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=== YMMVs for the first series: ===
* [[Alas, Poor Scrappy]]: When Cypher was killed off, people felt ''real'' bad.
** [[Rescued
* [[Alien Scrappy]]: Warlock and Gossamyr; Shatterstar also probably counts when written by Rob Liefeld
** The presence of extraterrestrials on a ''mutant'' team was handwaved away since they [[Ass Pull|had different personalities than those typical of their species]] (this was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] and parodied in an issue of ''What The...?'' where the New Mutants parody team had a ''stray dog'' join for similar reasons).
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* [[Complete Monster]]: Two in the forms of Empath and Donald Pierce.
** A bio by Xavier flat-out states that Manuel may be the definition of pure evil. In addition, he has no empathy and toys with others' emotions for his enjoyment.
** Pierce is not only a [[Fantastic Racism|racist]] mutant hating cyborg, but he also goes after the babies and children first because he's [[Dirty Coward|too scared]] of what the adults might do to him.
*** [[Too Dumb to Live|And he thinks that going after the kids wouldn't spark a reaction? An angry, violent reaction considering what Emma Frost and Wolverine are capable of?]]
* [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]: The Devil Bear Saga, for both Dannielle Moonstar and the creative team themselves.
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* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Rahne has been a member of more X-Men spinoff teams than any other character.
** [[No Fourth Wall|Hey!]] How'd [[You Suck|you chumps]] go so long without adding [[Deadpool|yours truly]] to the page, huh?! HUH?!
* [[Fetish Fuel]] : Selene and her mind control could be used quite erotically; when she forces Mirage to enjoy the sacrifices, for example.
* [[High Octane Nightmare Fuel]]: The Demon Bear Saga
** Empath's powers and the way he uses them. He has absolutely no qualms about manipulating another person's emotions against their will all because he thinks it's amusing.
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** Bird Boy is probably the most extreme, being an imbecilic half-animal who derailed the book into whacky antics and over-eating. He's actually one of the most-accurate in-continuity versions of the Jackovasaurs from ''[[South Park]]''. At least he was rapidly [[Put on a Bus]].
** An entire ''team'' of Scrappies was folded in following the ''[[Crisis Crossover|Inferno]]'' event with the X-Terminators: Boom Boom, Rusty, Skids, Arty, Leech, Rictor, Whiz Kid. Luckily the bulk of the characters were quickly put on various buses, leaving Rictor and Boom Boom to become beloved members of the group, though this derailed the book from a thoughtful angsty series into the very "mall-going brats" adventures that old-school fans thanked the old writers for ''not'' using.
** Cypher too, but his death was an [[Alas, Poor Scrappy]] moment and since his return, he's been [[Rescued
* [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks]]: The level of "dumbing down" from the earliest issues to the time of Cable's leadership is so marked that it also marks the beginning of the Liefeld Age of comics; chrome arms, pouches, guns, pointless angst, no-character writing, teeth-gritted action, "ninjas appear from the future", etc.
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: Cypher was a polarizing character amongst fans of the title in the 1980s, in part because he had sensible everyday mutant powers in the form of the ability to understand any form of language, which sadly also made him utterly useless in fight scenes unless he merged with the alien Warlock. So when Chris Claremont left the book and Louis Simonson took over, Simonson decided to kill off Cypher since she didn't feel like coming up with excuses for why he was MIA in fight scenes, plus felt that no one liked him. Sadly, when she killed him off, fans revolted against the death. [[Fan Dumb|Even the fans who were calling for Doug to be killed off!]] And to this day still fans rant and rave about how Cypher had so much potential that was utterly wasted by Simonson misreading the room.
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