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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 234. Not illustrated. Chapters: Stepford Cuckoos, Ultimate Nick Fury, Jessica Jones, Cassandra Nova, Xorn, Zoom, Sublime, Spike Freeman, Ultimate Thor, Lady Mastermind, Ultimate Wolverine, Speedy, Barnell Bohusk, Manchester Black, Roulette, Mister X, Morlun, Angel Salvadore, Malcolm Colcord, Dog Logan, Lew Moxon, Stacy X, Anarchist, Agent Orange, Kenny Mcfarlane, Nero, Martin Soap, Lifeguard, Fusion, Blacksmith, Shakara, Spider-Man, Abraxas, Murmur, Ezekiel, Slipstream, Double Down, Thomas Logan, Cicada, Girder, Fever, Samuel Silke, Timebroker, Brent Jackson, Tar Pit. Excerpt: The Stepford Cuckoos are a set of fictional mutant psychically-linked quintuplets of the Marvel Comics universe, students at the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. Known properly as Celeste, Esme, Irma "Mindee," Phoebe, and Sophie Cuckoo, their names, when placed in alphabetical order, also denote their respective ageswith Celeste being the first born and Sophie being the youngest. Originally calling themselves the Five-in-One, with the deaths of Esme and Sophie the remaining sisters are now known as the Three-in-One in New X-Men #149-150. First appearing in New X-Men vol. 1 #118, they were created by Grant Morrison. Their origin, as the artificially created "daughters" of Emma Frost, is revealed in X-Men: Phoenix - Warsong. Their name is an allusion to The Stepford Wives and The Midwich Cuckoos. The Cuckoos and their abilities are roughly based on those of the "Paper-dolls," telepathic quadruplets from a 1964 novel by L. P. Davies. As revealed in the first issue of Phoenix: Warsong, the sisters are grown from ova cells harvested from telepath and then villain Emma Frost while she lay comatose after a Sentinel attack that killed her students, the original Hellions, and are only five of many cloned daughters. The remaining hundreds (if not thousands) of c...
