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== Secondary titles for the Blue Team are: ==
* ''X-Men'', the relaunch of the title as a separate entity from Legacy, its first arc was an event that confronted the X-Men against the son of Dracula and many vampires, the most remembered side effect of this battle was the transformation of Jubilee into a vampire. Nowadays, this book serves as a platform for the Blue Team to interact with the rest of the Marvel Universe.
* ''Generation Hope'', after the events of Second Coming, the mutant Messiah Hope Summers returned to the 616 universe and started repopulating the mutant race activating the powers of new mutants around the world. This book is about her and her group of mutants called "Lights".
* ''[[New Mutants]]''
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== In addition to the comic series, they have also been adapted to television: ==
* ''[[X-Men (animation)|X-Men]]''
* ''[[X-Men: Evolution|X-Men Evolution]]''
* ''[[Wolverine and the X-Men]]''
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* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Wolverine's adamantium-coated claws.
* [[Academy of Adventure]]: The Charles Xavier School For Gifted Youngsters and now renamed Jean Grey School For Higher Learning
* [[Action Girl]]: Most, but not all of the X-Women, fit this in spades. Though there are [[Faux Action Girl]] exceptions...
* [[Actor Allusion]]: [[It Makes Sense in Context|Rogue is stuck between three vampires]], two wanting revenge and the other ordering them to let her go. "She killed Marv! She doesn't get to walk away from that.. even if she ''is'' a dead ringer for [[Anna Paquin|the chick]] [[True Blood|who plays Sookie..]]"
** [[Wolverine]] was once seen attending a Broadway show of ''[[The Boy From Oz]]''. He explains that he's a fan of [[Hugh Jackman]]'s work.
* [[The Adjectival Superhero]]: "All-New, All-Different", "Astonishing", "Uncanny", and "X-Treme". Parodied with the [[Fan Nickname]] "Adjectiveless X-Men".
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** Astonishing pointed out that he isn't a regular [[Team Pet]]; he's an alien empath who speaks dozens of languages, and is smarter than the Professor. Also, {{spoiler|He'd been spying on the X-Men for SWORD since he came back.}}
* [[Anti-Hero]]: Wolverine is the archetypal example, but many more have joined
** At present count, these X-men characters are [[Anti-Hero|Anti Heroes]]: Archangel, Cyclops, Emma Frost, Magik, Namor, Psylocke, Wolverine, Warpath, [[X-23]]. Really, it's starting to look like there are more anti-heroes than there are heroes.
** While [[Anti-Hero]] might be too strong a term, Thunderbird was certainly a jerk and was killed off because he and Wolverine were deemed too similar.
** {{spoiler|Colossus}} in the Breakworld Arc.
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* [[Apocalypse Maiden]]: Jean Grey as the Phoenix.
* [[Army of the Ages]]: Inverted when Fitzroy tries to conquer the present (his past) with future sentinel technology. It finally backfires spectacularly when he opens a portal to a prison riot in the future, bringing in a horde of mutant inmates - Bishop follows.
* [[Artistic License: Biology]]: While very common in comics in general, it is especially prominent here where genetics (especially the "X-Gene") are a catchall [[Plot Device]].
* [[Ashes to Crashes]]: Destiny (girlfriend/advisor to Mystique) left very specific instructions for when Mystique was to scatter her ashes. It was to be on the fantail of a particular cruise liner, on a specific date, at a specific time. Mystique waits for the specific time, then tosses the ashes, only to have the wind blow them right back in her face. The fact that Destiny was a clairvoyant means the entire thing was a rather macabre practical joke. Mystique appropriately laughs at her lover's final joke.
* [[Author Catchphrase]]: Especially during [[Chris Claremont]]'s run.
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** Don't forget Wolverine's [[Dysfunctional Family|Dysfunctional]] [[Badass Family]]. We have his long [[Something We Forgot|forgotten son]] [[Daken]] who wants to kill him, and then there's his teenage [[Distaff Counterpart|female clone]]/daughter figure [[X-23]] who was a member of [[X-Force]] and has been [[Tyke Bomb|killing people since she was a pre-teen]].
