History TangledFamilyTree / XMen

** Seventeen years after her introduction, in ''ComicBook/XMenForever2024'', Hope Summers (née Baby Spaulding)'s parentage is revealed: she is the daughter of a human firefighter named Louise Spaulding, but also [[spoiler:born of Jean Grey and/or the Phoenix, who travels back in time to "implant" Hope's birth in Louise.]]

* That wasn't the first time Scott's family was linked to Shi'ar royalty. Adam Neramani a.k.a. [[XtremeKoolLetterz Adam X the X-Treme]] is Scott's half-brother, the son of Catherine Summers and Shi'ar Emperor D'Ken (brother of Deathbird and Lilandra). This was originally foreshadowed in the mid-1990s – Adam is [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]], and Catherine was the only known human woman in Shi'ar space at the time – but the plot point was dropped and remained unconfirmed until [[PlotArchaeology eventually]] being canonized in ''X-Men Legends'' #2 in 2021.

* Thanks to {{time travel}} and [[LegoGenetics genetic engineering]], ComicBook/{{Longshot}} and ComicBook/{{Shatterstar}} are ''each other's'' fathers.

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} originally only had an adopted daughter, but then his own family tree grew to include ComicBook/{{Daken}}, the son he never knew he had, and [[ComicBook/{{X23}} Laura]], his OppositeSexClone whom he later adopted. Then Laura discovered she had more clones of herself. And then we discover Logan's future son with Mystique and his [[ComicBook/OldManLogan time-displaced future self]]

* Scott's younger brother Alex, a.k.a. ComicBook/{{Havok}}, is also a member of the X-Men. Alex adds to the complication in an ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers'' storyline where he marries [[ComicBook/TheWasp Janet van Dyne]] in an AlternateUniverse BadFuture -- and have a daughter Katie, who is kidnapped by Kang and put in an isolated timeline so that she doesn't get RetGone while they try to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. This daughter links the Summers to the equally convoluted Pym family tree, which includes more robots than you'd think.

* There's also a third Summers brother, Gabriel Summers a.k.a. Vulcan, a supervillain who once ruled over the intergalactic Shi'ar Empire. Vulcan himself is married to Cal'syee Neramani, better known as Deathbird, a member of the Shi'ar royal family and long-time claimant to the throne. Since Deathbird had Vulcan's child, that hybrid offspring adds another branch to the Imperial Sh'iar house. Please note that this means the Summers family ''is now tied to an alien royal family''.

-->-- Hope Summers, Cable's adoptive daughter, talking to Nate Grey (X-Man), an alternate reality version of him

** Deathbird's late sister Lilandra, who also ruled the Shi'ar Empire for a time, was once married to Charles Xavier (Scott's childhood father figure), meaning we can add ''him'' to the family tree too. They have a daughter, Xandra, who is the current Empress.
* That wasn't the first time Scott's family was linked to Shi'ar royalty. Adam Neramani a.k.a. [[XtremeKoolLetterz Adam X the X-Treme]] is Scott's half-brother, the son of Catherine Summers and Shi'ar Emperor D'Ken (Deathbird and Lilandra's late brother). This was originally foreshadowed in the mid-1990s – Adam is [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]], and Catherine was the only known human woman in Shi'ar space at the time – but the plot point was dropped and remained unconfirmed until [[PlotArchaeology eventually]] being canonized in ''X-Men Legends'' #2 in 2021.
* Before Vulcan's introduction, several other characters aside from Adam X were hinted as being the long-lost brother of Scott and Alex. ''ComicBook/{{Gambit}}'' was also considered to be made into the third Summers brother; in ''X-Men: The End'' he was made a product of Mr. Sinister and Scott Summers' DNA. Notably, [[http://www.uncannyxmen.net/sites/default/files/images/article/sinister.jpg the panel that started this whole mess]] only says "brothers" and doesn't imply a specific number, so there could potentially be even ''more'' Summers men. In 2023, a quip by Corsair implied that there might be others, though it could just mean the existing three.

