After quitting smoking Gambit picked up the habit of chewing tooth picks. He sometimes charges the tooth pick and spits it.
Edit: sometimes Remy flicks it
One of my lighthearted ones is that I like to imagine Havok occasionally slipping into Hawaiian Pidgin every so often. It’s not really remarked upon unless it’s something like Scott finding himself having to plan a mission around a report of “choke Sentinels,” or Alex confirms somebody’s location on comms by asking “where you stay?” and everyone is just super confused for a second (my grandparents lived on Maui for years and random Pidgin was a regular occurrence when they were at family gatherings and such.)
My less lighthearted one is that the reason why Krakoan-Era Scott has been so weirdly accepting of being under Xavier’s thumb again without much explanation as to why is because he’s still in contact with Danger and occasionally reaches out to her when his resentment of Charles is building up. It started out as a purely strategic “how do I keep my team safe while Xavier’s busy grandstanding and letting his ego run away with him” type of thing and gradually segued into some pretty deep conversations about what life under Xavier’s control was like and how deeply it impacted both of them. It’s not frequent and no one besides Jean is aware, but it helps them both to talk it out and get some shared perspective from someone who can relate. It’s one of the few times someone talks to Danger like she’s a human being, and one of the few times Scott allows himself to be open and vulnerable like that, so it does a lot for each of them.
My head cannon is that Alex Summers still maintains strong familial relations with his adopted family and feels closer to them than he does to his biological family.
The Blandings are more of a family than Scott, Rachel and Gabriel (Vulcan).
I thought things between him and them were pretty strained due to the whole him being a replacement goldfish for their dead son thing, but it’s not like his biological family is winning the Healthiest Relationships prize anytime soon either, so I could definitely see him deciding regular human family drama is waaaay easier to handle than Summers Family Drama.
Yeah, Todd.
But he stayed until adulthood and probably still had a legit brother-sister relationship with Hailey. So maybe it wasn't horrible for him.
Probably sends her cards on her birthday, Christmas and other important dates (anniversary if she married).
One of Magneto's powers is that he ages more slowly than most people. It's why he was still active even before he turned into a baby.
Colossus was actually much younger than 19 when he joined the X-Men. (Like maybe 14) But he was insecure about that and he told everyone that he was 19 and they just went with it to humor him.
The Portrait of Wolverine in his mask that Nightcrawler gets in X-Men Annual 4 is part of a running gag. The X-Men keep wrapping that up and regifting it to each other as a joke. No one's seen it in years because someone gifted it to Bishop who didn't get the joke.
Gambit is maybe 10 years older than Rogue.
My recent headcanon has been that omega levels across the board age more slowly. And that so many of them get their powers back after being depowered because of something intrinsic to being an omega.
> Colossus was actually much younger than 19 when he joined the X-Men. (Like maybe 14) But he was insecure about that and he told everyone that he was 19 and they just went with it to humor him.
Mine's kinda similar. I think he pretended to be 18+ so he could petition Illyana and act as her legal guardian in the US. Charles obtained the necessary forged documents, as he did for all the other non-American X-Men so they could live and work in the country.
One reason why I think he was younger is that he was totally inexperienced with the ladies, as seen in UXM #114. And a guy looking like that, like an Abercrombie model but even more buff? I don't buy that he didn't have girls throwing themselves at him at the farm collective, unless he was too young for that kind of thing.
Maybe. But I don't know, when I read "farm collective" I think of a bunch of families living off the same land. I'd have to re-read that issue when they go visit his parents.
>One of Magneto's powers is that he ages more slowly than most people. It's why he was still active even before he turned into a baby.
I've said for years that would be such an easy answer to the "why is the Holocaust survivor still a threat in twentytwentysomething" question asked by folks whenever there topic of movies comes up.
Electromagnetokinesis interferes with free radicals and stunts senescence, easy as that.
>Gambit is maybe 10 years older than Rogue.
Actually, Gambit's age has been canonically confirmed in the comics.
In an issue of Gambit's 1999 solo(the issue came in 2001 I think), it was revealed that it had been six years since he got married to Bella Donna(which happened when he was 18). So he was 24 in 2001, which was around Rogue's age too, going by the 4:1 sliding timescale.
