CBR's Top 50 X-Men

[Brian Cronin]

Wow, we sure have grown as a community, size-wise, as we received DOUBLE the votes as two years ago (more than double, actually).

Here are the results:

The way the voting was conducted, each voter picked their ten favorite X-Men, ranked from 1-10 (1 being most favorite, 10 being least favorite). For first place, the character was given 10 points, for second - 9 points, for third - 8 points, and so on and so forth. Then, all the points were added up, and ranked in order of points received. Here are your Top Fifty X-Men (next to the ranking I will give how many points the character received and how many first place votes - if any - the character received)!!

Peter (Sentinel K) did the adding, and he asked to add a new twist, that any ties will be broken by who got more first place votes. Seems reasonable enough to me, so without any further delay - the Top 50!!!

50. Xorn - 29 points



Kuan-Yin Xorn is an interesting X-Men figure. Under the pen of Grant Morrison, he was a pacifistic healing mutant who had a "star for a brain" and manipulated energy and gravity, but in actuality, it was all a ruse, and Kuan-Yin Xorn was actually an invetion of Magneto, who used his powers to fake all of Xorn's abilities, all in an attempt to infiltrate the X-Men.

After Grant Morrison left the title, it was revealed that this Xorn was a real person who was manipulated by John Sublime into pretending to be Magneto.

His twin brother Shen Xorn became a member of the team briefly.

[Brian Cronin]

49. Longshot - 30 points



Longshot was from the Mojoverse, where Mojo ruled over a whole pile of humanoids. Longshot eventually began to lead a rebellion, so Mojo sent him to Earth. Eventually, after some battles with Mojo, Longshot ended up right back on Earth with amnesia. It was at this point that he ended up joining the X-Men. Longshot is insanely agile, and throws these sharp blades, but the most important thing is that he has this weird "luck" power.

Eventually, Longshot regained his memories, so he took his girlfriend with him to the Mojoverse to lead a rebellion. Mojo was eventually killed, and Longshot and Dazzler were married.

Dazzler returned with little reference to her time with Longshot, and after Longshot became a member of the Exiles, he met up with Dazzler (who was with New Excalibur), and the two decided to explore their past together. He has not been seen since, but a Skrull imposter of Longshot recently popped up in X-Factor.

48. Cargill - 30 points (1 first place vote)



Joanna Cargill made her living for years as the super-strong mercenary named Frenzy.

She even worked for Apocalypse's Alliance of Evil.

Later, though, she hooked up with Magneto as one of his most-trusted Acolyte (now using her last name, as I guess she figured Frenzy made her sound kinda stupid).

When Magneto flipped out during Eve of Destruction, Jean Grey was forced to throw together a rag-tag group of X-Men. She used her mental powers to convince Cargill to be a member of the team. That was the only mission that Cargill served as an X-Man.

Recently, she was working with the Acolytes again (led now by Exodus) and after wishing to kill Professor Xavier (a prisoner, of sorts, of the Acolytes) she was hurt badly by a now human Magneto.

[Brian Cronin]

47. Sabretooth - 38 points



One of the, uhm, golden hair members of the feral mutants...oh, never mind, Sabretooth has been one of the X-Men's deadliest enemies since they first ran into him as a member of the Marauders.

Wolverine, in particular, has quite a history with ol' Creed. Still, as deadly as Sabretooth is, that's how egotistical Charles Xavier is (noble, but egotistical), and Xavier feels he can heal Creed of his evil nature. So Xavier keeps Sabretooth in the X-Men's house, and Creed even helps out once or twice.

Wolverine, though, ends up basically giving Creed a lobotomy with his claws, leading to Sabretooth was taken in by the X-Men as a nice little puppy type guy. He, of course, was faking, and he escapes again (mauling Psylocke on the way out).

He fought the X-Men a few more times, and recently, he actually joiend the team, when he needed a place to hide from some bad guys who wanted him dead. Rogue injected him with nanosentinels to keep him in line. He, shockingly, betrayed the team, and he was hurt badly by Cable.

