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The '''X-Men''' are a [[superhero]] team in the [[Marvel Universe]]. They were created by writer [[Stan Lee]] and artist [[Jack Kirby]], and first appeared in ''The X-Men'' #1 (September 1963).
Under a cloud of increasing anti-mutant sentiment, Professor Xavier creates a haven at his Westchester mansion to train young mutants to use their powers for the benefit of humanity, as well as to prove mutants can be heroes. Xavier recruited Cyclops, Iceman, Angel, Beast and Jean Grey, calling them "X-Men" because they possessed X-tra power due to their possession of the "X-Gene", a gene which normal humans lack and which gives mutants their abilities. Though the X-Men started off with just five members, as the years went on, many characters joined the team. Just as many left, and some returned.
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The X-Men comics have been adapted in other media, including animated television series, video games, and a successful series of films.
Due to a massive spike in popularity in the late [[The Eighties|1980s]], now covers a whole franchise of different titles. These are some of the various spin-offs to be found here on
In 2011 an X-Event called "Schism" divided the X-Men in two teams: The Blue Team led by Cyclops and the Gold Team led by [[Wolverine]]. As a side effect of this separation, there are actually
== The three main titles are: ==
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* ''Astonishing X-Men'', started by [[Joss Whedon]] and John Cassaday to critical acclaim. It initially featured Cyclops, Emma Frost, Wolverine, Beast, Shadowcat, and the resurrected Colossus as the core team, later replaced by Storm and newcomer Hisako Ichiki (AKA: Armor).
Previously, Chris Claremont's
== Secondary titles for the Gold Team are: ==
* ''X-Men Legacy'', previously known as just X-Men (or "Adjectiveless X-Men" to distinguish it from Uncanny). Started off as a showcase for Jim Lee, but it was transformed into Grant Morrison's New X Men to coincide with the first two movies. After Schism the book currently serves as a display for most of the teachers in the JGSFHH.
* ''[[X-Force|Uncanny X-Force]]''
* ''[[X-Factor (comics)|X-Factor]]'' (not to be confused with [[The X Factor|Simon Cowell's show]])
== Secondary titles for the Blue Team are: ==
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== And film: ==
* [[X-Men (film)|X-men series of films]]
* And as of late 2020, the film rights have been reacquired by Marvel, and they are to be incorporated into the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]].
== And last but not least, our merry mutants have starred in a few
* ''[[X
* ''[[X-Men vs. Street Fighter]]:'' Crossover between the X-Men and Street Fighter, which spawned [[Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter|a few]] [[Marvel vs. Capcom|sequels]].
* ''[[X-Men Next Dimension|X-Men: Next Dimension]]:'' 3-D fighting game based on the Operation: Zero Tolerance storyline.
* ''[[X
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* [[Black Bug Room]]
* [[Danger Room Cold Open]]
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* [[Wolverine Claws]]
* [[Wolverine Publicity]]
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▲=== The X-men comics contain examples of: ===
* [[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
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* [[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.
* [[Back
** It has become something of a joke at how many characters have died and returned. But trying to avert this not only fools nobody, it comes across as writers using averting this to get rid of characters they don't like.
** The entire team dies in Uncanny X-Men #227, only to come back a few pages later.
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* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Practically every member of the X-Men has fallen victim to this trope at least once.
* [[Broken Aesop]]: Many.
** Marvel got a ruling saying mutants weren't people for purposes of taxes and tariffs on merchandise. See [https://web.archive.org/web/20131022223546/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/04/24/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-152/ here].
** Also, after decades of using mutants as a metaphor for an [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|oppressed minority]] that we should love and respect, Joe Quesada mandates the Decimation event, in which a vast majority of the Marvel universe's mutants are depowered and there are in the low three digits of mutants left.
** One of the taglines for the first movie was "Trust some. Fear the rest." Imagine this being applied to any minority group.
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* [[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 [[My God, 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.
** Gambit, especially has turned this into a revolving door.
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* [[More Hero Than Thou]]: Wolverine and Scott Summers used to get into this all the time.
* [[Muggle Power]]: For Magneto and his bunch. The X-Men, naturally, oppose both sides.
* [[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 then-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.
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*** Nowadays, Rogue has had the psychological blocks on her powers removed. She still has a full bodysuit and a cloak, presumably since she's accustomed to it.
*** More likely, it prevents her from accidentally using her powers on more than one person at once, for example, if she's crammed in a football-style pileup and trying to power-steal/incapacitate only one of them, but might otherwise take out one of her own people.
* [[Sunglasses
* [[Super Empowering]]: Sage, but only for those with latent mutations.
* [[Super Family Team]]: For various related X-men.
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** Since Kitty Pryde left the team, it's pretty much become a rule that the roster has to include one plucky teenage girl who latches onto Wolverine as a [[Big Brother Mentor]]. Over the years, the replacements have included Jubilee, Marrow, Armor, Pixie, and X-23. They shook up the tradition a bit with Marrow by making Gambit her mentor instead, but they cut out the middleman with X-23 by making her Wolverine's female clone (the closest thing to an actual little sister he's ever gonna get).
*** Marrow actually wasn't as plucky as she was rebellious: being a Morlock, she was the only one who could not leave if not for missions, and was constantly rubbing Storm the wrong way. And she only gained respect for Wolverine after she forced him to go [[Unstoppable Rage|berserk]] and he beat the crap out of her.
* [[Take That]]:
* [[Take That]]: In one ''Generation M'' comic, the main character is an alcoholic reporter. A suspiciously-familiar guy calling himself [[Iron Man|Tony S]] attends one of her AA meetings. At a later point, after being beaten up she refers to herself as "looking like one of [[Never Live It Down|Hank Pym's]] girlfriends".▼
** Mojo is a villain whose purpose seems to be making fun of the television and film industry. He's an obese, disgusting, '''''ugly''''' alien overlord who is also his dimension's biggest film producer.
* [[Tangled Family Tree]]: The Summers family is a massive [[Continuity Snarl]] to itself, and is so convoluted that at this point Scott Summers may in fact be [[My Own Grampa|his own grandfather]].<br /><br />No fewer than four characters in the main continuity of the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' comics can be said to be the child of Scott Summers, only one of whom (Cable) was actually ''born'' during the timeline of the main Marvel Universe, and none of whom are more than [[Comic Book Time|about ten years younger than their parents]] (including [[Cable]], who is, due to the massive amount of [[Time Travel]] in his backstory, at least ten years ''older'' than his parents).<br /><br />Add to that Scott's brother Alex, their long-lost father (the [[Space Pirates|space pirate]] Corsair), and the supervillain-ruler-of-a-galactic-empire Third Summers Brother (Vulcan), and the whole thing is just one big mess. Ironically, Scott started out as an orphan with no known family.▼
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* [[Tangled Family Tree]]: The Summers family is a massive [[Continuity Snarl]] to itself, and is so convoluted that at this point Scott Summers may in fact be [[My Own Grampa|his own grandfather]].
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:Add to that Scott's brother Alex, their long-lost father (the [[Space Pirates|space pirate]] Corsair), and the supervillain-ruler-of-a-galactic-empire Third Summers Brother (Vulcan), and the whole thing is just one big mess. Ironically, Scott started out as an orphan with no known family.
* [[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
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* [[Tsundere]]: Hellion is type A towards X-23.
* [[Use Your Head]]: The Juggernaut
* [[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.
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