In no particular order.
Deadpool- His character was fine in the late 90's when Kelly and Mcguiness wrote his book , but the writers now try to replicate that humor and its just stupid or some people call it "he comes off like Daffy Duck" his humor can also take you out of a good story. He is not original at all and he is in a sense overpowered and just plain over used these days.
Cable- When he started out he was part of the early 90s fad of "super soldiers" in comics, then they had the idea of giving him this convoluted backstory that puts hokey soap operas to shame. Then when he joined the X-Men he was just overpowered and kind of boring. The character just makes no sense, if he uses his powerful TK to keep his body together, what does he do when he sleeps?? or when he is unconscious? why does he still brandish huge guns? why does he wear shoulder pads? why is his codename Cable??
Gambit- When he fist appeared it seemed like Claremont was trying to take all Longshots physical attributes (tall, slender, wild haired, good looking) and powers (throwing stuff with accuracy and hyper agility) and mixed them with Wolverines loner persona and mysterious background.
Again, the character makes no sense. He is supposed to a master thief so you think he would have the power of walking through walls or teleporting or shadow melding even...instead he makes things blow up with bright pink energy while he marches around in the gaudiest outfit in comics. I mean, a magenta chest plate, shiny, knee high, metallic boots?? Why not?? He is just so 90's and hasn't been really interesting since then. I would have actually gave the character more of a chance if they would have followed through with him being a traitor. Instead he became stock X-Men # 504
Rachel Grey-When Claremont initially introduced her she seemed interesting, like she was seeing Days of the Future Past come to fruition all around her, Magneto joined the team Professor X was dying etc. Then they made it evidently clear she was from an alternate future, that's when she immediately became less interesting. Then while she was around all she would really do was complain that everyone she knew in her time was dead, which is a good reason to be upset, sure, but she should have been more worried about preventing it then complaining all the time. Then there was the nonsense with the Beyonder before Wolverine stabbed her and she never got her min series and was just written out abruptly. She was fine in Excalibur but whenever she runs with the X-Men she just seems like, as previously stated, a Jean Grey fill in.
Psylocke- I actually liked caucasian Betsy better. Her telepathy wasn't that powerful and she had no combat skills. It made her feel more realistic.Then they decided to turn her into Elektra with mutant powers. I have honestly never heard anyone give a good reason as to why they like her other than "she is a ninja" or "she is a hot asian chick". I don't hate the character or anything, I would say I am more indifferent than anything, I just never found "ninja Betsy" that entirely interesting
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