Xavier is one big manipulitive bastard...plus even Lex Luthor did the same thing once.

Marvel
1. Wolfsbane
2. Colossus *
3. Rictor (Julio Rictor)
4. Mary Jane Watson-Parker *
5. Shadowcat *
6. Wolverine *
7. Jubilee
8. Hawkeye (Clint Barton) *
9. Warpath (James Proudstar)
10. Psylocke

So it looks like five of mine made the list. The rest look to be longshots now.

Lol - just like Azrael and the Eradicator making #1 and #2 on the DC list!

I'm kinda hoping for Ben Grimm as number two (though Thor was my personal number one)but am pretty much resigned to Wolverine in the second slot.
And I gotta say, part of me wants Scott Summers to miss out the top fifty altogether. My nineteen-year-old self still blames him for Jean's death.

(maybe that's the whiskey talking....)

I'm rather interested by the direction they went in.

Obviously Spider-Man will be #1.

Wolverine may be #2. Or he may be #5.

I'm pretty sure I did vote for Kurt. He's got a great spirit and that whole deeply religious Catholic morality contrasted with his demonic appearance and all is just great. I knew he couldn't carry his own book, just like the Vision, another of my favorites I voted for, but they're great supporting characters and classic in the Marvel style.

Here here for another Valkyrie vote ! She definitely did get my vote. I think she and Black Knight are the two most underutilized characters Marvel has. Tons of potential and a stomping great female character to boot.

Iron Man just fell shy of making my list IIRC, but would have come very close. His shades of grey is fascinating and the fact that he's a bazillionnaire sorta Bill Gates in armor with a monkey on his back is great. One of my fav IM stories is when he squares off against Doom in # 149-150. Those two are natural opponents. We should more throwdown between them.

No way Cyclops is in the top 10. Not that I don't like him, but if he hasn't made the list so far then he's toast.

Not sure about Ghost Rider.

My bet says Wolvie will be # 1.

Cyclops
Tattletale
Shadowcat
Cypher
Marathon (from Strikeforce)

When I think "Marvel" I can't help but think "mutant." I was a die-hard Marvel Zombie from 84-89. And, while I loved Peter David's Spider-Man and Gruenwald's Cap and Simpson's Thor, the characters and character development that came from the Claremont era of X-Men is what really got me into Marvel in the first place.

I know Claremont gets dissed a lot on fan boards, but I had the fortune to come in on his X-Men run early enough that I didn't lose the forest in the trees. I got to watch the forest spring up around me. And, that's a level of fun that, for me, was only equalled by Peter David's run on Hulk.

Anyway, we've seen Shadowcat. And, I'm really really hoping Cyclops makes the top 10, because I'd be disapointed if he didn't even make the top 50. But, I don't expect Tattletale or Cypher to make the list. Which is kinda sad when you compare their roles in Marvel to the roles that characters like Blue Beetle and Starman had in the DCU, and they made the list.

I think that Marvel's list has a lot of glitz and glamour characters, but that DC's list is showing more heart and story-important characters at this point. Not saying that's a good or bad thing in general.

But, in my opinion, DC today has become more about story and less about popular marketable characters; while Marvel today has become more about popular marketable characters and less about story. This is interesting to me because 20 years ago, I'd have said the same thing, only opposite.

Theno

So what? It's a comics forum, on a poll about comics about characters. And most people here disliked the film. Actually, not only here, since it's rated 5.4 on IMDB, and while it did $115 on US, the budget was around $110, not counting marketing costs. Add to that that his series is written by everyone's least favorite writer, Daniel Way.

There's something extremely appealing about somebody with a demonic appearance having such an optimistic, exuberant personality. He represents everything good about the X-Men, IMO.

I'll jump up to defend him: Nightcrawler's easily my favorite comic character ever, even if there's not a ton of truly great stories with him. He's got a pretty unique design, that is recognizable even by silhouette, and is usually more upbeat and fun than the rest of the X-batch. In fact, I'm less an X-Men fan, than I am a Nightcrawler fan.

I miss way back in the day, when Nightcrawler got more guest star spots: I love that he's in an issue reprinted in Essential Punisher volume 1, that's what the Marvel Universe is all about.

Now, I'm trying to remember if I voted for Deadpool...I really should have.

Yes, that’s exactly how Magneto was…in 1963.

And plenty of other times since then. You must have missed that whole period in the nineties where he ripped out Wolverine's skeleton, took posession of a whole island country through terrorist means, and was able to drive Professor X to become a supervillain and attempt to kill most of Marvel's main heroes, simply by being a bad influence on the Professor's psyche.

If you look up Magneot on wikipedia, you'll get a pretty clear picture of just how much of a bastard Magneto has been. Yes, he reformed at one point. And then he went back to his old ways. They gave him a better motivation for his actions, but he still behaves like a supervillain.

Anyway I hope Cyclops makes it to the top ten. For some reason I think he won't...

I doubt so. How many people do you see discussing Ghost Rider nowdays? He’s not even A-list anymore, if he ever was.

Major movie release this summer. Starring Nic Cage. Granted, the Nic Cage part was more exciting than the movie part, but still.