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    The X-Men are a superhero team of mutants founded by Professor Charles Xavier. They are dedicated to helping fellow mutants and sworn to protect a world that fears and hates them.

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    #1  Edited By David_James

    Cyclops, Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Storm, Beast, Iceman, Gambit, Jean Grey, Kitty Pryde, Rogue, Psylocke, Angel, Cable, Magneto, Professor Xavier, Bishop, Emma Frost, Mystique, and X-23.

    Put them in order from favorite to least favorite. Mine would be

    1. Colossus
    2. Nightcrawler
    3. Jean Grey
    4. Emma Frost
    5. Wolverine
    6. Cyclops
    7. Professor Xavier
    8. Magneto
    9. Rogue
    10. Gambit
    11. Mystique
    12. Cable
    13. Kitty Pryde
    14. Psylocke
    15. Storm
    16. Iceman
    17. Angel
    18. X23
    19. Bishop
    20. Beast
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    Cyke

    Jean

    Rogue

    Emma

    Xavier

    Mags

    Cable

    Kitty

    Psylocke

    X23

    Logan

    Storm

    Bishop

    Iceman

    Angel

    Mystique

    Beast

    Gambit

    Oh wait..No Rachel...my own list is invalid.

    Wait I've got it.

    1. Rachel Grey

    2. Rachel Summers

    3. Phoenix II(Rachel)

    4. Mother Aksani

    5. Marvel Girl

    6. Blue Phoenix

    7. Starchilde

    8. Bright Lady

    9. Aly'zrn Summers etc

    10. My Wife

    Ahh...all is right with the world.

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    @koays: Why X-23 over Logan?

    On topic, I'd rank them somthing like this:

    1. Cable
    2. Rogue
    3. Colossus
    4. Psylocke
    5. Logan
    6. Cyclops
    7. Gambit
    8. Jean Grey
    9. Nightcrawler
    10. Professor Xavier
    11. Storm
    12. Mystique
    13. Emma Frost
    14. Bishop
    15. Magneto
    16. Angel
    17. Beast
    18. X-23
    19. Kitty
    20. Iceman
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    @netherlandman: X23 is a simple character with straight forward and understandable disposition. Logan is whatever they want him to be in a given issue..if there's a fine line between complex and inconsistent..he's firmly on the inconsistent side.

    Laura just does her character and character traits more justice then Wolverine has done his own in most stories from the last decade..especially in the last 5 years.

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    @koays: That's true. Jason Aaron was terrible and so was Daniel Way.

    I never got the X-23 hype though. It sounds the same as saying that you like Ben Reilly more than Spider-Man.

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    @netherlandman: Nah...X23 has next to nothing in common with Logan. Their similarities start and stop with their powers. Totally different personalities and mindsets

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    #8  Edited By NetherlandMan

    @koays: I haven't read any of her solos besides the current one but in what I have read she always seemed to have a simular personality to classic Wolverine. In the first couple issues of her current solo it looked like half of the dialogue was written for Wolverine. In the last couple X-Men runs with her she hasn't been written like Wolverine but her fans say she was written out of charecter.

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    More Beast hate. I'd better rectify this:

    1 Professor X

    2 Nightcrawler

    3 Storm

    4 Beast

    5 Rogue

    6 Cyclops

    7 Logan

    8 Jean Grey

    9 Colossus

    10 Kitty Pryde

    11 Emma Frost

    12 Mystique

    13 Cable

    14 Gambit

    15 X-23

    16 Magneto

    17 Iceman

    18 Bishop

    19 Psylocke

    20 Angel

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    #10  Edited By Koays

    @netherlandman: Nothing like Classic Logan. Idk what you've read...but she's pretty much a brooding introvert with trust issues and difficulty interacting with people.

    She might fit into a Logan like role on a team (charge the enemy, smarter/more experienced then others her age) but she's NOTHING like him.

    The OOC started in Bendis' All New X-Men run and continued a bit into the early issues of her solo and pretty much every issue of the current volume of All New X-Men. Otherwise her solos and team features don't depict her anything like Logan accept at his most feral.

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    @koays: I've read just about everything except for her solos. For the most part I haven't read the Wolverine solos in the last decade. I know she appears there a lot. The only thing I really liked her in was X-Force by Greg Kyle and Christopher Yost.

    When she was first introduced in Uncanny X-Men by Claremont she seemed the same as Logan was in a classic Alpha Flight story. That is where she was first introduced to me. She didn't seem like very much more than a Wolverine clone there which is why I never bothered with her. I tried to read her again in her current ongoing and once again she seemed like a Wolverine clone.

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    1. Wolverine

    2. Wolverine

    3. ECT

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    @netherlandman: Checkout NYX and New X-Men by Kyle and Yost. K&Y created the character so they have the strongest grasp of the character (though their original concept was just of a aggressive teenage girl without the darkness that she came to) the NYX book is sort of the strongest starting point to pin down her personality. You sort of need to pair NYX and her Uncanny appearance together to shape out who she was supposed to be.