* [[Badass Longcoat]]: Gambit primarily, though Rogue and others have been known to don the longcoat on occasion. Subverted by Jubilee, whose [[Memetic Outfit|most iconic costume]] is a flashy bright yellow longcoat.
* [[Bad Future]]: "Days of Futures Past" is a major one, where Sentinels have taken over the world.
** Apocalypse also takes over the world 2,000 years in the future and is equally awful.
** Few futures seen thus far can be considered GOOD. {{spoiler|Cable's most recent book sent him through what may be one timeline, or many timelines. Messiah Complex sent two clones of Madrox into two separate futures, one where humans had packed mutants into concentration camps (Bishop's time) and one where Homo superior had violently come to dominate the planet. Only the "What If: Age of Xavier" has ever produced an alternate reality that didn't completely suck, in this Troper's memory.}}
* [[Barrier Warrior]]: The Blob and Unus the Untouchable are examples of these. Subverted in that they're both obnoxious [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]] who use their powers to bully others.
* [[Bat Family Crossover]]: Very common. For a while, they were affectionately referred to by fans as "X-overs". At times, the X-Books have almost seemed like [[Superman Stays Out of Gotham|an entirely separate universe]]. ''Inferno'' and ''Onslaught'' averted this, however, as did ''Maximum Security''. And "Mutant Massacre" (X-Men's first major crossover) featured [[The Mighty Thor|Thor]] and the [[Power Pack]] in minor roles.
** One of the major complaints of the franchise is that Marvel rarely acknowledges the oddity of mutants getting so much more flack than other superpowered beings.
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* [[Big Bad]]: The major evils of the X-Men universe are [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Magneto]] and [[Social Darwinist|Apocalypse]].
** {{spoiler|Magneto}} is currently enduring a case of [[Heel Face Turn]]; however, new big bads have been popping up, most recently bringing Bastion back.
* [[Bigger Bad]]: Sublime, a sentient colony of bacteria almost as old as the Earth itself, definitely qualifies. In "Here Comes Tomorrow", it was revealed to have orchestrated many events in the [[X-Men]]'s past, including the creation of the Weapon X program, all in a centuries-old campaign to wipe the mutant race from the Earth (as they are the only species immune to its mind control). It's implied that it may have even manipulated humanity to create the very idea of anti-mutant prejudice in the first place.
* [[Big Good]]: Xavier originally, but since being forced to take control, Cyclops has taken this role.
* [[Bitter Wedding Speech]]: In an issue of ''X-Men Unlimited'' about the wedding of one of Emma's college friends.
* [[Black and Gray Morality]]: This gradually creeped in ever since the late 80s Mutant Massacre, but got blatant with [[Darker and Edgier]] storylines the past few years.
* [[Blessed with Suck]]: Apparently, evolution isn't too good at telling when a mutation ''totally sucks''. Somewhat justified, in that most mutations in [[Real Life]] are not beneficial.
** There are several examples (Cyclops, Blob, Rogue; the list goes on and on) but the Gold Medal would have to go to Wither, who ''literally'' has the power to suck out life-force... which is uncontrollable, irreversible and activates at any and all skin-to-skin contact. [[Blessed with Suck]] figuratively ''and'' literally.
** At least Rogue's damage is temporary if she's careful, whereas Wither tends to irreversibly cripple or horribly kill anyone he touches. After M-Day, he thinks he can finally hold the hand of the girl he's in love with... and promptly maims her. Poor kid.
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** Cyclops is--err, was a special case: His powers ought to be as controllable as any other energy blaster, but he suffered a concussion in his youth (his parents had pushed him out of a plane when they were attacked by the Shi'ar), which somehow lead to his inability to shut off his powers after they emerged. Emma Frost later removed a mental block to give him control of his powers, since he had apparently been subconsciously keeping his eyes on to ensure he'd never hurt anyone with his powers (her explanation).
