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Characters / X-Men Film Series: X-Men (Original Timeline)

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Members of the X-Men team before the timeline changes brought by X-Men: Days of Future Past.

For the team's general tropes, see here.

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Founding Members

    Professor Charles Xavier / Professor X 

    Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto 
See the Magneto page.

    Raven Darkhölme / Mystique 
See the Mystique page.

    Dr. Hank McCoy / Beast 

Secretary of Mutant Affairs Dr. Henry "Hank" McCoy / Beast

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"Not all of us can fit in so easily. You don't shed on the furniture."

Played By: Kelsey Grammer, Steve Bacic

Voiced By: Gabriel Pingarrón (Latin-American Spanish); Jesús Pinillos (young, First Class-Apocalypse), Héctor Cantolla (old, The Last Stand), Ramón Rocabayera (old, X2), Pedro Tena (old, Days of Future Past) (European Spanish)

Film Appearances: X2: X-Men United | X-Men: The Last Stand | X-Men: First Class | X-Men: Days of Future Past

"My boy, I have been fighting for mutant rights since before you had claws."

A close friend of Charles Xavier and a co-founder of the X-Men. A brilliant scientist, Beast's mutation leads him to be covered in blue fur and have heightened strength and agility. He develops the technology that the team requires to carry out missions.

For tropes applying to Beast in the new timeline established by X-Men: Days of Future Past, see the X-Men (New Timeline) page.
  • Age Lift: Quite a bit older than Cyclops and Jean, even without getting into First Class. While Beast was the eldest of the first students in the comics, he was only in his 30s in the 1990s.
  • Ambadassador: He works in a government position as the Secretary of Mutant Affairs, basically an official ambassador for the mutant cause. And he kicks ass when necessary.
  • Beast Man: Duh.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: Pressing his Berserk Button might lead to him strangling you. Jekyll and Hyde indeed.
  • Character Development: When you watch the original saga in chronological order, one can appreciate how much Hank grew as a person from when he first joined Charles to the matured position we see him in The Last Stand. When he was young, Hank was desperately ashamed of his mutation, despite it being fairly benign and unnoticeable, which led him to experiment in attempt to "cure" himself. This only transformed him into the blue-furred Beast we know and love. After much personal struggle to accept himself, Hank came to embody the ideal of Charles' vision for mutantkind: a shrewd political champion for their cause who proudly wears his obvious physical mutation on his sleeve, but is otherwise the picture of class, civility and compassion. When he encounters Leech, a young mutant who neutralises the gifts of any other mutants in his immediate vicinity, Hank is clearly shocked and moved when the boy allows him to see his white-skinned human hand beneath his blue-furred visage for the first time in decades. This constant temptation to be normal again makes him much more sympathetic to any mutants who would wish to cure for their conditions, in contrast to some of his teammates.
  • Cultured Badass: Tries to quote Churchill while fighting, and quotes Shakespeare prior to taking off to San Francisco in a deleted scene. Being played by Frasier Crane himself definitely helps convey this.
  • Cool Old Guy: Much older than Storm and Jean, but as potentially destructive as Wolverine.
  • Dramatic Irony: His attempt at a cure on himself appears to work and then fails horribly in X-Men: First Class. When he later uses a variation to rob Erik/Magneto of his powers in X-Men: The Last Stand, it seems to work. And then, rather subtly, it also fails.
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: According to the tie-in material for X-Men: Days of Future Past, he gets dragged from his home and murdered by a mob of mutant-hating humans akin to the "Friends of Humanity" from the 90's animated series.
    • Doubles as a Call-Back if you're watch the prequel before watching the main X-Men trilogy.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: He appears briefly on TV in the bar in X2: X-Men United.
  • Formerly Fit: He quips that he barely fits into his old X-Men uniform. He has grown stockier over the years, but he hasn't lost one bit of his strength and ferocity in battle.
  • Genius Bruiser:
    • In X-Men: First Class, he goes from being a Badass Bookworm at the beginning to being a Genius Bruiser toward the end. This is because he injected himself with something that utterly transformed his appearance.
    • By X-Men: The Last Stand, he's a scientist/diplomat who can kick lots of ass.
  • Gentle Giant: Huge and animal-like, but on the good guys' side.
  • Gentleman and a Scholar: He's very friendly, prefers to avoid conflict, and truly comes out of his shell when in his comfort zones, such as discussing science or assisting with the other students.
  • Nerd Glasses: Wears the horn-rimmed variety in the First Class trilogy, which in his case is a visual cue that he's a geeky academic.
  • Nice Guy: Again, an unfailingly friendly guy, even to those who mock his appearance.
  • Remember the New Guy?: An old friend of Charles, he made his anticipated appearance in the final instalment of the original X-Men trilogy. His backstory and crucial role in Xavier's first team were greatly expanded upon in First Class and Days of Future Past.
  • The Smart Guy: He's incredibly intelligent and a brilliant scientist who has invented most of the nifty tools and gadgets (X-Jet, Cerebro, etc.) that the X-Men use.
  • Time-Shifted Actor: An older actor was cast for X-Men: The Last Stand, and a younger thespian took over the role for the movies which are set in the 20th century.