    I think you have to dig deep to find X-23s personality in Logan. And even then there's so much of him that is polar opposite to her. X acts more like an abused animal trying to understand then anything else early on and it's easier to associate her with other characters in the "stoic dark teen" archetype then anything like Logan.

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    1. Colossus

    2. Storm

    3. Nightcrawler

    4. Emma Frost

    5. Magneto

    6. Rogue

    7. Kitty Pryde

    8. Wolverine

    9. Professor X

    10. Mystique

    11. Psylocke

    12. Beast

    13. Jean Grey

    14. Cyclops

    15. Iceman

    16. Angel

    17. X-23

    18. Bishop

    19. Gambit

    20. Cable

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    1. Magneto
    2. Psylocke
    3. Wolverine
    4. Gambit
    5. Colossus
    6. Emma Frost
    7. Rogue
    8. Kitty Pryde
    9. Storm
    10. Cable
    11. Nightcrawler
    12. Mystique
    13. Professor X
    14. Beast
    15. Cyclops
    16. Jean Grey
    17. Iceman
    18. X23
    19. Bishop
    20. Angel
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    #16  Edited By MicroSoft
    1. Professor X
    2. Magneto
    3. Wolverine
    4. Cyclops
    5. Rogue
    6. Storm
    7. Beast
    8. Gambit
    9. Jean Grey
    10. Colossus
    11. Psylocke
    12. Bishop
    13. Kitty Pryde
    14. Nightcrawler
    15. Mystique
    16. Iceman
    17. X23
    18. Emma Frost
    19. Angel
    20. Cable
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    1. Magneto (one of the best characters in comics period)
    2. Cyclops (ever since he was possessed by Apocalypse)
    3. Kitty Pryde (based on Whedon's run)
    4. Emma Frost (based on Morrison + Whedon's runs)
    5. Jean Grey (her character isn't as reliably awesome but she has the best storylines)
    6. Xavier (sometimes writers take the Xavier is evil thing too far)
    7. Rogue (awesome mutation and personality)
    8. Nightcrawler (when he's swashbuckling!)
    9. Storm (she has potential but writers tend to drop the ball with her character)
    10. Wolverine (amazing in small doses)
    11. Colossus
    12. Mystique (her character frequently has muddy motives or she just seems petty, great powers tho)
    13. Beast (loved him before Bendis, love the eloquent and kind scientist inside a monster's body)
    14. Iceman (has never really fulfilled potential, but he's a funny guy with awesome powers)
    15. Psylocke (great visual design, messy origins, a good but not great character)
    16. Cable (I've never read one of his books so take this with a great of salt)
    17. Gambit (cool as hell but he seems a bit shallow, his one great story was with Sinister)
    18. Angel (great story of losing his wings and working for Apocalypse, but has a dull personality)
    19. X-23 (never loved Wolverine and so I've never gotten Laura's appeal)
    20. Bishop (cool powers but the time displaced thing isn't for me and he was always a bit annoying)

    Should have been considered:
    Dazzler (between Iceman and Psylocke), Jubilee (between Gambit and Angel), Magik (right after Colossus), M (after Angel and before X-23), Rachel Grey (after Iceman but before Dazzler)

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    1. Magneto

    2. Wolverine

    3. Emma Frost

    4. Rogue

    5. Kitty Pryde

    6. Storm

    7. Cyclops

    8. Mystique

    9. Colossus

    10. Iceman

    11. Jean Grey

    12. Gambit

    13. Bishop

    14. Beast

    15. Professor X

    16. Nightcrawler

    17. Angel

    18. Cable

    19. Psylocke

    20. X-23

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    @koays: Whats the Difference between Rachel Grey and Rachel Summers? Aren't they the same person?

    on topic:

    1.Wolverine

    2.Rogue

    3.Gambit

    4.Nightcrawler

    5.Beast

    6.Psylocke

    7.Jean Grey

    8. Kitty Pryde

    9.X-23

    10.Colossus

    11.Storm

    12.Magneto

    13.Professor X

    14.Mystique

    15. Cable

    16.Bishop

    17. Iceman

    18 Angle

    19.Cyclopse

    20.Emma Frost

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    @lxlgiftedlxl: Lol...every single person i listed in that top 10 is Rachel Grey by a different name.

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    @koays: lolz really? I didnt know Im not super familiar with Rachel and alot of xmen.

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    @lxlgiftedlxl: Well, while id argue there are more important X-Men to follow up first to familiarize yourself with...Rachel is definetly someone interesting to check up on and take you out of the standard x-fan box.

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    @koays: Ah what are some of the more x-men i should follow? And what rachel stories should I read?

    I have only read X-Titles pre AvX.

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    @lxlgiftedlxl: lol...that is a very loaded question no matter how i approach it.

    Well what have you read first?

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    #25  Edited By lxlGiftedlxl

    @koays:

    Lolz my bad for the loaded question.

