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During the Fatal Attractions crossover, X-Factor discovered a top-secret program named "Project: Wideawake", created by the government to produce mass quantities of mutant hunting sentinels. [X-Factor (1st series) #93] - Submitted by Charade007
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A group of mutants blindly following Magneto. For the time he was believed dead, they still pursued world domination by mutantkind in his name. Most Acolytes don't have codenames,
they use their last names instead.
Leader: Magneto > Cortez > Magneto > none > Joseph > Exodus > Magneto
Membership: Anne Marie Cortez, Fabian Cortez, Chrome, Delgado, Nance (unconfirmed), Scanner, Cargill, Unuscione, Eric Kleinstock, Sven Kleinstock, Harlan Kleinstock, Neophyte, Milan, Voght, Senyaka, Spoor, Katu, Mellancamp, Javitz, Exodus, Rusty Collins, Skids, Colossus, Rakkus, Orator, Kamal, Decay, Projector, Gargouille, Rem-Ram, Static II, Barnacle, Vindaloo, Polaris
Associates: Pyro, Feral, Avalanche, Omega Red, Fenris, Random
First appearance: X-Men (2nd series) #1
Disbanded: Magneto #4 [disbanded by Joseph posing as Magneto]
Reformed around Exodus: Quicksilver #1
Last appearance: New X-Men (1st series) #115-116 [New breed of Sentinels destroy Genosha, apparently most of the remaining Acolytes are among the victims, though none of them are shown among the dead bodies.]
Before
Magneto tried Xavier's way as leader of the New Mutants but failed. He also was a member of the Hellfire Club I but severed these ties completely.
Chronology| X-Men (2nd series) #1: | A group of mutants hunted by SHIELD agents searches for Asteroid M to join Magneto. Believing them to be attackers he destroys both planes, but he then is surprised to hear that the mutants‘ intention is to join his cause. He brings the survivors to his space station, where they immediately start to fight each other. After the SHIELD agents hurt one of the mutants, Magneto stops the fight and founds the Acolytes. Fabian Cortez heals a wound Magneto received in battle with Wolverine. Without his permission the Acolytes attack Genosha, Magneto stops a fight between them and the X-Men and announces that he declares Asteroid M as a haven for mutants, anyone may join him. | | X-Men (2nd series) #2: | The X-Men refuse to simply let Magneto and the Acolytes go. A battle engages resulting in the X-Men's Blue team defeat. All are caught and taken to Asteroid M. Scanning Magneto Fabian Cortez discovers that his genetic code has been altered. Magneto kidnaps Xavier and Moira to interrogate them, since the only time the alteration could have taken place, was when he, as a baby, was in Moira's care. (Between Champions #17 and Uncanny X-Men #104, see Brotherhood of Evil Mutants I for full info) Moira confesses this to be true. Her intention was to delete a side-effect of his power - the possibility of an electrochemical imbalance in his brain. | | X-Men (2nd series) #3: | The Gold team travels to space to rescue their teammates. As they arrive they have to fight their brainwashed teammates who joined Magneto. Soon they are able to break the mental control and all turn on Magneto, who breaks down. It turns out that Fabian Cortez betrayed Magneto. He did not heal the wound, he only amplified Magneto's power to make him feel better. Cortez already is on a shuttle outside Asteroid M and shoots at the Asteroid, believing that Magneto's death will inspire mutantkind to follow him as Magnus’s „last disciple“. The X-Men rapidly leave the Asteroid and offer Magneto and the other Acolytes to join them, but they refuse and stay on Asteroid M. From afar the X-Men see the station explode. |
In between
Fabian Cortez’s elimination of Magneto established him as ranking competitor among the Upstarts, who had been formed initially by Selene in order to indirectly assassinate her rivals in the Hellfire Club. The game took on a life of it’s own, however, as her Gamesmaster and the participants turned against Selene, and began competing independently from her for the „ultimate prize“. Cortez began gathering a new team of Acolytes as vassals to aid him unwittingly in the competition and to serve his own ends.
Joanna Cargill was a member of the Alliance of Evil, back when she used the codename Frenzy.
Way back Voght ended a relationship with Xavier due to Xavier's decision to form the X-Men and fight for what he believed in. For an instant he lost control and used his power on her to make her stay. That probably helped her decide to leave him permanently. (Uncanny X-Men #309)
Chronology continued| Avengers (1st series) #357: | Cortez’s new Acolytes begin to openly carry on their version of Magneto’s word. Fabian sends one of them who is called Screener (seems to be Scanner) to Avengers mansion to check the genetic matrix of Luna, daughter of Quicksilver, granddaughter of Magneto. After scanning she reports that Luna is only human and definately has no mutant genes. | | Uncanny X-Men #298: | A new team of Acolytes (Cargill, Unuscione and the three Kleinstock brothers) surfaces, they attack a school wanting to secure an unidentified mutant boy. As they discover that the boy suffers from Down syndrome they judge him as worthless. After doing a lot of damage and killing the nurse Sharon Friedlander, they leave when the X-Men appear and one of their own, Eric Kleinstock, is killed by Tom Corsi. Unuscione mentions Cortez as their leader. | | Uncanny X-Men #299: | Forge and Peter Gyrich investigate the impact site of Asteroid M and discover the dead bodies of Delgado, Anne Marie Cortez and Chrome. In Magneto's seat there is only a metal hull. It seems Chrome had used his power to encase Magneto in a metal foil to protect him from the impact. (Note: Nance or her body is not seen) | | Uncanny X-Men #300: | Due to the "death" of the world's most known mutant his Acolytes have gained many new members (Milan, Voght, Senyaka, Spoor, Katu, Mellancamp, Javitz). They kidnap Moira MacTaggert gathering every information on Magneto. Neophyte, one of the newest Acolytes, learns from her that actually Cortez was responsible for the (supposed) death of Magneto. He confronts Cortez about it, who immediately tries to kill the boy, thus eliminating this threat to his plans. The Neophyte survives and then leads the X-Men to the Acolytes place to rescue Moira; they defeat the Acolytes but Voght gets away. Neophyte leaves. A week later, a suspicious Voght liberates Cortez from a prison hospital. Gamesmaster appears to strip Fabian of his points to date in the Upstart competition, indicating to Cortez that Magneto is still alive. |
In between
Nance was not among the dead bodies seen in Uncanny X-Men #299. It is not known if she too died in the crash of Asteroid M or not. Since it has been suspected that she was mindcontrolled by Anne Marie Cortez into joining the Acolytes, Anne Marie's death in the crash could have resulted in freeing Nance's mind.
Exodus was once a 12th century knight in the crusades, and a friend of that era's Black Knight. Lured by the promise of power, his latent mutant powers revealed themselves and Apocalypse turned him into Exodus. Refusing to kill his friend, the Black Knight, he turned on Apocalypse, who put him into suspended animation. The Black Knight then buried his friend in a tomb in the swiss alps. (Black Knight: Exodus One-Shot) Apparently Magneto would later discover and awaken him.