** Surge has a similar problem to Cyclops in that she needs special equipment (her gauntlets) to control and regulate the flow of electricity to and from her body. Without it, the electricity overloads her brain and prevents her from controlling it fully.
** None of the above compares to the power of a random kid in Ultimate X-Men- when his mutant power (to release some kind of highly acidic toxin in the air that melted absolutely anything organic) triggered, he killed his whole hometown without even realizing it. Eventually he figured it out and hid in a cave. Wolverine was sent to track him down, and after a talk with him about how much life can suck sometime (and a lot of beer, because come on, underage drinking was the least of the kid's problems), he had to kill him because that power was completely uncontrollable and very taxing even on his healing factor, so imagine how it'd have been for, say, anybody else on the planet. He'd either have committed a hideous massacre or been weaponized, had he been left alive. To the kid's credit, he himself concluded that was the best solution for everyone, himself included.
* [[Blown Across the Room]]: Cyclops' eye beams knock bad guys back, but not Cyclops himself. It's one of the ways he's immune to his own power.
* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Practically every member of the X-Men has fallen victim to this trope at least once.
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* [[But Not Too Black]]: Storm is African-American, but she has fair hair and blue eyes, which is supposed to be a mark of her royal heritage. Also, Bishop is black, but he was born in Australia and is part [[Australian Aborigines|Aborigine]], which may account for his straight hair and his lighter skin tone.
* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Storm has an African mother, and grew up in Africa, but her father was an American, and she was apparently born in New York.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Ord started out as the [[Big Bad]] of the Breakworld arc, only to get demoted to [[The Woobie]] after his failure.
* [[Cannot Tell a Joke]]: Colossus by his own admission in ''Astonishing X-Men'' #19, after being told of a prophecy that he is destined to destroy the Breakworld:
{{quote|"I have been planning on destroying the Breakworld ever since I was a child." (after the X-Men look at him in shock) "This is why I don't make so many jokes. I never know when is good." }}
* [[Captain Ethnic]]: They tend to be well written and popular characters, but many mutants skirt the line. Sunspire is the only one who fits both in powers and heroic identity and also manages to be [[Captain Geographic]].
* [[Cheated Angle]]: Artists' notes on how to draw Nightcrawler say that they ''must'' draw his tail with a curve in it (when character is drawn from the front, with legs apart) so the tail wouldn't look phallic.
* [[Claustrophobia]]: Storm.
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** But is re-established when mutants who have the [[Sarcasm Mode|Amazing]] power of being green, or really hairy, or lumpy ''slightly'' higher than others. And are all still attacked by Mutant haters. Or when a bunch of mutants lost their powers and were then blown up on a bus.
*** Besides, the exact targets of the phobia may be different, but the motivation is the same: people are ''scared'' of the target. Muggles fear Cyclops because he can blast the roof off a train. They fear gays because legalizing gay marriage will [[Insane Troll Logic|cause people to wed their dogs and their toasters]]. Either way, the [[Hate Dumb]] doesn't want it to happen.
* [[Dominatrix]]: X-Men writers [[Author Appeal|LOVE this trope]]. Emma Frost is the most obvious example. But then there was also Jean Grey as the Black Queen in ''[[The Dark Phoenix Saga]]''. More recently, [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Gd8NBIma-zo/SLDB0ZdmWII/AAAAAAAAEzs/RJtC6McJXu4/s400/Uncanny_X-Men_%23501+-+redQueen.jpg Red Queen] took it [[Up to Eleven]] in the "Manifest Destiny" arc.
* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: ''Hooooooo'' boy...
* [[Egocentric Team Naming]]: (denied in-universe, but c'mon...)
* [[Elemental Baggage]]: For Storm and Iceman's powers sources of water and ice, respectively.
* [[Elemental Shapeshifter]]: Several.
