The Stepford Cuckoos are a group 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 ages—with Celeste being the first "born" and Sophie being the youngest.
Originally calling themselves the Five-in-One, with the dea...
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The Stepford Cuckoos are a group 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 ages—with 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 #119, 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 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:...
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