10 Most Inappropriate X-Men Storylines

It's hard to remember the cartoonish 'Holy War' story that ran between issue #423-424 of the Uncanny X-Men without internally flinching just a little.

The story details Kurt Wagner, known better as the Nightcrawler, being recruited to shapeshift into the Pope by an evil sect of the Catholic Church that sought to wipe out all mutants.

While this isn't a huge deal, the way the comic is set out - with the Pope having evil powers, and them hanging mutants on crosses - is so over the top that any genuine critique of the institution is thrown directly out of the window in lieu of wacky evil antics.

Having the Catholic Church as cartoonishly evil supervillains isn't an effective way of pointing out their flaws, and it also doesn't appear to be done for laughs, leaving the comic feeling heavily uncertain in intention as a result.