Perfect X-Team - 7 members

[mikelmcknight72]

I'll do several teams with a nod to the Blue & Gold era. M-Day affected members have or get their powers back. Tried for interesting interpersonal dynamics.

Blue Team
Storm - Co-Leader, Elemental
Jean Grey - Co-Leader, Psi
Rogue - Brick, Wife to Gambit
Gambit - Stealth, Thief, Husband to Rogue
Beast - Brains, Clown
X-23 - Stealth, Tracker
Magik - Teleportation, Sorceress, Edgy, Snark

Gold Team
Cannonball - Co-Leader, Air Support
Moonstar - Co-Leader, Valkyrie, Specialized Psi
Psylocke - Psi
Nightcrawler - Conscience, Teleportation, Stealth, On again with Amanda
Amanda Sefton - Sorceress, On again with Kurt
Sunfire - Air Support, Fire Control, Snark
Warpath - Brick, Stealth, Tracker

Support Staff - Largely stays at the mansion. They provide support, and they oversee the actual school.
Professor X - Headmaster, Little to no involvement in overseeing field teams, character assassination largely retconned
Cypher - Computer Expert, Linguist
Prodigy - Brains
Forge - Tech Master
Kavita Rao - Physician
Stevie Hunter - Having acquired a psychology degree, she now serves as a school psychologist. She'd still provide agility training via dance classes for students.
Smasher - Wife to Cannonball, School Security, Onsite Brick

X-Factor - Government Sponsored Team, Synthesis of past team styles
Cyclops - Looking for redemption from his more radical era, but retaining some edge
Wolfsbane - Tracker, Stealth
Polaris - Energy Manipulation
Rachel Grey-Summers - Psi, recovering from newest bout of being a hound
M - Looking for redemption from her time merged with Emplate, Snark, Brick
Ariel - Teleportation
Dr Nemesis - Brains, Snark

X-Force - Proactive team, willing to kill as a last resort
Wolverine - Leader
Domino - Probability powers, seeing Colossus on the rebound
Colossus - Brick, seeing Domino on the rebound
Bella Donna Boudreaux - Ex-wife to Gambit, looking for a new purpose
Siryn - Recovering from her bout as the Morrigan
Tom Corsi - Human, police training, long-time X-Men ally
Sabra - Israeli Powerhouse, Mossad Trained. Think Ziva from NCIS

[Master of Sound]

Hellion
Armor
Glob Herman
Surge
Match
Elixir
Dust

Pixie
Anole
Rockslide
Mercury
Indra
Blindfold
Trance

The new generation of X-Men

[Harpsikord]

Hellion
Armor
Glob Herman
Surge
Match
Elixir
Dust

Pixie
Anole
Rockslide
Mercury
Indra
Blindfold
Trance

The new generation of X-Men

It's a shame that most of these characters have been ruined in some way or another. If I were gonna do something similar I'd do something like...

Hope
Hellion
Kid Omega
Dust
Surge
Indra
Pixie

[Snoop Dogg]

Boom-Boom
Boom-Boom with Sketchers
Boom-Boom with a gun
Boom-Boom with claws
Boom-Boom in a helicopter
Boom-Boom with a cold
Time Displaced Teen Boom-Boom

[Harpsikord]

Boom-Boom
Boom-Boom with Sketchers
Boom-Boom with a gun
Boom-Boom with claws
Boom-Boom in a helicopter
Boom-Boom with a cold
Time Displaced Teen Boom-Boom

Sign me the fuck up.

[DurararaFTW]

Storm
Wolverine (Both Logan and Laura would see use in the run)
Magik
Monet
Hellion
Northstar
Forge

[gifted]

This isn't just one team if seven, but yet another dream roster. It's just that I use this idea all the time, so oh well.

I would give some of the major players a rest from the X-Men and have them join greater Marvel Universe teams and organizations (i.e. Storm in Black Panther, Iceman in Fantastic 4, Jean Grey and Beast in Avengers, Cyclops in Starjammers, X-23 in West Coast Avengers, etc.). This allows the lesser known X-Men to come into focus and rise up.

