There are probably going to be more X-Men movies from now until the end of time. Think about it. At what point does FOX stop making X-Men movies? What is the breaking point? We’re more than 10 years into the superhero movie extravaganza, with seven X-Men movies already on the big screen, and the latest one – Days of Future Past – being hailed as the best one of the entire series.

Not to mention the fact that if FOX stops making X-Men movies, then those lucrative licensing rights revert back to their sworn enemies, Disney and Marvel. So why would FOX ever stop making new X-Men movies?!

They’ve already doubled up on Magnetos and Xaviers

They wouldn’t. Heck, I’m surprised we haven’t seen more spin-offs. There’s that X-Force movie everybody’s always talking about. Next up in the main franchise is X-Men: Age of Apocalypse. And there’s another Wolverine movie coming at some point. There are a lot more movies coming out – which means FOX needs a lot more mutants to throw into the mix. Days of Future Past alone introduced Quicksilver, Blink, Warpath and Sunspot. Who’s left?

Each new movie seems to bring along new characters from the comics. And considering how deep the pool of X-Men and mutants is, I thought I’d give FOX a hand and name six comic book mutants ready to strut their stuff on the big screen!

Honorable Mention: Mimic

Doesn’t this picture make him look cool?

Calvin Rankin is a human with the ability to copy the super-powers of anyone around him, mutants included. He started out as a villain for the original X-Men way back in the 1960s, and even joined the X-Men as a team member for a few issues. Mostly through the years, Mimic has been a reluctant villain, unable to keep himself together long enough to make a difference in the world, even though he’s a guy who could walk around with the powers of Magneto, Professor X, Wolverine and Quicksilver all at the same time.

I’m a sucker for my favorites. The Mimic is one of my all-time favorite comic book characters, and if I was a little more biased, I’d put him at the top of my list. Frankly, I’d put him at the top of every X-Men-themed list I ever do. But nobody wants to read that. So Mimic gets stuck here in the Honorable Mentions section

6. Boom Boom

More like ‘Badonk Badonk’

Tabitha Smith has the mutant power to create explosions, which are basically currency in action movies. If Michael Bay were directing the X-Men, you can bet she’d be in the starting lineup. Boom Boom (one of the best superhero names of all time) is a spunky, sassy, ass-kicking super heroine who’s mutant power allows her to create energy time bombs, and that’s all you need to know to put her in your movie.

5. Strong Guy

He’s like a walking balloon

Boasting one of the other best superhero names of all time is Strong Guy, who is, quite literally, a strong guy (that’s the joke). Guido Carosella is one of those X-Men characters that exists on the periphery, and is always a little too weird to get any sort of mainstream attention. He’s big, he’s awkward and he’s also hilarious, so I think he’d be perfect on the big screen. You want visually appealing mutants in for your background characters, right? Ones who can make snarky wisecracks while they beat up on Wolverine? Strong Guy would be perfect.

4. Dust

The niqab would be included

Speaking of visually appealing, everybody remembers Sandman from Spider-Man 3, right? The sand special effects were pretty darn neat, so why not just steal them? Dust is one of the young mutants, an Afghani girl with the power to transform her body into a whirling swirlwind of dust particles. She would bring a lot of diversity to a cast that will need some when Halle Berry disappears. They can’t keep bringing her back, can they?

3. Dazzler

This costume is optional

Somehow, against all odds, Dazzler holds a special place in X-Men history: she was the unwanted, unplayed sixth character in the classic X-Men arcade game that ruled our childhoods. Nobody wanted to be Dazzler. Who can blame them? But Dazzler is the only playable character from that game who hasn’t jumped to the movies, so her debut is long overdue.

Dazzler is a musician who can turn sound waves into blistering, blinding light. She was created at the height of the Disco era, and was originally intended to be part of a comic/movie/record deal between Marvel and several other studios, but all of that fell through. Instead, Dazzler has been stuck as an X-Man also-ran, tagging along with various X-teams since Disco died. I think she’d be a blast in the movies. Her powers and her look are very visual, and you could add an element of rock star glory to the X-franchise. Maybe X-Men meets Scott Pilgrim vs. The World? That would be glorious!

2. Cannonball

He’s a favorite at pool parties

If you’re looking for any more handsome white males to put into your X-Men franchise, you can do a lot worse than Cannonball. He’s Southern, he’s charming, and his power is pretty radical. I’m surprised he hasn’t made the series yet. Sam Guthrie has the power to turn himself into a human cannonball. He basically just blasts forward, turning his lower body into a jet engine, and smashes through anything that’s in his path.

Sam has all the makings of a solid, interesting X-Man. He can be in whatever age group they might need. He can be played by the latest Hollywood heart throb. And his power would look great on the big screen. It’s like he’s wearing the ultimate jetpack. Plus just watching him barrel through walls and pick himself out of a pile of rubble, while talking in a lovely Southern drawl, is the sort of scene that writes itself.

1. Avalanche

He’s big into chrome

Everybody needs henchmen! I said this before a few years ago, but Avalanche is the perfect choice for a new big screen bad guy, at least when it comes to picking hired goons. I doubt he could carry a whole movie by himself, but he’d be great as a villain’s go-to hench or maybe a member of a new Brotherhood of Mutants. Maybe FOX has been saving him for that exact purpose!

Avalanche’s mutant power is to create earthquakes…and has nothing to do with snow. Why they didn’t call him ‘Earthquake’ is anybody’s guess. Maybe they didn’t want young boys to get him confused with the pro wrestler of the same name (even if it would make for great cross-promotion). But here is a super-power we haven’t seen yet on the big screen. Everywhere this guy goes, he’s making it quake. The very ground beneath his feet is his weapon!

If you’re just looking for somebody for Wolverine to punch, you could do a lot worse.

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Which mutants are you still waiting to see in the movies? Got a favorite bad guy that you think could carry a whole film? Maybe an obscure mutant just waiting for their chance to shine? Let us know in the comments!

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