Who is the 9th most iconic X-Men character?

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Johnbobb
01/14/2024
10:15 PM
#1
Disclaimer: Included Deadpool in the 8 since he's one of the most iconic characters in the franchise currently, even though idk if people still associate him with the X-Men really
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Johnbobb
01/14/2024
10:16 PM
#2
I determined the top 8 by removing the options I thought would obviously off-balance the poll until I didn't think any left would
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Leonhart4
01/14/2024
10:17 PM
#3
Feels like Gambit will dominate this poll because of the 90s cartoon
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Snake5555555555
01/14/2024
10:18 PM
#4
Scarlet Witch gets an MCU boost but like Deadpool I doubt mainstream associates her with X-Men too much anymore.

I'm personally going Gambit. Rogue's close though.
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Snake5555555555
01/14/2024
10:20 PM
#5
Is the top 8:
  1. Deadpool
  2. Wolverine
  3. Cyclops
  4. Storm
  5. Beast
  6. Jean Grey
  7. Professor X
  8. Magneto
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Johnbobb
01/14/2024
10:21 PM
#6
Leonhart4 posted...
Feels like Gambit will dominate this poll because of the 90s cartoon
I think he'll do well but not dominate, but I could be wrong

Snake5555555555 posted...
Scarlet Witch gets an MCU boost but like Deadpool I doubt mainstream associates her with X-Men too much anymore.
Yeah, without the modern MCU boost I wouldn't have included her in the poll at all and would've put in Kitty Pryde or something. But unlike Deadpool I feel like modern movies aren't enough to skyrocket her to the top so I figure she's fair game
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Johnbobb
01/14/2024
10:22 PM
#7
Snake5555555555 posted...
Is the top 8:
1. Deadpool
2. Wolverine
3. Cyclops
4. Storm
5. Beast
6. Jean Grey
7. Professor X
8. Magneto
Yes, although the order I had in my head was

  1. Wolverine
  2. Professor X
  3. Magneto
  4. Deadpool? He's hard to rank with the others
  5. Cyclops
  6. Jean Grey
  7. Storm
  8. Beast
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KateMarsh
01/14/2024
10:23 PM
#8
Probably Juggernaut for meme reasons
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Xeybozn
01/14/2024
10:25 PM
#9
Johnbobb posted...
I determined the top 8 by removing the options I thought would obviously off-balance the poll until I didn't think any left would

Wouldn't it have been easier to just do a second most iconic character poll using that list minus Wolverine?
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Snake5555555555
01/14/2024
10:26 PM
#10
Johnbobb posted...
Wolverine
Professor X
Magneto
Deadpool? He's hard to rank with the others
Cyclops
Jean Grey
Storm
Beast

Deadpool is very hard to rank with the others, I think I'd personally put him third at least though he has potential to be second.
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Yesmar_
01/14/2024
10:50 PM
#11
Voted Mystique because of the look. She's pretty identifiable to anyone with limited knowledge of the source material (e.g. Me)
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MacArrowny
01/14/2024
10:58 PM
#12
Xeybozn posted...
Wouldn't it have been easier to just do a second most iconic character poll using that list minus Wolverine?
Yeah that would've been pretty competitive I think? Though I would've voted Professor X even as first most iconic...
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YoBlazer
01/14/2024
11:23 PM
#13
It's really tough between Rogue and Gambit. I'm biased toward the latter since he was my favorite in the 90s and likely has the more recognizable look, but I feel like Rogue has "held up" better. I see her mentioned all the time online as a crush back in the day. Everyone had googly eyes for Rogue.

For what it's worth, I think Gambit and Rogue both rival Beast (and maybe even Jean) in overall popularity/iconic status.
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MoogleKupo141
01/14/2024
11:33 PM
#14
My gut says Mystique, as basically the second most relevant Brotherhood character and someone with a lot of presence in the movies

then maybe Iceman, followed closely by Nightcrawler/Colossus

I love Gambit, but he was very prominent for a specific period of time and otherwise just isnt as relevant as the others here.
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lordjers
01/15/2024
12:00 AM
#15
Rogue outranks Beast and she's like Storm level. Deadpool ain't regular X-Men.
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Johnbobb
01/15/2024
12:16 AM
#16
my efforts to avoid a one-sided poll were in vain lol
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YoBlazer
01/15/2024
12:34 AM
#17
Yeah, I'm not surprised the X-Men people remember most (and most fondly) is the 90s show. I remember catching shade when I asked about the possibility of Gambit in MvC3, with the hardcore comic fans calling him "90s trash."

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Lopen
01/15/2024
01:21 AM
#18
In my head I thought 90s cartoon core 9 and ordered them

Had

Wolverine
Professor X
Cyclops
Storm
Jean Grey
Gambit
Rogue
Beast
Jubilee

Then I read phrasing in topic question and you include all so obviously Magneto and Deadpool slot in there around Cyclops/Storm level. So it's either Gambit or Rogue I think. I went with Gambit to give wiggle room that Mystique or Juggernaut or like Iceman slot in there too.

