Post mortem: the haunting art

What were the most memorable deaths of X-related characters to you? Maybe not A-listers, maybe not from the main universe, but those scenes you still remembered to be heavy.

Doug Ramseys death was pretty morbid. Especially with Rahnes naivete about the situation.

It is the death of Moira McTaggert: she is the only who isn't resurrected.

kurt's death.

Colossus.

The entire issue, leading up to it was one thing but....the way he died is one of the moments you have to include if your giving comments on his character.

Wing from Astonishing X-Men. His death was crazy.

"Man was not meant to fly", agreed that was catchy. I'd love though a more powerful mutant than have a counterargument Thor/Magik style. It was a miss I think.

That and especially young Illyana's were impressively handled by Lobdell.

When Illyana died as a young girl. Jubilee, the bamf doll, and Jean talking with her. I was really young at the time and it was the first time I recall getting teary at a comic. I honestly cannot say there is a comic that could invoke this feeling at the moment. Good stuff.

Psylocke's death was pretty intense for me. With all her power & skill she was taken down by a crappy villain in the blink of an eye.
I stopped reading X-Men until I heard she'd been resurrected.

The power of Colossus' death makes his overly nostalgia-driven resurrection and everything he's done since seem so small and pointless.

I really don't get resurrecting a character unless there's a HUGE story behind it. Psylocke, Nightcrawler, and Colossus are just a few examples of resurrection missteps.

While I love Colossus, I agree his resurrection via dues ex machina was poor.

I love K/Y's deaths, they all were sickening and fitted the Decimation plot making it feel a disaster it was.

Mostly overlooked, one of the most haunting death scenes to me was Mammomax's, metaphorically it sent me back to Lynch's Elephant Man that I watched as a teen, recalling the scene where typical folks overtaken by mass-hysteria were about to lynch him just because of how he looked like and then him downtrodden and cornered shouting "no... I am not an animal... I am a human being"

Not the same, but 'Max is the elephant man that was treated the way no living being deserves.