Because it's about time someone did!
Cracked is not a fan of the X-men (and Swamp Thing)
5 Far Better Uses Of Superpowers Than Fighting Bad Guys
Comics teach us that if you have superpowers and you want to improve society, the most useful thing you can do is find a criminal and punch him through a wall. You have to question the logic there, though -- while these god-like beings are out there wasting their time playing cowboys and Indians, they could be using their powers in brilliant, literally world-changing ways.
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It says "superpowers", but four of the five entries are X-folks, so...
What do you think? Is the article right about the X-men? Are there other mutants who deserve to be on the list more? Or other non-mutant heroes? Leave a comment! 😀




I'm happy that an article like this actually acknowledged that Cypher's powers are actually pretty awesome. It seems like usually when he comes up on an intdrnet list-based article it's like "The worst X-Men or whatever".
Yeah! I gotta say Cypher's powers are RAD AS HELL. I may be biased, however, because I'm multilingual and a translator, but seriously, looking at the original New Mutants, if you asked me what power I wanted? CYPHER ALL THE GODDAMN WAY EVERY DAY :D
ugh those articles annoy me so much! (especially when they include characters like him and Jubilee..). How can you not think Doug's powers are cool, I mean, there's no downside to them (well, allergies to guns aside :/ ),whereas something like telepathy or pyrokinesis would totally mess up your life. Although, speaking as a language learner I guess I am just kinda jealous...
I would honest to God love to read comics in which people with crazy superpowers did ordinary things.
Also: let's be real, if you discover you can fly, are you A) going to fight crime or B) go to work in a showy manner.
Or maybe at the very least work for the government, and only fight crime when something really crazy shows up? Most things do not need the skillsets of people who are creating tiny bombs or can survive being fired into the sun.
Some of these are the standard "Why don't we just put Superman in a hamster wheel" questions that can only really be answered with "It would be a boring job, and you can't make him do it". Storm, though, has a couple real answers. Her "solar winds" ability was retconned in Classic X-Men, and even if she had it, manipulating planetary scale weather is simply too hard for her to do in anything but the most dire of emergencies.
The person you really want to ask about these problems is Forge. He'll whip up an ozone fixer in no time flat. Just make sure you have some heroes on hand for the inevitable demonic possession incidents.
Well with the X-Men the world they are trying to help hates and fears them so the list doesnt make much sense as anytime they have tried these big world changing things they get attacked and no one tries to help them.
Also wolverine's whole history is being used as a guinea pig to see how his mutant healing can be replicated .
In Swamp Things case at the end of the Alan Moore run he knows that Alec Holland is not him and embraces his Plant god status with the parliament of trees in the green where he chooses not to focus just on mankind in regards to the rest of the planets problems and tries to focus on all forms of life.
I think the problems is the cause of the issues isnt being fixed and having storm constantly fixing the hole in the ozone layer doesnt do anything to stop the cause of the hole.
An interesting story could be made where the world seems just fine but is actually just barely being held together with mutants constatnly maintaining all of these problems as the pollution just gets worse and worse.
I would nominate for this list all of the energy mutants who we are told have potentially unlimited power but only ever use it to shoot lasers out of their body