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#57 - The Bullpen Created by: Lopen

Colossus
Wolverine
Ant-Man
Human Torch
Cannonball
Deadpool
Gambit
Domino
Friendly Floyd

I hope Lopen doesn't take this the wrong way, but this team ranks so lowly because I have no fucking clue what this team is nor do I understand why it exists. In a lot of ways, this is one of those "characters I like groups". I have so many undefined questions for this group. Why is called The Bullpen? If it's a reference to the Marvel bullpen, some of these characters really didn't exist in that era of Marvel. If it's not, then I have little understanding of what ties this group together in the first place. It's a bunch of mid-tier strength characters. They theoretically have great chemistry thanks to the vast majority of them being mutants, but Human Torch and Ant-Man being included just makes no sense to me.

I guess on paper, others will say that this is a well-crafted team. However, I look at this group and just don't see a point to it at all. Why does this team need to exist? The short answer is: it doesn't. A team needs a reason for being, and I can't just pretend there is one here. If I put together several magicians, for example, and include one or two non-magicians, I can at least say, "This is a team that combats magical threats." Here, I have a ton of mutants, but the fact that there are non-mutants kind of makes it a non-mutant title. Even the mutants included don't really combine for anything special. Some are from 90s excess, but the majority of them are just mainline X-Men. And that's already a team. Called the X-Men. So, I guess, when there's really nothing to say in regards to a team's purpose, it results in the team getting ditched pretty early on.

Membership Drive: I'm not even going to bother on this one because I have no idea what this team is supposed to be. At least some of the lower teams have purposes; this one just seems... there.
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