X-Men writer Mike Carey on Sabretooth, "I’m not making him into a hero; I’m making him into a team member"

Sabretooth was later decapitated by Wolverine, and is thought to be dead.

46. Mimic - 39 points (1 first place vote)



Calvin Rankin was the FIRST new member of the X-Men, joining after the original five. In fact, his power to mimic powers and abilities (and even knowledge) of people he's around go further when it comes to the original five X-Men. He has their powers permanently!

Calvin also (at the time, it's up for grabs now) was the first non-mutant to join the X-Men, as he (apparently) gained his powers from an accident, not from being a mutant.

Eventually, the X-Men thought Calvin was just too self-serving, so they kicked him off of the team. He later seemed to die (although he came back later on).

An alternate universe version of Calvin was a stalwart for the Exiles team until his death.

45. Sunfire - 48 (1 first place vote)



Shiro Yoshida was only an X-Men for a brief period of time, helping the All-New, All-Different X-Men save the original X-Men from Krakoa.

However, he has been a constant prescence in the X-Titles, whether it be helping the X-Men when they visit Japan, or well, helping/fighting anyone who goes to Japan. :)

Awhile back, Rogue absorbed his fire powers permanently. At that point in time, he had his legs cut off - but Apocalypse saved him and brought him back as a Horseman.

He broke free of Apocalypse's control, and then ended up working with, of all people, Mister Sinister.

He may have had good intentions, though!

44. Forge - 50 points (1 first place vote)



Jonathon Silvercloud was taught magic by the Shaman of his tribe, Naze. During Vietnam, Silvercloud tragically lost part of one of his legs as well as one of his hands in an attack. He built himself replacement parts. After the war, he ceased using his magic powers.

After the war, Silvercloud picked up the government weapons contracts that Tony Stark gave up on, and after one of his weapons was used on Storm, he began a relationship with the now-powerless Storm.

When the X-Men were scattered throughout the world, Forge and Banshee helped bring the team together, but afterwards, Forge backed off (especially when Storm turned down a marriage proposal).

He came back as the leader of X-Factor, but since then, he has basically been hanging out as an adjunct ally of the X-Men and punching bag/Wal-Mart for Bishop.

[Brian Cronin]

43. Madeline Pryor - 50 points (1 first place vote)



Maddie Pryor was a replacement for Jean Grey in Scott Summers' life - literally. That is what Mister Sinister cloned her to be.

She ended up splitting with Cyclops after he, you know, left her and their son to be with his ex-girlfriend.

She then hooked up with the X-Men, serving as their pilot, their computer expert (this was not the brightest group of X-Men - Colossus kept trying to get an exterminator to capture the mouse) and eye candy for Scott's brother, Alex.

Maddie then turned evil and died.

But for that brief period in time she was as much a member of the X-Men as the others - especially more so than Longshot.

42. Stacy X - 51 points



Stacy was a mutant who used her mutant pheremone powers to ply her trade as a prostitute. When her brothel was attacked by anti-mutant jerkwads, she ended up taking protection from the X-Men, and ultimately ended up becoming a member of the team.

After awhile, she got tired of the team, and left.

M-Day stripped her of her powers, and last we saw her, she was a prostitute once again - only a powerless one.

41. Warpath - 58 points



James Proudstar grew up idolizing his brother, John Proudstar. So when John died as a member of the X-Men, James dedicated his life to revenging his brother's death. So James tried to kill Xavier, but ultimately saw the error of his ways.

He couldn't bring himself to be a student of Xavier, though, so he joined Emma Frost's school and became a Hellion.

Later on, he joined the group of former New Mutants called X-Force (which was lucky, because his former group, the Hellions, were slaughtered soon after). He stayed with the team for quite some time.

Eventually, after the group broke up, he helped out in the X-Corp, and after M-Day, he went back to the X-Mansion.