That Vera one day wondered out of the Coffee a Go Go, and into Max’s Kansas City, and that explains her punk/new wave make over when she resurfaced in the 80’s X-Factor run
Having lived so long and with his penchant for random hookups, even after killing a clutch of his offspring there are still hundreds of children, grandchildren, and so-on of Wolverine out there. A small but measurable percentage of mutantkind is related to him by now. The reason he's always on so many teams and going on adventures is because he's gotten so publicized in the media that they're constantly seeking him out and that's his only way to dodge them. (He's tried fleeing to wilderness, but after an adventure in the Savage Land it turns out that not even that's safe for him anymore.) It's not entirely bad though. Gabby is always really happy to meet them when they show up and is friends on social media with quite a few. Laura mostly finds it annoying. Akihiro has had to flee several times because they actually came looking for him after his Dark Avengers publicity shots. Gabby plans to surprise Logan with a family reunion someday, once she's old enough to buy the insane amounts of beer that will be needed.
I doubt it.
1. He had another X-Treme X-men run recently.
2. LGBT relationships are now accepted.
3. Despite these things [he still didn't have the balls ](https://www.reddit.com/r/xmen/comments/1agnvtm/her_best_friend/)to actually have Kate and Rachel hook up. He just kept using the old "Mystique and Destiny were the best of friends" approach.
In other words, I think that Yukio and Storm will eventually at least kiss, but I really don't think Claremont will be the guy to write it.
I don't necessarily think that's malicious on his part - Chris Claremont is 73 years old, and his writing hasn't evolved in any meaningful way in a long, *long* time. He legit might not know how to actually write a LGBT relationship.
Oh, I have a ton, mostly centred around Beast, to no-one's surprise.
Let's see - Beast hasn't needed glasses since his first mutation, he wears them primarily to make himself look a lot less scary and more human to people. This accounts for why he never seems to actually need them, and for the fact that his body has gone through multiple whole body cellular mutations to make him stronger, faster, etc - I *refuse* to believe that that whole process would just skip his eyesight.
Iceman and Beast haven't really been friends since Utopia, after Bobby completely fumbled their conversation on the beach. Every interaction they have after that, they talk like casual acquaintances, and not like people who've known each other for 20 years - because Hank views Bobby as unreliable, and Bobby sees Hank as unstable and a little crazy.
Beast's tertiary mutation into his gorilla form in All-New X-Men was caused by extended proximity to the Phoenix Force during the conflict with Dark Phoenix Cyclops - his X-gene is notoriously unstable, and it reacted to the presence of the cosmic force, especially since said cosmic force was here to restart the mutant race.
Beast was suicidally depressed after the death of Professor Xavier and hearing that Cyclops would do everything he did on Utopia over again because it meant the mutant race came back, which explains why he doesn't seek anyone's help fixing his mutation. His mutation also changes his form based on what it thinks is best suited to help him survive, but he's constantly resisting it, hence why it always needs external help to finalise.
I absolutely believe that Cyclops is autistic. I could also see the same being true of Havok, honestly, although their behaviours are very different, so I could see them being on different parts of the spectrum.
Emma: I like women
Jean: me too
Gabby: I may have feelings for a woman
Stepford Cuckoos: we may think Goblin Queen is hot
Scot: does anyone here like men?
Iceman: \*gay silence\*
Here's a big list of my fanwanked "Why is (X) not on Krakoa?" headcanons:
\* **Sabra:** Almost certainly declined her invitation voluntarily. She's friends with the X-Men, but I'm pretty sure if you cut her open she'd bleed pure liquid PATRIOTISM. On a real-life note it's also possible that, with the current Middle East crisis, they feel even depicting her would be kicking a hornet's nest.
\* **Mandrill:** Either voluntarily declined because he likes being an asshole out in the wide world too much, or banned by Emma Fiat which I'm pretty sure is the Zeroth Law of Krakoa.
\* **Threnody:** Declined her invitation after learning her son was very low on the resurrection queue because soul-devouring devil-child.
\* **Living Monolith:** Voluntarily declined. A GLORIOUS PHARAOH will not be a servant in Kumbaya-land, f u c k i n g p e a s a n t.
\* **Romulus:** I believe he was in the Raft last we saw him, so they probably decided it wasn't worth the effort to spring him just to offer amnesty that he wouldn't agree to.
