Appearing in "Firestorm"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Forge
- Banshee (Sean Cassidy)
- Nick Fury
- Valerie Cooper
- Moira MacTaggert (Main story and flashback)
Antagonists:
- The Acolytes
- Magneto (Magnus) (Main story and flashback)
- Fabian Cortez
- Delgado
- Chrome
- Anne-Marie Cortez
- Nance Winters
- Matsu'o Tsurayaba
- The Hand
Other Characters:
- United Nations
- Alexyev Kamanev (First appearance)
- Tam Anderson (Appears on screen)
- Charles Geoffrey (Only on screen as a static image or video record) (First appearance)
- Dmitri (Russian scientists) (First appearance)
- Proteus (Kevin MacTaggert) (Mentioned)
- Alpha, the Ultimate Mutant (Only in recap)
- Eric the Red (Only in recap)
- Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (Mentioned)
- Josef Mengele (Mentioned)
- Russian Army
- General Akhronayev (First appearance; dies)
- Omega Red (Cameo) (Inside a casket)
- X-Force (Mentioned)
- Cable (Nathan) (Mentioned)
- New York Mets (Mentioned) (Topical Reference)
Races & Species:
Locations:
- Earth
- Indian Ocean (Referenced)
- Africa
- North America
- United States of America
- New York State
- Washington (Mentioned)
- United States of America
- Asia/Europe
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Russia
- Sakhalin Islands (First appearance)
- Kazakhstan
- Chernobyl, Ukraine (Mentioned)
- Russia
- United Kingdom (Only in flashback)
- Scotland (Only in flashback)
- Muir Island (Only in flashback)
- Mutant Research Center (Only in flashback)
- Muir Island (Only in flashback)
- Scotland (Only in flashback)
- Israel (Mentioned)
- Auschwitz, Poland (Mentioned)
- Japan (Referenced)
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Earth Orbit
Items:
Events:
- X-Tinction Agenda (Mentioned)
Synopsis for "Firestorm"
Magneto and the Acolytes defeat the Blue Team of the X-Men and take them aboard Asteroid M. While Xavier tries to get through to Moira, they are both kidnapped by Magneto as well. Turns out that while Magneto was an infant and in Moira’s care, she manipulated his genetic structure, attempting to cure a possible instability of his central nervous system, suspecting that this condition had turned him into a villain. Magneto gets mad, having now to question his every decision since the procedure, angrily he makes Moira brainwash the Blue Team into joining his Acolytes. The other half of the X-Men wonder how to help. The situation gets even more tense when Nick Fury reports that the U.S. and Russia have decided to launch a plasma cannon against Asteroid M.
Solicit Synopsis
See Also
Recommended Reading
- Defenders #16 - Magneto is reduced to an infant.
- X-Men #104 - Magneto is returned to an adult.
Links and References
- X-Men at Wikipedia
- X-Men at Marvel Subscriptions
- X-Men series index at Comicbookdb.com
- X-Men series index at Uncanny X-Men.net
- X-Men series index at the Grand Comics Database Project
- The Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators - accessed on 12/18/2009