Recently, he officially became an X-Man when he joined Xavier and other X-Men on a mission to the Shi'Ar Empire to stop the evil Vulcan.

Even MORE recently, he became part of Cyclops' ode to Murder, Inc. - X-Force. He now kills the hell out of people - for truth, justice and the American way!

[Brian Cronin]

40. Husk - 59 points



The younger sister of Cannonball, Paige Guthrie was one of a number of young mutants who were kidnapped by the Phalanx. Rescued by Banshee and Emma Frost, Paige remained with the others to attend school.

After the dissolution of the Generation X group of young students, Paige graduated to the X-Men, where she used her weird/odd powers (where she tears off her skin, revealing a new power each time) to aid the team, and where she fell in love with Archangel.

The two even had sex in the air above her mother - it was super creepy.

Husk has been sort of lost in the mix as of late (Warren has moved on), except for a weird appearance in a Divided We Stand story, and to be honest, I have no idea why she hasn't been killed yet - if you're a former X-Man and not on the official team, that's usually a recipe for being killed.

You know, like, "Oh my god! You killed Husk! NOOOOOO!!!!!!!" "Who's Husk, Wolverine?" "I dunno, but she was an X-Man, and now she's dead!" "Nooooooo!!!!!!!"

[Brian Cronin]

39. Armor - 59 points (1 first place vote)



In the endless sea of "characters meant to be like old school Kitty Pryde," Hisako Ichiki, the X-Man known as Armor (because she has the ability to surround herself with psionic armor, like Cece Reyes) is one of the less annoying ones.

She was chosen by Cassandra Nova to be her new host body, but that was staved off (or WAS it?!? duh duh duuuuuuuuuh).

Now she is on the X-Men, and to make the whole "new Kitty" thing even clearer, she is even wearing Kitty's old costume!

38. Marrow - 68 points (2 first place votes)



Sarah was a young Morlock who witnessed the Mutant Massacre, but was saved by Gambit. She later hooked up with the other Morlock survivors who went into a different dimension with Miguel Rasputin. Time went by quicker there, so when Marrow returned to our dimension, she was a young woman. She led a group of Morlocks called Gene Nation - they were an awful terrorist group, and ultimately, Marrow ended up forcing Storm to kill her.

Later, it turned out she had (sigh) TWO hearts, so the heart Storm pulled out of her was no biggie.

Hanging out with Callisto, her mother figure, Marrow eventually found herself aiding the X-Men, who were on the run from Bastion and his Omega Sentinels.

Afterwards, she ended up using her weird-ass powers (she could pull sharp bone weapons from her body) to be a member of the X-Men. She even stuck around after the "real" X-Men came back.

Ultimately, though, during one of the countless regroupings of the X-Men, Marrow ended up on the outs, and, after working for SHIELD, hooked up with Weapon X. There, she was given control over her powers.

She lost her powers on M-Day, although not a lot of the physical traits that came from her being a mutant, oddly enough. At first, she was working as a spokesperson for depowered mutants, but as has been the case all throughout Marrow's comic book "life," a different writer took over and suddenly, she was a terrorist blaming the US Government for M-Day.

[Brian Cronin]

37. Omega Sentinel - 75 points



X-Men have come from all sorts of different places. Some notable X-Men have been members of the Hellfire Club, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants and heck, prostitution.

Few X-Men, though, have come from as unlikely a source as Chris Claremont's second stint on the X-Men, and yet that is where Karima Shapandar, the Omega Sentinel, came from.

She showed up in X-Men Unlimited as part of Thunderbird II (Neal Shaara)'s back story. She was a police detective assigned to help Shaara look for his missing brother in India, but along the way, they fell in luuuuuuve.

However, they soon discover that his brother was a Prime Sentinel (a shtick where humans are secretly sentinels and are only activated in the presence of a mutant). Neal's brother dies, but then Neal discovers Karima is a Prime Sentinel, too (seriously, was, like, every third person in India turned into a Prime Sentinel?). Her love for him allows him to escape, but she tells him he must never search her out.

