Fans of Marvel’s X-Men have a lot to look forward to. While the Fox franchise featuring
everyone’s favourite mutants is slowly wrapping up, now that Marvel Studios and Disney have
the rights for the superhero team, fans of the MCU have been theorizing how - and who
- will end up entering the cinematic fray. While we figure we’re a few years out from
seeing X-Men character return to the big screen, and rub shoulders with some of our favourite
heros, we can’t help but be curious. So today, rather than speculating who will be
joining the MCU, we’re debating about what characters might be left on the cutting room
floor, so to speak, with our list of the top 10 X-Men too strong for the MCU.Essentially,
we’re looking at Omega level mutants, and pondering the what ifs behind what it would
take for them to enter the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or what reasons producers would
have for leaving them out for good. So with that in mind, let’s jump in!
10 Elixir Elixir aka Josh Foley first appeared in 2003
in New Mutants vol 2 issue 5.Funny enough, he was initially a member of an anti-mutant
group called the Reavers, until his powers manifest and he’s kicked out of the group,
causing him to reluctantly join the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning after his parents
kick him out of his home as well. Speaking of his powers, Elixir is able to control the
biological structure of any organic matter, which also includes his own body, as long
as he is in proximity of his target. This means he can do things like heal others, restore
and boost mutant powers, create painful and life threatening ailments, like boils, welts
and even fatal tumours, cure the Legacy Virus, and even cause death.He can sense when people
are sick or if there are any abnormalities in their body. He can regenerate on a cellular
level, and resurrect himself, meaning he’s pretty much immortal.
9 Vulcan Initially introduced in 2006 in X-Men Deadly
Genesis issue 1, Vulcan, aka Gabriel Summers, is the younger brother of Cyclops and Havok.
While he’s known more so for being a supervillain, the character once upon a time was a part
of the X-Men team. Energy is Vulcan’s jam. He can psionically manipulate, transform,
control, and absorb vast amounts of energy, including energy on the electromagnetic spectrum
and from exotic sources, such as Cyclops’ optic blasts, or magically created energy.
He can even tap into and suppress mutant energies if he’d like, and can produce light, heat,
force, you name it. This also allows him to fly and survive in space.
8 Kid Omega (Quentin Quire) Quentin Quire first appeared in New X-Men
issue 134 back in 2003, joining the Xavier Institute. He quickly becomes one of Xavier’s
more favoured students, with the Professor attempting to help him control his powers.
But he takes a bit of a turn for the worst when he decides to start up the Omega Gang,
a group of teenage mutants whose goal was to exact revenge for the death of a famous
mutant fashion designer. That, and he’s super depressed about a girl not liking him
back and the fact that he was adopted. Dude has fragile self esteem. Anywho, what can
he do? He has advanced precognitive and telepathic abilities that not only allow him to think
at immense speeds, but to manipulate the minds of others, resist mind probes and he can psychically
influence a large group of people at one time. He’s even created an entire universe in
his mind that he calls the Construct that he can imprison people within. Minus his previous
gang shenanigans, Quentin generally acts in the interest of good, having recently been
featured as a member of the fresh start iteration of the West coast Avengers.
7 Magik (Illyana Rasputina) Magik is the younger sister of Colossus, and
first debuted in Giant Size X-Men issue 1 back in 1975. Despite that, her character
was merely a background character for the most part, and it wasn’t until 8 years later
that she was given a proper name in The Uncanny X-Men issue 160 in 1982 after aging seven
years in the paranormal dimension of Limbo, where she gains her mutant abilities. This
includes inter-dimensional teleportation, magic manipulation, and use of the soulsword,
which is something created by her own life force energy - a physical sword that with
each use becomes more powerful. She can also manifest eldritch armour. During her time
in Limbo, Magik became the sorceress supreme of that dimension, able to cast a plethora
of spells using a mix of black magic and white magic, being taught the latter by an alternate
universe version of Storm. She’s also been capable of creating powerful mind blocking
shields, keeping the likes of some of the strongest telepathic mutants out of her head,
including Professor X/
6 X-Man (Nate Grey) Scott Summers and Jean Grey are responsible
for some of the most powerful offspring in the mutant community, regardless of whether
or not they actually intended to parent them. It’s worth noting that Nate Grey is not
Cable - both characters are descendants of genetic material from Scott Summers and Jean
Grey, but came to be in different manners, with Nate being grown in a laboratory in an
alternate dimension thanks to Mr Sinister, who used Scott and Jean’s DNA to do so.