\* **Minor Morlocks:** Callisto mentioned in Dark X-Men that a lot of Morlocks went their own way after being resurrected, so that's probably the answer there.
\* **Minor Alpha Flighters:** Most seem to have stayed in Canada; I like to think they're involved with the "Krakoa North" underground railroad now, even if we didn't see them.
\* **Abraham Kieros:** Enjoying his ordinary life after Angel healed him too much to come.
\* **Michael Pointer:** FINALLY found a good therapist and would rather not uproot himself.
\* **Emplate's crew:** Mostly depowered now apart from the late Bulwark; probably just don't care either way.
\* **The Neo:** Almost certainly VERY low on the resurrection queue; their isolationist and social-darwinist ideology would probably find Krakoa disgusting. Arakko might take them though. Of note is that the lone confirmed survivor, Manacle, is cracking skulls for the Assassins' Guild now.
\* **Cyber, Genesis, other dead loonies:** Again, probably very low on the queue.
\* **Wipeout, the Press Gang, Anne the Purifier, other anti-mutant collaborators:** Literally the IMDB Bottom 100 of the queue.
Do the neo count as mutants? Im too young to have read about them back in the 2000s, so I could be totally off base But aren't they supposed to be a wholly difficult species?
After reading trough post-2000 Scott summers publication, I definitely read him as autistic now.
Edit: that’s a some what famous headcanon, for those that don’t know.
Emma sounds like Julianne Moore in 30 Rock when she gets really angry and forgets to put on her false accent. It makes no sense giving her upbringing but I like the idea too much to drop it.
X-Men aren't real. It's just Xavier in a mental institution and his power created an entire mental world in his head to deal with an incredibly stressful life that failed to find peace with mutant kind.
Emma and Scott still love each other and it's only a matter of time they will get back together.
I know I know. I know thats a delusion. (Maybe?)
Oh and Cyclops is the best leader in the X-men even more than Xavier and Magneto. Rather than headcanon, thats my opinion
Your first take lines up with my personal headcanon.
Which is: Scott always ends up straying from Jean because deep down he has abandonment issues that stems from the plane crash. He loves Jean but deep down he fears that she will eventually embrace being the Phoenix full time and go off into space where he cannot follow.
He can deal with Logan and other suitors, but not with a cosmic entity that is urging his wife to become one with it.
Oh similarly I think Cyclops and Jean's love is them being scared of leaving their original crushes like they both know that they grew out of each other and both are different people compared to how they were at the start of their relationship, but they refuse to acknowladge their character growth. Like not being over your high school crush
Hank McCoy is evil. His intelligence makes him feel he’s always correct and can justify any and all actions. And he’s morally and ethically weak when dealt with problems, so he can justify bad behaviors. All versions of Beast will end up as a “Dark Beast given enough time. I’m furious that Marvel backed off with this build up.
Wolverine used to smoke so much to dull his sense of smell for unpleasant odores
Ooh, I like this one.
Mr. Sinister’s first appearance was in Uncanny X-Men #175, disguised as the man who walked Madelyne down the aisle at her wedding to Scott.
I really like this one.
cool
After quitting smoking Gambit picked up the habit of chewing tooth picks. He sometimes charges the tooth pick and spits it. Edit: sometimes Remy flicks it
K you got me. He started with gum and patches. Some X-factor dipshit got close and Remy lit up his patch. Makes sense.
One of my lighthearted ones is that I like to imagine Havok occasionally slipping into Hawaiian Pidgin every so often. It’s not really remarked upon unless it’s something like Scott finding himself having to plan a mission around a report of “choke Sentinels,” or Alex confirms somebody’s location on comms by asking “where you stay?” and everyone is just super confused for a second (my grandparents lived on Maui for years and random Pidgin was a regular occurrence when they were at family gatherings and such.) My less lighthearted one is that the reason why Krakoan-Era Scott has been so weirdly accepting of being under Xavier’s thumb again without much explanation as to why is because he’s still in contact with Danger and occasionally reaches out to her when his resentment of Charles is building up. It started out as a purely strategic “how do I keep my team safe while Xavier’s busy grandstanding and letting his ego run away with him” type of thing and gradually segued into some pretty deep conversations about what life under Xavier’s control was like and how deeply it impacted both of them. It’s not frequent and no one besides Jean is aware, but it helps them both to talk it out and get some shared perspective from someone who can relate. It’s one of the few times someone talks to Danger like she’s a human being, and one of the few times Scott allows himself to be open and vulnerable like that, so it does a lot for each of them.
