At the time of this writing, the X-Men movie franchise includes seven films, spans fourteen years, and includes over a hundred characters from the vast and ever-growing Marvel database. Of those characters appearing onscreen, 64 of them are mutants; some were pulled directly from the pages of the popular comics, some were merely inspired by their comic counterparts, while others were created specifically for the X-Men movie (or TV) universe.
We've gone through all seven X-Men films and compiled an exhaustive list of every mutant who has made an appearance in the last fourteen years - whether it be a main role, secondary role or as a background character. They're all here, listed in alphabetical order. Remember, the descriptions listed are for the character's role in the MOVIE UNIVERSE and not the COMIC UNIVERSE, so there will be some variations in the canon with which you might already be familiar.
Take a look and see if there are any you missed while watching - and in case it isn't already assumed, this post will contain MASSIVE SPOILERS...
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Agent Zero
Real Name: David North
Actor Name: Daniel Henney
Powers/Attributes: Impact Absorption, Marksmanship, Enhanced Reflexes
Films: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Zero was General William Stryker's right-hand man and the leader of Team X. He was killed by Logan in a fiery helicopter crash caused by Wolverine's newly acquired adamantium claws.
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Angel
Real Name: Warren Worthington III
Actor Name: Ben Foster
Powers/Attributes: Natural Winged-Flight
Films: X-Men: The Last Stand
As a kid, Warren struggled with his body's mutation - large bird-like wings attached to his back - but as an adult he grew to accept it. His father, Warren Worthington II, was ashamed of his son's appearance and attempted to cure him - until Angel escaped.
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Anole/Lizard Man
Real Name: Victor Borkowski
Actor Name: Lloyd Adams
Powers/Attributes: Reptilian-like Climbing Ability, Superhuman Agility/Strength
Films: X-Men: The Last Stand
Victor is a member of the outcast group of mutants known as The Omegas. He eventually teamed up with Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants attack on Alcatraz to destroy the mutant cure - which turned out to be a bad move on his part, since he was ultimately cured and lost his mutant abilities.
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Apocalypse
Real Name: En Sabah Nur
Actor Name: Brendan Pedder
Powers/Attributes: Complete Molecular Control of His Body, Telepathy, Telekinesis
Films: X-Men: Days of Future Past
En Sabah Nur is seen being worshipped by thousands in ancient Egypt as he builds the pyramids using his impressive powers of telekinesis, while his four horsemen look on.
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Arclight
Real Name: Philippa Sontag
Actor Name: Omahyra Mota
Powers/Attributes: Produces Concussive Shockwaves
Films: X-Men: The Last Stand
Philippa is a member of the outcast group of mutants known as The Omegas. She is vaporized by The Phoenix while fleeing Alcatraz after raiding it with Magneto and his Brotherhood of Mutants in an attempt to destroy the mutant cure.
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Artie Maddicks
Real Name: Artie Maddicks
Actor Name: Bryce Hodgson
Powers/Attributes: Blue-forked Tongue
Films: X2: X-Men United
Artie is a student at the Xavier Institute, until General Stryker's attack force kidnaps him. He is later rescued by Nightcrawler and carried to safety by Wolverine, while sticking his mutated tongue out at Stryker - his signature move.
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Ash Man
Real Name: Unknown
Actor Name: Mark Helfrich
Powers/Attributes: Molten Lava-Like Skin, Spew Volcanic Ash
Films: X-Men: The Last Stand
Ash joined in on the raid on Alcatraz with Magneto's Brotherhood of Mutants. He appears to have a volatile attitude to go along with his fiery mutant ability.
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Azazel
Real Name: Unknown
Actor Name: Jason Flemyng
Powers/Attributes: Teleportation, Prehensile Tail
Films: X-Men: First Class
As a member of the Hellfire Club, Azazel was Sebastian Shaw's most trusted and deadliest enforcer - for good reason. His skills with a blade were virtually unparalleled and his could teleport large objects (including groups of people) great distances with ease. He died while attacking Bolivar Trask's operation, Project Wideawake.
NEXT PAGE: Mutants B - C
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Banshee
Real Name: Sean Cassidy
Actor Name: Caleb Landry Jones
Powers/Attributes: Supersonic Screams, Sonic Blast, Flight
Films: X-Men: First Class
Cassidy was one of the first mutants to join Charles Xavier's and Erik Lensherr's School for Gifted Youngsters. He died sometime between the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 and the Magneto's escape from the Pentagon in 1973, presumably during Project Wideawake.
