Which X-men/student has the best Origin

[SayOcean]

I would say Colossus. Why? Well...it's a little different than most origin stories...he didn't have a tragedy or anything that made him become a hero. His mutant powers manifested themselves when a tractor went out of control and almost killed him little sister. Seeing his sister spurred his mutant power to activate and have Xavier confront him. Colossus chose to join the X-men because he wanted to do good...because he is a good person.

No that wasn't the first time he'd used his powers....We don't know when/how he first discovered them, like Blink

[dbcb314]

I would say Wolverine but they kept going back and trying to explain stuff then retcon stuff and then Romulus existed and now it is even more confusing and straight trash.

Genesis's is cool.

[Captain Buttocks]

I quite like Chamber's, although given that i spent a lot of my teenage years wearing black leather and sulking, I cannot imagine why

[pad]

Correct. When she and Corsair are picked-up before they can die in the plane crash, she is taken away by D'Ken and used as his consort, at least partially because she's a trophy being the only and first female human in Shi'Ar space.

Long story short, Adam grows up, rebels against/murders a bunch of spacebirdpeople, and ends-up on Earth.

Right. He should have had a big role in the Shi'ar/Gabriel Summers story. Not only are Gabriel and Adam brothers, but Adam has a legitimate claim to the throne. I know writers have a particular story they want to tell, but they should look at what had been done before. Not using Adam in that story is as big an omission as not using Rachel in AvX. Also, Adam was on Utopia (for some reason) without any mention of his connection to Scott.

[ohsnapulon5000]

No that wasn't the first time he'd used his powers....We don't know when/how he first discovered them, like Blink

I thought Blink sliced up one of her parents the first time she used her powers...

[pad]

I love Magik's origin. It's too bad that writers since then haven't taken advantage of it fully:
1) The story goes that one set of X-Men were stuck in Limbo, while their Illyana escaped, while Magik is from the (main) timeline where the X-Men escaped and she was stuck in Limbo. Unless I'm not remembering it correctly, the Illyana that escaped Limbo should have been the one found in Magik's armor at the end of Inferno, who died of the Legacy virus, not a "de-aged" Illyana. That would mean that the "real" Illyana is still out there in Limbo. There was no need to introduce an Illyana from the House of M storyline who escaped the reality change back to "normal" (who is "out there in space and time") nor a Belasco-revived version that is around now.

2) The Soul-Sword was created from Illyana's own soul. It wasn't something that give the user control of Limbo and could only be used by Illyana, and Kitty (because of their psychic link) when Illyana wasn't around. The Amanda Sefton stories don't fit, although I did like reading them.

3) Time is out of whack in Limbo. There should be Illyanas, New Mutants, X-Men, and anyone else whose spent time in Limbo showing up out of chronological order. It would be interesting to see present-day Illyana talking to Old Witch Storm who trained her. Or alternate versions of characters traveling with their Illyana. This goes with the fact that present day Illyana doesn't use her time-traveling powers that I've mentioned in an Avx thread.

I like Karma's origin. Very tragic. She hasn't been used as effectively as she was in her first appearance when she was able to control the entire Fantastic Four and used them to fight Spiderman. She was weak from malnutrition at the time, which made that feat more impressive.

Magma has a good one, if you ignore the Allison Crestmore stuff. I love that Selene is her great-plus-grandmother.