History Sandbox / XMenTitleTeam

* ChummyCommies: Introduced during the ColdWar as a kindhearted Soviet immediately onboard with Professor X's suggestion that his powers be used for the good of "the whole world".

* TheApprentice: Was put under ComicBook/{{Storm}}'s tutelage. Although it was more of a formality, as Bishop was quite trained already, he appreciated it much.

A Russian mutant with the ability to transform the entirety of his body into [[ChromeChampion organic, indestructible metal]], Colossus was introduced as one of the "all-new, all-different X-Men" who followed in the footsteps of the original roster --alongside ComicBook/{{Storm}}, ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}}, and ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}-- who would also become stalwart mainstays of the team.

[[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott Summers']] younger and more rebellious brother. When Scott and he were orphaned during an alien-caused plane crash, Alex was adopted, Scott was stuck in the orphanage. Alex likes the X-Men, but resents Scott's position, so is usually a reserve member. Alex has the mutant power to project energy blasts from his hands, but Scott and Alex are immune to each other's powers, leading to fist-fights between them during conflicts. Occasionally sports an out-of-control temper and the power of a small sun. Is the long-time boyfriend of [[ComicBook/{{Polaris}} Lorna Dane a.k.a. Polaris]], although the two eventually settled on being friends. Had his own series for several years, ''Mutant X'', which involved him being trapped in a parallel world.

* TookALevelInKindness: While still kind of a JerkAss and his traits really DependingOnTheAuthor, Shiro seems to become much more level-headed than he was in his early appearances and especially during his Marauders days. For example, during his first encounters with other X-Men he constantly insulted his allies and was known more as a loner. Nowadays he seems to be less rude and caring more about his teammates. He even sincerely apologized to X-Factor after he was brainwashed into attacking them and befriended them after, something he would never have done in the 70s. He also seems to have developed good relationships with some other mutants, including ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}, ComicBook/{{Rogue}}, ComicBook/{{Gambit}} and ComicBook/{{Polaris}}.

** [[Characters/UltimateXMen Jimmy Hudson]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: ''Dark X-Men'' retroactively gave him one, as it was established in that series that he had been suffering from UsefulNotes/BipolarDisorder for the past fifty years.

[[folder:Beak]]
!!Barnell Bohusk / Beak
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!!!'''Nationality:''' Dutch, Krakoan

-->''"I'm not strong, I'm not smart, I do not shoot death-rays. About the only thing I'm good at... is making friends."''

Beak's mutation manifested at puberty, developing into a humanoid/avian hybrid much like the physiology found in flightless birds. He is amongst the number of mutants depowered due to the events of M-Day, his body reverting back to human form.

* BatterUp: The baseball bat is practically his signature weapon by the end of ''ComicBook/NewXMen. It's implied that Tito Jr's bat is the same one.
* BroughtDownToNormal: He is stripped of his mutation by the Decimation. [[spoiler:He does regain his mutation in ''ComicBook/XMenBlue'' after Mothervine is released]].
%% Needs more context* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Chicken man's got ''moves'' with a baseball bat in his hands.
* FakeMemories: After his parents were murdered by cartel members seeking Krakoan medical drugs, the twins Manon and Maxime altered his memories without permission to make him believe that they died peacefully years earlier because they wanted to help him get past his grief.
* FutureBadass: It's suggested that Beak himself eventually becomes a competent hero in his own right. His grandson Tito Jr is tremendously muscular and heroic... and for some reason feels as though he'll never live up to Barnell's memory.
* HappilyMarried: To Angel Salvadore. They didn’t start out this way but after M-Day they seem to have grown into a much healthier relationship and it sticks after they get their powers back.
* TookALevelInBadass: Beak becomes a ComicBook/{{New Warrior|s}} and a member of the all-new Teen Brigade, even after he's [[BroughtDownToNormal depowered on M-Day]].
* UglyGuyHotWife: Beak looks like a chicken, while Angel looks like a normal girl with fly wings. They both got hot in ComicBook/NewWarriors after being depowered.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: His only power is that he looks like a chicken.
* YouNoTakeCandle: Beak's from the Netherlands, and has a somewhat limited grasp of English.

[[folder:Angel Salvadore]]
!!Angel Salvadore
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!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Angel, Tempest, Angel Salvadore-Bohusk

!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''New X-Men'' #118 (November, 2001)

Angel Salvadore is a mutant with an insectoid physiology including insectiod wings. Once a student at Xavier's Institute, she was depowered on M-Day. She then joined the New Warriors as Tempest. She regained her mutant abilities due to the spread of the Mothervine Virus.

* BroughtDownToNormal: She loses her mutant powers due to the Decimation, but later regains them from Mothervine.
* * {{Expy}}: : Started out as, basically, a housefly-themed version of Boom-Boom in terms of personality and background.
* FakeMemories: Her memories of Beak's parents being murdered were altered by Manon and Maxime.
* HappilyMarried: She genuinely does love Beak and they have lived as close to HappilyEverAfter as you can in comics.
* MamaBear: Don't threaten her children or you'll get acid to the face.
* OneSteveLimit: Introduced when Warren Worthington was called Archangel and had been for years. She later adopted Tempest as her codename after Warren went back to being called Angel.
* PrankDate: That's how her relationship with Beak started. The eventual result was an unexpected pregnancy, of all things, which due to her fly-like biology caused her to give birth to five babies in just a few days.
* ProgressivelyPrettier: Combined to some extend with DependingOnTheArtist, but when Angel was introduced she was portrayed as pudgy and awkward with plain features and unflattering, very short and dishiveled hair. At one point she was even negatively compared to the Stepford Cuckoos. All this had disappeared by the end of Grant Morrison's run, at which point Angel had not only slimmed down and developed the MostCommonSuperPower, but was drawn with much more beautiful features and her hair had grown out into an elegant afro style. Even her wings changed from her original housefly-like ones to resemble those of a dragonfly or sometimes even a butterfly. Taken one step further after she lost her fly-based mutation and was explicitly stated as having model-like looks.
* {{Squick}}: Being based on a fly, Angel vomits acid to partially digest her food into a slime that would then be eaten. This is treated as gross in-universe.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Angel looks like an average girl with fly wings. Her husband is essentially an anthropomorphic chicken.

[[folder:Glob]]
!!Robert Herman / Glob
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!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' The Inhuman Torch
!!!'''Nationality:''' American, Krakoan

!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''New X-Men'' #117 (October, 2001)

-->''"Yeah! Knocked out the lady... with no super-strength. Dang it, even when I'm a hero I'm a jerk."''

Glob was a student at Xavier's mansion and a member of the Omega Gang under the leadership of Quentin Quire. Although he was one of the X-Men's most troublesome and problematic students for years, Glob eventually sought to change himself for the better. After the rise of Krakoa, Glob frequently assists the New Mutants while also maintaining a chicken coop on the island.

* AbusiveParents: His father was a member of a group of anti-mutant bigots who dragged young Robert to anti-mutant rallies. When his mutation manifested, his father would beat him for any reason he could find. Eventually his mother snuck him out of the house in the middle of the night and dropped him off at Xavier's school, warning him to never call or come home.
* AnimalLover: Developed an affinity for chickens in the Age of X-Man, which carried over to his time on Krakoa as he maintains a coop.
* ApologeticAttacker: As he's about to kill his old friend Kid Omega in ''ComicBook/WolverineAndTheXMenMarvelComics'', he sends him a psychic apology, explaining that he was too scared to deny his evil commanders and enforcers. Kid Omega, in response, [[PreAssKickingOneLiner apologizes for what he's about to do.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Though he was originally a mutant extremist with no qualms about torturing and killing humans, he mellowed out significantly with age. This was until he confronted the owner of the website dedicated to doxing mutants, whom he bluntly told that if one more mutant was hurt because of this site, he would track him down and kill him, even if it meant facing Krakoa's capitol punishment for killing a human.
* BlobMonster: His skin is biogenic paraffin wax, making him see through with his skeleton and organs all visible.
* BoomerangBigot: He was raised to hate mutants by his father, only for him to turn out to be one. He hated himself for awhile after before turning his hatred towards humanity for rejecting and mistreating him.
* CallToAgriculture: On Krakoa he built a chicken coop which he tends to in between missions. This is seemingly influenced by the life he lived in the alternate ''ComicBook/AgeOfXMan'' reality.
* CharacterDevelopment: Started out as a violent member of Quinten Quire's Omega Gang who once tried to set a bus of humans on fire. Now he is a full-fledged X-Man who seeks to solve conflicts with as little violence as possible, even when fighting gang members who threaten the lives of mutant children.
* FaceHeelTurn: Joined the Hellfire Academy after coming to believe that his classmates and the X-Men didn't respect him. It didn't stick, as he rejoined the Jean Grey Academy after the Hellfire Academy was shut down.
* ImmuneToFire: Fire and heat have little effect on him, at most briefly catching him on fire. However, in ''ComicBook/AgeOfXMan'', he is visibly much smaller after [[ItMakesSenseInContext melting a significant amount of his wax onto Armor]], and he might be in danger if he burns long enough for it to reach his bones or organs.
* ImmuneToMindControl: He's the one person, bar Bishop (who has all kinds of alternate reality hijinks to render him immune), who was unaffected by Nate Grey's reality warp in ''ComicBook/AgeOfXMan''. It's not clear why, though given that everyone in the world got their greatest desires [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor (in theory)]], it might have come from that. Unfortunately, no one else is similarly immune.
* OddFriendship: Develops one with Mojo of all beings in ''ComicBook/XMenBlack'' due to their [[CommonalityConnection their unconventional and unattractive forms]].
* ReformedBully: Started out as a stupid, cruel thug for Kid Omega. Starting with ''ComicBook/SpiderManAndTheXMen'', he started to show a selfless side, and by the time Krakoa came along, he was a fully positive influence to younger mutants [[AnimalLover and chickens]].
* SecretKeeper: Along with Armor he is the only one who knows that Manon and Maxime altered Beak and Angel's memories, but is hiding this fact due to the extra distress and complications that would arise from revealing the truth.
* SuperStrength: He is quite strong and able to easily subdue normal humans in hand-to-hand combat.
* SuperToughness: It's nearly impossible to hurt him thanks to the unique make-up of his skin. Even a bomb strapped to his chest didn't leave a scratch on him. The most he has ever been hurt has been when he was strapped to the front of a rocket to substitute for a heat-resistant tip to get back to Earth, and that was only a few broken bones.
* TookALevelInBadass: In the hellish Age of Apocalypse mental simulation that he, Rockslide, Pixie, and Armor were trapped in with Nate Grey, when Legion was trying to keep the latter locked away. It lasted five minutes, but it felt like months, and Glob became powerful enough to take Rockslide in a fight.
* TookALevelInKindness: Several levels: after his history of rioting and betraying the school, Glob mellowed out considerably, starting with learning lessons in heroism from Spider-Man's special class at the institute. This change is acknowledged in ''ComicBook/NewMutants2019'', in which Glob tells Magik that he had an epiphany one day about how he had become a hateful man like his father and wanted to change.
* WreathedInFlames: His body is made of what is essentially living wax, making him highly flammable. He isn't hurt by this so in combat he can light himself on fire.

