10 Things Marvel Wants You To Forget About The X-Men

The X-Men have had a very long, confusing, sometimes great, and sometimes not so great history. From their quiet and humble beginnings to the constant modern-day changes, the mutant nation is a key component to the Marvel landscape.

Since Chris Claremont jumped onto the ship and sailed into uncharted waters with great success, the X-Men have often been one of the biggest sellers in Marvel. So much so that multiple spin-off teams have taken the plunge into the Marvel Universe as well. Some of those teams have gone onto be successful and boosted the mutant tapestry of lore. Some have left stains on said tapestry.

The X-Men were brought into life in 1963 by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. With a rich history comes plenty of stories. A lot of stories have had a lasting, often positive, impact on X-Men readers. Some stories have inspired thoughts about the world we live in.

But not every story has been great. In fact, with Marvel/Disney purchasing Fox and bringing the X-Men film rights back home, there’s going to be some moments that Marvel would like us to forget about the X-Men.

A spin-off team of the X-Men, X-Force were created in 1991 from the ashes of the New Mutants. After its original cancellation, and a couple of false restarts, the team properly arrived back in 2008. They were brought in to eliminate potential threats to mutants, with lethal force.

In 2010, Rick Remender jumped on board to write the Uncanny X-Force series. The first story arc involved Apocalypse being reborn. After the team face off against the new Horseman, they finally arrive to where Clan Akkaba are keeping Apocalypse. Only to find out Apocalypse has been reborn as a child.

Playing on the theory of whether a person could go back in time and kill Hitler as a baby, the X-Force team are split on whether to kill child Apocalypse. Due to the indoctrinated upbringing Apocalypse has had, against the fact he has yet to do anything wrong himself, made this decision difficult.

Eventually, the team can’t bring themselves to kill Apocalypse and decide to attempt to break the indoctrination by taking him back to their mutant brethren. However, a gun is fired, and Apocalypse’s body thuds onto the ground. Fantomex stands with the smoking gun.

Later in the series, we find out that Fantomex has cloned Apocalypse to try and raise him well. While this does ease the shock of the events, we still witnessed a child being murdered.