List of X-Men members explained
The X-Men are a team of mutant superheroes, published in American comic books by Marvel Comics. Over the decades, the X-Men have featured a rotating line up composed of many characters.
Notation:
- A slash (/) between names, indicates codenames in chronological order.
- Characters listed are set in the Earth-616 continuity except when noted.
Members
Original members
Character! style="width:20%;" Name | Joined in |
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Professor X | Charles Francis Xavier | The X-Men #1 (September 1963)[1] [2] |
Cyclops | Scott Summers | The X-Men #43 (April 1968, flashback story)[3] |
Iceman | Robert "Bobby" Louis Drake | The X-Men #46 (July 1968, flashback story)[4] |
Beast | Henry "Hank" Philip McCoy | The X-Men #53 (February 1969, flashback story)[5] |
Angel / Archangel | Warren Kenneth Worthington III | The X-Men #56 (May 1969, flashback story)[6] |
Marvel Girl / Phoenix | Jean Elaine Grey | The X-Men #1 (September 1963) | |
Recruits
1960s
Character! style="width:20%;" Name | Joined in |
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Mimic | Calvin Montgomery Rankin | The X-Men #27 (December 1966) |
Changeling | Kevin Sydney | The X-Men #40 (January 1968, as Professor X) |
Polaris | Lorna Sally Dane | The X-Men #60 (September 1969) | |
1970s
1980s
Character! style="width:20%;" Name | Joined in |
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Sprite / Ariel / Shadowcat / Shadowkat | Katherine "Kitty" Anne Pryde | X-Men #138 (October 1980) |
Lockheed | Uncanny X-Men #168 (April 1983) |
Rogue | Anna Marie LeBeau | Uncanny X-Men #171 (July 1983) |
Phoenix / Marvel Girl / Prestige | Rachel "Ray" Anne Summers[11] | Uncanny X-Men #193 (May 1985) |
Magneto | Max Eisenhardt / Erik Magnus Lehnsherr[12] | Uncanny X-Men #200 (December 1985) |
Longshot | Uncanny X-Men Annual #10 (January 1987)[13] |
Psylocke | Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock | Uncanny X-Men #213 (January 1987) |
Dazzler | Alison Blaire | Uncanny X-Men #214 (February 1987) |
Forge | Uncanny X-Men #255 (December 1989)[14] | |
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Other status
Character! style="width:20%;"Name | Joined in | Notes |
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Phoenix Force | X-Men #101 (October 1976) | A cosmic entity that joined the X-Men by impersonating Jean Grey. |
Dark Beast | Henry Philip McCoy | X-Men Unlimited #10 (March 1996)[76] | Infiltrated the X-Men by replacing Beast of Earth-616. |
Unidentified skrull | Uncanny X-Men #370 (July 1999)[77] | Infiltrated the X-Men by posing as Wolverine. |
ForgetMeNot | Xabi Gorostiaga | Sometime prior to #300 (March 2014) | Kept being forgotten by the X-Men due to his mutant ability. |
Lucid | Maya Jackson | Extraordinary X-Men #17 (December 2016)[78] [79] | A dying mutant made an honorary member of the X-Men. | |
Substitute X-Men teams
Eleven substitute teams that have either temporarily taken the place of the X-Men during their absence, or worked under the X-Men.