[[folder:Petra]]
!!Petra
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!!!'''Nationality:''' American, Krakoan
!!!'''Species:''' Human mutant
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men: Deadly Genesis'' #1 (January, 2006)

Petra was a mutant with the power to manipulate earth.

* AttemptedRape: Her foster dad attempted this, but she managed to stop him with the first conscious use of her powers. She then ran because he realized she was a mutant and she knew he might kill her.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Subverted. She was thought to have been resurrected by the Five on Krakoa until it was pointed out she died before Cerebro existed. It turned out the Petra seen on Krakoa was an energy construct Vulcan created]].
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: She's roasted alive by a very angry Krakoa.
* DishingOutDirt: She's a geokinetic. While homeless in New York, she carved a home for herself out of a rock bluff in Central Park and made money by turning coal into diamonds.
* DominoMask: Has a green one.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: As with the rest of her team, because Professor X wiped everyone's memory of her. And just to add insult to death, even after Darwin and Vulcan come back from the dead, neither seem to give any particular thought to either girl again. ''X-Men: Legacy'' at least indicated that Charles feels guilty about their deaths.
* FosterKid: She was put into the foster system after her parents died. She was stuck in a small room with five kids, a foster mom who smoked and didn't care about the kids, and a foster dad who tried to rape her.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: She spends most of her time getting drunk at the Summer House on the moon. Not surprising that she wouldn’t want to spend time on Krakoa.
* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: She's the Light to Sway's dark, being blonde with a green and white costume.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: As she died, she used her powers to try and save the still barely alive Darwin and Vulcan. Unfortunately, this had the side effect of saving Vulcan, who when he returned to Earth came back pretty damn pissed.
* NoNameGiven: We never learn her given name, and even the X-Men's gravestone for her just calls her Petra.
* ParentalAbandonment: His parents and brother died in a rockslide when she was young, with her being the only survivor thanks to her abilities.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Petra, along with Darwin, Vulcan and Sway, was introduced in ''Deadly Genesis'' claiming they'd been around before the ''All-New'' team.
* SurvivorGuilt: After figuring out what her mutant power was, Petra felt guilty about her family's deaths, believing that she either caused the accident or could have saved them.

[[folder:Sway]]
!!Suzanne Chang / Sway
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!!!'''Nationality:''' Hong Kong, Krakoan
!!!'''Species:''' Human mutant
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men: Deadly Genesis'' #3 (March, 2006)

Sway was a mutant with time-stopping powers, and was a member of the X-Men.

* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Subverted. She was initially thought to have been resurrected by the Five on Krakoa until it was pointed out she died before Cerebro existed. It was revealed the Sway who'd been hanging around Vulcan was a construct he created]].
* CleavageWindow: Her suit came with an opening for her cleavage.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Sway's sliced in half by a Krakoa construct.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: The same deal as Petra.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: She spends most of her time getting drunk at the Summer House on the moon. Not surprising that she wouldn’t want to spend time on Krakoa.
* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: She's the Dark feminine, with her black hair and red and black costume to Petra's blonde hair and white and green outfit.
* MeaningfulName: Her code name, Sway, references her ability to stop time and follow the sway of time through echoes of past events.
* ParentalAbandonment: She and her parents were caught in the middle of a drive-by shooting during a gang war in Chinatown. She survived thanks to stopping the bullets coming towards her, but her parents were not so lucky.
* TimeStandsStill: She can slow down the passage of time. She can also see echoes of past events, and the first time she did this allowed her to follow the car with her parent's killers to their hideout and alert the police.

!!X-Men 2010's Members

[[folder:Weapon XIII / Fantomex]]
!!Charlie Cluster-7 / Weapon XIII / Fantomex
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!!!'''Nationality:''' N/A (initially believed to be French)
!!!'''Species:''' Human mutate/Sentinel hybrid
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''New X-Men'' #128 (August, 2002)

Fantomex is a highly evolved and technologically advanced mutate, developed by the Weapons Plus program to be Weapon Xlll. He is highly cunning, skilled in misdirection, and has a ship that is an extension of his nervous system named E.V.A.

* AntiHero: Fantomex is ultimately a good guy, but he can be horrifyingly ruthless on occasion.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler:Dies towards the end of his run in X-Force, but later gets resurrected through cloning. Each brain of his gets a different body]].
* BadassLongcoat: ''And'' a SpyCatsuit.
* BadFuture: It's implied that in the averted "Here Comes Tomorrow" future, he became Sublime's lieutenant Apollyon.
* CaptainErsatz: ComicBook/{{Diabolik}} and Literature/{{Fantomas}}. He even has Diabolik's SpyCatsuit and E.V.A. is named after Diabolik's girlfriend Eva Kant. His name is an obvious play on ''Fantomas'', and like the Mexican comicbook ComicBook/{{Fantomas}}, he never removes his mask.
* CaptainEthnic: While it eventually turned out that he was faking it, Fantomex appeared to be a suave, deceptive French superthief. This has led to him derogatively being called "Faux-Frenchie" on a couple of occasions.
* ConsummateLiar: His mutant power is implied to be ''misdirection.''
* DualWielding: Handguns.
* DesignerBaby: He was bred in a artificial womb, his genes were modified by nanomachines that enhanced his physique and intelligence.
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: He does sincerely love his mother, or at least his mother figure. [[spoiler:Tragically, she later gets murdered not long after he offs the child version of Apocalypse]].
* FutureBadass: E.V.A. lives on after he dies, apparently, and becomes a vital member of the X-Men with a fully realized personality.
* GenderBender: [[spoiler: His 'nice' brain is cloned into a female body.]]
* GentlemanThief: His persona is that of a master thief with a suave sense of humour. When he gets ruthless however, he's capable of dropping the act.
* GrandTheftMe: He can control E.V.A.'s actions and see from her point of view with concentration.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:Dies saving Betsy. He later gets resurrected, albeit with each of his three brains in a different body.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: Thanks to E.V.A.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: Partially out of remorse and partly because he wonders if the rest of the team were right, Fantomex actually creates [[spoiler:a clone of Kid!Apocalypse to see if someone with his power could grow up to be a good person, rather than a dictator bent on cleansing the world of humanity]].
* NighInvulnerable: He feels no pain due to having a remotely-stored nervous system; while he ''can'' be hurt, it doesn't deter him.
* NominalHero: Apart from the time Sabretooth was brainwashed into joining, and not counting brainwashing incidents, he's arguably the most ruthless (and at times, downright awful) person to have ever been an X-Man. For instance, he once [[ShootTheHostage killed hundreds of brainwashing victims]] to take out the guy doing the brainwashing, figuring restoring them one by one would take too long. Even his X-Force teammates are frequently creeped out by his cold-blooded pragmatism.
* PetTheDog: His love of his mother is one of the few hints that Fantomex has ''some'' redeeming traits.
* PsychicLink: With his autonomous nervous system E.V.A.
* RuleOfCool: The entire Fantomex thing? Basically entirely done because he thinks French guys are cool (and maybe because he first surfaced in Paris).
* ScrewYourself: One of the many strange results of [[spoiler: having his three brains cloned into separate bodies.]]
* SplitPersonality: Fantomex has [[spoiler:three different brains, likely a hold-over from his status as Weapon XIII. It's said this is why he could act as a hero, and then murder a child. Captain Britain, who hated his guts before, even said it was a testament to his character that he was able to function at all with his different personalities. They are described by Shadow King as noble, a trouble-maker, and a vile place. In the last issue, each brain gets a separate body. One identical to the old body, another with a mostly-black suit, described as not very nice, and a final, female body, with a white suit, who claims to be "the nicest".]]
* VoluntaryShapeShifting: E.V.A. can change shape at will.
* WhatTheHellHero: Fantomex points out how the [[spoiler:Captain Britain Corps find the shooting of one kid "evil", regardless of the work he's done to raise Genesis as a savior. Yet, they're perfectly OK with skinning a man alive and erasing another from existence.]]
* WouldHurtAChild: If we're getting specific, Would Shoot A Child In The Head. And YMMV whether he does or does ''not'' cross the MoralEventHorizon in doing so.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:E.V.A.]]
!!E.V.A.
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%%!!!'''Notable Aliases:'''
%%!!!'''Nationality:'''
!!!'''Species:''' Sentient techno-organic being
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''New X-Men'' #129 (September, 2002)