    Alex Summers / Havok 

Alexander "Alex" Summers / Havok

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Played By: Lucas Till

Voiced By: Alexandre Gillet (European French), Claudio Velázquez (Latin-American Spanish), Satoshi Tsuruoka (Japanese)

Film Appearances: X-Men: First Class

A mutant who has the ability to absorb energy and discharge it as blasts. He is the much older brother of Scott Summers.

  • Adaptation Dye-Job: His energy blasts are blue in the comics, red in the films.
  • Adaptational Early Appearance: Downplayed. While he's not one of the original X-Men in the comics, he does make his first appearance a few years after they debuted, and is one of the first new recruits to the team. However, he joins the X-Men two decades before his brother Scott, one of the original members in the comics where Alex joined the team after his brother.
  • Adaptational Personality Change: The comic version of Alex is almost defined by his raging inferiority complex, insecurities and his need to compare himself to Cyclops. This version has none of those issues and is far more stable because of it.
  • Age Lift: Given the decision to make him one of the original students and to avoid Comic-Book Time. In the comics, he's Cyclops' younger brother, but his movie counterpart is about 20 years older than Scott.
  • The Big Guy: Despite not being the largest or physically strongest, his powers are much more destructive than those of the other young mutants in X-Men: First Class, and he's far more likely to pick a fight than the more docile Hank.
  • Chest Blaster: In X-Men: First Class, his suit is designed to focus his energy and discharge it from a device in his chest. Based on his new timeline self in X-Men: Days of Future Past, he no longer needs the suit.
  • Doomed by Canon: He appears in the prequel trilogy but there is no trace of him in the present day. Given that his new timeline counterpart was the one to bring Scott to Xavier in Apocalypse but Scott was seemingly managing his mutation on his own in Origins, it can be presumed that he passed away before this in the original timeline.
  • Fanservice: In X-Men: First Class, he displays his bare, muscular arms during training, plus a section of his chest is exposed when the energy output device is removed from his combat uniform.
  • Hell-Bent for Leather: His black leather jacket in X-Men: First Class marks him as a bad boy in comparison to the other mutant recruits.
  • Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: When he starts to practice controlling his powers, he first ends up shooting everything EXCEPT his intended target. While he really was trying to aim, he couldn't control the sheer force of his powers yet. After some training, he becomes much better at targeting and controlling his blasts.
  • In Spite of a Nail: Technically he does appear in Days of Future Past, since while the character appears in the new timeline created after 2023 Logan arrives in 1973, nothing Logan did impacted Alex's life. So what was shown to happen to his new timeline counterpart in Vietnam also happened to the original timeline version.
  • Jerk Jock: A downplayed example in X-Men: First Class as he's not as bad as what this trope is normally associated with, but he's verbally abusive towards the geeky Hank, and Alex even fits the blond stereotype.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He bullies Hank and is generally pretty abrasive. Later, he sticks by his friends when Shaw comes, and does grow to like and respect Hank.
  • Magic Feather: The chest blaster device helps him control his energy blasts, but eventually it gets damaged. He eventually gains enough control over it to aim his uncontrolled blasts effectively, clipping Angel's wings with them.
  • Person of Mass Destruction: He's fearful of the damage his powers could do if he isn't kept isolated, and so prefers being in solitary confinement while in prison so he is at less risk of hurting someone by accident.
  • Power Incontinence: In X-Men: First Class, he can emit powerful energy blasts, but he can't control their direction. This problem is solved by a special harness, which he even refers to as his "energy diaper" in a deleted scene.
  • Rape as Backstory: Or attempted rape. A deleted scene mentioned that Alex was involved in a very violent incident with "two inmates in the showers." The implications of why a young, attractive man would need to fight off two men in a prison shower are clear.
  • Sleeves Are for Wimps: In X-Men: First Class during the training scenes, everyone gets matching grey tracksuits. His, inexplicably, doesn't have sleeves.
  • Would Hit a Girl: Angel Salvadore attacks him and Banshee with her highly acidic spit balls, so once he and his teammate land safely on a beach, Havok unleashes his power and burns her wings.
  • Unishment: Given a passing mention in X-Men: First Class. A prison guard where he was staying at the beginning of the film remarks that he's "the only prisoner I've ever seen who actually prefers solitary." Sure enough, when we first see him, Alex is in solitary. A subversion, since Alex doesn't really enjoy solitary, he's trying to stay away from people so he doesn't actually hurt them with the energy blasts that are his mutant power, and which he has great difficulty in controlling.

    Sean Cassidy / Banshee 

Sean Cassidy / Banshee

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"You may want to cover your ears..."

Played By: Caleb Landry Jones

Voiced By: Miguel Ángel Leal (Latin-American Spanish)

Film Appearances: X-Men: First Class

A mutant capable of ultrasonic screaming, used in various ways including as a means of flight and sonar.