Anyhow, she shows up in Genosha somehow, only now she can control her Sentinel programming.

She shows up next in X-Men, and ends up joining the team. Then, sadly, she is infected by Malice, and becomes a bad guy.

Luckily, she cures herself of Malice, but then gets her ass handed to her by Joanna Cargill. She was last seen escaping the Acolytes with Magneto.

36. Bishop - 90 points (1 first place vote)



Lucas Bishop grew up in a world where Sentinels had taken over North America and killed (or enslaved) all mutants. Eventually, there was a rebellion, and in the new world order, Bishop was a member of XSE - Xavier's Security Enforcers, who hunted down mutant criminals.

One such criminal was Trevor Fitzroy, who escaped to the 20th century with a bunch of fellow criminals, with Bishop and two of his fellow officers following close behind, even though they knew they could not return. His two friends were killed, but not before they killed all the escapees (except Fitzroy, who was captured). Afterward, Bishop ended up joining the X-Men, using his energy absorption and redirection powers for the team.

He served with the X-Men for quite some time, until Deathbird kidnapped him. During this time, he was sent to another timeline, but he returned in time for the Twelve storyline. He then rejoined the X-Men, and and later served as an intermediary between the US government and the X-Men.

That meant he agreed to hunt down some escaped mutants for the government, and as anyone who reads comics knows, if you work for the government, you're evil, and during Messiah Complex, Bishop felt that the best way to save the future was to become a total psyhopath and go all "Hal Jordan in Emerald Twilight" on everybody.

He currently plays Wile E. Coyote to Cable's Roadrunner every month in Cable, in a plotline that certainly won't ever get dull and repetitive seeing Cable JUST get away for the 235th time.

35. Juggernaut - 90 points (2 first place votes)



Juggernaut is Cain Marko, the half-brother of Charles Xavier.

Marko and Xavier found a tomb to Cyttorak, and, after a cave-in, Xavier managed to escape, but Marko was trapped inside for years. However, he had the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak, which turned Marko into the unstoppable Juggernaut!

As this powerhouse, he spent years fighting the X-Men, Hulk, pretty much everybody. Eventually, he became really good friends with a criminal named Black Tom Cassidey.

Over the years, Juggernaut mellowed out, and awhile back, he ended up JOINING the X-Men!

He then joined up with Excalibur, and expertly recreated the role of Lennie from Of Mice and Men for awhile ("Dazzler's so purty.")

Now he's off on his own again, probably being a sort of bad guy once more.

34. Pixie - 93 points (1 first place vote)



And in this corner...Armor's challenger for "who gets to be the next old school Kitty Pryde".....Pixie!!!

Megan Gwynn was a cute background character at Xavier's - a shy, friendly girl with pixie wings (she could also produce "pixie dust" that would cause hallucinations) and the ability to teleport.

She came to the forefront a bit when the mutant class shrunk a bit due to the events of M-Day.

She then got a little more bad ass when she traded a piece of her soul to create a magic Soul Dagger that is actually part of her soul!

She is now the POV character for the X-Men (and she was attacked by some mutant-hating thugs).

[Brian Cronin]

33. Chamber - 97 points (3 first place votes)



When Jonothon Starsmore's power developed, it showed up via a blown hole in the young lad's chest, destroying much of of his upper chest and his lower skull.

Pretty gross, eh?

Anyhow, Jono could only talk via telepathy, and could not (and did not NEED to) sleep.

He ended up joining Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, and the Generation X group of youngsters.

Jono ended up graduating to the full team of X-Men, where he served for awhile. Afterwards, he decided it would be better if he went to college, to serve as a sort of ambassador to the public.

After this time, he went undercover in Weapon X. Weapon X gave him a new body, but when M-Day hit, the new body fell apart, and Jono was pretty screwed.