An extension of Fantomex's nervous system. Following Fantomex's death, she evolved to take a humanoid form.
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* RobotGirl: Evolved a female humanoid form.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Frenzy]]
!!Joanna Cargill / Frenzy
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%%!!!'''Notable Aliases:'''
!!!'''Nationality:''' American
!!!'''Species:''' Human mutant
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Factor'' #4 (May, 1986)

A former enemy of the X-Men, devout Acolyte of Magneto, and one of Apocalypses' earlier minions, with the mutant power of being functionally invulnerable. She declared her intention to join the X-Men after the ''ComicBook/AgeOfX'' event, becoming a staff member of the newly reopened Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
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After the mutant nation of Krakoa was founded, Frenzy eventually joined [[ComicBook/SWORD2020 S.W.O.R.D.]], reformed as a Krakoan space agency, as Earth's mutant ambassador due to the number of alien species that valued strength and fighting skills.
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When Laura Kinney went into the Vault with Synch and Darwin, they ended up spending centuries in their fighting for their lives while only a short time had elapsed on the outside. She and Synch eventually fell in love and became a BattleCouple, but Laura had to sacrifice herself so Synch could escape. With Laura thought dead they fast-tracked her resurrection and there was now a young Laura who did not remember her time in the Vault due to her Cerebro backup only having updated up to before she entered. A year later Forge entered the Vault on a mission to rescue Darwin, only to find that the elder Laura had in fact not died and was being held in stasis by the children of the Vault. She was subsequently rescued and happily reunited with Synch and placed on the X-Men team as Talon.

* DuplicateDivergence: While this Laura is technically the original, Duggan treats them both as Laura that diverged at a point. While Young Laura is pretty much the same as she was before she entered the Vault, this Laura, is somewhat grumpy and short others such as Jubilee, with whole younger Laura is very close. This Laura [[LikeFatherLikeSon is much more like Logan]] than than the outgoing Laura we’ve come to know.

* GrumpyOldMan: She’s not as patient as her younger self l and has a small circle of who she can deal with.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Due to her time in the Vault she’s several hundred (if not Thousand) years old but looks like a very fit woman in her 40s_50s.

* YouAreInCommandNow: She and Synch look genuinely shocked when Jean and Scott are stepping down from the team and leaving them as leaders at the third Hellfire Gala. Nonetheless, after Orchis destroys Krakoa as a nation, she takes up the mantle.

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!!!'''Species:''' Human mutant

A refuge from the ComicBook/SinsOfSinister timeline who joined the X-Men after Krakoa was destroyed by Orchis.

* AllYourPowersCombined: Colossus's steel form, Shadowcat's intangibility, Unus's nigh-unbreakable forcefields, Quire's Omega-level telepathy and Wolverine's healing factor.

* BarrierWarrior: Thanks to Unus’s dna. She even uses it more creatively than her donor.

* FatalFlaw: She's overall too trusting.[[spoiler: To wit, she trusts Sinister and works with him, thinking that he wished to save the universe. Additionally, when she reappears once the timeline has been reset, she trust Mother Righteous who almost certainly does not have the best intentions.]]

* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Understandable since she's a force-grown clone, but she takes Sinister as entirely sincere on account of not having had any experience with him, and since he's her creator has no reason ''not'' to trust him. [[spoiler:Once she realises he's a self-serving GodhoodSeeker, not TheAtoner he claims to be, she almost immediately allies with Mother Righteous - not realising that she's another equally villainous Sinister clone]].

* DrillSergeantNasty: To an extent as a teacher at the Jean Grey School during ''[[ComicBook/WolverineandtheXMenMarvelComics Wolverine and the X-Men]]'' to the point of being [[TookALevelInJerkass being noticeably grumpier than usual]]. Then again, if you had to teach [[RoyalBrat Kid Gladiator]] and keep Omega class teenage rebel and generalised irritating little twit Quentin Quire in check, you'd wind up more than a little annoyed. When Logan asks her about this, she explains that she feels like the BadFuture that she came from is coming for them, and they have to be prepared.

* ApologeticAttacker: As he's about to kill his old friend Kid Omega in ''ComicBook/WolverineAndTheXMen'', he sends him a psychic apology, explaining that he was too scared to deny his evil commanders and enforcers. Kid Omega, in response, [[PreAssKickingOneLiner apologizes for what he's about to do.]]

** [[Characters/X23SupportingCharacters Honey Badger/Scout]]

''For the main Laura as she originally was and is see'' [[Characters/X23LauraKinney here]]

** Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}}

** [[Characters/CableNathanSummers Cable]]

** [[Characters/X23LauraKinney X-23/Wolverine III]]

* CaptainErsatz: ComicBook/{{Diabolik}} and Franchise/{{Fantomas}}. He even has Diabolik's SpyCatsuit and E.V.A. is named after Diabolik's girlfriend Eva Kant. His name is an obvious play on ''Fantomas'', and like the Mexican comicbook ComicBook/{{Fantomas}}, he never removes his mask.

** [[Characters/MarvelComicsLegion Legion]]

[[folder:Jubilee]]
!!Jubilation Lee / Jubilee
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!!!'''Species:''' Human mutant, former Vampire
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' #244 (May 1989)

->''"I feel like I'm drowning in my own blood and I'm terrified to open my mouth because I don't know whether I'm going to breathe or drink. And I'm looking at everyone through an inch of glass. Like they all know exactly where the line is between them and me."''
-->-- '''Jubilee''', ''Wolverine and Jubilee'' #1

''Jubilation Lee'', best known as ''Jubilee'', is a Creator/MarvelComics {{mutant}}-turned-[[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire]]-turned-[[StatusQuoIsGod mutant]] {{superhero}}ine that usually associated with ''ComicBook/XMen'' and its members. She was introduced into Franchise/MarvelUniverse in ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' #244 (May 1989). She was created by Creator/ChrisClaremont and Marc Silvestri.

Jubilee started out as a peppy Chinese-American teenager who, following the death of her parents, discovered her mutant power of creating energy blasts from her fingers and was eventually welcomed by the X-Men. She was intended to do for the new fans of the 1990s what ComicBook/KittyPryde did in the 1980s -- serve as a viewpoint character for teenagers. As such, she became ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s {{kid sidekick}}, and spent several years following him around, swinging between sarcastic mockery of his NinetiesAntiHero excesses and mortal terror expressed through TotallyRadical dialogue. Then she got transferred to the junior team, ComicBook/GenerationX, where over time she became the GeniusDitz team strategist.

When ''Generation X'' got cancelled, it all went a bit south for Jubilee; after her own series failed to attract a significant readership and was swiftly retooled into a limited series, she was sidelined, then depowered.

She returned for a spell in the (non X-Men) ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'' reboot with PoweredArmor, an [[MostCommonSuperpower enormous rack]], and her first proper CodeName: '''Wondra'''.
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After ''New Warriors'' got cancelled, Jubilee drifted back towards the X-books, was turned into a vampire during the ''ComicBook/CurseOfTheMutants'' storyline, and adopted a baby to become the X-Men's first [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative teenaged vampire single mom superhero]].
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She worked as the personal assistant/shenanigan-enabler of the title character in ''ComicBook/PatsyWalkerAKAHellcat'', but left the role to lead a team in ComicBook/GenerationX2017. At the end of that title, she was cured of her vampirism by a Phoenix Force-powered Quentin Quire and regained her original mutant power set.

