Awesome Moments in X-History Involving X-Women

Right off the top of my head, I've got one.

Storm "kills" Marrow. I had only just started to read Uncanny X-Men (previously taught about X-Men through X-Men TAS) and that fight against Marrow blew my mind. Joe Mad's art, Storm's moral battle about how to finish the fight, and ultimately her decision to stop Marrow, cemented this in my young mind.


Edited by grief - 21-Mar-2012 at 2:21am

A powerless Storm kicks Cyclops's ass so he'll cede leadership of the team to her and finally spend time with his family. 

LOL...Well here are my top ten (no order):
Storm ripping out Marrow's Heart
Jean effing up the U-Men
Psylocke vs Sabretooth part 1
Rogue vs Nimrod
Kitty stops the bullet
Storm beating Cyclops
Rogue taking the "bullet" for Mariko
Emma snapping Cassandra Nova's neck
X-23's back flip into the molten metal to get rid of the Legacy Virus in her system
Magik's orchestration of everything during Wells' New Mutants run.

I love Rogue's power combos that's why one of my Top 10 is when she took on Nimrod. It was the first good-Rogue power combo and the art that portrayed it was beautiful. That image of her with Colossus's skin and Nightcrawler's face and the punch that shattered Nimrod...just awesome.

1. Kitty telling Emma off in Astonishing (the first time: when I think about evil, blah blah blah)
2. Psylocke telling Archangel to go back for the sword she used to kill the Deathlock Psylocke in Uncanny X-Force
3. Jean Grey defending the Xavier Institute against Sublime's men during Morrison's run on New X-Men
4. X-23's response to Warpath in X-Force regarding his question to her and Logan's indifference to the amount of Purifier blood. "I do not understand your question."
5. Emma Frost promising to give Xavier to Danger in return for her assistance with the Breakworld nonsense.
6. Rahne Sinclair's attempt to go back to find other students in X-Men: The End, although she knew the school's reactor was about to blow up.
7. Storm unveiling her new punk look, along with the quote "So long as I remain true to myself, I see no reason to apologize to others." (Not sure if that's the exact quote)
8. Carol Danvers knocking Rogue into orbit during the Ashes From The Past story
9. Esme giving "Xorneto" Alzheimers. Sure she failed, but at least she had the testicular fortitude to try.
10. Cassandra Nova wiping out Genosha. C'mon... It was awesome.

Pixie saying the best line in X-Men history:

"I was all like pop, and freak, pop, pop, and freak"

Well, tathunen, seeing as how, during Psylocke's tenure as leader of the X-Men when they were squatting at the Reaver's base (Maynard Plains) in Australia, she convinced the X-Men to go through the Siege Perilous in an attempt to keep their bodies/ minds/ souls from being murdered/ altered. The after effect for Miss Braddock is that her mind/ body/ soul was altered by the Mandarin and the Japanese guy who killed Mariko (don't remember his name, was in X-Men 2nd series 31-32. Matsuo I think) in an attempt for Matsuo to regain the love he had lost in Kawannon, the asian ninja whose body Elisabeth Braddock's body now resides in. Bets kept her head up and just kept dealing with all sorts of crap, even by X standards. Claremont killing her in Xtreme X-Men, then him bringing her back (again), The whole Exiles thing, the Crimson Dawn nonsense, almost getting killed by Sabretooth, blah blah blah, banging the AOA Sabretooth... Anyways she's been through almost as much crap as Jean Grey, and that's saying something. However, no matter everything she went through, she still stood tall, didn't kill people, kept Xavier's code of honor... Until Uncanny X-Force came out. So knowing how much hate she has for the Reavers and cyborgs in general (shown in Uncanny X-Force 5.1, I think) don't you think she'd want the sword that she used to kill a cyborg version of herself? She fought a nightmare version of herself. Hell, she didn't even fight Cy-locke (yes a pun, I know: how awful). She just threw a sword at her and sliced her head open. So killing a version of herself that she had only come into contact with in her nightmares before, don't you think she'd want the sword so she could at least remind herself what could have happened to her originally when she was still white, not to mention DID happen in an alternate future. and that she ended her nightmare personally?

Edited by smurftacular - 28-Mar-2012 at 11:58pm

Hope taking down Bastion was pretty great. Even more badass was her putting her tears away, cocking her gun, and going off to battle with Rogue.

Her turning into diamond and sniping Sinister in the head was also pretty badass.

Those poor poor broccoli people. She could have at least steamed them... Just saying :P

Just to add or build on a lot of great X-Women moments we've already compiled...

M, after acting (being?) catatonic for several issues, stands up and, with no warning, kills a Phalanx with something she cobbled together from spare bits lying around the floor, knocks the prison wall over, and shoves Blink, Husk, and Skin to safety without breaking a sweat.

Domino's second solo mini was pretty great - just the whole thing.

When Hope was gutted viciously and no one came to her aid, and she bled out and died. (Just wait for it... it's coming)

Polaris taking out the entire team of Marauders before revealing she was Malice who'd taken over the body (it was the only acceptable time Polaris was possessed/mind controlled/brainwashed/held prisoner; on the contrary it lasted way too long).

Maddie Pryor first revealed as the Goblyn Queen was pretty neat (I like when characters flip flop like that)

Boom Boom becoming Meltdown.

Then, after dropping all code names, "Taby" vs. Giant Ultra Samurai Cop

More to come?