  • Adaptational Early Appearance: Downplayed. While he's not one of the original X-Men in the comics, he does make his first appearance a few years after they debuted, and is one of the first new recruits to the team.
  • Adaptational Nationality: He is American in the movie-verse, but in the comics, he was Irish.
  • Age Lift: Inverted; he's a teenager as opposed to an adult when he joins the proto X-Men. His comics' counterpart was in a romantic relationship with Moira MacTaggert (and therefore he was close to her in age), but in the movie-verse, he's at least a dozen years her junior.
  • Chivalrous Pervert: Is introduced flirting with a girl, who seems to find him comical more than anything else. He also wolf-whistles at Angel.
  • Deadpan Snarker: He does have some nifty lines.
    Raven: We should come up with secret codenames, we're secret agents now! I'll start, I'm gonna be Mystique.
    Sean: Damn! I wanted to be called Mystique!
  • Dropped a Bridge on Him: He dies in between X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past at the hands of Bolivar Trask, who captured him and numerous other mutants to dissect, experiment on, and help develop the Sentinel Program.
  • Fiery Redhead: His actor even auditioned because it was a rare ginger superhero. Ironically, Sean's one of the least hot-headed and combative of the students, with those titles going moreso to Alex and Raven.
  • Glass-Shattering Sound: In X-Men: First Class. Charles points out all the science to him.
  • Killed Offscreen: He was killed by Trask's company in the time between First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past.
  • Make Me Wanna Shout: His mutation involves making very powerful sound waves that can break glass (among other things). They're also very effective at locating things underwater, in similar variant of echolocation. In an unusual variation, this includes the power of flight, by bouncing sound waves off the ground back into a wingsuit.
  • Not Quite Flight: Sean's flight deals with using his supersonic screams to help him glide.
    Charles: You need the sound waves to be supersonic. Catch them at the right angle and they should carry you.
    Sean: They should carry me... that's reassuring.
  • Plucky Comic Relief: He's the most fun character in X-Men: First Class.
  • Took a Level in Badass: His training involves learning how to use his powers in more efficient ways, including flying, disorienting opponents, and locating Shaw's submarine.
  • Unrelated in the Adaptation: Given both his death between movies and their respective ages, he's not Siryn's father (who cameoed in X2: X-Men United) as in the comics.

     Armando Muñoz / Darwin 

Armando Muñoz / Darwin

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"Well, Darwin's already a nickname and it fits: "adapt to survive" and all..."

Played By: Edi Gathegi

Voiced By: David Bueno (Latin-American Spanish)

Film Appearances: X-Men: First Class

A mutant with the power of "reactive evolution."

  • Adaptational Early Appearance: His comic book counterpart didn't first appear until the mid-2000s, but here, he's a founding X-Man in The '60s.
  • Adaptational Attractiveness: In the comics, he had bulging eyes, slits for a nose, and reptilian grey skin. In the movie, he looks like a normal human.
  • Adaptive Ability: His ability involves his body making whatever changes necessary to keep him from dying in whatever environment he's in, such as growing gills while underwater.
  • Age Lift: He's roughly the same age as Havok in both comics and movie, thus his counterpart in the former is younger than Cyclops, Jean, Iceman, and Angel.
  • Died Standing Up: He stays standing after being killed by Sebastian Shaw.
  • Fake Defector: He does this to Sebastian Shaw's group of evil mutants as a ploy to give his teammate Havok a clear shot at Shaw's group (his own mutant ability will protect him from Havok's attack, and their friend but genuine traitor Angel, who wouldn't be safe otherwise). It doesn't turn out so good for him when Shaw's group survives unscathed due to Shaw's mutant ability allowing him to absorb Havok's attack.
  • Feed It a Bomb: He gets offed in this way.
  • Heroic Spirit: He stands up to Shaw after seeing him murder an entire building of CIA agents.
  • Killed Off for Real: He doesn't get to come back in Days of Future Past like Cyclops and Jean Grey, because his death in First Class happens before the timeline alteration in Days of Future Past.
  • Nice Guy: Polite, friendly, and when things get rough he can be seen immediately moving to make himself a human shield for the other kids.
  • No Body Left Behind: He is vaporized immediately by the blast he took, and one of his teammates even said, "We can't even bury him."
  • Sacrificial Lamb: The first member of the proto X-Men to die.
  • The Worf Effect: He's set up as, potentially, the team's most powerful member as nothing seemed to harm (or even hurt) him. However, when Shaw manages to actually kill him, it proves how dangerous he truly is.

    Angel Salvadore 
See the Hellfire Club page.

Later Additions

    Jean Grey / Phoenix 
See the Jean Grey page.

    Scott Summers / Cyclops 

Scott Summers / Cyclops

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"It must burn you up that a boy like me saved your life, huh? Better be careful. I might not be there next time."

Played By: James Marsden, Tim Pocock

Voiced By: Óscar Flores, Javier Olguín (young, Origins) (Latin-American Spanish); Claudio Serrano, Dani García (adult, Days of Future Past), Pablo Sevilla (young, Origins) (European Spanish)

Film Appearances: X-Men | X2: X-Men United | X-Men: The Last Stand | X-Men Origins: Wolverine

"Not everybody heals as fast as you, Logan."

The field leader of the X-Men, and a teacher at Xavier's Institute, he shoots uncontrollable beams of concussive force from his eyes and wears a ruby quartz visor to control them.

For tropes applying to Cyclops in the new timeline established by X-Men: Days of Future Past, see the X-Men (New Timeline) page.

    Ororo Munroe / Storm 

Ororo Munroe / Storm

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"So if you're with us, then be with us."

Played By: Halle Berry

Voiced By: Ilia Gil (X-Men), Dulce Guerrero (X-Men 2-Days of Future Past) (Latin-American Spanish); Victoria Angulo (European Spanish)

Film Appearances: X-Men | X2: X-Men United | X-Men: The Last Stand | X-Men Origins: Wolverinenote  | X-Men: Days of Future Past

"Sometimes anger can help you survive."