* ACupAngst: Actually drawn to look like a gymnast on a team full of bikini models and she's not happy about it, though she has become progressively curvier.
* ActionMom: She has an adoptive son, Shogo.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited:
** Jubilee wanted Synch in ''ComicBook/GenerationX'', he wanted Monet (and thinks of Jubilee as a friend).
** She turns Skin down when he asks her out, saying she didn't want to ruin the friendship. [[spoiler:Then the two are crucified. Skin doesn't make it]].
* AmbiguouslyBi: Her relationship with X-23 has shades of this, especially thanks to scenes [[http://i.imgur.com/i1bgT.jpg like]] [[http://i.imgur.com/cppcV.jpg this]].
** She was also remarkably unoffended when Bling! (Roxanne Washington, who is a lesbian) made out with her.
** Reminiscing about her first meeting with the X-ladies, she said "they were total rock stars, and I wanted to have all their babies".
* AtomicSuperpower: Jubilee can detonate matter at a subatomic level. Since she is a pacifist she settles for using her powers in a more harmless manner.
* BashBrothers: After a rocky start, she and X-23 became close friends and have teamed up on multiple occasions.
* {{Bifauxnen}}:
** In her very early appearances, she had short hair and a flat chest that she could be mistaken as an effeminate boy depending on the art.
** On at least two occasions she was required to go undercover as a delivery '''boy'''. Since the other two women on the team were undercover as hot women in slinky dresses, she found this rather annoying.
** In a side-story in Wolverine, she's fully mistaken for a boy by a tribe in the Savage Land and engaged to one of their princesses.
* BettyAndVeronica: For Synch's Affections she was the Betty, with Monet as the Veronica.
* BookDumb: Jubilee isn't dumb ''per se'', but her dyscalculia did her no favors academically.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Comes with the Vampire thing.
* BrattyHalfPint: She was the epitome of this trope in the '92 animated series, being the LittleMissSnarker KidAppealCharacter.
* BreakTheCutie: She goes through a bit of this after being vampirized, as shown by the quote above.
* CoolBigSis: To X-23, particularly. Although many of the new mutants look up to her. Except for [[{{Jerkass}} Surge]]. The relationship becomes ironic when many of them begin to catch up to her age — if not ''pass'' her as X-23[[note]]and by extension the rest of the Academy X generation with whom she is peers[[/note]] did — because her vampirism froze her at 17 years old.
* CursedWithAwesome:
** For 13 years she didn't have any mutant powers, but was instead a vampire which includes the typical powers of super strength, super speed, {{healing factor}}, the ability to turn into vapor, and is eternally 17. Of course she now has a thirst for human blood and may potentially lose control one day and kill everyone around her. Plus all those silly vampire weaknesses.
** Even her original powers, which she largely used just to create fireworks effects, would actually rank her as one of the most powerful mutants alive: she detonates matter on a subatomic level, and the resulting annihilation creates flashes of light as a side-effect. She's basically a walking Matter-To-{{Antimatter}} converter, and has destroyed an entire house before. With enough focus, she could have destroyed large tracts of land, continents, planets... even star systems to upwards of galaxies, theoretically. Emma Frost even said Jubilee had the potential to be one of the single-most powerful mutants she'd ever encountered, and given that she's met Xavier, Magneto, Apocalypse, and Phoenix, that's saying something.
* CuteMonsterGirl: After being turned into a vampire. Her appearances in X-23's solo title under artist Sana Takeda placed extra emphasis on the "cute".
* DarkIsNotEvil: As a vampire, she could sometimes be downright scary (such as her MamaBear moment below). But she's still a good girl.
* DeadpanSnarker: While most of her abilities have been subject to many changes, one power she has always maintained is near-superhuman levels of sass. Whether it's mocking Wolverine's macho posturing, puncturing Xavier's pompousness, laughing in the face of frickin' Dracula himself, or engaging in an epic takedown of Emma Frost's attempts at moralising, you can always expect her to have a comeback.
* DependingOnTheArtist: Jubilee is ''usually'' depicted as short, petite, and flat-chested. [[MostCommonSuperpower Under]] [[AuthorAppeal Paco]] [[http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/comics/extrememakeover/jubilee-newwarriors4-2.jpg Medina]], however...
* DiscardAndDraw: Jubilee was one of the numerous Mutants who lost their power after M-Day. While serving with the New Warriors, she took on the name "Wondra" and used advanced technology that granted her super strength. She was turned into a vampire during the ''Curse of the Mutants'' storyline, granting her superhuman strength, speed, healing and the ability to turn into vapor, but has since regained her original powers and is no longer a vampire.
* EmbarrassingFirstName: She prefers to be called Jubilee.
* FemmeFatalons: As vampire, she has claws.
* FireForgedFriends: Gambit introduced Jubilee to X-23 thinking she could help Laura overcome her issues. X-23 immediately attacked Jubilee thinking she was an enemy and was jealous of how Wolverine treated her, but they bonded over their shared issues with controlling their bloodlust.
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: As a vampire she suffered from bloodlust but has learned to cope with it.
* GeniusDitz: A lazy academic underachiever who serves as the team [[TheStrategist strategist]].
** "They probably know we're coming, right? So we gotta do what they think we ''won't'' do. They know we know where they are. We know they know we know that. So since they know we know what they probably know, we know what to do."
** This is sometimes justified by saying she has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyscalculia dyscalculia]], which would naturally make it difficult to succeed academically.
* GloryDays: Did you know she was an X-Man? She'll never let you forget it.
* HandBlast: Her main form of offense is firing pyrotechnic energy plasmoids from her hands.
* HavingABlast: Jubilee has the potential to detonate matter at a subatomic level, which in theory is the equivalent of a nuclear fusion bomb. The reason she doesn't use this power often because of her refusal to kill.
* HealingFactor: Before Wolverine lost his healing factor, Jubilee received a regular supply of Wolverine's blood to ingest which granted her certain immunities including Regenerative Healing Factor.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: What Jubilee's original power set ''really'' was, had she ever cut loose and used them to their full potential.
* HiddenDepths: She actually turns out, surprisingly, to be a very good mother to Shogo.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Wolverine, being one of his many foster daughters.
* KidAppealCharacter: In the '90s cartoon (and the '90s comics, for that matter), she was basically Wolverine's latest sidekick.
* KidSidekick: She started out as a sidekick of Wolverine, before joining ComicBook/GenerationX.
* TheLancer: To Night Thrasher, after she joined the ComicBook/NewWarriors.
* LethalHarmlessPowers: She could have done so much more with her power, but she was afraid of killing someone.
** The one time she did cut loose with her powers (because she thought Wolverine was dead) she blew up half of The Mandarin's castle!
--->"Did I just do that? And, like, do I want to do it again?"
** She blows up Proudstar Hall in order to defeat Emplate.
*** Her powers tend to be more destructive when she's emotional and unable to focus and control her abilities as well as usual. She's used this to her advantage before. In Genration X, Emma Frost states that Jubes has the potential to detonate matter at a sub-atomic level.
* LIsForDyslexia: But with math.
* LittleMissSnarker: Anyone who can sass Emma Frost definitely qualifies as this.
* MamaBear: Do '''not''' take her [[https://i.imgur.com/Z6MOCT5.jpg son Shogo!]]
* MostCommonSuperpower: A "superpower" that [[http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/comics/extrememakeover/jubilee-newwarriors4-2.jpg appeared]] when she was drawn by Paco Medina in ''ComicBook/NewWarriors''. She was flat chested before. Given that averagely-endowed ComicBook/{{X 23}} received a similar makeover from Medina in ''ComicBook/{{New XMen|AcademyX}}'', it verges on outright AuthorAppeal.
* TheMunchausen: She expected her experience to give her more clout when she was transferred to Generation X. It didn't take long for her new companions to grow tired of it and refuse to hear anything starting with the words "When I was with the X-Men..."
* MustMakeHerLaugh: A gender-flipped version. She made it her mission to get Bishop to lighten up. Played straighter with X-23, with Jubilee out to [[ManicPixieDreamGirl get Laura to lighten up and start enjoying her life]].
* NaiveNewcomer: She started as one.
* NotAllowedToGrowUp:
** Supplanted Kitty's role as the token teenaged member of the X-Men. She has since remained a teenager despite the fact that several other characters who were the same age as her have been aged up.
** Also an in-universe example, if there is such a thing -- her vampirism kept her permanently stuck at age seventeen.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Prior to getting her powers back Jubilee had the standard vampire package of fangs, nigh-uncontrollable bloodlust, eternal youth, superhuman strength, durability, and agility, the ability to transform into mist, and a strong aversion to sunlight.
* OutdatedOutfit: Jubilee is the most extreme example of this besides [[FadSuper Dazzler]]. Although it's semi-possible as an outfit that a young girl would think is "cool" in the 1980s, the bright yellow trench coat and wrap around sunglasses became just plain painful as the 90s continued. She's since ditched the shorts and T-shirt for a black leather catsuit. Particularly in the 90s cartoon series.
* OutOfFocus: Like many characters born in the '90s, from time to time since the early-2000s.
** In the movies, it's the thing she's most known for, because every film, her fans get excited that she's actually going to do something (especially when she gets recast)... and it always always always turns out that that one shot from the trailer that made her ''look'' important is her only scene, as an extra who doesn't say or do anything. And then it turns out she ''was'' intended to do more but her scenes were deleted. (However, the scenes were just her getting to say a few lines to the leads, nothing that would involve her in the plot - expendable enough to be the first thing to hit the cutting room floor to bring down the runtime.)
* PersonalityPowers: A cute, bubbly party girl with the ability to shoot fireworks (when she still had that power).
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Her original power set certainly seems rather lame on the surface, but then you remember what her "pafs" are ''actually'' made of, and Emma Frost once states that should Jubilee exercise her power to its full potential she could detonate matter at the ''sub-atomic'' level. That's right, Jubilee's original powers made her a ''walking fusion bomb''.
* PluckyGirl: Life hasn't been kind to poor Jubilee yet she's arguably one of the most upbeat and optimistic X-Men in spite of it.
* PoweredArmor: She temporarily picked up a suit after losing her powers.
* PromotionToParent: By virtue of finding an orphaned infant in Europe that she's now taking care of and names Shogo. She didn't even object to Sublime calling him her son and further issues show that she considers herself to be his mother.
* RaceLift: Infamously done in the 1996 Generation X film. Since neither the director nor the writer read the comics, they weren't aware Jubilee was Asian. As a result, they assumed she was white and cast a Caucasian actor for the role. Fans were not pleased.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: If she loses control of her bloodlust her eyes glow red.
* RollerbladeGood: In her early appearances, she was a mall rat who got around on rollerblades.
* SarcasticDevotee: Towards Wolverine, for a while in the '90s.
* ShoutOut: She originally wore the yellow trenchcoat with a red shirt and green shorts. Anyone who didn't think "Robin" never read classic Franchise/{{Batman}}.
** This was taken to the logical conclusion in the ComicBook/AmalgamUniverse: she becomes Sparrow, side kick to Dark Claw (Batman and Wolverine merged).
* StatusQuoIsGod: [[spoiler:It took thirteen years, but she ''finally'' got her original powers back and was cured of her vampirism by Quentin Quire in ''Generation X'' #86]].
* SuperCuteSuperPowers: Jubilee, whose powers have been described as "sparkles" or "fireworks" (when she still had the power).
* SupernaturallyYoungParent: Finds and adopts a baby in Europe despite (permanently, due to being a vampire) being 17.
* TotallyRadical: She even says "totally like radical" in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #247. It's so much worse in Generation X, where pretty much all the teens on the team were guilty of speaking this way.
* VagueAge: Jubilee's age has frankly been a roller-coaster due to her being a ReplacementGoldfish for Kitty Pryde as Wolverine's KidSidekick. As a result, she inherited the editorial staff's unwillingness to age her and move her on from that role. When she was introduced she was 13 and seemed to bob between 13-15 depending on the artist. However, when she was placed in Generation X, she went OutOfFocus and was separated from her role as a Wolverine's sidekick. This had the effect of freeing her from the editorial time vortex and she aged with the rest of the group. When the series ended her age varied depending on the book she was in. In back-up stories and in non Uncanny X-Men books she was written as an adult. However, during Chuck Austin's run in the early to mid 2000 she was 17-19. Jubilee was written to be twoish years younger than Husk, who was 19 during Austen's run but 13-15 during Generation X. However, in her 2005 solo series she was back down to 15. She seemed to hit mid-twenties right around when the editorial staff decided to mix vampires in with X-Men to capitalize on the popularity of Twilight. However, the editorial staff didn't know her age and decided for the 2010-2013 series that she was 17. As a result, she was either de-aged or aged up to seventeen, and stuck there until recently. Partly justified because she got turned into a vampire at age 17, and spent several years at that age; long enough for even the Academy X generation to pass her![[note]]All are roughly the same age as X-23, who is described as 20 years old as of 2018.[[/note]]
** Finally, even other writers seemed to forget Vampires can't age, and as such so she seemed to age into adulthood again over the course of the 2010's. Only for later writers to drop her back down to 17, and subsequent writers treating her as an adult.
** Current writers seemed to have recognized this error but can't seem to decide her age and some ether go with mid twenties like the rest of Generation X or have her still as a teenager. She is effectively like the Power Pack kids (either they are all still kids or all teenagers/adults) depending on what comic they are featured in.
* WalkingTechbane: Happens in the '90s X-Men cartoon.
* WeakenedByTheLight: Downplayed. Thanks to the healing factor from Wolverine's blood she regularly ingests, Jubilee can withstand a small amount of sunlight every day. However, too much sunlight can be toxic to her much like other vampires.
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: A very long-standing criticism of Jubilee is how silly and pointless her "fireworks" appear to be on the surface, especially when there are other seemingly ''far'' more powerful mutants on the team. However she actually subverts the trope, as Jubilee deliberately holds back and refuses to utilize her powers to their fullest potential. And it's a good thing, too, because if she ever ''truly'' cut loose [[PersonOfMassDestruction the results could be apocalyptic]].
* WillfullyWeak: As noted above, the main limitation on her powers is that she really doesn't want to harm anybody. Quite aside from her ability to demolish castles and blast her way out of mutant-proof cells, it's also been noted in-universe that, if she wanted, she could set off a small explosion inside someone's skull. She's only ever done this to a Prime Sentinel, but it can be safely assumed that most humans would not survive it.
* YouFightLikeACow: Can give ''Spidey'' a run for his money. In one issue of Generation X, she actually defeats Emplate entirely by taunting him.
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[[folder:Bishop]]
!!Lucas Bishop
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!!!'''Notable Aliases:''' Red Bishop, Archbishop, Bish, Sergeant, Major
!!!'''Nationality:''' American, Krakoan
!!!'''Species:''' Human Mutant Cyborg
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Uncanny X-Men'' #282 (November, 1991)

