Ladies... 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)
- Beast (Dr. Hank McCoy) (Main story and flashback)
- Professor X (Charles Xavier) (Main story and flashback)
- Gambit (Remy LeBeau)
- Rogue
- Storm (Ororo Munroe) (Cameo)
- Jubilee (Jubilation Lee) (Cameo)
- Wolverine (Logan) (Appears on screen)
- Morph (Appears on screen)
- Cyclops (Scott Summers) (Only in flashback)
- Marvel Girl (Jean Grey) (Only in flashback)
- Iceman (Bobby Drake) (Only in flashback)
- Angel (Warren Worthington III) (Only in flashback)
Supporting Characters:
- Magneto (Magnus) (Apparent death)
- President Robert Kelly (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Acolytes (First appearance)
- Fabian Cortez (First appearance)
- Byron Calley (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
- Genoshian government and military
- Tam Anderson (First appearance)
- Friends of Humanity
- Graydon Creed, Jr. (Appears on screen)
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)
- 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)
- Morlocks (Cameo)
- Caliban (Only on screen as a static image or video record) (Cameo)
- Annalee (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Masque (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Leech (Only on screen as a static image or video record)
- Tommy (Cameo)
- Sunder (Mark Hallett) (Cameo)
- Erg (Cameo)
- Glow Worm (Cameo)
- Ape (Cameo)
- Mole (Cameo)
- Scaleface (Cameo)
- Tar Baby (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)
- 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)
- Francisco Milan (Cameo) (First appearance)
- Doc Samson (Leonard Samson) (Cameo) (First appearance)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth-92131
- Earth Orbit
- International Space Station
- Asteroid M (First appearance)
- Earth
- United States of America
- New York State
- Washington, D.C. (Appears on screen)
- Russia (Mentioned)
- African plains near Genosha
- Genosha
- Tanzania (Cameo)
- Savage Land (Mentioned)
- India (Only in flashback)
- United States of America
- Earth Orbit
Items:
- Magneto's Helmet
- X-Uniforms
- Cyclops' Visor (Only in flashback)
- Wolverine's Suit
- Hoverchair
- Shi'ar Technology
- Panther Habit (Cameo) (First appearance)
Vehicles:
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.