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* [[Evil Costume Switch]]: Dark Phoenix
* [[Evilutionary Biologist]]: Mr. Sinister; Dark Beast; Apocalypse;
* [[Evolutionary Levels]]: Mutants as "homo '''superior'''".
* [[Face Heel Revolving Door]]: Magneto. In his backstory he was a friend of Xavier until they split over disagreement about how to best help mutants and almost all versions of Magneto are [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|Well Intentioned Extremists]], so it's a relatively small jump to a [[What Have I Done]] moment leading him to moderate his methods or an [[Enemy Mine]] situation forcing the X-Men to put up with him despite them. Circumstances don't let him stay that way, however. [[Depending on the Writer]] comes into play, as well, both [[Grant Morrison|in how far off the deep end he can go]] and whether he should be antihero or archnemesis.
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Gambit, Bishop.
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* [[Fantastic Racism]]: One of the main points of the comics. They protect a world that fears and hates them.
* [[Fantastic Recruitment Drive]]: Professor X uses the Cerebro computer to locate mutants so he can recruit them into his school.
* [[Fastball Special]]: The [[Trope Namer]], classic is Wolverine and Colossus.
* [[Fight Off the Kryptonite]]: Usually, with telepathy.
** Which is about the only thing keeping that particular power out of [[Deus Ex Machina]] territory in this universe...
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* [[Five-Token Band]]: Seven, actually. The All-New, All-Different X-Men could be considered this, with at least three characters (Storm, Sunfire and Thunderbird) being of a different ethnicity, but each one of them comes from anywhere in the world: the aforementioned Thunderbird is the only American in the team.
* [[Flight of Romance]]: This trope is taken to a extreme when Angel has sex with Husk in mid air in front of her ''mother'', Nightcrawler, and several other people.
* [[Follow the Chaos]]: Sort of a running gag, except they don't find it funny.
* [[Forced to Watch]]: Professor X, being forced by Mojo to watch his students compete in his twisted gameshow.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: During Whedon's "Astonishing" arc, Agent Brand mentions that {{spoiler|Breakworld had a bullet pointed at Earth's head. Except for the "head" part, this turns out to be ''literally'' true.}}
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* [[Hufflepuff House]]: A staple of the series in the last few years is to have a group of C-list mutants hovering around the X-Men's periphery, such as the X-kids not currently on a team, The 198, or the other mutants living on Utopia. Sometimes they'll get [[A Day in the Limelight]] or become an [[Ensemble Darkhorse]], but usually their purpose is to serve as background color and to provide cannon fodder should the story need it.
* [[An Ice Suit]]: Bobby / Iceman usually only wears briefs when going into his ice form.
* [[An Ice Person]]: Founding member Iceman is one of these.
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: A number of mutants, thanks to the aforementioned [[Fantastic Racism]] and being [[Blessed with Suck]]. Rogue is the poster child for it; her powers make her an outcast among her fellow outcasts.
** Interestingly, a lot of human parents [[Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?|feel this way about their mutant children]] but when a lot of the students were [[Brought Down to Normal]], [[Put on a Bus]] and [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|the bus blew up]], they never bothered to collect their remains.
** Surprisingly averted with some characters who have obvious physical mutations, like Nightcrawler. He's perfectly happy with the way he looks, even though, resembling a blue demon, he actually would have some legitimate reasons to complain. If such a character were written by another writer and not [[Chris Claremont]], he likely would've fallen into this trope.
* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]: The U-Men are a bunch of humans who want to be Mutants.
** Donald Pierce turned himself into a cyborg because he hated being weak compared to Mutants.
* [[Implacable Man]]: Nothing can stop the Juggernaut!
** [[Memetic Mutation|Nothing moves the Blob!]]
* [[Implicit Prison]]: In Marvel Comics "Decimation" event, the Xavier Institute was called a "Haven" for remaining mutants, but was really an internment camp for them.
