X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men Elsewhere, Kitty Pryde arrives at Professor Xavier's school to be trained to use her power of phasing, passing through solid matter. The Professor leads her to the Danger Room and introduces her to the X-Men: Cyclops, Colossus, Dazzler, Nightcrawler, Storm, and Wolverine. Kitty is frightened by Nightcrawler's demonic appearance and almost causes the Danger Room to go haywire, making Wolverine insist that the X-Men don't have room for children. Magneto sends Pyro and Blob to retrieve the tracking coordinates for the Scorpio comet approaching Earth. This has the secondary goal of diverting the X-Men while Magneto and Juggernaut invade the
Ultimate X-Men killing Beast, who was killed when a Sentinel attacked the White House during Emma Frost's public disclosure of her school. This made Beast the first dead Ultimate X-Man. As a side note, "Ultimate X-Men" #40 features what Marvel claims to be the first marriage proposal in a comic book letters column, which is answered in "Ultimate X-Men" #44 with a positive response. The third "Ultimate X-Men" writer was Brian K. Vaughan, best known at the time for his work on "". His run was marked by the relative absence of Wolverine as the main character and the re-imagining of second-string