Many X-characters have died over the years...Some shocking, some close to home, some you never even knew happened. Which ones really tugged on your heartstrings the most or had the most emotional impact on you as a reader?
@time: I think Cable should have died for real or stayed dead here.
In answer to the original question. I think the saddest death is that of the Xmen at the hands of Marvel. Lol yeah I know overdramatic right. But seriously they been killing the franchise slowly but surely
I thought Warren's death was really sad. Him losing out to his death persona and then having Psylocke give him a perfect do-over where they lived happily ever after in his head got to me.
I know it's not a literal death, but one could argue that Piotr died along with his sister. His reaction(lack of) when informed of her death is haunting.
Does Legion making it so he was never born count? That gutted me.
Magneto's 'death' during the razing of Genosha got me, too. The comic where Quicksilver and the others find a crazed Polaris after the razing and they hear his last words, one of the saddest things I've read in a comic. Honorable mention to Wallflower's death in NXM.
It's too obvious, I know, but Jean's death in the final issue of the Dark Phoenix Saga really hits me. I don't even know what it is that makes it work so well, but somehow that issue stands out so strongly against the rest of Claremont's run.
Also want to mention that Logan's "death" was so close to being great, the montage of all his accomplishments was really nice, it was just ruined a little by the lacklustre "suffocating in adamantium" ending (because we all know he's totally still alive in there)
this one is easy for me, and maybe its because i didnt know it was going to happen when i read it but
He is easy one of my top 5 favorite characters ever, and unlike jeans death and such I where i knew what was going to happen in the story before i read it for myself I had no idea that Nightcrawler was going to bite the dust. He did it saving the mutant messiah despite being extremely angry with what cyclops had been doing with X Force, then he still managed to teleport her to utopia. Its very fitting his character and it really made me sad. So boo ya Nightcrawler!!
One of the saddest death scenes in all the x-films. It hurt when almost every one of the x-men died in the ultimate universe. Remember when all the students died after MDay. That was sad.
Going with Jean's death in New X-Men, as well. It sounds corny, but that was the death of the heart and soul of the X-Men realized for a second time - the team has felt more shallow, and less cohesive since she died.
Also want to mention that Logan's "death" was so close to being great, the montage of all his accomplishments was really nice, it was just ruined a little by the lacklustre "suffocating in adamantium" ending (because we all know he's totally still alive in there)
He had no healing factor so he is as dead as you can be. Besides it would make no difference at all. Drowning or suffocating is one of the ways you can kill someone with a healing factor. That is how Daken planned on killing Logan and that is how Daken himself died despite his healing factor.
Also want to mention that Logan's "death" was so close to being great, the montage of all his accomplishments was really nice, it was just ruined a little by the lacklustre "suffocating in adamantium" ending (because we all know he's totally still alive in there)
He had no healing factor so he is as dead as you can be. Besides it would make no difference at all. Drowning or suffocating is one of the ways you can kill someone with a healing factor. That is how Daken planned on killing Logan and that is how Daken himself died despite his healing factor.
Unfortunately 'drowning to death' is debatable-- Remember Logan drowned in days of future past and ended up fine.
Also want to mention that Logan's "death" was so close to being great, the montage of all his accomplishments was really nice, it was just ruined a little by the lacklustre "suffocating in adamantium" ending (because we all know he's totally still alive in there)
He had no healing factor so he is as dead as you can be. Besides it would make no difference at all. Drowning or suffocating is one of the ways you can kill someone with a healing factor. That is how Daken planned on killing Logan and that is how Daken himself died despite his healing factor.
Unfortunately 'drowning to death' is debatable-- Remember Logan drowned in days of future past and ended up fine.
That's from a movie made by FOX though. Not really comparable for obvious reasons and again Logan had no healing factor to begin with.
Also want to mention that Logan's "death" was so close to being great, the montage of all his accomplishments was really nice, it was just ruined a little by the lacklustre "suffocating in adamantium" ending (because we all know he's totally still alive in there)
He had no healing factor so he is as dead as you can be. Besides it would make no difference at all. Drowning or suffocating is one of the ways you can kill someone with a healing factor. That is how Daken planned on killing Logan and that is how Daken himself died despite his healing factor.
Now, I know these are different characters so they have different abilities but Icarus survived drowning and being underwater due to his healing factor.
Also want to mention that Logan's "death" was so close to being great, the montage of all his accomplishments was really nice, it was just ruined a little by the lacklustre "suffocating in adamantium" ending (because we all know he's totally still alive in there)
He had no healing factor so he is as dead as you can be. Besides it would make no difference at all. Drowning or suffocating is one of the ways you can kill someone with a healing factor. That is how Daken planned on killing Logan and that is how Daken himself died despite his healing factor.
