X-Men Mutants

New update for March 2017 and Logan:

Keeping the previous caveats saved me from having to include a bunch of very minor mutant kid characters on this. But I decided to grey out a few other minor characters that slipped past that filter with this and retroactively also with past films, including "Bobby" from Logan (very minor character, has one line, easy to confuse him with the other kids, and he has the same first name as Ice Man), Nina from Apocalypse (Magneto's kid. Not a major character), Angel Dust/Christine from Deadpool (more memorable character, but almost everyone gets her I think because there are already two other characters on the quiz named Angel), and Vanessa from Deadpool (it's hinted in the film that she is the mutant Copycat, but not confirmed, which is why I think most people missed her. I'll put her back on if she returns with powers in Deadpool 2).

Update May 2018:

I've added all the new mutants from Deadpool 2 and updated the number of appearances of older mutants.

I left Vanessa as a filled-in answer because (spoiler alert?) she's still not identified as Copycat in this film.

I would have loved to have added Brad Pitt's portrayal of "Vanisher." But he never appeared on screen or said anything and was therefore disqualified.

Also... I assume the Yukio in Deadpool 2 is supposed to be based on the same comics character as the Yukio in The Wolverine. It's not really clear. They appear to have different powers; but that's not too strange as Deadpool and the other X-Men movies seem more to be in similar parallel universes than in the same universe. The comics character, different from the film character(s), was not a mutant and had no powers. Wikipedia identifies the character as being the same, so I counted them that way, as well.

Update June 2019:

Saw Dark Phoenix (3rd worst film in the series). New mutants include Dazzler, Match, and Selene. I'm sure Dazzler was not named on-screen, pretty sure Match had no lines (not even really sure who he was), and therefore both don't qualify for inclusion on the quiz. Selene I'm not sure about. I think Magneto might have yelled her name while she was being sucked out of a train but if so it was mostly inaudible, so I'm just going to give her as a freebie.

In other words, no changes worth submitting so I updated the numbers and saved it, but I'm going to hold off on resubmitting until New Mutants if that movie ever actually gets released. And then I think I will retire this quiz as the X-Men will be absorbed in to the MCU after that.

Saw The New Mutants today. Only six characters in the entire film, excluding a few that are manifestations of the different characters' fears and a small handful of Native Americans on the reservation in the first scene, so pretty easy to keep track of. All added to the quiz for the final update.

The only characters who fit this criteria but are still not on the quiz, I think are "Amy," the girl with different colored eyes from the beginning of First Class, whom I excluded because I assumed most people would not think of her as a "mutant" even though she is identified as one; Moira McTaggert, whose auburn hair leads Prof X to identify her as a mutant as well and whom I excluded for the same reason- mutants in this sense are only those who carry a manifest mutant "X gene"; Worm "Cunningham," because it's not clear if he is a mutant or not, in the films I think not; Senator Kelly, who began life as a human and was then artificially changed into a mutant so I decided he shouldn't count; and finally President John Kennedy, just because, that's silly. Also, we don't know what his mutant power was. Maybe seducing Marilyn Monroe? Obviously he's not bullet proof.

btw, another quick note: John Wraith = Kestrel, Chris Bradley = Bolt, James Madrox = Multiple Man, Emma Frost = White Queen, Jean Grey = Marvel Girl. Whenever a character was referred to by their "mutant" name in the films, I used that name for the quiz. When their mutant names were never used on screen, I used their birth names. Only exceptions to this rule being Lady Deathstrike, who is only ever called Yuriko in X2 but I used her mutant name to avoid confusion with Yukio from The Wolverine, and Phoenix... because that's just confusing.

Both given and mutant names should be acceptable type-ins, and in most cases I accepted just first names because that's how most characters were referred to in the films. A few exceptions, including Sebastian Shaw (nobody ever called him simply Sebastian, mostly they called him "Shaw"), and James Madrox (again, nobody ever refers to him on screen simply as "James.") point being to make this possible to ace just by watching the movies.

No. This is based on the movies, not the comics.

Personally I felt this was a good decision. In a movie about mutants with special powers, when introducing a new character with special powers, why make him anything other than a mutant? Saves you a lot of time with the explanation and getting your powers from some magic crystal is silly anyway. But that's my personal opinion and it's irrelevant to the quiz, because the quiz is based on the movies.

