Formerly the first Asteroid M before crashing into San Francisco Bay, Utopia was brought back to the surface by the X-Club under the direction of Cyclops. Seeing no other option, Cyclops decided to move the mutant population (then stationed in the Marin Headlands at Graymalkin Industries) to this island, and off U.S. soil to avoid further persecution by the government, and Norman Osborn in particular.