Avengers vs X-Men

1. Strength in Numbers Opponent mentions the Avengers as a team of six members. However, the X-Men are, by definition, "Feared and hated by humans because they're different, . .. heroic mutants, individuals born with special powers who've sworn to use their gifts to protect mutants as well as humans. " [1] By this definition, The X-Men are mutants all a part of one organization. These mutants include Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, Professor X, Psylocke, Rogue, and Nightcrawler, to name a few. Even if opponent argued that there are more Avengers than what he listed (which is true), the list is still significantly smaller than that of the X-Men's. Compare this: . http://en.wikipedia.org... To this: . http://en.wikipedia.org... And you can clearly see the X-Men are far greater in member count than the Avengers. Using the six Avengers he has presented, if the two organizations were to go head to head it would be near obvious who would win. However, let's create a scenario. Just imagine a normal city. The Avengers and X-Men decide to have a fight. The Avengers take one side, X-Men the other. Now personally, I feel that even two members are able to take down the entire Avengers: Professor X and Storm. PROFESSOR X Professor X is one of the, if not the, most powerful telepath in the ENTIRE Marvel Universe. With the ability to alter enemies' thought, he is an extremely deadly foe. The telepathy range is up to 250 MILES on Earth alone. His tools for confounding enemies are extremely great and can be used at great benefit to the X-Men team. STORM Storm's the "clean up crew" for this team. Having one of the strongest powers on the team as well, she uses manipulation of weather to her advantage. II. SCENARIO The Avegers and X-Men line up to fight. Storm appears alone. Professor X, from a remote location (up to ~250 miles away max) uses the telepathy to alter the waves around himself and Storm to make them invisible. As well, he projects multiple illusions of Storm all heading different directions. Of course, this all happens at once, and the original Storm never seems to "disappear". While the Avengers are continually trying to find the real Storm, Storm (the real one, and still invisible) uses her powers to rain hell on the Avengers, using multiple elements such as lightning, earth, and even an asteroid, all within her power and all capable of stopping the Avengers. If not enough, Storm is even capable of manipulating air inside of lungs. As if the Avengers weren't screwed already. If all else fails, and Storm somehow manages to be discovered and defeated, no need to worry, Professor X is here! Again, using his telepathy powers, he is able to paralyze each member of the Avengers, and even inflict pain amongst them, all from his mind. COUNTERS: While opponent does list decent powers for his Avengers, each of them are weak to at least one element from the pair I mentioned before. Iron Man: Very easily taken out of action by X, whose telepathic powers are able to render the suit useless. Without the suit, Iron Man is nothing. CA, Hawkeye, BW, Hulk, Thor: Very vulnerable to invisible natural attacks from Storm. The only two out of this list I can even think of surviving Storm are Thor and the Hulk, but even their sustain runs out after a while! Opposition claims the Avengers "work" for their powers. The only examples of this I can think of are Iron, BW, and Hawkeye (Hulk's was by a radioactive accident, CA didn't work for the powers and had an injection, and Thor. .. well, Thor's Thor. He didn't earn any of his powers, he already had them. ) Even so, it doesn't matter if one "works" for a power or not. At the end of the day, whoever wins will be the one with the superior powers and the ability to use them well. Don't get me wrong, I love Marvel and the Avengers, I just find their lineup "underwhelming" compared to that of the X-Men. Awaiting refutation :) (Feel free to check for X's and Storm's powers yourself, if need be) Sources: [1] . http://marvel.com... [2] . http://en.m.wikipedia.org... [3] . http://en.m.wikipedia.org...