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X-Men Characters Ranking (I) The Worst

These characters aren’t what I would call the worst in the sense that I hate them and I don’t want to see them ever again, because I don’t dislike them as much as I hate how writers have treated them, many of them being basically anything other than plot devices and never having a chance to become better characters. I don’t think there’s no hope for them, only that I haven’t seen them getting chances to prove me there is.

Thunderbird/John Proudstar

This character is a joke in the worst sense of the word, basically being known as “Guy who died and unlike the rest didn’t come back”. It has reached a point Joanthan Hickman needed to create an explanation in-universe to why the hell this is the case!!! The fact all of this happens to the first native american member of the team is unfortunate. Thank God John’s own brother James, Forge and especially Danielle Moonstar came soon after to fix that.

Slipstream/Davis Cameron

I don’t want to sound mean, I really don’t want to, but I really, really, really don’t care about this character. How’s possible for a legend like Chris Claremont, who created so many memorable characters, create one so devoid of any interesting quality? If you want a X-Men male character who’s a surfer, just go with Havok in X-Men Evolution. Her sister Heather is a slightly better case, mostly thanks to the revelation that she’s actually part of Shi’ar royalty and we see her dealing with her body changing while she discovers her inheritance.

Joseph

Initially introduced as a possibly rejuvenated Magneto who decided to undo Magneto’s wrongdoings, what could have been the perfect opportunity to develop the character of Magneto was quickly wasted when writers at the time thought It would be more interesting to make him the third party in a love triangle involving Rogue and Remy. The revelation he was actually just Magneto’s clon and his death proved how much they regretted creating him.

Feral/Maria Callasantos

Maria’s backstory on paper could be a perfect way to create a compelling character: abused since her childhood, and killed her stepfather to protect her sister. Unfortunately Feral was created by Fabian Nicieza and Rob Liefeld, who were more interested in action and fights than in writing compelling characters, and in Maria’s case it really shows. Her perpetual hostility towards her teammates quickly made her unlikeable, and soon after she was written out of the team. But while characters like Shatterstar have become fan favorites thanks to the works of writers like Peter David Feral has remained a character no writer has bothered to do anything with her, except depower her after the House of M event to later made Sabretooth kill her.

Maggott/Japheth

None of the characters that joined the X-Men after the events in Operation Zero Tolerance became universal fan-favorites, but while Marrow and Cecilia Reyes have managed to still pop-up here and there occasionally, Maggott quickly became the fandom’s punching bag, being an usual entry in the “worst mutants/powers” lists and soon after his debut became killed. In a concentration camp, just so his death could be anymore fucked-up. Yikes.

Omega Sentinel/Karima Shapandar

The idea of a biosentinel who still retains her humanity and which she uses to fight against her programming to team-up with mutants and become their friend instead of hunting them down is pretty compelling. Despite that Karima has become a punchline for her tendency to be a character who tends to get possessed or brainwashed too much in a franchise and a genre where character being possessed or brainwashed has become commonplace. It seemed like that cycle was finally going to finish after Brian Wood decided to published an all female team on his X-Men run and decided to make Karima turned back into a human but stay with her mutant friends, but all of that got thrown away when Jonathan Hickman took over, make her a biosentinel again and because he really wants to push the narrative of us vs them he made her team-up with the evil human organization who wants to wipe out mutants, because he says so. Thanks Johnny.

Lifeguard/Heather Cameron

Like I already said above Heather is a slightly more interesting character than her brother Davis, especially after the reveal of her Shi’ar ancestry and her transformation to a much more alien appearance. Although I must admit I initially dislike the character for completely petty reasons. More specifically, the fact she was introduced and paired up with Neal Shaara when Psylocke’s death was still recent, because Neal was sentimentally involved with her at the time. Shipping tends to do those things.

