Favorite X-men moments

[vamp]

After seeing Podmarks av pic I had to do this. Have that issue somewhere. Its my favorite by far. I like how wolverine nearly kills the girl, then she says something to him in Japanese(or Chinese, or etc.) And he says something to her. In that same issue I love when Peter wakes up and sees Scott shooting and ask what his doing. Scott says "I'm an X-men, we dont shot people" or something like that. 

[Podmark]

First moment that comes to mind that I really loved is back in Morrison's New X-men when Xorn reveals himself as Magneto. Loved that one. Then ya know, Claremont, Austen and Bendis turned it into the stupidest and most convulted thing ever.

BTW the av pic is really just to hint at my next skin ;)

[kkhohoho]

First moment that comes to mind that I really loved is back in Morrison's New X-men when Xorn reveals himself as Magneto. Loved that one.

"Pretending to be Xorn, pretending to be me, pretending to be Xorn!"

:wacko:

[detourne_me]

favourite X-moment.  hmmn thats a real tough one.
I'd have to say the first moment that really impacted me was seeing Wolverine pop his claw into sabretooth's head while creed was locked up in the x-mansion.
hmmn,

in astonishing X-men   "Hey Rusky, how's your throwing arm?"

the mutant genocide in genosha with the rogue sentinels was really cool too.

but i also really love the epic morlock massacre.   that was just a great franchise wide storyline that carried on for a few months and really had an impact in the x-men mythos

[Sword]

My favorite X-moment was the recent revelation in eXcalibur that Cain Marko wasn't meant to be the holder of the Ruby of Cytorrak, Charles Xavier was.

Barring that, I'd say the Doctor Strange/ X-men crossover that took them in Dante's Inferno.

[bredon7777]

In Morrison's run, there were so many, but I'm gonna have to go with

Professor X, looking at the Shiar guard in their Imperial cruiser: Yes, imagine all that power..[smirk]..in the wrong hands.


Of course, what the reader knows at that time (though the Xmen didnt) that it wasn't Professor X, but Cassandra Nova in his body...

My other favorite moment is probably from the most recent issue of Astonishing..where Colossus is going on about how confused and tired he is, and then Kitty drops her robe and he says "Now I am even more confused..but somehow..not quite as tired."  (That was my reaction too, once I picked my jaw up off the floor..that Cassiday can DRAW.)

[thanoson]

Mutant Massacre
Assault on Muir Island
Magneto removing Wolvies adamantium
Days of Future Past when the Sentinel blast Logan
Logan killing the brood egg inside him
Angel being pinned up against the wall by the Marauders
Collossus snapping Riptide's neck
Spiral and Freedom Force vs The X-men where she took most of them out by herself
Anything with Selene
Last scene in Age of Apocalypse with Collosus going back for Paige

[wickerman]

Anytime Wolverine got his butt kicked...

[BentonGrey]

Before Wolverine got ridiculous, when he was just plain cool, there was an issue where he was on the run from the Brood.  That's one of the best X moments EVER.

[Jakew]

For some reason, I really dug it when the X-Men, after a huge battle against Professor X's mind powers, stood up to William Stryker at his rally in "God Loves, Man Kills" and Kitty defended Nightcrawler's humanity. Also, in the same story, Magneto coming to Kitty's aid by effortlessly wrecking the battlesuits of the men pursuing her.

That was a great story, and I'm glad they incorporated elements of it into the X-Men 2 film.

[Blkcasanova247]

Kitty seeing her dead beau Peter alive again in Astonishing.....that touched me!  :(  :lol:

[Night Dragon]

Before Wolverine got ridiculous, when he was just plain cool, there was an issue where he was on the run from the Brood.  That's one of the best X moments EVER.

Mine comes from around the same timeframe. Back before every comic turned into Howlettpolozia, when the X-Men faced down the Hellfire club with Jean turning to the dark side as the Black Queen. The X-Men fall like so many dominoes, with Wolvie getting knocked into the sewers by Leland's (I think that's his name) gravity powers.

End of the issue you see Wolvie pop from the water, claws extended, literally covered in filth...and POed.  He has revenge in his eyes and growls out ' Ya took your best shot, now it's my turn!' It was one of those moments that ranks up there with guys like Dirty Harry's ' Do you feel lucky punk' or John Maclane's 'Yippie Ki Yaa %@*$**@'

Oh, and the next issue when he just went beserk on some poor schomo Hellfire guards, and then taunts the only guard left standing.