I'm pretty sure that's how it works, too. You'd need an adaptive ability like Darwin's to survive drowning. When you are drowning or suffocating, there is no real injury to regenerate from via a healing factor - your body is deprived of oxygen; that's the problem. You can regenerate the microinjuries to your lungs, but there is still no oxygen. All regeneration would do is make sure you have a good looking corpse.
@galerion: It just seems so much like that death was done specifically to allow for an "easy way out" - a way to bring back Logan when they want to. I'd be surprised if they don't end up saying that Wolverine's loss of healing factor was only temporary, or that the serum Kitty injected him with somehow kickstarted it again with a slight delay.
Just the way they "killed" him by having him encased in adamantium seems bizarre unless it's an intentional set up for his return, kind of "leaving the key in the door" for whatever writer ends up bringing Logan back.
@galerion: It just seems so much like that death was done specifically to allow for an "easy way out" - a way to bring back Logan when they want to. I'd be surprised if they don't end up saying that Wolverine's loss of healing factor was only temporary, or that the serum Kitty injected him with somehow kickstarted it again with a slight delay.
Just the way they "killed" him by having him encased in adamantium seems bizarre unless it's an intentional set up for his return, kind of "leaving the key in the door" for whatever writer ends up bringing Logan back.
Or that death was done because Charles Soule had a follow up book in the making called Wolverines where recovering him was one of the plot points.
It also made his life come full circle. The indestructible metal that made him into what he was was also what killed him in the end. Ironic.
Marvel doesn't need an "easy way out" if they want to bring something or someone back.
@galerion: Maybe "easy way out" was a bad way of putting it, I just meant they left their options open rather than having him 100% confirmed dead which makes it harder to bring him back when they want to.
I didn't read Wolverines, so I may be completely wrong here, but could that series not have worked without the adamantium thing? Couldn't they just have been recovering Logan's body?
Honestly I have no idea if I'm right or not, everything you're saying makes sense and if I turn out to be wrong I'll be the first to admit it (I kinda hope I am wrong honestly) but I was just explaining why I wasn't as sad about Wolverine's death as I could have been - I would have been sadder about it if I hadn't instantly thought of a way he might still be alive. Just felt like there were other ways of killing him that would have had more resonance, at least with me.
Northstar's death back in like 2004 really gets to me purely because of everyone's reactions (especially Bobby's and the kids'). Elixir healing his wounds and not understanding why he wasn't getting up broke my heart. That was the saddest death for me.
Followed closely by the bus bombing a few New X-Men issues later.
First that pops in my mind is all the depowered New Mutants, Hellions and other students that were killed on that bus when Stryker attacked. They were kids. Many of them I had been reading for a couple years up to that point so I adjusted to them, tends to happen to many characters I like once in a while. Whenever any mutants are killed with such hate it saddens me. Just reminds me that for the last few decades of stories that Xavier's dream has really reached such a bottom that sometimes I get mad at Marvel for writing them going through so much of that chaos.
@koays: Truer words never spoken, bro. Sometimes I wonder where they find these guys.
Now that I think about it some more, when Charles Xavier himself died it hit me; the mutants had reached such a low state of affairs that after looking back on it all the struggles that the death of Xavier could possibly be the saddest of them all. Because with him gone, so went his legacy, well sort of.
Yeah I know, "they'll bring him back one day" and all that jazz. Still, it had been a real rough few years for Chuck before his death and then for me as a reader it's kind of like, feeling really bleak for the X-Men currently that he's dead. Despite all that he'd been through I always viewed him as kind of an "anchor" to retaining just a little of what the X-Men were originally about. It was his dream to see realized after all.
@koays: Truer words never spoken, bro. Sometimes I wonder where they find these guys.
Now that I think about it some more, when Charles Xavier himself died it hit me; the mutants had reached such a low state of affairs that after looking back on it all the struggles that the death of Xavier could possibly be the saddest of them all. Because with him gone, so went his legacy, well sort of.
Yeah I know, "they'll bring him back one day" and all that jazz. Still, it had been a real rough few years for Chuck before his death and then for me as a reader it's kind of like, feeling really bleak for the X-Men currently that he's dead. Despite all that he'd been through I always viewed him as kind of an "anchor" to retaining just a little of what the X-Men were originally about. It was his dream to see realized after all.
TBH With Charles dead, there really is no reason for the X-Men to continue existing. Their mission statement is kind of outdated at this point, and none of the surviving members really embody the dream anymore nor have they done so for decades of real time.
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