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Beast
Real Name: Henry "Hank" McCoy
Actor Name: Steve Bacic, Kelsey Grammer, Nicholas Hoult
Powers/Attributes: Genius-Level Intellect, Superhuman Strength/Agility/Rage while Morphed
Films: X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past
In his early years, Hank served as Professor Xavier's most trusted friend and dedicated right-hand man. In his later years, he served as a reasonable voice of mutants everywhere to the US Government and the general public.
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Bishop
Real Name: Luca Bishop
Actor Name: Omar Sy
Powers/Attributes: Energy Absorption
Films: X-Men: Days of Future Past
In the year 2023, Bishop is fighting for survival along side of the remaining members of the X-Men. With the help of Shadowcat, his conscious is able to travel back a few days in time to warn his fellow mutants of the incoming Sentinel attack - ensuring they live a few days longer.
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Blink
Real Name: Clarice Ferguson
Actor Name: Fan Bingbing
Powers/Attributes: Teleportation Portals
Films: X-Men: Days of Future Past
In the future fight for mutant survival, it's possible that Clarice's ability - to create portals that link one area with a different area - could prove to be the most powerful. With her gifts, the X-Men can fight from miles away or she can send the enemies to a completely different location altogether.
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The Blob
Real Name: Fred Dukes
Actor Name: Kevin Durand
Powers/Attributes: Superhuman Strength, Nearly Indestructible, Rubbery Skin
Films: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Dukes was part of Stryker’s Team X during the early-seventies and proved a vital part of the team using his superhuman strength and virtually impenetrable skin. Years (and several hundred pounds) later, he would be coaxed (read: head butted) by Wolverine into revealing the location of Stryker’s secret testing facility.
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Bolt
Real Name: Christopher Bradley
Actor Name: Dominic Monaghan
Powers/Attributes: Manipulation of Static Electricity
Films: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Bradley was a member of William Stryker's Team X - a group of men who used their abilities for military purposes. After the group disbanded, Victor Creed (under the orders of Stryker) visited Bradley and killed him for his DNA, which would be used in the creation of Weapon XI.
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Callisto
Real Name: Unknown
Actor Name: Dania Ramirez
Powers/Attributes: Superhuman Speed/Agility, Ability to Sense Mutant's Presence/Location/Ability
Films: X-Men: The Last Stand
Callisto is the leader of The Omegas - a group of outcast mutants that band together to defend themselves from human oppression. She accepts Magneto as her leader and convinces her group to join forces with the Brotherhood of Mutants to attack Alcatraz.
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Colossus
Real Name: Peter Rasputin
Actor Name: Daniel Cudmore
Powers/Attributes: Superhuman Strength, Able to Transform His Skin into Organic Metal
Films: X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Peter has been both a student at Professor Xavier's school and a valuable member of the X-Men team. While his organic metal skin is virtually indestructible, it apparently it isn't completely tear resistant - Sentinels rip him apart in the year 2023.
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Cyclops
Real Name: Scott Summers
Actor Name: James Marsden, Tim Pocock
Powers/Attributes: Emits Beams of Concussive Force from His Eyes
Films: X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past
After being kidnapped by Victor Creed, then rescued by Wolverine and Charles Xavier, Summers would become the tactical leader of the X-Men - until his untimely demise at the hands of The Phoenix. Because of his intimate relationship with Jean Grey, his professional relationship with Logan has always been a bit...gruff.
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Cypher
Real Name: Douglas Ramsey
Actor Name: Layke Anderson
Powers/Attributes: Omni-lingual Translation
Films: X2: X-Men United
Ramsey is seen briefly as a student in Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.
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Darwin
Real Name: Armando Muñoz
Actor Name: Edi Gathegi
Powers/Attributes: Reactive Evolution
Films: X-Men: First Class
Armando was one of first mutants to be recruited into Xavier and Lensherr’s team – and unfortunately, the very first to die. His body’s ability to adapt for survival in any situation didn’t do him any good when Sebastian Shaw shoved a ball of energy into his mouth.
