Marvel Comics' Xavier Institute for Higher Learning is one of the most iconic places in all of comic books. It has been brought to television screens in various cartoons, brought to movie theaters in various films, and is up there with the Avengers Tower and Sanctum Sanctorum as one of the standout superhero locations of Earth-616. And there is much more to Xavier's school than first meets the eye.
Did you know the Danger Room ended up becoming sentient and breaking free of the school entirely? Did you know the school was built atop a nearly immortal mutant who was buried alive years before? How about the time the grounds were turned into a concentration camp after M-Day? It may be a school for young mutants, but not all schools are created equal.
The story of Danger is an interesting one. This is not your normal Marvel comic book character, after all. Danger started out her life as simply another in a long line of the X-Men's "Danger Rooms." As fans of the X-Men cartoons and movies know, these Danger Rooms are where the X-Men can safely train to fight all the various foes they come up against on a regular basis. Xavier kept updating the Danger Room of his School For Gifted Youngsters until, one day, he noticed the Danger Room asking the question, "Where am I?"
Charles Xavier, being the somewhat shady dude that he is, just kind of ignored this and kept it a secret from his superhero team. It will come as no great shock to learn that Danger did not take this shunning well and eventually broke free of her shackles, becoming an X-Men enemy for a good amount of time. Things have cooled off since then, and she seemingly no longer wants to terminate Xavier for essentially pretending she didn't exist, but it is wild to think the X-Men's AI training room is running around Earth-616 just doing stuff.
