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There are well over several hundred X-Men or other X-Men related characters. This is why it's so important to comic book fans (lovingly referred to as geeks or nerds) to know the exact form of media or time period you were curious about.

When X-Men was first published by Marvel Comics in 1963, there were the original five members of the team (Jean Grey / Marvel Girl, Scott Summers / Cyclops, Henry McCoy / Beast, Bobby Drake / Iceman, and Warren Worthington III / Angel), Charles Xavier / Professor X (the leader), and the villain (Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto). As this comic book series got bigger, more and more characters were added to the rosters on both sides. The characters' histories were also expanded, resulting in those characters having families and friends outside of the ranks of the X-Men. These families would expand to the point that some of the X-Men have the largest or most iconic families in the Marvel Universe, the best examples of this being the Grey/Summers family tree (involving characters like Phoenix, Cyclops, Cable, Marvel Girl, Havok, etc.), the Eisenhardt/Lehnsherr/Maximoff/Dane family tree (Magneto, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Polaris, etc.), and the Howlett family tree (Wolverine, X-23, Daken, etc.).

Today, some of the most iconic characters in the X-Men are (listed by their code names). They are, in no particular order: Wolverine, Storm, Phoenix, Cyclops, Magneto, Professor X, Psylocke, Iceman, Beast, Emma Frost, Colossus, Shadowcat, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Gambit, Jubilee, Mystique, and Sabretooth. It's worth noting that many of their enemies over the years have also been members of the X-Men or a splinter team (X-Factor, X-Force, New Mutants, Generation X, etc.) over the years. Some of their most iconic enemies are Dark Phoenix, Apocalypse, Mister Sinister, Magneto, Mystique, Sabretooth, and the Sentinels.

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