Just like Morrison revitalized the X-Men in New X-Men, my idea is to do that same thing with a new adjective (Superior) that would be the flagship title. This era will be led by Polaris whose dream is to rebuild Genosha. Focus on the “mutant” itself-- focus on mutant society, culture, politics, and economy.

Superior X-Men
Ta-Nehisi Coates (W) - Sometimes his work sounds like it would fare much better in literary novels, but I do think he's great at world-building. And maybe let a non-straight, White man take the reins of the X-Men for once?

The team Polaris puts together is more of the people she would recruit to rebuild Genosha. This would be the flagship team. With the setting in a different country, I really wanted to reflect the diversity Genosha would have by using racially diverse characters.

• Bishop to be in charge of security, and would eventually grow as Polaris’ right-hand man.
• Forge for his genius intellect in technology that would help propel Genosha into becoming a first-world country.
• Sunfire who has dealt with government experience. He would often act as a foil.
• Frenzy who asks to join as someone who once believed in Magneto's teachings and understands how his daughter could be the right successor to take over Genosha.
• Dr. Cecilia Reyes to partner with Forge and the two would become the new scientist duo. Give more depth to Cecilia and really give her a passion for developing medicine.
• Sunspot, who will use his wealth, resources, and network to help fund the rebuilding of Genosha.

Mutant Liberation Front
Leah Williams (W) - This is based solely that I have high hopes for her in writing X-Tremists for Age of X-Man. And, she has wrote some kick-ass one shots and single issues for the X-Men recently.

This is a complete change from the original MLF. This book would be heavily tied to Superior X-Force, and MLF's role is to save mutants around the world and/or offer them a home in Genosha.

• Psylocke
• Domino
• Boom Boom
• M
• Jubilee
• Dani Moonstar
• Magik

Generation X
Christina Strain (W) - After reading Generation X, I have to give this one to her.

Emma Frost goes back to her roots and opens a mutant school on Genosha. This will be less classic young student teenager type and more of Emma Frost teaching them the culture of mutants and how to protect the world.

• Emma Frost
• Hellion
• Dust
• Negasonic Teenage Warhead
• Surge
• Morph
• Mercury

Superior X-Men would be the game-changer thinkpiece. Mutant Liberation Front would be high-octane action and superheroics. Generation X would be more light-hearted, drama.

[PhoenixThanos]

7 members, I'm a traditionalist, I like the old guard though I am happy with Cyclops currently out of the way.
Here is my list of 7 characters;
Jean Grey
Havok
Storm
Wolverine
Colossus
Night Crawler
Rogue
Gambit/Beast/Iceman/Archangel
Okay I cheated but member number 8 can be a rotating slot.

[bladeofdarkness]

My pick for an ideal team I'd love to read.
Prodigy (repowered) - Leader - Support - world's leading expert on everything + Mind Reader.
Surge - Second in command - DPS - Speedster + Ranged attacks.
Hellion - Lancer to Prodigy - DPS - TK powerhouse.
Armor - Smart Guy + Secondary Big guy - DPS/Off-Tank hybrid - Brusier + Forcefields.
Rockslide - Primary Big Guy + Comic relief - Tank - Brute force + indestructability.
Anole - Smart Guy + Comic relief - DPS/Support Hybrid - Infiltration Expert + Close Range High Agility Fighter.
Pixie - Primary team transportation + Heart - Support - Strategic Teleportation + Flight + a few more spells she's bound to pick up along the way.

[PrezValentine]

- Cyclops and Sunspot - co-leaders, can't go wrong with these two leading.
- Doc Nemesis, the tech/science support.
- Monet, best package of powers you can get, the snide personality is the plus.
- Surge because she's a precious child who needs lots of panel time + quick transportation
- Triage, never leave home without a healer.
- Magik, so the bromance with Scott can come back + quick transportation.

[Elden]

The Original Five + Storm and Rogue.

[MYCMTSC]

This is six but replace Rachel with Jean and then add Dazzler or Boom Boom or someone like that and I'd agree.

