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Originally it was Gambit. His suave style and the way he always hit on every single woman... I just loved it.
However one that I felt always got looked over, but had a much more complex and interesting background (originally at least) was Bishop.
Bishop came from a dystopia future in which the X-Men no longer existed. The force had been wiped out, and mutants were on a constant struggle for survival. In this struggle, and the stories told by his grand-mother about the X-Men, Bishop is arguably more dedicated to the X-Men struggle than any of the actual X-Men.
More intriguingly, before the '90s comic book writers fucked it up, was the reason Bishop hated (and tried to kill) Gambit. It was a huge question of Gambit's future betrayal of the X-Men which leads to their defeat. What does Bishop know about the future, but wouldn't mention in fear of further altering the future? How could the guy everyone loves be the one who gets them all killed?
Unfortunately he came along relatively late in the series, and as we all know the '90s were horrid for comic characters.
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