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=== YMMVs for the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|comics]]: ===
 
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* [[Memetic Mutation]]: Thanks to Comic Book Resources, Beast [[Inferred Holocaust|is a war criminal]], Iceman [[Ambiguously Gay|is gay]], and Wolverine is Rachel Summers' real father.
** A relatively complete list of the CBR X-Boards' inside jokes can be found [http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=356992 here].
** "Days of Future Past" may just have the most [http://darkwingblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/darkwingduck_12_cvb_1.jpg?w=400&h=600 frequently] [https://web.archive.org/web/20141025024548/http://www.liveforfilms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/doctor-who-days-of-future-past-452x700.jpg parodied] [http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs14/f/2007/047/e/6/Star_Wars_Insider_Cover_by_robcamp1000.jpg cover] [http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/3/3b/The_Last_Generation_issue_1_variant_cover.jpg of all time].
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Ultimate Wolverine's attempted murder of Scott Summers.
** Wither, whose purpose seems to be to explore how a villain becomes a villain, probably crossed this with his recent double-murder.
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* [[Strangled by the Red String]]: Emma Frost and Scott Summers.
** Storm and Black Panther is another major example.
* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character]]: [https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Cyttorak_(Earth-616) Cyttorak] is a character that you can look at (if you're a fan of this comic) and swear you've seen him before, even if you haven't. This is because longtime X-Men villain Cain Marko - the Juggernaut - is pretty much an avatar of Cyttorak. A powerful demon-slash-god, Cain's power comes directly from him, yet despite his link to such a long-running villain, Cyttorak has appeared in only 21 issues.
** Cyttorak is also one of a group of eight demon-gods who are collectively called the Octessence, and ''all'' of them have avatars much like Cain, and yet, Cyttorak has had the most "screen time" of all of them. Supposedly, these eight beings are in some sort of contest-by-proxy to see who is the greatest among them, potentially overlapping this Trope with [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]].
* [[Vindicated by History]]: The original series was never a top-seller, but sales had declined so much by the end of the 1960s that the book was cancelled. A little bit later, the series (with its original numbering) returned, but only as a reprint title. A number at Marvel did like the book and the characters, but they couldn't figure out ''how'' to bring them back until 1975's ''Giant-Sized X-Men #1''. After that was published and received strong response, Marvel has kept the X-Men in regular publication ever since - adding many spin-offs and mini-series to the archive (not to mention many hours of outside, successful media).
* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Jean Grey/Phoenix.
* [[Wangst]]: Arguably could be applied to nearly all the characters, and mostly justified.
 
=== YMMVs for the [[X-Men (animation)|animated series]]: ===
* [[Acceptable Targets]]: Graydon Creed and the Friends of Humanity
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** {{spoiler|Morph}}, during his second-season subplot and any of his later guest appearances.
=== YMMVs for the [[X-Men (film)|film series]]: ===
* See [[X-Men (film series)/YMMV]]
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: Lady Deathstrike in ''X-2'', who was only being mind-controlled. Even the look on Wolverine's face shows he regrets that he had to do it.
 
