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Now while you ponder that lets jump into todays list of the Top 10 X-Men Who Cant Die - Except
dont think of this video of people who cant die, more so members of the x-men who just
cant seem to stay dead.
#10 Deadpool
Now its still disputed as to whether or not Deadpool is an official member of the x-men,
but his involvement with Colossus and the fact that he actually stayed at Xaviers school
is enough for us to include him on this list.
With a healing factor that would make Wolverine jealous, Deadpool puts his immortality to
full use in not only the films, but the comic books as well.
Aside from the multiple suicide attempts, deadpool has been the victim of decapitation
and dismemberment several times.
People such as Carnage, the hulk and even Wolverine have all done their best to separate
the merc from his mouth.
The story of how Deadpool gained his immortality is really interesting though.
When Thanos discovers that Wade is in love with the literal personification of Death,
Thanos curses Deadpool with the inability to die just so the two cant be together.
Thanos was so jealous of Deadpool he accidentally made him immortal.
#9 Archangel The story of Warren Worthington coming back
is a bit of a strange one, but regardless its an x-men death and rebirth, just not the
rebirth we were expecting per se.
In the storyline when the Archangel personality takes over Warren and actually attempts to
take over the role of Apocalypse the rest of the X-Force gets pretty worried, rightfully
so I should add.
Anyone who wants to become Apocalypse should be watched closely, but a threat like that
for the X-Force meant they needed to terminate Warren.
At the end of it all its Psylocke who delivers the execution by stabbing Warren with the
Life seed.
Ultimately this kills the Archangel, although not for long.
As the team is retreating they spot Warren trudging through the deep snow, except now
he has been returned to his original form.
However its not the same old Warren by a long stretch, this version was almost a blank slate.
When he was stabbed with the Life see it completely erased everything that Warren knew before
his death.
Later on this more pure version of Warren is merged again with an Archangel clone which
may be seen as a technicality for some, but for us its pretty much a resurrection of the
original.
#8 Nightcrawler Kurt Wagners story of rebirth is really touching
and speaks to the genuine character that Nightcrawler is.
During the Second Coming storyline Nightcrawler and Rogue were alone fighting against Bastion.
Both of there intentions were to protect Hope Summers from the super-sentinel and as such
they laid it all on the line.
When Rogue went down, Kurt attempted to teleport her to safety, yet in the moment he was about
to do that Bastion stuck his hand through Nightcrawler.
So when they arrived on Utopia, he just had Bastions hand sticking out of his chest and
as a result slowly died from his injuries.
When Nightcrawlers soul rose to the heavens he still continues his good deeds helping
them drive out evil whenever it reared its ugly head in the oasis of Heaven.
When Kurts father chose to abuse their connection to attack Heaven, Kurt took the opportunity
to re-materialize his body back to Earth, but as a result he had to turn over his own
soul.
Sure he was able to return to the land of the living, but now he will never be able
to return to Heaven.
#7 Gambit Gambit has always been one of my favorite
x-men characters and therefore I was happy as can be to mention that the Ragin Cajun
just wont stay down.
In the 2012 17-issue Gambit solo the finale saw Gambit perfectly pulling off a prison
riot which brought together not only his target, the british intelligence MI-13 and the Uncanny
Avengers.
As you can imagine these groups coming together created quite the mess and while his friends
were picking up after him the heroes actually lost track of the mob boss.
The target ending up getting his hands on a gun and delivered a fatal shot to the head
of Gambit.
With Gambit now lying dead in the arms of Rogue a member of the MI-13 used the magic
of Excalibur to reconstruct Gambits blown apart head.
Which ended up bringing Gambit back to life and offered up a terrific line of dialogue
where Gambit says - Why do I feel like the day after Mardi Gras?
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#6 Jubilee Jubilees death and rebirth stories are perhaps
some the coolest storylines out there.
Her storylines have seen the hero die more often than the rest of the x-men characters,
but the first was perhaps the most unforgettable.
After the House of M, Jubilee and many of the other X-Men had their powers basically
turned off as they were captured by the Purifiers.