As it turned out, though, Jono's ancestors included some servants of Apocalypse, so the Apocalypse servents gave Jono brand new powers, allowing him to basically finally live a pretty normal life - but then some stuff happened that it's best not to discuss.

32. Sage - 101 points (2 first place votes)



Sage was a young girl when she met Charles Xavier, who had been crippled in a fight with a bad guy named Lucifer. She brought him to safety. Xavier then enlisted Tessa (her name, natch) as his spy inside the Hellfire Club, which is where she remained for many years.

Eventually, she broke cover and joined the X-Treme X-Men as Sage. She stayed with the team until they disbanded.

She then went to join the newly formed Excalibur, but during a fight, she went undercover and created an identity so strong that it still fights with her mind today.

And afterwards, in a battle involving the Exiles, Sage was given the knowledge of Roma, so Sage is now with the Exiles, trying to keep all the voices straight in her head, but especially worrying about the undercover identity who keeps trying to take over control of Sage's body.

31. Lady Mastermind - 104 points

Lady Mastermind's bosum - 52 points each



Regan Wyngarde is the daughter of the original Mastermind. And yes, I realize we already saw the daughter of the original Mastermind, but, well, this is his OTHER daughter.

I'm sure it seemed like a necessary addition at the time.

Anyhow, she fought the X-Treme X-Men, but then later found herself captured and taken in by the X-Men. She eventually joined the team, only to turn out to be working for the Marauders undercover.

Wolverine stabbed her in the chest, but as seen with Rachel Summers, that is not the most effective way of actually killing someone, apparently (you'd think it would work out pretty well) and she is now alive and well and in character limbo.

[Brian Cronin]

30. Cable - 108 points (1 first place vote)



Cable is the superpowered son of Cyclops and Maddie Pryor, who was infected by Apocalypse with the techno-organic virus, which there was no cure for in our time. Sadly, Cyclops was forced to send his son to the future, where he hopefully would be cured.

In the futue, Nathan Summers grew up and learned to use his vast telekinetic powers to hold the techno-organic virus in check, and as he grew older, he became quite a thorn in the side of Apocalypse.

Later, Cable brought the fight to Apocalypse by going back in time to fight him in the 20th century. Ultimately, Cable discovered that Sam Guthrie supposedly was to be an important figure for mutants - so Cable went back and assumed control of Sam's team, the New Mutants, turning them into X-Force.

Later on, when Cyclops was possessed by Apocalypse, Cable joined the X-Men for a short period of time.

He just recently returned to them, then seemingly was killed by, of all people, Gambit and Sunfire (srsly?). But SHOCKINGLY....

I mean SHOCKINGLY...

I mean, lord, I was BLINDSIDED by this....

This could not be predicted by ANYONE!!

He was not really dead, and now he is tediously protecting a baby the size of a mouse from Now-Evil-Bishop.

[Brian Cronin]

29. M - 119 points (1 first place vote)



Monet St. Croix was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia to an Ambassador father. She had a brother and two twin sisters and yadda yadda yadda, the twins were now pretending to be Monet.

She joined Generation X and served with the team for awhile and yadda yadda yadda, Monet was once more M.

Then Generation X broke up and yadda yadda yadda M was with the X-Men on this mission where Angel got the blue sucked out of him (which was completely and totally logical).

Then yadda yadda yadda, M is a member of X-Factor, where she uses her strength, her telepathy, yadda yadda yadda...tant perceiving aura to fight the good fight (bitchily, of course).

28. X-23/Talon/Claws/Stab Girl/McStabby - 119 points (5 first place votes)



X-23 is a clone of Wolverine who was raised and trained as a bad-ass killer.

She was taken in by the X-Men to curb her of her killing ways, except for when Cyclops figured he could use her terrible childhood training for his own purposes.

She was also on the New X-Men for awhile.