[psychopanda]

Ditto Night Dragon's reply.

I also liked when they first faced off against the Sentinels. Got trapped in Arcade's Murderworld. Arthur Adam's X-Babies. First appearance of Unus the Untouchable.

[cripp12]

The best moment for me was my first x-men issue.  They were at the airport and Alpha Flight shows up to take Wolvie back.  Their first appearance. This is the first time you find out Wolvie had a past.  The battle was great. Planes getting tossed around. Both teams finally came to terms and Logan was going back to Canada.   :(.  But wait the last scene had him waiting for the x-men in a chair. I think he was drinking a beer.

[Silver Shocker]

Before Wolverine got ridiculous, when he was just plain cool, there was an issue where he was on the run from the Brood.  That's one of the best X moments EVER.

Mine comes from around the same timeframe. Back before every comic turned into Howlettpolozia, when the X-Men faced down the Hellfire club with Jean turning to the dark side as the Black Queen. The X-Men fall like so many dominoes, with Wolvie getting knocked into the sewers by Leland's (I think that's his name) gravity powers.

End of the issue you see Wolvie pop from the water, claws extended, literally covered in filth...and POed.  He has revenge in his eyes and growls out ' Ya took your best shot, now it's my turn!' It was one of those moments that ranks up there with guys like Dirty Harry's ' Do you feel lucky punk' or John Maclane's 'Yippie Ki Yaa %@*$**@'

Oh, and the next issue when he just went beserk on some poor schomo Hellfire guards, and then taunts the only guard left standing.

I agree. I remember that being really cool and by far the most memorable X-Men I can think of, but if I went back and reread it, I don't know if it would stand up to how I built it up in my mind.

Planet X, one of the few (or is it few GOOD) X-Men stories I've read from recent time is full of scenes I loved.

-The whole revelation scene where Magneto is revealed (including Wolverine yelling "Magento's not dead! MAGNET SET US UP!" before the place blows up)

-When Fantomex comes jumping through the window shooting up the place, Toad says "He's mine!" and 'mex retorts "You and whose knees?" before shooting Toad in the kneecaps

-When Scott lets loose on Magneto, particularly the line "So you know what? No more running. No more HOLDING BACK. I've decided to let the rage loose. I've decided to let it loose on PEOPLE LIKE YOU!" right before he blasts Magento's helmet into splinter from at point blank range, by blasting right into his face.

-When Beast jumps out of nowhere, tackles Magneto, then slams each of his fists on Magento's shoulders, injecting a "kick" inhibiter into him, Magento's head snapping back in pain in the process (I liked the way he jumps out of nowhere in the similar scene in the third movie)

[zuludelta]

Back before every comic turned into Howlettpolozia, when the X-Men faced down the Hellfire club with Jean turning to the dark side as the Black Queen. The X-Men fall like so many dominoes, with Wolvie getting knocked into the sewers by Leland's (I think that's his name) gravity powers.

End of the issue you see Wolvie pop from the water, claws extended, literally covered in filth...and POed.  He has revenge in his eyes and growls out ' Ya took your best shot, now it's my turn!'

Definitive character moment right there, and as far as I know, that was the issue that solidified Wolverine as a fan-favourite.

One of my favourite scenes/comics was Uncanny X-Men #274, which featured Magneto, Ka-Zar, and a de-powered Rogue preparing for a final battle against Zaladane. It was a refreshing story after all the spandexed antics of the X-tinction Agenda. By that time, Claremont's overly-expositioned writing was becoming tiresome but it actually worked in the Savage Land setting, and was a perfect fit as the narrator's/Magneto's voice.

[darkphoenixII]

    The Dark Phoenix Saga. That was the storyline that caused my borderline abnormal obsession with Jean Grey & the Phoenix Force. I also really liked the reimagined version in the Fox series (see quote below).

    Also liked it when Emma and Cyclops had their "psychic sessions". As if she needed another reason for everyone to hate her.

                                       -darkphoenixII

[Klauser]

darkphoenixII nailed it - the Dark Phoenix Saga.  No contest.

IMHO, the Claremont/Byrne/Austin run on Xmen was probably the high water mark for XMen in particular and the comics industry in general.  These issues were the first peek we had at the real potential of the media.  And they also showed that the medium could still be accessable to kids and yet interesting to young adults.