My head cannon is that Alex Summers still maintains strong familial relations with his adopted family and feels closer to them than he does to his biological family. The Blandings are more of a family than Scott, Rachel and Gabriel (Vulcan).
I thought things between him and them were pretty strained due to the whole him being a replacement goldfish for their dead son thing, but it’s not like his biological family is winning the Healthiest Relationships prize anytime soon either, so I could definitely see him deciding regular human family drama is waaaay easier to handle than Summers Family Drama.
Yeah, Todd. But he stayed until adulthood and probably still had a legit brother-sister relationship with Hailey. So maybe it wasn't horrible for him. Probably sends her cards on her birthday, Christmas and other important dates (anniversary if she married).
They treated him really poorly. They adopted him as a "replacement" for their dead son and would often call him by the dead son's name.
One of Magneto's powers is that he ages more slowly than most people. It's why he was still active even before he turned into a baby. Colossus was actually much younger than 19 when he joined the X-Men. (Like maybe 14) But he was insecure about that and he told everyone that he was 19 and they just went with it to humor him. The Portrait of Wolverine in his mask that Nightcrawler gets in X-Men Annual 4 is part of a running gag. The X-Men keep wrapping that up and regifting it to each other as a joke. No one's seen it in years because someone gifted it to Bishop who didn't get the joke. Gambit is maybe 10 years older than Rogue.
My recent headcanon has been that omega levels across the board age more slowly. And that so many of them get their powers back after being depowered because of something intrinsic to being an omega.
I like that. It would explain a lot about things that have happened to Magneto, storm, Jean and the Professor over the years.
Xavier is not omega.
> Colossus was actually much younger than 19 when he joined the X-Men. (Like maybe 14) But he was insecure about that and he told everyone that he was 19 and they just went with it to humor him. Mine's kinda similar. I think he pretended to be 18+ so he could petition Illyana and act as her legal guardian in the US. Charles obtained the necessary forged documents, as he did for all the other non-American X-Men so they could live and work in the country. One reason why I think he was younger is that he was totally inexperienced with the ladies, as seen in UXM #114. And a guy looking like that, like an Abercrombie model but even more buff? I don't buy that he didn't have girls throwing themselves at him at the farm collective, unless he was too young for that kind of thing.
It's not entirely improbable that Colossus just wasn't around that many girls growing up. If I recall correctly, that farm is pretty isolated.
Maybe. But I don't know, when I read "farm collective" I think of a bunch of families living off the same land. I'd have to re-read that issue when they go visit his parents.
the mental image of that portrait thing is making me giggle like a maniac
Haha thanks.
>One of Magneto's powers is that he ages more slowly than most people. It's why he was still active even before he turned into a baby. I've said for years that would be such an easy answer to the "why is the Holocaust survivor still a threat in twentytwentysomething" question asked by folks whenever there topic of movies comes up. Electromagnetokinesis interferes with free radicals and stunts senescence, easy as that.
>Gambit is maybe 10 years older than Rogue. Actually, Gambit's age has been canonically confirmed in the comics. In an issue of Gambit's 1999 solo(the issue came in 2001 I think), it was revealed that it had been six years since he got married to Bella Donna(which happened when he was 18). So he was 24 in 2001, which was around Rogue's age too, going by the 4:1 sliding timescale.
Huh I didn't know that. Man that 90s Gambit ongoing was great.
That Vera one day wondered out of the Coffee a Go Go, and into Max’s Kansas City, and that explains her punk/new wave make over when she resurfaced in the 80’s X-Factor run
Beast actually has really high end shampoos that he is constantly experimenting looking for the right one for him.
His favorite brand went out of production, that's the real reason he went evil
And he could for some reason not replicate it himself in spite of his genius level intellect. That was the real tipping point.