[Brian Cronin]

27. Cecilia Reyes - 137 points (2 first place votes)



Cecilia Reyes hid her mutant ability to have a shield envelop her and work as a defensive (and, if she concentrates, an OFFENSIVE) tool from people for years as she grew up and entered medical school and became an emergency room doctor. Unfortunately for her, the evil dude Bastion had other plans, and when he sent Omega Sentinels to terminate any mutants they found, well, they found her.

Luckily, the X-Man Iceman showed up to save her, and the two teamed up with Sabra and Marrow to keep ahead of Bastion until the US government finally wised up and shut Bastion down.

Now, hanging out with the X-Men, Cecilia tried desperately to keep her old job as a doctor.

Unfortunately, the bigots wouldn't let that happen. So Cecilia was basically stuck being an X-Men. She was on the team for awhile until the teams reshuffled.

The next we saw of Cecilia, she was running a small clinic near the X-Men's mansion.

She was trapped with Nightcrawler against some Neo members, and was forced to use an addictive drug to power herself up so she could stay alive.



After she detoxed, she just hung around - until there was another reshuffling. This time, Cecilia was nowhere to be seen, until we next saw her in a mutant concentration camp in the pages of Weapon X.

Apparently, she was killed there. Which makes sense, because it's not like she's popular or anything. Ranking higher than Cable and both new Kitty Pryde stand ins, that's no big deal or anything. No one is interested in her.

26. Jubilee - 142 points (3 first place votes)



Jubilation Lee grew up the daughter of rich Chinese immigrants. However, when her parents were accidentally murdered, she ended up in an orphanage.

Jubilee broke free and ended up living in a mall. The mall security ended up hiring "mutant hunters" to get her out, but the mutant hunters picked the wrong time to do so, as the female members of the X-Men had teleported to the mall to shop, so they trounced the mutant hunters. Jubilee snuck along with the X-Men when they returned to their Australian home.

Jubilee lived on the Australian base of the X-Men, hidden, for awhile (even wearing their extra clothing), until she ended up having to save Wolverine's life from the evil Reavers.

For awhile, she travelled the world as Wolverine's partner, basically. And was even an X-Man!

Ultimately, though, when the X-teams expanded, a kid was a bit out of place, so Jubilee basically just hung around the mansion until Generation X formed, with Jubilee as the founding member of the group.

After they broke up, Jubilee tried her hand at acting with her friend, Skin. However, the two were kidnapped and crucified on the X-Men's lawn as a message. Jubilee survived - Skin did not. Jubilee, then, realized she wanted to have sex with Skin's corpse.

She hung out with the X-Men for awhile, going on a few missions, then went to go live with her newly discovered aunt in California. She returned back (after her aunt was presumed dead) just in time for House of M, where she lost her powers.

I don't know what she's up to nowadays.

No idea.

I try to think of it, but my mind just blanks.

[Brian Cronin]

25. Banshee - 143 points (1 first place vote - I wonder who from?)



Sean Cassidey worked for the international crime-fighting organization Interpol. He had sonic powers, but kept them hidden from everyone.

While on a mission that took him away from his wife for quite some time, his wife was killed. His wife was pregnant when Sean left (neither he nor his wife knew at the time) and gave birth while he was away. Sean's nefarious cousin Black Tom Cassidey took the daughter and raised her on his own, so Sean didn't know he had a daughter until many years later.

After his wife's death, Sean threw himself into his work, and eventually became a freelancer - which led to some crime on his part. At this time, the evil organization Factor Three forced Sean to be a member of the group.

Luckily, the X-Men rescued him and he helped them defeat Factor Three.

Later, when Xavier needed new X-Men, Sean joined the All-New, All-Different X-Men, and stayed with the team until he lost his powers saving Japan from Moses Magnum.

Later on, he rejoined the team when his powers returned. He left the team again to hang out with his love, Moira MacTaggert (which is where he was when he had no powers). He eventually came back to be the Headmaster of the new school for mutants. During this period, Moira was killed.

This freaked Sean out, so he was manipulated into forming the X-Corps.



At the end of the debacle, his throat was sliced by Mystique.

