# Form your own X-Men team! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 15, 2009, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/form-your-own-x-men-team/513879 "2009-10-15T07:00:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/form-your-own-x-men-team/513879/1 "2009-10-15T07:00:59Z")
We’ve had threads like this before, but not in a little while. But you know the drill: you’re in charge of assembling a new X-Men lineup, Earth-616. Any mutant will qualify, as long as they’re not completely puppy-eating evil, or have been dead for more than a decade. To make this more interesting, I’m considering allowing members from alternate universes/timelines. But I don’t want this to get over complicated, or make teams of nothing but twenty different iterations of Wolverine, so let’s say…no more than 1/5th of team members can come from outside Earth-616. And _no duplicates_. I’m groggy right now, and a little out of the loop comics-wise, so I’ll post my own lineup later on. Anyone else want to go first? ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/form-your-own-x-men-team/513879/2 "2009-10-15T07:03:27Z")
Gambit. That’s all the team I need. 😃 And one of these days he’ll appear in a movie where’s a complete bad ass and not a pussy douchebag. I won’t hold my breath though. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/form-your-own-x-men-team/513879/3 "2009-10-15T07:31:24Z")
Magneto, Wolverine, Phoenix & Scarlet Witch. That should do, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Anduinel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Anduinel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anduinel)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/form-your-own-x-men-team/513879/4 "2009-10-15T10:06:31Z")
Let’s see…gotta cover the usual power bases: brick, psi, speedster, stealth, energy projector, mystic and leave a couple of slots open just for flavor. Also, I think it’s a law somewhere that no mutant team is allowed to have fewer than six members. Anyway, my first choices for mix of personalities and powers would be: Rogue (brick/brawler), Northstar and Aurora (speedsters), Cyclops (energy projector), and Nightcrawler for stealth. Psi is a little harder because there are virtually no major telepaths in the X-Books whom I don’t outright loathe at this point – Xavier, Cable, Psylocke and the White Queen can all go DIAF, and that goes double (or more) for Jean Grey. Just for weirdness’ sake, I’d probably resurrect the ticking timebomb emo-fest that was Nate Grey for the psi slot. I’d probably bring in a B-list or below character for the mystic slot, as the general rule seems to be that the better known a magically-powered character is, the more stupidly over-powered they are. I’d probably bring in Amanda Sefton, as the Winding Way thing used to kick her legs out from under her at just the wrong time. Plus the X-Men usually had a token human hanging around anyway. For the flavor slots, I’d add Beast and Iceman. I like the buddy dynamic, every team should have a Smart Guy, and Iceman is pretty useful when he’s not slacking. So: Cyclops Rogue Northstar Aurora Nightcrawler X-Man Daytripper Beast Iceman ---
**Author:** ![infinitii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e8c25b/32.png) [@infinitii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infinitii)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/form-your-own-x-men-team/513879/5 "2009-10-15T13:17:23Z")
Well, I’ll try, but a few caveats first: I am a DC man when I read comics at all, and so this list is going to be just the ones I’ve come across that sound cool. As such I haven’t given any thought to how they would work together or anything, nor do I know if they have been in current comics or not. Also, it turns out I’ve just made an all-female team. Here are their names and what my interpretation of their powers are: M (Monet Yvette Clarisse Maria Therese St. Croix) – perfection Domino – luck Callisto – tactical genius Dazzler – syneshtesia Meggan – elemental empath Psylocke – various psychic abilities That might make for a good team. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/form-your-own-x-men-team/513879/6 "2009-10-15T13:48:05Z")
Emma Frost Kitty Pride Psylocke Storm Dazzler Rogue Hey, you create your team for your reasons, and I’ll create my team for mine! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/form-your-own-x-men-team/513879/7 "2009-10-15T15:38:12Z")