A mutant and teacher at Xavier's School who can control the weather with her mind.

For tropes applying to Storm in the new timeline established by X-Men: Days of Future Past, see the X-Men (New Timeline) page.
  • Action Girl: One of the most powerful X-Men, Storm is one of the most active members of the team in the first film, acting as Scott's main partner during missions and defeating Sabretooth and Toad in two separate occasions.
  • Back from the Dead: She is alive and well in the Alternate Timeline of X-Men: Days of Future Past.
  • Badass Teacher: She is one of the teachers in the Xavier's school and one of its best.
  • Blow You Away: Her control of the weather includes summoning powerful winds.
  • Boyish Short Hair: Her hairstyle in X-Men: Days of Future Past is quite short, and it's easier to maintain when she's struggling to survive the Future Sentinels.
  • Electric Black Guy: Lightning is just another aspect of weather after all.
  • Hot Teacher: She's an instructor at the academy, and is definitely beautiful.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: She is ambushed by a Future Sentinel in the climatic battle of X-Men: Days of Future Past and has the robot's entire arm jammed through her torso. Thankfully, the Cosmic Retcon later spares her life.
  • Monochromatic Eyes: When using her powers, her pupils turn milky white.
  • Multi-Ethnic Name: Her first name Ororo is likely Swahili. Her surname Munroe is English. Its unconfirmed if this incarnation of Storm is half White like her actresses are.
  • Mystical White Hair: A white-haired woman with weather manipulation/summoning powers.
  • Noble Bigot: Despite being an X-Men, she admits to disliking humans because she is afraid of them.
    Wolverine: Are you sure you're on the right side?
    Storm: At least I've chosen a side.
  • No Sympathy: When Worthington Labs develop and release a "cure" for X-Gene mutations to the public, Storm is enraged at the suggestion that anyone would willingly take it, going so far as to call them cowards. She doesn't consider the fact that many mutants have much more physically debilitating gifts than her, some impossible to conceal, making them prime targets for discrimination. Considering that Storm herself looks completely human and has awesome, godlike powers with no drawbacks, her sense of perspective on the issue has clearly been lost. Beast politely calls her out on this attitude, while Rogue ignores her advice and takes the cure, finally allowing her to touch people without killing them.
  • Number Two: Second-in-command to Cyclops. Xavier offers her the leadership role after Scott falls into depression over Jean, a position she is ultimately forced to accept due to Professor X's untimely death in X-Men: The Last Stand.
  • Official Couple: She is stated to be a couple with Logan in X-Men: Days of Future Past. The Rogue Cut shows them kissing before his consciousness is sent back in time.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Regularly referred to as Storm, not Ororo or Munroe.
  • Power Floats: Can fly through wind manipulation.
  • Ship Tease:
  • Shock and Awe: In the first film, she defeats both Toad and Sabretooth by conjuring a lightning bolt to strike them.
  • Team Mom: She becomes the headmistress of Xavier's school after the Professor's apparent death.

    Logan / Wolverine 
See the Wolverine page.

    Marie D'Ancanto / Rogue 

Marie D'Ancanto / Rogue

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"The first boy I ever kissed ended up in a coma for three weeks. I can still feel him inside my head."

Played By: Anna Paquin

Voiced By: Elena Ramírez (X-Men), Jessica Ortiz (X-Men 2-Days of Future Past) (Latin-American Spanish); Mar Bordallo (European Spanish)

Film Appearances: X-Men | X2: X-Men United | X-Men: The Last Stand | X-Men: Days of Future Past

A mutant who can absorb any person's memories and abilities by touching them. As she cannot control this absorbing ability, Rogue can easily kill anyone, and thus is unable to be physically close to people.