He slowly regained his powers, but while doing some research for Xavier, he discovered some horrible news. Upon returning home, though, the villain Vulcan sent a Blackbird shooting at his commercial airline. Banshee flew out to try to stop the Blackbird, but he was unable to do so - and the Blackbird collided into him and the commercial airliner, killing all the passengers.

Quite a death for a hero, eh?

Horribly failing to save hundreds of innocents.

Not that I'm bitter or anything.

[Brian Cronin]

24. Professor X - 150 points



Charles Xavier is a powerful telepath who formed the X-Men (because Mister Sinister implanted something in his head to tell him to do so, I'm sure).

He remained as the head of the school for many years, until he eventually left the team to be with his "wife" Lilandra in the Shi'ar Empire (most likely because Mister Sinister implanted something in his head to tell him to do so).

He returned some years afterward, and he stayed with the team, even though he had some absences here and there (most of them due to an implant in his mind by Mister Sinister, the coolest character ever).



After the events of House of M, Professor X disappeared, for it turned out Scarlet Witch gave him the use of his legs again, but stripped him of his mutant powers (Mister Sinister was not involved....or was he?).

He returned when the former X-man Vulcan demanded his revenge on Xavier. Vulcan then took off to revenge himself on the Shi'ar Empire. Xavier couldn't have this, so he formed a team of X-Men to go stop Vulcan (pretty sure it is because Mister Sinister wanted him to do that).

During the battle in space, Xavier had his mental abilities returned (Sinister was uninvolved).

After his return, Cyclops was really mad at him, so Professor X used this rage to make Nightcrawler feel like he was actually useful, and went looking for Magneto with Kurt (Mister Sinister wanted him to do this, of course).

However, during Messiah Complex, Professor Xavier was shot in the head by Bishop, who was actually trying to assasinate Cable (the way the writers assasinated Bishop's character - Sinister probably told them to do so).

The mutant Exodus (who was just working with...guess who?) healed Xavier, but now there are holes in Xavier's memory, so he is currently traveling the world, finding himself - while, of course, being mindful that around each corner, something Sinister might come.

23. Mystique - 171 points (1 first place vote)



Mystique has worn many hats, which makes sense, with her shapeshifting abilities.

She's been a mercenary, she's been an adventurer, she's been a sociopath - she's been all over the place.

Recently, though, she added "X-Man" to her list of accomplishments, as she asked to become a member of the X-Men (presumably to keep tabs on her foster daughter, Rogue). Later, when Rogue was allowed to choose her own team of X-Men, she chose Mystique to be a member, presumably to keep tabs on HER.

This stint with the X-Men, however, was all part of a ruse by Mystique. One of those, "To save you from a stubbed toe, Rogue, I will shoot you in the leg!" things.

Along the way, Mystique played upon her gender-bending abilities to get Iceman to fall for her.



She then used that opportunity to screw him over.

After Messiah Complex, Wolverine gutted her and left her for dead, but while you would think he would notice that the people he guts never seem to actually die, he didn't - and she recently came back to screw with Iceman some more.

[Brian Cronin]

22. Dani Moonstar - 181 points (1 first place vote)



Danielle Moonstar was born in Colorado as a member of the Cheyenne tribe.

She was mostly raised by her grandfather, and after an attempt to kidnap Danielle by the Hellfire Club fails (in which her grandfather tragically dies), Dani is taken in by Charles Xavier who makes her one of his New Mutants.

She serves with the New Mutants for many years, most of them as co-leader of the team.

She lost a bet and was forced to use the lame name Psyche for awhile, as her power was to tell what people were most afraid of and show it to them.

Later, she lost a separate bet, and took the name Mirage.

Along the way, she also gained the ability to make her psychic manisfestations tangible.

She ended up leaving the New Mutants after she was taken in by the Valkyries (she was made a Valkyrie on an earlier trip to Asgard).

She returned and joined with her former New Mutants friends in X-Force.