I was a high school senior when the "All-New, All Different X-Men" was relaunched in 1975.  By that time, I had pretty much given up on comics - I had a steady girlfriend and was in college.  Life goes on.

Then I stumbled onto a Claremont/Byrne Xmen comic in a college bookstore (I think it was #111) - and I was blown away.  I had been peripherally aware of what was going on with the XMen - but Claremont's writing was compelling and Byrne's art was a eye-feast.

And the stories kept getting BETTER!  The new XMen's first encounter with Magneto.  The Savage Land and Sauron.  The intro to Alpha Flight.  Their epic fight with Proteus.  The introduction of Dazzler and Kitty Pride and their climatic battle with the Hellfire Club - leading up to the Rise of Dark Phoenix and Jean Grey's death!  Days of Future Past!!

Oh sure, there have been memorable X-Men stories and art since then.   But for me at least, none of that would have mattered if Claremont, Byrne and Austin hadn't pulled me back to comics.

[BitBiteOuch]

It's been awhile, but my vote goes towards just about every page of X-Men:Omega. AoA was always my favorite X-storyline, and I guess just feeling it all end with a big emotional, and rather explosive bang, was quite the feeling.

[Alaric]

And the stories kept getting BETTER!  The new XMen's first encounter with Magneto.  The Savage Land and Sauron.  The intro to Alpha Flight.  Their epic fight with Proteus.  The introduction of Dazzler and Kitty Pride and their climatic battle with the Hellfire Club - leading up to the Rise of Dark Phoenix and Jean Grey's death!  Days of Future Past!!

Actually, the fight with Magneto that led into the Savage Land stuff was the second time the new team fought Magneto. The first time was a Cockrum issue (and was the first X-Men issue I ever bought- I had a copy of SON OF ORIGINS OF MARVEL COMICS and recognized the cover as a homage to X-Men #1), not a Byrne issue- Byrne started drawing the series a few issues later. For the record, the entire original Phoenix saga, from X-Men #98 through #138 (with the exception of the sub-par issues 102 and 103) was, in my opinion, the peak of the series, and one of the all-time best runs in any comic book, ever. It's interesting to note that durring this time the team went from an almost-incompetant team of loners who often lost fights to a competent team of close friends capable of trouncing virtually any opponent, and the transition was entirely believable. Come to think of it, the series also went through another transition, from bi-monthly to monthly, during the same period.

[zuludelta]

For the record, the entire original Phoenix saga, from X-Men #98 through #138 (with the exception of the sub-par issues 102 and 103) was, in my opinion, the peak of the series, and one of the all-time best runs in any comic book, ever.

Claremont and Byrne really hit a home run with the Dark Phoenix Saga. It's been over two decades since that storyline and they've never been close to recreating that type of success (critically at least, I'm sure Claremont had more commercial success during his pairing with Jim Lee) either as a writer-artist duo or individually. I remember reading Claremont's god-awful space opera novel First Flight and I couldn't believe the Dark Phoenix Saga was written by the same author.

[BitBiteOuch]

It's already been brought up, but I think both Claremont and Byrne have gone just about as downhill as you get. Claremont's take on Exiles was incredibly boring and unoriginal, and Byrne's artwork these days I personally think is awful (just read his run on Doom Patrol, or those few issues of Atom he drew). I'm sure some like it, I can't stand it. Poor guys.

[lugaru]

I am tired of them trying to throw in the Phoenix for shock value every 20 issues. On that note...

- Colosus 'hurts' Kitty Pryde's pride, so Logan and Nightcrawler take him out drinking and pick a fight with Juggernaut. Colossus gets beaten, the bar is demolished and Logan announces that it was a lesson.

- Iceman takes on a bunch of cyborg Yakuza on his own to protect the girl he loves. His family hate her because they are racist, her family hates him for the same reason. It's like Romeo and Juliette with superpowers.

- Storm (powerless) delivers a baby deep in the heart of africa.

- Lots of Grant Morrison moments that have been mentioned, a few Wheddon ones too such as Kitty and Colossus finally hooking up and Logan being dumbed down and returned to the simple pleasure of his vices.

- It is revealed that Emma and Cyclops had a psychic affair of shared daydreams.

