2014 X-Book Awards- The Results

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Uuu wonderful list

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BEST MUTANT APPEARING OUTSIDE THE X-BOOKS IN 2014
Last year’s winner was X-23, who was getting put through a chipper-shredder in Avengers Arena. Laura’s back in the X-books, though, and the battle for this award came down to the wire this year…


Honorable Mention

Shadowcat! (10 points, 2 first place votes)

PHRASING, KITTY! Check out Legendary Star-Lord and see Kitty Pryde in a long-distance relationship where she pines for a hologram today, True Believers! And don’t forget (as our voters seem to have) that Lockheed appears, too!



Honorable Mention

Namor! (15 points,3 first place votes)

Namor has hardly kept quiet as a member of the Illuminati, where they developed a bomb capable of destroying a whole planet (and thus universe, if it’s an Earth during an incursion), and were all hesitant to use the thing, for what it would mean they would become (they should have just had genocidal veteran Beast push it.)

Well, Namor pressed the button like he was flipping on a TV, and other than that, has continued to troll T’Challa about having flooded all of Wakanda. He has zero f***s to give. As a result, the Illuminati kicked him out.

And then he went and former his own Cabal, with himself, Thanos, Terrax, Maximus the Mad, Black Swan, Proxima Midnight and Corvus Glaive. Which, holy crap, is that a lot of ridiculously powered villains. Namor might be in over his head on this one, but you know what you can’t say? That he’s boring to read about.


Third runner-up…

Prodigy II! (16 points, 3 first place votes)

During “Original Sin”, Prodigy got a nice little story with Noh’Varr and Hulkling where they took on The Hood (who is pretty much a laughing stock at this point) and saved a whole building full of hostages. He’s more confident since he came out as bisexual, as well, having to serve as the brains on a trio of heroes where quite clearly, he’s the thinking man of the three.

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Second Runner-up…

Rogue! (27 points, 7 first place votes)

Good news? Rogue’s not dead, absorbed the powers of all the X-Men and Avengers simultaneously to single-handedly take on the Celestial Executioner, Exitar. Bad news? She’s got powers that aren’t quite right again, and someone floating around inside her psyche. This time, it’s Simon Williams, aka Wonder Man. So… good news? Rogue can fly and is super strong again. Bad news? She’s got a dude floating around in her noggin with a long sexual history with the Scarlet Witch.

She’s now going to be on a new incarnation of the Uncanny Avengers that sees Wolverine replaced with Sabretooth, Havok replaced with Quicksilver, and Brother Voodoo, Vision and Falcon instead of Sunfire, Thor, and Captain America. Man, this girl cannot catch a break.


First Runner-up…

Sunspot! (44 points, 10 first place votes)

For the first time, Roberta Dacosta remembered he’s one rich mother****er, and spread the cheese around in such a way that it won over villains by just BRIBING THEM TO BE NICE. That’s right, with all the fanatical “Death by Science!” bucket-heads from A.I.M. giving the Avengers problems, he had a unique solution… take the nerds out partying, get them drunk, and buy their loyalty right out from under Andrew Forson. And boy, did it work. I’m honestly wondering why Tony Stark never tried this.

I want to note that Sunspot got more first place votes in this category than who got the win, which is an achievement in and of itself. Unfortunately, almost all the people who voted him #1 gave two points of votes to the person who edged him out.


The Best Mutant Appearing in a non X-book in 2015 is…


Cannonball!(45 points, 6 first place votes)

Sam Guthrie is a daddy now, having finally begun to live up to his father’s legacy of being ridiculously fertile by putting a baby in his Avengers teammate, Smasher, aka Izzy Kane. I cannot confirm or deny if they were using protection, but it stands to reason that Cannonball’s little swimmers are immune to contraceptives when they’re a-blastin’, just like he is.

Anyway, Cannonball has saved Smasher from being mind-controlled by A.I.M. in the pages of Avengers Forever, and been on the front lines of every Avengers battle since he joined the team. After placing high in this category last year but narrowly finishing second behind X-23, this year, he shows why he’s a fan favorite of X-fans by pulling down this award.