Same for this. Add Rogue and a non-Guggenheim Kitty, replace Jubes with someone more tolerable...

I wish that team would've lasted longer.

My ideal seven of all-female X-Men would be:
Jean
Storm
Rogue
Kitty
Jubilee
Monet
Magik

with Bling! and Mercury as supporting characters not written as art imitates life Comic-Con creeps.

This isn't just one team if seven, but yet another dream roster. It's just that I use this idea all the time, so oh well.

I would give some of the major players a rest from the X-Men and have them join greater Marvel Universe teams and organizations (i.e. Storm in Black Panther, Iceman in Fantastic 4, Jean Grey and Beast in Avengers, Cyclops in Starjammers, X-23 in West Coast Avengers, etc.). This allows the lesser known X-Men to come into focus and rise up.

Just like Morrison revitalized the X-Men in New X-Men, my idea is to do that same thing with a new adjective (Superior) that would be the flagship title. This era will be led by Polaris whose dream is to rebuild Genosha. Focus on the “mutant” itself-- focus on mutant society, culture, politics, and economy.

Superior X-Men
Ta-Nehisi Coates (W) - Sometimes his work sounds like it would fare much better in literary novels, but I do think he's great at world-building. And maybe let a non-straight, White man take the reins of the X-Men for once?

The team Polaris puts together is more of the people she would recruit to rebuild Genosha. This would be the flagship team. With the setting in a different country, I really wanted to reflect the diversity Genosha would have by using racially diverse characters.

• Bishop to be in charge of security, and would eventually grow as Polaris’ right-hand man.
• Forge for his genius intellect in technology that would help propel Genosha into becoming a first-world country.
• Sunfire who has dealt with government experience. He would often act as a foil.
• Frenzy who asks to join as someone who once believed in Magneto's teachings and understands how his daughter could be the right successor to take over Genosha.
• Dr. Cecilia Reyes to partner with Forge and the two would become the new scientist duo. Give more depth to Cecilia and really give her a passion for developing medicine.
• Sunspot, who will use his wealth, resources, and network to help fund the rebuilding of Genosha.

Mutant Liberation Front
Leah Williams (W) - This is based solely that I have high hopes for her in writing X-Tremists for Age of X-Man. And, she has wrote some kick-ass one shots and single issues for the X-Men recently.

This is a complete change from the original MLF. This book would be heavily tied to Superior X-Force, and MLF's role is to save mutants around the world and/or offer them a home in Genosha.

• Psylocke
• Domino
• Boom Boom
• M
• Jubilee
• Dani Moonstar
• Magik

Generation X
Christina Strain (W) - After reading Generation X, I have to give this one to her.

Emma Frost goes back to her roots and opens a mutant school on Genosha. This will be less classic young student teenager type and more of Emma Frost teaching them the culture of mutants and how to protect the world.

• Emma Frost
• Hellion
• Dust
• Negasonic Teenage Warhead
• Surge
• Morph
• Mercury

Superior X-Men would be the game-changer thinkpiece. Mutant Liberation Front would be high-octane action and superheroics. Generation X would be more light-hearted, drama.

I LOVE these. I love Superior X-Men and Mutant Liberation Front as titles and I think you have a good balance of genres in three titles. I think you also have really solid writers that fit the themes well.

[CRaymond]

Ultimate X-Men

Ororo Munroe
Joanna Cargill
Shola Inkose
Jesse Bedlam
Eden Fesi
Armando Munoz
Nezhno Abidemi

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

Sage
Prof X
Psylocke
Emma Frost
Cyclops
Scarlet Witch
Amelia Voght

AWESOME to see the comicbook character Scarlet Witch as a member of an ideal X-Team. However, 3 telepaths I do not find ideal.

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

i think my lineup changes daily, but this is who i would pick as of right now...

01. Cyclops
02. Magik
03. Archangel
04. Psylocke
05. Gambit
06. Rogue (with her ms. Marvel powers)
07. Magneto

always!!!!