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The Uncanny X-Men
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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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