Top 10 Coolest X-Men Characters No One Knows About
Top 10 Lesser Known X-Men
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Everyone knows Wolverine, Rogue and all the best X-Men, but who is Legion? Nate Grey? Fantomex? These character may not be as well known as the other X-Men, but they are just as awesome in the comic books. For this list we looked at the best of the obscure X-Men in the comic book pages and ranked them. Join WatchMojo as we count down our picks for the coolest unknown Marvel mutants.
00:36 #10. Forge
01:25 #9. Fantomex
02:08 #8. Nate Grey
02:58 #7. Danielle Moonstar
03:47 #6. Dazzler
04:29 #5. Magik
05:19 #4. Sunfire
06:15 #3, #2 & #1: ????
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See some of these X-men in action for yourself!
The Uncanny X-Men #184 : The Past of Future Days (Marvel Comics) https://goo.gl/59ocX4
Secret Invasion: X-Men #3 (of 4) https://goo.gl/BEPQ9a
X-Men #40 (Legion Quest 2) Vol. 1 January 1995 https://goo.gl/2FAPzk
Well with his own TV show Legion probably is pretty well known now.
Cannonball is the furthest thing from humble on this list, he's the one with the hero complex, and wants everyone to view him thusly.
I thought Magik was the one everybody knew about.
1. I knew all the X-men on this list.
2. I saw this video
3. I laughed
Actual Order: 2-1-3
… the clip of Nate Grey was from Days of Future Past, not First Class like was credited
"my name is legion for we are many." blackheart say's
from ghost raider movie..
EVERYONE knows Dazzler. My mom who cares not for X-Men, or any comics knows her.
DAZZLER! <3
sunfire's stint with the team was so brief there are much better and more deserving choices
It's Dissosiative Identity Disorder or Multiple Personality Disorder. Not Dissosiative Personality Disorder, this case would be DID
hmmm all these are known lol if you really abt Uncanny Xmen you know them lol
Karma is probably the lowest publicly known character on this list.
also, "Legion takes his name from the biological demon"?? do you mean BIBLICAL??
Sam Guthrie was never in X-Factor, and other basic mistakes that five minutes of research could have clarified.
Thought I'd see Morph on here for sure!
is legion the one the movie "split" is based on?
These are all very popular characters. And I knew them all and sure everyone else that has picked up a comic book or watched uncanny xman has. So top 10? lol I think you need to redo that whole list.
Can you really list Legion as a character that no one knows about when he has his own TV show at this point?
FORGE IS SUPER GAY WITH THAT OUTFIT/POSE.
I SUPPORT YOUR LIFESTYLE BRUH.
I already knew about all these X-Men
Havent watched yet, I hope they mention nature girl and goldballs. Although goldballs was on cyclops team and nature girl is joinin a team too. Maybe nature girl could turn out to be a follower or Hela from asgardian lore? Both have antlers and semi-magic abilities?
What about Xorn?!? I loved that guy even if the "creator" fucked it all up and Marvel helped with the fucking up.
4 real? No Sunspot!?
Actually, almost all of these mutants are pretty well-known. Nate Grey played a big role in the 90s X-men/Avengers crossover event battling the monstrous entity of Onslaught. (Loved that series by the way). Longshot, as shown in the video, was featured in the 90s X-men animated series, and also in several comicbook stories and groups (like the Exiles volume one). Everyone should be familiar with the rest in this video. Who doesn't know Forge, Sunfire, Danielle Moonstar, Dazzler and Cannonball by now?
Yeah no one knows about these characters do they
Magma? Threnody? Lilandra Neramani?
GAMBIT should have made this list!
If professor x is the biological father of legion, who is his biological mother????
You forgot Santa Claus.
7-5, 3, Rachel Summers and Karma and numero 1 legion
Wait, did they retcon Illyana's powers again? Teleportation was her power back when I read comics. The magic was completely unrelated to her mutation. Also don't ever try that southern accent again or else.
Oh come on Legion actually has a TV show series now!
I always thought this was interesting from a inclusion/diversity perspective. In the XMen, it's common, that when they have a mutant of colour, they are almost always overpowered. This makes having them in stories very difficult, because having OP characters that can't be turned into impromptu villains due to concerns over being accused of racism. I think they need more low power racially diverse heros who can be used effectively in a team, unlike Forge or Sunfire
I was glad Magik was mentioned but then… argh, triggered. Anyway, magic and sorcery aren't mutant abilities. You can be an inhuman, a human, a mutate, a mutant, or even an alien and still learn magic through occultism (provided you follow a certain procedure of course) or heck through trading your soul to a demon, or even through having an ancestor who's a sorcerer can give you a +1 credit in Magic 101. (it's a bit easy to learn magic in Marvel)
Okay, I get it, it's an obscure concept, but it's so basic and simple to understand. In fact, you even gave Dani a distinct explanation on her powers; what was mutant abilities and what was mystical, yet you lost it on Magik. tsk tsk
The honorable mentions Rachael Summers and Multiple Man are pretty well known. And number 5, Magik is as well. I'd probably replace her with Speedball. Legion wasn't that well known until recently, hmm this was published in Feburary so he was far less known then than he is now. We've had a full season of a Legion TV show now so now many more people know about him but yeah back when you guys published this it was different.
it is amazing that the list still has mad footage to accompany it…I agree with the underrated nature of all characters listed which is a testament to the 1990s animated series
magma….why does everyone forget her
the ability to control lava, earth and fire including the tectonic plates
she most definitely deserved a spot on this list
Nate's middle name is fifty shades of
You forgot to mention Domino
Lol, I didn't know Danielle wasn't known. I mean, she was the guardian/mother figure of Josh (Elixir) for quite some time, and was an important character in the new X-Men. Too bad she's this underrated, I really like her.
I've never liked Dazzler much. weird power that's hard to understand.
2) One thing I liked was Longshot's kindness and innocence during his x-men days.
Xtreme and Feral