Make an X-Team

I saw this over on Comicbookresources and I thought it might be fun.

Okay here are the rules.

1. A Long Standing X-Man
2. A Telepath
3. A Villian (Does not have to be currently reformed)
   
4. An current X-Men Student
5. A New Mutant/X-Force/X-Terminators/Generation X
   
6. A International Mutant
7. A Wildcard(Wildcard can literally be anyone you want)
   

Don't get hung up on current continuity! If you want to do an alternate X-Men team or one based from in the future go ahead it will be more fun.

I'm going to do a future team.
Say two hundred years in the future

1. Iceman
2. Rachel Summers(timelost again)
3. Magneto(Physical body dead)
4. Rockslide
5. Moonstar(Valkyrie)
6. Darkstar (Living darkforce)
7. Deadpool

Edited by Blanchett - 05-Oct-2010 at 12:13pm

1. Archangel
2. Cable
3. Sunfire
4. Hope
5. Chamber
6. Wolverine (He's Canadian...)
7. Gambit

This is my "let's all get together and kick Apocalypse's ass" team. Cable is of course the team leader.

1. A Long Standing X-Man:  Colossus 
2. A Telepath:  Psylocke
3. A Villian (Does not have to be currently reformed):  Deathstrike
   
4. An current X-Men Student:  Indra
5. A New Mutant/X-Force/X-Terminators/Generation X:  Tempo(who always had heroic leanings)
6. A International Mutant: Gargouille
7. A Wildcard(Wildcard can literally be anyone you want): Random

What?  Except Deathstrike, they've all reformed in one way or another.

I love these things:
1.     A Long Standing X-Man - Nightcrawler
2.     A Telepath - Tangerine (who the heck is Tangerine?)
3.     A Villian (Does not have to be currently reformed) - Mimic
4.     An current X-Men Student - Hellion
5.     A New Mutant/X-Force/X-Terminators/Generation X - Chamber
6.     A International Mutant - Gentle
7.     A Wildcard(Wildcard can literally be anyone you want) - Blink

You can probably tell I have more than one telepath, more than one Gen Xer, more than one student, more than one villain, and more than one international. Probably because there have been plenty of iterations of the main X-Men plus one or two newbies. I went in a different direction.

A Nightcrawler led team means that this isn't going to be some kind of kill squad like X-Force, but it will be a team that focuses on missions requiring stealth and a small battle footprint. As the knot that ties the whole team together, he's had direct experience working with Mimic, as he was a short term member of Excalibur, Hellion and Gentle because of their time in Utopia, and is indirectly linked to Tangerine and Chamber through Pete Wisdom. Also, this is a team that understands the importance of redundancy. If you only have one teleporter, you're without that skill if that team member is out of commision. Same for telepathy or muscle or fighting skills.

If nobody knows who Tangerine is, she’s a Marvel UK character featured as part of the DofP timeline during Excalibur’s Crosstime Caper. At the end of MI-13, she was established as being active in the present and part of RCX. She’s a powerful telepath and empath with the skills of psychometry, dream viewing, and radial danger sense. She’s mostly a passive telepath, but that makes her invaluable on stealth missions for her early warning capabilities.

Hellion is one of my favorite characters to come out of the current crop of students. A high level telekinetic, he’d give the team some much needed muscle as well as serve a variety of useful functions. He’s also a blaster, and he’s a flier.

Chamber would be the team’s secondary telepath. He can’t read minds, but he can share thoughts across distances, acting as the team’s walkie talkie if Tangerine was busy or unavailable. I’m not really sure what his Apocalypse powers are, but if they’re anything like his mutant ones, he’d be a useful blaster as well.

Blink would be the team’s primary transport. She’s also very deadly in combat, and even if she wasn’t killing, her ability to easily remove enemies from the playing field would make her extremely useful. Kinda hard to radio for backup if you’re ported to Indonesia. Being a gate-style teleporter also means that her range is much wider than, say, Nightcrawler. In fact, it’s been shown she can teleport all the way to the moon in a single jump.

Mimic permanently possesses a wide array of powers, as we all know, which makes him extremely versatile in the field. And, in a pinch, he can mimic his teammates as well. Need another teleporter? Calvin’s your man. Need innate knowledge possessed by an enemy? Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. His mutant status is arguable, but he’s close enough. And his time in Dark X-Men seems to have helped his skills as a team player, as well.

