Hellions

For other uses, see Hellion (disambiguation).

There have been several fictional groups of mutants who have used the name Hellions, appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The Hellions have always been portrayed as rivals of various teams of younger mutant heroes in the X-Men franchise, initially as actual villains and later on a team that was more of a school rival than actual enemies of the X-Men.

The first and most notable incarnation of the Hellions were students of Emma Frost and the Hellfire Club's Massachusetts Academy, and were rivals of the New Mutants. The original Hellions first appeared in New Mutants #16, created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Sal Buscema. This version of the Hellions ended after an attack by Trevor Fitzroy and a squadron of Sentinels that killed several Hellions.

Two later groups known as the Hellions or New Hellions both fought against various X groups such as Generation X and X-Force.

In New X-Men: Academy X a new group of Hellions were introduced, this time they were a part of the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, the Hellions was one of several factions that the students were divided into including the New Mutants, with whom they had a rivalry. After the majority of mutants lost their powers in the Decimation storyline the Hellions were combined into one squad as the number of mutants was greatly reduced.

Hellions (Massachusetts Academy)

Hellions

The Hellions battle their rivals, the New Mutants, in their first appearance. Cover to The New Mutants #16 (June 1984), art by Tom Mandrake.
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance The New Mutants #16 (June 1984)
Created by Chris Claremont
Sal Buscema
In-story information
Base(s) Massachusetts Academy
Member(s) Beef
Bevatron
Cannonball
Catseye
Cypher
Empath
Firestar (unofficial)
Jetstream
Karma
Magik
Magma
Mirage
Roulette
Tarot
Thunderbird
White Queen (teacher)
Wolfsbane

The original group of Hellions was apprentices of the Hellfire Club and students of its White Queen Emma Frost. While attending classes at Frost's Massachusetts Academy, these young mutants secretly trained in the use of their powers in an underground complex beneath the school. They were longtime rivals of the Professor Charles Xavier's students, the New Mutants, and once held their own against the X-Men. The original Hellions were:

White Queen Emma Frost had another potential Hellion in Firestar (Angelica Jones), but kept the girl from joining the team on field missions while grooming her to be Frost's personal assassin. Firestar eventually learned of Frost's plans and left the Massachusetts Academy.[1]

After suffering a severe trauma at the hands of the Beyonder,[2][3] a number of the New Mutants were transferred to the Massachusetts Academy by Magneto (then headmaster of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters), due to their apparent need for psychic therapy from Emma Frost.[4] While at the Academy, the transferred New Mutants — Cannonball, Wolfsbane, Karma, Cypher, Magik, and Magma — were inducted into the Hellions.[5] They soon returned to Xavier's School after their recovery and the revelation that the White Queen had employed Empath to coerce Magneto into allowing the transfer.[6] After an alliance between the X-Men and the Hellfire Club[7] and Magneto's ascension to the Inner Circle as its White King,[8] relations between the Hellions and New Mutants improved.

Magma, realizing she held feelings for Empath, eventually returned to the Hellions and the Massachusetts Academy;[9] the two would later leave the team to travel to her home in Nova Roma.[10] James Proudstar also left the Hellions, reemerging with Cable and the remnants of the New Mutants in X-Force.[11]

Superstrong and durable Beef (Buford Wilson) and bioelectricity-projecting Bevatron (Fabian Marechal-Julbin) were later additions to the group. They were present when the Hellions unsuccessfully challenged the New Warriors over the allegiance of their former member, Firestar.[12]

The original Hellions however came to an end when Trevor Fitzroy and a squadron of Sentinels attacked a Hellfire Club function; Jetstream and Beef were killed immediately,[13] while Tarot, the rest of the Hellions and many guests erroneously believed to be unnamed Hellions were captured and drained of their life energies by Fitzroy.[14] Emma Frost's guilt over her students' deaths led to her eventual reform. These Hellions were some of the many deceased mutants resurrected via the Transmode Virus by Selene and Eli Bard during the "Necrosha" storyline running through New Mutants, X-Force and X-Men: Legacy. They survived and are once again acting as a team.

Emplate's Hellions

The next group of Hellions was organized by the parasitic Emplate to attack Generation X, the new class of Emma Frost's students. This group appeared twice[15][16] with slightly different members.

Of note is the fact that Emplate never called his group the "Hellions". This name was only attached in Marvel Comics' advertising.

The New Hellions

A group of self-proclaimed "New Hellions" emerged to fight X-Force, whose members included some from the team's past:

Hellions (Xavier Institute)

Hellions

Emma Frost with the new Hellions.
Cover to New X-Men: Hellions #1, art by Clayton Henry.
Publication information
Publisher Marvel Comics
First appearance New X-Men: Academy X #2
Created by Christina Weir
Nunzio DeFilippis
In-story information
Base(s) Xavier Institute for Higher Learning
Member(s) Emma Frost (advisor)
Dust
Hellion
Icarus
Mercury
Rockslide
Specter
Tag
Wither

After the reopening of the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning various training squads are formed. One such group of students, under the tutelage of headmistress Emma Frost, is dubbed "the Hellions".[20] They have an intense rivalry with another such group, the New Mutants, echoing the relationship between the two original groups of the same names. Membership consists of:

After M-Day, the cataclysmic event that decimated the world's mutant population, only 27 of the 182 students enrolled at the Xavier Institute retain their powers, and the remaining students are folded into a single training squad, the New X-Men. Fortunately for the Hellions, only Tag and Specter were depowered.

All-New Hellions (Hellfire Academy)

After the events of Avengers vs. X-Men, the new Black King of the Hellfire Club, Kade Kilgore, creates the Hellfire Academy, a school for training mutants to be villains. Kilgore recruits for his school some former students of the X-Men and creates a new team of Hellions.[21]

Other versions

Age of Apocalypse

The original Hellions appear briefly in the Age of Apocalypse universe as former agents of Apocalypse. After his death, they become renegades and are hunted down and captured by the X-Men for the United States government. Their fates after being remanded into government custody are unknown.

House of M

During the Scarlet Witch's reality warp in the House of M storyline, Hellion, Magik, Quill, Surge, Synch, and Wind Dancer are members of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s Hellion Squad, led by Danielle Moonstar.

Generation X (film)

The Hellions are mentioned as a group trained and led by Emma Frost who was killed. Emma blames herself for their deaths.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Firestar #1–4
  2. ↑ The New Mutants #37
  3. ↑ Secret Wars II #9
  4. ↑ The New Mutants #38
  5. ↑ The New Mutants #39
  6. ↑ The New Mutants #40
  7. ↑ The Uncanny X-Men #209
  8. ↑ The New Mutants #51
  9. ↑ The New Mutants #56-57
  10. ↑ The New Mutants #62
  11. ↑ The New Mutants #99
  12. ↑ New Warriors #9–10
  13. ↑ The Uncanny X-Men #281
  14. ↑ The Uncanny X-Men #282
  15. ↑ Generation X #11-12
  16. ↑ Generation X #57
  17. ↑ Generation X #14
  18. ↑ Weapon X vol. 2, #5 (March 2003)
  19. ↑ X-Men: Prime
  20. ↑ New X-Men: Academy X #2
  21. ↑ Wolverine and the X-Men #32

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