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LEAST FAVORITE VILLAIN(S) OF 2015

Last year’s winner for this award was Kade Kilgore and the Burger King Kids Club. I mean… new Hellfire Club, for the third year in a row making everyone long for the days of more credible club members, like Selene, Harry Leland, Gerhard von Ostamgen, Friedrich von Roehm, Castlemere, and Paris Seville. There are no jokes there. All of those characters were better Hellfire Club members than the Hellfire Kids. Which… with but one appearance in 2014… can Kade Kilgore and Co. do the unthinkable and win a stunning fourth “Worst Villain” award in a row?


Dishonorable Mention

Arkea! (15 points, 2 first place votes)

Okay, Arkea came on the scene, and was supposed to be as threatening as John Sublime, his “sister”, a bacterium available of possessing technology. She scared the hell out of the entire Jean Grey School, reactivated and took possession of Omega Sentinel before going on the run. What more hell would she raise this year?

Erm… it didn’t go quite as well. She tried to rebuild The Sisterhood, because that group did so well the first time they existed. Except her recruits were Typhoid Mary, and a young Colombian gal in sugar-skull make-up who wanted to be the new Lady Deathstrike. Arkea’s almost-smart move was to add powerhouses like The Enchantress to the team, and have Madelyne Pryor and Selene to their ranks.

That wasn’t so smart however, because she had zero way to guarantee the loyalty of the final three members, who pretty much f***ed off to go do their own evil thing and leave Arkea to the X-Men’s mercies. She’s since been used as a drug treatment by Beast upon near-death X-Men like Primal II and Sprite III.

That’s right, in a roundabout way, it’s Arkea’s fault that Teon and stone-Asian-Pixie are still alive. So you have her to blame for that.


Dishonorable Mention

Phoenix Corporation! (16 points, 4 first place votes)

Edan Young, John Break-Sky (aka Faithful John), and their army of… I s*** you not, sexy Askani battle-nuns attacked the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning in an attempt to get Quentin Quire to just up and kill Genesis II because he’d have to do it eventually. They proceeded to use more telepathic images and taunts to try and get the X-Men to dogpile on Genesis II for them (leading to a scrap between Rockslide & Hellion, which is probably the highlight of their villainy).

Because if there’s one thing Marvel fans have been clamoring for, it’s seeing the Phoenix Force (which is supposed to have been wiped out after AvX) used as the motivation for a fanatic who time-travels to the past and makes the cosmic power the focus of a corporate entity.


Third runner-up…

Dark Beast! (20 points, 4 first place votes)

Let’s get this straight… Dark Beast managed to further tweak the powers of Cyclops’ X-Men team AFTER AvX… somehow. Then, he escaped from his S.H.I.E.L.D. captivity without it being noticed, but stayed on a Helicarrier, where he hacked into their systems and took control of their Sentinels?

And just when he gets found out for attempting that while living in what looked like an abandoned Mysterio costume (bubblehead and all), he proceeds to just die from like cancer or feline leukemia or something on the spot. You deserved better, Fake Hank.

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Second Runner-up…

The Future! (22 points, 6 first place votes)

Shogo Lee had to come from somewhere more specific than Hungary, and it was never quite explained how The Future was related to him (calling Shogo his “heir”)… just that The Future wanted him back. So the villain decided to send a message to the X-Men that he wanted the baby… by having a host of his attempt to assassinate Primal II and Sprite III.

Not giving a damn about legacy characters that had been abandoned by the writers who created them within a year of establishing them, the X-Men kept blowing up The Future’s soldiers. He was confused by the X-Men using lethal tactics (thanks, Kymera) and decided instead of kidnapping Shogo Lee, he was instead kidnap a vampiric Jubilee. Then he hid inside of a weaponized living forest, and while trying to watch a bunch of vines waylay Monet St. Croix, he stopped paying attention to the girl with fangs in a bright yellow raincoat sitting next to him and got his *** kicked.