Skids and Rusty were trained by X-Factor and later after joining the New Mutants ran into Freedom Force. Captured while in prison, they got mental implants by the MLF, forcing them to work with them. Alongside their teammates they were caught during the X-Cutioner's Song. When the Friends of Humanity kidnapped them during a prison transfer, X-Force rescued them. [X-Force (1st series) #23-24]
Before making their first public appearance, the new Acolytes kidnapped Val Cooper, government liasion to the X-Factor team, and brain-washed her using some kind of biological agent for her connections to Project: Wideawake and ability to monitor Quicksilver for them. [X-Factor (1st series) #87]
Chronology continued| X-Factor (1st series) #92: | The Acolytes slaughter the ill people in a hospice. Spoor lets himself get captured to tell the investigating X-Factor where the Acolytes will strike next. While the rest of X-Factor battles the Acolytes, Cortez approaches Quicksilver and invites him to join, since he is "the Son" (of Magneto). As he refuses, the Acolytes leave, one member short, since Seamus Mellancamp is killed in the battle by Madrox. | | X-Force (1st series) #25: | Magneto is seen to be alive. He built a new space station called Avalon. In his name his new follower Exodus invites certain members of X-Force to join him. He offers Avalon as a safe haven for mutants. Out of gratitude for freeing them of the MLF mental implants Rusty and Skids accept. | | Uncanny X-Men #304: | Exodus visits Cortez's Acolytes and informs them that Magneto is alive and that Cortez himself had tried to kill him. Immediately the Acolytes turn against the "Blasphemer" Cortez. Exodus gives Cortez a heavy beating and takes the Acolytes to Magneto, who just interrupted Illyana Rasputin's funeral to invite the mutants of all X-teams to join his mutant haven on Avalon. As he is introduced to the Acolytes, Magneto wraps Senyaka, responsible for the massacre in the hospice, in his own coils. By killing him he wants to demonstrate that even though he would have approved the action, he can not allow the Acolytes to do so without his orders. Colossus, who was suffering from head trauma and had seen his family dying off one-by-one in the last year violently stops Bishop’s major counter-assault on Magneto, and asks to come along to Avalon, since he has nothing left keeping him on Earth. | | X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #2: | Exodus in Magneto's name asks Phantazia (of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants IV) to join the mutants among Avalon, but being unsure she refuses. | | X-Men (2nd series) #25: | The UN and Magneto are preparing for a war. Magneto creates an electromagnetic pulse wave, causing major damage worldwide. A small task force of X-Men enters Avalon unnoticed. They override the teleportation systems and transport all Acolytes into escape pods outside the station. Then they take the battle to Magneto. In the end Xavier has to mindwipe Magneto. Actually Colossus was responsible for the security systems not reacting to the X-Men's presence. Now overwhelmed with guilt he tends to the vegetative Magneto and orders the X-Men to leave the station. | Bloodties:
Avengers (1st series) #368, X-Men (2nd series) #26, Avengers West Coast #101, Uncanny X-Men #307, Avengers (1st series) #369: | In Genosha Cortez fuels the mutate's rebellion against the government. Not knowing that Magneto has been mindwiped he tries to get his attention by kidnapping his granddaughter Luna (child of Quicksilver and Crystal). On Avalon Colossus and Exodus discuss the events in Genosha. The Avengers and the X-Men arrive in Genosha to deal with Cortez and the rebellion; Exodus, himself appointed heir of Magneto, too goes to Genosha to liberate its mutate population. While the remaining heroes battle Exodus, Jean, Quicksilver, Crystal and Scarlet Witch go after Luna and Cortez. Exodus wins against the heroes and follows Cortez, who blackmails the quartet of heroes into fighting Exodus on his behalf to protect Luna. Yet Exodus defeats them all, kills Cortez and graps Luna for himself. He plans to kill her since her being only human is an insult to Magneto, one of the most powerful mutants. Together the X-Men and the Avengers rescue Luna and defeat Exodus, who then leaves for Avalon. | | Excalibur (1st series) #71: | Spoor has been transferred to detention facilities on Muir Island, and briefly escapes to get in a fight with Nightcrawler. Meanwhile, the X-Men believe that Colossus's decision might be a result of a brain injury he recently received. Tricked by Shadowcat Colossus comes to Muir and is forced by the X-Men to have the injury treated. Voght, Katu and Unuscione arrive to fight Excalibur, but the cured Colossus decides to go with the Acolytes again and of his own free will. | | Cable (1st series) #9-11: | A team of Acolytes (Milan, Katu, Voght, Unuscione) locates Omega Red in the sewers of London. They offer to tell him of a way to cure his need for others’ life-forces if he joins their cause. After learning how the cure works, Omega Red betrays them and breaks into the Muir Island complex to retrieve some items needed for the cure. The Acolytes want to get revenge and offer Cable to help to hunt him down. The Acolytes know that Omega will travel to an antarctic base to use the devices and take Cable there, as they arrive they find a beaten Omega Red. The hunt was only a ploy by the Acolytes, they really wanted to get Cable. Avalon is composed of parts of his former spaceship Graymalkin and there are some programs damaged which need repairs. The whole team of Acolytes chase Cable through the antarctic base. During the fight Omega Red awakens and starts his cure that would release all his death spores at once. Katu sacrifices himself and implodes him and Omega Red. (Art error: In #10 Rusty is missing, but instead an unknown Acolyte is drawn, #11 does not mention this Acolyte again, but Rusty is there). | | Uncanny X-Men #315: | The Acolytes have caught the Neophyte and put him on trial for betraying them to the X-Men in Uncanny X-Men #300. While most Acolytes demand death as punishment, Colossus acts as his defender. Realizing Rasputin has succeeded in wavering the bloodlust of his fellow Acolytes, Exodus decides not to kill the boy as he originally planned but to expell him forever from Avalon and the Acolytes. | | Avengers (1st series) #380-382: | Quicksilver and Crystal are summoned to Wundagore mountain because Bova is ill. They learn from the Neophyte that the High Evolutionary has resettled in the mountain and that the Acolytes are not happy that he disturbs their sacred place, where Lord Magneto’s children were born and his wife is laid to rest. As it turns out Bova's illness was no coincidence. Exodus ordered Rakkus, a new Acolyte, to possess a friend of hers and had her poisoned. Rakkus tries to kill the Evolutionary and Quicksilver, but is summoned back to Avalon. | | X-Men Prime: | The Acolytes discover a large chunk of ice outside their station, inside seems to be a person. (It is Holocaust who just emerged from AOA). | | X-Men (2nd series) #42: | The Acolytes examine the unconscious person and discover him to be a very powerful mutant. Some of the Acolytes doubt that it was safe to bring him into the station. Milan is assigned to guard the stranger; when alone he is killed and his life-force absorbed by Holocaust. Scanner recognizes that she is unable to contact him mentally, and asks Rusty to check the lab. He too gets absorbed. As Holocaust fully awakens he becomes aware of Exodus. Believing to be caught by the X-Men (in AOA Exodus was one of them) he starts to destroy Avalon. Voght teleports for help and transports Cyclops and Phoenix to the space station. | | X-Men (2nd series) #43: | During the battle Holocaust absorbs Javitz too. As the space station is in danger of breaking apart, the mutants split up. Voght teleports to Xavier who mentally guides the rescue operation. Colossus takes the mindless Magneto into an escape pod, Jean saves Skids who is already floating in outer space and Cyclops leads the rest of the Acolytes on a different section of Avalon. Exodus and Holocaust both fight on even as they crash down to Earth. | | X-Men (2nd series) #44: | Jean and Skids arrive safely on Earth, and as Colossus is rescued from freezing in Antarctica by Callisto, Magneto is nowhere to be found. While Xavier and Voght search for them, Cyclops leads the remaining Acolytes (Cargill, Unuscione, Scanner, and the Kleinstock brothers) through the Australian Outback. As they arrive in the X-Men's former base, Cyclops orders the Acolytes to turn themselves in for their crimes. Voght turns to mist and leaves Xavier. |
In between
Spoor was transfered to Muir Island, where Moira discovered that he has a death wish. He was seen in the Muir Island complex as a patient / prisoner in Excalibur (1st series) # 71, 74, 88-90, X-Man #12, Excalibur #95. During his psychological treatment he manipulated Rory Campbell, the man who may become Ahab, into losing a leg. In Excalibur (1st series) #102 he was transfered to a governmental department.
Senyaka's body was taken to a SHIELD medical unit, where the examining scientist painfully discovered that he was not dead. Upon touching him Senyaka was able to reinfuse himself with the scientist's lifeforce. Since then he went on a crusade to kill all people Magneto ever cared about, starting with Lee Forrester. [Cable (1st series) #11-12]
The writers seem to have completely forgotten about Rakkus, as he never reappeared.
After one mission with the X-Men, Colossus left and ended up joining Excalibur. [Uncanny X-Men #325, Excalibur (1st series) #91-92]
Skids tries to live a "normal life", going back to college for a time. [X-Force (1st series) #78-80, 85]
Entering Earth’s atmosphere Exodus and Holocust were separated, Exodus crash-landed in the swiss alps. There he fought both Cable and X-Man but was buried deep beneath the ground [Cable (1st series) #30, X-Man #14]
In X-Men (2nd series) #46 and Uncanny X-Men #327 a much younger and amnesiac Magneto appeared. He was found by a nun and named Joseph. He later travelled to the US, met Rogue and was introduced to the X-Men. The X-Men were not sure to tell the mysteriously de-aged Magneto about his past. (Later during the Magneto War it would be revealed that the crashlanded Magneto was found by Astra, a till then unknown member of his first Brotherhood of Evil Mutants I. With alien technology she cured the mindwipe only to have her revenge by seeing him killed by himself, or actually an Astra-made-clone of him. During the fight the clone receives a hit in the head which caused the amnesia. The real Magneto fled to one of his bases in Antarctica and the clone was found by the nun.)