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Deadpool
Real Name: Wade Wilson
Actor Name: Ryan Reynolds
Powers/Attributes: Superhuman Strength/Agility/Reflexes, Expert Marksman/Swordsman
Films: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Wade was a quick-swinging, fast-talking, mercenary member of Stryker’s Team X. While he’s extremely good with a blade, he’s also extremely good at getting on Stryker’s nerves – which is probably why he was used as the test subject in Stryker’s Weapon X program.
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Deathstrike
Real Name: Yuriko Oyama
Actor Name: Kelly Hu
Powers/Attributes: Superhuman Strength/Agility, Martial Arts Expert, Adamantium Claws in Her Finger Tips
Films: X2: X-Men United
Once a prisoner, then a test subject, and finally a deadly mercenary for Colonel Stryker, Deathstrike met her match (and her fate) while fighting Wolverine in Stryker’s secret underground test facility.
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Emma
Real Name: Emma Silverfox
Actor Name: Tahyna Tozzi
Powers/Attributes: Indestructible Diamond Skin
Films: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Stryker kidnapped Emma and held her as collateral until her sister Kayla tricked Logan into becoming his adamantium guinea pig. Though she has the ability to turn her skin diamond-hard, she is not and does not become Emma Frost, The White Queen.
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Emma Frost/The White Queen
Real Name: Emma Frost
Actor Name: January Jones
Powers/Attributes: Telepathy, Indestructible Diamond Skin
Films: X-Men: First Class
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Flea
Real Name: Unknown
Actor Name: Luke Pohl
Powers/Attributes: Unknown
Films: X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand
Flea is an original character created for the X-Men Movie Universe. It can be assumed, since he is a student at the Xavier Institute, that he has some form of mutant ability – though that ability was never revealed.
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Gambit
Real Name: Remy LeBeau
Actor Name: Taylor Kitsch
Powers/Attributes: Turns the Potential Energy of Any Object into Explosive Kinetic Energy
Films: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Remy is a Cajun with a penchant for gambling and fighting – though for two years he did neither as a prisoner of Colonel Stryker’s Weapon X program. Typically a loner who only helped himself escape, he redeems himself by helping Logan break into the weapons facility on Three Mile Island to rescue the remaining hostages.
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Glob Herman
Real Name: Robert Herman
Actor Name: Clayton Watmough
Powers/Attributes: Skin is Made of Bio-Paraffin Wax
Films: X-Men: The Last Stand
Glob (not to be confused with The Blob) is a member of The Omegas and helps with the assault on Alcatraz Island – until he was shot with the mutant cure, which left him more useless than he was as a human candle with see-thru skin.
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Havok
Real Name: Alex Summers
Actor Name: Lucas Till
Powers/Attributes: Ability to Absorb Cosmic Energy and Hurl it as Red Energy Bursts
Films: X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Alex was just a murderous teenager in prison when Charles Xavier and Eric Lehnsherr recruited him into their team in 1962. His brashness helped Sebastian Shaw kill fellow teammate Darwin after he attacked Shaw with his energy bursts. Eleven years later he would serve in the military during Vietnam as part of a US Black Ops all-mutant team.
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Iceman
Real Name: Bobby Drake
Actor Name: Shawn Ashmore
Powers/Attributes: Able to Generate Sub-Freezing Temperatures
Films: X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Bobby begins his journey as just a student at the Xavier Institute and eventually starts a romantic relationship with Marie D'Ancanto (a.k.a. “Rogue”) in the original timeline – though after her death sometime between the attack on Alcatraz Island and rise of the Sentinels in 2023, he starts a relationship with Kitty Pryde.
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Ink
Real Name: Eric Gitter
Actor Name: Gregg Lowe
Powers/Attributes: Gains Powers through the Tattoos on His Body
Films: X-Men: Days of Future Past
From serving in the US Black Ops all-mutant team in Vietnam in 1973, to becoming a prisoner shuffling around in a mutant internment camp in 2023, Gitter has seen and done many atrocities. Though he has the Phoenix Force tattoo over his right eye (which supposedly grants him power similar to that of the Phoenix) and lightning bolts on his head (which reportedly give him the ability to read minds), the one he uses to escape Stryker and Trask’s men is the bio-hazard symbol - which makes people violently ill.
