5 Best & Worst Things About X-Men Comics
5. Best - Great Characters
The X-Men have some of the best characters in comics. They are complicated and nuanced, fighting with their own flaws as often as they fight supervillains.
A great example is Magneto, a character who always straddles the line between hero and villain. Often described as the Malcolm X to Xavier's Martin Luther King, he's someone who is willing to go to extreme measures to ensure the survival of mutant kind. In Magneto's mind, he's every bit as much of a hero as Professor X. That and his tragic backstory growing up in a WWII concentration camp make him an incredibly compelling character.
It's more than that they start off so complicated though, it's the fact that so many of the X-Men are allowed to age and develop. Characters like Rogue have grown over the years, becoming more mature as the years go by, overcoming problems and facing new ones as they become older. It's one of the most rewarding things about being a long-term X-Men fan, seeing a character grow from an angry and insecure teen grow into a kind and loving mentor, albeit one who can drop a freight train on you if you get on her bad side.