I made a post last week about my ideal lineup for an all black team of X-Men and I decided to do that again, but with some Asian mutants this time.
Now, this turned out to be harder than I originally thought, because even though there are more X-Men characters from Asia or who have Asian heritage, almost all of them come from Japan (seriously, almost all of them). So what I decided to do was to make two separate teams, one consisting of a variety of Asian mutants and the other just being od Japanese mutants, which I'll put up later.
So let's start this team.
Up first, we have our team leader, Karma.
Team leader of the New Mutants who originally came from Vietnam. Xi'an Coy Manh, or as some fans are now referring to her as, Xuyen Kieu Manh (because the former name isn't accurate while the latter is), is one of the many psychics on the various X-Men rosters, with a specification in possession, basically allowing her to use her enemies against themselves, like so...
Next up, we have fan favorite, Jubilee.
Of Chinese heritage, Jubilee had been a staple of the X-Men team really ever since the 90s cartoon. Able to produce "fireworks" of varying intensities that obey her mental commands, she's able to use them in a variety of ways, which would make her good if you needed someone good with explosives. She'd also make a good second in command, given her history with the various X-Teams.
She was also a vampire at one point (she got better!), and the baby on her back in the above picture is Shogo, her adopted son, who, if they're ever in Otherworld, transforms into a giant dragon whose green flames have the power to melt reality!
For their technical expert, I went with Wiz Kid.
He's a Japanese technopath, with the ability to psionically interface with technology and basically rearrange it to fit his needs. Would be pretty handy to have, for a variety of reasons.
Up next is a favorite of mine who I feel is underrated by a lot of the fans, if they remember him at all - Indra.
Part of Academy X, Indra is from India and able to produce a retractable exoskeleton over his body, creating a variety of elaborate armors for a variety of situations. He's also able to produce psionic weapons to accompany said armor, so he could double as a heavy hitter and a defense player on this team.
Another favorite of mine from the Academy X days - Dust.
You have no idea how hard it was to find a picture of her where they didn't accentuate her figure. It's like they don't even know what her abaya is for.
Dust is from Afghanistan, and came about at a time when America had pretty much one view of that area of the world. Basically, she's able to transform into a living sandstorm and you certainly don't want to be caught in one of those. Her ability to turn into living sand also makes her pretty immune to telepathy and magical tracking, which could be useful in reconnaissance missions.
And finally, we have Xorn.
Now, you'd be forgiven for not knowing who Xorn is, and if you did, for getting him confused with his twin brother, also named Xorn, which I'm assuming is a surname. The twins are Shen Xorn (pictured above) and Kuan-Yin, and they're both from Tibet and pretty interesting. For brains, they have a black hole and a star respectively, hence the extensive Headwear they both rock. This gives them both impressive gravitational and magnetic powers similar to Magneto or Polaris.
In fact, there was a whole arc where Kuan-Yin was masquerading as Magneto, who pretended to be Xorn. Its overly complicated and a retcon of a retcon type thing, and that's why I went with Shen instead of his brother.
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