10 X-Men Characters Writers Need To Stop Using
9. Firestar
Best known for her time on the 1980s cartoon “Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends”, Angelica Jones has been portrayed in the comics as a mutant. Originally a part of Emma Frost’s rival Hellions at the Massachusetts Academy, Firestar took an extended absence from mutantdom before growing to become a professor with the X-Men at the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.
Since her reintroduction to X-relevancy, Firestar has made a handful of appearances without really doing much of anything. When she is in a book it often feels like the writers don’t know what to do with her character, often falling a bit flat as a result.
Take 2014’s Amazing X-Men for an example. One has to wonder, if writers don’t actually use her character in stories, why include her in the story at all?