IGN has made a 11:25 minutes long video covering every X-Man ever!
The 1980s starts at 2:45 and starts with Kitty Pryde AND Lockheed! So awesome! Those two go from 2:45 to 3:00, it moves pretty fast.
They are going in order, so they respect issue numbers more than they do retcons like Deadly Genesis – which I prefer. Who show up at 7:10
Magik is there at 8:30 for 2009 (July via New Mutants being a splintered team).
ForgetMeNot made the list at 10:21! So incredible!
Before him, M is the last X-Man to join as of January 2014 in X-MEN V3 7, as ForgetMeNot is a retcon himself. Pretty impressive amount of characters from five in September 1963 to today. Then from 1963 to January 2013, the Original Five joined again in All New X-Men!
The video is narrated by Fran Mirabella III and I like how they have a string of the characters running during the credits.
Excalibur is mentioned at the 4:40 mark.
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Edit on February 6, 2015 –
IGN has this article where they do a fun article on every X-Man Ever!
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01/16/every-x-man-ever
Kitty is the 18th X-Man, if you don’t count Xavier (which I don’t) and if you do count Phoenix posing as Jean Grey (which I do)
Lockheed is 19th and Rogue is 20. I can live with that.
Shadowcat
- Real Name: Kitty Pryde
- Major Powers: Intangibility/Phasing
- Joined: X-Men #138 (October, 1980)
Lockheed
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Real Name: N/A
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Major Powers: Flight, Fire Breath, Empathy
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Joined: Circa Uncanny X-Men #168 (April, 1983)
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X-Plained: The loyal dragon companion to Kitty Pryde.
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Not sure how long this link will be active but they also have it, like FlickChart, where you get to choose between two X-Men. I’ve been voting for 30 minutes and still haven’t come across Shadowcat nor Magik.
http://www.ign.com/face-off/x-men
I wish it kept track of what I personally voted for, like FlickChart, as I would like to see the numbers on that.
I got Lockheed, so that’s awesome he is in the mix! He went up against Psylocke. 45% of people agreed with me.
Magik went up against Doctor Nemsis, another easy call. 63% agreed with me.
How much longer until Kitty shows up?
X-Man v Magik – 51% agreed with me
Hey, even Amanda Sefton made the list! Rachel appears quite often and I haven’t voted for Kurt yet. Amanda went up against Aurora of Alpha Flight (and Dark X-Men fame). 46% agreed with me
A tough one (but not really) Emma v Magik – 50%, that sounds about right
Colossus comes up a lot too and it seems like people agree with me and are not voting for him. Who could?
Wolverine v Magik – 43% agreed with me. So silly
Nightcrawler v Colossus – 50%, that isn’t that hard. I wonder how many people are even voting.
Fantomex v Rachel, 50%
Lockheed v Hepzibah – 55% agreed with me
Kurt v Cable, 50%
Magik v Mystique – 50%
Xavier v Magik – 50%
Cannonball v Magik – 50%
Havok v Lockheed – 45% agreed
I got a repeat Kurt v Cable and I’m pretty sure I voted Emma over Magneto twice now
I never vote for Iceman or Colossus
Xavier v Kurt, 50%
Kurt v Emma, that is a tough one! 50%
Colossus v Juggernaut, that’s pretty fun! 50%
Phoenix Force is an option too. Went up against Dust, with 62%. I do like that Wolverine Skrull Imposter is an option too.
Slipstream v Rachel, 63%
ForgetMeNot is an option! v Hepzibah, 45%
Emma v Colossus and then I got the match up again right afterwards
Lockheed v Slipstream, 58%
Wolverine v Magik, 43%
Magneto v Kurt, 48%
Amanda Sefton v Hepzibah, 52%
Xavier v Kurt for a third time
Psylocke v Magik, 50%
Kurt v X23, 50%
Warpath v Rachel, 50%
Amanda Sefton v Storm (who I haven’t really been voting for), 42%
Phoenix Force v Rachel, now that is awesome! 50%
Kurt v All New Cyclops, 50%
Amanda Sefton v Juggernaut, 42%
Sage v ForgetMeNot, 45%
Emma v All New Cyclops, another fun one! 50%
Rachel v Pixie, 53%
Lockheed v Sunprye, 55%
Wolverine v X23, 58%
Kurt v Psylocke, 50%
Wolverine v Kurt, oh no they are best friends! 43%
All New Jean v Kurt, 54%
Finally, it happened – Beast v Shadowcat! 66%
I was tempted, at first, to go until they faced Shadowcat v Magik but I don’t think they will be adding Kitty to mix that often after it taking an hour to get Kitty’s first appearance.
I kept going and had to choose Magik v ForgetMeNot, she is winning by 65%
I later got Magik v Cyclops, 49%
Polaris v Shadowcat, 51% then it happened
MAGIK v SHADOWCAT –
I had to throw my hands up. What have I done!?!
51%, so pretty much a tie
Rogue v Shadowcat, 50% – I’m getting more and more disappointed that it isn’t tracking it so I stopped. Or at least, I stopped taking it as anything more than a dumb activity to do while waiting for other things to happen.
Xavier v Pryde, 50% – I thought once I got her, she would become more popular in the line-up.
Ariel (the teleporter) v Lockheed, 61%
Vulcan v Amanda Sefton, 46% – did people just vote ‘not the woman’?
ForgetMeNot v Sway, 48% – did they vote not the dude?
Magneto v Shadowcat, 48% OH COME ON!!!
Xavier v Mystique is pretty fun, 50%
Wolverine v Shadowcat, 43%, so silly!
Magik v Banshee, 50%
Kurt v Kitty, 50% so that’s understandable – but only partially
Doop v Iceman, that’s funny too, 38%
Emma v Firestar is another fun match up, there isn’t enough of those. 50%
Psylocke v Shadowcat, 50%
Here we go. I got Iceman v Firestar, then Mystique v Rogue.
X-Man v Lockheed, 45%
Longshot v ForgetMeNot, 36%
Xorn v ForgetMeNot, 42%
Domino v Magik, 50%
Dazzler v Longshot is fun. 48%
Xorn v ForgetMeNot, 39% – the heck!?! I wonder if IGN finally got some traction with the website and people are voting, to explain the drop of three percent.
Shadowcat v Cyclops, didn’t give the percentage but I can only imagine Kitty trumps Scotty
Beak v Amanda Sefton, 62%
Magik v Cable, 50%
ForgetMeNot v Rachel, that is a tough one. I do own more of his appearances than hers (percentage wise) so I went with him, plus I haven’t read a comic where Rachel was in a while. 35%
Shadow and Flame with Magik 