Chronology continued
"Who is Joseph?"
Magneto #1-4 , Excalibur (1st series) #106 | - Joseph searches for his past and discusses with Rogue about it. Both are unaware of Amelia Voght watching them.
- Joseph then travels to South America, where he not only discovers the ruins of Avalon but a group of Acolytes (Scanner, Cargill, Kleinstock brothers, Kamal and about a dozen of new unnamed Acolytes) worshipping these remains.
- In Antarctica Exodus assembled another group of Acolytes (about twenty new unnamed characters) to rebuild Avalon. As Amelia Voght returns to the antarctican base, she refuses to tell Exodus about her journey. Exodus orders the "traitor" to be killed, but Cortez interrupts. He tells that he did not die in Genosha but his near death experience has changed him. He begs mercy for Amelia. Exodus orders her to be brought into a holding cell.
- A military group called "Humanity's Last Stand" discovers the Acolytes in South America and attempts to slaughter them. Seeing Joseph uses his magnetism to drive them off, the Acolytes believe their Lord Magneto returned. Joseph refuses this responsibility and heads into the jungle, where he finds the remains of Magneto’s private quarters.
- Believing that Cortez truly has changed Amelia in her prison tells him of the only man who could stop Exodus: Joseph. Cortez immediately travels to South America and fills him in about Exodus's plans of a new ascension of Avalon. This would cause major ecological problems, resulting in the death of hundreds of people. Cortez convinces Joseph to play the role of Magneto.
- The South American Acolytes are surprised to see Cortez with Magneto again, this was the man who tried to kill him once. Yet claiming to have changed due to his near dying he is allowed to stay. Joseph proves to be Magneto when he disables a few nuclear warhead fired from "Humanity's Last Stand".
- In Antarctica Exodus discovers that Cortez is missing. Believing Amelia responsible he tortures her till she gives away her knowledge of Joseph.
- Together Joseph, Cortez and the Acolytes travel to Antarctica to stop Exodus's plan of the ascension. On the way Cortez feeds Joseph with false facts, that Magneto and Voght were lovers. Of course Fabian Cortez did not change, he hopes that a battle between Joseph and Exodus will make it easier for him to become leader again.
- Upon arrival Exodus, even though he knows that it is Joseph, starts to believe that this may actually be Magneto; yet as Joseph kisses Amelia thinking to play along, the ploy is revealed. A battle between the two factions of Acolytes arises. Joseph runs away as he sees many Acolytes hurt or dying in his name.
- Exodus now has full control of the Acolytes. Some Acolytes close to Colossus (Cargill, Scanner, Unuscione) contact him, after filling him in on the ascension of a new Avalon, they ask him to join them, but he refuses.
- Joseph returns, now himself fully convinced to be Magneto, he demands a duel with Exodus.
- Exodus and Joseph battle outside and stop as they become aware of another attack of the "Humanity's Last Stand". Again Joseph easily outmatches the missiles, but the fury and passion he wields his mutant powers with, proves him in the eyes of the Acolytes to be the real Magneto (even to Exodus), at least close enough to the real Magneto not to question him anymore.
- After regaining sense of his identity, Joseph orders all assembled Acolytes to disband and scatter around the globe, each one has to look for salvation within.
- (Note: The horde of no-name Acolytes might be identical with the mutate army the Acolytes use to conquer Wundagore in Quicksilver #1 - see below) |
| Quicksilver #1: | Exodus reformed the Acolytes (Scanner, Unuscione, Cargill, Cortez, Kleinstocks) and attacks Wundagore mountain once again using an army of mutates. This time they succeed and drive the High Evolutionary, Quicksilver and the Knights of Wundagore out of the mountain's citadel. | | Heroes for Hire (1st series) #8-9: | White Tiger, Thena and her children travel to the High Evolutionary's citadel but find it taken over by the Acolytes. Caught by surprise they are easily captured by Scanner, Exodus, Unuscione, Cortez and the Kleinstocks. After Exodus probed the Tiger's mind to gain information about the High Evolutionary's Isotope E, he lets them go. | | Quicksilver #4-7: | Exodus wants two aquire two things at once: to get information about Isotope E and to rid the world of all impure and artificial mutants. He sends Cortez to Attilan, where he amplifies the powers of the mad Maximus. Maximus, a telepath, first takes over Quicksilver and later even Black Bolt (intending to destroy Attilan with his voice power). Together with his wife Crystal and his sister Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver overcomes the brainwashing and takes Bolt out of the Great Refuge before he destroys it at Exodus's command. In the meantime a recently assembled task force (Feral, Random, Pyro, Avalanche, Fenris, Omega Red) kidnaps and interrogates most of the Knights of Wundagore about Isotope E. Some members of the task force are infected with the Legacy virus, Exodus told them that the Isotope might hold the key for a cure; yet he plans to kill all infected ones, when they have outlived their usefulness. | | Quicksilver #8-9: | The Knights of Wundagore are able to escape their imprisoners, but not before they overhear that Exodus traced the Isotope's unique energy signature to the Savage Land. All groups now travel to the Savage Land. While the Acolytes (Scanner with three new members Decay, Projector and Gargouille) meet with their associates, the Knights and Quicksilver already meet the Evolutionary, who needs the Isotope for himself to stop his devolving into an apelike state (experiment gone wrong). Of course a big fight starts but the Knights prove themselves in battle and win. The Acolytes teleport out, leaving their impure "associates" behind in the Savage Land. |
The Siege of Wundagore:
Heroes for Hire (1st series) #15-16, Quicksilver #11-12, Heroes for Hire / Quicksilver Annual '98 | - The Heroes' White Tiger, a creation of the Evolutionary, promises him to ask the Heroes for Hire for help to reoccupy the Wundagore citadel. Later when she comes back with her fellow team members, she recognizes that one of the Knight of Wundagore is a traitor, and the teams fight each other; the Knights then leave along with the High Evolutionary for Wundagore.
- In Wundagore mountain the Acolytes are once more able to trace the Isotope energy pattern; they locate it to the Knights castle along the Hudson river. Exodus orders the Acolytes to teleport there and retrieve the Isotope. Surprisingly Amelia Voght is with the Acolytes once more. Also Spoor and Senyaka have rejoined the group.
- Quicksilver arrives seconds after the fight and finds the beaten Heroes for Hire. Suddenly the Acolytes teleport in, but after they hear that the Knights along with the Evolutionary are already on their way to Wundagore they teleport back.
- During the flight to Wundagore the traitor among the Knights reveals himself, it is the Man-Beast; he kidnaps the Evolutionary and gets hold of the Isotope. As he arrives at the citadel the Acolytes start to fight him, but Exodus and the Man-Beast form an alliance.
- The Heroes for Hire follow to Transia, but once there, they face the united forces of the Acolytes and the Knights, who are blackmailed with the Evolutionary's life into fighting their former allies. Against this overwhelming odds the Heroes loose and are locked up in a vault.
- (Note: Without explanation three thought-to-be-dead Acolytes are seen in the big fight scenes in Heroes for Hire #16: Mellancamp, Milan, Javitz. The latter two appear only in this issue and can be explained away as psionic constructs of Exodus, to create the illusion of overwhelming odds, but Mellancamp is a true mystery.)
- While Bova secures the Evolutionary to an underground cave, Quicksilver is able to free himself. After freeing the Heroes for Hire, he also convinces the Knights of their Lord’s safety. He then steals the Isotope.
- The break-out is not unnoticed; another fight starts, and this time the sides are evenly matched. During the fight Amelia Voght secretly saves Quicksilvers's life, because "she gave her word that no harm would come to him". (The reason she rejoined is that she promised the real Magneto to watch over the Acolytes and Quicksilver.)
- In the end, Quicksilver turns the Isotope on himself and boosts his powers to the point that he single handedly defeats Exodus and the Acolytes.
- In the caves below the Man-Beast battles the Knights for the Evolutionary until suddenly his godlike powers return leaving him in a mad state.