Bishop, full name Lucas Bishop, is a time-traveling cop from the future who found himself stuck in the past after chasing there a mutant criminal rebellion started by Trevor Fitzroy. He took on the task of [[VigilanteExecution terminating with extreme prejudice]] the remnants of the rebellion, but the task proved too difficult and he ended up being captured by the X-Men, who were interested in stopping his violent ways. It's then revealed that he comes from a post-dystopic future in which humans and mutants joined forces to stop a Sentinel takeover, after which a special force named Xavier's Security Enforcers was created to police the mutant population. Now without a way to return, but with possibly a way to avoid such a BadFuture, Bishop became an X-Man and lent his big guns and military training to their cause.
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Post-''Decimation'' he underwent a rather drastic FaceHeelTurn and turned into an EvilCounterpart to ComicBook/{{Cable}}, losing an arm along the way, dividing his time between time travel, scheming, and attempting to shoot Cable with very large guns. And global scale genocide. After ''Avengers Vs. X-Men'', he returned to the modern day, where his allegiances have been messy.
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He got four limited series including the self-titled ''Bishop'' series, where he tracked and fought Mountjoy; ''XSE'', which showcased his past (future); and its sequel — ''Bishop: Xavier's Security Enforcers''. He also teamed up with ComicBook/{{Gambit}} to oppose Stryfe in ''Gambit and Bishop: Sons of the Atom'', where he ended up being possessed by a [[ComicBook/JeanGrey Phoenix]]-like cosmic entity named Bete Noir. He also starred in the series ''Bishop: The Last X-Man'' from 1999 to 2001, in which he was trapped in another alternate timeline. He appeared regularly in ''District X'' from 2004 to 2005, a police procedural set in a mutant ghetto in New York City. Finally, He also starred in the ComicBook/HouseOfM tie-in, ''Mutopia''.
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He is portrayed by Creator/OmarSy in ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''.
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* CoolOldGuy: Being a middle-aged former secret agent when he joined the X-Men he was older and more experienced than the rest of the X-men (save Wolverine but we didn’t know that at the time). He took to mentoring Cyclops and the new recruits, being a better influence on them than the Professor.

* VagueAge: Jubilee's age has frankly been a roller-coaster due to her being a ReplacementGoldfish for Kitty Pryde as Wolverine's KidSidekick. As a result, she inherited the editorial staff's unwillingness to age her and move her on from that role. When she was introduced she was 13 and seemed to bob between 13-15 depending on the artist. However, when she was placed in Generation X, she went OutOfFocus and was separated from her role as a Wolverine's sidekick. This had the effect of freeing her from the editorial time vortex and she aged with the rest of the group. When the series ended her age varied depending on the book she was in. In back-up stories and in non Uncanny X-men books she was written as an adult. However, during Chuck Austin's run in the early to mid 2000 she was 17-19. Jubilee was written to be twoish years younger than Husk, who was 19 during Austen's run but 13-15 during Generation X. However, in her 2005 solo series she was back down to 15. She seemed to hit mid-twenties right around when the editorial staff decided to mix vampires in with X-Men to capitalize on the popularity of Twilight. However, the editorial staff didn't know her age and decided for the 2010-2013 series that she was 17. As a result, she was either de-aged or aged up to seventeen, and stuck there until recently. Partly justified because she got turned into a vampire at age 17, and spent several years at that age; long enough for even the Academy X generation to pass her![[note]]All are roughly the same age as X-23, who is described as 20 years old as of 2018.[[/note]]

* ReformedButRejected: Since he's returned from the future. However, as of 2017 he has returned to working with the X-men with no evidence of mistrust or resentment. It is possible his [[{{Retcon}} actions regarding Hope most likely have been erased]] thanks to a certain [[ComicBook/SecretWars2015 cosmic rest]].

* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Justified, not only were all mutants being targeted during Operation Zero Tolerance by the Sentinels, Xavier kept track on where potential recruits for his X-men lived and Iceman took it upon himself to check up on her. Cecilia wasn’t just outed as a mutant to her mutant-hating coworkers, Iceman took her with him on an adventure to face the leader of Zero Tolerance.

Sway was a mutant with time-stopping powers, and was a member of the X-men.

