There is an astonishing amount of levity and genius hilarity through these series and sometimes they appear when you least expect it.
- Just after Jean's first become the Phoenix, Logan dressed up in incredibly fancy clothes, and goes to buy some flowers for her. Then he gets to the hospital and finds the other X-Men have promptly beaten him to the punch. Logan promptly tosses the flowers in the nearest trash can.
- In the otherwise serious Issue 108, when the X-Men meet Jahf, guardian of the M'Kraan Crystal, Wolverine thinks he can take the guy easily.Cyclops: Wolverine, be careful. We don't know what we're up against!Wolverine: You be careful, bub. That's your bag, ain't it? 'Sides, I ain't gonna hurt the lil' fella — much.Jahf: (Drawing back a fist) That's for sure.SFX: POW!Wolverine goes flying far and fast enough to reach escape velocity.
- Beast's reaction to getting zapped with a multi-kilovolt static charge by Magneto during a fight in X-Men #112.Beast: (weakly) S' all ri..., Storm... only hurts when I... I laff...
- Later on during the same fight, Magneto uses his powers to make Wolverine punch himself in the face.
- Scott Summers gets one in X-Men #1:Jean: I must confess, infuriating and arrogant as Gambit can be... those eyes, that grin, the body — it takes a girl's breath away.
Cyclops: Oh, really? When next the opportunity presents itself... remind me to drop a truck on him.
Professor X: Cyclops.
Cyclops: A big truck.
Professor X: Cyclops.
Cyclops: A really big truck.
Professor X: Cyclops!
- Of course, this is just after we find out that Cyclops has gone to the trouble of building a robot double of his girlfriend, programmed to explode when Gambit kisses it. This was presumably intended as a form of aversion therapy.
- During the team's first encounter with Alpha Flight, they're on the run in Calgary. The team is set to meet at a rendezvous point, but Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Banshee, and Storm are missing. Cut to Banshee shopping with Storm. Granted, it's so that they can disguise Storm who sticks out like a sore thumb, but still.
- This quote from Nightcrawler at the beginning of The Dark Phoenix Saga:Kurt: Figures—We get away from the Hellfire Club with our skins intact, only to get trashed by one of our own! Oi-flipping-vey!
- In her first meeting with the X-Men, Scott's then-girlfriend Madeline Pryor is asked to hold a blanket-wrapped Lockheed. She parts the folds to get a look at the "cat." The following exchange has Madelyne wearing an utterly, rigidly blank expression.Madelyne: [grabs his tie] Scott.Scott: Yes, Madelyne? [she proceeds to pull on his tie until he's face to face with her] Something the matter?Madelyne: Just exactly who are these people, and what the blazes have you gotten me into?!
- From one of Longshot's earliest appearances, there's the... uh, "effect" he has on some of the X-Women. A teenaged Kitty swooning over him, complete with a massive bundle of love-hearts is perfectly normal. But the fact that Rogue is doing the same? Yeah...