- Quicksilver, the Heroes for Hire, the Man-Beast and some of the Acolytes have to work together to stop the Evolutionary. Decay tries to drain him, but burns himself out, leeching off to much energy at once. Together the heroes and villains fight him till his powers are drained; then again both Exodus and the Man-Beast try to use the situation to their advantage; but both villains to get defeated. Exodus in particular is (re)confronted by Heroes’ member the Black Knight, descendent of his old friend Eobar Garrington and the man present at his original ascension and imprisonment at the hands of Apocalypse. The Acolytes want Quicksilver as their leader but he turns this offer down. |
| Heroes for Hire (1st series) #17: | The Black Knight oversees that Exodus is locked once more into his mountain tomb, just as he was way back in the 12th century. |
In between
Gargouille is another case forgotten by the writers; she last was seen in the Siege of Wundagore storyline, but afterwards she appeared with neither group of Acolytes. Orator also is unaccounted for.
Pyro’s strike force would all eventually escape the Savage Land and appear again. Pyro and Andrea von Strucker would die in Cable (1st series) #87 and Citizen V and the V-Battalion #3, respectively. Random and Omega Red turned up in Weapon X (2nd series) as a prisoner in the Neverland facility and local NY mob boss. Avalanche joined the latest Brotherhood of Mutants while Feral attempted to reform by joining the X-Corporation, only to lose her powers in the Decimation. Andreas von Strucker has become Swordsman III, and serves with the Thunderbolts.
Chronology continued| X-Men Magneto War: | Under Magneto's command Amelia Voght has separated those loyalist Acolytes (Cargill, Scanner, Unuscione, Kamal, Neophyte, Katu, Mellancamp, and newly identified member Vindaloo) who are true followers of Magneto from Cortez. As he welcomes his new / old team he assigns Amelia with a special task to watch over Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch, his children. The other renegade half of the Acolytes (the Kleinstock brothers, Senyaka, Spoor, Projector and newly identified members Rem-Ram, Static, and Barnacle) led by Cortez attack the X-Men in their home in Westchester. As they are defeated Cortez abandons his team and runs away, the other Acolytes ask to join Xavier's school, but Xavier denies their request, because of the recent Onslaught trauma and his failure with Sabretooth. (Vindaloo, Rem-Ram, Static, and Barnacle are presumably from among the hordes of unidentified Acolytes in the Magneto series. Neither the return of lost or exiled members like Spoor, Senyaka, and Neophyte nor the resurrection of Katu and Mellancamp is openly discussed on panel). | | Uncanny X-Men #366, X-Men (2nd series) #86: | While Magneto prepares himself to threaten the world with a global magnetic pulse wave, his Acolytes keep the X-Men busy with hit-and-run missions of terrorism. (Art error: in Kamal’s place the dead Javitz is drawn - it was corrected in #367.) As the X-Men follow the Acolytes in their Blackbird to the northpole, Magneto creates a powerful magnetic pulse wave, shorting out all electrical devices on Earth, including the Blackbird. The X-Men crawl from their ruined plane into the arctic wastelands, while the Acolytes (in a shielded plane) watch from a safe distance. | | Uncanny X-Men #367, X-Men (2nd series) #87: | Xavier manipulates the Acolytes into landing their craft and lures them out to fight the X-Men. Recognizing too late that they are influenced by him, the Acolytes have to watch as the X-Men get away with their own plane. In the meantime Magneto is confronted by an old acquaintance of the past - Astra. She is retconned to have been a member of his first Brotherhood and responsible for Joseph's creation. Astra orders Joseph to fight Magneto. Joseph and Magneto battle each other over the vast magnetic energies of the north pole. As the X-Men arrive, Joseph gains the upper hand, but sacrifices his life to consume the magnetic energy outlet. An operative of the UN arrives and offers to pacify Magneto by giving him Genosha as a new mutant homeland. Unknown to anybody the fight took a lot out of Magneto, he now has only limited access to his powers. |
The following issues are also featured in the Genosha Chronology list; still the entries here focus on the Acolytes, while there descriptions and overall connections are more detailed.
| Magneto Rex #1: | Magneto has taken over the island of Genosha. Quicksilver finally discovers that Amelia Voght is watching him on his father’s order. He demands to be taken to him, resulting in Amelia teleporting both of them to Genosha. Shortly after they arrive Pietro is captured by a group of fanatic mutates. Wondering how to help him Amelia runs into Rogue. Magneto offers Cortez a place among his genoshan cabinet and forgiveness for all former doublecrossing in exchange for a regular power upgrading (to hide his current weakness). | | Magneto Rex #2: | Amelia and Rogue rescue Quicksilver from execution on stage. Cortez already starts to scheme behing Magneto's back again. | | Magneto Rex #3: | During a fight Magneto would have been crushed to death by the rebellion's leader, but Quicksilver has Cortez to augment his powers and thus helps his father. After the Genoshan new cabinet is announced (which Quicksilver is part of), Magneto thanks Amelia for her well performance. The whole time her single task was to lure Quicksilver into staying which she finally achieved. | | X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #27: | The new genoshan cabinet (of which Cortez and Voght are also part) start to rebuild their country. | | X-Force (1st series) #94-95: | X-Force joins Pete Wisdom and secretly enters Genosha to retrieve a friend who was turned into an artificial intelligence. They manage to evade street fights between the Acolytes (Cargill, Vindaloo, Neophyte, Mellancamp, and three more) and the Magistrates. On the way out they run into Quicksilver and Magneto. When Jesse Aaronson shuts down the island's main power grid, Amelia calls Magneto for help against the invading forces, and Magneto has to let X-Force go. | | X-Men (2nd series) #96: | Xavier contacts Magneto about Apocalypse and the Twelve. Right before he leaves for the meeting, Magneto requires another of Cortez's hypercharges. Of course he knows that Cortez can't be trusted, but for the time he has no other choice. | | Uncanny X-Men Annual '99: | During Magneto's absense Exodus, mentally disguised as him, takes his place. None of the council members recognize the imposter. Exodus tries to make up for the crimes of his past. He stops the war on Genosha by putting every single mind under his mental control. Forge and Mutliple Man, who have been spying on Genosha, alert those X-Men that aren't included in the Twelve storyline and stop Exodus. Of course once the mental hold is off, the war starts anew. | | X-Men (2nd series) #98: | During the Twelve Storyline Magneto discovered that he could use Polaris to tap into Earth's magnetic field, so he won't need Cortez's hypercharging anymore. He asks her to join him on Genosha. | | Uncanny X-Men #379: | Cortez is already talking about treason to the other Acolytes (besides Amelia) as Magneto returns with Polaris. Magneto proves to him in a painful way that he no longer requires his hypercharges. Polaris worries about the risk she takes joining Magneto, yet hoping to help to stop the war in Genosha she thinks she is doing the right thing. Meanwhile Beast and Iceman illegally enter the island to study the legacy patients. Later that day the High Evolutionary causes all mutants worldwide to revert to the humans they would be without the X-factor gene. | | X-Men (2nd series) #99: | In Genosha Bobby and Iceman meet the powerless Magneto and Polaris and an unrecognizeable pair of (male) Acolytes fighting the rebels. Having an escape vessel made only for two they hand it over to Iceman and Beast, that they may inform the X-Men of the fast degenerating condition of the Genoshan mutates, whose reaction to the Evolutionary's manipulations is life-threatening. | | Uncanny X-Men #380: | As the X-Men turn off the Evolutionary's device all mutant powers return. Magneto and his Acolytes are repowered and beat the Magistrates to retake the capital. The mutant population celebrates Magneto, but later in his secret quarters "he" meets with the real Magneto. Shutting off an image-inducer, "Magneto" is revealed to have been Polaris. She posed for the still depowered Magneto. |
| Magneto Dark Seduction #1-4 | - About six months later Magneto's forces brought the whole island under their control, except for a small village called Carrion Cove.
- Polaris no longer wears an Acolyte costume, but a new one. She seems to be addicted to Magneto's power training, and Quicksilver is very concerned about her. She provides Magneto with a connection to Earth's magnetic field so that he no longer has to rely on Cortez.
- The people at Carrion Cove hide a secret and to ensure it remains secret they have hired outside help - the Acolytes abandoned by Cortez: Senyaka, Barnacle, Rem-Ram. Kleinstock Brothers, Spoor, Projector and Static (Rem-Ram and Projector are only mentioned, but not seen on panel). A battle starts between them and a group of Magneto's followers (Voght, Cargill, Scanner, Pipeline, Jenny Ransome and Phillip Moreau).
