Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- Cable (Nathan Summers) (First appearance) (Main story and flashback) (Joins the X-Men)
- Domino (Neena Thurman) (First appearance) (Main story and flashback) (Joins the X-Men)
Supporting Characters:
- Prosh (Earth-83124)
- Charles Xavier (First appearance) (Main story and flashback) (Body dies and consciousness possesses Magneto)
Antagonists:
- Magneto (Erik Lensherr) (First appearance) (Mind dies and body possessed by Charles Xavier)
- Hunters (First appearance)
- Nimrod Virus (First appearance)
Other Characters:
- D.Z.L.R. (Earth-83124)
- United States Government (Mentioned) (Main story and flashback)
- Lensherr Tech (First appearance)
- William Stryker (Mentioned)
- Lucifer (Mentioned)
- God (Yahweh) (Mentioned)
- X-Men (First appearance)
- Psylocke (Betsy Braddock) (First appearance)
- Beast (Hank McCoy) (First appearance)
- Cyclops (Scott Summers) (First appearance)
- Wolverine (First appearance)
- Rogue (Anna Marie) (First appearance)
- Jubilee (Jubes Lee) (First appearance)
Races and Species:
- Exes (First appearance as Exes) (Main story and flashback)
- Hunters (First appearance as Hunters)
- Basics (First appearance as Basics)
Locations:
- Earth-83124 (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Earth (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- California (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Mojave Desert (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Los Angeles (Mentioned)
- California (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Cyberspace (First appearance)
- Asteroid M (First appearance)
- Earth (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
Items:
- Techno-Organic Virus (First appearance) (Main story and flashback)
- Stryker Act (Mentioned)
- X-Uniforms (First appearance)
- Cyclops' Visor (First appearance)
Synopsis for 1st story
- Synopsis not yet written
Solicit Synopsis
From the publisher that gave you OLD MAN LOGAN and HOUSE OF M... The X-Men as you never imagined! Welcome to the EXE/scape, a digital wonderland of business and pleasure accessible to anyone with the social (or monetary) capital for the bio-mods needed to log in... Or you can bypass all of that by being born carrying an .EXE/gene! But circumventing the login regulations is exactly what got the likes of Charles Xavier and his .EXE/men banned and driven underground in the first place... Free-roamers u/Domino and u/Cable have taken every dirty job there is on the ‘scape, but when a simple data scrubbing job turns bad, the life of bio-mod magnate Erik Lehnsherr hangs in the balance, and with it, their very society... It’s a whole new world of X-Men by Bryan Edward Hill (Detective Comics), Neil Edwards (Justice League) and Giannis Milonogiannis (Ghost in the Shell: Global Neural Network)!
Notes
- This issue contains handbook entries for Earth-83124's Jubilee and Rogue. These entries mention the following characters and organizations:
- Alison Blaire
- Cody Robbins
- Roxxon
- Oscorp
Trivia
- The title in the cover, when translated from binary code, reads "What If? The X-Men were cyberpunk."