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} originally only had an adopted daughter, but then his own family tree grew to include ComicBook/{{Daken}}, the son he never knew he had, and [[ComicBook/{{X23}} Laura]], his OppositeSexClone whom he later adopted. Then Laura discovered she had more clones of herself. And then we discover Logan's future son with Mystique and his [[ComicBook/OldManLogan time-displaced future self]]

!!Families connected to other Heroes and Villains
* The ComicBook/ScarletWitch and ComicBook/TheVision are the crux of another nightmarish family tree usually seen in ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' and related titles:
-->'''Wanda:''' I think our family trees must be the most convoluted in ''history'', Vision!
** Scarlet Witch and Vision's marriage. Vision is a robot built by another, evil robot ComicBook/{{Ultron}}, who was himself built by [[ComicBook/AntMan Henry Pym]]. Ultron has an Oedipus complex with both Pym and ComicBook/TheWasp, considering them both his "parents", and bent on killing them.
** The Vision was built using ComicBook/WonderMan's brain patterns -- in spite of Wonder Man being dead. When Wonder Man came BackFromTheDead, much like Vision, he had a crush on Wanda. Wonder Man's brother, the Grim Reaper[[note]]NOT [[TheGrimReaper the literal one]], which would make this even weirder[[/note]] also considers the Vision his "brother". The Vision was also built (or not) using the body of the World War II-era Human Torch, which is a ContinuitySnarl of its own.
** Scarlet Witch's twin brother, ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}, was formerly married to [[ComicBook/TheInhumans Crystal of the Inhumans]], and together had a daughter, Luna Maximoff. Crystal is currently married to Ronan the Accuser and is the sister to [[ComicBook/MedusaMarvelComics Medusa]], Queen of the Humans. Medusa's husband is ComicBook/BlackBolt, the king and head of the Inhumans Royal Family.
** Wanda is formerly-but-still-possibly the daughter of ComicBook/{{Magneto}}. Besides the Maximoff twins, Magneto also is the long-lost father of ComicBook/{{Polaris}}. Had Polaris not been forsaken at the altar, she would have married Havok, one of the Summers brothers, and tied together the two biggest and most snarled family trees in Marvel.
*** Polaris might have a half-sister Zaladane but she's dead.
** The Vision and Scarlet Witch have two sons, thanks to magic. They were both [[RetGone erased from existence]] but then reincarnated into Wiccan and Speed of the ComicBook/YoungAvengers -- a team with a ''different'' Vision, rebuilt from the original's brain patterns by Iron Lad, a younger persona of the time-traveler Kang the Conqueror. This led to a love triangle between Stature, Iron Lad, and the Vision with Iron Lad's brain patterns.
*** Through Kang is a link back to the Summers family -- he's a descendant of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Doctor Doom and Nathaniel Richards]], the latter of whom is Mr. Fantastic's dad -- and great-grandfather of Hyperstorm. This also throws in Nathaniel's family (including his other children), Kang and Immortus's litany of sons named Marcus, and Kang's lady friend Ravonna who posed as Nebula for a while.
** Wiccan is married to his teammate Hulkling, who is the son of Mar-Vell (the original ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}) and the Skrull princess Anelle.
*** After Mar-Vell's death, his lover Elysius used his genetic material to artificially conceive a son Genis-Vell, who was [[PlotRelevantAgeUp forcibly aged to adulthood]]. Genis-Vell, with his vast cosmic powers, did a Universal {{Retcon}} -- and in doing so retroactively created his own sister Phyla-Vell. Then Phyla wound up with the ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy and in a romantic relationship with Moondragon, the daughter of Mar-Vell's old ally Drax the Destroyer.
** The Vision also built himself a robotic family: Virginia, his wife, who was constructed with the Scarlet Witch's brain patterns, Vin, his son, and Viv, his daughter.
** Ultron didn't stop with the Vision: he created Jocasta (with Wasp's brain patterns), Alkhema (from Mockingbird's brain patterns), and Victor Mancha (who joined the ComicBook/{{Runaways}}). In keeping with the Oedipal theme, Pym had a relationship with Jocasta after the Wasp died, and Alkhema has a "daughter" named Antigone.
** As of ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy,'' the abomination that is the Pym family tree has another new branch in William Nelson, the son of Tigra, who is Hank's biological son via a Skrull infiltrator who was using his DNA at the time. From a certain point of view, this makes him Ultron's half-brother. A [[http://waitingforthet.tumblr.com/post/51584929655/im-gonna-start-posting-some-of-my-older-stuff-so fancomic]] poking fun at William's family tree shows Wiccan playing with baby William. Hulkling asks how they're related and after doing some math, Wiccan concludes that the toddler is his great-uncle.
** In an alternate universe, Scarlet Witch has a daughter Nocturne with the X-Men's Nightcrawler. Since Nocturne lives in the main universe, by Marvel standards she would be included in Wanda's family tree (see: Summers family tree). This attaches Nightcrawler's mother, Mystique, Mystique's deceased wife Destiny, and their adoptive daughter Rogue, and Mystique's current husband Charles Xavier into the tree as well as a few other notable characters.
** We can now add [[ComicBook/TheUnstoppableWasp Nadia Pym]], Hank Pym's long-lost daughter (from his first marriage, where his wife suffered DeathByOriginStory) and the All-New Wasp, who get formally adopted by Janet. There is ''no way'' she's prepared [[http://waitingforthet.tumblr.com/post/146745834669 to meet her "siblings"]]. She has since joined the Comicbook/Champions2016, and is happy to be considered Viv's great-aunt.