Without their powers they became easy targets for their enemies.
The Purifiers beat them relentlessly and ended up being crucified on the front lawn of the
X-Mansion.
By the time that help arrived they were all essentially dead.
However when Wolverine carried Jubilee to the subbasement of the X-Mansion and gave
her a blood transfusion from Angel the restorative properties of the blood brought life back
into her.
#5 Rogue After the events of Avengers vs. X-Men, Rogue
fully believed that the Scarlet Witch was going to cast another spell so she decided
to take care of it herself.
To do this she absorbed Wolverines powers and ran through the Avenger with her new bone
claws.
Although what she didnt see coming was super villain The Grim Reaper sneaking up behind
her and stabbing Rogue in the back.
Her death while lasting for a few months was eventually reversed when the Avengers went
back in time to stop her first attack on the Scarlet Witch.
Classic Avengers just turning back the clocks when they dont like how something plays out.
Either way it brought Rogue back into our lives, so I guess its cool.
#4 Colossus The story of Colossus dying and then coming
back to life is every bit tragic as it is remarkable.
When Peters brother died he felt it was his duty to find the cure for the legacy virus.
Although the only way to make the cure airborne was to have the cure injected into a living
person for whom it would ultimately kill.
Colossus though decided this was a sacrifice he needed to make and chose to inject himself
with the cure.
This is also the moment that Colossus went from looking human to altering his state into
that steel form we saw him as in the Deadpool films.
Years after the run of Astonishing X-Men a cure of the mutant disease was being developed,
but all the X-Men knew was that it was being tested on an unknown subject.
When the X-Men arrive to investigate they soon find out that Colossus has been alive
this whole time.
He was being held against his will in an underground bunker and a clone had been put in his place.
#3 Cyclops Scott Summers has actually died twice, but
the first was more so the end of the life that he had known up until that point.
Allow me to elaborate, during the twelve storyline Cyclops had become a host for Apocalypse.
After being freed by the tyrant Cyclops believed he was dead from the whole thing, but it was
only that part of him that had died.
Thankfully Jean and Cable were able to remove Apocalypse from their friend to restore him
back to his normal state.
In the second death of Cyclops we have to jump to Secret Wars 2.
These strange mist clouds were at the same time trying to sterilize and kill mutants
around the world and one of its victims was Scott.
In a recent time-travel storyline a younger version of his son Cable used a pinch of the
Phoenix Force to turn the tides on Cyclops fate.
This ultimately resurrected his father and allowed him to crawl out of his grave.
#2 Jean Grey The death of our beloved Jean Grey has been
teased several times throughout the comic books, but the real death came at the hands
of a Magneto Clone.
A former X-Man himself actually poisoned Jean with a hefty dosage of electromagnetism.
Although because Jean had fully merged with the Phoenix Force she was able to bring herself
back several times.
One of the more important cases of this re-manifestation was in the Avengers vs. X-Men storylines.
Jean returns to save a power hungry Cyclops from perishing and also finally makes her
full return using the Phoenix Force.
However in the end she decides to reject this cosmic force and live the rest of her life
without it.
#1 Wolverine As I mentioned before Wolverine has some pretty
crazy regenerative abilities, but when the mini-series titled Death of Wolverine was
released we all feared his abilities wouldnt be enough this time around.
In the mini-series Logans healing properties were weakened by a virus.
Word of his now diminished state spread rampant through the villain community and essentially
put a big target on his hairy back.
After discovering who was responsible for the virus Wolverine was covered in molten
adamantium and as the metal hardened poor Logan ended up suffocating to death.
Although other versions of him remained, this particular Wolverine was resurrected with
the help of an infinity stone.
In the Hunt for Wolverine a group of Reavers track down Logans body.
What they find though is just the hardened shell of Logan, with nothing inside.
You see the x-men were able to extract his body from the statue using Kitty Prydes phasing
powers.
His body was actually buried, but we soon saw him alive and well holding the space stone
with little to no explanation as to how exactly he crawled out of his grave.
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