* [[Informed Ability]]: Due to [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] the series have mounted over the decades and the [[Popularity Power]], [[Pandering to the Base]], [[Running the Asylum]] factors might guide the course of the story, many mutants suffer the case of poorly expanded and very limited use of their powers, it's more common to see these renegated characters, or someone other than, stating what they could do instead of actually doing it, not even once at least in one of the many alternate universes and continuities. The most prominent examples are the Omega Level mutants, the term itself is not properly fleshed out but it's clear that the mutants under this class are likely to be a [[Person of Mass Destruction]], [[Physical God]], [[Reality Warper]], etc. etc. Arguably only [[Person of Mass Destruction|Jean Grey/Phoenix]] and [[Reality Warper|Franklin Richards]] has shown what a Omega Level is truly capable of; Elixir, Vulcan, Legion and X-Man have at least shown a little of their magnificent powers; but Iceman, Mister M, Rachel Summers and Torrent are really, ''really'' kept in the dark.
** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] that many of these "renegates" suffers of this because some only appeared in a single arc concerning an alternate future/universe or a ''What If?'', Torrent in particular fits the bill. The one truly worthy of mentioning is [[An Ice Person|Iceman]], the original who has been there since day one has not had a single continuity where he peforms actions of extreme prowess compared to the likes of Phoenix; being able to create endless ice streams, barrages and beams out of thin air with no visible water supply is impressive enough, but not even close to the [[Beyond the Impossible]] things his (seemly unlimited) control of moisture and temperature would imply he could do. No wonder many of his alternate incarnations in media, cartoons and video games adaptations are prone to make him an young ''newcomer'' who still is learning to control his powers along with the others young mutants in the ''Danger Room''.
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* [[Joker Jury]]: Factor 3.
** Also Magneto, to Gambit.
* [[The Juggernaut]]: Arguably the [[Trope Namer]]... [[This Is All The Tropes Bitch|Bitch!]]
* [[Killer Robot]]: The Sentinels
* [[Kudzu Plot]]: Claremont's uncannily long stint on ''Uncanny X-men''
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* [[Mental Affair]]: Scott and Emma. Not entirely surprising that Jean, a fellow telepath, catches them in the act.
* [[Meta Origin]]: The X-Gene causes all sorts of different physical changes.
* [[Mind Over Manners]]: Preached more than practiced, particularly by Xavier. It could be argued that he takes the trope name more literally than most; it's not a rigid ethical code, but simple etiquette, and he'll sidestep his "principles" with all the sincere regret he'd give an ill-timed belch at a formal dinner. However, he's only gotten ''particularly'' [[Jerkass]] about it with recent attempts to make him more flawed or something.
* [[Mind Rape]]: What Jean does to Emma to wipe the smug off her face after having been caught with Scott.
** Jason Wyngarde used Dark Phoenix to become more powerful, so she returned in kind... by granting him omniscience to drive him insane.
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* [[Must Make Amends]]: This happens to Magneto. He's always been opposed by the X-Men, so by now he often attacks them at full power (which is a lot) instinctively. Sadly, the X-Men are mutants... some of the people Magneto wants to protect. Even worse, the one he accidentally hurts is the newest recruit, a 13-year-old (mutant) girl. "What have I done?" is the short version of his monologue, when he realizes what he has done. Follow his [[Villainous BSOD]] and his first [[Heel Face Turn]] as [[The Atoner]].
* [[Mutants]]: Of course.
* [[Nazi Hunter]]: Magneto tracked down [[Captain America (comics)|the Red Skull]] due to his past as a Holocaust survivor.
** He also served in this role briefly for the CIA, resigning in a rather...spectacular fashion when agents killed his then-girlfriend because he had gone after a Nazi who, unknown to him, was working for the United States.
* [[Nested Mouths]]: Bliss the Morlock has an extra mouth on her tongue.
* [[Never Hurt an Innocent]]: Magneto, [[Depending on the Writer]].