NEXT PAGE: Mutants J - M
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Jean Grey
Real Name: Jean Grey
Actor Name: Famke Janssen, Haley Ramm
Powers/Attributes: Telepathy, Telekinesis
Films: X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Dr. Grey was recruited by Xavier and Lehnsherr in the eighties because they both knew how powerful a mutant she could become serving as the host vessel for the Phoenix Force. Though she was in a relationship with Cyclops, that didn't stop her from flirting or having feelings for Wolverine – who would eventually kill her.
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John Wraith
Real Name: John Wraith
Actor Name: Will.i.am
Powers/Attributes: Teleportation
Films: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
John joined Stryker’s Team X in the early seventies but, unlike Victor Creed (who stayed loyal to the team) left due to a conflict of conscious he experienced during the team’s illegal activities. While helping Logan locate Stryker’s secret testing facility he got into a fight with Victor, who would eventually snap his spine.
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Jones
Real Name: Unknown
Actor Name: Connor Widdows
Powers/Attributes: Technopathy
Films: X-Men: The Last Stand
Jones (it’s unknown if this is his first or last name) is a student at the Xavier Institute and was almost kidnapped by Stryker’s forces when they invaded the X-Mansion. He has the power to control electronics, which he typically displays by blinking to change the channels on the TV – like a typical teenager.
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Jubilee
Real Name: Jubilation Lee
Actor Name: Katrina Florece, Kea Wong
Powers/Attributes: Ability to Project Electric Charges from Her Hands
Films: X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand
Jubilee is a student at the Xavier Institute who is kidnapped by Stryker’s forces and taken to his secret testing facility at Alkali Lake, where she is eventually rescued by the other X-Men.
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Juggernaut
Real Name: Cain Marko
Actor Name: Vinnie Jones
Powers/Attributes: Superhuman Strength/Endurance/Durability
Films: X-Men: The Last Stand
Marko was a mercenary who was captured and imprisoned by the US Military in a rolling prison, along with Mystique and other dangerous mutants. After being freed by Magneto he joins the Brotherhood and attacks Alcatraz Island in an attempt to destroy the source of the cure but is outwitted by Shadowcat.
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Leech
Real Name: Jimmy
Actor Name: Cameron Bright
Powers/Attributes: Ability to Neutralize Other’s Mutant Powers
Films: X-Men: The Last Stand
Jimmy’s unique mutation was being taken from his DNA by Warrington Labs and used as the source of the mutant cure. Magneto planned on using his Brotherhood of Mutants to attack Jimmy at Alcatraz Island but was unsuccessful thanks to the X-Men, specifically Kitty Pryde, who helped him escape.
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Magneto
Real Name: Erik Lehnsherr
Actor Name: Ian McKellen, Michael Fassbender, Bill Milner, Brett Morris
Powers/Attributes: Mental Control of All Metals Using Magentism
Films: X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: First Class, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Erik’s powers first showed themselves as a young boy living in a Nazi concentration camp in 1944. Sebastian Shaw attempted to exploit those powers by killing Erik’s mother – when caused them to manifest themselves completely. Throughout his life, Magneto would be good friends, archenemies, and then reluctant partners with Charles Xavier. The two rarely saw eye-to-eye when it came to human-mutant interactions but both fought for the survival of their species.
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Multiple Man
Real Name: James Madrox
Actor Name: Eric Dane
Powers/Attributes: Can Create Duplicates of Himself
Films: X-Men: The Last Stand
James is both a thief and an extremely loyal member of Magneto’s Brotherhood of Mutants – to the point where he created hundreds of copies of himself to trick the invading US military so the Brotherhood could escape.
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Mutant 143
Real Name: Jason Stryker
Actor Name: Michael Reid McKay, Keeley Purvis
Powers/Attributes: Can Create Powerful and Complex Telepathic Illusions
Films: X2: X-Men United, X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Jason’s father, Colonel William Stryker, was so ashamed of his son’s mutant ability that he ordered him locked up at his secret weapon’s facility, lobotomized, then uses him to attack Professor Xavier and all mutant kind. It’s assumed that he died when Dark Cerebro collapses around him during the rescue mission the X-Men staged for Professor X .