When Laura Kinney went into the Vault with Synch and Darwin, they ended up spending centuries in their fighting for their lives while only a short time had elapsed on the outside. She and Synch eventually fell in love and became a BattleCouple, but Laura had to sacrifice herself so Synch could escape. With Laura thought dead they fast-tracked her resurrection and there was now a young Laura who did not remember her time in the Vault due to her Cerebro backup only having updated up to before she entered. A year later Forge entered the Vault on a mission to rescue Darwin, only to find that the elder Laura had in fact not died and was being held in stasis by the children of the Vault. She was subsequently rescued and happily reunited with Synch and placed on the X-men team as Talon.

* TheLeader: She and Synch are promoted to co-leaders of the X-men when Jean and Scott step down at the 3rd Gala. They still lead the X-men when Krakoa falls.

A refuge from the ComicBook/SinsOfSinister timeline who joined the X-men after Krakoa was destroyed by Orchis.

* DependingOnTheArtist: Even in comparison to other X-Men of his generation. He went from ugly in the Sixties to handsome in the 70s, his hair inexplicably changed colour in the 80s (he was ''blond'' for nearly a decade before becoming a stereotypical redhead) and he started looking younger and burlier in Comicbook/GenerationX in the 90s.

She worked as the personal assistant/shenanigan-enabler of the title character in ''Comicbook/PatsyWalkerAKAHellcat'', but left the role to lead a team in ComicBook/GenerationX2017. At the end of that title, she was cured of her vampirism by a Phoenix Force-powered Quentin Quire and regained her original mutant power set.

Post-''Decimation'' he underwent a rather drastic FaceHeelTurn and turned into an EvilCounterpart to Comicbook/{{Cable}}, losing an arm along the way, dividing his time between time travel, scheming, and attempting to shoot Cable with very large guns. And global scale genocide. After ''Avengers Vs. X-Men'', he returned to the modern day, where his allegiances have been messy.

He got four limited series including the self-titled ''Bishop'' series, where he tracked and fought Mountjoy; ''XSE'', which showcased his past (future); and its sequel — ''Bishop: Xavier's Security Enforcers''. He also teamed up with Comicbook/{{Gambit}} to oppose Stryfe in ''Gambit and Bishop: Sons of the Atom'', where he ended up being possessed by a [[ComicBook/JeanGrey Phoenix]]-like cosmic entity named Bete Noir. He also starred in the series ''Bishop: The Last X-Man'' from 1999 to 2001, in which he was trapped in another alternate timeline. He appeared regularly in ''District X'' from 2004 to 2005, a police procedural set in a mutant ghetto in New York City. Finally, He also starred in the ComicBook/HouseOfM tie-in, ''Mutopia''.

A post-''[[Comicbook/AvengersVsXMen AvX]]'' mutant whose power was brought to light when his friend fell over and hit her head, dying on the spot. His HealingHands brought her back to life and he was arrested by the police unlawfully, only to be rescued by Cyclops, Magneto, and Eva Bell.

** Notably ''averted'' when [[spoiler:she wipes Matthew Malloy from existence. Even though one of the manifestations of his mutant power ''destroyed an entire Skrull army'' during the events of ''Comicbook/SecretInvasion'', this apparently had no effect on the timeline.]]

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In terms of her powers, she's viewed as this for [[Comicbook/{{NYX}} Kiden Nixon]] for some readers.

*** As her abilities improve, it's heavily implied that her time travel abilities break one of the fundamental laws of time travel in the Marvel Universe: She can alter her ''own'' reality's past.[[note]]In other time travel stories, changing the past leads to a divergent future and a new universe. IE, ''Comicbook/DaysOfFuturePast'' created a split in the timeline, leading to ''both'' Earth-616, where the bad future was averted, ''and'' the bad future of Earth-811.[[/note]]

** Characters/{{Emma Frost|WhiteQueen}}

[[folder:Iceman]]
!!Robert Louis "Bobby" Drake / Iceman
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[[caption-width-right:350:Fighting villains and personal demons for years has never stopped him [[AnIcePerson cold]].]]
!!! '''Notable Aliases:''' Drake Roberts, Mister Friese, Frosty
!!! '''Nationality:''' American, Krakoan
!!! '''Species:''' Human mutant
!!! '''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men'' #1 (September, 1963)

-> ''My name is Bobby Drake. Iceman. I've been an [[ComicBook/XMen X-Man]], an [[ComicBook/XFactor X...Factor-ian]], a [[ComicBook/TheDefenders Defender]], a [[ComicBook/Champions1975 Champion]] (don't ask). I've been a super hero since before I was old enough to shave. I've stood side by side with the toughest, most powerful heroes in the known universe and always held my own. But today... today I need to be something more. So go ahead, call me a joke if you want. Label me the X-Man with the lamest power ever. But a man of untapped potential? Don't you dare ever call me that again!''

As the youngest member of the original five X-Men, Bobby's abilities are mainly [[AnIcePerson ice-related]], but he can also manipulate temperature and moisture, making him one of very few [[PhysicalGod omega-level mutants]]. His true power was unknown to him for quite some time, however, thanks in part to being riddled with insecurities -- a product of growing up with his [[AbusiveParent abusive father]] before being taken in by Charles Xavier. In spite of his rough upbringing, Bobby is known for his playfully sarcastic nature, if also being slightly guilty for his sensitive tendencies.

During the ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentMarvel era, there were two Bobby Drakes populating the mainstream MarvelUniverse: original Bobby, who's since grown into adulthood, and a [[FishOutOfTemporalWater time-displaced]] teenage Bobby, who (with his fellow original X-Men) was pulled from the 1960s into the present. Each served on a distinct faction of the X-Men: adult Bobby with the ComicBook/ExtraordinaryXMen, teenage Bobby with the ComicBook/AllNewXMen. At the end of ''ComicBook/{{Extermination|2018}}'', however, the younger, time-displaced Bobby was returned back to his own time period and had his memories wiped.

Historically, he was also a member of ComicBook/TheDefenders, the original ComicBook/XFactor lineup, and the (much-maligned) [[ComicBook/Champions1975 Champions of Los Angeles]].
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Iceman is notable for being one of Marvel's most prominent --if not ''the'' most prominent-- gay characters. While his sexuality was speculated (and joked about) for decades, he officially came out of the closet in 2015 -- [[BrokenBase it went down about as well as you'd probably expect]]. Regardless, many were happy to see one of Marvel's oldest characters undergo such a reinvention, helping further the publisher's ongoing efforts to bolster diversity in their comic line.
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He was portrayed by Canadian actor Creator/ShawnAshmore in the original trilogy of the ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'', as well as ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast''. Ashmore would also provide his voice in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperheroSquadShow''.