  • Adaptational Heroism: Unlike the Rogue of the comics and most other adaptions, she ends up at Xavier's school from the very beginning and is never a former member of the Brotherhood. She never has to undergo a Heel–Face Turn, retroactively or otherwise, because here she was a Face to begin with.
  • Adaptational Slimness: Rogue is an interesting example, because in the comics she underwent a Fanservice Pack until she was a statuesque super model and one of the curviest X-girls on par with somebody like Emma Frost. In the first movie, Rogue is aged down to a teenager and played by Anna Paquin, who is much shorter and skinnier than the southern bombshell from The '90s. Even her hairstyle is changed to make her look smaller, from '80s Hair to a flat, straight style.
  • Adaptational Wimp: In the comics, she started out as an insecure and depressed girl who didn't have control over her powers, but grew into them and become a self-confident badass. The first film had her as the insecure, depressed girl, and the second took steps to develop her power control and confidence... only for a change in directors to completely neuter this story line in the third movie and make her just as weak as she was in the first film and ending with her removing her powers altogether. Furthermore, in the comics she has super strength and flight which she gained after permanently draining the energy of the superhero Ms. Marvel, while in the movies she lacks these abilities completely due to Ms. Marvel not existing in this continuity. Anna Paquin has said this is one of her biggest regrets with the role, as she really wanted to fly and kick some ass at some point.
  • The Artifact: There was really no point in keeping her around after the first movie (when Magneto needed her to power his machine). The only useful thing she did after that was stop Pyro's rampage and drive the X-Jet to get the members back—nearly crashing the thing, but that's a detail.
  • Bad Powers, Good People: As she doesn't have her comic book counterpart's Heel–Face Turn backstory, the filmmakers turned her into a sweet Classical Anti-Hero who sucks the life force (and mutant powers) out of anyone she touches.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: In X2: X-Men United, when Mystique and Magneto mock Rogue over her skunk stripe, she takes a glove off and clearly plans on using her powers on them before Bobby holds her back. Considering that Magneto’s machine is the reason her hair’s like that in the first place and she almost died from it, it’s completely understandable.
  • Blessed with Suck: Her superpower doesn't allow her to touch the ones she loves.
  • Brought Down to Normal: In X-Men: The Last Stand, she willingly takes the cure for mutants, although the film's final scene where Magneto slowly regains his power proves that the cure is not permanent.
  • Can't Have Sex, Ever: Due to her uncontrollable power, Rogue is unable to have intimacy with the person she loves, as demonstrated when her first kiss resulted in her then boyfriend falling into a coma. In X2: X-Men United, multiple characters point out the inherent problems faced by Iceman and Rogue.
  • Closest Thing We Got: In The Rogue Cut, Rogue is basically brought back into the fold to replace Kitty's role in projecting Logan into the past after Kitty is injured, as she can copy Kitty's power and use it in her place.
  • Composite Character: Rogue takes her name and the primary power from her comic counterpart, but has comic Kitty Pryde's close bond with Logan and resembles Jubilee from the 90's cartoon, as the young girl who joins the X-Men and acts as the Audience Surrogate.
  • Damsel in Distress:
    • In X-Men, she is kidnapped by Magneto, who intends to use her to power his machine.
    • In the Rogue Cut of X-Men: Days of Future Past, she gets distressed again during the Bad Future, when Trask Industries kidnaps her and experiments on her at the X-Mansion until Iceman and Magneto break her out.
  • Demoted to Extra:
    • She had fairly large parts in the first and second movies, but her storyline in X-Men: The Last Stand remotes to her being jealous of Bobby and Kitty and taking an apparent cure. Part of it was also because Halle Berry didn't like Storm's comparatively smaller role and demanded a larger part. But objectively speaking they both were shafted.
    • In X-Men: Days of Future Past, she only appears in a non-speaking cameo and doesn't even get a close-up. This is because all her other scenes were cut out and then restored on The Rogue Cut.
  • First Gray Hair: In X-Men she gets her skunk stripe not from age, but as a result of being used to power Magneto's machine. She is asked whether she's considered dyeing it, but replies that she actually thinks it looks kind of cool, and wears it like a battle scar.
  • I Just Want to Be Normal: This is why in X-Men: The Last Stand, she decides to take the cure; however, one alternate ending shows her not taking it, and holding hands with Bobby wearing gloves.
  • Informed Ability: X-Men talks about, but never shows the mental aspect of her power where she picks up memories and personality fragments from a person she touches in addition to the person's strength/ability. In a scene near the end, Jean says she picked up some of Logan's personality traits, but they're gone by the next scene. In the later films, she seems to gain some measure of control over her powers, which might explain why she doesn't fear losing her mind anymore.
  • Locked into Strangeness: She gets her white streak because of Magneto's attempted power-transfer toward the end of the first film.
  • Named by the Adaptation: At the time of the film's release, Rogue's actual name was unrevealed so the film gave her the real name of Marie D'Ancanto. The comic would eventually establish her real name as Anna Marie
  • Official Couple: With Bobby Drake in X2: X-Men United. They are in the early stages of a romantic relationship, and their challenge is dealing with her mutant ability, as she can kill someone with a prolonged touch.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Everyone calls her Rogue. Marie is only used twice in the entire franchise.
  • Power Parasite: Her power involves sapping life energy and powers from those she comes into contact with. Whether she wants to or not.
  • Precocious Crush: She develops a crush on Logan in the first film and still seems to have it in the second.
  • Pragmatic Adaptation: Rogue is unable to fly, has no fighting/combat abilities, and does not have super strength or invulnerability. This is because, unlike in the comic books, she has none of the abilities that she acquired from Ms. Marvel (Carol Danvers), as the studio didn't have the rights to the latter character.
  • The Runaway: In X-Men, she runs away from home after her power manifests itself while kissing her boyfriend, causing him to have a seizure and fall into a coma for three weeks.
  • Vampiric Draining: Rogue drains the life force of other people through skin contact.

    Bobby Drake / Iceman 

Robert "Bobby" Drake / Iceman

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"We're not kids anymore, Logan."
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Played By: Shawn Ashmore

Voiced By: Igor Cruz (X-Men), Enzo Fortuny (X-Men 2-Days of Future Past) (Latin-American Spanish); Jorge Saudinós (European Spanish)

Film Appearances: X-Men | X2: X-Men United | X-Men: The Last Stand | X-Men: Days of Future Past

A student at Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters who takes a liking to Rogue. He can change temperatures to subzero degrees and use the moisture in the air to create ice.

