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The X-Men have long been mutantkind’s first and last line of defense. Consisting of the most respected mutants in the Marvel Universe, the X-Men have been saving the day for a long time, battling both the most dangerous villains around and human racism. There are few teams that have as tough a mandate as they do.
Things have gotten better for them in some ways and worse in others in recent years with the establishment of the mutant nation of Krakoa, but one thing hasn’t changed – the team makes a lot of mistakes. Some of these mistakes are bigger than others and have hurt the team a lot over the years.
10 Trusting Professor X Is Often A Bad Idea
Professor X is the mentor of the X-Men and he’s also one of the shadiest heroes in the Marvel Universe. For example, he once faked his death to fight aliens and only told Jean, who he had a crush on since she was a teenager. He was a member of the Illuminati, whose actions directly led to the Skrull invasion of Earth. When the Danger Room gained sentience, he enslaved it. He wiped Cyclops’s mind of an entire dead team of X-Men that included his long-lost brother.
Professor X is not a trustworthy person and yet the X-Men keep trusting him. It’s led them to some pretty bad places.
9 Putting Beast In Charge Of X-Force Has Almost Doomed Krakoa More Than Once
Beast used to be the X-Men’s resident scientist joker, a tough-as-nails fighter who’d rather be in the lab than on the battlefield. However, in recent years, he’s gotten really good at doing things that are bad for everyone, and for some reason, someone thought putting him in charge of X-Force, basically the Krakoan CIA, was a good idea.
Sure, he’s proven to be shady enough for the job but he’s not exactly good at it. His dealings with the country of Terra Verde and trying to control their telefloronic technology has backfired spectacularly, putting Krakoa in danger that keeps compounding.
8 The Team Has Trusted Sabretooth Multiple Times And It Never Ends Well
Sabretooth is one of Wolverine’s greatest villains and he’s fought the X-Men numerous times over the years. However, sometimes, the X-Men are kind of slow on the uptake and have trusted that this feral, abusive, completely untrustworthy serial killer is genuine when he claims to want to reform and join the team. Sure, the X-Men are supposed to help mutants but Sabretooth has made them pay for this stupidity many times.
Sabretooth has always betrayed the team every time he joined up with them. The fact that it has happened more than once and the X-Men have fallen for it so many times calls their judgment into question.
7 Psylocke And Wolverine Ignored All Of The Warning Signs That Archangel Was Becoming The New Apocalypse
Wolverine’s time as leader of X-Force had its ups and downs. One of the biggest downs being when Archangel decreed himself the new Apocalypse, working the Final Horsemen, Dark Beast, and Age of Apocalypse refugees to remake the Earth in his twisted image. However, Wolverine and Psylocke, Archangel’s girlfriend at the time, had been ignoring that this was going to happen for months.
The two of them were content to use the Archangel’s dark side and ignore the monster under the surface, an action that directly led to the deaths of thousands.
6 The Hellfire Gala’s Fireworks Angered The Entire World
The Hellfire Gala was Krakoa’s big coming-out party as celebrities and government officials from around the world gathered together for an opulent display of mutant wealth. Emma Frost promised fireworks and it ended up being way more than just the introduction of a new team of X-Men. Instead, it was a front-row seat as a group of the most powerful mutants on the planet worked with mutants from Arakko to make Mars capable of bearing human life.
They then decreed the planet the new capital of the solar system and ceded it to the mutants of Arakko. This massive display of power and hubris angered the entire world, who were already pretty unhappy with the mutants in general, and made them even bigger targets.
5 Trusting Emma Frost Led The X-Men Into Conflict With The Inhumans
Emma Frost joined the X-Men but she was always a bit of a disruptive influence. After the death of her lover Cyclops from the M-Pox and her tricking the world into thinking Black Bolt killed him, Emma Frost disappeared, planning her revenge on the Inhumans for their part in the whole thing. She would eventually show back up and spur the X-Men into conflict with the Inhumans, needling them into doing her bidding.
The whole thing would backfire spectacularly as the X-Men would discover Frost’s lies and join up with the Inhumans to fight her. She would escape again, going back to the Hellfire Club for the first time in years.
4 The Schism Between Wolverine And Cyclops Weakened Mutantkind
Wolverine and Cyclops have had a complicated relationship over the years. They’ve often almost come to blows and the one time they did it split the mutant race in two. Getting into a fight over Cyclops’s use of young mutants to fight and kill, X-Men picked sides, with some leaving Utopia with Wolverine and others staying on the island.
This led to a weakening of the already diminished mutant race, one that would lead to both sides holding a grudge against each other. There’s a chance that things would have been very different when the Phoenix came to Earth in Avengers Vs X-Men if Wolverine was there to help Cyclops with the whole thing instead of siccing the Avengers on him.
3 Moira MacTaggert And Professor X Messing With Magneto’s Mind Led To One Of His Most Brutal Attacks
Weird X-Men continuity time – once, Magneto got de-aged to a child and was entrusted to Moira MacTaggert’s care. She raised him and with Professor X’s help, tried to change the way he looked at the world. He would eventually discover all of this and attack the X-Men with the help of his new followers, the Acolytes.
This was one of his most deadly attacks, as he retrieved nuclear missiles from a Russian sub he had sunk years before and tried to hold the world hostage, forcing S.H.I.E.L.D. to take action and destroy his home base of Asteroid M after the X-Men defeated him.
2 Professor X’s Mindwipe Of Magneto Led To Grave Consequences
Professor X and Magneto’s complicated relationship came to a head after he crippled the Earth with a massive electromagnetic pulse. Joining the X-Men in a psi-powered exoskeleton that allowed him to walk, Professor X was there when Magneto ripped the adamantium from Wolverine’s skeleton. He retaliated on his old friend turned foe by mindwiping him.
However, a piece of Magneto and his power became a part of Xavier. The two merged and become the monster Onslaught, a nigh-omnipotent being that would cause massive damage to the Marvel Universe.
1 Cyclops’s Time As A Phoenix Host Should Have Never Been Allowed
The situation with the Phoenix Force in Avengers Vs. X-Men was extremely complicated and Cyclops can’t be entirely to blame for it. However, the man had been leading a vastly diminished mutant race for ages. He was paranoid and desperate and the fact that a good portion of mutantkind trusted him with the power and his leadership was a huge mistake.
This would directly lead to Cyclops allowing Namor to almost destroy Wakanda, fighting the Avengers even though they were right that Cyclops had gone too far with his newfound power and the death of Professor X. The whole thing was a massive black eye for mutants and led to a lot of bad places.
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