Stacy X/Miranda Leevald

The accusation of female characters being created just to eye-candy is one that I think gets thrown around in excess lately, but in the case of Stacy X it’s pretty much the perfect textbook example. She’s introduced as a prostitute, wears revealing clothing, her powers cause orgasms, flirts with a lot of her male teammates, and let’s not forget that infamous time Chuck Austen thought it would be a good idea to write her saying she was going to watch porn after getting in an argument. Classy. The worst part is that her example was so obvious that she never became really popular among fans, and the writers quickly got rid of her in the most unceremonious way possible, depowering her in the aftermath of House of M, without bothering to even give her the opportunity to be a better character. However, I think there’s still hope for her. In the recent Domino Annual Gail Simone gave her a heartbreaking moment in which Miranda had the opportunity to express how she dealt with her power’s loss and how it affected her.

Sunfire/Shiro Yoshida

I really want to like Shiro, I really do, the issue where he was introduced is still one of my favorites from the Neal Adams and Roy Thomas run. But it’s so obvious writers don’t know what else to do with him except remind people that he doesn’t like teamwork over and over again, feeling like an excuse to include him as little as possible. Also this is a much more shallow reason to dislike him, but I really think he needs an urgent redesign to get rid of that horrible mask.

Thunderbird/Neal Shaara

His backstory, about discovering a new secret biosentinel program that took advantage of India’s most disadvantaged population while looking for his missing brother, is actually one of my favorites on any X-Men character, being emotionally compelling with some social critic sprinkled over it. Unfortunately once he joined the team the most he did was get romantically involved with female teammates, first with Psylocke, a reason I’m sure a lot of fans at the time hated him because she was with Archangel, although tbh it never bothered me that much, and then with Lifeguard. The fact that after Karima Shapandar, the character that got turned into a biosentinel while helping him look for his brother, joined the X-Men no one single writer bothered to make him meet her again despite it was confirmed he retained his powers after House of M shows how little interest writers were in him. Ouch.

Revanche/Kwannon

Although it seems like now with Fallen Angels and Hellions they are trying to make her a much more interesting character, there’s still the fact the character was created an introduced just to have a revealing twist about Psylocke’s body swap, and after the writers realised they didn’t know what to do with her and neither they wanted to fix that, they took the easy way and got rid of her making her contract the Legacy Virus so she could die and they could keep Psylocke being a sexy purple-haired ninja.

Vulcan/Gabriel Summers

I don’t think X-Men: Deadly Genesis is the unholy abomination many fans think it is, but even I admit they make Gabriel a character really hard to like. To begin with he’s supposed to be the third Summers brother, a mystery in the franchise that was introduced back in the 90s but that never got a satisfactory resolution, only a bunch of clues that lead nowhere and red herrings, in the main timeline at least, Claremont wrote in X-Men: The End the twist the third Summers brother was Remy all along. Anyways, so Gabriel is not only supposed to be the answer to a question fans didn’t care anymore at the time, but he was also part of a retcon, one related to a part as iconic to the X-Men cannon as it is the Giant Size X-Men published in 1975 and whose main point in the story was to show a dark secret Xavier hided to the rest of the X-Men (Still handled better than the bs Bendis wrote during the Original Sin event). But Gabriel, instead of first acting as confused as the rest of the X-Men team after they discover his existence, to later discover the truth of what happened, with him too enraged to listen to reasons and start to attack everyone wether what happened to him was their fault or not, Remender wrote Gabriel as a douchebag from the beginning, kidnapping Scott and Rachel and just being plain awful, especially to the one who was actually his niece. And then there’s the whole becoming the new Shi’ar emperor storyline that I couldn’t care less… Let’s see what Hickman does with him, although my hopes are not exactly high.

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RE: Stranger Things Characters Getting the X-Men Treatment

I’ve really enjoyed graphic artist's @bosslogic's giving the Stranger Things characters an X-Men makeover. And I bet we fans can’t also help but give our own input on the matter. So here’s my take of/reactions to it:

Eleven/Jane Ives as Jean Grey/Phoenix - I guess this was a no-contest to begin with. Part of me was also wondering if the Phoenix part meant more of Jean Grey’s daughter Rachel Grey/Summers who also went by that name for a time. Well, Jane’s bitchin’ look towards the end of the second season does resemble Rachel’s back when she still sort of had an unlimited access to the Phoenix Force’s powers. She currently goes by the code name of Prestige in the comics these days. Either way, I bet when we first saw Eleven’s abilities, most of us were reminded of this iconic X-Men’s character sans the nosebleeds.