* [[Nineties Anti-Hero]]: Cable, Bishop.
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* [[Phlegmings]]: Often exhibited by Wolverine, the Brood, and many others.
* [[Pinball Projectile]]: Cyclops' optic blasts have a habit of doing this.
* [[Playing with Fire]]: Longstanding villain Pyro was one of these, although he couldn't actually create fire. Other villains like Fever Pitch also exemplified this trope.
** Heroic examples Sunfire and Neal Sharra.
* [[Playing with Syringes]]: The Weapon-X project.
* [[Power Creep, Power Seep]]: The powers of several characters have been inconsistently portrayed.
** Magneto is the most notable example, with his power level depending heavily on which side of the [[Face Heel Revolving Door]] he is on at any given time. As a rule, when he is being a villain he has practically unlimited power. When behaving more benignly his powers are usually dialed back substantially.
** Professor X also tends to drift around a bit, usually in response to how much he might [[Story-Breaker Power|mess up the plot]]. Back in the early days, he could telepathically [[Mind Rape|mindwipe]] an entire town. More recently, even a little bit of [[Psychic Static]] can give him a [[Poke in the Third Eye|headache]].
** Wolverine's healing factor was not nearly as invincible in earlier stories as it is of late.
* [[Power Incontinence]]: Most mutants start out with little to no control over their powers when first activated. Mutants not [[Blessed with Suck]] can gain control through careful practice.
* [[Power Loss Makes You Strong]]: Storm, back in the 80's. She lost her powers at the hands of Forge and ends up with a mohawk living with the Morlocks, even beating Callisto in hand to hand combat and defeating Cyclops without powers to retain leadership of the X-Men. She was the primary leader until the teams split into Gold and Blue...then different books...and then she got married so she never actually was out of a command position.
** She defeated Callisto to become the leader of the Morlocks ''before'' losing her powers. She's just ''that'' [[Badass]], [[Badass Normal|normal]] or not. On a related note, she never lived with the Morlocks, despite being their boss.
*** It's worth mentioning that the rules of her duel with Callisto specifically forbid Storm to use her mutant power, and she ''still'' defeated her, even though she hadn't yet fully recovered from a sickness caused by another Morlock, and even though everyone assumed Callisto to be the better fighter. So it could be said that the duel with Callisto was a prelude to her [[Badass Normal]] period.
* [[Power Strain Blackout]]: Nearly all the female characters, especially telepaths like Jean Grey, have done this at least once across many incarnations.
* [[The President's Daughter]]: Layla in ''House of M''
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* [[Required Secondary Powers]]: Often averted, many mutants need technological assistance to keep their powers from being a danger to themselves or others. For example, Cyclops needs to wear a visor or he'll blast everything in front of him whenever he has his eyes open.
* [[Retcon]]: Absurdly common, especially with characters with mysterious pasts.
* [[Rogues Gallery]]: Magneto and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Mister Sinister and the Marauders, the Friends of Humanity, the Sentinels, Gene Nation, Humanity's Last Stand, the Brood, the Phalanx, the Shadow King, Nimrod, the Juggernaut, Black Tom Cassidy, the Hellfire Club, Apocalypse and his Horsemen, the Acolytes of Magneto, Sublime, the Reavers, the Mutant Liberation Front and the Weapon X project (* whew!* ) have all functioned as recurring enemies for the X-Men as a group.
* [[Rule of Drama]]: Common. For example, Rogue and Gambit. Every time a writer tries to resolve the angst of their relationship, the next one will find a way to stir it up again. Ditto for Polaris and Havok; the writers have used ''actual'' black holes to keep them apart.
** A few years back the lineup of one team consisted of Gambit, Rogue, Iceman, Polaris, and Havok. My god...
*** With Iceman ''and'' nurse Annie being part of a big [[Love Triangle|love quadrangle]] with Polaris and Havok.
* [[Sapient Ship]]: The Brood used [[Mind Rape|lobotomized]] [[Space Whale|Space Whales]] for transport, and the surviving ones at liberty were both sentient and ''not happy at all'' about the situation.
