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They’ve made six X-Men films and four spinoffs, and yet so little of what makes X-Men the best comics franchise of all time has ever made it to the big screen.

The most iconic core group of X-Men from the late ’70s into the mid ’80s have never been a team on screen, and as a result key relationships have never been written into a film.

This would be Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, and Colossus, but could also include Jean Grey or Kitty Pryde. You know, the goddamn X-Men!

John Byrne / Marvel Comics

You never get to see Wolverine and Nightcrawler be best friends.

John Byrne / Marvel Comics

You never see a “fastball special,” i.e., Colossus throwing Wolverine at a bad guy.

Edit: Apparently a version of this happens in The Last Stand, but this is a technicality. The important thing is context – this is part of Logan and Piotr's close relationship, and a lot of what makes it exciting is this being part of their teamwork. Colossus and Wolverine barely know each other in the films. Colossus is barely a character at all until Deadpool.

Alan Davis / Marvel Comics

You never see the tortured romance of Colossus and Kitty Pryde.

Ah, the wonderful metaphor of the man who can cover himself in armor and the girl who can become a ghost.

John Cassaday / Marvel Comics

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