Namor belongs everywhere

I'd like to see him become an exclusive member

No, the X-men are a family. Namor is too big an ass to be with them. He worked well as a Defender because they were the "Non-Team" team. Depending on the line up he can work with Avengers, cause when your running with gods and cosmic powered beings being Prince of Atlantis isn't really such a big deal.

Namor is an ass, and so are the majority of Marvel's pantheon, unlike him they're just in denial.

Now I kinda even hope Namor to be Bunn's secret character for UXM which I didn't consider in the past. That might be marvelous considering Squadron Supreme are after him, that might bring some explosive dynamics. Although Namor's days as an X-gene positive mutie might be numbered, one might still hope.

Ha!

I thought Namor was a good fit for the Utopia era where the X-men were a political faction and his alliance with them was mutually beneficial. He is one of my all-time favorite marvel characters, so having a plausible reason for them to be allies was a lot of fun.

Does he fit with the X-men in a general sense? Well, what are the X-men? They're a school, they're a superhero team that fights for mutant rights, and sometimes they're just a bunch of mutant outlaws fighting the good fight; those are primarily the only three premises that make the X-men the X-men (albeit with some overlap and variation).

So, does Namor really fit with any of those? I mean, he's got no real reason to hang out at a school, so there's that; he doesn't seem to identify as a mutant the way other mutants do, and it seems a bit out of character for him to hold a strong allegiance to any faction for longer than suits his own needs, so.. I guess not particularly?

But, like say, that's in a general sense, and he has worked well with them before, so to my mind it really depends on the premise and story as to whether you can plausibly justify him being with them. If someone can though, oh boy, because Namor's friggin' great.

@oldnightcrawler: Seems like Namor would be a great fit for something like Uncanny Avengers. I know he's not necessarily about Unity but if there was some amalgam of the Illuminati idea coupled with Unity squad thing he might fit at least in a say what needs to said and do what others won't do anti-hero role

@hawk2916: I could picture that, I guess, but I have a hard time picturing his motivation for wanting to be on that kind of team.

@oldnightcrawler: Yeah. I was thinking really just to make sure Atlantis is represented and that Atlantis reaps any rewards or benefits. Also wanting to be in the know as to whats going on as far as threats, maybe even manipulating things to suit his and Atlantis' interest. But I guess he could just as soon send Namorita to join the team and work as his agent or even Loa

No. I always preferred him working with the Avengers.

@oldnightcrawler: I think you would have to eliminate Atlantis to make him fit full time, maybe a group of Anti Mutant people or Sentinels or something destroy most of Atlantis after namor? Give him more of a revenge plot to side with the X men, make them into his new family his new nation, but yea its hard to see him doing anything that doesnt help him lol

no he just wanted to be with emma and when that didnt happened he left.....hes not really stable and i dont like him.....he looks like a vampire

@hopesummersforthefuture: lol

well, help him or help his people -I do think he's dedicated to that.

He is a hero, after all, he has a sense of honor and of duty; it's just that his main duty is to Atlantis, and whatever he champions sort of needs to be in service of that to make sense with his character. Like you say, there are ways of doing that that could put him with the X-men, or put them on the same side of a thing, but as long as there's Atlanteans that kinda has to be his motivation.

Give Magneto a nation again, Utopia or Genosha or whatever and just let him be 'allied' and join the team! problem solved now make it happen

LMFAO... I swear i had something to contribute to this before i read this....now i feel like everything important has been said.

Yes. I like the fact that he is a part of every faction in the Marvel universe as he was one of Marvel's first characters, and his arrogance could be a good source of conflict for the X-books

Eh, I don't think he should be. Namor's inclusion in the X-Men always struck me as a bit odd if not opportunistic and his story fits well in the Atlantean/FF/Avengers mythology than the X-Men one.

He fits in better with a school of fish rather than a school of mutants so glad he's off doing other things now.

OP compared to what? lol Jean Grey? Nate Grey? Storm? Magneto? yea i think hes just right in the middle when it comes to power compared to X men lol