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KamikazePotato
01/15/2024
01:36 AM
#19
idk how more people aren't voting for Scarlet Witch unless they're completely separating her from the MCU
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Lopen
01/15/2024
01:43 AM
#20
Either Scarlet Witch is too loosely X-Men to count as an X-Men character or she's top 8 imo
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Grimlyn
01/15/2024
02:52 AM
#21
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Wolverine
Xavier
Magneto
Cyclops
Jean Grey
Mystique
Rogue
Beast
... Nightcrawler or Gambit hmmmm

was thinking Colossus after

but then I remembered Storm who would bump 9th out anyways so

I wasn't really considering Deadpool because my mind keeps him separate but I mean we're not actually talking "x-men" anyways so oh yeah he'd be in too damn. he should be easy #4 so then that makes Beast my answer
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Leonhart4
01/15/2024
06:12 AM
#22
Johnbobb posted...
my efforts to avoid a one-sided poll were in vain lol

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ZenOfThunder
01/15/2024
06:15 AM
#23
lots of 90s babies in here voting for Gambit despite him not being relevant since 2009, longer if you don't count X-Men Origins Wolverine

I guess that cartoon is definitively the X-Men for most ppl tho
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Leonhart4
01/15/2024
06:33 AM
#24
ZenOfThunder posted...
lots of 90s babies in here voting for Gambit despite him not being relevant since 2009, longer if you don't count X-Men Origins Wolverine

I guess that cartoon is definitively the X-Men for most ppl tho

Which is why they're bringing it back!
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swordz9
01/15/2024
06:37 AM
#25
Gotta be Morph obviously
KamikazePotato
01/15/2024
06:40 AM
#26
ZenOfThunder posted...
lots of 90s babies in here voting for Gambit despite him not being relevant since 2009, longer if you don't count X-Men Origins Wolverine

I guess that cartoon is definitively the X-Men for most ppl tho
Who is it if not Gambit? Assuming that we're not counting the MCU when looking at Scarlet Witch, because, that puts in her like Top 4 X-Men overall
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ctesjbuvf
01/15/2024
07:20 AM
#27
Johnbobb posted...
Yes, although the order I had in my head was

1. Wolverine
2. Professor X
3. Magneto
4. Deadpool? He's hard to rank with the others
5. Cyclops
6. Jean Grey
7. Storm
8. Beast

I agree with the top 7, but I'm not sure Beast is clearly above Colossus/Nightcrawler/Rogue/Iceman (Gambit is honestly not as high anymore).

Scarlet Witch is hard to compare post 2015 but if she's up there it's certainly not under that name.
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AdmittedFelon
01/15/2024
07:24 AM
#28
Mystique has been one of the main characters in every movie from the past 2 decades
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ZenOfThunder
01/15/2024
07:37 AM
#29
KamikazePotato posted...
Who is it if not Gambit? Assuming that we're not counting the MCU when looking at Scarlet Witch, because, that puts in her like Top 4 X-Men overall

IMO Nightcrawler, people care about him the most and he's gotten a lot of play in various media, more so than Gambit has since the 90s cartoon

Marvel also keeps trying to make him "work" and keep him relevant in the comics, again more so than Gambit

however that doesn't matter much because all people think of is the 90s cartoon anyway

EDIT: I also think we are all thinking in terms of mainly people in our generation; a lot of older fans cared a lot about Nightcrawler by the time the 90s cartoon came out and "redefined" X-Men
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Johnbobb
01/15/2024
09:57 AM
#30
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Johnbobb
01/15/2024
09:59 AM
#31
Also crazy that of the original 5 X-Men, Iceman can barely compete here and Angel didn't even seem relevant enough for the top 17
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Omniscientless
01/15/2024
10:34 AM
#32
I know basically nothing about superheroes except the most superficial stuff. I had no idea who Gambit was until I googled him and saw a shot from the cartoon. Scarlet Witch would be the obvious choice, but I had no idea she was ever related to the X-Men. Ended up voting Nightcrawler since the design is very easily recognizable and memorable to me, but I guess I could've voted for Mystique for the same reason - although the only reason I know of her is from when J-Law played her and that was kind of a big deal ten years ago.
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Johnbobb
01/15/2024
10:48 AM
#33
Omniscientless posted...
Scarlet Witch would be the obvious choice, but I had no idea she was ever related to the X-Men.
Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver are very weird. Sometimes they're Mutants, sometimes they aren't, sometimes they're Magneto's children, sometimes they aren't (I'm not even positive where it lands in the current comic canon)

I believe they were the only characters that both Fox and Disney held the rights to for a while there because of the weird inconsistency
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Leonhart4
01/15/2024
10:50 AM
#34
The Scarlet Witch thing is weird because the MCU couldn't even call her that until recently so a lot of MCU fans may not even recognize that name
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Lopen
01/15/2024
10:55 AM
#35
90s is when X-Men was by far the most relevant to the population at large. The cartoon, video games, they were everywhere.

