10 Horrific X-Men Characters Who Should Never Appear In The Movies

8. Thunderbird

Initially created as a character who would fail the entrance examination to join the new X-Men in the 1970s (thereby making membership appear to be a qualification rather than something that anyone could just walk into), creators Len Wein and Chris Claremont decided they liked Thunderbird enough to change their minds and have him actually succeed in joining the X-Men. He didn€™t succeed in much else, though. Thunderbird's next Big Narrative Role was to be the first of the new team to die, to teach them (and by extension the readers, I suppose) all about mortality or something equally rubbish. He went to the happy hunting ground in the sky on only their second mission€ which was fair enough really, given that he was only ever distinguished by his habit of being a massive a-hole to everyone he ever met. According to his bio, James Proudstar€™s powers included superhuman senses (but not as finely-tuned as Wolverine€™s), strength and stamina (but not nearly as great as Colossus€™), speed and agility (but nothing close to that displayed by Nightcrawler) and... sturdiness. He was sturdy. That€™s a word generally used to tactfully describe overweight children. Everything about Thunderbird was weaksauce. When his younger brother James joined the X-teams later on in life, he was named Warpath and revealed to have a far more congenial personality, and similar powers which became far greater in scope€ because they could only really have one unpleasant waste of time in the family, I suppose.