* [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: Beast's in the third film? Cool. What's that? He's being played by [[Kelsey Grammer]]? ''Thank you, God''.
** There was much rejoicing in learning that [[Patrick Stewart]] and [[Ian McKellen]] were going to play Professor X and Magneto.
** For ''First Class'', [[Bryan Singer]] producing/writing and [[James McAvoy]] as Xavier.
* [[Complete Monster]]: Stryker. Possibly his son Jason too, assuming Stryker's account of him driving his mother to suicide is accurate. Shaw in ''First Class'' and En Sabu Nur in ''Apocalypse'' are, if anything, ''[[Beyond the Impossible|worse]]''.
* [[Draco in Leather Pants]]: Liev Schreiber's Victor Creed has caught the eye of the fangirls.
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]:
** Par for the course when Nightcrawler is involved.
** Beast, as played by Kelsey Grammer, was almost guaranteed to be this.
* [[Fan Nickname]] - DINO ([[Deadpool]] in name only). He's also referred to as "Dudepeel", Cesspool, "[[Mortal Kombat|Barakapool]]" and probably others.
** "Fassbending" for Magneto's powers.
* [[Fan-Preferred Couple]]: Logan/Rogue is much more popular than Logan/Jean. The shippers [[Took a Third Option]] indeed
* [[Fridge Horror]]: Think all the normal humans turned out fine because Cerebro was turned off before it could kill them all in ''X2''? Then think of what happened to all those people who were piloting aircraft, performing surgery, etc. during that time.
* [[Hilarious in Hindsight]]: Magneto asks Wolverine "You think it's all about you, don't you?". Who's on the cover of the first four movies?
** Back when Magneto and Professor X meet again for the first time in the first movie, Erik says "I can feel you in here" while invoking the [[Pstandard Psychic Pstance]] that Charles isn't even known for using... ''until First Class''.
*** Similarly, Erik playing with a bullet he's pushing into some poor shmuck's head...
** Beast throwing down the mutant cure in disgust in X-3, in regards to his experience with another serum in ''First Class''. And the odd pairing of Azazel and Riptide as [[Co-Dragons]], considering the [[Ship Tease]] between the similarly-powered Nightcrawler and Storm in X-2.
** The first movie is widely considered as [[Hugh Jackman]] and [[James Marsden]]'s [[Star Making Roles]] - but what's interesting is that [[Real Men Wear Pink|Hugh was already an established star of stage and screen musicals]], while James would find newfound fame in [[Enchanted|musical]] [[Hairspray|roles]] ''after'' X-Men.
* [[Jerkass Woobie]]: Magneto and Mystique, given their backstories.
* [[Moral Event Horizon]]: Stryker's plan to wipe out all mutants on the planet qualifies. For that matter, Magneto crosses the line when he is trusted with stopping this by the X-Men and does....by reversing it to wipe out all ''humans'' on the planet, leaving his old friend Xavier to die in the process.
** In ''First Class'', Shaw killing Erik's mother to get him to unlock his mutant potential. It really colors his efforts to put mutants in charge in a very different light when you consider that he is willing to torment other mutants in order to achieve that end.
* [[Narm]]: The entire exchange between Mystique and the prison truck guard in ''X3'' is tooth-grindingly [[Narm|Narmy]].
{{quote|'''Guard''': [[Dull Surprise|Oh, Mr. President]]...shut up!<br />
'''Mystique (disguised as a [[Creepy Child]]):''' Why are you doing this?! Let me down! I'll be a good girl! Please!<br />
'''Guard''': Keep it up and I'll spray you in the face, [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch|bitch]]. }}
* [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|Moment of Awesome]]: [[X-Men/Awesome|Various]].
* [[Only the Creator Does It Right]]: The Brett Ratner-directed ''X3'' is generally considered a step down from the first two movies, directed by Bryan Singer.
* [[Retroactive Recognition]]: [[Juno]] as Kitty Pride (see [[One-Scene Wonder]] in the main page).
** [[Lost|Miles Straum]] as a [http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/5/3/8/1538_slide.jpg?v=2 mutant].
* [[Role Association]]: [[GoldenEye (film)||Xenia Onatopp and Boris Grishenko]] on the side of good?
** And ''[[The Scorpion King]]'' [[Kelly Hu|sorceress]] fights Wolverine.
* [[Sequelitis]] / [[Contested Sequel]]: ''The Last Stand'' (helped by [[Bryan Singer]] leaving for ''[[Superman Returns]]'') and ''Wolverine'' (though it's a prequel).
* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: ''The entire third movie''. {{spoiler|The cure is temporary.}}
* [[Surprisingly Improved Sequel]]: ''First Class'', towards the last two movies.
* [[Too Cool to Live]]: {{spoiler|Darwin.}} He has the power to survive anything through gaining whatever adaptations he needs. So, naturally, he gets [[Dropped a Bridge on Him|an anti-climatic death way before any of the other mutant characters]].
* [[Unfortunate Implications]]: Despite being a very racially diverse team in the comics, the only non-whites in the X-Men are Storm (a native African [[But Not Too Black|played by]] [[Halle Berry]]), Darwin ( {{spoiler|[[Black Dude Dies First|who dies...apparently]]}}), and Angel Salvadore ( {{spoiler|who pulls a [[Face Heel Turn]]}}). Meanwhile, the evil mutants and human villains are very diverse. Almost every Asian on screen is a villain, even Kid Omega, Agent Zero, and Psylocke ([[Race Lift|the former two being white in the comics]], the latter being a heroine in the comics). The only exception is Jubilee, who has nothing more than a cameo.
** The greater diversity of the Brotherhood at the end of ''First Class'' can be interpreted as showing that people who have actually experienced oppression are less idealistic/naive about the chances of peace. There's also a significantly greater proportion of people with visible mutations in the Brotherhood than in the X-Men.
* [[What the Hell, Casting Agency?]]: Liev Schreiber (who is about a foot shorter than Tyler Mane) as Victor Creed. His performance is good (Terrific even), but [[The Other Darrin/Quotes|one quote here describes the disparity to a T.]]
=== YMMVs for the [[X-Men (video game)|arcade game]]: ===
* [[Ham and Cheese]]: While the dialog is cheesy, the actors seem to be hamming it up, especially since the remake required all voices to be re-recorded, so the new actors had to be made aware of what they were doing and be told that the cheesy dialog was kept on purpose.
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