Source: 1979semifinalist.blogspot.com
5. Boom Boom
Tick, tick, boom!
Tabitha Smith is a young mutant who can create time bombs (explosive balls of energy that follow her commands), and she desperately wants to escape her tragic home life. She goes on the run to find a place she can call home, and falls in with mutant thief The Vanisher for a while. Then X-Factor picks her up and trains her, although she’s never made an official member.
She eventually transfers to the New Mutants, and remains with them when they become X-Force. She also goes through a couple of name changes, first Boomer and then Meltdown. Later, she ditches the code name when H.A.T.E. recruits her for their squad, and dubs her Nextwave.
In this role, she’s the best she's ever been, and she kicks so much ass. She also wins a psychic battle because she has no mind. I love Nextwave. She eventually returns to the X-Men and re-adopts the Boom-Boom identity, but she’ll forever retain her Nextwave cred.
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4. Fantomex
I’ve said before that I think the whole it wasn't Weapon X; it was Weapon 10 thing is mega dumb, but it gave us Fantomex, so I’ll grudgingly accept it.
Created by the Weapon Plus Project, Fantomex’s official designation is Weapon XIII. Note to self: Do a list titled Top Ten Weapon Plus Creations.
Anyway, Fantomex is a master thief and assassin who also has a wonderful friend/transport bio-ship in the form of E.V.A. When he eventually runs afoul of the X-Men, he’s recruited into X-Force, specifically the team that includes Wolverine, Archangel, and Deadpool.
He remains on various X-Force squads before he gets the nod to head on up to the X-Men, specifically the current Astonishing X-Men team.
Powers-wise, he possesses the standard Weapon Plus healing factor and enhanced senses. In addition, he doesn't smell like anything, which makes him hard to track. It also means that he doesn't really have to worry about showers.
Source: marvel.com
3. Quentin Quire
Controversial choice, I know, but I love the hell out of Quentin Quire.
To be honest, I think I love him for the same reason other people hate him: He's a total, unmitigated a**hole. And can you blame him? He's a hyper-powerful psychic who's also a super genius.
Under the handle Kid Omega, Quire becomes the Xavier School's resident bad boy, doing drugs, leading riots, manifesting psionic shotguns…You know, all the things the bad kids did at your high school.
Quire also leads the Omega Gang as they beat the hell out of Xavier himself and kick off a school-wide riot. He’s beaten down and winds up in jail. Later, he breaks out and publicly humiliates the entire United Nations before he’s beaten down and thrown in jail again. Sensing a pattern here? But in an attempt to be the kind of mentor figure Xavier is, Wolverine gets Quire out of jail to attend the newly opened Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. Quire slowly matures and becomes kind of a hero.
Oh, yeah, and he possesses the Phoenix Force. Because Quentin Quire is great.
