I used to read comic books about the X-Men all the time! My sister and I were totally in love with them. She always liked Wolverine and I always liked Gambit. I think it's funny that when we were young--like, still in second grade--we would plead for our parents to take us to the local comic book store and just let us read the comics. They always ended up buying them for us, or giving us allowence so we could by them. I still have a lot...

Even today, my sister and I still go to Borders and read the comics there...I always get sad when they don't have one that features a lot of Gambit. :c

I think it would have been really cool to see him in the movies, even if a lot of people dislike the movies and think that they didn't do the X-Men any justice at all. I liked the story line of that, even if it wasn't 'accurate'. There are so many 'alternate realities/dimensions' that I think it was perfectly fine to do what they did. I'll still go see the other X-Men based movies coming out later.

i did like X-men when it was a cartoon but lost interest since then well until i saw the movies and i was hooked back into it
and being an aussie, the fact it had Hugh Jackman in the films playing Wolverine i couldn't miss it, oh gosh, he looked so good and gave Wolverine justice i reckon.

I like the movies but only own the second one. I adore Nightcrawler and my favorite version of the X-Men is the X-Men Evolution. Nightcrawler was awesome in that show!

I've grown up with the X-men, i've always enjoyed the comics, and the movies, and the television shows. This current show Wolverine and the X-men, is far better than what I expected....I look forward to watching it each Saturday. (I don't do anything on Saturdays..) plus Emma Frost is in it.

Marvel is killing off all of my favorite characters I swear! Icarus is dead. D: I'm so sad, he was an awesome character. Now I'm afraid they are going to kill the rest of my favorites off. like Banshee and Wolfsbane. I'm not lucky with Marvel characters. >>; Does anyone else feel that way or is it just me? XD

I absolutely adore Storm even though she's barely featured. She's just so cool!!! However my loves are Wolverine and Gambit of course. I've never really read the comics but I want to so bad. The stories seem much better. I hated the fact Halle Berry played Storm in the movie. It was cool at first but she just doesn't do her justice. Storm is just an elegant character to me.

I loved the X-Men comics and cartoon shows!
The movies were good as just movies. Not compared to the comics or shows.
Gambit has always been my favorite. I'm excited for the new Wolverine movie coming out in May!

I love X-Men. =3
The show and movies. I watch the current show every Saturday.

My favorite is Nightcrawler.
=D

Originally Posted by Glamour lies

I hate hate hate that Jubilee lost her powers on M day. She is my all-time favorite character, I love her to pieces and I want to hurt the writer that decided to take her powers away from her!!

I was dissapointed with the whole M-day thing. They had such a great opportunity to make all of the x-men loose their powers and work on the consequences of it! I mean don't get me wrong x-men loosing their powers is terrible and horrifying and all but we would know that eventually they'd get them back and in the mean time a million amazing changes could happen. I mean actual changes in the lives of the characters that isn't a re-hashing of something that happened in the classic books or a cheap kill and then reanimation like what was done with colossus when they "killed" him and he came back right away.
I'm a huge Rouge and Gambit fan and I think it would have been amazing to see them living together no powers to stop their touching and as fan-girly as that is what if after living together as normal humans for awhile and not going on missions they realise that they're not a good couple or that they don't get along as well as they thought without all the built up sexual tension between them? Like real relationship stuff?
Also I wish there could have been a temporary total black out of x-men powers because it would have prevented the stupid messiah arc with beast "looking for a cure" in the back pages. It was pretty annoying to watch beast find scarlet witch and then let her go about her business and not make her come back and fix things.
Especially when it would be almost impossible for him not to realize that Wiccan and his lost brother Speed who are in the very public Young Avengers are Scarlet Witch's sons. Which was the whole reason she got so upset and got rid of most of the mutants in the first place because she thinks her sons never exsisted!
Also I was really angry when rogue got her mind cleared by that baby only to touch mystique and have only herself and mystique in her head. I mean Imagine a Rogue with only her own thoughts to contend with! There are so many story possibilities that would go along with that! She could hole herself up afraid to ever touch anyone again, she could become a different person and it could turn out that a big part of the way she'd acted came from an especially strong personality she'd absorbed like Miss Marvel's or something. At least it would have been merciful to give her enough time with herself to realize that she was alone in her head. Even if a moment after she realized it she was forced to touch someone hateful in order to save others, at least she would have had that moment.

Anyways once The messiah complex arc was over the story branched off into at least 5 other books and i was like "woah i just got fed a poorly laid out story and now i have to buy 5 books a month just to figure out what happens next? no way!".

Anyways i also like Maddrox that would be the best power to have ever!

Originally Posted by Victor Von Doom

What "X-Men" did you love? Claremont on X-Men was fantastic, practially everything he touched up until his first departure was gold.

X-Men: The Animated Series was great, although the animation itself varied from abover average to horrible at times, but it was very "adult" in its tone ... didn't talk down to the viewers much. Some of the plots got mangled ... I weep at how watered down they made Proteus.

What didn't you like about the movies? I thought the first two were excellent, but the third one was far to campy and light on plot.