- Secretly Cortez, through a long range transmitter, provides the abandoned Acolytes with his power-ups that they can hold their ground against Magneto's forces, but suddenly the connection breaks down and they are easily defeated.
- The secret is revealed as the Sugarman's machines. Even though the Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver and Polaris try to stop him, Magneto uses the devices to restore his full powers.
- As his backplotting is discovered, Cortez is killed by Magneto.
- Polaris leaves Genosha, and the remaining loyal followers of Magneto wonder about the future.
(- The art of a panel in #4 hints a yet unexplained connection between Mr. Sinister and Fabian Cortez) |
| X-Men (2nd series) #111: | Joanna Cargill has been made Genoshan Ambassador. She speaks in front of the UN about Magneto preparing troops for his launch for world dominion. In his name she offers safety for any country that accepts Magneto as ruler. Magneto captures Xavier as a symbol for his imminent war on the human race. | | Eve of Destruction: Uncanny X-Men #392-393, X-Men (2nd series) #112-113: | Cargill has been captured by FBI agents and is interrogated. Jean Grey frees her and takes telepathic control of her to make her join an interim team of X-Men that travels to Genosha to stop the imminent war. The X-Men entangle Magneto in an illusionary fight on the astral plane and free their mentor with the help of Amelia Voght. Magneto is startled and before he can react he gets stabbed in the gut by Wolverine. Cargill and the other interim team members return with the X-Men to Westchester, but then decide to leave for personal reasons. | | New X-Men #115-116: | A new breed of Sentinels arrive on Genosha and commit genocide. Magneto, still recovering from his wounds, is unable to prevent the robots‘ actions. He is apparently among the millions of victims. |
Afterwards
Apparently Exodus left Genosha before Magneto returned from the Twelve. He is later seen leading his own Brotherhood of Mutants.
The mysterious Mr. Sinister panel of Magneto Dark Seduction #4 implies a yet unknown connection between him and Fabian Cortez. Maybe it was supposed to be followed up upon in a since then delayed Sinister Limited Series. Certainly it provides an easy way to return Cortez to the living via Sinister's cloning devices.
The fate of the defeated rogue Acolytes (Senyaka, Spoor, Kleinstocks, Rem-Ram, Static, Barnacle and Projector) has yet to be revealed.
Even though Unuscione, Vindaloo, Kamal, Neophyte, Mellancamp and Katu were not seen after the six months gap they presumably still resided on Genosha.
It is unconfirmed who of the Acolytes was still on the island during the attack and who, if any, survived. The only exception is Scanner, who is depicted in New Avengers #18 as one of the mutants who was depowered by the Scarlet Witch’s Decimation effect on M-Day.
Cargill's future remains uncertain. Obviously she couldn't return to Genosha since she would have been considered a traitor there, but in the US there were also criminal charges against her.
Although Xavier telepathically sensed Magneto’s death, and the X-Men found a magnetic black box recording of his final words [New X-Men #116, 133], Magneto is still among the living. The exact details have yet to be revealed, though it seems that his daughter, the Scarlet Witch, had a hand in his rebirth. Later on, when Wanda wished there to be “no more mutants“, Magneto was depowered like millionms of other mutants.
Members
 Magneto (Eric Magnus Lehnsherr)
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #1
First Acolytes appearance: X-Men (2nd series) #1
All Acolytes appearances: X-Men (2nd series) #1-3, X-Force (1st series) #25, Uncanny X-Men #304, X-Men (2nd series) #25-26, Uncanny X-Men #315, X-Men (2nd series) #42-43, X-Men Magneto War, Uncanny X-Men #366, X-Men (2nd series) #86, Uncanny X-Men #367, X-Men (2nd series) #87, Magneto Rex #1-3, X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #24, X-Force (1st series) #95, X-Men (2nd series) #96, 98, Uncanny X-Men #379, X-Men (2nd series) #99, Uncanny X-Men #380, Magneto Dark Seduction #1-4, X-Men (2nd series) #111, Uncanny X-Men #392, X-Men (2nd series) #112, Uncanny X-Men #393, X-Men (2nd series) #113
Powers: High electrolyte count in his bloodstream increases his personal bio-magnetic field, which is aligned with Earth’s electromagnetic field to give him total mastery over magnetism, allowing him to:
- sense nearby metal objects and specific energy signatures
- levitate and manipulate anything containing metal
- release magnetic energy as concussive blasts and protective force fields
- generate intense heat within metal by accelerating the motion of ferrous molecules
- draw forth electrical energy from magnetic fields
- manipulate iron in the bloodstream to cause aneurysms, unconsciousness, or biological ruptures
- increase his power by absorbing electricity or intensely cold temperatures, like a super-conductor.
 Anne Marie Cortez (sister of Fabian Cortez)
First appearance: X-Men (2nd series) #1
Last appearance: X-Men (2nd series) #3 [died in crashlanding of Asteroid M - revealed in Uncanny X-Men #299]
All Acolytes appearances: X-Men (2nd series) #1-3
Powers: Unknown. During her appearances, her powers were never used. She instead wielded an energy rifle. According to the Marvel Role Playing Game, Anne Marie possessed enhanced agility, and powers of empathy and mind control.
Theory: Anne Marie used her powers to force SHIELD agent Nance into joining the Acolytes.
 Fabian Cortez
First appearance: X-Men (2nd series) #1
Seemingly died: Avengers (1st series) #369 [killed by Exodus]
Revealed alive: Magneto #1 [said he was on the brink of dying and took long time to heal]
Last appearance: Magneto Dark Seduction #4 [killed by Magneto]
All Acolytes appearances: X-Men (2nd series) #1-3, Uncanny X-Men #300, X-Factor (1st series) #92, Uncanny X-Men #304, Magneto #1-4, Quicksilver #1, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #8, Quicksilver #4-6, 8, 11-12, Heroes for Hire / Quicksilver '98, X-Men Magneto War, Magneto Rex #1-3, X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #27, X-Men (2nd series) #96, Uncanny X-Men Annual '99, Uncanny X-Men #379-380, Magneto Dark Seduction #1-4
Powers: Focus his own mutagenic aura as bursts of energy that act as a hypercharge for other superhumans, increasing the power levels of his allies or overloading his opponents with more energy than they can handle, causing their powers to backlash and rage out of control.
Facts: Cortez was born royalty. He was also one of the Upstarts
 Chrome (Allen Marc Yuricic)
First appearance: X-Men (2nd series) #1
Last appearance: X-Men (2nd series) #3 [died in crashlanding of Asteroid M - revealed in Uncanny X-Men #299]
All Acolytes appearances: X-Men (2nd series) #1-3
Powers: Generate quantum energy that temporarily rearranges the composition of matter on a submolecular scale, transforming people into frozen metal statues, increasing an object’s density by altering its structure, or enabling himself to fly by converting his lower body into an explosive phosphorous jet stream.
Fact: Chrome’s real name was only listed in the Marvel Handbooks, and did not appear in in-continuity text.
 Marco Delgado
First appearance: X-Men (2nd series) #1
Last appearance: X-Men (2nd series) #3 [died in crashlanding of Asteroid M - revealed in Uncanny X-Men #299]
All Acolytes appearances: X-Men (2nd series) #1-3
Powers: He could grow to several times the size of a normal man, increasing in strength, toughness, speed and endurance as he did so.
Facts: The leader of the SHIELD agents following the Acolytes was too named Delgado, with Harry being his first name. They are not the same as they appear together in one panel. Maybe the same names are coincidence, editorial error, or some dangling plotline. It could have been the plan to make them brothers, or the Acolyte taking over the name for killing the SHIELD agent off-panel. The Acolyte Delgado’s first name, Marco, was only listed in the Marvel Handbooks, and did not appear in in-continuity text.
 Nance Winters? (unconfirmed)
First appearance: X-Men (2nd series) #1
All Acolytes appearances: X-Men (2nd series) #1-3
Powers: Unknown. Nance never took part in combat or made any other use of powers. Maybe she did not even have any powers.
Theory: This unnamed Acolyte might be the Shield Agent Nance under some sort of mind control. (Anne Marie’s power ?) This would explain why she doesn’t say a single word in her Acolyte appearances. The Marvel Handbook agrees that this was Nance, and gives her the last name „Winters“. Her dead body is not seen in Uncanny X-Men #299, so it could be the case that the mental hold ended with Anne Marie’s death and Nance picked up her former life.