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Mystique
Real Name: Raven Darkholme
Actor Name: Rebecca Romijn, Jennifer Lawrence, Morgan Lily
Powers/Attributes: Shapeshifting, Expert Fighter
Films: X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: First Class, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Even though she was once recruited by Charles Xavier and Erik Lehnsherr as an original member of their X Team, Raven has always leaned towards Erik’s way of thinking when it came to interacting with humans – she felt herself above them as she has evolved into a superior life form. Even though she would eventually become Magneto’s loyal second-in-command, that didn't keep him from trying to kill her or leave her for dead twice.
NEXT PAGE: Mutants N - R
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Nightcrawler
Real Name: Kurt Wagner
Actor Name: Alan Cumming
Powers/Attributes: Teleportation, Prehensile Tail, Superhuman Agility
Films: X2: X-Men United
Once a performer in a traveling circus, Kurt comes under the influence of the mind-controlling fluid created by Colonel Stryker using his son Jason’s spinal fluid and almost succeeds in killing the President of the United States. He has a meek demeanor, but hero’s attitude, as he saves several X-Men's lives in an attempt to rescue Professor Xavier from Stryker’s secret base at Alkali Lake.
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Phat
Real Name: William Reilly
Actor Name: Via Saleaumua, Richard Yee
Powers/Attributes: Can Control His Body Mass
Films: X-Men: The Last Stand
Reilly attended the meeting held by Magneto to rally mutants against the cure and helped attack Alcatraz Island.
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Phoenix
Real Name: Jean Grey
Actor Name: Famke Janssen
Powers/Attributes: Telepathy, Telekinesis
Films: X-Men: The Last Stand
The Phoenix is the dark side of Jean Grey’s powers. It’s so powerful that she can vaporize groups of people instantaneously by exploding them on the molecular level. In this state, she’s more powerful than anyone on Earth, including Professor X (whom she kills), and, while manipulated by Magneto, assists in the attacking of Alcatraz Island - until Wolverine stops her by stabbing her.
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Professor X
Real Name: Charles Xavier
Actor Name: Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Laurence Belcher
Powers/Attributes: Telepathy, Genius-Level Intellect
Films: X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Charles’ powers began to manifest themselves when he was only nine and continued to develop them into young adulthood. So great were his powers of telepathy and mind control that he could freeze people in place, take over their bodies and communicate mentally from virtually anywhere – on Earth, he has no rivals. Throughout his life he had an often violent, on again-off again friendship with Erik Lehnsherr, with whom he rarely saw eye-to-eye on matters regarding mutants.
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Psylocke
Real Name: Elizabeth Braddock
Actor Name: Mei Melançon
Powers/Attributes: Shadow Teleportation
Films: X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Elizabeth has the unique ability to teleport through any object’s shadow to another shadow – it’s assumed this is how she escaped being vaporized by the Phoenix during the raid on Alcatraz Island, along with other members of the Omegas.
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Pyro
Real Name: John Allerdyce
Actor Name: Alex Burton, Aaron Stanford
Powers/Attributes: Fire Manipulation
Films: X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand
John started off as a confused teenager attending the Xavier Institute learning to control both his hate for normal humans and powers under Professor X’s tutelage. However, Magneto would exploit that hate to serve his own purposes. Proving that opposites attract, he found an archrival in Bobby Drake, “Iceman”.
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Quicksilver
Real Name: Peter Maximoff
Actor Name: Evan Peters
Powers/Attributes: Superspeed
Films: X-Men: Days of Future Past
While a teenager living in 1973, Logan enlists the help of young Maximoff to break Magneto out of his plastic prison deep beneath the Pentagon – and help he does. If it weren't for Peter’s quick actions, the group of rescuers would likely have been killed.
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Quill
Real Name: Maxwell Jordan
Actor Name: Ken Leung
Powers/Attributes: Sharp Retractable Spikes on His Head
Films: X-Men: The Last Stand
Jordan is a violent member of the Omegas and helps Magneto’s Brotherhood attack Alcatraz Island. He’s vaporized by the Phoenix while trying to escape but not before murdering Dr. Kavita Rao, who helped create the cure.
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Riptide
Real Name: Janos Quested
Actor Name: Álex González
Powers/Attributes: Able to Produce Tornados from His Hands
Films: X-Men: First Class
Originally a member of Sebastian Shaw’s Hellfire Club, Janos became one of the first members of Brotherhood in 1962 after Shaw died at the hands of Magneto. He would eventually fall victim to Bolivar Trask’s experiments during Project Wideawake.
