Warning: spoilers for X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #41 are ahead!
The majority of the popular Generation X class of the X-Men have been reunited in X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #41 as they attend an Escape Room for Jubilee's birthday, only for the team to be attacked by anti-mutant bigots and an intimidating new Sentinel Knight. While the group was forced to fight for their lives against the monstrous robot, the attack may have actually been just what the beloved Generation X team needed to reawaken their friendships.
The classic Generation X team were created by Scott Lobdell and Chris Bachalo, debuting in the 1994 "Phalanx Covenant" crossover event, introduced as a new group of cynical teenage mutants later trained by Banshee and newly-heroic Emma Frost at the Massachusetts Academy in the Generation X series. The original team consisted of Jubilee, Synch, Skin, Monet St. Croix, Husk, Chamber, and Mondo, with others coming and going throughout the series, all of whom quickly became fan favorite characters of the 90s X-Men.
X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #41 "Birthday Side Quest" - written and illustrated by Jason Loo (Fantastic Four, X-Corp, Lucky: Pizza Dog) - is a fun, hilarious, fast paced reunion between Jubilee, Synch, Husk, Skin, and eventually Monet, as they navigate through a D&D inspired Escape Room for Jubilee's birthday. Jubilee is decked out in a full Elven LARP outfit, with the other Generation X mutants barely showing up in costume (and Synch choosing to wear the original, hilariously massive forearm gloves from Generation X), much to Jubilation's chagrin. While rabid fans of Generation X have hoped for a full reunion of the team, Jubilee lets the group know that both Mondo and Chamber are currently preoccupied and that Monet will be meeting them for drinks later. As the group enters the Escape Room, located in Downtown Massachusetts and not Krakoa, they are tasked with finding a way out of the D&D type dungeon lair. It is revealed the the employees and the owners are extremely anti-mutant, and they alert the "actors" that they should use real weapons before contacting the villainous Friends of Humanity and unleashing the "Mark X," which turns out to be a medieval-styled Sentinel robot.
The Sentinel is a human sized robot, not the massive Sentinels often seen in X-Men comics, and is decked out with menacing spiked armor and a skull around its waist, immediately entering the room and almost killing Skin with a blast. This is not the only time in recent memory that the X-Men have introduced a D&D-esque Sentinel, with one of the main enemies in Tini Howard's current Knights of X series being the Furies, Sentinel-like magical robots that serve the villainous Merlyn, current ruler of Otherworld. Of course, the X-Men are absolute pros at taking down Sentinels, so while the rest of the team is able to easily wipe out the human "trolls" and "soldiers" attacking them, Monet suddenly bursts through the ceiling and takes down the Sentinel Knight in one fell swoop. Since the Sentinels have been around since the earliest days of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's 60s X-Men, it makes sense that there need to be new, updated Sentinel versions released every so often to keep the classic enemy modern and unique, and Jason Loo's D&D Sentinel is certainly new, and while easily taken down, is still a pretty menacing foe to look at.
Not only is "Birthday Side Quest" is an absolutely delightful return to the beloved Generation X team of the X-Men, a reunion that fans have been begging for for ages, but it also brings up genuine, meaningful discussion on humanity's continued or heightened hatred of mutants following the creation of Krakoa, proven by the Escape Room's decision to create an entirely new Sentinel just to protect their business from mutantkind.
X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #41 is available now on Marvel Unlimited.