I can’t tell what’s dumber, his plans, his motivations, or his name.

First Runner-up…

Red Onslaught (23 points, 5 first place votes)

Because if there’s one story that X-Men fans remember fondly, it’s ONSLAUGHT! Well, the Red Skull’s plan was to troll Magneto hard enough to get him to kill him, and be in contact with Magneto’s brain while he used Xavier’s brain and thus duplicate the process by which Onslaught was created, making him a global threat. For whatever reason, this also gave him tentacles, and a weakness to magic spells cast by Scarlet Witch and a partner that would bring the niceness out of him.

This may have had something to do with why AXIS was not well received, I’m thinking.

The Voters’ Pick for Least Favorite Villain(s) of 2014 is…

Kade Kilgore and his Hellfire Club (27 points, 8 first place votes)

Jesus. We actually got a 4-Peat. The Hellfire Brats were supposed to be out of commission. Like, Enduque and Frankenstein… they were on the run as of the end of Wolverine & the X-Men (vol. 1), set on the loose by Toad, but at some point halfway through the year, those two were being given cameo appearances as still being at the JGSHL as a part of the student body.

Now, that’s not as shocking as seeing Kade Kilgore and Wilhelmina Kensington, who were last seen trapped inside a third version of the Siege Perilous at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean suddenly turning up at a Hellfire Club “Black Party”, reunited with their former teammates like nothing ever happened. And they were all invited to the club during AXIS by Quentin Quire.

This one cameo, where they all were back to where they were two years ago without any in-story explanation, and with none of the X-Men present kicking their teeth in for being, in so many words, a bunch of wankers, was enough to win them their fourth consecutive “Worst Villain” award.

We’ll have to wait and see if any writer opts to use them again in 2015, and give them a shot at this award for a FIFTH time.

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BEST VILLAIN(S) OF 2014
Last year’s winner for this award was The Apocalypse Twins, because they pretty much destroyed the planet.


Honorable Mention

Gladiator! (10 points, 2 first place votes)

Normally, Gladiator isn’t a villain, per se, but an outside entity in the X-Men’s path who just has opposing loyalties in that moment. Well, in 2014, he decided he should try and put a stop to the Phoenix (again, which never works out) by kidnapping a time-tossed teenaged Jean Grey and putting her on trials for crimes her future self would commit.

The Guardians of the Galaxy and X-Men would come to rescue her, and before all was said and done, the nigh-unstoppable Emperor of the Shi’ar Empire would get his *** kicked by a little girl. But for being a solid antagonist (even if there was no logic as to why he was doing what he was doing), Gladiator got an honorable mention in this category.



Honorable Mention

Raze! (13 points, 2 first place vote)

Raze gets a lot of credit for pretending to be Teen Cyclops and burying a set of claws in X-23’s belly, leaving her for dead. Of course, for a guy with knowledge of the X-Men who’s from the future, forgetting X-23 has a healing factor and just assuming she’d stay down was a pretty bad screw-up, strategically.

Raze and Xavier Jr. were enough of a threat to have most of their Future Brotherhood mind-controlled, and took the fight right to the New Charles Xavier School. Even if both are weird bastard kids of Mystique’s who she had with men she hates, they did come off a bit better in 2014 than they did in 2013, with a plan to keep losing and trying to undo their losses via time travel until they win. Persistence counts, I guess.


Third runner-up…

Mystique! (18 points, 2 first place votes)

Mystique was revealed to have married, and had a kid with Professor X that she abandoned after giving birth while pretending to be Moira Mactaggart in 2014. She also was a bit player in the “Death of Wolverine”, being kidnapped by some Weapon X escapees and drafted onto a team called the Wolverines (with some long term interest due to warnings from Destiny), as well as having her moral alignment temporarily shifted by the events of AXIS to where she wanted to be a better mother to Nightcrawler and Rogue.

She’s currently the most prolific X-Men foe who isn’t a member of the team, so we’ll have to see what her long term plans might be.