When X-Force broke up, Dani ended up joining the X-Men, part-time, mostly working with Forge as a sort of advance scout for the team.

She then became an instructor at Xavier's, but on M-Day, most of her charges lost their powers, and Dani lost hers, too.

She was so saddened by the loss of her powers that she went out and got plastic surgery to get larger breasts to help with her confidence.



Where's my No-Prize?!?

I'm sure she'll get her powers back some day in the future!

At the very least, she can always change her personality and get mechanical-derived powers from some guy.

21. Havok - 201 points (3 first place votes)



Alexander Summers was split from his brother Scott early on, as the two boys were both in an orphanage, but Alex was less of a loser than his brother, so he got adopted, while his loser brother did not.

They did not meet until many years later, as young adults, when Alex was manipulated by this dude named The Living Pharaoh as basically a power cell, transforming the Pharaoh guy into the Living Monolith. The X-men showed up to stop the Living Monolith.

It was at this time that Alex first demonstrated his powers - but they were SO powerful, he could not control himself, so decided not to go home with the X-Men, even though he finally reunited with his long-lost brother, Scott.

Soon after, Larry Trask captured Alex and built him a suit that could contain his cosmic energy. After the X-Men defeated Trask, Havok now joined them, because the suit could help him learn to control his powers. He fell for his teammate, Lorna Dane, and the two eventually quit the team to study, of all things, geophysics (Alex never struck me as having the highest cognitive capacity, but who knows?)!!

Eventually, due to unforeseen circumstances (namely, Lorna being turned into an evil mutant), Havok rejoined the X-Men, which he stayed with until the team split up at the Siege Perilous. After going through the Siege Perilous, Alex thought that he was a magistrate in Genosha (mutant soldiers, basically).

After realizing he wasn't actually a magistrate in Genosha, he became the leader of a new team of government-sanctioned mutants, X-Factor. He re-teamed with his old girlfriend, Lorna, and they rekindled their romance. He left the team, though, to go undercover with a mutant terrorist group. He returned just in time to seemingly be killed in an explosion, but in actuality, he was sent to an alternate universe, where he stayed for awhile.

Upon returning, he came back in a coma. The nurse who helped him had this son who had this freaky power over people's minds, so he had Alex and the Nurse "meet" in dreams, so when Alex woke up, he was in love with the Nurse.

Upon his recovery, he rejoined the X-Men.



Alex was on the team for quite awhile, but reecently, he learned he had ANOTHER brother, the evil mutant, Vulcan, who was on his way to destroy the Shi'ar Empire. Alex joined Professor X's team of X-Men to go stop him (and his old girlfriend Lorna came along as well).

During the battle, Vulcan killed his and Alex's father, the space pirate Corsair.

Due to a teleportation error, Alex was left stranded in outer space with Lorna and Alex's "niece," Rachel. They have since kept fighting the good fight with Vulcan (who has since become the King of the Shi'ar Empire).

[Brian Cronin]

20. Dazzler - 215 points (8 first place votes)

Alison Blaire discovered her mutant power as she was singing at a high school dance. Everyone figured it was just a light show. After high school, she decided to make her living as a singer, which is what she did. However, while she didn't actively LOOK for trouble, she always seemed to end up having to use her special powers to do some good.



Eventually, after she publically revealed she was a mutant, her career hit the skids (filthy bigots!). So she figured she might as well become a flat-out superhero. She got a fancy costume and joined the X-Men.



She stayed with the team until they split up into the Siege Perilous. Ali was in the Mojoverse with Longshot, helping to lead a rebellion against the bad guys, but ultimately, she came back to Earth, and seemed content to just be Alison Blaire - awesome singer.

However, after some hoodlums sent by the Shadow King attacked her, Ali ended up becoming a member of the newly formed Excalibur, where she started dying a lot. Then she hooked up with Longshot again, and left the team.



She apparently will be joining the X-Men someday. When is a bit unclear. Next issue, I guess?