Appearing in "Final Genesis"
Featured Characters:
- Young X-Men (First appearance)
- Blindfold (Ruth Aldine) (Appears in Blindfold's vision and main story) (Joins)
- Wolf Cub (Nicky Gleason) (Appears in Blindfold's vision and main story) (Joins)
- Dust (Sooraya Qadir) (Appears in Blindfold's vision and main story) (Joins)
- Ink (Eric Gitter) (First appearance) (Appears in Blindfold's vision and main story) (Joins)
- Rockslide (Santo Vaccarro) (Appears in Blindfold's vision and main story) (Joins)
Supporting Characters:
- Donald Pierce (Appears in Blindfold's vision and impersonates Cyclops in main story)
- Graymalkin (Jonas Graymalkin) (First appearance) (Appears in Blindfold's vision and main story in the shadows)
Antagonists:
Other Characters:
- Ruth Aldine's Aunt (Mentioned)
- Maximus Lobo
- Numerous unnamed Afghanis
- Leon Nunez (First appearance)
- San Diego Police Department (First appearance)
- New Mutants (As a hologram)
- Cannonball (San Guthrie) (As a hologram)
- Magma (Amara Aquilla (As a hologram)
- Mirage (Dani Moonstar) (As a hologram)
- Sunspot (Roberto "Bobby" Da Costa) (As a hologram)
- Wolverine (Logan) (Mentioned)
- Sabretooth (Victor Creed) (Mentioned)
- X-Men (Mentioned in narration)
- New X-Men (Mentioned in narration)
- Purifiers (Mentioned)
- Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Mentioned)
- Magneto (Erik Magnus Lensherr) (Mentioned)
- Hellfire Club (Mentioned)
Races and Species:
Locations:
- Earth
- North America
- United States of America
- New Jersey
- Prospect Plains (First appearance)
- Monroe Township (First appearance)
- Prospect Plains (First appearance)
- Florida
- Naples (First appearance)
- California
- New York State
- Westchester County
- North Salem
- Salem Center
- Graymalkin Lane
- Xavier Institute (Ruins)
- Danger Cave (Appears in Blindfold's vision and main story)
- Xavier Institute (Ruins)
- Graymalkin Lane
- Salem Center
- North Salem
- Westchester County
- New Jersey
- United States of America
- Europe
- Asia
- Afghanistan
- Bakwa (First appearance)
- Afghanistan
- North America
Items:
- X-Uniforms (Appears in Blindfold's vision and main story)
- Ruby-Quartz Sunglasses
Synopsis for "Final Genesis"
Cyclops assembles a new team of X-Men from the ranks of the dispersed New X-Men.
The story begins with Blindfold having a vision of an upcoming battle with Donald Pierce in which Pierce kills one of the Young X-Men.
Meanwhile, Cyclops travels around the world recruiting mutants for his new team, the Young X-Men. Rockslide, Dust, Blindfold, and Wolfcub are all former students of the Xavier Institute, while Ink is a new recruit whom Cyclops rescues from prison. After gathering the students in the Danger Cave, Cyclops explains that they will begin training to defeat the newest incarnation of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants.
Solicit Synopsis
In the wake of Messiah CompleX, there are no X-Men and young mutants Rockslide, Blindfold and Dust are along and directionless. Until the day Cyclops recruits them to hunt the new incarnation of the Brotherhood - and kill them. Joined by a pair of new recruits, the young X-Men learn a hard truth about the world post-Messiah CompleX: sometimes old allies make for deadly enemies.
Notes
- On the cover of this issue and in Blindfold's vision of the future, Ink is shown as being bald, even though he has hair inside the book.
- Ink gains a biohazard tattoo and uses it to make the San Diego Police officers extremely ill. He had the "explosive" symbol tattooed on his right bicep prior to the events of this story.
