If I remember correctly, shortly before Scott and Jean married, Jean mentioned that Beast was just coming up on his 30's birthday. Probably all the original X-Men have crossed over into 30, except perhaps Bobby. Emma Frost stated her age as 27 during Morrison's run.
Nightcrawler can't be 19 because that is how old (19/20) he was when he joined the X-Men. He's probably in his mid twenties by this point. Colossus was 17/18 when he joined, probably making him in mis mid-twenties as well. When he had the smack down with Juggernaut in that Bar in Uncanny #183, he said he was 20. Storm was in her early twenties when she joined, so she is now approaching 30. Wolverine of course is over 100 years old.
All the original New Mutant's ages were given when they joined: Cannonball and Karma were 18. Dani was 16. Roberto was 14. Rahne was 13.
Jamie has been around for quite a while. He first appeared in (real world date) 1975 in Giant Size FF#4. He was at least in his late teens by that point. He's probably approaching 30 himself.
Magneto does kill Marvel's "sliding timescale" even with his de-aging, because he fixes that Marvel Universe to a single point in Real time. Capt' America does the same thing. Marvel can't adjust and say that Capt. America history to say he fought in the Korean War instead of WWII, and they can't take Magneto out of the Holocaust because that would destroy the character. So Marvel can "slide time" all they want. They're stuck.
Chronologically Magneto is in his late 70's early 80's. He entered Auschwitz as a young teen in 1939/1940 (witness say that he had been in the camp "from the beginning") and emerged in his late teens/near adulthood. This means he was born sometime in the mid to late 1920's. When he was around his mid 50's, that is when the Alpha the Ultimate Mutant reduced him to infancy, and then later Eric the Red re-aged Magneto to "the prime of his life". At the time of the Trial of Magneto (Uncanny #200), it was medically and legally established that Magneto "was biologically a man in his early 30's". Given that the original team of X-Men have just crossed over into their 30's, Magneto is probably physically in his late 30's/early 40's physically.
As an example of how Magneto nails the M.U. down in time: Originally, Xavier served in the Korean War in his late teen/early twenties (He graduated from Harvard at age 16, so he was deep into Graduate school by 20 which is when he was drafted) and then went to Haifa, Israel in the late 1950's to work in a mental hospital which is where he met Magneto, meaning chronologically Charles is probably about 10 year's younger than Magnus.
But Marvel has tried to change Xavier's war time service to Vietnam. Which means he would have had to have gone to Israel in the mid to late 1970s', but Magneto wasn't in Israel in the late 1970s, because he when he was in Israel he obviously was not 50-odd years old.
Magneto (and Cap) really screw Marvel's sliding time scale up.
So anyway, Xavier is probably late 60's/early 70's chronologically. However, when he was taken over by the Brood Queen, Lilandra popped his mind into a nice shiny cloned body that was in it's twenties. So Charles to probably appears in his late 30's.
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