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

• Real Name: N/A

• Major Powers: Flight, Fire Breath, Empathy

• Joined: Circa Uncanny X-Men #168 (April, 1983)

• 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%