| They are mutants, genetically gifted human beings - the world's newest and most persecuted minority group. Amidst an increasing climate of fear and bigotry, one enlightened individual, Professor Charles Xavier, has founded a school and a safe haven for these powerful outcasts. Here, new initiates are taught to harness their unique abilities to promote tolerance and combat to the mounting hysteria that threatens to destroy their kind. Bound by a strict code of honor, Xavier's pupils-X-men- struggle against hostile Government agencies as well a mutant supremacist Magneto and his radical factions, which seek to subjugate and ultimately exterminate humankind. |