Yukio is also not a mutant in the comics. And Anya Eisenhardt, the most likely inspiration for Nina Gorska, similarly displayed no mutant powers in the comics. Juggernaut is not the only departure from the source material.

Never. But the Deadpool and X-Men Origins: Wolverine films both take place in the Fox X-Men universe. Also, quesadillas.

I struggled for a while with an appropriately meta mutant power to put in for Deadpool... before settling on breaking the PG-13 barrier I also thought of putting "potty mouth," "breaking the 3rd wall," "surviving Gavin Hood," and a few other things.

He's a mutant. Whether his mutation was induced or in-born and later enhanced and amplified, his still mutated. There are conflicting back stories even in these films.

Are you drawing a parallel with Senator Kelly and the rationale I gave for excluding him from the quiz? If so, decent point.

However, it's really confusing in the films how to categorize Deadpool. First of all, he has two completely contradictory backstories. In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, it seems like he is a mutant at first (with the power to... I don't know... be really really good at swinging swords? They didn't actually say), who is later enhanced by adding additional mutant powers. But he was a mutant all along anyway.

In the film Deadpool... they are ambiguous about what is going on in the Weapon X program where they take Wade. They inject him with something. Is that something supposed to alter his DNA? Or just serve as a catalyst to help his latent mutant powers manifest under stress? If the latter, he was already a mutant they just forced his powers to reveal themselves. But it's very unclear.

He was in Days of Future Past but he never said a single word unless you count grunting and screaming... and therefore doesn't meet the criteria I made for inclusion on the quiz. I would have preferred to include him but if I had then I couldn't come up with any objective way to exclude a few dozen other mutants I preferred to keep off.

I think he is a character in the New Mutants movie scheduled for release in August 2019, though. If they give him any lines in that one I'll add him to the quiz.

Added to the quiz now.

He was neither named on-screen nor given any lines. He fails to meet the criteria for inclusion twice.

In the comics, yes. This quiz is based on the films.

Bone claws are part of his mutation. Adamantium was bonded to his skeleton as part of the Weapon X program. It has also been removed from his body (and added back in) at various times in various timelines. He always has bone claws. Sometimes his bone claws are coated in adamantium.

The four least-guessed answers are from Deadpool 2. So... I think not having seen a movie probably hurts more than trying to forget it, based on the results. :)

Holy s---balls, holy s---balls, holy s---balls, how could you forget the Juggernaut?

well we didn't get to see his awesome shillelagh powers in Deadpool 2.

Also had a very brief cameo in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, played by a different actor, and with no lines.

Later on, I think Fox tried to say that it was a different character, since they cast a different actor to play the role in First Class, same as they did with Emma Frost who showed up in the same movie, but it was obviously meant to be him.

I'm positive that every single one of them are named on screen in at least one of their appearances. I re-watched all of the movies before making this quiz and took notes just to make sure. Any specific ones that you don't recall? I might even be able to find the exact line of dialogue...

and bear in mind, to be "named"... I just mean that they were referred to by any proper name or alias that they have. For example, Lady Deathstrike is referred to by her real first name Yuriko, but never by her mutant name Lady Deathstrike. That satisfied the criteria. Inversely, Blink is referred to as "Blink," on screen, never by her given name Clarice Ferguson, but that also counts. And either name is accepted as type-ins.

Logged back in today to respond to this. No. He has no lines.

Not a mutant.

If I were to update this for Deadpool & Wolverine (I'm not going to; I'm not updating any quizzes anymore and also had already decided this was going to be a time capsule for the dead Fox X-verse and not include MCU films) it would be a pretty easy update.

The only new addition would be Cassandra Nova. Everyone else was either a callback to some previously used character, or variants of Deadpool & Wolverine who weren't named on screen (except for "Nicepool," I guess, who doesn't appear to have mutant powers). Vanessa, once again, was not revealed as the mutant Copycat so her name would remain greyed out. Callisto shows up again, but fails to be named again, so still wouldn't make the cut.

These characters would have their total appearance count +1:

Deadpool, Wolverine, Sabretooth, Pyro, Lady Deathstrike, Juggernaut, Gambit, Psylocke, X-23, Toad, Azazel

I think that's everybody (Blade, Elektra, Human Torch, The Russian aren't mutants)