 Scanner (Sarah Ryall) [called Screener in first appearance – if that is her at all]
First appearance: Avengers (1st series) # 357
First definitive appearance: Uncanny X-Men #300
All Acolytes appearances: Avengers (1st series) #357, Uncanny X-Men #300, X-Factor (1st series) #92, Uncanny X-Men #304, X-Men (2nd series) #25, Cable (1st series) #10-11, Uncanny X-Men #315, Avengers (1st series) #381, X-Men Prime, X-Men (2nd series) #42-44, Magneto #1-2, Excalibur (1st series) #106, Quicksilver #1, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #8, Quicksilver #6, 8-9, 11, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #16, Quicksilver #12, Heroes for Hire / Quicksilver '98, X-Men Magneto War, Uncanny X-Men #366, X-Men (2nd series) #86, Uncanny X-Men #367, 379, Magneto Dark Seduction #1-4
Powers: Bio-electric abilities enable her to sense the enhanced bio-electricity produced by mutants and astral forms, generate a bio-electrical charge that scrambles psychic projections, and convert her entire body into a living hologram, an electro-transitional state in which she is both invisible and intangible, able to move through the air at the speed of light, and communicate by projecting her thoughts.
Fact: Scanner’s real name was only listed in the Marvel Handbooks, and did not appear in in-continuity text.
 Joanna Cargill
First appearance: X-Factor (1st series) #4
First Acolytes appearance: Uncanny X-Men #298
All Acolytes appearances: Uncanny X-Men #298, 300, X-Factor (1st series) #92, Uncanny X-Men #304, X-Men (2nd series) #25, Cable (1st series) #10-11, Uncanny X-Men #315, X-Men Prime, X-Men (2nd series) #42-44, Magneto #1-2, Excalibur (1st series) #106, Magneto #4, Quicksilver #1, 11, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #16, Heroes for Hire / Quicksilver '98, X-Men Magneto War, Uncanny X-Men #366, X-Men (2nd series) #86, Uncanny X-Men #367, X-Force (1st series) #94, Uncanny X-Men #379-380, Magneto Dark Seduction #1-4, X-Men (2nd series) #111, Uncanny X-Men #392, X-Men (2nd series) #112, Uncanny X-Men #393, X-Men (2nd series) #113
Powers: Superhuman strength, endurance, and steel-hard skin that protects her from all forms of physical injury and temperature extremes.
 Carmella Unuscione
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #298
All Acolytes appearances: Uncanny X-Men #298, 300, X-Factor (1st series) #92, Uncanny X-Men #304, X-Men (2nd series) #25, Excalibur (1st series) #71, Cable (1st series) #9-11, Uncanny X-Men #315, X-Men (2nd series) #42-44, Excalibur (1st series) #106, Quicksilver #1, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #8, Quicksilver #11, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #16, X-Men Magneto War, Uncanny X-Men #366, X-Men (2nd series) #86, Uncanny X-Men #367, 379
Powers: Projects a 'psionic exoskeleton' around her body, which shields her from harm, conducts a neuroelectric charge to wreak havoc with her opponent’s nervous system upon contact, and can reshape her field as an extension of her body, forming giant claws of energy around her hands that extend according to her will.
Fact: Her relation to the deceased Brotherhood of Evil Mutants I member Unus the Untouchable has not been revealed, although the Marvel Role Playing Game and X-Men: Mutant Empire novels claim that she is his daughter. Other theories have her as his sister.
 Sven Kleinstock
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #298
All Acolytes appearances: Uncanny X-Men #298, 300, X-Factor (1st series) #92, Uncanny X-Men #304, X-Men (2nd series) #25, Cable (1st series) #10-11, Uncanny X-Men #315, X-Men Prime, X-Men (2nd series) #42-44, Magneto #1-2, 4, Quicksilver #1, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #8, Quicksilver #11, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #16, Quicksilver #12, X-Men Magneto War, Magneto Dark Seduction #1-2
Powers: Sven and his brother Harlan have merged into a two-torso body with twice the size, strength, and durability of a single brother, and the ability to generate explosive plasma blasts from their fists. The brothers formerly possessed the ability to ignite oxygen molecules and project a stream of high-temperature flame, and were able to merge with their brothers into a single-bodied, gestalt form. It is unclear how they lost these abilities.
Harlan Kleinstock
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #298
All Acolytes appearances: Uncanny X-Men #298, 300, X-Factor (1st series) #92, Uncanny X-Men #304, X-Men (2nd series) #25, Cable (1st series) #10-11, Uncanny X-Men #315, X-Men Prime, X-Men (2nd series) #42-44, Magneto #1-2, 4, Quicksilver #1, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #8, Quicksilver #11, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #16, Quicksilver #12, X-Men Magneto War, Magneto Dark Seduction #1-2
Powers: Sven and his brother Harlan have merged into a two-torso body with twice the size, strength, and durability of a single brother, and the ability to generate explosive plasma blasts from their fists. The brothers formerly possessed the ability to ignite oxygen molecules and project a stream of high-temperature flame, and were able to merge with their brothers into a single-bodied, gestalt form. It is unclear how they lost these abilities.
 Eric Kleinstock
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #298
Last appearance: Uncanny X-Men #298 [shot by Tom Corsi]
All Acolytes appearances: Uncanny X-Men #298
Powers: Eric displayed the explosive plasma blasts of the other Kleinstocks, and also the ability to generate a field of bio-kinetic force that propels him through the air, a power they have lacked. It was never revealed if Eric had their flame-blasts or if he could merge with them, but the latter is strongly suspected to be true.
 Neophyte (Simon Hall)
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #300
All Acolytes appearances: Uncanny X-Men #300, 315, 366, X-Men (2nd series) #86, Uncanny X-Men #367, X-Force (1st series) #94, Uncanny X-Men #379
Powers: Phase-morphing talent allows him to disengage his molecular bondings while in contact with another object, so that he flows into the space between that object’s own molecules and can then recorporate himself upon exiting the object. He can also extend this power to anything he touches and both absorb and expel projectiles to simulate intangibility.
Fact: Neophyte’s real name was only listed in the Marvel Handbooks, and did not appear in in-continuity text.
 Fransisco Milan
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #300
Last appearance: X-Men (2nd series) #42 [killed by Holocaust]
Reappeared: Heroes for Hire (1st series) #16 [returned without explanation]
All Acolytes appearances: Uncanny X-Men #300, 304, X-Men (2nd series) #25, Cable (1st series) #9-11, Uncanny X-Men #315, X-Men Prime, X-Men (2nd series) #42, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #16, Heroes for Hire / Quicksilver '98
Powers: Electropathy, which enables him to convert thought waves into electromagnetic signals, allowing him to communicate directly with cyberspace and computer systems or tap into the thoughts and memories of others, projecting them onto video screens or audio systems as electronic information.
Fact: Milan’s first name was only listed in the Marvel Handbooks, and did not appear in in-continuity text.
Theory: Milan is still dead, the one who reappeared was only a psionic construct by Exodus, to outnumber Quicksilver and the Heroes for Hire.
 Amelia Voght
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #300
All Acolytes appearances: Uncanny X-Men #300, X-Factor (1st series) #92, Uncanny X-Men #304, Excalibur (1st series) #71, Cable (1st series) #9-11, Uncanny X-Men #315, X-Men Prime, X-Men (2nd series) #42-44, Magneto #1-4, Quicksilver #11-12, Heroes for Hire / Quicksilver '98, X-Men Magneto War, Magneto Rex #1-3, X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #27, X-Force (1st series) #95, Uncanny X-Men Annual '99, Uncanny X-Men #380, Magneto Dark Seduction #1-4, X-Men (2nd series) #112-113
Powers: Transubstantiate the molecules of matter, converting it into a psionic mist that she can maneuver with her thoughts, reform back into its original state, or transport through the psychic plane in order to transport over phenomenal distances. Voght's natural state is as a mist.
 Suvik Senyaka [spelled Sanyaka in first appearance]
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #300
Seemingly died: Uncanny X-Men #304 [crushed by Magneto with his own coils]
Revealed alive: Cable (1st series) #11 [was not dead, just rather drained]
All Acolytes appearances: Uncanny X-Men #300, X-Factor (1st series) #92, Uncanny X-Men #304, Quicksilver #11, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #16, Heroes for Hire / Quicksilver '98, X-Men Magneto War, Magneto Dark Seduction #1-2
Powers: Drains the life-force from others upon physical contact, increasing his natural strength, endurance, reflexes, and healing powers enough to bring his body back from certain death. He can manipulate his excess of life-force to form psionic whips out of bio-electric energy which can channel his absorption ability, ignite nerve clusters to cause pain or paralysis and sear into the flesh of others.
