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The answer is Rogue by the way. Fierce, bold, independent, powerful, complex, deep, funny, unique, tragic, dynamic. Part of one of the most iconic ships in comics with Gambit. I also don't think anyone better personifies the gift and the curse of being a mutant. Who else? WHO ELSE?

 

[Jethalal]

I don't like X-Men. Haven't seen the movies nor read the comics. Hopefully MCU makes me love them.
Can't vote but I would have chosen Iceman. I used to see the show 'Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends' and his character was pretty dope along with firestar.

 

[Stilton Disco]

+1 for Rogue, although the entire 90's Xmen line up was far and away the teams absolute peak in every way.

 

[HoodWinked]

I remember when I was younger I liked Cyclops the most it seemed like the obvious choice he was the leader and he shot lasts out of his eyes.

Then being confused when everyone was obsessed with Wolverine. He seemed like a dick and would flake out on the team. And his powers seemed so underwhelming basically knife hands.

Now I see the entire X-Men as kind of just one character as they don't really work on thier own aside from Wolverine.

Rogue makes me sad 90s Rogue was God tier but since then they've completely regressed in her depiction.

 

[Brian Fellows]

At the time it was Psylocke and Gambit.

Now it's definitely Rogue. Though I haven't read any 90's comics in a long time. I really wish Marvel Unlimited would fill in their 90's X-Men (X-Factor, Gen X) gaps so I can do a proper read-thru.

Rogue makes me sad 90s Rogue was God tier but since then they've completely regressed in her depiction.

I loved Mike Carey's run with Rogue during the Decimation era.

 

[Stilton Disco]

Man, looking through images now, and comics really are just terrible today compared to what they used to be.

I mean look at this awesome 90's cover compared to one from last year that's meant to be 'fixing it's problems':

The old stuff is just so much cooler and more dynamic. There's a sterile corporate manufactured feel to new art that just lacks excitement or interest.

 

[Forsythia]

Yeah Rogue is the best.

 

[dagZ]

gambit ez

 

[Calcium]

Nightcrawler has always been my favorite mutant.

 

[Pagusas]

I liked jubilee :-/. She could make fireworks.

 

[Saber]

Gambit. Followed by Nightcrawler and Rouge.

Good times.

 

[J-Roderton]

Nightcrawler for sure.

 

[Red Rackham's Revenge]

Man, looking through images now, and comics really are just terrible today compared to what they used to be.

I mean look at this awesome 90's cover compared to one from last year that's meant to be 'fixing it's problems':

The old stuff is just so much cooler and more dynamic. There's a sterile corporate manufactured feel to new art that just lacks excitement or interest.

Interior art is usually much more shit too. One of the reasons I stopped buying comics. Felt like false advertising.

 

[teezzy]

Used to think Gambit was real cool as a kid.

Then I started having sex. I'll take the one with the ass

 

[INC]

Logan
Magneto
Rogue
Beast
Gambit

 

[Cravis]

I don’t keep up with the comics anymore but WTF? Is Gambit female now?

 

[Croatoan]

Psylocke - A game giving you all the different powers she has had throughout comics would be pretty damn fun. Too bad marvel would never let her headline anything that big.

Gambit is a close second.

 

[Stilton Disco]

I don’t keep up with the comics anymore but WTF? Is Gambit female now?

The Cyclops on that cover is meant to be a woman too. New characters , same powers, looks and I believe code names.

They’re just woke duplicates, who’s writers just cannot get their heads around why the copies they made aren’t more popular than the originals.

 

[kunonabi]

My favorite X-man is Storm but since this is a 90s poll I'll use this opportunity to vote for my man Bishop.

 

[Cravis]

The Cyclops and on the cover is meant to be a woman too.

They’re woke duplicates, who’s writers just cannot get their heads around why the copies they made aren’t more popular than the originals.

Yikes I shouldn’t be surprised lol.

 

[AJUMP23]

I was always a fan of beast. But Jubilee, was also a great one too. That 90s xmen cartoon was great in my memories.

 

[tkscz]

Gambit was best, closely followed by Bishop

 

[Pagusas]

Psylocke - A game giving you all the different powers she has had throughout comics would be pretty damn fun. Too bad marvel would never let her headline anything that big.

Gambit is a close second.

Why did Psylocke never get mainstream popular? On paper she's awesome, but rarely ever talked about outside of niches.

 

[Jooxed]

based poll

 

[Jooxed]

Man, looking through images now, and comics really are just terrible today compared to what they used to be.

I mean look at this awesome 90's cover compared to one from last year that's meant to be 'fixing it's problems':

The old stuff is just so much cooler and more dynamic. There's a sterile corporate manufactured feel to new art that just lacks excitement or interest.

The New run of X-Men is VERY good. Hickman has done a fantastic job. The second image is a cherry picked image of chimera mutants created by sinister cloned from original X-Men powers. For more info on the current line of X-Men

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[Croatoan]

Why did Psylocke never get mainstream popular? On paper she's awesome, but rarely ever talked about outside of niches.

