10 Horrific X-Men Characters Who Should Never Appear In The Movies
4. Tag
Another doomed member of the Xavier student body, Brian Tag Cruz was a kid who preferred to follow rather than lead, taking the enthusiastic lackey role in the Hellions group on campus. Well, with a power like his Id have merged with the scenery too. As his nickname suggests, Cruz could psionically tag someone, making them emit a psychic signal that influenced others to either be repelled and run away from them or compelled to run directly at them. He could also determine how many other people this would affect. Because Cruz was a kid at school and an X-Men character, hed usually say Tag! Youre it! after tagging someone, thereby making everyone reading the comic wish that one of the Institutes teachers would clip him around the ear. Some of the mutant kids at the Xavier Institute were deliberately given non-powers, as a nod to the idea that the genetic x-factor that determined mutation didnt always give you cool superpowers, but occasionally just made you a weird, ugly novelty. Beak, for example, was an birdlike humanoid who couldnt even fly, but because he was brilliantly, touchingly written, became an incredibly popular part of the supporting cast. Tag wasnt one of those kinds of characters. They even had a storyline that suggested what the upper limits of his powers might be when he had grown and matured sufficiently to access the higher end of his mutation. Sadly, hed be one of the forty-three children who wouldnt get to grow and mature at all: losing his powers on M-Day, hed be on the bus leaving the Institutes grounds that would become the target of a terrorist missile.
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