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Second Runner-up…

Red Skull! (24 points, 5 first place votes)

He’s a super-Nazi who keeps trying for global domination who defiled the corpse of Professor X to steal his telepathy, and set up concentration camps for new mutants on Genosha of all places, using this as a means to troll Magneto hard enough that he might try and kill him, cementing his transformation into becoming the Red Onslaught.

I don’t know about you, but it’s hard not to vote for a Super-Nazi for best villain. It’s almost more surprising that other villains beat him for the award.


First Runner-up…

SHIELD! (29 points, 7 first place votes)

Wow. S.H.I.E.L.D. managed to win out over the Red Skull for “Best Villain”? How far down the toilet have you led the agency, Maria Hill?

In a year where they unknowingly were taken over from within, rather easily by a terminally ill Dark Beast, had Mystique easily infiltrate them by replacing Dazzler (and no one noticed Agent Blaire had o light powers) and got Exodus to work as a telepathic operative, only to see him end up getting death benefits by feeding him to godlike threat Matthew Malloy… these fascist scmucks were still the main antagonists to Cyclops’ team of X-Men, but more in the way that Roscoe P. Coltrane is the antagonist to the Dukes of Hazard.




The Voters’ Pick for Best Villain(s) of 2014 are…

Fantomex!(30 points, 9 first place votes)

Fantomex had his psyche split into three parts at the end of Uncanny X-Force (vol. 1). During Uncanny X-Force (vol. 2), it started to become more clear that those three parts were all a bit unbalanced, in their own way, and E.V.A. was even aware of the damage.

Well, in 2014, Simon Spurrier sent the man they call Le Pew off the deep end, his own inferiority complex being the impetus to make him feel like he had something to prove. His own need to be superior to everyone around him sent Fantomex over the edge, and he’d shoot one of Cable’s clones, and then Forgetmenot as his madness rapidly progressed. (He also had some weird cyberfling inside a mindscape with Hope Summers that probably should have gotten him at least a visit from Chris Hansen from “To Catch a Predator”, but whatever.)

It has culminated in Fantomex going on a killing spree, killing off superhumans around the globe to prove he’s a badass. Mind you, the “threats” he’s showing he’s better than are being fed to him by Cable to have them taken off he grid, so Fantomex is really just being used… but Hope finally got sick of that game and now X-Force has to take on their own teammate, whose combat powers have been taken to levels never before seen.

And doing all this while being obnoxiously faux-French was enough to win Fantomex the award for your Best X-villain of 2014.

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LEAST FAVORITE HERO(S) OF 2014

Last year’s winner for this award was Havok , mostly because he was clearly a traitor to his own genetics. Was he the repeat winner for 2014?



Dishonorable Mention

Quentin Quire! (20 points, 5 first place votes)

He was tempted by the Phoenix Corporation. Seriously, if that’s all it takes… that’s just sad.

But Quentin responded to that encounter by leaving the JGSHL, and taking over the Hellfire Club, then invited Kade Kilgore and company to a party he was throwing there, as if they weren’t just trying to murder each other last year.

Quentin is currently thought of as pathetic by Broo, Rockslide, Eye Boy, Glob Herman, and Oya. When names like that can look their nose down at you, you’re near the bottom of the barrel.



Dishonorable Mention

Cyclops! (21 points, 4 first place votes)

Cyclops still gets grief over being a mutant outlaw who killed his mentor, and still some for cheating on Jean Grey with Emma Frost like ten years ago. Oh, and the time he bailed on Maddie Pryor and baby Nathan to go form the original X-Factor, like 3 decades back. In any event, while he’s pretty self-righteous, there are a lot of folks that find his dedication to “the cause” to be at best, controversial, and perhaps counter-productive.

Just keep blowing up Sentinels, Scott, and the naysayers will eventually be like, “Well, he’s not so bad. But he’s still a d***.”

Because you just can’t please some people. So keep kicking ass and taking godlike beings like Matthew Malloy out for pancakes while flipping S.H.I.E.L.D. the bird, and you’ll eventually escape this list, altogether.