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Rogue
Real Name: Marie D'Ancanto
Actor Name: Anna Paquin
Powers/Attributes: Life and Mutant Power Absorption from Others
Films: X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: Days of Future Past
While on the run and scared, Marie would first meet Logan in Canada, then soon after ended up at the Xavier Institute where she couldn’t quite shake the feeling of being an outcast and simply longed to be a normal human. Unfortunately, Magneto would try to use her abilities to help mutate millions against their will. She winds up voluntarily taking the cure.
NEXT PAGE: Mutants S - T
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Sabretooth
Real Name: Victor Creed
Actor Name: Tyler Mane, Liev Schreiber, Michael James Olsen
Powers/Attributes: Enhanced Strength/Speed/Reflexes/Durability, Increased Healing Ability, Razor Sharp Claws
Films: X-Men, X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Creed is Logan’s half-brother and for well over 100 hundred years they were best friends and comrades-in-arms, fighting in nearly every major conflict – that is, until they joined Stryker’s Team X after Vietnam and parted ways. Creed became Stryker’s enforcer, kidnapping other mutants to “steal” their abilities for Stryker’s experiments. Later in his life he would become more animalistic but remain in the enforcer role, this time for Magneto.
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Sebastian Shaw
Real Name: Dr. Shaw Klaus Schmidt
Actor Name: Charles Siegel, Kevin Bacon
Powers/Attributes: Energy Absorption
Films: X-Men: First Class
Shaw first meet a young Erik Lehnsherr when he was running mutant experts at a Nazi concentration camp. Years later he, as the leader of the Hellfire Club, he would meet him again and be stopped by a now grown Magneto during the Cuban Missile Crisis - which he masterminded.
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Shadowcat
Real Name: Katherine “Kitty” Pryde
Actor Name: Sumela Kay, Katie Stuart, Ellen Page
Powers/Attributes: Phasing
Films: X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Once just a student at the Xavier Institute, Kitty grew to become a pivotal and highly important member of the X-Men team. She would also play a crucial role in all mutants' survival. Without her ability to “phase” a person’s consciousness (specifically Wolverine) back in time, the Sentinels would have surely wiped everyone out.
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Silver Fox
Real Name: Kayla Silverfox
Actor Name: Lynn Collins
Powers/Attributes: Tactile Hypnotic Mind Control
Films: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Kayla entered Logan’s life soon after he left Stryker’s Team X and the two fell in love – though it would turn out to be a ruse, as Stryker was holding Kayla’s sister, Emma, hostage in order to force Kayle to do his bidding. She eventually turns against Stryker and helps Logan rescue all the mutants being held at the test facility.
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Siryn
Real Name: Theresa Cassidy
Actor Name: Shauna Kain
Powers/Attributes: Sonic Screams
Films: X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand
Using her high-pierced screams, Siryn alerted the rest of the students at the Xavier Institute to Stryker’s raid on the compound.
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Spyke
Real Name: Unknown
Actor Name: Lance Gibson
Powers/Attributes: Produce and Hurl Bone Spikes from His Wrists
Films: X-Men: The Last Stand
It’s clear by his fight (and subsequent loss to Wolverine) that Spyke was a member of Magneto’s Brotherhood of Mutants but it’s assumed, not verified, that he was a member of the Omegas as well.
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Stepford Cuckoos
Real Name: Celeste Cuckoo, Irma Cuckoo, Phoebe Cuckoo
Actor Name: Unknown
Powers/Attributes: Telepathy
Films: X-Men: The Last Stand
These three sisters are students at the Xavier Institute and are almost never apart. The magnitude of their mutant telepathic power increases the closer they are to each other.
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Storm
Real Name: Ororo Munroe
Actor Name: Halle Berry
Powers/Attributes: Weather Manipulation, Flight
Films: X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men: Days of Future Past
Sunspot
Real Name: Roberto DaCosta
Actor Name: Adan Canto
Powers/Attributes: Can Absorb Solar Energy, Flight, Infrared Radiation Blasts
Films: X-Men: Days of Future Past
DaCosta, along with his X-Men teammates, is simply trying to survive another day in 2023. Even though he is a mutant with a powerful ability, he is unable to significantly damage or even survive an attack by the Mystique DNA-enhanced Sentinels of the future.
