The human CIA Officer Moira MacTaggert inadvertantly uncovers the existence of the Hellfire Club, a mysterious organization led by Schmidt, now operating under the identity Sebastian Shaw, and several other mutants. Moria seeks out the advice of Charles about mutation, which leads to him working with the CIA to form a taskforce to stop Shaw, including Raven, Erik, Dr. Hank McCoy, Angel Salvadore, Armando Muñoz, Alex Summers, and Sean Cassidy.
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Armando perishes during an attack on the mutants by the Hellfire Club, and the battle becomes the hotbed of the Cuban Missile Crisis as Shaw manipulates forces in Moscow to install ICBMs in Cuba. In the ensuing battle, Shaw is killed by Erik, and Charles is paralyzed from the waist down by a bullet deflected by Erik’s magnetism powers. The ideological split between the two sees Erik, now going by the name Magneto, take Raven, the surviving members of the Hellfire Club, and Angel to form the Brotherhood of Mutants, while Charles decides to return to his Westchester estate to open a school for “Gifted” students. (X-Men: First Class)
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