Eleven substitute teams that have either temporarily taken the place of the
X-Men during their absence, or worked under the X-Men.
New Mutants graduate X-Men In January 1987, the
New Mutants briefly graduated to become the X-Men in
Uncanny X-Men Annual #10.
Muir Island X-Men In December 1989, during the wake of the X-Men's apparent death during "
The Fall of the Mutants", Banshee assembled an X-Men team on
Muir Island in
Uncanny X-Men #254.
Mannite rescue X-Men In September 1999, after
Professor X disbanded the X-Men in an attempt to expose a
Skrull impostor in their ranks, Cyclops and Jean Grey formed an X-Men team to help the Mannites in
Astonishing X-Men, vol. 2 #1.
Genoshan assault X-Men In March 2001, Jean Grey assembled an X-Men team to rescue
Professor X from
Magneto in
Uncanny X-Men #392.
Street team X-Men In November and December 2003, an X-Men team was formed by Cyclops in the wake of
Xorn's rampage through Manhattan, New York in
New X-Men #149 and #150.
X-Men in training Individuals who were once trained by the X-Men as part of younger teams of the X-Men or individually.
X-Force In December 2007, the X-Men's strike team was formed by Cyclops in
Uncanny X-Men #493, with Wolverine serving as the field leader. The team took on missions which required responses "too violent or controversial" for the X-Men to deal with directly. When Cyclops disbanded the team, Wolverine assembled a new independent team.
X-Club In November 2008, Beast gathered a science team in
Uncanny X-Men #504, to attempt to deal with the mutant birth crisis, and reverse the effects of
M-Day. The team lasted until 2012. The team headlined both
All-New X-Men from 2012 to 2017 and
X-Men Blue from 2017 to 2018.
London X-Men In July 2017, an X-Men team was formed to help Charles Xavier against the
Shadow King in
Astonishing X-Men, vol. 4 #1. == See also ==