Who is its mother? Bendis said mystique was its step-mother.

Moira???Jean???Emma???

Cassandra Nova?

As much as I hate to agree with Bendis when he's being talkative.....Mystique's mothered enough X-Men to be step mom.

Um I'm voting Moira. No real question.

are u serious?????

i thought moira first but jean could be it since she mothered alot of x-men. or maybe jeans another step-mother, hmmm.

@hopesummersforthefuture: No, don't panic.

Jean Grey

Danger.

Danger????? more like robotic slave

I honestly think Danger is the best answer. In a weird way, she raised the X-men to be what they are as much as Xavier. He himself has as much as admitted that he couldn't have done it without her.

there's nothing that says a slave can't also be a mother, as grim as that is.

if I was going to say anyone other than Danger, I'd almost be tempted to say Magda Eisenhardt, if only in a symbolic way. Though she didn't mother or even know any of the X-men, it was her children who created their first threat (Anya, by being the catalyst for Magneto, and the twins for being the original Brotherhood, the anti-X-men, as it were).

i was leaning towards moira or jean but yeah now im thinking danger

no no no you see Miora is the mother, Danger is like the Maid that actually raises the child while the mother plays bridge

like orphan nanny??????

what did Moria do at all then?

she moved into the school to be a housekeeper (despite being a doctor), she didn't raise any of the X-men (unless adopting Wolfsbane counts, but if that's the only example..?), and let's not even get started on her actual progeny..

Jean after all Xavier did express sexual interests about her.

The X-Men don't have a mother, because no one female character who has had a continuative impact in the x-stories, played a role similar to the Xavier's role. Jean, Storm, Moria or Emma can be stepmother (bad stepmother in the case of Mystique) or elder sisters, but no one has had a role similar to Xavier.

Maybe Lilandra could have been the X-Men mother, in due of her prestige of Shi'ar Empress and the fact that she was the Xavier's wife, but Claremont used her only like an excuse to remove Xavier from his Institute.

Maybe the Phoenix??? Ah hell I don't know

None. They're adopted to fill the empty void in Xavier's life.

Eh, Jean seems more like Big Sister to me. I just don't see her relationship with Storm, Beast or a lot of the other senior members as maternal. When you really think about it she just hasn't been that way to many members of the team outside of the First five X-Men.

Jean- she has always been the heart of the x-men. she may be hot tempered but she is sweet and has access to every x-men's mind

Storm????

Nice. Agreed.

i dont think xavier was married to lilandra

@hopesummersforthefuture: Yes, they married after Dark Phoenix Saga an their marriage was annulled by Shi'ar council in X-Men 133.