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8. Warlock
Self-Friend Warlock is just the best, you guys!! And he's actually an alien AND a mutant.
Specifically, he belongs to a race known as the Technach, in which obsolescence is king and each subsequent generation must murder and conquer their creators/parents. But Warlock’s a mutant Technach, and his mutation is basically his conscience. He's just a good kid who wants a nice life! He doesn't want to kill his dad.
Warlock fled, and wound up on earth, where he was found by the X-Men and more specifically, the New Mutants. He wound up joining the team, and he and Doug Ramsey, aka Cypher, became the best of friends. Warlock has shape-shifting powers and typically uses them to become a sort of living cartoon character – especially when Bill Sienkiewicz is doing the drawing.
Also, Warlock's childish innocence is how we got New Mutants #64, which is the saddest comic for ten years in either direction. In it, Warlock, who doesn’t understand death, has to learn about death at his best friend's funeral. Typing out that sentence makes me sad in its own right.
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7. Chamber
Of all the X-books, the one I have the least experience with is Generation X. I know some of the characters, and I’m familiar with them in other contexts, but as far as the team itself goes, I'm a bit lost. However, I absolutely love Chamber.
Jono Starsmore’s mutant awakening is quite horrible. And by that I mean that he had to explode to gain his powers. Yeah. He’s essentially so filled with energy and power that it tears him open and blows up his lungs, heart, and lower jaw. Thankfully, he also develops telepathy, so he can still talk to people.
But his mutation means that he’s among the most physically changed and hard-to-assimilate mutants. Just as he’s getting used to having a nuclear trench instead of a chest cavity, M-Day happens, and he loses his powers. At the same time, he doesn’t regain his heart, lungs, and lower jaw to compensate. So he was on major life support for a long time. Eventually his powers did return,back and has been glowing below the voice box ever since.
I personally love the Vaughn/Ferguson Chamber miniseries from 2002. In it, Chamber goes undercover to solve a mystery at Empire State University. It's a fun little detective story that you should check out if you get a chance.
Source: xplainthexmen.com
6. Doctor Nemesis
His name is Doctor Nemesis, and he’ll put his science into you.
Doctor Nemesis is one of those comic book characters who I'm not convinced wasn't exclusively written for me. He's a good old fashioned science bastard. Born in 1906, James Bradley’s one of the first recorded mutants. As a hypergenius, he’s capable of so much brilliant invention. Plus, he fights and kills a lot of Nazis during World War II.
Around this time, he finds a way to give himself a longer lifespan and becomes the best mutant scientist of all time. He’s eventually approached by his fellow best mutant scientist, Hank McCoy (The Beast), who invites him to join a group of mutant super-scientists. This was the X-Club.
If you can track down the X-Club miniseries, you absolutely should, because it includes some phenomenal Doctor Nemesis moments.
