History ComicBook / Exiles

Later in the comic's run, it was taken over by Creator/ChrisClaremont. The series was shortly relaunched as "New Exiles," and Claremont kept creative duties until that title's cancellation. The series saw a (unfortunately brief) relaunch in 2009 (in the hands of Jeff Parker) that lasted from April until December of that year, but the series was canceled afterwards.

The series got a SpiritualSuccessor in Greg Pak's ''X-Treme X-Men''.

In 2018, ''Exiles'' was relaunched with a new team and concept. Written by Saladin Ahmed (''ComicBook/BlackBolt'') with art by Javier Rodriguez (''ComicBook/SpiderWoman''), the series follows the Unseen (a.k.a. the original ComicBook/NickFury) leading a team comprised of popular mainstay Blink, [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Iron Lad]], an older version of [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]] from a {{bad future}}, the chibi-fied Wolverine from X-Babies, and a version of Valkyrie inspired by Creator/TessaThompson's portrayal of the character in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.

Each Exile is an X-man or a "good guy" mutant in his or her reality. The original team was composed of [[AllYourPowersCombined Mimic]], [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Morph]], [[TheStoic Magnus]], [[BigGuy Thunderbird]], [[DistaffCounterpart Nocturne]], and the Age of Apocalypse's [[EnsembleDarkhorse Blink]]. They all meet on a desert plain, and [[OmniscientCouncilofVagueness the Timebroker]] appears before them, explaining that the instability in the multiverse has led to all of them suffering a terrible fate -- death or [[AndIMustScream worse]]. To combat this, they've been drafted to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong fix the various problems in each reality]], which will eventually allow them to go home.

In 2018, ''Exiles'' was relaunched with a new team and concept. Written by Saladin Ahmed (''ComicBook/BlackBolt'') with art by Javier Rodriguez (''ComicBook/SpiderWoman''), the series follows the Unseen (a.k.a. the original ComicBook/NickFury) leading a team comprised of popular mainstay Blink, [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Iron Lad]], an older version of [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]], the chibi-fied Wolverine from X-Babies, and a version of Valkyrie inspired by Creator/TessaThompson's portrayal of the character in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.

On January 3, 2018, a brand new ''Exiles'' series was announced to be launched in April of that year. Written by Saladin Ahmed with art by Javier Rodriguez, the series will see the Unseen (a.k.a. the original ComicBook/NickFury) leading a team comprised of popular mainstay Blink, [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers Iron Lad]], an older version of [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]], a chibi-fied Wolverine and a currently-unrevealed fifth member.

Unlike many popular comics, this series stays surprisingly true to AnyoneCanDie. Much more often than not, a character's death is irreversible, and some of the partings are [[TearJerker especially moving]]. At least in the earlier parts of the series, whenever a character would die, he'd get a replacement, one with a similar class of powers (substituting Sasquatch for [[spoiler: Thunderbird]], for instance). This was balanced by the fact that at least some of the characters got happy endings, either in the form of permanent vacation or being able to go back to their home realities and pick up their lives where they left off.

* AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome: In the second reality they come to, it's implied that reality's version of Mimic shares much of his history with the team's Mimic, meaning he'd eventually lead the X-Men to unbelievable heights. Or he would have, if half the X-Men hadn't been killed by [[spoiler:Jean Grey]].

** In a darker example of this trope, one Mimic copied powers of Professor X and Magneto and became his world's greatest supervillain. [[spoiler: Until the team's Mimic convinced him [[HeelFaceTurn to reform]].]]

* ChangingOfTheGuard: Frequently.

* DemonicPossession: One of Proteus' powers lets him hijack and kill [[spoiler: Mimic]] and others before eventually being trapped in [[spoiler: Morph]].

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler: Mimic]].

* TheHeart: Beak.

* IChooseToStay: [[spoiler: Morph actually got the chance to go back to his own reality, but wanted to stay behind to help the team.]]

* KillEmAll: The only consistent team mates are [[PopularityPower Blink and Morph]], the rest are either put on a bus or killed off.
* KillerRobot: Everyone hates Sentinels.

* LipstickLesbian: Sunfire

* NoSell: In issue #4, a version of Nightcrawler tries teleporting multiple times to disable Nocturne, who's more than used to the effects, what with being his daughter.

* OhCrap: The team arrives in the middle of Canada, with no idea why they're there. Cue ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk.

* SacrificialLion: Magnus. Arguably [[spoiler: Namora]].

** How do you defeat an evil Hyperion? Why you [[spoiler: send two good Hyperions to fight him of course!]]

* ShootTheDog: Weapon X's stock in trade.

* ShapeShifter: Morph
* SplitPersonalityMerge: [[spoiler: Morph and Proteus actually come to terms with being in each other's body and mind, respectively in Claremont's ''New Exiles'' Annual.]]

** TokenGoodTeammate: While Sabretooth, and then Colossus, are this to Weapon X.

* WouldHurtAChild: Weapon X.
* WrenchWench: Cat Pryde

* ForWantOfANail: Morph noted that most of the bad realities had the common thread of ComicBook/TheMightyThor not arriving on Earth.

** Hyperion has this reaction after he's beaten everyone and is gloating over his victory...until Beak comes back through the portal with ''two'' Hyperion's from alternate realities. They explain that Beak is now their new best friend, and he's told them there's an ass that needs kicking.

* YouHaveGottoBeKiddingMe: Say word-for-word by Blink when Sabertooth reveal the Weapon X's imagine of the Timebroker hologram: a beauty woman.

* YouGotToBeKiddingMe: Say word for word by Blink when Sabertooth reveal the Weapon X's imagine of the Timebroker hologram: a beauty woman.