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Tempest
Real Name: Angel Salvadore
Actor Name: Zoë Kravitz
Powers/Attributes: Insect-style Winged Flight, Acid Projectile Vomit
Films: X-Men: First Class
Before Angel was killed during Project Wideawake, before she had an aerial battle with Banshee, before she aligned herself with the Hellfire Club after joining Xavier and Lehnsherr’s mutant team, she was a stripper in the sixties…so she had that going for her.
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Toad
Real Name: Mortimer Toynbee
Actor Name: Ray Park, Evan Jonigkeit
Powers/Attributes: Superhuman Leaping Ability/Agility/Dexterity, 13 Foot Prehensile Tongue
Films: X-Men, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past
As a young kid, Mortimer was held captive at Stryker’s test facility until Wolverine broke him out. As a teenager serving on an all-mutant military team in Vietnam, he was kept from being one of Trask’s experiments by an intervening Mystique. He would eventually join Magneto’s Brotherhood of Mutants, then killed by Storm – because lightning has the same effect on a toad that it does everything else.
NEXT PAGE: Mutants V - Z
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Vanisher
Real Name: Telford Porter
Actor Name: Unknown
Powers/Attributes: Teleporting
Films: X-Men: The Last Stand
Porter is a member of Magneto’s Brotherhood of Mutants and assists in the attack on Alcatraz Island.
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Viper
Real Name: Dr. Green
Actor Name: Svetlana Khodchenkova
Powers/Attributes: Toxin Immunity, Enhanced Reflexes, Claws, Regeneration, Venom
Films: The Wolverine
Dr. Green is a ruthless mercenary hired by Ichirō Yashida to assist him in his attempt to live forever by injecting Wolverine with nanobots that restrict his mutant healing ability. She tries to extract his mutant ability using a giant robotic suit made of adamantium called the Silver Samurai.
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Warpath
Real Name: James Proudstar
Actor Name: Booboo Stewart
Powers/Attributes: Superhuman Senses, Able to See and Hear a Great Distances
Films: X-Men: Days of Future Past
Proudstar is a member of the X-Men team in 2023 and, while not the most powerful mutant on the team, shows no fear and a tremendous amount of courage by attacking the Sentinels with his hands and knives. Warpath’s ability to see the Sentinels from miles away was essential to the team’s survival.
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Weapon XI
Real Name: Wade Wilson
Actor Name: Ryan Reynolds, Scott Adkins
Powers/Attributes: Superhuman Agility, Optic Eye Blasts, Retractable Adamantium Arm Blades, Healing Ability, Teleporting, Technopathy
Films: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
After Wilson was forced into Stryker’s Weapon X program, his DNA was experimented with genetically. As a result, he ends up with mutant abilities of his former Team X teammates, as well as, some other abilities harvested from other mutant prisoners. Thanks to technological implants, he was completely under the control of Stryker.
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Wolverine
Real Name: James “Logan” Howlett
Actor Name: Hugh Jackman, Troye Sivan
Powers/Attributes: Healing Ability, Retractable Bone Claws, Superhuman Strength/Agility/Stamina
Films: X-Men, X2: X-Men United, X-Men: The Last Stand, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: First Class, The Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past
From the very beginning of the X-Men Saga, Logan or “Wolverine” has been at the center of everything. He’s fought alongside his half-brother Victor during several wars. He’s battled Magneto, Sentinels (past and future) and other enemies. He’s loved three different women in three different countries, going as far as being forced to kill one of them. He’s been hunted down by Stryker and experimented on. He’s had friends turn on him. However, through all 179-plus years of his life, he has remained a survivor.
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Yukio
Real Name: Yukio
Actor Name: Rila Fukushima
Powers/Attributes: Precognition
Films: The Wolverine
She started out as an assassin sent by the dying Ichirō Yashida to America to convince Logan to come to Japan. Instead of harming Logan, she turns into his ally, warning him of a vision she had where he is holding his own heart in his hands. She eventually kills Viper and becomes Logan's bodyguard.
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Conclusion
Indeed, the X-Men movie franchise’s list of on-screen characters is vast and with the X-Men: Apocalypse already in the pipeline, there is sure to be plenty more additions to the characters fans will see in live-action.
Which characters from the X-Men comic universe would you like to see come to life in theaters?
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