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

3. Goldballs

A mutant kid whose power is activated by the Phoenix force and who joins Cyclops€™ revolutionary forces, Fabio Medina's superpower allows him to project a seemingly infinite number of solid balls of varying size from any part of his body. Made of an unknown substance, these spheres can fly at high speeds at his opponents, and can be directed at a specific target or just flung out in a random straight line - they vanish when he wants them to, rather than needing to be reabsorbed by his body, and so don€™t really have any reality outside of his. Now this is a superpower that could be spun to work really well, both visually and in terms of a comic book narrative. Medina could project a thousand tiny spheres at the speed of sound and become a living machine gun, varying the speed and consistency of the spheres to provide effective crowd control or to incapacitate an opponent. Damn. That€™s actually pretty cool. Fabio Medina is not a cool kid, however. Not only did he have so little control over his power that he€™d involuntarily sweat golden balls, causing them to roll about around him when he was stressed or upset, he got so overexcited by the thought of kind-of-not-really being an X-Man that he€™d activate his power by shouting the word €œGoldballs!€ Hence the name. They also make a 'poink' sound when they appear. Leaving aside the fact that €˜Goldballs€™ sounds like the name of the villain in a bad James Bond parody, the only other pop culture phenomena that activate their powers by loudly shouting their own name are Pokemon. As much as I like the idea of someone in a kickass X-fight constantly shouting the word €˜goldballs€™ (go ahead and shout it yourself in a public place, you€™ll see what I mean), this muppet is a next level kind of idiot. Poink.