Gentle is the team’s muscle. With all Vibranium now inert, Nezhno would be in a bad place. In fact, a good first or second arc could deal with his powers and finding a way to control them. Out of all the strong people I thought of, Gentle has had very little exposure, but his ties to New X-Men and Wakanda give the team lots of storyline potential. And besides, I needed a little racial variety. Depending on whether or not you believe Hellion is half asian, Nezhno is the only non-white person on the team. Unless Clarice is really a black girl under there or something. I don’t know.


Edited by EphemeristX - 05-Oct-2010 at 6:40pm

1. KITTY PRYDE - A Long Standing X-Man
2. RACHEL SUMMERS - A Telepath
   
3. TEMPO - A Villain
   
4. ANOLE - An current X-Men Student
5. SYNCH - A New Mutant/X-Force/X-Terminators/Generation X
   
6. COLOSSUS - An International Mutant
7. MARROW - A Wildcard

When the former Morlocks who comprise X-Cell learn of Hope's existence and ability to reignite new mutants, they kidnap the girl to force her to restore their lost powers.  Efforts to locate Hope prove fruitless until the return of the Starjammers to Earth.  Rachel Summers proves to be the missing key in recovering young Hope.  Connected by the Phoenix Force, Rachel teams with Kitty Pryde, Colossus and Anole to mount a rescue attempt.  What they find is more than they bargained for.  The Dark Beast has acquired Hope through a deal made with Masque and they are using her to restore the powers of hundreds of depowered Morlocks... but there's a price in exploiting the Phoenix Force on such a broad scale and through his devices Dark Beast has the power to shut off Hope's transmissions, depowering the Morlocks at his leisure. 

When Kitty's team arrives in the Morlock Tunnels, they are surprised to be greeted by Marrow.  Realizing that her people are not truly free under the Dark Beast's influence, she offers to guide the X-Men to Hope.  But Hope is not the only pawn in McCoy's grasp.  Always one to have a contingency plan, he is also studying the recently resurrected mutant Synch to determine how Selene's spell managed to repower the dead.  Kitty and her team join with Marrow and a handful of Morlocks who are loyal to her (including Callisto) to rescue Hope and thwart the Dark Beast's plans.  In an attempt to stop them, McCoy uses the brainwashed Synch --- forcing him to duplicate Hope's powers to defeat them.  The proximity of Rachel and Hope in conjunction with Everett's synching power creates a feedback loop that affects all three.  The resulting power explosion permanently repowers all those within their immediate range, including Marrow and Callisto.  The Phoenix Force burns through Dark Beast's mind control and solidifies Synch's tentative foothold in the land of the living.  Hope is left weakened and Rachel's connection to the Phoenix Force is renewed, though it is now shared with Hope.

The Dark Beast escapes, leaving behind his research, his remaining mutant test subjects... and numerous mysteries.  His records reveal that he has been purchasing mutants through the black market to continue his research.  He has already burned out several of them testing his theories.  The sole survivor is Tempo, whose powers have been radically altered... allowing her to warp through time and space and perceive temporal realities in new ways.  She has seen the future that the Dark Beast's efforts will create if he isn't stopped... a horrific blend of Rachel's future and his own.  This ragtag group of mutants join together to track down the Dark Beast and stop him from creating a dark future for all of humanity.


Edited by Binaryan - 05-Oct-2010 at 11:03pm

Unless Clarice is really a black girl under there or something. I don’t know.

She's a descendant of Apocalypse so she has at least a little middle eastern blood.  Some of her near ancestors were British, but the others are unknown.

1. A Long Standing X-Man:  Colossus  (seems obvious, he also fits 3(reformed) and 6)
2. A Telepath:  Psylocke (not that many and she has the coolest powers)
3. A Villian (Does not have to be currently reformed):  Deathstrike  (She's worked with the Xmen before, to serve herself. True it was because she wanted the Xmen to help her mount Bastion's head on a platter, but she DID act as part of the team.)
4. An current X-Men Student:  Indra (Interesting character concept, also fits 6)
5. A New Mutant/X-Force/X-Terminators/Generation X:  Tempo(Heather quit the MLF because they were too evil for her liking, then joined the Acolytes later.  could also fit in 3)
6. A International Mutant: Gargouille (fits in 3, but she's one of the Acolytes with interesting abilities that rarely get to do much.)
7. A Wildcard(Wildcard can literally be anyone you want): Random  (Another guy who tried to do something good with his life but ended up as a supervillain at one point)

1. Shadowcat. She's smart, she's skilled, she has a history around the world, and would probably be my team leader too. Plus, after so long being out of the spotlight, I would actually like some focus on her (other than being a ghost).
   
