The Danger Room is a fictional location featured in comic books and film. It is a property of Marvel Comics and part of the internal continuity of the mainstream Marvel Universe. It is associated with the X-Men family of titles and has also been featured in the X-Men film series as well. It first appeared in The X-Men #1, published in September, 1963. It was first identified by name in The X-Men #2.
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The Danger Room is a training facility located in the basement and sub-basement levels of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters in Salem Center, Westchester County, New York.
One of the more notable characteristics of the X-Mansion is the Danger Room. The Danger Room originally started out as a simple gymnasium fitted with various exercise equipment and special tools designed to cater to the specific talents of the students (such as rings suspended from the ceiling that Angel could swoop through). In later years, the Danger Room was outfitted with Shi'ar technology, which enabled the staff to create life-like holographic settings in order to train students in realistic crisis situations. In addition to it's visual imaging, the Danger Room could also replicate various temperatures and even scents. It also included robotic technology, which worked in tandem with the holographic imaging, providing various physical threats to the trainees. A control center and monitering station was attached to the upper levels of the Danger Room from which one could observe the progress of those using the room. The Danger Room was incorporated with various safety features so that no actual harm would befall any of the students, but these safeguards could be deactivated for real combat scenarios.