As Clark Kent begins his internship at the Daily Planet and secretly embraces his role as Superman, Metropolis experiences another extraordinary development: young people are manifesting strange abilities unrelated to Kryptonian technology.
Professor Charles Xavier sends four of his most promising students-Scott Summers, Jean Grey, Kurt Wagner, and Ororo Munroe-to investigate the sudden appearance of alien weapons throughout the city. Xavier fears that someone is using the technology to identify, capture, and experiment on mutants. Their mission is supposed to remain secret, but everything changes when they cross paths with Superman, Lois Lane, and Jimmy Olsen.
While Clark sees the mutants as frightened young heroes who deserve help, Scott remains suspicious of the powerful alien who receives admiration for abilities that would make mutants targets. Jean becomes caught between protecting her people's secrets and helping Lois expose the truth. Kurt forms an unlikely friendship with Jimmy, whose curiosity is matched only by his determination to protect his new friend. Ororo, meanwhile, becomes the first mutant willing to risk revealing herself publicly when innocent lives are threatened.
Their fears are confirmed when Amanda Waller's Task Force X expands its hunt for Kryptonian technology into a secret program cataloging superpowered humans. Using research stolen from Ivo Industries, Weapon X, and other covert experiments, Waller begins developing weapons capable of suppressing both Kryptonian and mutant abilities.
The conspiracy draws Logan, a twenty-six-year-old fugitive whose healing factor and metal skeleton were created through brutal Weapon X experimentation, to Metropolis. Bitter, traumatized, and distrustful of Xavier's dream, Logan believes Scott and the others are dangerously unprepared for what the government will do to them. However, protecting younger mutants such as Bobby Drake and Rogue forces him to confront a difficult truth: surviving Weapon X do
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