X-Factor (1986) #84
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The daughter of former X-Men member Sean Cassidy, a.k.a. Banshee, and Maeve Rourke, Theresa Rourke was raised by her first cousin once removed, mutant terrorist Thomas Cassidy, a.k.a. Black Tom.
Shatterstar is Gaveedra Seven, the product of bio-engineering on an otherdimensional world, who was at one point merged with an Earth mutant named Benjamin Russell, the nature of whose genetic mutation remains unknown.
Ororo Monroe is the descendant of an ancient line of African priestesses, all of whom have white hair, blue eyes, and the potential to wield magic.
Growing up in a wealthy Brazilian family, Roberto da Costa was forging a career as a skilled soccer player until his mutant nature manifested during a match.
A young veteran wounded during the Vietnam War, Abraham Kieros was selected by Apocalypse to become the Horseman War.
Born with super-human senses and the power to heal from almost any wound, Wolverine was captured by a secret Canadian organization and given an unbreakable skeleton and claws. Treated like an animal, it took years for him to control himself. Now, he's a premiere member of both the X-Men and the Avengers.
Feared and hated by humans because they're different, the X-Men are heroic mutants, individuals born with special powers who've sworn to use their gifts to protect mutants as well as humans.