The Master of Magnetism attracts enough attention---choose from the other X-adversaries.

Where's John Byrne?

TOO HARD TO CHOOSE

The Blob!

I like that Linda likes The Blob.

Sentinels

I voted "humanity", but my actual favorite is the Hellfire Club. They introduced my young mind to some vague notions of sexuality outside the mainstream. I didn't *quite* get what was going on there when I was 11, but I knew *something* was going on. That weird mix of bondage, lingerie, and 18th century clothing had it going on.

I don't really know much about most of them, as I'm not an X-fan. I put down the Sentinels. You can't go wrong with giant robot menaces.

I'm going to go with Wolverine. I don't think any other character has diminished the team so completely.

I went with the Brotherhood - specifically the all new, all different brotherhood. While I really liked the Hellfire club, I always liked them more as a different way of looking at the problem, instead of true villains. A dark reflection of what the X-men could have been.

And while humanity has resulted in good stories, very few of the X-men writers have had the deft touch to not wield allegory like a sledgehammer, and it came to dominate the titles before I stopped reading it. Sooner or later, you have to come down and clobber the Absorbing Man (or Juggernaut, in this case)

You could also include Marvel's accountants, who thought giving each of their 64 X-men their own title was a good financial idea, but creatively bankrupt. I always liked the fact not every mutant needed to be an X-man, and some could just go about their lives. It added depth and colour to their part of the Marvel Universe.

I wished Nimrod's storyline had developed more during Claremont's run. He was on to something with the ultimate mutant killing machine slowly becoming more and more human.

I did too. He got overwhelmed with plots and subplots and crossovers.

Has any X character escaped that fate

For a few years, Belasco and S'ym were pretty terrifiying.

When I was a kid, I didn't read Cerebus, but I was aware of the character and his look.

And I still, somehow, didn't pick up on the fact that S'ym was an homage to the Earth-Pig.

I vacillated between Mr Sinister and Cassandra Nova. In retrospect, Mr Sinister never delivered after Claremont's initial run, and I don't like Claremont's original backstory for him as expressed in X-Men Forever. Voted for Cassandra Nova. She came out of the blue and presented a genuinely terrifying foe in Morrison's New X-Men.

I didn't pick up on it till years later. Seen odd that I missed it. Looks pretty obvious now
I loved the Belasco reveal in the Earth X minis ....although Dave Cockrum and his wife went pretty ballistic ( no idea why,it was an alternate world with reveals that could not apply to the main Marvel Earth)

Weird how Marvel was so disconnected, that they missed that Cassandra Nova was Ernst.

I get it. They were very protective over him.

I must have missed that, but Patty Cockrum always seemed a little nutty to me.