Mike Wheeler as Scott Summers/Cyclops - This was a no-brainer too IMO. Scott Summers and Jean Grey were an item in the X-Men comics to begin with although it wasn’t immune to bouts of infidelity and separation anxieties. Heck, the X-Men characters did grow up with the times - for better and worse for us avid fans. And I sooo like what the artist did with Mike’s hair. On a different note, IRL Finn Wolfhard has curly hair whereas Millie Bobby Brown’s hair is straight. So it’s kind of amusing that these two actors had to sport hairstyles that mirrored the other.

Dustin Henderson as Hank McCoy/Beast - I honestly had to chuckle at this since it was most likely based on a first impressions perspective. I hope it wasn’t because Dustin does look the part. Dustin IS smart and tends to be the more diplomatic one in the party which reflects how Beast is in the X-Men. And both characters do share an immense scientific curiosity - which does get the better of them at some point, e.g. Beast experimenting on his appearance and turning blue and furry and Dustin adopting and treating “Dart” like a pet.

Lucas Sinclair as (Lucas) Bishop - I guess this one did get me thinking that there’s only a handful of X-Men that are POC. Thunderbird, Forge and Bishop being one of the more notable ones. At least it was obvious from the get-go that Lucas would end up being drawn as another Lucas. My speculation, while waiting for the rest of the characters to be re-imagined (only 3 of the re-imagined characters began surfacing at the start) , was that he’d be David Alleyne/Prodigy.

Will Byers as Bobby Drake/Iceman - Well, the Mind Flayer did say that he likes it cold... so I’m guessing that that’s just beside the fact that the two of them are LGBT characters - Will is being hinted at as being LGBT and the younger, time-displaced Iceman arrived at the realization that he’s gay through team mate Jean Grey’s help. Here’s hoping that Season 3 should at least address Will’s sexuality one way or the other.

Max Mayfield as Emma Frost/White Queen - I was really surprised that the artist went with Emma Frost instead of a spunky rendition of Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat. Max and Kitty are quite smart for their age. I was quite impressed with her portrayal in Season 2 and I’d like to see more of her  

Steve Harrington as Remy LeBeau/Gambit - I’m not really surprised that Steve got re-imagined as Gambit. It’s a perfect fit.

Jonathan Byers as Sam Guthrie/Cannonball - This was more of a lead-in to the upcoming “The New Mutants” film but it does baffle me a bit because Charlie Heaton plays such a meek character on “Stranger Things” but he’ll be playing a literally loud character like Cannonball. So psyched for April 13 next year.

Nancy Wheeler as Anna Marie/Rogue - Honestly, I think Natalia Dyers’ dyeing her hair blonde was part of the inspiration to her being re-imagined as Rogue. I even speculated that she’d be Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat since she’s quite smart - something that she also shares with Max.

Jim Hopper as Victor Creed/Sabretooth - I had to LOL at this when I first saw it. I thought @bosslogic would portray him as Cable but David Harbour is a dead ringer for Tyler Mane (the actor who portrayed Sabretooth in the first X-Men film).

I’m guessing that there’s still more to come. I haven’t seen Joyce Byers’ yet. If she does get re-imagined I’m thinking she’d either be Lorna Dane/Polaris or even Neena Thurman/Domino. Heck, she can be even be Mystique or Sage.

The overall look of Kali/008 is reminiscent of a pre-Siege Perilous Psylocke. The purple streaks and her psionically-induced illusions were somewhat of a giveaway for me.

Billy Hargrove reminds me of Arkady Rossovich/Omega Red. But if he’s ever up for some redemption he could be Sean Cassidy/Banshee.