Third runner-up…

Iceman! (26 points, 4 first place votes)

In a year where Bobby Drake froze over hell, he probably will be remembered more for throwing shade to Scott Summers. Repeatedly, and rabidly, Iceman has rubbed Cyclops’ nose in the murder of Professor X, and it’s gained him the resentment of one of the most dedicated fan followings in CBR’s X-Forum.

Meanwhile, he also turned into the most whiny, entitled jackass during AXIS (check out the “Iceheart” story), where he seems to just expect that women should be on his jock for him being a hero. To which, I have to point out… that’s sort of been a lot of his character history, hasn’t it? That’s not much of an “Inversion” as it is exaggerating some of his more douche-tastic qualities to the point of being obnoxious.

Thankfully, Teen Iceman has at least been entertaining, but it wasn’t the best year to be an Iceman fan, to say the least. Maybe his flirtations with Firestar might go somewhere. We’ll have to wait and see.

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Second Runner-up…


Havok! (27 points, 6 first place votes)

Havok got horribly scarred by Kang, and was suddenly madly and deeply in love with the Wasp after the events of “Avenge the Earth”. He then was easily kidnapped by Red Skull’s S-Men and taken to Genosha to participate in AXIS, where he was given his umpteenth heel turn by Marvel writers, and trying to assist the X-Men in detonating a bomb in New York City that would kill all humans.

At the end of that crossover, he kidnapped his “wife”, and stashed her… somewhere, before opting to lay low by joining Cyclops at the New Charles Xavier School. No Avenger or X-Man has bothered telling Scott his brother is still evil, and none of the Stepford Cuckoos or Emma Frost noticed either.

I have no idea how this will play out, but I’m leaning towards it being a ridiculous amount of plot-induced stupidity, myself. On the upside, Havok did not give any speeches this year to sell out his own people, at least.



First Runner-up…

Scarlet Witch! (30 points, 5 first place votes)

Decimation. Decimation. Decimation.

That’s not something people get over, easily. And the idea that Wanda Maximoff was too dangerous to let live? Well, she screwed up a magic spell that turned all the assembled X-Men and Avengers evil, seemingly proving how dangerous her reality-altering powers are, yet again. While the spell was reversed thanks to her being forced to reverse it via a possession by Brother Voodoo’s ghost-brother, the Scarlet Witch at least had a “win” this year when she found out she isn’t actually Magneto’s kid, but I think that might just be another magical spell gone awry or something. And by “something” I mean Marvel Studios want to sever as many ties for Avengers characters to X-Men characters until they get some rights back from Fox Studios.


The Voters’ Pick for Least Favorite Hero of 2014 is…


Beast (56 points, 12 first place votes)

This multi-genocidal maniac has placed very highly in this category, even before Schism, but always had the benefit of someone like Havok or Wolverine being more of an inept jackass or sellout in any year to avoid getting this X-Razzie.

This year, he provided the memorable moment of throwing a tantrum that Cyclops was Right, and worked with the Illuminati on a bomb that could destroy planets. Oh, and he also tried making a temporary healing factor boost out of what he THINKS are neutralized samples of Arkea. Even Jubilee, who is legally mentally challenged, raised a red flag on that decision. Beast is such a f*** up that Uatu the Watcher, who’s never supposed to speak or interfere showed up to tell him that he’s disgusted with him. Like, THAT WAS IT. The whole reason for the visit from a cosmic being was to be told you’re a s***heel. That is NOT a good sign. Uatu doesn’t even do that to Red Skull or Dr. Doom.

I mean, fan hate for Azazel dissipated possibly because he just took the time to kick Hank McCoy in the face.

Beast. Your “Worst Hero” winner for 2014. Let’s hope he wins back some credibility by actually being useful in some X-Men stories, like when he provides tech support to Storm in her ongoing. Because he needs to get some wins, and fast.

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Second Runner-up…


Havok! (27 points, 6 first place votes)

Havok got horribly scarred by Kang, and was suddenly madly and deeply in love with the Wasp after the events of “Avenge the Earth”. He then was easily kidnapped by Red Skull’s S-Men and taken to Genosha to participate in AXIS, where he was given his umpteenth heel turn by Marvel writers, and trying to assist the X-Men in detonating a bomb in New York City that would kill all humans.

