The New Mutants
Cast of Characters
Cannonball
Real Name: Samuel "Sam" Zachary Guthrie
First Appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants (1982)
Created By: Chris Claremont (writer) and Bob McLeod (artist)
Born in: Kentucky, United States
Religious Affiliation: Baptist
Mirage
Real Name: Danielle Moonstar
First Appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants (1982)
Created By: Chris Claremont (writer) and Bob McLeod (artist)
Born in: Colorado, United States
Religious Affiliation: Cheyene Native American religion
Wolfsbane
Real Name: Rahne Sinclair
First Appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants (1982)
Created By: Chris Claremont (writer) and Bob McLeod (artist)
Born in: the Highlands of Scotland
Religious Affiliation: Scots Presbyterian
Sunspot
Real Name: Roberto da Costa
First Appearance: Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants (1982)
Created By: Chris Claremont (writer) and Bob McLeod (artist)
Born in: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (although one late 1990's story stated he was born in Sao Paulo, but all sources make it clear that he was raised in Rio, where his family's estate is located)
Religious Affiliation: Catholic
Karma
Real Name: Xi'an Coy Manh
First Appearance: Marvel Team-Up (vol. 1) #100 (December 1980)
Created By: Chris Claremont (writer) and Frank Miller (artist)
Born in: Vietnam
Religious Affiliation: Catholic (apparently lapsed); LGBT
Magma
Real Name: Amara Juliana Olivia Aquilla
First Appearance: The New Mutants (vol. 1) #8 (October 1983)
Created By: Chris Claremont (writer) and Bob McLeod (artist)
Born in: Nova Roma (a long lost Roman colony in jungles of Brazil)
Religious Affiliation: Greco-Roman classical religion
Magik
Real Name: Illyana Nikolaevna Rasputin
First Appearance: Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975)
Created By: Chris Claremont (writer) and Dave Cockrum (artist)
Born in: the Ust-Ordynski Collective farm, near Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia, U.S.S.R.
Religious Affiliation: raised as a Soviet Communist atheist, later raised by demons in Limbo; sorceress
Warlock
First Appearance: The New Mutants (vol. 1) #18 (August 1984)
Created By: Chris Claremont (writer) and Bill Sienkewicz (artist)
Born in: Warlock is an alien member of the Technarchy, and was presumably born on another planet or in Technarch-controlled space
Religious Affiliation: Technarchy religion (worships "the Maker")
Cypher
Real Name: Douglas Aaron Ramsey
First Appearance: The New Mutants (vol. 1) #13 (March 1984)
Created By: Chris Claremont (writer) and Sal Buscema (artist)
From: Westchester County, upper-state New York
Boom Boom
Real Name: Tabitha Smith
First Appearance: Secret Wars II #5 (November 1985)
Created By: Jim Shooter (writer) and Al Milgrom (artist)
Born in: Roanoke, Virginia
Rictor
Real Name: Julio Esteban Richter
First Appearance: X-Factor (vol. 1) #17 (June 1987)
Created By: Louise Simonson (writer) and Walt Simonson (artist)
Born in: Mexico
Firefist
Real Name: Russel "Rusty" Collins
First Appearance: X-Factor (vol. 1) #1 (February 1986)
Created By: Bob Layton (writer) and Jackson Guice (artist)
From: Oklahoma, United States
Skids
Real Name: Sally Blevins
First Appearance: X-Factor (vol. 1) #7 (August 1986)
Created By: Louise Simonson (writer) and Jackson Guice (artist)
Domino
Real Name: Neena Thurman
First Appearance (Copycat masquerading as Domino): The New Mutants (vol. 1) #98 (February 1991)
First Actual Appearance: X-Force (vol. 1) #11 (June 1992)
Created By: Rob Liefeld (artist, plot) Fabian Nicieza (scripter)
Shatterstar
First Appearance: The New Mutants (vol. 1) #99 (March 1991)
Created By: Rob Liefeld (artist, plot) Fabian Nicieza (scripter)
Born on: Mojoworld
Thunderbird
Real Name: James Proudstar
First Appearance: The New Mutants (vol. 1) #16 (June 1984)
Created By: Chris Claremont (writer) and Sal Buscema (artist)
Born in: Apache reservation in Camp Verde, Arizona
Religious Affiliation: Apache
Feral
Real Name: Maria Callasantos
First Appearance: The New Mutants (vol. 1) #99 (March 1991)
Created By: Rob Liefeld (artist, plot) Fabian Nicieza (scripter)
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New Mutants Cast of Characters web page created 7 February 2006. Last modified 7 February 2006.