* Scott's brother [[ComicBook/{{Havok}} Alex]] adds to the complication in an ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers'' storyline, where he marries [[ComicBook/TheWasp Janet van Dyne]] in an AlternateUniverse BadFuture -- and have a daughter Katie, who is kidnapped by Kang and put in an isolated timeline so that she doesn't get RetGone while they try to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. This daughter links the Summers to the equally convoluted Pym family tree, which includes more robots than you'd think.
* There's also a third Summers brother, Gabriel Summers a.k.a. Vulcan, the supervillain ruler of a galactic empire. Vulcan himself is married to Deathbird, former sister-in-law to Charles Xavier (Scott's childhood father figure), meaning we can add ''him'' to the list now, too. Since Deathbird had Vulcan's child, that hybrid offspring adds another branch to the Imperial Sh'iar house. Please note that this means the Summers family ''is now tied to an alien royal family''.
* And that might not even be the first time, either. Adam Neramani a.k.a. [[XtremeKoolLetterz Adam X the X-Treme]] is Scott's half-brother, the son of Catherine Summers and Shi'ar Emperor D'Ken. This was originally foreshadowed in the mid-1990s – Adam is [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]], and Catherine was the only known human woman in Shi'ar space at the time – but the plot point was dropped and remained unconfirmed until [[PlotArchaeology eventually]] being canonized in ''X-Men Legends'' #2 in 2021.

* The villainous immortal Amanda Mueller was married to Daniel Summer and had a son who's the direct ancestor to Cyclops and company. Mueller also had the mutant daughter Fontanelle (but not by Daniel Summers).
* Scott, Alex, and Gabriel's father is Corsair, who is a space pirate. Their mother is dead, but Corsair has been in a long-term relationship with alien cat-person Hepzibah.
* In the ComicBook/MutantX timeline, Scott's brother Alex Summers has a son with Madelyne Pryor named Scotty. In the same timeline, Nate Grey was created by Mr Sinister as the son of ''Alex'' and Jean rather than Scott and Jean, although his DNA from Alex was later overwritten with Scott's DNA.

* [[OverlyLongName Nathan Christopher Charles Dayspring Askani'son Summers]], better known as ComicBook/{{Cable}}, was the only one to be born in the main Marvel Universe timeline: he is Scott's son with Madelyne Pryor, who was later revealed to be Jean Grey's clone. Sent into a dystopian far future as a baby in order to save his life, and raised under the name Nathan Dayspring, he later returned to the present day as a grey-haired CoolOldGuy. The supervillain Stryfe is Cable's [[CloningBlues evil clone]] and may be the father of Cable's son Tyler Dayspring (the villain also known as Tolliver and later Genesis). Cable has also adopted a daughter of his own, ComicBook/{{Hope|Summers}}. Cable was also raised for twelve years by "Redd" and "Slym" Dayspring, who were actually artificial human bodies created for Jean and Scott (whose minds had been transported to the future) to occupy to raise Nathan.

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} originally only had an adopted daughter, but then his own family tree grew to include ComicBook/{{Daken}}, the son he never knew he had, and [[ComicBook/{{X23}} Laura]], his OppositeSexClone whom he later adopted. Then Laura discovered she had [[CloningBlues more clones]] of herself. And then we discover Logan's future son with Mystique and his [[ComicBook/OldManLogan time-displaced future self]]

** Scarlet Witch and Vision's marriage. Vision is a robot built by another, evil robot ComicBook/{{Ultron}}, who was himself built by [[ComicBook/AntMan Henry Pym]]. Ultron has an OedipusComplex with both Pym and ComicBook/TheWasp, considering them both his "parents", and bent on killing them.

* ComicBook/{{Mystique}} is ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}}'s ex and mother of his son, Graydon Creed. It's been revealed that she may someday have children by ''both'' Wolverine and Charles Xavier, as said children (Raze and Charles Xavier II, respectively) have traveled back in time from the future. She's Nightcrawler's mother by Azazel (and she was once planned to have been his ''father'' instead, with Destiny as his mother) and Rogue's foster mother.