Fact: Senyaka’s first name was only listed in the Marvel Handbooks, and did not appear in in-continuity text.
 Spoor (Andrew Hamish Graves)
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #300
All Acolytes appearances: Uncanny X-Men #300, X-Factor (1st series) #92, Excalibur (1st series) #71, Quicksilver #11, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #16, Quicksilver #12, Heroes for Hire / Quicksilver '98, X-Men Magneto War, Magneto Dark Seduction #1
Powers: Bestial mutation gives him heightened strength, agility, stamina, and reflexes, hyper-keen sensory perceptions, razor sharp claws, thick shaggy brown fur, and a pheromone musk that gives him a mood-altering ability to create hallucinations and affect the emotional state of others.
 Katu
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #300
Seemingly died: Cable (1st series) #11 [sacrificed himself against Omega Red]
Revealed alive: Uncanny X-Men #366 [returned without explanation; however his reappearance was not surprising, as Omega Red had already shown to be alive too]
All Acolytes appearances: Uncanny X-Men #300, X-Factor (1st series) #92, Uncanny X-Men #304, X-Men (2nd series) #25, Excalibur (1st series) #71, Cable (1st series) #9-11, Uncanny X-Men #366, X-Men (2nd series) #86, Uncanny X-Men #367, 379
Powers: A 'living satellite dish', able to siphon off a portion of the Earth’s electromagnetic field, converting it into discharges of destructive force while creating a vacuum in the environment that causes inter-atmospheric anomalies, counteracting natural weather phenomena. His size and bionic arms suggest enhanced strength as well.
Fact: Katu lost his family and his arms to Omega Red due to his powers interfering with Russian military satellites. He since received one bionic arm.
 Seamus Mellancamp [spelled Melloncamp in first appearance]
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #300
Seemingly killed: X-Factor (1st series) #92 [killed by Multiple Man]
Reappeared: Heroes for Hire (1st series) #16 [returned without explanation]
All Acolytes appearances: Uncanny X-Men #300, X-Factor (1st series) #92, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #16, Uncanny X-Men #366, X-Men (2nd series) #86, Uncanny X-Men #367, X-Force (1st series) #94, Uncanny X-Men #379
Powers: Demonic appearance gives him heightened strength, agility, endurance, and reflexes, indestructible scaly skin, and razor edged talons and claws on his body.
Theory: Their relatively similar appearance suggest the long absent Acolyte Rakkus may’ve had something to do with resurrecting Mellancamp, perhaps using his viral form to reconstitute a body for Seamus.
 Isaac Javitz
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #300
Seemingly killed: X-Men (2nd series) #43 [killed by Holocaust]
Reappeared: Heroes for Hire (1st series) #16 [without explanation]
All Acolytes appearances: Uncanny X-Men #300, X-Factor (1st series) #92, Uncanny X-Men #304, X-Men (2nd series) #25, Cable (1st series) #10-11, Uncanny X-Men #315, X-Men Prime, X-Men (2nd series) #42-43, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #16, Heroes for Hire / Quicksilver '98
Powers: Massive physical frame (he stands over 9 feet tall) gives him superhuman strength, stamina, and resistance to physical injury.
Facts:
- Javitz had somehow lost an eye.
- Javitz seemingly appears in Uncanny X-Men #366, but was accidentally drawn instead of Kamal, who it was supposed to be.
- His first name was only listed in the Marvel Handbooks, and did not appear in in-continuity text.
Theory: Javitz is still dead, the one who reappeared was only a psionic construct by Exodus, to outnumber Quicksilver and the Heroes for Hire.
 Exodus (Bennet du Paris)
First appearance: X-Factor (1st series) #92
First Acolyte appearance: X-Factor (1st series) #92 [observes X-Factor], X-Force (1st series) #25 [revealed to be with Magneto]
All Acolytes appearances: X-Factor (1st series) #92, X-Force (1st series) #25, X-Men Unlimited (1st series) #2, Uncanny X-Men #304, X-Men (2nd series) #25, Excalibur (1st series) #71, X-Men (2nd series) #26, Avengers West Coast #101, Uncanny X-Men #307, Avengers (1st series) #369, Uncanny X-Men #315, Avengers (1st series) #381, X-Men Prime, X-Men (2nd series) #42-43, Magneto #1-4, Quicksilver #1, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #8, Quicksilver #6, 8, 11, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #16, Quicksilver #12, Heroes for Hire / Quicksilver '98, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #17, Uncanny X-Men Annual '99
Powers: Variable depending on the situation (and writer). Theoretically he siphons psionic energy from different sources: another person’s life-force or emotional state and from his own personal convictions, metabolizing the psi-energy to saturate his body with mutagenic power. Known powers he has demonstrated include superhuman strength, speed, endurance and reflexes, invulnerability, telepathy, psychokinesis, a teleportation effect, psychic mind blasts, plasma discharges, energy absorption, flight, and force fields that can shield or destroy.
Exodus' single greatest display of power was simultaneously
a) taking the Genoshan mutates' hatred of humans and amplifying it, making them fight more
b) crushing all of Genosha under a force field
c) trapping Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, Crystal and Jean Grey in another force field, while
d) preventing them from moving or using their powers
e) protecting himself from all attacks and
f) putting a beating on the X-Men AND the Avengers.
Now THAT's a bad guy.
 Russel “Rusty“ Collins
First appearance: X-Factor (1st series) #1
First Acolytes appearance: X-Force (1st series) #25
Last appearance: X-Men (2nd series) #42 [killed by Holocaust]
All Acolytes appearances: X-Force (1st series) #25, X-Men (2nd series) #25, Cable (1st series) #11, X-Men Prime, X-Men (2nd series) #42
Powers: Pyrokinesis allows him to ignite oxygen molecules to start fires anywhere in his line-of-sight, and focus concentrated jet streams of pyroplasmic flame from his fists. He also has a natural immunity to heat and burning.
 Skids (Sally Blevins)
First appearance: X-Factor (1st series) #7
First Acolytes appearance: X-Force (1st series) #25
All Acolytes appearances: X-Force (1st series) #25, X-Men (2nd series) #25, Cable (1st series) #10-11, Uncanny X-Men #315, X-Men (2nd series) #42-44
Powers: Generates a deflection field around herself and others that disperses kinetic impact, absorbs energy assaults into itself, and negates friction so that she can glide across its surface.
 Piotr Nicoleivitch Rasputin (Colossus)
First appearance: Giant-Size X-Men #1
First Acolytes appearance: Uncanny X-Men #304
Seemingly killed: Uncanny X-Men #390 [sacrificed himself for the Legacy cure]
Reappeared: Astonishing X-Men (3rd series) #4 [ressurected with alien technology]
All Acolytes appearances: Uncanny X-Men #304, X-Men (2nd series) #25, Excalibur (1st series) #71, X-Men (2nd series) #26, Cable (1st series) #10-11, Uncanny X-Men #315, X-Men Prime, X-Men (2nd series) #42-44
Powers: Exotic carbon-polymer flesh gives him enhanced strength and can reorganize its structure with a charge of bio-energy so that his entire body transforms into organic steel, increasing his strength, speed and endurance while making him virtually indestructible and capable of surviving without air.
 Rakkus (David Anthony Rice)
First appearance: Avengers (1st series) #380 [disguised], 381 [fully seen]
All Acolytes appearances: Avengers (1st series) #380-382
Powers: Rakkus is a mutant who takes the form of a virus, infecting others and taking posession of their bodies. He can also re-write his host's DNA, giving it various powers and mutations. His only shown host was turned into a huge green monster, with monstrous teeth, claws and a razor-sharp tail. In this form, Rakkus also had enhanced strength, agility and toughness.
Fact: Rakkus’s real name was only listed in the Marvel Handbooks, and did not appear in in-continuity text.
Theories:
- Rakkus bears a striking resemblance to Mellancamp, and there might be some connection between his disappearance and Mellancamp’s unexplained resurrection.
