In the Age of X, the X-Men do not exist as mutants were never educated in Xavier's School For The Gifted to fight to protect a world that hates and fears them. Without a group of mutants fighting for acceptance, characters have therefore developed differently. Yet events that have happened strike a parallel to that of normal continuity, such as the destruction of Albany, New York at the hands of Phoenix instead of the galaxy that was destroyed in the Dark Phoenix Saga. Also, instead of uniting all the world's mutants on the island of Utopia, they have barricaded themselves inside Fortress X.