!!The Summer Family

* The Summers family of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse is a massive ContinuitySnarl to itself – ironic, considering that [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott Summers]] started out as an orphan with no known family. Thanks to time travel and alternate realities, no fewer than three characters in the main continuity of the ''ComicBook/XMen'' comics can be said to be the child of Scott Summers, and none of them are more than about ten years younger than their parents. None of these children have full siblings in the continuities in which they live, either.
** ComicBook/RachelSummers is the daughter of Scott Summers and Jean Grey from the ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePast timeline. Upon arrival in the present, she suffers quite a bit of existential angst when she finds that in the new timeline she will never be born. She later joins the X-Men and ComicBook/{{Excalibur}} and takes on her mother's mantle as Phoenix.
*** Jonathan Richards, the supervillain despot also known as Hyperstorm, is Rachel's son with [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Franklin Richards]] in an alternate version of her original timeline.
** [[OverlyLongName Nathan Christopher Charles Dayspring Askani'son Summers]], better known as ComicBook/{{Cable}}, was the only one to be born in the main Marvel Universe timeline: he is Scott's son with Madelyne Pryor, who was later revealed to be Jean Grey's clone. Sent into a dystopian far future as a baby in order to save his life, and raised under the name Nathan Dayspring, he later returned to the present day as a grey-haired CoolOldGuy. The supervillain Stryfe is Cable's [[CloningBlues evil clone]] and may be the father of Cable's son Tyler Dayspring (the villain also known as Tolliver and later Genesis). Cable has also adopted a daughter of his own, ComicBook/{{Hope|Summers}}. Cable was also raised for twelve years by "Redd" and "Slym" Dayspring, who were actually artificial human bodies created for Jean and Scott (whose minds had been transported to the future) to occupy to raise Nathan.
*** Just before the Krakoa era, a younger version of Cable, who may or may not be the original version's past self, was also recently introduced and is colloquially called Kid Cable. He killed his original self and has demonstrated knowledge that the original Cable did not have at his age... but Jean is sure that he's her son and he's been treated as such. However, he gets [[NoRespectGuy basically no respect from anyone]]. Apocalypse - who spent much of his life dealing with the superior predecessors of adult Cable and [[Characters/MarvelComicsXMan Nate Grey]] - treats him with barely veiled contempt, and one anonymous mutant notes that ''everyone'' was scared of "the old man" but no one's bothered by the kid, and his appointment as SWORD's head of security is InUniverse described as a transparent political move by Brand to curry favour with the politically influential Grey-Summers clan. [[spoiler: He's later confirmed to be the original's teenage self, the adult version having pulled a ThanatosGambit and StableTimeLoop in anticipation of Krakoa, and eventually goes to the future while the old version is resurrected. It's also revealed that most of the Stepford Cuckoos who were dating him were keeping an eye on him, as his parents were, just in case he was a young Stryfe - something that had previously been feared about Nate Grey. They hoped otherwise, but they were ready to nuke him if necessary.]]
*** [[ComicBook/XMan Nathaniel "Nate" Grey]], a.k.a. X-Man, is Cable's AlternateUniverse counterpart from the ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse reality, who was shunted into the main Marvel Universe timeline when it was restored. He was created by Mr. Sinister using Scott and Jean's DNA; despite being genetically identical to Cable, Nate Grey is technically his half-brother, and significantly younger, and his relationship with Cable could generally be summed up as "grumpy younger brother". He's somewhat close to his father, surprisingly close to his niece, Hope (as he did the mutant messiah gig first and offers her invaluable support and advice), has shared exactly one panel with his sister, Rachel, and his mother is pretty much the only person with a hope in hell of controlling him.
** There are also Scott's children seen in various alternate futures: probably the most significant being Ruby Summers, his daughter with ComicBook/EmmaFrost in Bishop's home timeline, who was a major supporting character in ''ComicBook/XFactor''. In the miniseries ''X-Men: The End'', Scott and Emma are seen to have four children, including a daughter Megan Frost, a set of twin girls, and a son Alex Frost-Summers.
** Scott's brother [[ComicBook/{{Havok}} Alex]] adds to the complication in an ''ComicBook/UncannyAvengers'' storyline, where he marries [[ComicBook/TheWasp Janet van Dyne]] in an AlternateUniverse BadFuture -- and have a daughter Katie, who is kidnapped by Kang and put in an isolated timeline so that she doesn't get RetGone while they try to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. This daughter links the Summers to the equally convoluted Pym family tree, which includes more robots than you'd think.
** There's also a third Summers brother, Gabriel Summers a.k.a. Vulcan, the supervillain ruler of a galactic empire. Vulcan himself is married to Deathbird, former sister-in-law to Charles Xavier (Scott's childhood father figure), meaning we can add ''him'' to the list now, too. Since Deathbird had Vulcan's child, that hybrid offspring adds another branch to the Imperial Sh'iar house. Please note that this means the Summers family ''is now tied to an alien royal family''.
** And that might not even be the first time, either. Adam Neramani a.k.a. [[XtremeKoolLetterz Adam X the X-Treme]] is Scott's half-brother, the son of Catherine Summers and Shi'ar Emperor D'Ken. This was originally foreshadowed in the mid-1990s – Adam is [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human]], and Catherine was the only known human woman in Shi'ar space at the time – but the plot point was dropped and remained unconfirmed until [[PlotArchaeology eventually]] being canonized in ''X-Men Legends'' #2 in 2021.
** Before Vulcan's introduction, several other characters aside from Adam X were hinted as being the long-lost brother of Scott and Alex. ''ComicBook/{{Gambit}}'' was also considered to be made into the third Summers brother; in ''X-Men: The End'' he was made a product of Mr. Sinister and Scott Summers' DNA. Notably, [[http://www.uncannyxmen.net/sites/default/files/images/article/sinister.jpg the panel that started this whole mess]] only says "brothers" and doesn't imply a specific number, so there could potentially be even ''more'' Summers men. In 2023, a quip by Corsair implied that there might be others, though it could just mean the existing three.
** The villainous immortal Amanda Mueller was married to Daniel Summer and had a son who's the direct ancestor to Cyclops and company. Mueller also had the mutant daughter Fontanelle (but not by Daniel Summers).
** Scott, Alex, and Gabriel's father is Corsair, who is a space pirate. Their mother is dead, but Corsair has been in a long-term relationship with alien cat-person Hepzibah.
** In the ComicBook/MutantX timeline, Scott's brother Alex Summers has a son with Madelyne Pryor named Scotty. In the same timeline, Nate Grey was created by Mr Sinister as the son of ''Alex'' and Jean rather than Scott and Jean, although his DNA from Alex was later overwritten with Scott's DNA.
** Cyclops is ComicBook/{{Galactus}}' father-in-law, although you do have to go through two different alternate timelines to get to that point. In the ''ComicBook/EarthX'' trilogy, it's revealed at the end of the first series that [[spoiler:[[ComicBook/FantasticFour Franklin Richards]] is destined to take Galactus' place. And more than one timeline shows that he and Rachel would have fallen in love as young adults had she grown up in her own time]].