2. Exodus. Power, class, and attitude out the wazoo. He's also lost and adrift in the world, so I think working with the X-Men would give him some focus.
   
3. Blob. Because I love the Blob.
   
4. Graymalkin. Y'know, for some reason, I liked this guy. I think there's some untapped potential there in terms of his powerset, plus, I like the fact that lack of power during the day makes him a bit of an underdog.
   
5. Skids. I've always liked that she's kinda bitter towards the super-life and would love to play with that. She's the one person who doesn't want to be there at all.
   
6. Sunfire. Love his new look.
   
7. Blizzard. Cuz I like ice characters and I don't wanna put Iceman on every "dream" time I make.

And just for fun, a Wolverine themed team (it's really the first thing that came to mind).

1. Wolverine.
   
2. Wild Child. Logan's daughter from the MC2verse with psionic claws. That's kinda telepathy.
   
3. Sabretooth. Cuz he's basically evil-Wolverine.
   
4. X-23. Little Miss Logan.
   
5. Synch with Wolverine powers. He's black. He's pissed. And he's got claws.
   
6. French Wolverine. Because I think it'd be funny. Can't speak English at all.
   
7. Armless Wolverine. Cuz I think it'd be funny to see Logan beat people down with his face.
   

1. A Long Standing X-Man
2. A Telepath
3. A Villian (Does not have to be currently reformed)
   
4. An current X-Men Student
5. A New Mutant/X-Force/X-Terminators/Generation X
   
6. A International Mutant
7. A Wildcard(Wildcard can literally be anyone you want)

1. Cannonball
2. Moonstar
3. Juggernaut
4. Prodigy
5. Sunspot
6. Sunpyre
7. Nocturne

This team was chosen because it's one very similar to something I'll be debuting in my fan fiction work soon. To counter act the almost purely classic team that will be in one book, I created a team of those different and deserving of a promotion for Sam's team.

For Sam, while he hasn't been an X-Man for a long time I'd count him in long standing because he's been one much longer than any of his New Mutant compatriots dating back to the 90's, which is a good amount of time I'd say. As he's been there for many of the big moments on the team.

Moonstar and Sunspot both have reached the time that they should be promoted for a full X-Men team, not just living out the glory days with their best pals on the same team they were on when they first started getting acne and hormones.

One of the only good things that Austen did was to make Cain on the X-Men. He needs a good buddy to pal around  with and that would come from Nocturne, who in my version is the long lost sister of Nightcrawler (so minus her hex bolts, just the possession and agility and appearance). Prodigy is chosen cause I think his power is very interesting and is very different than the typical offensive power that most X-Men mutants tend to have.

Last but not least is Sunpyre, the little sister of good old Sunfire. Leyu is a character that really never got a good shot at any use and I would love to see her taking the spot on the X-Men her brother turned down so long ago.

@das - I'd buy it.

A Long Standing X-Man - Kitty
A Telepath - Emma
A Villian (Does not have to be currently reformed) - Blink
A current X-Men Student - X-23
A New Mutant/X-Force/X-Terminators/Generation X - Boom Boom
A International Mutant - Storm
A Wildcard(Wildcard can literally be anyone you want) - Dazzler

Yeah, I chose all women - And? I just think there are a lot of great female characters in the X-Verse and hope that at least a mini-series that isn't all catty/sexploitation/lame can be made out of this team. It was a tough call for Jean or Emma, but I chose Emma b/c I like how she plays off of Kitty & Storm. Blink, Boom Boom & Dazzler if utitlized properly can be not only good characters, but also powerhouses in their respective mutant abilities. And X-23 is growing on me and she's just a kick-ass type of girl, and sometimes you just need that, w/o the witty commentary like Kitty :)

Originally posted by chrissstopher I love your Femme Fatale team, QD! But Storm isn't international, she was born in NYC.

Well, I'd guess that Ororo had to give up any US citizenship status when she become the queen of Wakanda....

Set in current continuity. Based on the idea of a squad to go out in the world and be all "Heroic Age" involved.

1. Iceman
   
2. Xavier
   
3. Toad
   
4. Surge
   
5. Husk
   
6. Sunfire
7. Black Cat

It was a tough call as I wanted Storm & Kitty - and even though Storm was born in the US, she grew up in and now rules a country in Africa. I consider a friend of mine who though she's technically American, has been entirely raised in Italy until College, to be International.

And I like Gibb's Men & Women teams. I too wanted Lady Mastermind, but figured with Emma she'd be a tad redundant & I wanted Blink as transporation.