[detourne_me]

Excellent list Lugaru,   i really loved that bar fight,
same with those barry windsor smith storm issues.

beak gettin laid,  that was cool

[ow_tiobe_sb]

IIRC (think way back with me, if you will/can, to 1981), in Uncanny X-Men (King-Size) Annual #5 (written by Chris Claremont, pencils by Brent Anderson, inks by Bob McLeod, lettered by Tom Orzechowski and Rick Parker), Kitty Pryde is being harassed by the giant, robotic Beast of Badoon on Arkon's world of Polemachus (the Badoon had invaded and, for a time, conquered the planet using Shi'ar teleportational technology, IIRC) when Colossus hurls himself at the fiend (Colossus is barely as tall as the Beast's calf!) and gives him a thrashing he didn't soon forget.  I  remember the panoramic vistas of that annual making a distinct impression on me, and seeing Colossus and the Beast take a long, nasty spill off a precipice into the abyss below was thrilling to me.  As the dust cleared, you could see the silhouette of the young Russian take to its feet and trudge onward.  Piotr was later found hip-deep in Badoon cannon fodder in the sub-basement of Arkon's palace.

To me, that annual had everything: the (IMHO) classic X-Men roster (Colossus, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Sprite/Shadowcat, Storm, Wolverine (when it was still cool to hear the man in the yellow and brown outfit say "Bub")--the team only lacked Banshee, IMO); a team-up with the Fantastic Four (:thumbup:); an alien army more fun to cull than Trade Federation Droids; Arkon; the overturning of an invasion; payback for the capture and torture of Johnny, Ben, and Reed; pie and coffee cake; etc.  Five out of five stars, ladies and gentlemen: a must read!

Perhaps someday I will convince Prem that we need to do a mod of this issue together...

ow_tiobe_sb
Phantom Bunburyist and The Prat in the Hat

[thanoson]

Ooh, remembered a couple of more.

Mastermind makes everyone think Cyclops is Dark Phoenix and he has to fight them all using the danger room.

Rogue's 1st encounter with Binary right when she joined the team.

X-Babies

[Klauser]

It's already been brought up, but I think both Claremont and Byrne have gone just about as downhill as you get. Claremont's take on Exiles was incredibly boring and unoriginal, and Byrne's artwork these days I personally think is awful (just read his run on Doom Patrol, or those few issues of Atom he drew). I'm sure some like it, I can't stand it. Poor guys.

I haven't seen Byrnes work in Doom Patrol or Atom, so I can't comment - but I was really impressed by his work in Generations and Generations 2. 

[NeoDarke]

Wolverine and Beast after they return to normal in Astonishing X-Men #18

Wolverine: "How?"
Beast: "It's technical. But "big magnet" covers a lot of it. No one made of metal or wearing way to much of it is going anywhere for a while."
Wolverine: "No, you"
Beast: "Ah, yes, me. Ball of string."

Fallowed up with Beast asking about Wolverine

Beast: "And you?"
Wolverine: "Had a beer."
Beast: "Same basic principle."

That was just great. :thumbup:

[Panther_Gunn]

It's already been brought up, but I think both Claremont and Byrne have gone just about as downhill as you get. Claremont's take on Exiles was incredibly boring and unoriginal, and Byrne's artwork these days I personally think is awful (just read his run on Doom Patrol, or those few issues of Atom he drew). I'm sure some like it, I can't stand it. Poor guys.

I haven't seen Byrnes work in Doom Patrol or Atom, so I can't comment - but I was really impressed by his work in Generations and Generations 2. 

Unfortunately, his work on Generations 3 (the 12 issue series) was probably some of the worst of his I've seen.  Too much of it looked almost like rough pencils that either were given to someone that clashed with his style to finish, or they were just never finished.  As a big Byrne fan, it was more than just a little disappointing.

[psychopanda]

It's already been brought up, but I think both Claremont and Byrne have gone just about as downhill as you get. Claremont's take on Exiles was incredibly boring and unoriginal, and Byrne's artwork these days I personally think is awful (just read his run on Doom Patrol, or those few issues of Atom he drew). I'm sure some like it, I can't stand it. Poor guys.

Personally, I still like his art. Yes, it's not the "same" anymore but I have to give credit to artists who have the stones to change their style. His old style was a little more linear, and you can see quite a few flaws as he was still somewhat green when he landed X-men. His new style is very organic, raw, and reminds me alot of Jack Kirby and Neal Adams, with a little Ditko or Swan.

The guy has been drawing for over 40 years now, I can't imagine going that long drawing the same thing day after day without getting bored. What a grind that would be.