* ArmoredClosetGay: After six hundred issues and years of [[https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/flame-on/episode-207-scott-lobdell-LeFvHrzjh_Y/amp/?__twitter_impression=true intentional]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/4jsr9h/ama_marjorie_liu_monstress_image_comics/d39bqc7?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3 subtext]], it was finally revealed (in a conversion with his younger self) that Iceman was gay. He said that he just wanted one part of his life in which he ''wouldn't'' be persecuted, so he decided to just pretend to be straight and, eventually, tried to ''be'' straight. But when Teen Iceman asks him if he thinks Angel is hot, he says, "God yes."
* BewareTheNiceOnes: Similar to his bros Franchise/SpiderMan and [[ComicBook/FantasticFour The Human Torch]], he's a pretty easygoing, goofball kind of guy for the most part. Make the mistake of screwing with his friends and teammates though, and you learn just how terrifying taking him on can be.
* BobFromAccounting: Subverted. Bobby holds a college degree in accounting, but is a main character rather than throwaway one. He briefly worked in an accounting firm, but quit to become a full time member of X-Factor.
* {{Brainwashed}}: He was brainwashed by Rampage/Stuart Clarke ''Spectacular Spider-Man'' #17-18 (April-May, 1978). He put on the Rampage costume and served as a new super-villain.
* CrazyJealousGuy: In regards to Polaris. He has been infatuated with her since they first met. He acts clingy towards her and rather hostile to her actual lover, Havok.
* DeadpanSnarker: His humor has a tendency to fall in this category. An example from ''X-Men'' #31:
-->'''Bernard the Poet:''' Life is a yo-yo --- and mankind keeps tying knots in the string! Go up... go down... then call it progress!\\
'''Zelda Kurtzberg :''' What a groovy poem! And it's in free verse!\\
'''Iceman:'''It hadda be! Nobody'd be nutty enough to pay'im for it!
* DeathIsCheap: In ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet'' #1 (July, 1991), ComicBook/{{Thanos}} wipes out of half the population of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. In issue #2 (August, 1991), a list of "missing" (dead) heroes is read and Iceman was among them. Every casualty of the event was restored to life in issue #6 (December, 1991), Iceman included.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: Every time it looks like he might finally end up with Polaris, she ends up going back to Havok. While serving with the Champions, Iceman fell for fellow member Darkstar... who only viewed him as a friend. In the Defenders, he was in love with Cloud. The latter being a member with both a female and a male form. She/he had some feelings for Bobby, but was much more interested in Moondragon, another lady of the team. Most recently, he tried to get it on with Comicbook/KittyPryde, first stealing a big kiss from her after she broke up with Colossus and later going out on a date. In the end, both declared that they were both better off as friends, with Kitty going back to Colossus despite his outlaw status.
** Another instance is his relationship with Annie Ghazikhanian. In ''Uncanny X-Men'' #425 (August, 2003), Havok and Polaris are about to get married. This leaves Iceman and Annie brokenhearted, since Iceman still loves Polaris and Annie loves Havok. Iceman and Annie bond over their feelings of loss and kiss each other. This looked like a PairTheSpares situation. In the very next issue, Havok breaks up with Polaris and chooses Annie, who reciprocates his feelings.
** During the X-Factor days, Bobby had a brief romance with a woman named Opal Tanaka, whom he met late into the series. Opal had feelings for the cyber samurai Hiro even while she was dating Bobby, and she often felt that Bobby put her second to his superheroics. This came to a head when Bobby used her as bait to lure in his pursuers, which led to her dumping him early into the 90s Uncanny X-men series.
** This trope is directly acknowledged in Marjorie Liu’s Apocalypse Seed arc, in which it is explained that Bobby never felt honest in his relationships with these women, and felt like he had to wear a mask. Opal confirms this.
* DudeNotFunny: Subverted. Bobby tells Judah there's another him, and warns him not to make any smutty jokes about it, particularly because his younger self is underage.
* ElementalShapeshifter: In his earliest appearances, Iceman covered his body with snow. He then changed to covering his body with ice. He later learned how to convert his body into organic ice.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: At least a homosexual guy. One subplot in Chuck Austen's ''Uncanny X-Men'' run was that Northstar had an unrequited crush on Iceman. Which manifested itself as protective behavior towards Iceman, and rescuing his life at least once. The pairing of the two has proved relatively popular with writers of [[SlashFic Slash Fics]].
* FaceHeelTurn: Subverted. In ''Comicbook/AstonishingXMen'' #62-65 (July-October, 2013). Iceman has been affected by the Apocalypse Seed and his powers manifest in new and more powerful ways. He acts increasingly evil and fights the X-Men and Thor. However, even when acting as a monster, Iceman manages to not kill any of his friends. He is simply having a temper tantrum over being unloved and unappreciated by his father and his past lovers. A talk with a "psychiatrist" calms him down.
* FantasticRacism: After a lifetime facing anti-mutant racism, Iceman himself displays anti-human prejudice in Chuck Austen's run of ''Uncanny X-Men''.
* FireIceDuo: Outside of X-books, Iceman teamed up with the Human Torch many times. A memorable occasion had them fight Equinox, a villain with fire ''and'' ice powers. When meeting in the ''ComicBook/DaysOfFuturePresent'' crossover, they [[LampshadeHanging lampshade]] this trope:
--> '''Iceman:''' Yo! Ice and fire...
--> '''Torch:''' The unbeatable combo!
* FireWaterJuxtaposition: The rogue mutant [[PlayingWithFire Pyro]] has a notorious rivalry with Bobby and is often considered his ArchEnemy.
* ForcedOutOfTheCloset: When they are teenagers in the future (long story), Jean reads his mind and tells him he's gay, although it's in private. He calls her on it years later, when they are adults, claiming he thought he could get over it, but was proven wrong by a three-hundred-year-old version of himself from the future.
* FromASingleCell: Was once vaporized by a BrainwashedAndCrazy Northstar and Aurora and managed to reconstitute himself, before collapsing from the strain.
* FunPersonified: In an early issue of ''X-Men: First Class'', calls himself "The Bringer of Fun", and throughout the series generally acts like a lovable dork.
* {{Gaydar}}: Averted. In Chuck Austen's run of ''Uncanny X-Men'', Iceman fails to realize that his teammate Northstar is gay. In issue #425 (August, 2003), Annie Ghazikhanian finally tells him. His jaw drops, his eyes widen, and he asks: "Northstar is gay?" He then nervously states: “Well I-...how should I know? It’s not like we’re….I mean....Oh my god that’s so funny.”
** He's had quite a lot of HoYay moments, like having Northstar hit on him. Even appeared as a one-off gag on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''.
* GrandTheftMe: At one point, he had his body possessed by ComicBook/EmmaFrost after the mansion was attacked by Sentinels. She used his powers in ways he never had before, such as traveling quickly through bodies of water and even adding the water to his body mass. Later on, he would ask Emma for help improving his powers.
* HairTriggerTemper: When he was younger. Including some infighting with his fellow X-Men, particularly Angel.
* HeroesWantRedheads: He was attracted to redhead Jean Grey in his teenage years. He was the only of the young X-Men to not fall for her upon meeting her. His reaction was saying: "A Girl... Big Deal". He started competing for her attention in ''X-Men'' (vol. 1) #3 (January, 1964).
** In Creator/MikeCarey's run on ''X-Men'' vol. 2, Iceman had a relationship with his redhead teammate Mystique. They slept together in issue #200 (August, 2007). But Mystique betrayed him, passing a neuro-inhibitor to him through skin-to-skin contact. This left him nearly powerless as the Marauders arrived to take down the X-Men.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Beast. In the 1960s, they spend most of their free time together. Iceman was dating Zelda Kurtzberg, Beast was dating Vera Cantor. All four typically went on double dates at Coffee A-Go-Go, a Greenwich Village coffee shop. Later they served together in ComicBook/TheDefenders and ComicBook/XFactor, continuing to be close friends. Some fans have interpreted their relationship as too close to be heterosexual, and they tend to be paired in [[SlashFic Slash Fics]].
** Also with Franchise/SpiderMan and the [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Human Torch]]. Spider-Man and Iceman were best friends and housemates in ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAndHisAmazingFriends''. In regular continuity, Spider-Man and Iceman have had their share of fights over the years. But grew closer when Spidey helped rescue a brainwashed Iceman in ''Spectacular Spider-Man'' #17-18 (April-May, 1978). His friendship with the Human Torch goes back to their teenage years, at least according to ''X-Men: First Class'' (vol. 2) #16 (November, 2008). Though they did break up a temporary partnership when the Torch dared to hit on Zelda Kurtzberg, Iceman's main love interest.
* AnIcePerson: He transforms into an organic ice form, and generates subzero energy to freeze his surroundings, cool and condense moisture in the atmosphere into ice, shaping it into various forms such as snowballs, battering rams, shields, solid blocks, columns, and ice slides.
* AnIceSuit: Technically he's wearing clothes under his ice-body, but when he's iced up, he looks like he's pretty much in the buff.
** In the old days, he wasn't. Getting his ice coating broken or melted left him in his boxers. He doesn't get a proper costume until well into his stint with the Champions. As is common for X-characters suffering Clothing Damage, he doesn't get too embarrassed by it.
* InformedJudaism: According to ''Iceman'' (vol. 1) #1 (December, 1984), Iceman has attended Hebrew school, the Jewish equivalent of Sunday school. "My dad's Irish-Catholic, my mom's Jewish. I was the only kid in Hebrew school who got off for St. Patrick's Day!" ... "Anyway... the Catholic kids used to ride me for being Jewish... the Jewish kids used to ride me for being Catholic... and that wasn't even my big problem!" That is largely ignored as the character is normally features as irreligious.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}. Wolvie was born in the 19th century and is old enough to be Iceman's ancestor.
* TheLancer: In the earliest days, Bobby was loudmouthed, egotistical, and irreverent, and had a constant problem with Cyclops' leadership. He was still one of the best fighters in the team. In his first appearance, Iceman single-handedly took down most of Magneto's missiles.
* KidAppealCharacter: In the original team, Iceman was the jokester, the funnyman and surrogate kid-brother to his teammates. He was naturally the youngest member.
* {{Jerkass}}: On occasion. Including the odd remark that the X-Men were better when there were just five of them.
* MakingASplash: A story arc where his body was possessed by Emma Frost in the early 90s revealed that Bobby is capable of incredible feats of power involving bodies of water, such as traveling quickly through a river and utilizing the water to increase his body mass. After this event, Bobby would actually start converting his body into organic ice, rather than simply encasing himself in it.
* MayDecemberRomance: His brief relationship with Mystique fits this trope. She was born in the 19th century and is old enough to be his ancestor.
* MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow: He had a tumultuous relationship with Japanese expatriate Opal Tanaka. He served as her protector against the plans of her villainous grandfather. His father William, bigoted against the Japanese, disapproved of the relationship.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Lashed out at Thunderbird on the guy's first day, which didn't help with his already-present anger issues.
* OutOfFocus: Of the five original X-Men, he gets by far the least focus. Though this has changed in recent times with his 2 solo series.
* PhysicalGod: It's been revealed he has the ''potential'' to be this, as his powers have over the years been redefined from "shoots ice" to "ability to do literally ''anything'' so long as it involves water." This is rarely actually ''seen'', however, a notable exception being the first arc in ''ComicBook/WolverineAndTheXMenMarvelComics'' where he creates an army of clones to defend the school from villains... from the school's sprinkler system.
* SadClown: Bobby has had a difficult life since childhood; his parents smothered him initially but also had strict ideals of the "proper" son he was supposed to be, particularly his dad who would neglect him and belittle any "unmanly" interests he had. This caused Bobby to repress a lot of his feelings and to cover up his insecurities with a joke. Consequently, this impacted many of his personal dynamics; whether it be his identity, his relationships or his powers, but over the years he was able to embrace all of the things that made him different.
* SelfDuplication: In recent years, Iceman has gained the ability to produce duplicates of himself. They usually do not demonstrate much intelligence or combat ability. Subverted in ''Comicbook/AstonishingXMen'' #62-65 (July-October, 2013). Iceman has been affected by the Apocalypse Seed and his powers act out in erratic ways. Several Iceman duplicates are running around, acting independent of the original. A few attempt to kidnap Opal Tanaka and her son. Another allies himself with Mystique, and kidnaps Polaris and Annie Ghazikhanian. Another takes care of "their" father William Drake who has suffered a heart attack. Another takes a “psychiatrist” role and gives the original Iceman a much-needed therapy session. The "psychiatrist" saves the day, since Iceman regains control of himself and his powers. Ending the madness.
** Later, in ''All-New X-Men'', it's revealed that one future version of The Brotherhood has one of the Iceman duplicates, who is [[spoiler:a mindless raging snow giant controlled by Xavier's son]].
** ExpendableClone. Neither Iceman nor anyone else seem overly concerned when the duplicate Icemen get destroyed in combat or otherwise terminated.
* SexyShirtSwitch: In an issue of ''Marauders'' Bobby is taking a cruise on Christian Frost's private submarine and wearing Christian's monogrammed bathrobe, subtly indicating that they slept together. Reinforced by the flirting.
* ShapeshifterModeLock: In Chuck Austen's run of ''Uncanny X-Men'', Iceman starts losing the ability to [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Voluntary Shapeshift]]. A wounded part of his body is stuck in ice form. In issue #415 (January, 2003), the ice covers part of his chest and stomach. It is his new secondary mutation. He is actually becoming ice and can’t change back. In issue #425 (August, 2003), Annie Ghazikhanian figures out why Iceman is so miserable with the change. He is used to passing as a regular human whenever he wants. If he turns to ice [[PassFail permanently]], he will have to be a mutant 24/7.
* ShoutOut:
** In the 2017-18 solo series.
*** Iceman calls a runaway student out on wanting to see the world at all costs, calling him [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Jasmine]] in the process.
*** While fighting some bad guy alongside his younger self, he references Music/{{ABBA}} hit ''Knowing Me, Knowing You''.
** Vol. 2 (2018-)
*** Issue #1 has a poster referencing Music/{{ABBA}}'s ''One Of Us''.
---->One of us is dying\\
None of us are trying
* SizeShifter: In ''Comicbook/AstonishingXMen'' #63 (August, 2013), Iceman's powers manifest in new ways due to his exposure to the Apocalypse Seed. At the finale of the issue, he increases his mass, towering over the skyscrapers of UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Frequently undergoes minor power-ups or character switches where he decides to take himself (and his work) more seriously. Generally, he's back to being an immature jokester with his standard powers in no time.
* {{Stripperiffic}}: Much like Beast, he rarely ever wears a shirt with his uniforms. More recently he has taken to wearing bikini briefs and flip-flops.
* SixthRanger: In ''Fantastic Four'' Vol 5. #24, it's revealed that Bobby joined the Fantastic Four after a humiliating experience in the Danger Room and Johnny Storm raced off in a hot-headed huff over his popularity. Johnny refuses to believe Bobby was a member at all. It takes a few years and Bobby suddenly showing up to drop Franklin off for Johnny to admit he was scared of being replaced on the family.
* TookALevelInBadass: He's come a long way since his appearances and is the now the second most powerful of the original five X-Men after Jean.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In Chuck Austen's run of ''Uncanny X-Men'', Iceman exhibits anti-human prejudice towards Annie Ghazikhanian and antagonizes several of his teammates. In issue #416 (February, 2003), he gives a little speech about him being a real X-Man and the others are not. "I mean, who is Stacy and why’s she hanging around us so much? All right, so she’s a mutant, but she’s not an X-Man. The X-Men are a group - a set group - a family even - not a club anyone can join just because they’ve got the right chromosome" He continues saying that nowadays "anyone who hangs out in the lobby for an hour thinks they’re an X-Man." He proclaims that the X-Men are Scott, Warren, himself, Hank and Jean - and that everyone else is just a Johnny-come-lately. He is saying all this to Nightcrawler who takes offense, since Iceman does not think of him as a real X-Man.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Ice cream, in the earliest days. Yes, it's an awful attempt at punning.
* TheTrickster: On occasion, Iceman uses his powers for pranks.
* UnderwearOfPower: Since he converts his body into organic ice, he has little need for clothing. His outfit usually consists of a pair of briefs and some boots.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Beast. They are best friends, but that does not prevent them from taking shots at each other. Beast pointing that Iceman is not the brightest guy around: "meet my blundering associate – who's not such a bad idiot when you get to know him!"
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: He controls his transformation from his human form to that of organic ice. His powers get a temporary upgrade in ''Comicbook/AstonishingXMen'' #64 (September, 2013). He shapeshifts into a massive ice dragon and swallows ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor''.
* WellDoneSonGuy: He wants the approval of his father William Drake, who is prejudiced against mutants. He was touched in ''X-Men'' (vol. 2) #58 (November, 1996) when his father had a change of heart and stood up for mutant rights. At the time his father was really pissed with the racist rhetoric of Graydon Creed. They attempted a reconciliation.
** Their relationship simply returned to being adversarial. An angry Iceman almost killed his father in ''ComicBook/AstonishingXMen'' (vol. 3) #64 (September, 2013), by giving him a heart attack. William was being his usually loveable self, upon starting the conversation with: "What... the big super hero making time in his busy schedule to lend his old man a hand shoveling snow?"
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: His parents aren't wild about Mutants. They also don't like the idea of their son being a superhero, dreading the phone call telling them their son had been killed in battle. Now his sexuality has taken the top spot on their list. To the extent that they are unperturbed by him fighting Juggernaut -- so long as it buys them time to catch a train back to Long Island after he comes out to them. His mother in particular wants to know why he can't just keep dating women.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: In ''Comicbook/AstonishingXMen'' #62-65 (July-October, 2013), Iceman has temporary upgrades to his powers which make him a global threat. He is at his most powerful phase, but goes mentally unstable.
* YouFightLikeACow: Regularly uses WittyBanter in combat situations.
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!!X-Men '60s Members