At the end of that crossover, he kidnapped his “wife”, and stashed her… somewhere, before opting to lay low by joining Cyclops at the New Charles Xavier School. No Avenger or X-Man has bothered telling Scott his brother is still evil, and none of the Stepford Cuckoos or Emma Frost noticed either.

I have no idea how this will play out, but I’m leaning towards it being a ridiculous amount of plot-induced stupidity, myself. On the upside, Havok did not give any speeches this year to sell out his own people, at least.



First Runner-up…

Scarlet Witch! (30 points, 5 first place votes)

Decimation. Decimation. Decimation.

That’s not something people get over, easily. And the idea that Wanda Maximoff was too dangerous to let live? Well, she screwed up a magic spell that turned all the assembled X-Men and Avengers evil, seemingly proving how dangerous her reality-altering powers are, yet again. While the spell was reversed thanks to her being forced to reverse it via a possession by Brother Voodoo’s ghost-brother, the Scarlet Witch at least had a “win” this year when she found out she isn’t actually Magneto’s kid, but I think that might just be another magical spell gone awry or something. And by “something” I mean Marvel Studios want to sever as many ties for Avengers characters to X-Men characters until they get some rights back from Fox Studios.


The Voters’ Pick for Least Favorite Hero of 2014 is…


Beast (56 points, 12 first place votes)

This multi-genocidal maniac has placed very highly in this category, even before Schism, but always had the benefit of someone like Havok or Wolverine being more of an inept jackass or sellout in any year to avoid getting this X-Razzie.

This year, he provided the memorable moment of throwing a tantrum that Cyclops was Right, and worked with the Illuminati on a bomb that could destroy planets. Oh, and he also tried making a temporary healing factor boost out of what he THINKS are neutralized samples of Arkea. Even Jubilee, who is legally mentally challenged, raised a red flag on that decision. Beast is such a f*** up that Uatu the Watcher, who’s never supposed to speak or interfere showed up to tell him that he’s disgusted with him. Like, THAT WAS IT. The whole reason for the visit from a cosmic being was to be told you’re a s***heel. That is NOT a good sign. Uatu doesn’t even do that to Red Skull or Dr. Doom.

I mean, fan hate for Azazel dissipated possibly because he just took the time to kick Hank McCoy in the face.

Beast. Your “Worst Hero” winner for 2014. Let’s hope he wins back some credibility by actually being useful in some X-Men stories, like when he provides tech support to Storm in her ongoing. Because he needs to get some wins, and fast.

I was wondering how Wanda didn't top the list, but Beast sure as hell explains it.

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So glad that ForgetMeNot is doing so well! I love that character! Makes sense that anything Spurrier does wins, as he is the best!
Surprised Kitty didn't do better on the Mutant Appearing Outside of an X-Book category.

WBE, thanks for compiling and writing all of these results! You are the very definition of the best!

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BEST HERO OF 2014

2013 was the year Cyclops repeated as winner, and considering that even Beast has admitted he was right in 2014, he’s a shoo-in to get a 3-Peat, right?


Honorable Mention

Psylocke! (19 points, 4 first place votes)

Psylocke had an interesting 2014, admitting to herself (and thereby, readers) that she’d become addicted to killing. Like, you know how Bruce Banner has the “days since incident” countdown? Betsy’s got that for murder now.

And, her sex life got more complicated, as she at least had the sense to rebuff Fantomex, but took it upon herself to still get her itch scratched by boning the odd-numbered clones of Cable that had to be made to keep him “alive”.

She still has shown herself quite the capable ass-kicker, though, and her psionic “censorship” of Marrow got a lot of laughs. Outside of X-Force, Psylocke also got a lot of love in X-Men (vol. 4), as one of the three telepaths on that team, taking the fight to The Future, and then jumping into space to battle both the Sidrian Hunters and some Super-Broodskrulls during “Exogenous”.