  • Adaptational Nice Guy: The movie version is much sweeter and more mature than his comic book counterpart's Jerk with a Heart of Gold/Manchild persona.
  • Adaptational Sexuality: A retroactive example. At the time the films were released, Iceman was portrayed as straight and had girlfriends in the past, but in 2015 he came out as gay. When this happened, Bryan Singer acknowledged in hindsight the irony of pairing the character with Rogue, a girl he could not touch.
  • Adaptational Wimp: He never gains the Omega Level Complete Immortality that he has in the comics, and is able to be killed by being melted.
  • Age Lift: Inverted; he's the same age as Rogue, whereas his comic counterpart is closer in age to Cyclops and Jean.
  • Ascended Extra: In the first film, he's a fairly minor character whose only notable contribution to the plot is when Mystique impersonates him to infiltrate Xavier's school. In the second film, he's promoted to main cast but still remains mostly on the sidelines. In the third film, he finally becomes a full-fledged member of the X-Men team and even gets his own personal fight scene against Pyro. After the Time Skip in X-Men: Days of Future Past, he's one of the veteran leaders of the surviving X-Men team in the Bad Future.
  • Back from the Dead: He is alive and well in the Alternate Timeline of X-Men: Days of Future Past.
  • Chivalrous Pervert: He adores Rogue in X2: X-Men United, and although he's supposed to be looking the other way, he can't resist taking a peek at her while she's changing into his mother's old clothes.
  • Die or Fly: In X-Men: The Last Stand, he engages Pyro in a Beam-O-War using their respective mutations. When Bobby is on the verge of being consumed by the flames, his true potential awakens and he transforms into his iconic ice form, allowing him to overpower his opponent and knock him out.
  • Green-Eyed Monster: Slightly. In the second film he’s shown to not be thrilled about Rogue’s crush on Logan.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: In the Rogue Cut of X-Men: Days of Future Past, he dies while going on a rescue mission with Professor X and Magneto to save Rogue within the remains of the X-Mansion. When the Sentinels arrive, Bobby tells Magneto to take Rogue and get out before using his powers to create/fortify an ice wall and hold off the Sentinels just long enough for his friends to escape.
  • An Ice Person: Uses his mutant ability to create ice.
  • I'm Melting!: In both versions of X-Men: Days of Future Past, Bobby is killed the second time when three Sentinels fire their beams at him simultaneously, melting his ice form.
  • I'm Not Doing That Again: He says this in X-Men: The Last Stand after Kitty phases him though the ground and back out again.
  • Literally Shattered Lives: During the first battle of X-Men: Days of Future Past, he (in his ice form) is grabbed by a Sentinel, who squeezes his neck until it shatters.
  • Mundane Utility: In X2: X-Men United, when Logan wants a cold drink, he gives a Dr. Pepper to Bobby, who uses his powers to chill it.
  • Nice Guy: He is one of the nicest mutants.
  • Official Couple: He and Rogue are this in X2: X-Men United. They are in the early stages of a romantic relationship, and their challenge is dealing with her mutant ability, as she can kill someone with a prolonged touch. In The Rogue Cut of X-Men: Days of Future Past, he is Kitty's boyfriend, but when an Alternate Timeline is created, he continues his original relationship with Rogue.
  • Pretty Boy: His dainty facial features quickly communicate to the audience that he's a good-hearted person. This is especially true in the first movie, where he was only a minor character, but viewers were able to tell right away that "the cute guy" is sincere when trying to befriend Rogue. Moroever, being forced to abandon his family in the second film is more painful when his expression is very much like a puppy dog who has just been kicked.
  • Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: In X2: X-Men United, the rule-abiding, Nice Guy Iceman juxtaposes the rebellious, Jerkass Pyro. At the museum's food court, John is being rude to a young man who asks to borrow his lighter, and Bobby tells his friend to knock it off, plainly disapproving of John's annoying behaviour. When the police order the mutants to get on the ground, Drake immediately obeys, but Allerdyce attacks the officers with giant fire balls.
  • Sibling Rivalry: Implied, since his brother Ronnie calls the cops claiming that Iceman and the others are holding his family hostage soon after finding out he is a mutant.
  • Time-Passage Beard: He sports one in X-Men: Days of Future Past. Shawn Ashmore has said in interviews that it signifies his character's maturity.
  • Took a Level in Badass: X2: X-Men United and X-Men: The Last Stand have him upgrading from student to X-Men. In the climatic battle of The Last Stand, he finally goes into his full ice form. By the time of X-Men: Days of Future Past, he has taken several more levels, including the debut of the iconic ice slide from the comics.
  • We Used to Be Friends: He and Pyro were friends in X2: X-Men United, but are adversaries in X-Men: The Last Stand.
  • You Can't Go Home Again: After Stryker's raid on the school in X2: X-Men United, Bobby, Rogue, Logan, and Pyro stopped by the Drake family house in hopes of regrouping, which in the process revealed Bobby's mutant abilities to his parents. His own brother calls the police and reports them as a threat despite the mutants not harbouring any ill intentions. After Pyro stupidly attacks the officers in the standoff that follows, Bobby is forced to flee with the others knowing he can never come back.

    Kitty Pryde / Shadowcat 

Katherine "Kitty" Pryde / Shadowcat

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"Who's hiding, dickhead?"

Played By: Sumela Kay (X-Men), Katie Stuart (X2: X-Men United), Elliot Page (X-Men: The Last Stand and X-Men: Days of Future Past)

Voiced: Karla Falcón (Latin-American Spanish); Elena Palacios (X-Men), Ana Esther Alborg (The Last Stand-Days of Future Past) (European Spanish)

Film Appearances: X-Men | X2: X-Men United | X-Men: The Last Stand | X-Men: Days of Future Past

A mutant with the power of 'phasing' (meaning she can make her body insubstantial and travel through solid objects). She later develops Mental Time Travel abilities in between the events of The Last Stand and Days of Future Past.

