Quentin Quire - Omega Gang

The Omega Gang is a group of teenage mutants and enemies of the X-Men. Created by comics writer Grant Morrison, the gang first appeared in New X-Men #135, but was not named until New X-Men #140, when Lucas Bishop asks to interview them.

The Omega Gang was formed by Quentin Quire, a young telepath and one of the top students of the Xavier Institute. Quire had become depressed because of an unrequited crush on Sophie of the Stepford Cuckoos, his unpopular status among the Institute students and, specially, the revelation that he was an adopted child, which shattered his already fragile self-esteem. The death of mutant fashion designer Jumbo Carnation prompted Quire to gather a small group of students to exact revenge on Carnation's murderers.

At Quire's request, all members tattooed themselves with a symbol formed by an Omega with an X below and dressed up with red-and-black striped shirts, jeans and whips, an outfit designed by Carnation himself and based on an illustration from an anti-mutant article written by Bolivar Trask many years ago, which portrayed mutants enslaving the human race. The Omega Gang members also consumed the drug Kick in order to boost their powers. Unbeknownst to them, the drug was actually the aerosol form of the sentient bacteria Sublime, which sought to increase the violence between mutants and baseline humans.

The gang was responsible for the attack on a teenage anti-mutant gang and later for the Open Day Riots. During the riots, Professor X was injured and Dummy of the Special Class, a gas-composed mutant, was seemingly destroyed when his containment suit was pierced. The most notable victim was Sophie of the Stepford Cuckoos, who died in her heroic attempt to stop Quentin. The rest of the Gang was stopped by the efforts of the other X-Men.