Which X-Man is "Unluckiest at Love"?

[worstblogever]

Not everyone gets to spend the majority of their time in continuity shacking up with hot redheaded or blonde telepaths, with interims of nailing Colleen Wing and Lee Forrester. Nuh uh.


A lot of the X-Men have terrible romantic histories, where they just can't seem to get things right.


A few examples:

Rogue- Can't touch anybody, and keeps getting jerked around by Gambit.

Wolverine- How many dead girlfriends does this guy have? Seriously.

Iceman - Polaris bails on him for Havok, Nurse Annie jerks him around and leaves for... Havok, Infectia tries to kill him, Opal Tanaka lies to him about having his baby, and Mystique flat-out gives him Nanocrabs and keeps trying to kill him.

Cannonball- He's statutorially raped by Lila Cheney, then hooks up with Boom-Boom (who cheats on him with his best friend), and then has an entire marriage and kids falsified in his mind by Serafina using Lady M to deceive him.

X-23 - Doesn't even know how to process her feelings for Hellion.

Storm- Doesn't marry Forge, despite wanting to. Ends up becoming T'Challa's trophy wife.

Gambit- Married to a woman who wants him dead, and can't touch Rogue.

Jubilee- Doesn't realize she's in love with Skin until he's dead, then contemplates having necrophilic closure by boning his corpse.

Chamber/Decibel- Blows up his first girlfriend, Gayle Edgerton, during their first kiss, and keeps pushing his second love, Husk, away until she ends up as a jailbait squeeze for Warren Worthington.


And so on. Feel free to give your own $0.02 about which X-Man you think is Unluckiest at Love, or thoughts on someone not on this list.

[The Sword Is Drawn]

Wait? Opal had Bobby's kid? When did I miss that?

And don't forget that Cannonball also had the admiration of Marrow... :D

[worstblogever]

Originally Posted by The Sword Is Drawn

Wait? Opal had Bobby's kid? When did I miss that?

And don't forget that Cannonball also had the admiration of Marrow... :D

She didn't. She lied to him about it, in his Marvel "Icons" miniseries. That's what makes him have even worse romantic luck.



Marrow was pretty unlucky at love, herself.

[timbox]

I think Rogue is the easy answer, but Storm has it really bad. BP, ugh.

[Arrogantcur]

I always felt sorriest for Rogue.

But let's not forget about Scott here. He may not be the unluckiest guy in X-lore, but he deserves to be on the list.

First girlfriend seemingly dies. Then he gets her back and she dies again.

In between there was Madelyne, who ended up being a pawn of one of his enemies. (I'm usually the first to defend Maddie against any of her detractors, and believe that she really did have a good reason to turn on Scott. Still, you have to admit that the two of them getting together was "unlucky" for both. Come to think of it, Madelyne is also very unlucky in love.)

Finally he ends up with Emma Frost. And he can do better than Emma!!! Not to mention that the relationship has driven a wedge between him and his daughter. (Hey, now that I mention that, how does Cable feel about Scott and Emma? Scott's his pop too, right?)

[timbox]

Scott is lucky to get any attention at all from Emma. He has nothing to complain about.

[worstblogever]

Warpath has had it kind of rough...

He finds out the hot Latina girl he's hooking up with is trying to exploit their relationship to get him to work for Sledge... he and Siryn had a "not-quite" unrealized relationship... and then, he starts boning an intergalactic cat/skunk lady widow on the rebound...

Not exactly the best of luck, there.

[nikbackm]

Originally Posted by Arrogantcur

Finally he ends up with Emma Frost. And he can do better than Emma!!! Not to mention that the relationship has driven a wedge between him and his daughter. (Hey, now that I mention that, how does Cable feel about Scott and Emma? Scott's his pop too, right?)

Rachel is not his daughter and even if she was, no big loss. Cable on the other hand is not the type to get hangups over things like this. Neither should he considering that he's older than his dad.

[worstblogever]

Originally Posted by nikbackm

Rachel is not his daughter and even if she was, no big loss. Cable on the other hand is not the type to get hangups over things like this. Neither should he considering that he's older than his dad.

He never seemed to whine about Jean not being his real mom, either.

[Arrogantcur]

Originally Posted by nikbackm

Rachel is not his daughter and even if she was, no big loss.

It's true that the Scott from this timeline didn't actually conceive her, but I always got the impression that the two of them thought of one another as father and daughter following Scott's eventual discovery of her origin.

"No big loss"?!?!!?? Grrr...

Originally Posted by worstblogever

Jubilee- Doesn't realize she's in love with Skin until he's dead, then contemplates having necrophilic closure by boning his corpse.

Something tells me that there's a certain degree of exaggeration here.... :rolleyes:

[nikbackm]

Originally Posted by Arrogantcur

It's true that the Scott from this timeline didn't actually conceive her, but I always got the impression that the two of them thought of one another as father and daughter following Scott's eventual discovery of her origin.

I am sure his thoughts on that matter changed rather quickly when she started throwing tantrums like a spoiled brat.

[worstblogever]

Originally Posted by Arrogantcur

Something tells me that there's a certain degree of exaggeration here.... :rolleyes:

What are you talking about? Brian Cronin informed me of how it shook down at Skin's funeral.

[bookguy]

As to Cyclops:

Let's not forget him losing Jean Grey twice (once as Dark Phoenix - by suicide) and twice as Phoenix - killed by Magneto).

Or Madelyine Pryor (the clone).
Or Lee (post-Jean, pre-Madelyine).

The guy's a born loser.

[worstblogever]

Originally Posted by bookguy

As to Cyclops:

Let's not forget him losing Jean Grey twice (once as Dark Phoenix - by suicide) and twice as Phoenix - killed by Magneto).

Or Madelyine Pryor (the clone).
Or Lee (post-Jean, pre-Madelyine).

The guy's a born loser.

A loser who's been getting laid regularly since the Silver Age.

Poor, poor Scott.

[frog]

Scott didn't lose Maddie - he up and left!