| legeros.com > Movie Hell > 2000 > Comments |
So just how many X-Men are there, anyway? The following list of
past and present members was cribbed from David Sanders' X-cellent
X-character site, http://www.columbia.edu/~djs58/comics/main.html,
because I couldn't find a "flat file" containing the same informa-
tion to save my life. Note that I also included "New Mutant" mem-
bers. They kinda, sorta, mostly qualify as Professor X's student
body. Some of these spandex-ers also appear as supporting charac-
ters in the movie, such as Shadowcat, Jubilee, and a young Iceman.
Others are sure to appear in the sequel.
Free free to response with corrections. I'm sure there are errors
and omissions a-plenty...
o Angel - Warren Kenneth Worthington III - Has large feath-
ered wings on back. Can fly. Later turned blue and given
mechanical wings
o Banshee - Sean Cassidy - Screams loud enough to fly, smash
stuff, perform sonar pinging, etc.
o Beast - Dr. Henry McCoy - Has oversized hands and feet.
Super-agile and very strong. Later grew blue fur
o Bishop - Can absorb, store, and re-emit any form of ener-
gy, usually from hands
o Cable - Nathan Christopher Charles Summers - Telekinetic
telepath. Also has latent time-travel abilities. Son of
Scott Summers and Jean Grey clone
o Cannonball - Samuel Guthrie - Can generate a thermal/kine-
tic field that both renders him invulnerable and allows
him to fly
o Cecilia - Dr. Cecilia Reyes Affiliation - Generates force
field six inches from body when struck
o Changeling - Sidney Jones - Shape-shifter. Deceased
o Colossus - Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin - Can transform
body into solid steel, increasingly strength and causing
near-invulnerability
o Copycat - Vanessa Carlysle - Can change shapes and dupli-
cate personalities very, very well
o Cyclops - Scott Summers - Has eyes that fire energy beams,
requiring special glasses to control them
o Cypher - Doug Ramsey - Innately understands all languages,
human, computer, or alien. Deceased
o Dazzler - Alison Blair - Can transform sound into light.
Former disco singer
o Feral - Maria Callasantos - Has fangs, claws, and a tail.
Also possesses above-average speed and excellent senses of
smell and hearing
o Forge - Can invent anything he can imagine. Also posses-
ses learned magical powers
o Gambit - Remy LeBeau - Can charge objects with kinetic en-
ergy, causing them to explode
o Gateway - Can open portals through space and time. Also
has selected psionic powers, like levitation and telepathy
o Havok - Alex Summers - Absorbs ambient stellar energy,
used to emit plasma blasts. Brother of Cyclops
o Iceman - Robert Drake - Can generate, shape, and even
cover his entire body in ice
o Joesph - Can control all forms of magnetism. On the Mag-
neto scale, he's more powerful. Deceased
o Jubilee - Jubilation Lee - Can generate plasma "pafs" that
explode on command
o Karma - Xi'an (Shan) Coy Manh - Can take possession of
other people's minds and, thus, their bodies
o Longshot - Has "luck power" that keeps him lucky. Can al-
so "read" the history of an inanimate object. Also has
hollow bones
o Magik - Illyana Nikolaevna Rasputin - Can teleport through
time and space. Also trained in black magic. Deceased
o Magma - Allison Crestmere - Can control magma and lava
o Magneto - Erik Magnus Lehnsherr - Can control all forms of
magnetism. One of the world's most powerful mutants and
occasional good guy
o Marrow - Has fast-growing bones that push through skin and
can be used as weapons
o Meltdown - Tabitha Smith - Can generate plasma spheres
that explode on command
o Mimic - Calvin Rankin - Can duplicate the powers of any
nearby mutant
o Moonstar - Danielle Moonstar - Can generate image of some-
one's greatest fear or desire. Later learned to generate
*physical* manifestations
o Nightcrawler - Kurt Wagner - Can teleport by line of
sight. Also has blue fur, yellow eyes, fangs, and pre-
hensile tail. Also has three fingers and toes on each ap-
pendage and can stick to walls. Also skilled acrobat and
swordsman
o Phoenix - Jean Grey Summers - Powerful telekinetic tele-
path
o Phoenix II - Rachel Summers - Telekinetic telepath. Can
also project astral self through time. Daughter of Scott
Summers and Jean Grey, from an alternate future
o Polaris - Lorna Dane - Can control all forms of magnetism.
On the Magneto scale, she's less powerful
o Professor X - Professor Charles Francis Xavier - Another
powerful telepath
o Psylocke - Elisabeth Braddock - Telepath
o Revanche - Kwannon - Low-level empath. Deceased
o Rictor - Julio Esteban Richter - Can generate seismic
waves from his hands
o Rogue - Absorbs memories, abilities, and physical charac-
teristics of anyone she touches
o Rusty - Russell Collins - Can fire flames from his hands.
Deceased
o Shadowcat - Katherine (Kitty) Pryde - Can pass her mole-
cules through other molecules, to walk through walls and
even "on air." Also trained ninja
o Shatterstar - Enhanced senses and physical abilities. Al-
so has hollow bones
o Skids - Sally Blevins - Projects nearly impenetrable force
field
o Storm - Ororo Munroe - Can generate or disperse all forms
of weather. Also skilled thief and lockpick
o Sunfire - Shiro Yoshida Affiliation - Absorbs solar ener-
gy, used to fly and create plasma blasts
o Sunspot - Roberto DaCosta - Absorbs solar energy, increas-
ing strength and invulnerability
o Thunderbird - John Proudstar - Exceptionally strong and
fast. Deceased brother of Warpath
o Warlock - Techno-organic alien with ability to change size
and shape, including appearing human. Can also fire ener-
gy bolts. Deceased
o Warpath - James Proudstar - Exceptionally strong and fast.
Brother of Thunderbird
o Wolfsbane - Rahne Sinclair - Can transform into a wolf or
anywhere in-between
o Wolverine - Logan - Has healing factor that takes care of
wounds, diseases, and aging. Also has retractable claws
in forearms
Copyright 2000 by Michael J. Legeros
Movie Hell is a trademark of Michael J. Legeros