Halloween

Halloween is a holiday that comes on the last day of October.

Halloween is full of different traditions. People typically carve pumpkins into Jack-o'-Lanterns. Children dress up in costumes and go trick or treating. People hand out candy to the trick or treaters, often wearing masks themselves to scare their visitors.

While Halloween has a long and ancient history, today most see it for trick or treating. Jubilee commented that Halloween was about getting a bunch of candy and then trying to eat it all in one night.

Many people try to get this day off for one reason or another. In fact the X-Men all left except for Logan and Jubilee who got stuck handing out candy.

The X-Mansion got into the spirit of things by handing out candy and carving pumpkins. Even Logan participated by handing out candy while scaring children with a Beast mask. Jubilee told him Beast would probably be upset that Logan was using his face to give kids nightmares. He replied that that was the point.

Though not everyone is entirely happy with the holiday. Some are upset at how normal humans get to pretend to be mutants, like they would any monster. As Logan told Jubilee: "Every year it's the same. A bunch of brats run around dressed as monsters and mutants. Everybody says 'How cute.' Then, next day they get to go back to normal. Where do we go?" He then said the whole thing is sick, probably because most mutants can't take off any mask and be normal.

The day does present the opportunity for some mutants to go out i nto the real world and pretend to be dressed up. Nightcrawler was able to walk around with only a hat and trench coat without anyone bothering him. But afterwards everything returns to normal and those mutants must again hide.

One Halloween night, Nightcrawler came to the X-Mansion and asked for their help. He got a letter saying that if he did not come they would hurt his birth mother. Wolverine, Jubilee, and Rogue agreed to help and go with him. The group goes the a damn where the Friends of Humanity are keeping Kirk's mother, who turns out to be Mystique. There it is revealed that Rogue is Nightcrawler's adopted sister, and Graydon Creed is Nightcrawler's half brother. Creed tries to kills his family but they escape. During the firefight out of the complex Mystique tells Nightcrawler about his birth and why she abandoned him. Nightcrawler forgives her and then she apparently sacrifices herself when Creed attacks. By the next morning, the FoH are arrested and Creed is sent to see his dear old dad.

The Hobgoblin based his costumed persona off Halloween. Most noticeably his Pumpkin Bombs, which the Green Goblin later used, resemble Jack-o'-Lanterns.