APRIL FOOLS! Just kidding...these guys are idiots. This week is a highlight reel of some of the X-Men's oldest (but lamest) villains. Arguably the X-Men's first real "miss" of a villain, Dr. August Hopper was an insect-obsessed scientist with no mutant abilities or ties to the X-Men's growing lore. The Locust could just as easily have popped up in Tales to Astonish or Amazing Spider-Man, but instead he got used here. Last seen over 20 years ago, the biggest challenge the Locust offered the original X-Factor was remembering who he was!
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GREATEST VILLAINS WEEK
This week! On UncannyXmen.net! A celebration! A rogues gallery of fearsome foes who have gone unheralded for years, but have stymied the X-Men since the earliest days. Tremble before their might! Witness their power! And ready yourselves for a week of terrifying villains the likes of which this world have never seen!

Update On... STRYFE!
"Stryfe is dead!!" ...boy, if I only had a nickel for each time we've heard that. As a follow-up to Cable's Update, today we focus on his twisted twin, the Chaos-Bringer. Stryfe has returned from certain death multiple times now, through new bodies or time loops or both. He is anarchy incarnate and the very concept of Stryfe seems enmeshed into the timeline, a bad penny that will always turn up from one history or another to threaten Cable in the past, present, and future.
Update on... CABLE!
Well... that was complicated. Marvel finally resolved the time paradox of the Original Five X-Men by introducing a time looped "Kid Cable" to send them home. Organizing Cable's personal timeline challenged the very concept of cause-and-effect, but at least the kid seems to have returned to his appropriate time now, and the old man is back again. Now that his past is reconciled and his daughter is lost, though, it remains to be seen what Cable will do "next."
Spotlight update on...COLOSSUS!
Next in our Giant-Size Updates is Colossus, who really can never seem to catch a break. Since we last checked, the X-Man of Steel has been tortured by Sentinels, lost and regained his powers, been left at the alter by Kitty Pryde, broken-hearted again when they relived their attraction in the Age of X-Man, and finally turned into a sleeper agent by his own brother. Piotr lost his agency for the whole of the Age of Krakoa, leaving him doubting his decisions and his impression of others. His impact on the Quiet Council helped bring down the nation, and Colossus currently seems to be in seclusion until he can get his head on straight again.
(Wondering the connection between Colossus and Tank in X-Force? So are we! But this article had a deadline, so...see you next update!)
Spotlight On... MICHAEL POINTER!
Debuting in Bendis's most cinematic New Avengers issue ever, Michael Pointer was host to the Collective, the sentient collection of all mutant power signatures lost during M-Day. Michael's introduction massacred Alpha Flight and added a new wrinkle to the Xorn paradox, but he failed to show meaningful star power. His addition to Omega Flight during the Initiative faded into a series of guest appearances, and his role in Norman Osborn's Dark X-Men similarly failed to make a lasting impression. Once considered one of the most powerful and important mutants alive, Omega failed to receive even a mention during the Age of Krakoa. Tragically, if history is any indication, Michael will only return when he's being exploited or manipulated by some other power, rather than free and in control of his own fate.