All in all, not a bad year.


Honorable Mention

Magneto! (20 points, 3 first place votes)

If you haven’t been reading his solo series, you’ve been missing out. Magneto has destroyed Sentinel factories, made the Marauders his personal b****es, and made S.H.I.E.L.D. look like they don’t know their asses from their elbows for the whole year, and then popped up at opportune times of stories to do things like save Dazzler from being harvested for MGH in Madripoor, or say, brutally murder all of the S-Men before squishing the Red Skull’s head like a grape.

Should you be rooting for him? Maybe not. But if you’ve ever wanted to see a protagonist in an X-book who can enact vengeance without thinking twice about it… Magneto’s your guy. He makes Wolverine look like a boy scout, in comparison.



Third runner-up…

Cyclops! (32 points, 6 first place votes)

The two time champion for this category falls from the top spot all the way to #4. What happened? Did he hook up with teenage Jean Grey (nope, he rebuffed her). How could he drop?

I’ve got a theory. He had to split votes with himself, and his teenaged incarnation even has his own solo, and pulled in 15 points worth of votes himself. Either that, or his speeches in 2014 weren’t quite as epic as they’ve been the past two years.

Step it up, Scott. You’re slipping.

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Second Runner-up…

Nightcrawler! (33 points, 6 first place votes)

Already back from the dead, Nightcrawler’s got all sorts of ladies trying to get their hands on his blue furry **** and adventure wherever he looks. Sure, it’s always a bit weird when he’s kissing on his adopted sister, but she got killed and Kurt immediately gained a new love interest in the form of Bloody Bess from the Crimson Pirates.

He’s managed to go to toe to toe with Azazel, Sabretooth, Mystique, Trimega, the Crimson Pirates, an army of Wendigos, and the Shadow King and currently has come out on the winning side of every one of those fights. Hopefully 2015 is even kinder to our favorite fuzzy elf.




First Runner-up…

Storm!(34 points, 8 first place votes)

If you’re not noticing a pattern, X-characters with solo series did rather well for themselves in 2014. And Storm was no different, kicking ass in about every X-book out there. Uncanny. Amazing. Adjectiveless. Wolverine & the X-Men (vol. 2). And in her own solo? Wow.

Storm punked the entire army of the nation of Santa Marco (also known as the country the original Brotherhood pwned back in X-Men (vol. 1) #4, handled Callisto like she wasn’t even a thing, took down a crime lord from Breakworld in solo combat, and successfully saved a passenger jet loaded with people who would have fallen to their deaths WHILE A SECURITY DETAIL TRIED TO SUBDUE HER.

Ororo is, quite simply, a badass. But who took the #1 spot this year?



The Voters’ Pick for Best Hero of 2014 is…

Magik! (40 points, 7 first place votes)

In both 2012 and 2013, Magik got the silver medal in this category. She won “Best Breakthrough Character” 3 years ago, so it’s nice to see her breakthrough for the gold herself after having been so well represented in all that time.

Magik was thought to just be the plot device by which Cyclops’ X-Men team could teleport wherever they needed to go, and jump around the Marvel Universe from place to place… the Magik Bus, when the roster of Uncanny X-Men was announced.

Instead, she’s become one of the highlights of the book, travelling back in time to study with Dr. Strange in the past long before he ever gets pissed off at her for the events of “AvX”, she even has pulled down enough training as a sorcerer to pull off spells like the one shown above to make her even way more of an offensive threat than she already is. In one of the annuals this year, we saw that there’s at least an alternate future where she becomes the Sorcerer Supreme.

When you combine that much potency in terms of fighting ability with some outstanding one-liners, Magik has become one of the most beloved X-characters out there today, enough so that she won this award against some of the most prolific X-characters in history.

[JackalsIII]

I guess Magik finally broke out!

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I guess Magik finally broke out!

Yeah, this should officially make her ineligible for "Breakout Character" next year, I'd say. If you win in that category, and/or the "Best Character" overall at some point, I think you're already pretty well established.