Stan Lee in his usual go get them super hero form started the X men as a base of unusual characters that are all drawn together with a common cause. They all have unusual powers and special abilities which can be used to help others or to create chaos. Split into two groups the good guys need to fight the bad guys who are trying to take over the world. The people of the world do not like these new breed of super heroes because the bad guys are making the good guys also look bad. The people of earth class them all as mutants who are not welcomed on the earth. In one way the people are right and the people with special powers are mutants only they are the next step on the evolutionary ladder. Their powers can be powerful and do things that only the imagination could really think to do like moving metal with your thoughts or using your body as a shield.

In the good guys side the leader of the X men is a professor who takes in all the children mutants to help them better understand their powers which should be used for good, not evil. The other side of mutants are the bad guys who would like to over through the American government because they know that a mutant war is going to begin. Wolverine is one of the main characters in the comic book which turned movie. He is nearly death proof and can repair his own skin plus many years ago the Nazi’s put special indestructible metal in his bones so that he has claws like a beast that pop out of his skin to be used like knives. The other mutants are naturally born like the little guy who has a tongue like a toad or the good guy that can turn everything to ice. Some guys can change the weather and other can shoot poisonous darts at other people. There are many different mutants in the X men by the end of the story but not all of them will survive the whole tale. Some of the good guys and the bad will die during the long struggle and raging war and this will keep happening until one side either good or evil will dominate the mutants and possible the humans too.