Originally posted by Pepito
Look at it this way: Xavier can mind control powerful telepaths so even a very strong willed non-telepath is fairly easy for Xavier (being alien has no effect on this - unless iron will was a stated Superman power). Meanwhile Phoenix will be helping Xavier, Cyclops will be blasting him, Wolverine will be slashing him, Frost will be diamond and Storm will rain down lightning. I don't think a prepared team of X-men can be taken down by Supes merely blasting away with heat vision immediately since the X-men have beaten Apocalypse, Magneto and Cassandra Nova.
Cyclops blasting him:
Superman has been hitted from energy blasts more powerful than Cyke's Optic Blast.
Wolverine slashing him:
So what?Class 800 Pounds of Strenght + Adamantium Claws= Logan isn't going through Supes force field or body.
Phoenix:
She's not in this roster.
Storm:
Lightnings?You really think lightnings can take out Superman?You need to read something about him maybe.
The X-Men beat Magneto when there's a telepath around, or cause the fight is someway stopped, Magneto was able to stomp the Avengers, even with some cheap writing helps, like him stopping Mjolnir, Thor's hammer, the X-Men are not a threat for him, like showed on various occasions, remember Polaris changing the course of the blood in the X-Men bodies when Havok leaved her before they get married?And she's not powerful as her father, so imagine what Maggy can do the X-Men, guys like him and Graviton lose fights cause self confidence and god-complex let them giving their enemies the chance to enter in close quarter combat and gain the upper hand.
Superman is not Gladiator which confidence fluctuating means losing his powers, few seconds of Heat Vision, which travel at lightspeed or near it, is sufficient to take out the X-Men with ease.