My geeky comic book-reading adolescence took place in the early 80s, in which Kitty Pryde was the junior X-person, and there was a whole team of novice proto-X-Men called"the New Mutants", whom I began to be even more interested in as Chris Claremont’s writing on the original “X-Men” became increasingly over-the-top archly ludicrous (culminating in the awful depowered, mohawked Storm being ‘romanced’ by Forge.) Anyway, for ‘my’ team of X-Men, I would simply revert to early-mid 80s era teams, have all the X-Men from that time period (save Kitty) retire or move onto being second-string Avengers, and have Kitty & the New Mutants become the new team. Prof. X would also retire from the school to go live in the Shi’ar galaxy with Lilindra, leaving the school in the capable hands of Dr. Hank “the Beast” McCoy. The team would be: Beast (as mentor figure) Kitty Pryde (as team leader) Wolfsbane Karma Dani Moonstar (they could never settle on a codename for her - I’d call her ‘Dreamcatcher’) Sunspot Cannonball Magma Doug Ramsey / Warlock (A merged entity of the two characters, with Doug’s likeable personality, but 'Lock’s useful powers.) Illyana Rasputin would be a 'Dark Phoenix" adversary - finally, irredeemably corrupted by Belasco’s magic and a threat the team has to contend with. I’d also like to add Northstar from “Alpha Flight” too - a cool character that could fill the ‘angry outsider rebel’ slot that every Marvel superhero team requires. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/form-your-own-x-men-team/513879/8 "2009-10-15T21:56:48Z")
Storm - Weather Goddess Colossus - Raw Power Magneto - Force of Nature, he and Colossus one hell of a fastball special ArchAngel - Silent Death from Above Psylocke - Cause well … 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/form-your-own-x-men-team/513879/9 "2009-10-15T22:34:28Z")
Valkyrie = the leader Storm, Songbird and Psylocke = the brains (as in, telekinesis) Rogue, Phoenix and She-Hulk = the brawn Oh lord, they are going to be so up in male chauvinist pigs’ business! ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2009, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/form-your-own-x-men-team/513879/10 "2009-10-15T22:49:57Z")
Jamie Madrox Iceman Mimic (from the Exiles) Havok [Box](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Jeffries) Psylocke Nightcrawler Armor Colossus And just 'cause I like him: Litterbug. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/form-your-own-x-men-team/513879/11 "2009-10-16T07:54:10Z")
I’m sensing a certain lack of love for Wolverine… ---
**Author:** ![Push\_You\_Down](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/push_you_down/32/9095_2.png) [@Push\_You\_Down](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Push_You_Down)\ **Post date:** [October 16, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/form-your-own-x-men-team/513879/12 "2009-10-16T17:27:52Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I’m sensing a certain lack of love for Wolverine… Dudes on 5 teams.. He isn’t necessary. Iceman (leader, he deserves a shot) Warpath (he’s normally a brick, but I like him better as the skilled fighter type and he fulfills the speed power set too ) Erg (old school Morlock with eye-beam power) Gambit (I think he and Iceman would have a good dynamic) Rockslide (literally, the brick) Hellion (tk) Anole (fills the Nightcrawler ‘lovable creature’ model) ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2009, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/form-your-own-x-men-team/513879/13 "2009-10-17T12:31:50Z")
All right, 'might as well join in. 🙂 Admittedly, I’m a little out of the loop comics-wise, and some of my choices might just lean towards the aesthetic. But I’ll give it a shot. In no particular order: •Rogue. Gotta have Rogue. Might be interesting to have her as a team leader, even. •[Elixir](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elixir_(comics)). (Healing) To quote Optimus Prime, “he can stay and guard the base!” Seriously though, I think he’d be good both as a source of operating revenue when the team’s strapped for cash (or it’s richer members and benefactors are dead, on the lamb, or blew everything on coke), and for a pro-mutant “hearts and minds” campaign. How many dead celebrities could this guy alone have saved, in the last year? In which case, he’d better have a bodyguard. And maybe Tony Stark would be willing to sell some older model armor with the offensive systems stripped out. •[Strong Guy.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_Guy) (Muscle) I always liked this guy’s look. Maybe Richard Epcar could play him, if he ever makes it to the screen. •[Mercury](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(Marvel_Comics)). (T-1000-ey stuff) •Psylocke. (Telepathic/kinetic powers, fanservice, mobile continuity snarling) •[Nocturne](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturne_(comics)). Anyone on board with this one? If not, maybe I’ll try the cartoon version of [Morph](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morph_(comics)#X-Men:_The_Animated_Series). I think it’s the jacket that sells him.