10 Bizarre Cameos In X-Men Comics

If you don't know who Obnoxio the Clown is, that's fine; few people do when they open this comic up. The answer is just so baffling.

Turns out Obnoxio was the mascot of Crazy Magazine, a now defunct Marvel humour publication that really never had much to do with the comics. Obnoxio is the worst. He is a rude, vulgar, and cynical cigar-smoking clown who looks like he's been through real tough living.

For some reason, after Crazy Magazine went under, Obnoxio starred in a one-shot comic titled, Obnoxio the Clown vs. the X-Men. The story has the X-Men celebrating Kitty Pryde's birthday, and Professor X, being a wise and responsible guardian to a 14-year-old girl, hired a drunken, slovenly clown to help Kitty celebrate. He also told no one that he did this, which is unfortunate because Charles is promptly knocked out by an intruder at the beginning of the story, causing the X-Men to mistake Obnoxio for the guilty culprit.

Somehow the clown manages to survive against the full might of the X-Men while the actual intruder attacks everyone from the Danger Room's control panel. Obnoxio ends up thwarting the villain, and the X-Men apologize for attacking him, but it's too late and Obnoxio simply turns and angrily grumbles his way out the mansion.