Old Characters 
 1Cyclops 
2 Emma Frost 
3 Storm 
4 Wolverine 
5 Rogue 
6 Gambit 
7 Kitty 
8 Colossus
9 Magneto 
10 Jubilee 
11 Archangel  
12 Psylocke 
13 Charles Xavier 
14 Cannonball 
 15 Jean Grey gone 
16 Beast Join the Avengers 
17 Cable is dead 
19 Nigthcrawler dead
20 Bishop 
21 Iceman 
22 Rachel grey 
23 Havork 
24 Porlaris 
 
Newer 
1 X-23 
2 Frenzy 
3 Surge 
4 Hellion 
5 The Cuckoos 
6 Dust  
7 Armor  
8 Pixie 
I counted over 23 new mutants, way to much if you ask me. 
 
Over the years, there has been too many mutants in comics, to many mutants in utopia and just wondering how many of you prefer it that way. How many of you prefer poor character development, too many appearances from new mutants and  there has been a lot of bad stories written by the writers.. I prefer it years ago, they focus on a fewer mutants, like in 90's and 80's, where the older mutants had a spoltight. There were better stories, better character development, better teams and come to think about it, there were better villians to, back then. I am just wondering what do you prefer the older or newer mutants? Who should really be in the spotlight?

Old or new is not really important to me as long as the character is interesting. I'm mostly sick of Jean Grey and Prof. X due to overexposure but I still like Gambit and Storm for example. From the newer mutants I could hardly care less about X-23 or Armor but I want Frenzy, Surge and especially Dust to get some more spotlight. Really depends on the character for me, not the age of said character.

I agree with Risky, it's not whether I prefer old or new characters, but the inviduals specifically. Like I love Jubilee but also love Pixie.

I like the new characters my favorite is Blindfold by far, you know when she's on panel things are going to be interesting.

Doesn't matter to me... Just like Risky said, depends on the character...

Out of that list. The older ones easily.

Doesn't matter to me... Just like Risky said, depends on the character...

Cyclops + Emma are my favourites. They're far and beyond my favourite X-Men characters, followed by Colossus, Kitty, Hellion, Rogue, Magneto, Mr Sinister and X-23. So I suppose I prefer the older characters on average.

The older list, which is obviously larger. Also Frenzy belongs to the older list, she's been around for a long while. (1986)

Gambit and Cable are old?!?

Depends. I like old characters so long as they're evolving and not just doing the same old crap over and over. If they're at the same place they were 25 years ago? Boo! I just hope that the new characters get a chance to become old characters one day.

@Risky said:

Old or new is not really important to me as long as the character is interesting. I'm mostly sick of Jean Grey and Prof. X due to overexposure but I still like Gambit and Storm for example. From the newer mutants I could hardly care less about X-23 or Armor but I want Frenzy, Surge and especially Dust to get some more spotlight. Really depends on the character for me, not the age of said character.

OMG, why don't you care for Armor? Going off of what I read of her in Astonishing years ago, I find her to be fascinating!

But I agree nonetheless, provided the old already established characters aren't forgotten, I could read an interesting new character everyday.

Whatever happened to Greymalkin? He completely slipped my mind!

The older characters since I grew up with them and find them more interesting

old is gold but new is dented gold

@Ouija said:

I prefer the 90s with all the different teams and different books. Not a million borks with cyclops as the one leader

Everyone says that, but he's really only lead of 2 and a half (I say half because Astonishing X-Men comes out 4 times a year, if that). X-Men Legacy is Rogue centric, X-Force is Wolverine and co, X-Factor (The best X-Book, buy it now if you are not) is Madrox and co, which leaves Scott with Uncanny and the Adjectiveless one. Did I forget a book?

I like certain characters it doesn't really matter to me weather or not if they are new or old.

@IrishX: Oh yeah, forgot about New Mutants! Again, no Cyclops there.

The thing about X-Factor, the writing is so good, and you spend so much time with that core team, that you almost have to force yourself not to like one person.

The thing about X-Factor, the writing is so good, and you spend so much time with that core team, that you almost have to force yourself not to like one person.

X-Factor (The best X-Book, buy it now if you are not)

Did I forget a book?

Older X-men. More specifically the 90's X-men. 

It is kind of the same as if you had asked me if I prefer the company of my old childhood friends or my more recent friends. The old friends hold a special place in my heart and I most certainly enjoy the company but with the newer friends, chances are I am going to have more fun with them.

Frenzy isn't a new character, just a new member. Anyway I like her present appearance and guess nobody liked her when she was working for Apocalypse lol.

"Old" roster will always be more popular, but it's also nice to see new characters w/ diff backgrounds/powers. That's the beauty of X-men. There are soo many to choose from, ur bound to find a character u like.

Def the oldies.

what i hate is how quick they toss aside people, like i love iceman, but the writers still treat him like a twerp, i love rockslide and anole, and their friendship.

Both, it's about the character, not whether they're new or not. There are lame older characters and lame new characters.

                    Gambit and Cable are old?!?

                   

               

                    Both, it's about the character, not whether they're new or not. There are lame older characters and lame new characters.

                   

               

Older.

  From the  list I have made, Not one of those characters are lame. I think there too many new characters and they don't compare to the old characters on any level. I prefer the old ones, there much better and have more to offered the X-Men.

Both...  But the dynamics of the younger generation are more fun...

                    Both...  But the dynamics of the younger generation are more fun...

                   

               

We can divided them into X-men "born" in this century and X-men "born" in last century that would make more sense. Actually I always distinguish "new" and "old" in this way.

I actually like to see legacy characters. So a little bit of both I guess?

@John Valentine said:

                    Both, it's about the character, not whether they're new or not. There are lame older characters and lame new characters.

                   

               

From the  list I have made, Not one of those characters are lame. I think there too many new characters and they don't compare to the old characters on any level. I prefer the old ones, there much better and have more to offered the X-Men.

Def. older, my favorites tend to be in that pile more so than the other. 

I prefer the older characters since they were first characters that ever gained and maintained my interest. Some of the new characters are cool but I just don't find them as interesting as the 80's and 90's mutants.