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    Team » Young X-Men appears in 94 issues.

    The X-Men have been reassembled by Cyclops in the final genesis to protect mutantkind from its own. They are possibly the last generation of X-Men.

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    #1  Edited By Reztek

    Did anyone notice that the Young X-Men team is a big mix of different characters in terms of personality, beliefs and culture? I mean, you just need to compare Dust(an islamic mutant), Dani Moonstar(a native american ex-mutant), Anole(homossexual mutant) and Ink(non-mutant), with Rockslide and Sunspot being closer of the default mutant, but they too having its peculiarities.

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    #2  Edited By Erik

    More diversity as opposed to what? As opposed to the previous team New X-Men?

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    #3  Edited By KumoriKunoichi

    Blindfold is off the team ..so there goes the blind mutant

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    #4  Edited By John Valentine
    Reztek said:
    "Young X-Men just isn't a c based X-Team, like X-Factor and Astonishing X-Men. New X-Men had some different characters too, but they weren't very different from each other like Young X-Men, they were more a bunch of child-like mutants than something more diverse. And X-Force are, like someone once stated, 3 Wolverine-type characters plus Warpath.
    I forgot to mention that Graymalkin guy, who could be a morlock for its appearance, and is quite old for a "Young" X-Men."
    • I'm sorry but your first statement is simply ridiculous. X-Factor, in its unorthadoxy, is anything but cliche: do you even know what you're on about?
    • X-Force: Wolverine, Elixir, Domino, X-23, Warpath, Angel and Wolfsbane. Only two out of the seven characters are really Wolverine-like. Warpath and Wolfsbane are not Wolverine clones.
    • New X-Men had nearly ALL of the same characters, save for Ink and Greymalkin, both rubbish creations. If anything, due to the sheer quantity of characters, New X-Men had a wider social and cultural diversity.
    • Finally, do you actually read X-Books?
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    #5  Edited By fesak  Moderator  Online

    The X-Men has been diverse since Giant-Size X-Men 1

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    #6  Edited By John Valentine
    fesak said:
    "The X-Men has been diverse since Giant-Size X-Men 1"
    Socially before.
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    #7  Edited By jbeyer418

    Yes, the Young X-Men are diverse.  So were the original New Mutants.  So were the students at the Xavier Institute.  So are the X-Men (mainly after the whole Krakoa thing).
    For that matter, so is the Brotherhood.  Magneto is German and Jewish (at least by "ethnicity"), as would be Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch (though they were raised by a Romani family).  Mystique is Austrian; Pyro Australian; Avalanche Greek; Mastermind and Toad are (I believe) both British.  Mystique is bisexual and Destiny lesbian (though they couldn't be blatantly identified that way when they were first introduced).
    In general, the X-Men comics have always emphasized diversity--ethnic, racial, sexual, and even religious.  My question is: why call attention to it just as a "did you ever notice" fact?  Whether you intended it to or not, it makes the observation sound accusatory.

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    #8  Edited By jbeyer418

    And since no one else mentioned it yet; I should note that your two comparisons aren't as "default" as they appear.  Apparently, the artist has forgotten that Sunspot isn't white--he's interracial.  He's from Brazil, with an Afro-Caribbean father and a caucasian mother.  Rockslide is of Italian heritage, which many people still consider to be "ethnic" (as opposed to those of us who apparently have no ethnicity?), and some people still think of as non-white (consider, for example, that the line from the mockumentary Fear of a Black Hat "He ain't white, he's Italian" only works as a joke because some people do think that way).

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