Wolverine was the first Superhero ive ever become enthralled with..My fondness for the character begin when i came across his 80s/90s era issues in my older brothers stash.And immediately become obsessed with his smart remarks, short stature and grumpy domineer and of course the retractable unbreakable claws!! And The X-men Animated series definitely helped solidify my love and interest with the character.

Bump.

The X Men was my first non sci/fi Marvel Comic I got into when I was a teen (due to a cross over with the Micronauts). As most kids back in the day I thought Wolverine the be all end all of cool. Wanted to be like him and everything. Imagine my horror when I grew up and realized I was Cyclops?

X-Men: TAS and Evolution.

lmao.

Chris Claremont's X-Men run.

The Mutant Agenda, a story arc of episodes from Spider-Man: The Animated Series.

Spider-Man is dealing with a mutation disease, and seeks help from none other than Charles Xavier, and his school for gifted mutants.

Xavier explains to him that they don't cure mutants, they help them adjust and learn to live with their powers, with Wolverine expressing his belief that having mutant powers is an integral part of who a person is.

Spider-Man storms off, with Beast trying to help him. Spider-Man doesn't listen, which unfortunately leads to Beast being kidnapped.

Wolverine believes Spider-Man had something to do with it, leading to several episodes of non-stop awesome, involving David Warner, The Hobgoblin, and the X-Men battling a Kaiju in Times Square.

That show was awesome. :D

Although I had heard of Wolverine before I never really paid much attention to him until I saw Hulk vs...Man that movie was ducking metal... Seeing Wolverine slash through people in a bloody blood fest was amazing.

I first saw him in X-Men The Animated Series.

I first got into Wolverine from the comics.

I was first introduced to him through the 90s cartoon, but the movies is what got me unto him.

'Jackmans Wolverine in the first X-Men movie. Was the first time I had seen such brutality, gruffness and surprising nobility in a single character. Then of course there were the badass claws. I was completely mesmerized by the character, and he (and the X-Men movies) got me into reading the comics, and eventually Claremonts run...where I discovered that I didn't like Wolverine much at all and was more of a Cyclops guy.

What? Claremont's Wolverine was the best Wolverine. Claremont didn't even use Cyke in the majority of his run. Cyke was relegated to a supporting character in 1982 and was rarely used during the last 10 years of the run. Claremont mainly focused on women, like Storm, Kitty Pryde, Rogue, and Psylocke. Wolverine is the only male character he wrote that received a lot of character development.

Wolverine didn't go bad and Cyke didn't become "interesting" until the 2000s.

None of that changes what I said.

X-men Evolution Wolverine

Okay. Just think it is strange that reading Wolverine at his best and Cyclops as a boring character made you dislike Wolverine and like Cyclops.

I never found Cyclops boring.

Originally Cyclops was a two-dimensional silver age character. His personality traits were almost none existent. This was to make it easier for the kids reading to insert themselves into his shoes. He was the guy that had the girl, and the three friends, but there wasn't much to him.

In the bronze age, we saw a renaissance in comics. Writers started adding a third dimension two all of the silver age character. O'Neal did it for Batman. Allen Moore and John Byrne did it for Superman. Gerry Conway did it for Spider-Man. Claremont did it for Cyclops.

Claremont did his best to add to Cyclops. He created the back story with his father joining the Space Jammers and was the first to develop the relationship of Scott and Jean. But he was still boring compared to the X-Men who were created in the bronze age.

• Wolverine was initially the least interesting character, but after John Byrne joined the creative team, Wolverine quickly became the most interesting. Byrne added a interesting back story with Alpha Flight, created Mariko, and made him the skilled master of martial arts that he became known for.
• Nightcrawler was interesting because of his looks and his story of trying to fit into society while looking like a monster. He also had a interesting, playful, flirty personality and a back story with gypsies. There was also a his connection to Mystique, that unfortunately wasn't fully explored during Claremont's time.
• Colossus was interesting because, unlike everyone else, he was a normal guy with a family, whom he loved. This made him stand out from the crowd. He also became interesting because of his relationships with his sister, and with his first love, Kitty Pride.
• Storm was the team leader throughout the majority of Claremont's run, but she seemed more human than Cyclops. She would make mistakes. Before becoming team leader, in the 70s and early 80s, we saw her go through a character arc where she learned that the world wasn't as beautiful as she thought it was. This culminated in Storm getting her new look with the Mohawk.
• Banshee was treated as something of a mentor to the team. He was a older guy, in his forties. He had a interesting back story and a connection to Black Tom. His relationships with Moira MacTaggert was also interesting.
• Jean Grey became the Phoenix. The changes going on with her made her one of the most interesting character in the late 70s and early 80s.
• Then we have Cyclops. Like I said, Claremont wrote him well, but there still wasn't very much to him compared to the rest. He lead the team and had a interesting girlfriend, but that's about it. We didn't even see the story with his father unfold until after Cyclops retired from the team, and only returned for a couple story-arcs.

That's how I saw Claremont's X-Men, anyway. Cyke didn't really start to shine until after Claremont left the book.