    Peter Rasputin / Colossus 

Peter Rasputin / Colossus

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Played By: Daniel Cudmore

Voiced By: Sergio Gutiérrez Coto (X-Men-Last Stand), Manuel Pérez (Days of Future Past) (Latin-American Spanish); Héctor Garay (European Spanish)

Film Appearances: X-Men | X2: X-Men United | X-Men: The Last Stand | X-Men: Days of Future Past

A mutant who can transform his skin into an organic steel, granting superhuman strength and a resistance to damage and temperature.

For tropes applying to Colossus in the new timeline established by X-Men: Days of Future Past, see the X-Men (New Timeline) page.
  • Adaptation Name Change: His first name is Piotr in the comics.
  • Adaptational Nationality: 100% Russian in the comics. Here he is portrayed as Russian American by Canadian Daniel Cudmore. Deadpool 2 switches him back to fully Russian like his comics counterpart
  • Big Brother Instinct: In the second film, Colossus herds the younger kids to safety during the attack on the mansion. He's also the one who saves a tranquilized Siryn from being kidnapped and carries her around gently until she regains consciousness.
  • The Big Guy: He is the strongest member of the X-Men and his power revolves around hitting hard and shrugging off blows that could take out most other mutants.
  • Fastball Special:
    • The Trope Namer. He pulls this off with Wolverine as the fastball twice in the third film; the first time to help him decapitate a Sentinel, then to help him distract Magneto so Beast can inject the villain with the mutant cure.
    • In X-Men: Days of Future Past, he's the fastball. Blink throws him at the Sentinels by using her portals (first, he goes through one where the other end is high in the air; then, right before he hits the ground, she opens another one with the other end behind a Sentinel).
  • Flat Character: He becomes a full X-Man in X-Men: The Last Stand, but still only has a single line and no discernible personality whatsoever.
  • Gentle Giant: Colossus is tall, muscular, and intimidating even in his normal form, and is firmly on the good guys' side.
  • Half the Man He Used to Be: In X-Men: Days of Future Past, he is torn in half by a pair of Future Sentinels. Fortunately, it is undone by the Cosmic Retcon.
  • Hunk: He's the largest of the X-Men and quite good-looking.
  • Made of Iron: Literally when his mutant ability is active, which allows him to take more punishment than any other member of the team.
  • Immune to Bullets: Bullets and tranq darts bounce off his metal skin, as shown in X2.
  • Mr. Fanservice: Spends most of his screen time in X2: X-Men United running around shirtless, and his uniform in X-Men: The Last Stand lacks sleeves to show off his physique.
  • The Quiet One:
  • Perma-Shave: In 2023, he has very little facial hair despite living in a post-apocalyptic world where mutants are being hunted down by Sentinels.
  • Sleeves Are for Wimps: His uniform in X-Men: The Last Stand is sleeveless, showing off his muscles and more of his transformation when using his power.
  • Super-Strength: Even when not transformed, he can still carry around a massive standard TV◊ as if it weighed nothing.

    Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler 

Kurt Wagner / Nightcrawler

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"Most people will never believe in anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes."

Played By: Alan Cumming

Voiced By: José Ochoa (Latin-American Spanish); Juan D'Ors (European Spanish)

Film Appearances: X2: X-Men United

"There was so much shooting, such fear and then there was only pain. I could see it all happening, but I couldn't stop myself. It was like a bad dream. Perhaps he is testing me."

A kindly German mutant with a strong Catholic faith, yet ironically he has the appearance of a blue demon. He is capable of teleporting himself (and others) instantly from one location to another. On his body are many scarification marks, one for every sin. After fleeing from East Berlin, he becomes a student at Xavier's school and a member of the X-Men in the Alternate Timeline.

