Why is the name of the team named XMen? Whats the X?

Just wondering.. 😛

It probably comes from Xavier.

That narcissistic bastard...

lol.. so Xavier's Men sounds interesting

Originally it was cus of their x-tra power in combination with xaviers name. (stan lee wanted to name it "the mutants" but editors wanted to call it x-men since noone would know what a mutant was, but x-men I suppose everyone knows 😛 We should be happy about that though) Later it's also been said that the gene that causes mutantcy is called the x-factor.

Stan Lee himself said that X stands for Xavier (in a "Soapbox"😉. So X-Men is actually Xavier's Men. But I think they came up with it later and they had absolutely no idea about what it meant in the first place.
Stan Lee wanted the "Mutants" to be the title of the book, but he was vetoed, and then he said X-Men.

EDIT: arggh..... Marvelgeek! 🙂

who doesn't know what the X in Xmen stands for??????

X stands for mutated genes or X-genes
ok.

why didnt they call it the X Girls

Because when the first team was made, there were 5 men and one woman...🙄

Originally posted by DarkCrawler
Because when the first team was made, there were 5 men and one woman...🙄

Originally posted by BENITO
DAMMIT I WAS GONNA SAY THAT!!!!!!!!!

Fast live, slow die... 😉

Actually, in the X-Men Encyclopedia I have, it is because the mutants have 'extra' power, and that is where the X came from.

I always thought it stood for Spandex.

I always thought that it stood for the fact that they were no longer "men" sorta like ex-girlfriend or something like that

lol

Originally posted by Blair Wind
I always thought that it stood for the fact that they were no longer "men" sorta like ex-girlfriend or something like that

Hey, I never thought about that, but it does make sense! 😱

Originally posted by Blair Wind
I always thought that it stood for the fact that they were no longer "men" sorta like ex-girlfriend or something like that

Cyclops is supposed to have children.