10 Most Powerful Female X-Men In Marvel Comics

The X-Men started in 1963 as a small school of mutants, with four young men and a brand-new young woman introduced to the team. The entire idea that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had here was for the readers to meet the mutants of Marvel Comics through the eyes of this young woman, and it worked beautifully. No one who saw this introduction could imagine that one young female mutant, a telekinetic named Jean Grey, would end up as one of the most powerful mutants ever to live. Since that time, she has seen many other young women join the team and prove to be more than a match for any male mutant who ever served with the X-Men.

Here are the 10 most powerful female X-Men members in history, ranked.

10) Polaris

Magneto is an Omega-level mutant, although he hasn’t always held that position. However, that goes to show how powerful Polaris must be as well, as she has the same basic powers as her father. Of course, an Omega-level mutant is the most powerful mutant on the planet with their specific skill set, and there is no limit to what they can do.

Polaris is not quite up to the level of her dad, and her mental health issues and doubt limit her, but she is still one of the most powerful mutants in the world. In battle, Polaris used her powers to destroy Shi’ar warships with magnetic pulses, and at one time, she absorbed enough energy to blast an entire island from Earth into space.

9) Kitty Pryde

For years, no one considered Kitty Pryde a powerful mutant at all. Her powers, from the outside looking in, are just to phase through things. However, this is an incredible power when Kitty directs it toward something specific. She can also phase other people, which comes in handy in battle because she can grab a villain, phase with them, and then toss them aside. She can also take someone out of a fight by phasing her hand into someone’s head and giving them a micro-concussion with her fingers.

The extent of her powers was shown in the X-Men crossover series with the Guardians of the Galaxy when they looked into the Black Vortex, which reveals the ultimate power of anyone and gives them a chance to take advantage of it. Kitty used her phasing powers to detach herself from this plane of existence and communicate with every version of herself in history. That showed her true power, if she ever chose to accept it.

8) Monet St. Croix

Monet St. Croix, who at one time went by the code-name M, has the mutant powers to simply make her near-perfect in all attributes. This means that, thanks to her mutant powers, she is an almost perfect human being. She has the abilities and limits of the greatest human athletes, which makes her an expert fighter in battle.

However, she also has more superhuman abilities, adding to her power. She has a healing factor, she can fly as fast as Mach-3, and can read people’s minds as well as send her thoughts to others. She is also immune to others trying to do this to her. She also has a secondary mutation known as the Penance Form, which gives her red diamond skin, telepathic resistance, and razor claws.

7) Emma Frost

Emma Frost is one of the most important mutant villains to turn into a hero, and she went from being one of the most powerful X-Men villains to one of their most powerful members. At first, Emma was the White Queen of the Hellfire Club, and she was one of the reasons that Jean Grey lost control to the Dark Phoenix. She also had her own school of mutants that competed with the New Mutants, called the Hellions.

However, this is only part of her power. She is also one of the most powerful mutant telepaths in the world, although she is not an Omega-level mutant. Her powers are on the same level as Professor X, although behind those of Jean Grey. She can also create realistic illusions that can be felt physically. Emma also has a secondary mutation where she turns into diamond form, although she loses her telepathic powers when in this form.

6) Magik

The story of Illyana Rasputina is a tragic one. She was Colossus’s little sister and was staying with the X-Men to be close to her brother. However, while she was close to Kitty Pryde, who was babysitting her when needed, something bad happened when she was six. She was transported into a realm called Limbo, where she was kept for seven years before getting back to Earth, though only minutes passed there.

Now the same age as Kitty (13), Illynaia had changed. She had the mutant powers to create stepping discs, which she could use to teleport across interstellar distances, even throughout the multiverse. Not only that, but while in Limbo, she trained in black magic and has become the Sorceress Supreme of the Limbo dimension. Between her mutant and magical powers, she remains one of Marvel’s most dangerous heroes.

5) Tempus

Tempus is a newer mutant in the X-Men, making her debut in All-New X-Men #1 in 2012. However, it hasn’t taken long for her to stake her claim to greatness. Real name, Eva Bell, Tempus is a mutant who can create a massive temporal bubble that freezes everything in it for 20 hours, including herself. This came to the X-Men’s attention, and they rescued her from the event, bringing her in to teach her how to use her powers.

According to Marvel Comics, she is a “near Omega-level” mutant thanks to the extent of her powers. Now that she has been properly trained, Tempuis can slow down time in a specific place, something that Doctor Strange said was the best he had ever seen. She can also speed up time to make decades pass in a matter of minutes. This made her essential as part of the Seven and the mutant resurrection protocols on Krakoa.

4) Rogue

Rogue is one of the most powerful mutants who ever lived because of her ability to steal anyone’s powers and use them herself. She almost killed Carol Danvers when she stole her essence and powers, and left the hero traumatized for a long time. For years, Rogue had no control over her powers and had to keep her skin covered to protect people around her, but she can now control them, which makes her even more dangerous.

There is no limit to how many people’s powers she can absorb at one time, and she has shown on more than one occasion to “borrow” powers from fellow X-Men members and combine them into an overwhelming attack on an enemy. Rogue also has powers she maintains from her attack on Carol Danvers, which include flight, superhuman strength, and durability. She also retains some of Wonder Man’s powers, including his strength and use of an ionic energy form on occasion.

3) Hope Summers

Hope Summers was the first baby born after M-Day, which was when Wanda Maximoff said “No More Mutants” and stripped the powers of almost every mutant on Earth. In the future, she became known as two things. The first was the Mutant Messiah, which saw her as the savior of all mutants as a species, and she was protected at all costs by Cable. In another timeline, she caused the death of millions of humans, which led to humans hunting mutants down, which led Bishop back in time to attempt to kill her.

Her mutant powers are so great that she became one of the Seven with the mutant resurrection protocol on Krakoa. Hope is an Omega-level mutant who is similar to Rogue, but on a more powerful level. Hope can mimic any powers of mutants around her, but she doesn’t need to touch them. There is also no limit to how many powers she can mimic at once. She is also immune to Rogue’s touch. Hope also once held the Phoenix Force, and she still feels its presence.

2) Storm

Storm is one of the most powerful mutants ever to live, and it isn’t just because she is a mutant. She is also a goddess, and she remains one of the most courageous and passionate fighters in Marvel Comics history. There was a time that she lost her powers, and she was still able to defeat Cyclops in a duel to claim leadership of the X-Men, causing Cyclops to quit the team.

However, her mutant powers, mixed with her goddess blessings, are immense. Her mutant powers involve weather manipulation, and there is no limit to what she does, making her an Omega-level mutant. She is said to be able to tear an entire planet apart with her weather manipulation powers. Storm also possesses magical powers, as the descendant of an African witch priestess, and she can cast spells and create portals. She is also a goddess, and her divine powers, which T’Challa said were also passed down from her ancestors.

1) Jean Grey

Jean Grey was the first female mutant introduced in Marvel Comics, and at the time, she wasn’t very powerful at all. Jean was nothing more than a telekinetic at the time and could move objects with her mind. However, it was later discovered that she was a telepath, and Charles Xavier had blocked those powers with his own. Then, she got another boost when the Phoenix Force connected with her.

Jean Grey is an Omega-level mutant, an Omega-level telepath, and an Omega-level telekinetic. There is no more powerful telepath in the entire Marvel Universe than Jean Grey. Her powers dwarf even Professor X. With the Phoenix Force powers, she is a cosmic-level threat, and she has destroyed a sun, decimating an entire planet of beings. Jean Grey has also died and been resurrected more than once, making it seem like she is immortal thanks to her Phoenix connection, allowing her control over all existence.

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