Danger Room

The Danger Room is a fictional training facility[1] appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It first appeared in The X-Men #1 (September 1963) and was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The facility is depicted as built for the X-Men as part of the various incarnations of the X-Mansion. Its primary purpose is to train the X-Men, initially using traps, projectile firing devices, flamethrowers, and mechanical dangers such as presses and collapsing walls. These were replaced by holographics, when the Danger Room was rebuilt using Shi'ar technology. It gained sentience in Astonishing X-Men as Danger.

Publication history

An obstacle course in which the X-Men train appears in The X-Men #1 (September 1963), but the Danger Room is never mentioned by name. The name "Danger Room" is first used in The X-Men #2 (November 1963). According to X-Men writer/editor/co-creator Stan Lee

Sentience

In Joss Whedon's Astonishing X-Men, the Danger Room developed self-awareness. The first thing it does is convince Wing, who has recently lost his powers to Ord's cure, to kill himself.[6] Next, the Danger Room takes control of a Sentinel and knocks out every psychic in the X-Mansion. During the Sentinel's attack, Cyclops orders Shadowcat and the students to hide in the Danger Room, where they find Wing's corpse.[7] Apart from Wing, there are no additional fatalities among the students. After being freed from its prison, the Danger Room takes a humanoid form called Danger and attacks the X-Men. After defeating the X-Men, she travels to Genosha to kill Professor X, who knew of the Danger Room's sentience and chose to keep it secret.[8] Danger controls one of the Wild Sentinels and confronts Beast, which ends in Danger being destroyed.[9]

Danger later reappears in a new humanoid form, similar to her previous one, in which she infiltrates the headquarters of S.W.O.R.D. to speak with Ord and offer her assistance.[10] Later, Danger encounters Emma Frost, who informs her that she has not harmed mutants as often and thus has not completely overcome its programming. Frost tells Danger to help the X-Men in Breakworld, and in exchange, she will be given Professor X.[11]

Revenge

When the S.W.O.R.D. headquarters is destroyed, Danger escapes to Australia, posing as an anthropologist at Melbourne University. She approaches Rogue in her disguise, but is targeted by a low-flying Shi'ar salvage spacecraft.[12] After being damaged by the crew, she warps the entire area with her holographic projections of past moments within Rogue's life as well as other famous moments from the X-Men's history.[13] Xavier confronts Danger and she reveals she intended to make Rogue absorb all Xavier's powers and memories permanently, leaving the Professor crippled and useless. Xavier reveals that when she first gained sentience, Xavier consulted her creators, who assured him it was not possible she could have gained self-awareness and that Xavier had no way of knowing what she was or would become. Xavier tried to free Danger, but did not know how to do so without crippling her. After Xavier successfully repairs her, Danger sides with Xavier, Rogue, and Gambit and takes out the Shi'ar salvage crew.[14]

series	Marvel Comics
blank label	Publisher
blank data	Marvel Comics
first	The X-Men #1 (November 1963)
creator	Stan Lee, Jack Kirby
type	Training room
people	X-Men
located in	X Mansion

Publication history

Early designs

Sentience

Revenge

Utopia

Danger Cave

Powers and abilities

Reception

Other versions

Age of Apocalypse

Ultimate Marvel

What If?

In other media

Television

Film

Video games

Miscellaneous

External links

References

Wolverine and the X-Men

All-New X-Factor

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