This would be like people arguing The Rock or Steve Austin should be discarded for CM Punk or The Miz from the wrestling one.

Frankly I would argue Gambit is being fairly knocked down a peg to be considered for 9th. He's easily top 8 if just considering 90s.
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Lopen
01/15/2024
11:06 AM
#36
As for Scarlet Witch you have 3 possibilities

1. Despite being an X-Men character, people do not associate her with X-Men (she has had zero appearances in non-comic X-Men media so this is fair. Though in comics I believe she debuted as part of the brotherhood of evil mutants and "no more mutants" is probably her iconic comic moment)

2. She is easily top 8 from MCU fame

3. She would be top 8 from MCU fame but that's "Wanda" who is Scarlet Witch

Personally I think it's the first option but she is never number 9 in any case.
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Lopen
01/15/2024
11:07 AM
#37
Deadpool you have kind of a similar thing but he leans into X-Men enough that I think it's just scenario 2 for him and replacing MCU with Deadpool movies and just general pop culture meme fandom.
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swordz9
01/15/2024
11:09 AM
#38
Beast is a weird one for me. I know hes iconic because one of the originals plus the animated series, but I heard Beast becomes a colossal piece of shit that nobody including readers even seems to like. Wouldnt really hurt his iconic factor in that regard, but hes probably by far the most hated of the X-Men if I had to guess?
Leonhart4
01/15/2024
11:12 AM
#39
Lopen posted...
Deadpool you have kind of a similar thing but he leans into X-Men enough that I think it's just scenario 2 for him and replacing MCU with Deadpool movies and just general pop culture meme fandom.

Yeah, Deadpool at least has appeared with other X-Men in the movies, so I think he counts for the purposes of this poll.
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Chaeix
01/15/2024
11:57 AM
#40
as someone who is gay and doesnt give a shit about x men, mystique
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AxemRedRanger
01/15/2024
12:53 PM
#41
Lopen posted...
(she has had zero appearances in non-comic X-Men media so this is fair.
nah, she was in x-men: evolution
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mnk
01/15/2024
01:59 PM
#42
Looking up Scarlet Witch's comics appearances, despite debuting in X-Men, the vast majority of her appearances have nothing to do with the X-Men (and she only made a handful of appearances before she quit the Brotherhood and went off to become an Avenger). Of her 60 years of existence, it looks like there was really only one decade around the '00s-'10s that she had strong ties to the X-books (which ends around when she made her MCU debut).

I don't remember if she had anything to do with the X-Men cartoons.
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AbsolutelyNoOne
01/15/2024
02:01 PM
#43
I think if you mean just as a character, at all, Scarlet Witch wins because she gets carried hard by the MCU, but obviously I don't think most people who recognize her now recognize her as an X-Men character

Mystique, Nightcrawler, Colossus and (not on the poll) Quicksilver also seem like good picks because there were pretty prominent in movies and are otherwise very memorable

I love Gambit but I think him not really being in much notable media since the 90's really hurts him. I actually do remember the arguments from the MvC3 board where people wanting Gambit and Venom in MvC3 would get in huge arguments with people over them being "stuck in the 90's".
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LiquidOshawott
01/15/2024
02:13 PM
#44
Crawler has Arcade game, Gambit has 90s cartoon, Rogue has 2000s cartoon and Movie

also could see any of them pass Beast
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Lopen
01/15/2024
02:18 PM
#45
AbsolutelyNoOne posted...
people wanting Gambit and Venom in MvC3 would get in huge arguments with people over them being "stuck in the 90's".

And now since Venom has had two movies and is instantly more relevant again.
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swordz9
01/15/2024
02:25 PM
#46
Rogue too iconic for 9th anyways. Her 97 booty alone is arguably more iconic than some of the actual X-Men even tbh
Leonhart4
01/15/2024
02:26 PM
#47
Venom is and has been the most iconic Spider-Man villain since the 90s
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Xuxon
01/15/2024
02:30 PM
#48
As someone basically completely disconnected from this franchise, I thought of the characters in this order:
Wolverine
Nightcrawler
Cyclops
Magneto
Rogue
Storm
X

And that was all I could come up with.

After clicking on the topic, I recognized most of the names mentioned but not Beast, Colossus, Iceman or Scarlet Witch. Voted for Rogue.
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LiquidOshawott
01/15/2024
03:05 PM
#49
Leonhart4 posted...
Venom is and has been the most iconic Spider-Man villain since the 90s

I think you can still argue Oct or Goblin because of the idea that Venom is more of a antihero than a villain and those two have more movie relevance

actually number 4 for this could be fun
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Leonhart4
01/15/2024
03:41 PM
#50
Yeah, I think it's debatable because those are the clear top 3, in my opinion.

4th would be...Mysterio, maybe?
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