Cable is the son of Scott and Madelyne Pryor, who is the clone of Jean Grey. Anywho, with
that out of the way, let’s return to Nate. He has the ability to tap into the enormous
psychic resources found in the astral plane, which allows him to manipulate matter and
energy. His powers were diminished though by the Omega Machine- he’s a character whose
powers sometime inflate and sometimes are taken away. He can also exist as living physic
energy, existing outside of his corporeal form. He was also given his own solo series
during Age of Apocalypse that briefly replaced Cable’s series, and his series ended up
running until 2001 as he was brought into the earth 616 continuity, with it ending with
his seemingly sacrificial death after struggling for years with being the most powerful person
in a reality in which he didn’t belong.
5 Rachel Summers Rachel Summers was created by Chris Claremont
and John Byrne, first appearing in the Uncanny X-Men issue 141 back in 1981. But she didn’t
become Rachel Summers until after her debut, thanks to retcons. From an alternate future,
she’s the daughter of Cyclops and Jean Grey, the sister of Nate Grey and the half sister
of Cable. And she’s hella strong. Not only has she had the Phoenix Force’s abilities,
she’s also an empath, telepathic, telekinetic, and can astral project. She has limited time
manipulation abilities. Her telekinesis abilities can remotely manipulate matter, including
on a subatomic level.
4 Legion (David Haller) Legion, also known as David Charles Haller,
is the son of Professor Charles Xavier. He travelled twenty years into the past in order
to kill Magneto before the nemesis of his father had the chance to amass power. But
before he could, he ended up killing his father instead, which caused the Age of Apocalypse
timeline to occur. Legion is often depicted as an anti-hero, and is known for his severe
dissociative identity disorder, which formed after his mutant powers manifested during
a terrorist attack in which he ended up absorbing the mind of the terrorist leader into his
own. Because of his trauma, parts of David’s personality splinter, each controlling a different
aspect of his powers. Speaking of powers, why is he so strong, aside from his parentage?
Well, he can reality warp, he can shape shift, he can manipulate matter and is capable of
transmutation, he can manipulate energy, he’s telepathic, telekinetic, he can teleport,
and of course, he can time travel. But because of his severe dissociative identity disorder,
in later story arcs, he’s often sedated or hospitalized. Reed Richards, Madison Jeffries
and Doctor Nemesis would later crate something called a Neural Switchboard Wristband that
would help him control his multiple personalities and better manage his powers. And in X-Men
Legacy, he ended up erasing himself from existence altogether, but that doesn’t even fully
work out for him.
3 Hope Summers Hope Summers first appeared in X-Men issue
205 in 2007 as part of the X-Men Messiah Complex storyline. After Decimation, a story event
in with Scarlet Witch used her powers to turn all of the mutants into regular depowered
humans, Hope was the first mutant to be born, wich starts a hunt for the character. She’s
saved by Cable, who names her after her adoptive mother who looked after the child with him
(and Summers technically being Cable’s last name). Hope is a vessel of the Phoenix Force,
and has unspecified limits when it comes to physically manipulating and mimicking the
powers of other mutants. So yeah, in the scope of things, that could be super deadly later
on down the line when mutant characters have been established in the MCU. Hope’s mimicry
abilities allow her to use those mutant powers at their utmost capacity, but because of this,
she is potentially incredibly dangerous to people and the environment around her due
to the massive amounts of power levels she generates.
2 Jean Grey (Phoenix Force) Let’s be honest here - Jean Grey is 100%
going to be added to the MCU. It’s almost inevitable. But the chances that we’ll be
seeing the Phoenix Force flexing its OP-ness on the big screen are pretty slim. If anything,
since the Phoenix Force is a major part of the X-Men stories, we think that if Jean becomes
the Phoenix, it’ll be an event that’s built up to over time in the MCU, similar
to what was done with the Infinity Gauntlet story arc. So really, Jean’s Phoenix is
just too strong for the MCU right now, but who knows what the future will hold.
1 Franklin Richards Franklin Richards is the son of Mister Fantastic
Reed Richards and Invisible Woman Sue Storm. And he’s one incredibly powerful kid, that’s
for damn sure. First introduced in 1968 in Fantastic Four annual issue 6, Franklin is
way beyond an Omega level mutant, having vast reality manipulating powers along with psionic
powers. This means he can manipulate matter and energy on a cosmic scale, project energy,
is capable of telekinesis, telepathy, astral projection, and precognition, he can teleport,
and – these two are great – he’s IMMORTAL and can create pocket universes. The kid can
create his own damn universes. Celestials consider him to be on par with them. And his
powers only increase the older he gets. So yeah, I’m sure we’d all love to see what
Marvel Studio would do with a character like that. And to be fair, we’re sure Franklin
Richards is far from being up on the silver screen – the MCU needs to establish his
parents first, and some people have theorized that won’t happen until after Phase 5. Long
way to go.
There we have it friends! What other mutants can you think of that would be difficult to
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