10 Oldest Mutants In X-Men History
3. Exodus (Estimated Age - 1000)
Where do you go after an X-Man born in the 19th Century? Easy, you go even further and uncover an X-Men villain who's been knocking about since the 12th Century, if you can believe that.
Mr Sinister, the bad guy who's weirdly obsessed with Cyclops and the Summers family as a whole, has also been around since the mid-19th Century, but he's technically not a mutant - just a regular human who messed about with his genetics so he looks like a scary mime (just a regular mime, then). Exodus is not only the real deal, but he's also so much older, having been born in 12th Century France under the name Bennet Du Paris. Which is like the most French name ever.
Sure, Wolverine fought in a couple of poxy World Wars, but Exodus? That guy was in the Crusades. As a Crusader. So not only is he ancient, but also kind of a douche.
When his powers manifested he was found worthy of chilling with Apocalypse, who is like the ultimate ancient X-Men villain and will probably show up in this list at some point - be patient. Unfortunately he wasn't as submissive as the bad guy needed and so he got sealed up in a crypt in the Swiss Alps, trapped in a coma-like state for literal centuries.
Suddenly Graymalkin's not looking so impressive. Nobody managed to wake him from his slumber until that trouble maker Magneto showed up, roused him and recruited him to his Acolytes over on his asteroid base Avalon (Magneto's other, lesser-known mutant power is alliteration). Exodus, like a lot of these ancient superfolk, has a buttload of powers, because we guess he had more time to practice, or something?
Clearly he's not got the wisdom of the old timers, though, since he's currently in a mutant prison. Ha, ha.