—MagnetoLadies... Gentlemen... You have been chosen to witness the announcement of a momentous event in the history of our planet: The liberation of mutantkind has begun!
Appearances
Featured Characters:
- X-Men (Main story and flashback)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Main story and flashback)
- Beast (Dr. Hank McCoy) (Main story and recap)
- Gambit (Remy LeBeau) (Main story and recap)
Supporting Characters:
- Magneto (Magnus) (Apparent death)
- Rogue (Main story and recap)
- President Robert Kelly (Appears on screen)
- Acolytes (First appearance)
- Byron Calley (First appearance)
- Fabian Cortez (First appearance)
- Amelia Voght (Main story and flashback)
- Delgado (Marco Delgado) (First appearance)
- Chrome (Allen Marc Yuric) (First appearance)
- Carmella Unuscione (First appearance)
- Frenzy (Joanna Cargill) (First appearance)
Antagonists:
- Sentinels (Main story and recap)
- Genoshan government and military (Main story and recap)
- Tam Anderson (First appearance)
- Friends of Humanity (Main story and recap)
Other Characters:
- United Nations
- Bolivar Trask (Only on screen as a static image or video record) (Cameo)
- Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida) (Only on screen as a static image or video record) (Cameo)
- Blob (Fred J. Dukes) (Only on screen as a static image or video record) (Cameo)
- Rictor (Julio Richter) (Only on screen as a static image or video record) (Cameo)
- Aurora (Jeanne-Marie Beaubier) (Only on screen as a static image or video record) (Cameo)
- Mystique (Raven Darkhölme) (Only on screen as a static image or video record) (Cameo)
- Domino (Neena Thurman) (Only on screen as a static image or video record) (Cameo)
- X-Men
- Storm (Ororo Munroe) (Main story and recap) (Cameo)
- Jubilee (Jubilation Lee) (Main story and recap) (Cameo)
- Wolverine (Logan) (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Cyclops (Scott Summers) (Only in recap)
- Marvel Girl (Jean Grey) (Only in recap)
- Morlocks (Cameo)
- Mole (Main story and recap)
- Tommy (Main story and recap) (Cameo)
- Ape (Main story and recap) (Cameo)
- Erg (Main story and recap) (Cameo)
- Annalee (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Leech (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Caliban (Only on screen as a static image or video record) (Cameo)
- Tar Baby (Main story and recap) (Cameo)
- Masque (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Sunder (Mark Hallett) (Cameo)
- Glow Worm (Cameo)
- Scaleface (Cameo)
- Graydon Creed, Jr. (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Angel (Warren Worthington III) (Only in recap)
- Famine (Autumn Rolfson) (Only on screen as a static image or video record) (Cameo)
- Pestilence (Only on screen as a static image or video record) (Cameo)
- Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur) (Cameo)
- Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Essex) (Cameo)
- Nasty Boys (Cameo)
- Ruckus (Clement Wilson) (Cameo)
- Gorgeous George (Blair) (Cameo)
- Slab (Kris Anderson) (Cameo)
- MjNari (Cameo)
- Shani (Cameo)
- Random (Marshall Stone III) (First appearance)
- Arclight (Philippa Sontag) (First appearance)
- Copycat (Vanessa Carlysle) (Cameo) (First appearance)
- Francisco Milan (Cameo) (First appearance)
- Doc Samson (Leonard Samson) (Only on screen as a static image or video record) (First appearance)
- Black Panther (Cameo) (First appearance)
- Kangaroo (Frank Oliver) (Cameo) (First appearance)
- Blockbuster (Michael Baer) (First appearance)
- Peeper (Peter Quinn) (Cameo) (First appearance)
- Lifter (Ned Lathrop) (Cameo) (First appearance)
- Shocker (Randall Darby) (Cameo) (First appearance)
- Slither (Aaron Salomon) (Cameo) (First appearance)
- Iceman (Bobby Drake) (Only in recap)
Races and Species:
- Humans (Main story and recap)
- Mutants (Main story and recap)
- Sentinels (Main story and recap)
- Giraffes
- Robots
Locations:
- Earth-92131
- Earth Orbit
- International Space Station
- Asteroid M (First appearance)
- Earth (Main story and flashback)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- New York State
- New York City
- Manhattan
- United Nations Headquarters
- Morlock Tunnels (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Queens
- Manhattan
- Westchester County (Main story and flashback)
- X-Mansion (Main story and flashback)
- War Room (Main story and recap)
- Danger Room (Only in flashback)
- X-Mansion (Main story and flashback)
- New York City
- Washington, D.C. (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- New York State
- Africa
- India (Only in flashback)
- Russia (Mentioned)
- Savage Land (Mentioned)
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- Earth Orbit
Items:
- Magneto's Helmet
- Inhibitor Collar (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- X-Uniforms (Main story and recap)
- Wolverine's Suit (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Cyclops' Visor (Only in recap)
- Hoverchair
- Panther Habit (Cameo) (First appearance)
Vehicles:
- X-Men Blackbird (Main story and recap)
Synopsis
Weary of battling for mutant supremacy, Magneto offers to transport all mutants to an orbiting asteroid named Asteroid M where they can live peaceful and human-free lives; however, Fabian Cortez forces Magneto into an escape pod and launches him into space.
Notes
- This story is loosely based on X-Men (Vol. 2) #1–2.