Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-29112684-20160720010239/@comment-4651179-20160912192831

You're reading too much into things to reach those points in the first paragraphs, or omitting some information. Like listing Pixie, Glob, Warlock, or Domino as part of the mutants unaccounted for, when they all have appeared in comics recently, Domino is even now a co-protagonist in Deadpool & the Mercs for Money, and Glob is one of the younger mutants getting the spotlight in Extraordinary X-Men.

In a similar manner, Selene last appeared barely two years ago, an alternate version of Madelyne Pryor is being used in All-New X-Men, the Shi'ar have appeared several times in Ultimates, there just has been an event that revolved around Apocalypse, and featured both his past and future selves, the first cover for Thanos' upcoming new series has the Phoenix Force shinning in his eyes. You can't really say that X-Men villains are being left out when All-New X-Men has focused on revamping classic X-Men villains like Blob or Toad, and the Hellfire Club has returned to its status quo of a private kinky club with ulterior motives in Uncanny X-Men.

You're attributing normal creative decisions to some anti-X-Men feud. The writers use whichever characters they want. If a writer used to have every single mutant having at least one piece of dialogue in a book and the other prefers to handle a smaller team, it's simply the choice of the writer.

And there are still plently of mutant-related books going around. Extaordinary X-Men, Uncanny X-Men, All-New X-Men, All-New Wolverine, Deadpool, Deadpool & the Mercs for Money and X-Men '92 (the latter featuring fan-favorite versions of the characters). Series end all the time, specially in today's market where books that don't sell well are immediatelly axed. This is something that can be evidenced by All-New X-Factor getting cancelled explicitly because of low sales. There's a difference between plain lack of supply and lack of supply caused by lack of demand.

And if you point out that there are only three X-Men books (the triad of Uncanny, Extraordinary and All-New), you should also point out that it's the same number of Avengers books (All-New, All-Different Avengers, New Avengers, Uncanny Avengers).

While the X-Men not appearing in animated shows and video games is an unfortunate true, that doesn't apply to collectibles or action figures. Hasbro released last month a second X-Men-centric Marvel Legends wave (with a third wave teased for 2017). And during last Comic Con, there were plently of X-Men-related collectibles displayed from different companies like Sideshow and Kotobukiya.