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Best X-men Couples?
To me there aren't really all that many couples that I find that interesting in X-men, or even comics in general. If you look at the classic era of X-men (1975-1986), there really aren't that many couples that were actually that central to the story. There's Cyclops and Jean, obviously, and then Cyclops and Maddy, but even there, most of the characters who ended up as couples (Havok and Polaris, Moira and Banshee, Xavier and Lilandra, etc) were essentially being given some reason to leave the X-men, while the stories of the main characters focused more on them growing as individuals and developing solid friendships.
A notable twist on this trend comes from Whedon's Astonishing X-Men, in that most of the characters who become couples in that series are being given a reason to stay associated with the X-men. Cyclops and Emma are established to at the beginning of this run to now be a couple, which is ostensibly at least part of why Emma has stayed with the team up to this point, Kitty and Colossus finally become a couple after years of sharing an especially singular friendship, and the Beast finds new love in the end with Agent Brand.
Maybe it's simply a credit to how convincingly Whedon writes these couples, but to me these are the characters I've enjoyed most as couples and in each case them being couples makes the X-men feel more like a family, rather than what characters do when they just simply don't have one. (Another, well, not-quite-couple, that I always thought worked well in this regard were Beast and Cecilia Reyes, who's obvious attraction seemed to make her feel more compelled to want to stay with the team).
Of course, all of this works better in the case of Astonishing' because all of those characters were pretty well established as individual characters in their own right before actually becoming couples, which makes the whole thing feel a lot more organic than characters who were sort of just stuck together to be written out (like Havok and Polaris) or seemingly introduced for the purpose of being with another, pre-existing character (like Moira, Lilandra, Yuriko, Forge, Kyle etc..), which I suppose is why I have no problem with Storm and Wolverine's relationship, as it was built up over years and thus feels organic within the development of their friendship.
Couples I could take or leave
Really, if I like a character, it doesn't much matter to me who they're with, or if they're with anyone, so I guess most X-men couples would fall into this category for me. But there have been some couples I liked because of how their relationships with each other showed another side of them, helping them to develop as more fully formed characters. Obviously most of my favorite couples would fall into this category (Cyclops and Emma being the best example), but there are some couples who despite being important to each other's stories, weren't necessarily very interesting as couples beyond that.
Gambit and Rogue are, I suppose, the go-to example of this for me, two characters who's romance was both mutually beneficial to their character growth and yet still ultimately stifling to it as they worked through enough of their problems to become indivisible, and thus somewhat stagnant. Storm and Forge are another pair that seem like they could have ended up this way, had they actually stayed together. And then there's Cyclops and Jean.. for me, these are characters I'd almost rather not see as couples, as they've all proven to be more interesting (to me) separate from each other and because it feels like they should have moved on by now.
just because two characters (or people) have an especially relevant relationship to each other certainly doesn't mean that they will always have/be in that same relationship. Like people, characters can change; their relationships to each other can change, and actual character development is always going to be more interesting -to me- than whatever romantic relationships they have or the characters remaining in the same roles as they always have been in.
Worst X-men Couples
Since I don't really care too much about which characters are with who, I don't have many especially strong reasons for not wanting to see characters together. There are my previous examples of characters I just find more interesting separately (to which I guess I could add Havok and Polaris), but mostly I just don't really care much one way or the other.
The only exceptions to this would be the especially random hook-ups like Magneto and Rogue or Angel and Husk, which both just always felt kind of creepy to me.
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