5 Best & Worst Things About X-Men Comics
7. Worst - Your Favourite Characters Will Probably Be Forgotten About
The X-Men are more than just a team, they're an entire community. Along with the main group, there are numerous spin-offs and a school full of young mutants. All of this adds up to a whole bunch of characters.
With so many mutants running around, it's inevitable that not everyone is going to get a fair share of the spotlight. Unfortunately, it often seems like it's the best characters who are hit the hardest.
Cult favourites like Moonstar and Doctor Nemesis will just up and vanish. Even major characters like Nightcrawler (who is the best X-Man as a matter of objective fact and definitely not just personal opinion) aren't immune, enduring long periods stuck in the background, that is if they're lucky enough to appear at all.
It's more than just these characters not appearing, it's that they'll vanish for months or years at a time with no explanation. Fans are robbed of any kind of fitting send-off and forced to accept that their favourite characters are just somewhere doing something.
This is especially silly when certain situations seem built for specific characters. For example, the X-Club is a group of Mutantkind's greatest scientists and yet the X-Men apparently didn't feel the need to ask them for help with the whole giant death cloud business.