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Episode 87: The Why-Men (Lesser Known X-Men; Mimic, Changeling and Havok)

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Episode 87: The Why-Men (Lesser Known X-Men; Mimic, Changeling and Havok) Kurt Onstad

If you ask people to name X-Men, basically everyone can come up with Wolverine, and most will be able to remember Professor X, Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm and maybe a few others.  However, who are the X-Men that nobody talks about?  In the first of this new recurring series, Kurt dives into the history of the mutant team to find the lesser-known characters that deserve some additional attention.

Go ahead. Name them all…I can wait.

Mimic could actually control his optic beams, but wore the red shades anyways. Calvin Rankin: Fashion icon.

Changeling’s original appearance. You can see why he…changed it.

Wolverine’s claws with Colossus’s strength behind them. A one-man Fastball Special.

How’d he recognize him without that helmet?

Morph…the sacrificial lamb of the X-Men cartoon.

Finally, the Morph of Age of Apocalypse/Exiles. Just a little shift in appearance here.

I am…Magnetrix! No, wait, I changed my mind…No, stop calling me that!

With her multiple times being mind-controlled/possessed, she has some issues about people “getting in her head,” among others…