They fucked up her character a million times by changing her powers. Also, she was dead for years IIRC. Betsy was kind of a joke character in the beginning as the sister of Captain Britain, then she was a weird villain, then she was put in the body of Kwannon and made a badass ninja assassin telepath with psychic knives. At her coolest Psylocke was killed off. Brough back later because the x-men needed a new jean grey (cuz grey was dead), then they expanded the number of mutants and added a ton of other telepaths making her kind of redundant. At this point Psylocke sort of waffled around to different writers and her powers changed constantly.

These days Betsy isn't psylocke anymore now that she has her old body back. Psylocke is just Kwannon now.

Psylocke actually is a very popular character but in the modern day she is too problematic. Basically a hot Asian ninja who wears bodysuits and leotards is satanic in this day and age. I have been extremely surprised that her new comics (as Kwannon) have allow her to be in the leotard.


Her look is certainly iconic.

She is an rather popular Cosplay, and while many wont know her name they will recognize the outfit (purple/blue with red sash). Olivia Munn actually did an okay job portraying Psylocke (physically) in that terrible movie, and the movie outfit was close enough for people to relate the two characters. Psylocke just exists in this weird character limbo where people are like, damn she is cool as fuck, why isn't she more important? Sorta like you did .

Laura Kinney (X23) exists in this same limbo because marvel doesn't know what to do with her. She is was originally written as a darker, more ruthless, version of wolverine, then they ruined her by trying to turn her into wolverine and taking away the lethal edge she had.


TLDR: Marvel has no idea what to do with dark female characters that aren't villians because their default treatment of female characters is to either give them "YEAH, GIRL POWER!" or make them damsels in distress.

Just look at how they butchered Emma Frost...

 

[Mossybrew]

Yeah I had an X-Men phase in the early 90s, and I'm that guy who's gonna say Cable, who is not even listed in the poll.

 

[Nobody_Important]

I was always a wolverine or a cable kid in the '90s.

 

[Forsythia]

I'm surprised people like Gambit. As a kid watching the cartoon he easily was my least favourite: dumb hair/mask/hat whatever, stupid accent and dumb power (wow, exploding playing cards). Okay, now I'm older I like him better.

 

[*Nightwing]

Psylocke - A game giving you all the different powers she has had throughout comics would be pretty damn fun. Too bad marvel would never let her headline anything that big.

Gambit is a close second.

I agree with you 100% but the 90s kid in me still can't pick anyone other than wolverine

 

[Nobody_Important]

I'm surprised people like Gambit. As a kid watching the cartoon he easily was my least favourite: dumb hair/mask/hat whatever, stupid accent and dumb power (wow, exploding playing cards). Okay, now I'm older I like him better.

I could never get behind Gambit because for every cool thing he ever did he always got his butt handed to him at least twice. It may have changed a lot since I was reading comics but he was always a bit of a jobber.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Never been a comic book fan or anything, but always thought Gambit was the coolest flinging cards. Sounds kind of dumb, but he has style.

 

[Tesseract]

wolverine or rogue, maybe x23

grew up with the wolverine comics, lasting impact

i blame my brother

 

[Tesseract]

voted rogue tho

Spoiler: ~

cast thyself into the steel

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Wolverine in the early 90s was amazing. Drawn by lee/kubert/silvestri. Written by Hamma. Great run.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Jubilee was the opposite of 90s edge.

 

[quickwhips]

Multiply man. That dude could have his own orgies. Dude was beast. He formed himself inside someone to kill them. I guess he was x factor and doesn't count.

 

[Arkam]

Never cared for the actual X-Men when reading X-Men comics (which I did A LOT). They were always so lame. It was all about the amazing villain's! Mr. Sinister and Apocalypse all day long! They were my kind of long term tacticians.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Psylocke was hot in the 90s. Shame the character itself bored the shit out of me.

 

[johntown]

From the choices available I picked Gambit. I know this guy was not an X-Men but I still like Gladiator.

 

[zaanan]

Favorite X-Men character from blah blah blah

The correct answer is always Wolverine

 

[GeorgioCostanzaX]

Psylocke was hot in the 90s. Shame the character itself bored the shit out of me.

She was always doing cool stuff and looked great on covers but they never did much with her. Jim Lee in the 90’s was the best. Rogue wins because Nightcrawler was a big part of the X-men starting in the 70’s.

 

[Shambala]

Cyclops is the only correct choice

 

[kretos]

X-men sucks expect Wolverine

 

[West Texas CEO]

based poll

Damn, I forgot about Morph!

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

I looooved Gambit as a kid.

He's such a fucking douche now. What was I thinking? A rare miss by child version of me.

Excellent poll OP.

 

[AmuroChan]

Gambit was my favorite from the 90's cartoon. Wolverine a close 2nd.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Apocalypse
Cable
Juggernaut
Cyclops

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

X-men sucks expect Wolverine

Yes

 

[I collect VHS tapes]

I’m really in utter disbelief that Wolverine isn’t winning by a larger margin. I guess the poll accounts for all the contrarians.