10 Oldest Mutants In X-Men History

8. Wipeout (Estimated Age - 70+)

Wipeout is a pretty minor character in the X-Mythos, a comic book series that is infamous for its ludicrously large ensemble cast of supporting roles (it got so bad they had to do a storyline that was just about reducing the mutant population by 99%, and we still don't know who half the members of X-Factor are). Still, he's a minor character who, if you look up any bio or mention of him during his scant appearances, is principally characterised by being elderly.

His mutant power actually is being old as balls! Well, actually his mutant power was that he could block of "wipe out" the abilities of his kin using mental powers. Something he mainly used for EVIL. You see Wipeout was a member of the Press Gang, a group of shadowy enforcer types who kept the mutant slaves of sovereign island state Genosha in check. Yeah, the history of Genosha is weird.

Whilst it became a save haven for mutantkind in later years - before it got blown up by Sentinels - it started off as a bit of a ham-handed allegory for apartheid-era South Africa, which is why gross old white dude Wipeout was helping keep those pesky muties in check. Owing to his advanced years he didn't actually got on on missions for the country's Magistrates, but instead presided over their prison system.

In most cases he just sat around in the Genoshan jail, waiting for his teammate Pipeline to bring him new prisoners whose powers he could get rid of and then chuck them in a cell. During the mostly terrible X-Tinction Agenda storyline, Wipeout gets murdered in a confusing plot to frame Cyclops' brother Havok for some reason.

Still, before he bit the dust he was one of the few confirmed elderly mutants, so that's why he's here.