Their missions take them across a wide variety of dimensions, some of which are different takes on MarvelComics' main setting, the Marvel Universe (or Earth-616). In other cases, they visit the nooks and crannies of Marvel's long publishing history, including ComicBook/TheNewUniverse of the 80's, and the 2099 setting (where they even recruit 2099's Spider-Man).

* KudzuPlot: The cause being the premature ending of the New Exiles series.

** In a reality ruled by Skrulls since the eighteen hundreds, Reed Richards is one of the only free superpowered beings, and is able to reverse-engineer Skrull tech in a few days.
** One Reed Richards realised his reality's version of Iron Man was evil, and planned accordingly.

* BeardOfEvil: The evil Charles Xavier has a beard suiting his behaviour.
* BeachEpisode: In Exiles #100 ''Home is Where the Heart is'', Clarice Ferguson was sitting at a beach inside the Crystal Palace and was having flashback of her past memories, and decades of global wars had been stripping everyone of any decent possibility of pleasure. Then the others kicked in when she relaxed.
* BigBad: First Hyperion, later Proteus. Later an evil Sue Storm is the main enemy.

* DemonicPossession: One or Proteus' powers that let him hijack and kill [[spoiler: Mimic]] and others before eventually being trapped in [[spoiler: Morph]].

* EnfantTerrible: The Exiles and Weapon X encounter one in their first-and-only team-up, the son of Rachel Summers and Franklin Richards, who has his mother's powers and absolutely neither of his parent's morals. Their mission is to kill him before he becomes a threat. [[spoiler:They don't, and try to TakeAThirdOption, but it doesn't work.]]

* HeterosexualLifePartners: ... technically seeing as how Sunfire is ''not'' heterosexual, but she and Morph were totally platonically in love with each other and nigh inseperable.
* HybridPower: Magnus, an alternate son of Magneto and Rogue, has a distinctive combination of his parents' power: he has the power of magnetism from his father, and a variation of his mother's deadly touch; in this case skin to skin contact will cause the victim to turn to pure metal.

* InSpiteOfANail: In the Skrull dominated reality, despite Earth having been ruled since the 1800s, almost all the normal Marvel heroes are still there.

* NoSell: In issue #4 a version of Nightcrawler tries teleporting multiple times to disable Nocturne, who's more than used to the effects, what with being his daughter.
** in issue #5, Blink tries to teleport the Hulk. It doesn't work.

* NukeEm: One version of Iron Man killed his reality's Hulk with a really big gamma bomb. Problem was, Simon Williams was standing next to him, and absorbed some of the energy, and, well...

* SplitPersonalityMerge: [[spoiler: Morph and Proteus actually come to terms with being in each other's body and mind, respectively in Claremont's New Exiles Annual.]]
* StraightGay: Exiles Beast who was actually in a relationship with his 'verse's Wonder Man. Really it was just taking the HoYay from their 616 counterparts to its logical conclusion.

* TouchOfDeath: One of Magnus's powers turns anyone he touches into steel.

* WrenchWench: Kat Pryde
* WrongGenreSavvy: Issue 1 has a big honking moment of this. The team are told to "find the one who would lead you", which all of them (save Blink) assume means Professor Xavier. They bust him out... and he turns out to be a villain. It's this exact reason Mimic puts Blink in charge.

* FutureSlang: {{Franchise/Marvel2099}} shows up, ridiculous slang and all.

* WolverinePublicity: One notorious storyline took this to the next level with the team replaced by an entire group of Wolverines who are tasked with stopping an evil alternate Wolverine. Yes.

* CurbStompBattle: Mimic versus an alternate version of Steve Rodgers in a world ruled by Skrulls. It's a title gladiatorial fight, and it lasts all of five seconds, ending decidedly in Mimic's favor.

* HeterosexualLifePartners: ...technically seeing as how Sunfire is ''not'' heterosexual, but she and Morph were totally platonically in love with each other and nigh inseperable.

Unlike many popular comics, this series stays surprisingly true to AnyoneCanDie. Much more often than not, a character's death is irreversible, and some of the partings are [[TearJerker especially moving]]. At least in the earlier parts of the series, whenever a character would die, he'd [[HeyItsThatGuy get a replacement]], one with a similar class of powers (substituting Sasquatch for [[spoiler: Thunderbird]], for instance). This was balanced by the fact that at least some of the characters got happy endings, either in the form of permanent vacation or being able to go back to their home realities and pick up their lives where they left off.

* ThePresidentsDaughter: One reality's Valeria Richards. Bonus points for being kept in suspended animation in the White House.

* FishOutOfWater: Mimic comes from one of the most pleasant realities we ever see, one where superheroes are ''adored''. About the only bad things we know about it are that Jean Grey is ([[ComicBookDeath probably]]) dead, and that [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed Richards]] abandoned his family in the pursuit of science. All the bleak realities the team visit begin to wear on Mimic after a while.

* RageBreakingPoint: One bad reality too many makes Mimic snap.

The series got a SpiritualSuccessor" in Greg Pak's ''X-Treme X-Men''.

Currently, the series is not being published. As of July 2012, it will get a "spiritual successor" in Greg Pak's X-Treme X-Men.

* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood

* EyeScream: Inflicted on a version of Iron Man by Longshot.

* WrenchWench: Kat Pryde

There's more to [[MarvelUniverse the universe]] than we know. There are hundreds, thousands, perhaps infinite versions of reality, each branching off from choices that were made differently, from events that had different outcomes. In one world, a familiar [[IronMan superhero]] became a world-wrecking dictator. In yet another, the man who we've all known as [[TheParagon the champion of superhuman equality]] instead became [[OmnicidalManiac the most feared mutant on the planet]].

* AlternateUniverseReedRichardsIsAwesome: In the second reality they come to, it's implied that reality's version of Mimic shares much of his history with the team's Mimic.

* ChangingOfTheGuard