10 Oldest Mutants In X-Men History

6. Graymalkin (Estimated Age - 216)

Jonas Graymalkin - who took his surname for his code name because of course you would, Graymalkin is a baller name - is a more recent addition to the X-Men universe, but his origins are actually rooted all the way back in the 18th century. Back in the day Jonas was a 16-year-old struggling with a secret that would find him ostracised from his ignorant, narrow-minded community, causing his friends and neighbours to hate and fear him: he was gay.

When his dad caught him in bed with another man he beat Graymalkin to a pulp and, assuming he was dead, dragged him out into the woods and buried him. Which is right around the time his mutant abilities began to kick in.

Graymalkin gains power from being in the darkness, and the longer he spends in the shadows the greater his strength, enhanced agility and seeming invulnerability. So spending two hundred years in complete darkness meant that he managed to heal from what would have been lethal injuries sustained from his homophobic father, and then some.

Turns out his family lived on the land the Xavier Institute was later built on so, during one of the many, many attacks on the school by the Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants (bad name, guys, btw) Jonas was shaken out of his 200 year suspended animation snooze and joined up with the Young X-Men.

Despite him being, technically, 216 years old, he's not been up to much recently, but maybe he's taking a well deserved rest. Dude's pretty old.