Martin Brenner could easily be Max Eisenhardt/Magneto or my personal fave Nathaniel Essex/Mr. Sinister.

I’m looking forward to other characters getting re-imagined. 

This was so much fun.

As always Bob Newby, Benny Hammond and Barb Holland are all in a league of their own.

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Flustered - Peter Maximoff

Summary : while cuddling with Peter, you get the feeling that something was wrong with the speedster, but the thing that was wrong wasn't bad.

Warnings : fluff, flustered!peter

Word Count : 700

Pairing / Characters : peter Maximoff x reader

Prompt : “peter maximoff pre-relationship cuddling w flustered peter??? i will lob you forever” - anonymous

A/N : love this request so much, oml. I hope you guys like this too. this is so bad oml

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Peter Maximoff. Your best friend, cuddle buddy, your long time crush. You and Peter had the type of ‘friendship’ that most people would think was weird because you two acted like a couple. You two were together all the time, hanging out and messing around. Spending time with he speedster was great, whether it was speeding around town or cuddling in the mansion late at night, just like you two were right now.

It was nearly eleven p.m. and  you and Peter laid in your dorm at the mansion, listening to his mix tape as he held onto your body. One of his arms was wrapped loosely around your waist, the other tucked under your head and playing with your hair tiredly. Your chest was pressed against his, and his chin rested on top of your head, your arms wrapped around his waist.

At times liked this you wanted to turn around and kiss him, to tell him how long you’ve liked him as more than a friend, but you knew you couldn’t, it would just make everything awkward  between the two of you. Sighing, you snuggle your face into Peter’s shirt, taking in scent and closing your arms. You could feel Peter shift as you moved closer to him. With your ear pressed against his chest you could slightly hear his heart beat speed up. Your brows furrowed together, but you didn’t say anything.

Peter’s hands still brushed through your hair, occasionally brushing over your back. You were beyond happy with your current position, being held by Peter was the best feeling because you knew that he wouldn’t let you go. You slid your hands under Peter’s shirt, rubbing his back softly. Peter’s breathe hitched slightly, his muscles tensing under your touch. His heart beat quickened again.

“Pete? Are you okay? Your heart beat keeps picking up.” You say, moving your head and out from under Peter’s chin and looking up at him.

Peter gulped slowly. “I’m fine.” Was all he said. You frowned. Why would he lie to you?

“Peter Maximoff, don’t lie to me. What’s wrong?” Peter sighed, closing his eyes.

“It’s just... whenever you touch me, I just- I get these feelings...” He groaned, not being able to put his words together. His cheeks were flushed, along with his ear and neck. “I get so nervous when I’m around you, when you touch me, and I don’t know how to tell you that I just really want to be with you.” It felt as if your heart nearly stopped beating.

The expression on Peter’s face  showed that he was waiting for your response, so after coming back from reality, you talk. “I have been waiting for you to say those words for so long,  Pete, you have no idea.” You breathed out. Peter broke out into a grin, blush covering his pale face. You giggled, leaning up and kissing Peter softly. He smiled against your lips, his free hand going up to your cheek and pulling you closer.

When the two of you pulled away, you couldn't help but smile. Peter’s face was still bright red, and you just had laugh. Peter nuzzled his head into your neck and hair, hiding his flushed face.

“Awe, is Peter a bit flustered?” You taunted. Peter huffed against neck, placing a soft kiss to your hair.

“Shut up, I’m not flustered.” He pulled away and looked at you, his face slowly losing it’s red color. You rose an eyebrow. Peter huffed. “Okay maybe I’m a little flustered, but it’s all because of you.” You chuckled, nodding slightly.

“Okay, buddy, whatever you say.”

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I was watching a video featuring X-Men: Apocalypse characters and someone was attaching what their theme songs might be, and when Nightcrawler came up, he was given Go the Distance from Disney’s Hercules, and in that moment I literally couldn’t agree more with the song choice. 

Anyway, here’s the link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bUXa55XuIE. All credit goes to LauraNightcoreVideo for her superb song choices!