* Elsewhere in the ''X-Men'' universe:
** Magneto has children with ComicBook/{{Rogue}} in at least two realities, Charles in ''ComicBook/AgeOfApocalypse'', and Magnus, a member of the original Exiles team, in another timeline. In ''Age of Apocalypse'', Rogue and Magneto's marriage created its own issues, because now Mystique and Destiny are both Magneto's mothers-in-law, Rogue is Quicksilver's step-mother (but somehow ''younger'' than him), Quicksilver is Storm's lover, and Rogue permanently absorbed roughly half the powers and personality of Polaris, Magneto's long-lost daughter who was on the enemy's side (but neither of them know it in this reality).
** ComicBook/{{Mystique}} is ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}}'s ex and mother of his son, Graydon Creed. It's been revealed that she may someday have children by ''both'' Wolverine and Charles Xavier, as said children (Raze and Charles Xavier II, respectively) have traveled back in time from the future. She's Nightcrawler's mother by Azazel (and she was once planned to have been his ''father'' instead, with Destiny as his mother) and Rogue's foster mother.
** Thanks to {{time travel}} and [[LegoGenetics genetic engineering]], ComicBook/{{Longshot}} and ComicBook/{{Shatterstar}} are ''each other's'' fathers.
** In ''ComicBook/XForce'', Eli Bard modified himself using material taken from the Technarch Magus (father of Warlock), and used the material to resurrect several dead characters. These include Graydon Creed (son of Mystique) and some members of the Trask family (whose DNA was copied by Xavier's sister Cassandra Nova). This would add robots (including the Sentinels) to the mix, as well as Warlock's son Torgo.
** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} originally only had an adopted daughter, but then his own family tree grew to include ComicBook/{{Daken}}, the son he never knew he had, and [[ComicBook/{{X23}} Laura]], his OppositeSexClone whom he later adopted. Then Laura discovered she had [[CloningBlues more clones]] of herself. And then we discover Logan's future son with Mystique and his [[ComicBook/OldManLogan time-displaced future self]]