* [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]: The Brood exist to mutilate and enslave other races, transforming them into still more of their depraved kind. The Phalanx exist to convert all other entities in the universe into part of their race of living circuitry. Both have clashed with the X-Men.
* [[Self-Duplication]]: Jamie Madrox, aka Multiple Man. If he leaves his duplicates separated for too long, they start to [[Literal Split Personality|become more independent and develop their own personalities]]. Sadly making a [[Me's a Crowd]] plot difficult for too long but an [[Evil Twin]] incredibly easy.
* [[Shapeshifter Swan Song]]
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* [[Thematic Rogues Gallery]]: Most of the X-Men's enemies can be put into one of four broad categories:
** Human bigots who want to murder or enslave every mutant on Earth
** Mutant radicals who want to murder or enslave every human on Earth.
** Assorted [[Evil Overlord|Evil Overlords]] who want to murder or enslave every mutant ''and'' human on Earth.
** [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]] who want to convert every mutant and human on Earth into more of their own kind.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: The members of the various X-teams could ''really'' benefit from regular therapy. In ''[[Chris Claremont|Claremont's run alone]]'' the main team members were repeatedly (and painfully) devolved into primates by Sauron and then evolved back, they lost Thunderbird, there was the [[Dark Phoenix Saga]], the Mutant Massacre, [[Inferno (Comic Book)|Inferno]], being the captives of the Brood, Cyclops and Storm and Xavier all being tortured by William Stryker, Wolverine being tortured by the Reavers until he went partially insane, and more! It's amazing that the entire team didn't just break down sobbing and curl up into the fetal position after all of that. Apart from the members of X-Factor going to see Doc Samson a couple of times, we've never seen any of them receive any sort of treatment.
* [[Time Travel]]: Starting with "Days of Future Past".
* [[Traumatic Superpower Awakening]]: How several powers are attained, combined with [[Puberty Superpower]].
* [[True Love Is Boring]]: Don't expect many couples to last.
* [[Tsundere]]: Hellion is type A towards X-23.
* [[Use Your Head]]: The Juggernaut
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* [[Vocal Minority]]: An In Unverse version. Most mutants that are seen are usually relatively powerful, but its been said that most mutants are either relatively weak, or even completely harmless, but are still treated to the same stuff the actual dangerous ones are, and is usually the reason the Mutants are a minority metephor works. But of course, no one wants to read a comic about a group of people who only have an extra pair of hands or the ability to glow.
** Actually, having stories about a group of people with minor things like an extra pair of hands or the ability to glow would be interesting. They could have stories about the "everymutant" who is just trying to live his or her life without getting persecuted.
* [[Walk, Don't Swim]]: Juggernaut's default method of crossing bodies of water.
* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: For those who think mutants aren't human.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Sometimes characters get called out on things they did, [[Moral Dissonance|sometimes not]].
** Taken to extreme lengths with everyone's reaction to finding out Scott assembled the X-Force, a black ops team with the most dangerous mutants to go and kill the X-Men's most deadly enemies who could possibly erradicate the last of the mutants. What they (and sadly [[Fan Dumb|some fans]]) fail to notice is that that is exactly what has prevented every last mutant on earth from being eradicated. Note that the second that Bastion and the Purifiers are defeated, Scott disbands the team since they won't be up against anyone as dangerous as them in the meantime.
** Mind you, Wolverine and Angel immediately re-band the team as "Uncanny X-Force", which tends to find itself up against plenty of extinction-level threats.
* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: Storm.
* [[A Wizard Did It]]: As knowledge of genetics and radiation became more prominent, it was eventually decided that [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] "planted the seeds for beneficial mutation," rather than natural processes giving random people cool superpowers. [[Lampshade Hanging|This is not explicitly stated as fact though it at least acknowledges the underlying problem]].
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