Best X-Men Characters

Wolverine is the most iconic X-Man, the berserker with the healing factor and adamantium claws whose brooding loner persona and brutal efficiency have made him Marvel most consistently popular character for fifty years.

Storm is one of the most powerful and regal X-Men, an omega-level mutant and goddess figure whose weather-control abilities and leadership make her one of the greatest characters in Marvel history.

Cyclops is the X-Men most conflicted leader, a character who began as a boy scout and evolved through decades of stories into one of the most morally complex figures in the Marvel universe.

Magneto occupies a unique role in the X-Men universe, a villain whose traumatic past gives his extremism genuine moral weight and whose periodic defections to the side of the X-Men remain some of the most compelling moments in the franchise.