Oh yeah? I’ll see your Ion and raise you The Beyonder.
I mean, he did kill the entire New Mutants, then ressurect them to fight against every other earth hero in Secret Wars. So technically, he was a member of the New Mutants. Yeah, that’s it. Since the New Mutants were the junior X-men, the Beyonder counts as a member of the X-team.
Ooooh, not so tough now are ya! Are ya!
Of course, when you start having God-man, the hero with omnipotent super powers, on your team, the rest of the team starts to get pretty superflous. Hasn’t anyone read Tom the Dancing Bug?
Yeah, I know the issue, I just don’t remember the full circumstances. But I was talking about the water thing with J’onn. Not the magnetic thing. As is readily apparent from the section you quoted.
Dude. If you want the Beyonder, you can have him. Really.
You’re talking about a schmuck with the worst costume and haircut in the history of comics … save perhaps Thor… who got suckered into giving up his powers like a chump.
Ah, who am I kidding. Gamera’s right. J’onn would just ask the Beyonder why he existed, and the Beyonder would self-destruct like a computer on Start Trek TOS. What a dolt that character was.
“I seek to understand death. Therefore I will kill the New Mutants. Ah, I’ve killed the New Mutants, but since I am immortal I still do not understand death. Oh, woe is me. Tell me, what is this emotion you hu-mans call ‘Love’?”
Whoever came up with the Beyonder storyline should be kicked in the stomach.
As an aside, in general, magnetic-powered characters existed long, looooong before Magneto. *
And in specific, Dr. Polaris (Green Lantern #21, June '62) would have had to work pretty hard to rip off Magneto (X-Men #1, Sep, '63)! (Although Magneto had a far better costume)
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*First thought, Cosmic Boy, Adventure #247, April '58. But he was nowhere near the first either.
(Although Magneto had a far better costume)