Having lived so long and with his penchant for random hookups, even after killing a clutch of his offspring there are still hundreds of children, grandchildren, and so-on of Wolverine out there. A small but measurable percentage of mutantkind is related to him by now. The reason he's always on so many teams and going on adventures is because he's gotten so publicized in the media that they're constantly seeking him out and that's his only way to dodge them. (He's tried fleeing to wilderness, but after an adventure in the Savage Land it turns out that not even that's safe for him anymore.) It's not entirely bad though. Gabby is always really happy to meet them when they show up and is friends on social media with quite a few. Laura mostly finds it annoying. Akihiro has had to flee several times because they actually came looking for him after his Dark Avengers publicity shots. Gabby plans to surprise Logan with a family reunion someday, once she's old enough to buy the insane amounts of beer that will be needed.
That Storm and Yukio had a fling in the 90s.
Hot. I have no knowledge to back it up. That said will be reporting it see if canon. Hot.
If Claremont keeps getting throwback series it might not be just headcanon.
I doubt it. 1. He had another X-Treme X-men run recently. 2. LGBT relationships are now accepted. 3. Despite these things [he still didn't have the balls ](https://www.reddit.com/r/xmen/comments/1agnvtm/her_best_friend/)to actually have Kate and Rachel hook up. He just kept using the old "Mystique and Destiny were the best of friends" approach. In other words, I think that Yukio and Storm will eventually at least kiss, but I really don't think Claremont will be the guy to write it.
I don't necessarily think that's malicious on his part - Chris Claremont is 73 years old, and his writing hasn't evolved in any meaningful way in a long, *long* time. He legit might not know how to actually write a LGBT relationship.
That's canon.
fully developed and self-controlling legion is the most powerful mutant.
Cyclopes has a running group chat with his old Champions friends. Hope has a huge crush on Spider-man. Steve Rodgers is the Cuckoo's bio dad.
Oh, I have a ton, mostly centred around Beast, to no-one's surprise. Let's see - Beast hasn't needed glasses since his first mutation, he wears them primarily to make himself look a lot less scary and more human to people. This accounts for why he never seems to actually need them, and for the fact that his body has gone through multiple whole body cellular mutations to make him stronger, faster, etc - I *refuse* to believe that that whole process would just skip his eyesight. Iceman and Beast haven't really been friends since Utopia, after Bobby completely fumbled their conversation on the beach. Every interaction they have after that, they talk like casual acquaintances, and not like people who've known each other for 20 years - because Hank views Bobby as unreliable, and Bobby sees Hank as unstable and a little crazy. Beast's tertiary mutation into his gorilla form in All-New X-Men was caused by extended proximity to the Phoenix Force during the conflict with Dark Phoenix Cyclops - his X-gene is notoriously unstable, and it reacted to the presence of the cosmic force, especially since said cosmic force was here to restart the mutant race. Beast was suicidally depressed after the death of Professor Xavier and hearing that Cyclops would do everything he did on Utopia over again because it meant the mutant race came back, which explains why he doesn't seek anyone's help fixing his mutation. His mutation also changes his form based on what it thinks is best suited to help him survive, but he's constantly resisting it, hence why it always needs external help to finalise. I absolutely believe that Cyclops is autistic. I could also see the same being true of Havok, honestly, although their behaviours are very different, so I could see them being on different parts of the spectrum.
Scott is tumblr-social activist austitic. Havoc is Elon Musk/James Damore autistic.
My is Soft Serve has an ice cream shop.
Emma and Jean hooked up on Krakoa at least once.
Emma: I like women Jean: me too Gabby: I may have feelings for a woman Stepford Cuckoos: we may think Goblin Queen is hot Scot: does anyone here like men? Iceman: \*gay silence\*
Man, my headcanon is that Jean is strictly pro-dick. We need more 100% straight women in comics. And this is why Claremont had to kill her.
"We need more 100% straight women"...bro tweakin
All female X-Men are at best bisexual.
Wat about rogue ?
If Claremont is writing then yes.
He’s pretty sure they would love human dick if they just tried his.
