Characters Who Missed Out

[Kingdom X]

Storm wasn't written out but I wish she was in Morrison's run instead of X-Treme.

I feel similarly... not because I think she would have been particularly well-written in that run but because it started a decade+ long trend where Storm could be relegated to leadership of side titles and have no bearing on the primary storylines. Ex: somehow in the entire Decimation era, the character with the most significant arc about losing her powers seemingly has no ideas about the direction that mutantkind should take.

My non A-lister answer is Karma. No specific era, but there just seems to be a ton of times where she's nowhere to be found (shoot she's even MIA right now) and I find her to be a genuinely interesting character.

[Bunch of Coconuts]

Storm wasn't written out but I wish she was in Morrison's run instead of X-Treme.

Didn't Morrison originally want Storm instead of Emma?

[Jackraow21]

He did. At least I’m almost positive I read that somewhere.

[From The Shadows]

Didn't Morrison originally want Storm instead of Emma?

Yes. I remember reading it. I'm not sure how reliable it was, though. I think that he wanted her to have the affair with cyclops. Thank gosh that didn't happen.

[Grunty]

Didn't Morrison originally want Storm instead of Emma?

If memory serves, there was an interview where he noted that his original plans also involved Collosus, but since he was dead at the time from curing the legacy virus that was off the table (and his revival was likely held back by how recent his death was combined with Quesada's sudden "dead means dead" rule at the time), so Morrison came up with the secondary mutation to turn Emma into a Collosus stand in.

Which would mean Emma had to serve as a place holder for two characters.

[Alan2099]

Not 100% comics related but I think Ms. Katherine Pryde missed out on being the POV young mutant in X-Men: TAS (and possibly the first X-Men movie) due to her being part of Excalibur at the time and not Jim Lee's X-Men.

I don't know how true it is, but I heard the reason Shadowcat was black listed from the 90s cartoon was due to her being the POV character in the previous attempt at an X-men cartoon, Pryde of the X-men. It tanked and it poisoned the character in the execs minds.

[K7P5V]

Due to the loss of his sonic scream sustained through injuries, Banshee missed out on being involved in The Final Fate of the Phoenix!

[From The Shadows]

Due to the loss of his sonic scream sustained through injuries, Banshee missed out on being involved in The Final Fate of the Phoenix!

Yeah, I loved Banshee. I hated when they had written him out.

[Askani's Flame]

Rachel was effective sent packing, written out, or kept to the shadows of every major X-Men event since the 80's
Mutant Massacre - Mojoverse
Fall of the Mutants - Mojoverse
Inferno - a mannequin in a bridal store (I'm not kidding)
X-Tinction Agenda - in the multiverse
Muir Island Saga - in the multiverse
X-Cutioner's Song - literally killed and sent healing into space so she and the Phoenix couldn't take part in THE SUMMERS EVENT OF THE 90'S
Fatal Attractions - Sent into the unknown future
Phalanx Covenant - through Planet X - in the future
House of M - not in main story, just Uncanny X-Men side issues
Phoenix Endsong - literally a story about the Phoenix and Jean and Rachel gets a cameo in a big splash page saying Mom.... But can't participate
Deadly Genesis - gets taken hostage most of the event by her uncle
RaFotSE - has a small role (yay) but it's primarily to get her off a earth for...
All of Messiah Complex - Second Coming - in space because Phoenix plus red haired neice means readers might get confused
Age of X - a role but cos playing as her mother until revealed afterwards
AvX - side books and minor appearances because as much as they tried to ignore/hide her the writers realized she couldn't be in it
Battle of the Atom - was there but she's not allowed to interact with Jean and Scott so
Axis - hound
Death of X - MIA
IvX - MIA (minus two small appearances)
Phoenix Resurrection - knocked out in the first issue
Extermination - hound
Disassembled - snarling hound
Age of X-Man - slobbering hound
HoX/PoX - MIA
X of Swords - in the healing gardens, also not allowed in Jean's TP club even though she's on the cover of the event advert with the Phoenix Blade
Inferno - Otherworld
Sins of Sinister - MIA
Fall of X - MIA
Rise of the Powers of X - Finally here and in a main role

[Icefanatic]

Due to the loss of his sonic scream sustained through injuries, Banshee missed out on being involved in The Final Fate of the Phoenix!

Iceman missed out of being a part of it because Jo Duffy was developing a series for him that was on-and-off for years and had 'laid claim' to the character, meaning others couldn't use him.

Claremont and Byrne were only able to 'sneak' him in, unnamed in human form and dialogue-less at Jean's funeral.

[Kingdom X]

If memory serves, there was an interview where he noted that his original plans also involved Collosus, but since he was dead at the time from curing the legacy virus that was off the table (and his revival was likely held back by how recent his death was combined with Quesada's sudden "dead means dead" rule at the time), so Morrison came up with the secondary mutation to turn Emma into a Collosus stand in.

Which would mean Emma had to serve as a place holder for two characters.

While there *might* be an interview where Morrison wanted Storm, it was never in place of Emma. In fact when you look up the “was Scott supposed to have an affair with Storm” theory all that pops up are CBR forum discussions with no sources cited.

[Quill-Han-Vos]

He did. At least I’m almost positive I read that somewhere.

His X-Men Manifesto (it must in the tpb/omnibus/collected editions of his run) ?

https://imgur.com/gallery/JLBv5Ca

[Grunty]

While there *might* be an interview where Morrison wanted Storm, it was never in place of Emma. In fact when you look up the “was Scott supposed to have an affair with Storm” theory all that pops up are CBR forum discussions with no sources cited.

Thanks for the correction.

[IN-a-Synch]

I for one think Sabretooth missed out on the trial of Gambit. I would have love to see him gloat knowing he knew Remy was there the entire time during the Massacre.

Jean Grey being dead during the Messiah Complex and Second Coming, and Avengers vs Xmen to me was a big void of her not being there.

[Frontier]

Due to the loss of his sonic scream sustained through injuries, Banshee missed out on being involved in The Final Fate of the Phoenix!

Also Iceman was the only 05 member who wasn't with the team here.