This is the recap page for Grant Morrison's X-men.
The series comprised nine story arcs (and one annual issue), including:
- E For Extinction (#114-116): Cassandra Nova makes her first appearance and uses an army of Sentinels to destroy Genosha, Emma Frost rejoins the team and Xavier (possessed by Nova) outs himself as a mutant on live television.
- The Man From Room X (Annual 2001): The team travels to Hong Kong and enlists Domino's help in rescuing a captive mutant named Xorn, who has many dark secrets. In the end, Xorn is persuaded to join the team.
- Imperial (#118-126): Several new students are introduced at the Xavier Institute, while the team goes into Xavier's mind to free him from Nova's influence. Meanwhile, Nova uses Xavier's powers to manipulate the Shi'ar into attacking the Xavier Institute.
- New Worlds (#127-133): A series of short, mostly self-contained stories in which the X-Men travel around the world to advocate for peace between humans and mutants. Xorn learns that the rest of the world can be just as cold and uncaring as the men who kept him in captivity; Jean and Professor X save a mysterious mutant who claims to have ties with the Weapon Plus program; Emma Frost takes advantage of Jean's absence to seduce Cyclops; Jean and Xavier investigate strange apparitions in the island of Genosha; and Wolverine rescues a mutant from a slave-trading ring.
- Riot At Xavier's (#134-138): One of Xavier's students, Quentin Quire, begins to mock his mentor's pacifistic teachings, and (along with a group of militant classmates, all hopped up on the mutant drug Kick) attempts to kill humans and cause a riot in retaliation.
- Murder At The Mansion (#139-141): After discovering Scott's psychic relationship with Emma, Jean freaks out and uses the power of the Phoenix to burn through the White Queen's defenses. Later on, Emma is found to have been shattered into thousands of pieces, prompting Bishop and Sage to begin an investigation into her death.
- Assault On Weapon Plus (#142-145): Fantomex, Cyclops and Wolverine journey to a dormant asteroid that houses the remnants of the Weapon Plus program, which is discovered to go back to at least World War II, and results in Wolverine discovering his past.
- Planet X (#146-150): The series climaxes with Xorn revealing himself to be Magneto and throwing the entire Xavier Institute into chaos when he cripples Xavier again and attempts to exterminate humanity as a precursor to turning Earth into a mutant haven.
- Here Comes Tomorrow (#151-154): The final arc written by Morrison, which follows a group of mutants in the far future who discover Jean Grey inside a Phoenix Egg and attempt to free her, while Beast (under the influence of Sublime) attempts to destroy the X-Men (now led by a reformed Cassandra Nova) once and for all.
- Bright New Mourning (#155-156): The only New X-Men arc not written by Morrison (Chuck Austen took over writing duties). The story was a bridge to the "Reloaded" series (which went back to the traditional X-Men title), and followed the team as they rebuild after the events of the "Planet X" arc.
