me too, so 2-0 come on guys if the poll aint no good vote so we can get a new one lol

Exiles.

exiles

Exiles.

Exiles

6-0 to Exiles

Exiles. But I want to say I realy liked an alternate reality in X-treme where some of the mutants were gods, plus very nice art. Others were boring.

Exiles, X-Treme X-Men is kinda irritating.

Thats 8 Exiles win in a land slide, Next please!!

ok what the hell, i'll do another :-p

X Men Blue: Cyclops, Wolverine, Psylocke, Beast, Gambit, Rogue and Occasionally Jubilee

Or

X Men Gold Storm, Jean Grey, Colossus, Bishop, Iceman, Archangel

@mcklayn: this is a tough one for me, not only because these were the teams when I started reading (back in 92), but also because most of the time members moved pretty fluidly between teams, depending on the story. So, for the most part, they really were just one big team.

For the most part though, when I think about which individual members really stood out from this period, it seemed like Colossus and Bishop were the only main characters of the gold team (with the other members being more supporting cast), while almost every member of the blue team (except maybe Cyclops) got a lot of focus. So, while I liked them both, and loved them as a whole, I gotta go with the blue team for overall characterization and group dynamics.

yeah, Blue Team.

blue. that's an easy one for me.

Blue, no question

Second.

Blue Team

Blue team. Best team ever

Gold, just for pity

6-1 to blue team

Blue!

which is sad, considering how great each of the members were individually. They just never had the same chemistry as the blue team.

@oldnightcrawler: 7-1 One more For blue to win, alot more gold!

and your right, I LOVED both teams and its sad that blue is winning so heavy, GOLD is a great team i loved so many of the characters

Wow, the Gold team completely outclasses the Blue one by firepower.

@oldnightcrawler: I havent voted actually so ill go blue for the win, 8-1 i think, Nightcrawler will you put up a new poll im running dry on ideas atm lol

@mcklayn: alright, I got the idea for this round from the last one:

Classic era X-men vs Outback era X-men!

I am for sure tacking my vote to Classic, its so hard to beat that team, like period and the out back was great but in comparison with the classic team i just cant fairly vote for t hem

So mark one for classic!

@mcklayn: 2-0 for the Classic team, then.

@oldnightcrawler: why did storm had those "feline" eyes during that era? I never understood...

Anyway, I vote for classic team.

classic team

Classic

so, 3-0 for the Classic team..

As I understand it, Storm's character design was actually the product of combining two character ideas. One was a male hero named Typhoon or Tornado or something, who controlled the weather, the other was a character who looked very much like Storm, named the Black Cat. The 'Cat's powers were basically like Wolfsbane, except she turned into a cat instead of a wolf, which is most likely why Storm's original costume was so reveling, so that, like Colossus, her physical transformation could be shown in a more visual way.

Storm's original look was basically the Black Cat + white hair and a cape, so I always thought it was because of that. Although, her eyes did start to get drawn more cat-like during her punk period, perhaps as an in-joke that she had lost her weather manipulation powers.

Classic X-Men of course. I feel the need to quote someone...

Classic.

7-0 class winning atm come on voters!

hehhehheh.. suck it, replacement X-men..

Outback X-Men. I just found them more interesting and it was nice to see the team change and grow

I can dig that. I did like the addition of Psylocke and Havok to the team, I just never felt like Longshot or Dazzler made up for what the team lost in Kitty, Rachel, and Nightcrawler. The individual members may have been interesting enough, but the change of the group dynamic, even with half the same members, made it a completely different animal.

Mostly I just wasn't a fan of the stories from that era. Except for the original Genosha story, that's the only arc I would consider an essential X-men story from that period.

Yeah, different strokes for different folks. I liked the Outback Era for multiple reasons. I actually liked Longshot and Dazzler and I was kind of bummed when they were written out of the fold. I enjoyed how the X-Men were kind of "renegades" for the first time...no generic headquarters...no mentor, just Storm leading a team that hadn't really been used to working together. I also liked how the X-Men were given some new villains at this time...this era just felt the beginning of the rebirth for the X-Men that was sadly stunted when Claremont left the book. I understand he was going to have Forge as a regular, Polaris was supposed to have super strength, Gateway would have been a regular. The 90s would have been so much more interesting IMO, if they would have followed through.

Very Respectable choice

7-1 come on voters lets do it, can the outback make a come back!

yeah, I can't deny that I was really into a lot of what the outback era had going for it. The outlaw law thing was cool, not having Kitty or the New mutants around made the book feel more mature and edgy, and the characters were all pretty well written and interesting. In some ways it was sort of the template for what X-force would become in the 90's. And, yeah, Gateway was just awesome.

I see what you mean about how the 90's could have been different, but I kind of liked that that was the first time all of the original and most of the classic X-men were together on one team. For good or ill it was, and probably still is, a time that the X-men are most well known for.

come on voters! lets go go go :D please

7-2 Classic X-Men are ahead, but Outback X-Men are not giving up just yet.

Speaking of Outback X-Men... I love this cover

@knighthood said:

Speaking of Outback X-Men... I love this cover

The outback era did have some really quality covers (even if the art inside was often a bit sloppy).

And they sure did emphasize how much punishment Wolverine can take in this period. It really played to his strengths though, like when he's just the only guy for the job, or the last man standing when the chips are down; it's pretty easy to see how he became the star of the book here.

Gonna finish this classic x-men

and the out back era was crushed!!! 8-2 give me a few and ill have a new poll up, anyone else can fill free to jump ahead if you got an idea

ok ima toss it a twist here with more then two choices! (not sure if i can do that but i am!!)

Wolverine's best side kick!

Kitty

Jubilee

Armor

X - 23

He has had alot of them but i think that pretty much are all the big ones! So give it to me 8 votes to win who will it be!!

Kitty!