    I have read post avx (ment to say post avx in my last post)

    AvX, All New X-Factor, Uncanny X-Force, Cable and the X-Force, X-Force, All New X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, X-Men, Wolverine and the X-Men,Amazing X-men, X-Men Legacy, Spider-Man and the X-Men and Uncanny Avengers.

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    @lxlgiftedlxl: Wow ok. Well theres lots of ways to do this (most of which can be found in the Guide to Reading X-Men thread at the top of the forum) but I recommend just getting more familiar with the material.

    Modern books - Morrisons New X-Men > Whedons Astonishing> Messiah Complex and then Second Coming and Schism.

    Id also recommend New X-Men by K&Y and New Mutants volume 3 as great runs that sort of fill in the blanks of what happened before and after Messiah Complex.

    You can skip the 90s (nothing against it, just everything that happened aside from maybe one or two deaths was bad, complicated or undone) and read everything Claremont From Phoenix Saga to about Fall of the Mutants.

    From there you have a solid foundation and you can just read other good story and character stuff thats not as important. (The rest of 80s Claremont up until he leaves the X-Men,New Mutants vol 1, X-Factor vol1 (someone will fight me on this), Excalibut vol 1 (though its a long ride), X-Treme X-Men, Peter Davids X-Factor vol 3, Carey's X-Men Legacy)

    Theb you just have to know where to look. The 90s have a few ok to great Colossus stories. Jubilee, Emma Feost and the Gen X team are cult favorites. Cyclops, Jean, Cable, Rachel, X-Man, Maddie and Apocalypse ..they have reccuring plots that have moments and mini series sprinkled all over the place. And Magneto just walks around being a badass for the first half of the 90s up until he gets his own island and starts going a little crazy.

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    #27  Edited By lxlGiftedlxl

    @koays: Got it thanks. I will be checking out everything you recommend and the reading guide.

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    1. Storm
    2. Psylocke
    3. Nightcrawler
    4. Gambit
    5. Rogue
    6. Bishop
    7. Wolverine
    8. Mystique
    9. Beast
    10. Jean Grey
    11. Prof Xavier
    12. X-23
    13. Iceman
    14. Kitty Pryde
    15. Cable
    16. Colossus
    17. Angel
    18. Magneto
    19. Emma Frost
    20. Cyclops

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    1. Rogue
    2. Wolverine
    3. Gambit
    4. Psylocke
    5. Magneto
    6. Storm
    7. Cyclops
    8. Colossus
    9. X-23
    10. Mystique
    11. Jean Grey
    12. Cable
    13. Professor X
    14. Kitty Pryde
    15. Iceman
    16. Nightcrawler
    17. Beast
    18. Emma Frost
    19. Angel
    20. Bishop
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    @koays:

    1. Rachel grey

    2. Jean grey

    3. Rachel grey

    4. Rachel grey

    5. Rachel grey

    ...............

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    #31  Edited By Koays

    @koays:

    1. Rachel grey

    2. Jean grey

    3. Rachel grey

    4. Rachel grey

    5. Rachel grey

    ...............

    This guy...he gets it.

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    Cyclops, Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler, Storm, Beast, Iceman, Gambit, Jean Grey, Kitty Pryde, Rogue, Psylocke, Angel, Cable, Magneto, Professor Xavier, Bishop, Emma Frost, Mystique, and X-23.

    Jean Grey

    Honorable mention to Rachel Grey and Magik

    Storm

    Rogue

    Psylocke

    Cable

    Cyclopes

    Bishop

    Iceman

    Beast

    Kitty Pryde

    Colossus

    Nightcrawler

    Professor X

    Mystique

    all the rest are tied for last.

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    1. Storm
    2. Iceman
    3. Angel
    4. Rogue
    5. Colossus
    6. Jean Grey
    7. Cyclops
    8. Pyslocke
    9. Gambit
    10. Nightcrawler
    11. Professor X
    12. Magneto

    These are my favorite X-men.......the Rest are just boring.

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    Nightcrawler

    Storm

    Kitty Pryde

    X-23

    Colossus

    Emma Frost

    Iceman

    Mystique

    Rogue

    Jean Grey [NOT Phoenix. Young Jean Grey]

    Angel

    Bishop

    Cyclops

    Beast

    Magneto

    Psylocke

    Wolverine

    Gambit

    Jean Grey [Phoenix. Old Jean Grey]

    Professor Xavier

    Cable

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    #36  Edited By Mooty_Pass
    @tristanheron said:

    @stormphoenix: Why do you rate Iceman and Angel so highly?

    Those 12 mutants I mentioned are just my favorite X-men. I don't have a ranking system really other than storm being my top favorite.

    But to answer your question.Iceman character amuses me makes me laugh. His back story is somewhat simple and what you'd expect to happen if a family member got powers. And I find him very interesting as well as his powers. And Angel because this mans story is tragic(NOT saying the other mutants story are not tragic) loosing his wings being mind controlled then goes crazy. Then experimented on... I feel for the Guy.

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