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The Uncanny X-Men

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Outline

IntroductionIntroductionPart I. MarvelPart I. MarvelPart II. The storyPart II. The storyPart III. The charactersPart III. The charactersConclusionConclusionReferencesReferences

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Introduction

The X-Men are a team of comic book superheroes in the Marvel Comics universe

Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, they debuted in September 1963

The year 2000 saw the debut of following series X-Men: Evolution and the long-awaited X-Men movie directed by Bryan Singer

Its sequel X2 was released in 2003 and became the sixth highest grossing film of the year. A third X-Men movie is scheduled for release in May of 2006

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Part I. Marvel

Marvel Comics is an American comic book company created in 1939

Since the 1960s, it has been one of the two largest American comics companies, along with DC Comics

Editor/writer Stan Lee and freelance artist Jack Kirby created the family the Fantastic Four in the 1960s

With Kirby, Lee created the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, the Mighty Thor and the X-Men

With Bill Everett, Daredevil; and with Steve Ditko, Doctor Strange and Marvel's most successful character, Spider-Man

Several of Marvel properties have been licensed to become hit movies, most notably X-Men and Spider-Man

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Part I. Marvel

Nowadays, Marvel

remains a key publisher in the comics

business, even as the industry has dwindled to a fraction of its

peak size decades earlier

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Professor X has been compared to African American civil rights leader Martin Luther

King Jr. and Magneto to the more militant

Malcolm X. The X-Men’s purpose is

sometimes referred to achieving "Xavier’s

dream" perhaps a reference to King’s historic "I Have a Dream" speech

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Part II. The story

The X-Men are mutants who, through a sudden leap in evolution, are born with latent superhuman abilities

The X-Men were founded by the paraplegic telepath Professor Charles Francis Xavier, a.k.a. Professor X

Xavier gathered the X-Men under the cover of Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in Salem Center, a city in Westchester County, New York

In the academy, he trains young mutants to protect themselves and the world from Magneto and other menacing threats

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Part III. The characters The original X-Men consisted of five teenagers learning

to control their powers: Cyclops/Scott Summers, Marvel Girl/Jean Grey, Angel/Warren Worthington, Beast/Hank McCoy and Iceman/Bobby Drake

In Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975), the new group consisted of adults from a variety of nations

Led by Cyclops, the new team consisted of Thunderbird/John Proudstar, Colossus/Piotr Rasputin, Nightcrawler/Kurt Wagner, Storm/Ororo Munroe, Sunfire/Shiro Yashida, Banshee/Sean Cassidy and most notably the previously introduced Wolverine/Logan

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Founder, mentor and sometime leader of the

X-Men. Xavier can read, control and

influence human minds and cast illusions. He

can also detect the presence of other

mutants. rendered a paraplegic in an

accident caused by an alien called Lucifer

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Magneto, a Holocaust

survivor sees the situation of

mutants as similar to those of Jews in

Nazi Germany.Magneto's primary

power is magnetism

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Phoenix aka Jean Grey (Marvel Girl). Her lover:

Scott Summers (Cyclops); also attracted

to Logan.Phoenix is a mutant born

with the abilities of telepathy and telekinesis. As Phoenix, Jean's psi-

powers became stronger

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Power to control the weather,

including lightning, rain, snow and wind,

which she primarily uses to make herself and

others fly.

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Wolverine/Logan. Possesses animal-

like senses and reflexes and has three forearm-

length claws on each hand.

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Relationship with Marvel Girl

culminating in her tragic death as she

tried to pilot a space shuttle through a solar

flare, her rebirth as Phoenix and her

suicide on the Moon. Power to project

beams of pure solar energy from his eyes

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Conclusion

In 2000, 20th Century Fox released X-Men, a $75 million film adaptation of the comic, directed by Bryan Singer

The film gathered approval from fans and enough good reviews to begin a revival of superhero-themed movies

In 2003, the sequel X2: X-Men United also directed by Singer, was released

In 2006, a third movie X-Men 3 directed by Brett Ratner will be released

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References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Comicshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmenhttp://www.abcmovies.hpg.ig.com.br/Xmen

/page01.htmhttp://us.imdb.com/title/tt0120903/http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0290334/http://www.comicsvf.com/fs/8748.php

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