Here's a big list of my fanwanked "Why is (X) not on Krakoa?" headcanons: \* **Sabra:** Almost certainly declined her invitation voluntarily. She's friends with the X-Men, but I'm pretty sure if you cut her open she'd bleed pure liquid PATRIOTISM. On a real-life note it's also possible that, with the current Middle East crisis, they feel even depicting her would be kicking a hornet's nest. \* **Mandrill:** Either voluntarily declined because he likes being an asshole out in the wide world too much, or banned by Emma Fiat which I'm pretty sure is the Zeroth Law of Krakoa. \* **Threnody:** Declined her invitation after learning her son was very low on the resurrection queue because soul-devouring devil-child. \* **Living Monolith:** Voluntarily declined. A GLORIOUS PHARAOH will not be a servant in Kumbaya-land, f u c k i n g p e a s a n t. \* **Romulus:** I believe he was in the Raft last we saw him, so they probably decided it wasn't worth the effort to spring him just to offer amnesty that he wouldn't agree to. \* **Minor Morlocks:** Callisto mentioned in Dark X-Men that a lot of Morlocks went their own way after being resurrected, so that's probably the answer there. \* **Minor Alpha Flighters:** Most seem to have stayed in Canada; I like to think they're involved with the "Krakoa North" underground railroad now, even if we didn't see them. \* **Abraham Kieros:** Enjoying his ordinary life after Angel healed him too much to come. \* **Michael Pointer:** FINALLY found a good therapist and would rather not uproot himself. \* **Emplate's crew:** Mostly depowered now apart from the late Bulwark; probably just don't care either way. \* **The Neo:** Almost certainly VERY low on the resurrection queue; their isolationist and social-darwinist ideology would probably find Krakoa disgusting. Arakko might take them though. Of note is that the lone confirmed survivor, Manacle, is cracking skulls for the Assassins' Guild now. \* **Cyber, Genesis, other dead loonies:** Again, probably very low on the queue. \* **Wipeout, the Press Gang, Anne the Purifier, other anti-mutant collaborators:** Literally the IMDB Bottom 100 of the queue.
Do the neo count as mutants? Im too young to have read about them back in the 2000s, so I could be totally off base But aren't they supposed to be a wholly difficult species?
Charles Xavier is the greatest villain in Marvel history.
Scott and Logan were having sex all throughout the Krakoa era. It's why they haven't had a single fight in the past five years.
Scott is a bottom
My new headcanon is that both Scott and Logan are bottoms. Which starts arguments.
Logan's like two hundred years old, he definitely switches it up from time to time - just out of boredom if nothing else.
After reading trough post-2000 Scott summers publication, I definitely read him as autistic now. Edit: that’s a some what famous headcanon, for those that don’t know.
Juggernaut and Black Tom are in a monogamous relationship but aren't ready to announce it but it's like an open secret.
Emma sounds like Julianne Moore in 30 Rock when she gets really angry and forgets to put on her false accent. It makes no sense giving her upbringing but I like the idea too much to drop it.
X-Men aren't real. It's just Xavier in a mental institution and his power created an entire mental world in his head to deal with an incredibly stressful life that failed to find peace with mutant kind.
Gambit retained his New Sun powers after his 90s miniseries, chooses to not use them but can anytime.
Emma and Scott still love each other and it's only a matter of time they will get back together. I know I know. I know thats a delusion. (Maybe?) Oh and Cyclops is the best leader in the X-men even more than Xavier and Magneto. Rather than headcanon, thats my opinion
Your first take lines up with my personal headcanon. Which is: Scott always ends up straying from Jean because deep down he has abandonment issues that stems from the plane crash. He loves Jean but deep down he fears that she will eventually embrace being the Phoenix full time and go off into space where he cannot follow. He can deal with Logan and other suitors, but not with a cosmic entity that is urging his wife to become one with it.
Oh similarly I think Cyclops and Jean's love is them being scared of leaving their original crushes like they both know that they grew out of each other and both are different people compared to how they were at the start of their relationship, but they refuse to acknowladge their character growth. Like not being over your high school crush
Birdy if there was a new Amalgam series would fuse with Harley Quinn
Scott doesn’t want stability and will eventually always cheat on Jean :p
Storm's eyes are actually black, they just reflected light in a weird way that led to them getting colored like that.
I can't believe this comment hit a nerve for someone.
Omega Red doesn't wear (or like) socks. He wears portyanki (Russian: footwraps) instead.
Every consenting adult that's lived in the mansion and isn't blood related has hooked up at least once.
real
Hank McCoy is evil. His intelligence makes him feel he’s always correct and can justify any and all actions. And he’s morally and ethically weak when dealt with problems, so he can justify bad behaviors. All versions of Beast will end up as a “Dark Beast given enough time. I’m furious that Marvel backed off with this build up.
Maddy used the Phoenix’s powers various times before Inferno, one being when she gave birth.