For tropes applying to Nightcrawler in the new timeline established by X-Men: Days of Future Past, see the X-Men (New Timeline) page.
  • Amazing Technicolor Population: He has blue skin as part of his mutation.
  • Badass Longcoat: Wears this in most of X2: X-Men United.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: In X2: X-Men United, he is brainwashed by Stryker and forced to conduct a terrorist attack on the White House at the beginning of the film.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He was a major character and a potential love interest for Storm in X2: X-Men United, but he didn't appear in X-Men: The Last Stand because actor Alan Cumming found the make-up and prosthetic process grueling and refused to return to it without Bryan Singer. Cumming can be seen in the behind-the-scenes footage for X2: X-Men United already stating that he never wants to go through the ordeal again. The video game based on the films which takes place between the two movies explains that he, a peaceful man, went abroad to distance himself from the X-Men's violent lifestyle.
  • Circus Brat: He spent most of his life with the Munich circus before he was kidnapped by Colonel Stryker.
  • Covered in Scars: He is covered, from his pointy ears to all four of his toes, in rather artistic-looking raised scars. They're self-inflicted; apparently, he felt the need to punish himself for... something. He seems to be a bit of a harmless milksop, so it's somewhat baffling and/or depressing to think about what he could possibly have to feel so guilty about. It could be related to the fact he's a devout Catholic.
  • Lightning Bruiser: As demonstrated by the first scene in X2, his teleportation gives him amazing mobility, which, when coupled with his acrobatic skills, allow him to easily subdue the entirety of the White House security agents.
  • The Magnificent: The Incredible Nightcrawler. He hasn't particularly let it go to his head, possibly because he gained the title as a circus acrobat, but he'll still drop it in occasionally.
  • One-Man Army: He single-handedly incapacitates the entire White House Security team.
  • One of the Kids: In X2: X-Men United, he was excluded from the planning session along with the younger X-Men.
  • Plucky Comic Relief: He provides some of the more amusing moments in X2: X-Men United, such as constantly bragging about his past as "The Incredible Nightcrawler" and awkwardly eavesdropping on the X-Men planning session with Magneto.
  • Put on a Bus: He didn't appear in X-Men: The Last Stand, with no explanation given. (The in-universe reason appears in X-Men: The Official Game where Nightcrawler leaves due to the X-Men's missions clashing with his peaceful nature. The Real Life one was Alan Cumming refused to return without Bryan Singer, especially since he was not fond of the torturous make-up sessions. In one of the behind-the-scenes featurettes, he readily admits that he doesn't think he could come back and go through it again.) The character returns in X-Men: Apocalypse, but that film is set in an Alternate Timeline.
  • Religious Bruiser: Even reaches The Atoner levels in X2: X-Men United.
  • Running Gag: In X2: X-Men United, every time he meets someone new, he has to introduce himself with a long speech... and gets cut off nearly every time.
  • Scary Teeth: He has a mouthful of fangs that were something between human-like and shark-like, rather than merely pointed eyeteeth as in the comics. Fortunately he's a pretty cool guy when he's not under mind control.
  • Self-Harm: He admits to Storm that the stylized scars across his body were self-inflicted.
  • Ship Tease: With Storm in X2: X-Men United. She examines his body ad scars when they first meet, and he later refuses to leave her at the Dark Cerebro even as she drops the room temperature to below zero.
  • Skin-Tone Disguise: The blue-skinned Nightcrawler wears beige/white makeup all over his hands and face (along with a hat and a trench coat) to be able to sneak in the White House unnoticed.
  • Super-Reflexes: During the white house attack, the Oval Room sequence features slow motion just to highlight how quickly Nightcrawler can process his envirnoment whilst teleport spamming to avoid gun fire.
  • Teleport Spam: His attack on the White House in X2: X-Men United, where he's kicking, throwing, punching, and just beating the crap out of every agent from every angle, with the last one in glorious slow motion.
  • Teleporter's Visualization Clause: Kurt's teleportation abilities depend on him having a line-of-sight to his destination, and warns the team that trying to travel blindly might result in him re-materializing inside a wall—meaning that he can't help them get inside Stryker's base under the dam. However, when they have to rescue Professor X from behind the sealed doors of Dark Cerebro, Nightcrawler is called upon to perform a Blind Jump; thankfully, he just manages it with some emotional support from Storm.
  • Time-Shifted Actor: He is portrayed by two different actors: one as an adult and the other as an adolescent.
  • Token Religious Teammate: He is a devout Catholic.
  • Unrelated in the Adaptation: No biological connection is made to Mystique, who he interacts with in X2, or Azazel, a mutant with a similar appearance and powerset who appeared in First Class. In the comics at the time these films were released (before a much later retcon established that Azazel and Kurt weren't related after all), Mystique and Azazel were the parents of Nightcrawler. In the non-canon X-Men Origins: Wolverine video game adaptation it was instead suggested that his parents were Mystique and John Wraith, while in an outtake for X-Men: Apocalypse Jennifer Lawrence would claim Nightcrawler is the son of Mystique and Azazel.
  • What Beautiful Eyes!: His irises are yellow.

    John Allerdyce / Pyro 
See the Brotherhood of Mutants page.

    Jubilation Lee / Jubilee 

Jubilation Lee / Jubilee

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As played by Katrina Florece
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As played by Kea Wong

Played By: Katrina Florece (X-Men), Kea Wong (X-Men 2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: Days Of Future Past)

Film Appearances: X-Men | X2: X-Men United | X-Men: The Last Stand | X-Men: Days of Future Past

A mutant who can generate plasma bursts from her hands, referred to as "fireworks".

For tropes applying to Jubilee in the new timeline established by X-Men: Days of Future Past, see the X-Men (New Timeline) page.
  • Adaptational Early Appearance: Downplayed. Jubilee's comic book counterpart technically first appeared 1989, but she didn't join the X-Men until The '90s, and is more associated as being from that decade than the original film's era.
  • Damsel in Distress: She is one of the students captured in the second movie.
  • Demoted to Extra: The majority of her focus scenes ended up on the cutting room floor, although some can be found on Youtube.
  • The Fashionista: Usually dressed to the nines, whether it be a yellow fleece jacket with black turtleneck, yellow fingerless gloves and heavy chain necklaces in the original film, a green python print jacket, striped crop top, bejewelled choker and baby blue fanny pack in the second movie (both with her signature hoop earrings) and post-apocalyptic gear in concept art for Days of Future Past. Downplayed in The Last Stand, where she wears khaki pants and a simple purple top.
  • Shock and Awe: Her "fireworks" appear to be more of an electrical/lightning power, which can be seen in this deleted scene.
  • The Voiceless: Doesn't utter a word her entire time on-screen.
  • What Could Have Been: She was suggested as a member of the future X-Men in Days of Future Past, with her likeness in concept art being based on actress Jamie Chungnote .

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