid Omega, Quentin and his gang assaulted the humans who had killed Jumbo Carnation and later attacked a contingent of U-Men. During Xavier's Institute's Open Day, in which human students were welcomed to the school, the Omega Gang kidnapped Professor X and suppressed his powers. Using him as a hostage, the gang instigated a riot, in which two of the Institute's students --- Dummy of the Special Class and Sophie of the Stepford Cuckoos --- were killed. At that point, Kid Omega underwent a secondary mutation that was helped on by his abuse of Kick. His brain was converted to light, and before long Quentin's new form transcended his physical body. The surviving members of his gang were all sentenced to prison. Some of this information was taken from the character database of Comixfan. |
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