- He may also have been connected to the biological sludge material that controlled Val Cooper’s mind for the Acolytes from X-Factor (1st series) #87-92.
 Orator (Victor Ludwig)
First appearance: Magneto #1
All Acolytes appearances: Magneto #1-2
Powers: Empathically feel emotions in others and enhance emotional impressions
Fact: Orator’s real name was only listed in the Marvel Handbooks, and did not appear in in-continuity text.
 Kamal el Alaoui
First appearance: Magneto #2
All Acolytes appearances: Magneto #2, Uncanny X-Men #366, X-Men (2nd series) #86, Uncanny X-Men #367, 379-380
Powers: Modular structural composition gives him superhuman strength, durability, and the power to assume the physical properties of any solid object he touches.
Facts:
- Javitz seemingly appears in Uncanny X-Men #366, but was accidentally drawn instead of Kamal, who it was supposed to be.
- Kamal’s last name was only listed in the Marvel Handbooks, and did not appear in in-continuity text.
 Decay (Jacob Lashinski)
First appearance: Quicksilver #9
Last appearance: Heroes for Hire / Quicksilver '98 [power backfired while draining the High Evolutionary]
All Acolytes appearances: Quicksilver #9, 11-12, Heroes for Hire / Quicksilver '98
Powers: Decay ages rapidly because his personal life-force is constantly depleting itself. He must absorb the cohesive bio-energy from organic matter to survive, replenishing his own energies while turning the organism to dust.
Fact: Decay’s real name was only listed in the Marvel Handbooks, and did not appear in in-continuity text.
 Projector (Zachary Williams)
First appearance: Quicksilver #9
All Acolytes appearances: Quicksilver #9, 11-12, X-Men Magneto War, Magneto Dark Seduction #1 (mentioned)
Powers: Projects energy fields made of solid light, which he can shape into ramps, rolling cylinders, pillars, or defensive spheres around himself and others.
Fact: Projector’s real name was only listed in the Marvel Handbooks, and did not appear in in-continuity text.
 Gargouille (Lavinia LeBlanc)
First appearance: Quicksilver #9
All Acolytes appearances: Quicksilver #9, 11, Heroes for Hire (1st series) #16, Quicksilver 12, Heroes for Hire / Quicksilver '98
Powers: High-density body and diminutive stature give her enhanced strength, aerial agility, endurance, reflexes, and durability, razor sharp horns, talons on her hands and feet, and large leathery wings.
Fact: Gargouille’s real name was only listed in the Marvel Handbooks, and did not appear in in-continuity text.
 Rem-Ram (Marcus Andrews)
First appearance: X-Men The Magneto War
All Acolytes appearances: X-Men: The Magneto War, Magneto Dark Seduction #1 (mentioned)
Powers: Psi-link with the subconscious minds of others, allowing him to use their dreams to his advantage, delving through their thoughts and feelings while planting suggestions in their minds to influence their behavior in the waking world. Causes him great pain to try and use his power on a conscious opponent.
Fact: Rem-Ram’s real name was only listed in the Marvel Handbooks, and did not appear in in-continuity text.
 Static II (Gianna Carina Esperanza)
First appearance: X-Men The Magneto War
All Acolytes appearances: X-Men The Magneto War, Magneto Dark Seduction #1
Powers: Projects neuro-synaptic impulses from her fingertips, which paralyze the nervous systems of others and temporarily rob them of their mutant abilities.
Fact: Static’s real name was only listed in the Marvel Handbooks, and did not appear in in-continuity text.
 Barnacle (Mortimer Everett)
First appearance: X-Men The Magneto War
All Acolytes appearances: X-Men The Magneto War, Magneto Dark Seduction #2
Powers: Initiate a chemical reaction that turns moisture into a solid shell, containing someone within a constrictive carapace, providing himself with an indestructible armor, and spraying through the air a stream of hardened barnacle crust.
Fact: Barnacle’s real name was only listed in the Marvel Handbooks, and did not appear in in-continuity text.
 Vindaloo (Venkat Katragabba)
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #366
All Acolytes appearances: Uncanny X-Men #366, X-Men (2nd series) #86, Uncanny X-Men #367, X-Force (1st series) #94, Uncanny X-Men #379
Powers: Produces a flammable gel from his pores that ignites upon contact with the atmosphere, which he can then direct as explosive releases of liquid napalm.
Fact: Vindaloo’s real name was only listed in the Marvel Handbooks, and did not appear in in-continuity text.
 Polaris (Lorna Dane)
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #49
First Acolytes appearance: X-Men (2nd series) #98
All Acolytes appearances: X-Men (2nd series) #98, Uncanny X-Men #379, X-Men (2nd series) #99, Uncanny X-Men #380, Magneto Dark Seduction #1-4
Powers: Manipulate surrounding magnetic fields, allowing her to levitate and direct ferrous metals, focus magnetic energy into concussive blasts or protective force fields, propel herself through the air, absorb electricity to increase her power levels, and alter her perceptions to see her environment as magnetic fields.
Note: Polaris is not really an Acolyte, she accepted Magneto’s offer to help him on Genosha and for a time wore an Acolyte costume, or actually two different acolyte-style uniforms.
(betrayed) Acolytes associates
Before
Pyro was diagnosed with the Legacy virus during his time with the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants IV.
Feral who defected to the MLF, was later captured and put into custody by her former teammates of X-Force. During her time in the Vault she found out she had the virus as well.
Avalanche, the last member of Freedom Force still working for US government is presumably with this group due to his friendship with Pyro.
Omega Red lastly was seen fighting Generation X (#12). His reasons to be with this outfit are unknown.
Fenris want to get their hands on a legacy cure to sell it to the highest bidder.
Random chose to watch over hundreds of Legacy infected people in the Dark Beast’s labs in X-Factor #144.
 Pyro (St. John Allerdyce)
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #141
First Acolytes appearance: Quicksilver #6
Last appearance: Cable (1st series) #87 [died of the Legacy virus]
All Acolytes appearances: Quicksilver #6-9
Powers: Assume psionic command of any source of flame, enabling him to douse or feed the fire, shape it to assume any form he wishes, give enough substance to the flames so that they can touch and move solid objects, and immunize himself to the intense heat generated by his flames.
Equipment: Uses a flame-thrower to produce his flames.
 Feral (Maria Callasantos)
First appearance: New Mutants (1st series) #99
First Acolytes appearance: Quicksilver #6
All Acolytes appearances: Quicksilver #6, 8-9
Powers: Animal mutation gives her heightened strength, speed, agility, endurance, and reflexes, hyper-keen feline senses, thick orange fur, a prehensile tail and razor sharp fangs and claws on her fingers and toes.
 Avalanche (Dominic Szilard Petros)
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #141
First Acolytes appearance: Quicksilver #6
All Acolytes appearances: Quicksilver #6, 8-9
Powers: Generate seismic energy to affect inorganic matter, causing it to shatter or disintegrate and create a tidal effect in the earth beneath his feet, propelling and manipulating that surface.
 Omega Red (Arkady Rossovich)
First appearance: X-Men (2nd series) #4
First Acolytes appearance: Quicksilver #6
All Acolytes appearances: Quicksilver #6, 8-9
Powers: Parasitic pheromones create an aura effect that he must use to drain the life-force of others or else the death spores will begin sustaining themselves on his own energies. Bionically implanted with carbonadium coils that hold off the death aura and can be used to lash and constrict around his opponents or channel the death spores over a greater distance.
 Fenris (Andrea and Andreas von Strucker)
First appearance: Uncanny X-Men #194
First Acolytes appearance: Quicksilver #8
All Acolytes appearances: Quicksilver #8-9
Powers: Twins with artificial, symbiotic energy-generation powers that allow them to complete a genetic link when in physical contact with each other in order to project blasts of concussive force (Andreas) or bio-electricity (Andrea).
 Random (Marshall Evan Stone III)
First appearance: X-Factor (1st series) #88
First Acolytes appearance: Quicksilver #8
All Acolytes appearances: Quicksilver #8-9
Powers: Entire body is composed of a morphing protoplasm which can remold itself to alter his physical dimensions in order to increase his physical size and strength to some degree, shape his forearms into projectile cannons that fire ammunition made of hardened protoplasm from his own cells, and assume a gelatinous state in which he can flow between tight crevices or collapse into a formless puddle. Utilizes the adaptability of his body to negate and reflect any mutant ability or other force directed at him.
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