New Mutants graduate X-Men
In January 1987, the New Mutants briefly graduated to become the X-Men in Uncanny X-Men Annual #10.[13] [80]
Muir Island X-Men
In December 1989, during the wake of the X-Men's supposed "death" during "The Fall of the Mutants", Banshee assembled an X-Men team on Muir Island in Uncanny X-Men #254.[1]
Character! style="width:20%;"Name | Joined in |
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Multiple Man | James "Jamie" Arthur Madrox | Uncanny X-Men Annual #15 (June 1991)[81] |
Siryn | Theresa Rourke Cassidy | |
Phalanx invasion X-Men
In September 1993, to oppose the threat of the techno-organic alien Phalanx, an X-Men team quickly banded together in Uncanny X-Men #316.[82]
Character! style="width:20%;"Name |
Banshee | Sean Cassidy |
Jubilee | Jubilation Lee |
Sabretooth | Victor Creed |
White Queen | Emma Grace Frost | |
Mannite rescue X-Men
In September 1999, after Professor X disbanded the X-Men in an attempt to expose a Skrull impostor in their ranks, Cyclops and Jean Grey formed an X-Men team to help the Mannites in Astonishing X-Men, vol. 2 #1.[83]
Character! style="width:20%;"Name |
Cyclops | Scott Summers |
Phoenix | Jean Elaine Grey |
Archangel | Warren Kenneth Worthington III |
Cable | Nathan Christopher Summers |
X-Man | Nathaniel "Nate" Grey |
Unidentified Skrull | |
Genoshan assault X-Men
In March 2001, Jean Grey assembled an X-Men team to rescue Professor X from Magneto in Uncanny X-Men #392.[1] [84]
Character! style="width:20%;"Name |
Phoenix | Jean Elaine Grey |
Dazzler | Alison Blaire |
Northstar | Jean-Paul Beaubier |
Omertà | Paul Provenzano |
Wraith | Hector Rendoza |
Sunpyre | Leyu Yoshida |
Frenzy | Joanna Cargill | |
Street team X-Men
In November and December 2003, an X-Men team was formed by Cyclops in the wake of Xorn's rampage through Manhattan, New York in New X-Men #149 and #150.[1] [85]
Character! style="width:20%;"Name |
Cyclops | Scott Summers |
Fantomex | Charlie-Cluster 7 |
E.V.A. |
Beak | Barnell Bohusk |
Dust | Sooraya Qadir |
Stepford Cuckoos | Celeste Cuckoo |
Irma "Mindee" Cuckoo |
Phoebe Cuckoo |
Longneck | William Hanover |
Forearm | Marcus Tucker |
Choir | Irina Clayton | |
X-Men in training
Individuals that were once trained by the X-Men as part of younger teams of the X-Men or individually.
X-Force
In December 2007, the X-Men's strike team was formed by Cyclops in Uncanny X-Men #493, with Wolverine serving as the field leader. The team took on missions which required responses "too violent or controversial" for the X-Men to deal with directly. When Cyclops disbanded the team, Wolverine assembled a new independent team.[109] [110]
Character! style="width:20%;"Name | Joined in |
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Archangel | Warren Kenneth Worthington III | X-Force, vol. 3 #2 (March 2008)[111] |
Elixir | Joshua "Josh" Foley | X-Force, vol. 3 #4 (May 2008)[112] |
Domino | Neena Thurman | X-Force, vol. 3 #8 (October 2008)[113] |
Vanisher | Telford Porter | X-Force, vol. 3 #9 (November 2008)[114] | |
X-Club
In November 2008, Beast gathered a science team in Uncanny X-Men #504, to attempt to deal with the mutant birth crisis, and reverse the effects of M-Day. The team lasted until 2012.[115] [38]
Character! style="width:20%;"Name |
Beast | Henry "Hank" Philip McCoy |
Angel | Warren Kenneth Worthington III |
Doctor Nemesis | James Bradley | |
Time-displaced X-Men
In November 2012, a team was formed when the original members of X-Men were displaced in the time in All-New X-Men #1.[119] The team headlined both All-New X-Men from 2012 to 2017 and X-Men Blue from 2017 to 2018.[1] [120]
Character! style="width:20%;"Name |
Cyclops | Scott Summers |
Iceman | Robert "Bobby" Louis Drake |
Beast | Henry "Hank" Philip McCoy |
Marvel Girl / Phoenix | Jean Elaine Grey |
Angel / Archangel | Warren Kenneth Worthington III | |
London X-Men
In July 2017, an X-Men team was formed to help Charles Xavier against the Shadow King in Astonishing X-Men, vol. 4 #1.[135]
Character! style="width:20%;"Name |
X | Charles Francis Xavier |
Archangel | Warren Kenneth Worthington III |
Psylocke | Elizabeth "Betsy" Braddock |
Bishop | Lucas Bishop |
Old Man Logan | James "Logan" Howlett |
Fantomex | Charlie-Cluster 7 |
Rogue | Anna Marie LeBeau |
Gambit | Remy Etienne LeBeau |
Mystique | Raven Darkhölme | |
See also
Notes and References
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