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In the Marvel Universe there are humans, mutates (humans bestowed with powers), gods, aliens, Homo Superior Superiors (evolution's solution to the mutant problem), and mutants.

Are the X-Men an exclusionary group that will only take members who share the same genetic aberration as they do?

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  • Was Lockheed an x-man?
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    Commented Mar 13, 2015 at 2:47

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Several1:

Members who have never been Mutants

Madelyne Pryor - Possessed no powers, served as technical support.

Associated with the X-men as she is a clone of Jean Grey

Longshot - A manufactured humanoid action celebrity from Mojoworld.

Fantomex - Escaped sentinal experiment from the Weapon Plus Program

Mimic - Dad's potion allowed him to mimic mutants powers.

Hepzibah - Extraterrestrial

Lockheed - Alien Dragon from Kitty Pryde's fairy-tale bedtime story. 'Nuff said.

Juggernaut - Ex-champion of Cyttorak

Omega Sentinel - Cyborg sentinel

Bamfs - Not Actually Bamfs. Non-mutants from an alternate dimension.

Sharon Friedlander - Enhanced by a Demon Bear. Acted as a nurse, joined Moira’s X-men.

Tom Corsi - Another Demon Bear victim/member of Moiras X-men.

Charlotte Jones - Detective member, given a suit by Forge. Warren's Girlfriend for a while.

Moira MacTaggert - Maid, Xavier's lover, M16 user, genius.

Members who did not see field work

Stevie Hunter - Kitty Pryde's dance teacher and physiotherapist to the team.

Members that temporarily lost their mutanthood

Storm - Went 41 issues in the mid-'80s without powers, even leading the team!

Members that permanently lost their mutanthood

Polaris - Lost her powers and X-genes on M-Day, regained facsimile powers via spinal implant

Magneto - Lost his powers and X-genes on M-Day, regained facsimile powers via special armour.

1. Names taken from here, and here other details from wiki/memory.

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    I was going to cite that Topless Robot article I wrote, but @Pureferret did it for me! Awesome!
    – Brett White
    Commented Apr 4, 2012 at 20:01
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    @Pureferret: Even if they lost their powers they still possess the mutant X-gene. I would say they are still technically mutants.
    – Jack B Nimble
    Commented Apr 9, 2012 at 20:21
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    Namor is a mutant. It's been established that not only is he a human/Atlantean hybrid, his human side carries the X-Gene.
    – Theoriok
    Commented Nov 29, 2013 at 10:43
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    To be fair, it's not correct to say that Madelyne Pryor was associated with the team BECAUSE she's a clone of Jean Grey. She originally started dating Scott (or vice-versa), THEN began supporting the team. It wasn't until later that everyone learned she was a clone, at which time she left the team, snapped, and became the villainous Goblyn Queen.
    – Omegacron
    Commented Jan 27, 2015 at 22:05
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    Moira MacTaggart was revealed as having been a secret mutant the whole time in the House of X/Powers of X series that kicked off the Krakoan age.
    – RisingZan
    Commented Aug 22 at 20:07
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Longshot is not a mutant; he is an artificially created humanoid life-form, with the ability to defy probability. (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longshot#Origins)

He was an X-Man in the 1980s during the Outback era.

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Ink. Joined in Young X-Men, his mutant tattoo artist imbued him with super-powers through symbolic tattoos. He didn't find out he wasn't a mutant until a few issues into the series.

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A couple of additions:

  • Cloak and Dagger - both the result of a drug experiment
  • Danger - the Danger Room turned sentient, Shi'ar technology
  • Deathlok - cyborg
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  • Did Cloak and Dagger actually join the X-Men at any time, though? Unless you're counting Norman Osborn's Dark X-Men...
    – Theoriok
    Commented Nov 29, 2013 at 10:44
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    Danger was never actually an X-Man, just a recurring villain.
    – Omegacron
    Commented Jan 27, 2015 at 22:07
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Spiderman. Professor X trained him in the Danger Room and he was a part of a super trio with Iceman and Firestar.

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  • Spider-man is only arguably an X-Man; scifi.stackexchange.com/a/287002/20774
    – Valorum
    Commented Aug 22 at 17:36
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    But did Spider-man ever actually join the X-Men?
    – DavidW
    Commented Aug 22 at 17:37
  • It's something of a running joke throughout the Marvel comics that Spider-Man tries to join up with all the super-teams who have their own series, but it never works out. I remember one issue where he was really envious of the weekly stipend that members of the Avengers got paid.
    – Doug Warren
    Commented Aug 22 at 17:50
  • If you're referring to the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends episode, "The X-Men Adventure," the dialogue suggests he wasn't considered an actual X-Man there. He himself referred to the X-Men as "you X-Men" and, in the narration, Stan Lee referred to both the X-Men and the "Spider-Friends," as if they were two different groups.
    – LogicDictates
    Commented Aug 22 at 18:09

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