[[folder:Mimic]]
!!Calvin Montgomery Rankin / Mimic
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!!!'''Nationality:''' American, Krakoan
!!!'''Species:''' Human mutant
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''X-Men'' #19 (April, 1966)

-->''[[ComicBook/EmmaFrost You]] know what I am? I'm the Mimic! [[BadassBoast I'm as powerful as all of you put together!]]''

A young man who accidentally gained the ability to copy the knowledge, physical attributes, skills, and superpowers of anyone near him for a short amount of time. He grew more and more conceited as he grew up and desired the ability to absorb power and knowledge personally. He sought out the X-Men to copy their powers so he could use them to activate a machine his father told him would make his powers permanent, when actually it was supposed to cure him of them. He returned to antagonize the X-Men, either fighting against them or temporarily joining them to show off. Because he was exposed to them for so long, he retains the powers of the original five X-Men permanently. Mimic is of note for being the X-Men's first new member as well as its first non-mutant (DependingOnTheWriter, they go back and forth on this). Unfortunately, he wasn't with the team for long due to his brash nature.
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He appears as a main character in ''ComicBook/{{Exiles}}'' in a somewhat reimagined form, being from a universe where he is without question a mutant and joins the X-Men with good intentions (eventually becoming their leader). This version has the ability to permanently absorb the powers of up to five people at a time, but has to "delete" old ones from his body to add new ones, and is usually used as TheLeader within the team's dynamic.
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See ''Characters/{{Exiles}}'' for tropes specifically relating to Mimic in his ''Exiles'' incarnation.
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She's also known for her romantic relationships with various X-Men. After a brief flirtation with ComicBook/{{Iceman}} ([[ComingOutStory before he came out]]), she began a relationship with Alex Summers / Havok, the younger brother of stalwart X-Man ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}. They've spent the majority of their shared publication history in a state of "WillTheyOrWontThey" limbo, and almost got married at one point. Let's just say getting left at the altar didn't do wonders for her psyche.

* MakeMeWannaShout: His power allows him to use sonic waves to both attack and to fly.
* MakeSomeNoise: In addition to the standard sonic scream, he can also "tighten" sound around him to create a barrier, use sonar, and change the tones of his voice to make it more persuasive and subtly influence people.

* MakeMeWannaShout: During his brief stint with the ComicBook/NewWarriors, Jono wore a sonic rig that could turn sound into energy constructs.

* BoobsOfSteel: She has the typical comic book physique in addition to her muscles, and a lot of her outfits seem dedicated to showing this fact.

** Characters/{{Mystique}}

* ButNotTooBlack: Frenzy is black, but artists and colorists occasionally struggle with remembering that. She's gone for entire story arcs looking like a white woman with a slight tan.

* DoesNotLikeShoes: Bobby is frequently barefoot, in contrast to most of his teammates except for Beast.