And of course: who's your favorite X-Man? Mine's Nightcrawler, by far. Who doesn't love the fuzzy elf?

Animated series -Omg mangled is to put it mildly. The later seasons story lines were brutlely aweful. They totaly ruined The Phalanx Conveinent and it had such great potential too. Days from future past episodes or whatever they were trying to pull off with Wolverine's and Storm's punk looks were just aweful! I read DFFP and that wasn't it. I think it was their lame attempt at the Age of Apocolypes.

I absolulty love Chris Claremont's work! I have been very fortunate that someone had given my sister their X-men comic collection years ago. So we have those issues! It's incredible just being able to read the old stoies. I don't know if any of the newer X-men fans even bother.
But unfortunaly my sister and I stopped reading the books sometime after the Onslaught story line in late '90's ealy '00? Because Marvel kept switching artist and writers and the stories just were't that great anymore. Though she bought some of the more recent issues a few years ago and the story is so confusing. It makes me wish I hadn't stopped reading the book. But we both were in college at the time with limited funds. So of course the hobbies had to suffer.
I started watching X-men evolution about a month ago. Then read up on some stuff online and the story line in Evolution is very similar to the recent Mossiah Complex and House of M story lines. I wonder if they took these ideas from the show. Being that XE aired a few years before these comic story lines were even out. So after reading about these I've been wanting to read X-Men again. I miss it and so much has happened without me. It makes feel lost and left out of the fan base loop. :( So I'm gonna see if the library has any of the trade paper backs for these.

I personally loved Gambit, but it's due to a childhood bias. Throwing cards and making things explode? That's pretty awesome. I got in trouble on countless occasions for throwing playing cards all over the house.

His story was a pretty typical one, and yeah, I guess he didn't contribute much to the overall plot of the X-Men, but there's really only a few mutants who carry the weight of the plot. At the most general point, I suppose it's really Professor Xavier and Magneto, and all the other mutants that come into play are just pawns to further the story, plus a good amount of stories on the side.

I have a friend who has had a frightening history that is startlingly similar to Gambit's, which is another reason why I can't say with full force that Gambit as a character did not contribute to the storyline.

Gambit was one of my favorite characters. It was probably due to his scruffy look and ties to rogue. Who is my absolute favorite!

i love XMen^.^ the first two movies were good. the third one would have been better if Nightcrawler had been in it. i love him. ALL HAWL THE FUZZY MAN. was lucky enough to meet the guy who voiced him in evolution at an anime con. ^.^

I love the X-Men x3 I'm not much of a fan of X-Men TAS because of the animation and the little screentime Rogue got. She'll randomly disappear for an x-amount of episodes without a whisper. That and I found Storm irritating. You don't need to announce EVERYTHING. It was a decent series overall but not my favorite. I did like X-Men Evolution. I prefer that over Wolverine and the Wolverines/X-Men. That series had so much potiential until they just cut it off. They were just beginning to get into some of the other characters they introduced and Bam it was over. I always felt bad for Pietro because everytime he tried to bolt somebody'd use their power on him to stay still and he'd go splat. Wolverine and the X-Men would of been my favorite had it not been so Wolverine biased. I don't mind that its about him but they butchered all of the other characters in the process.
I liked the first two movies and half of the third before it got too out there and lost my interest. What Juggernaut said to Kitty towards the end was the only worthwhile part xD The Origins Movie was okay. I liked Maverick and Gambit. Gambit made it worth watching. They are supposed to make another Origins movie too. This time for Magneto (which they should of done in the first place. He has such a rich background). Then their working on the 4th movie which is supposed to revolve around the teenagers more.
My favorite character of all time is Rogue but I also like Kurt, Gambit, and Magneto in particular. Jubilee and Pietro are fun characters too. I haven't read any of the comics except X-Men Forever (Wolvie is dead for the time being x3333), Ultimate X-Men, and X-Treme X-Men along with a few odd ones here and there. I'm trying to get all of the Essential X-Mens but I only have 7&9.

I used to collect the comic books but haven't bought any in years. I watched one of the old cartoon series and liked it quite a bit. I liked the whole Dark Phoenix Saga/Jean Grey and Scott Summers/Cyclops. I didn't like the last movie because it did not mention Jean and Scott's daughter from the future. The movies don't have much commonality with the comics. I despise Hollywood's ideas of how things should be and how they take a good book or comic and just totally ruin it.

you people are all crazy the x-men origins wolverine movie is my FAVORITE movie!!! i can recite line from that movie even thought ive only seen it 4 times. but as you can most likely tell my favorite character is WOLVERINE!!! GO LOGAN!!!!! but kitty is up there to. even though my fav character is logan i also really like sabertooth and of course deadpool and storm and quicksilver and all them but wolverine is THE COOLIST!!! i love this forum. now i can gabber aboiut my obsession because none of my friends care. even if no one will read this for a while im still gunna gabber. or maybe not cuz well i dont feel like it.

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also i really like that most people in this forum are girls. i thought i was a wierdo always obsessing over wolverine and the x-men (which by the way is my favorite tv show 8))

I can't wait until I get the issue when Kitty comes back from the bullet in space...haven't been to the comic book store in a while.