dinosaurs, and strange tribes. Shi'ar throneworld Chandilar, the home world of the X-Men's occasional extraterrestrial allies The Shi'ar. Utopia, Cyclops had Asteroid M raised from the Pacific Ocean off the coast of the San Francisco as a response to the rise of anti-mutant sentiment to form a mutant nation. Cultural impact and legacy Accolades In 2012, Complex ranked the X-Men 4th in their "10 Best Superhero Teams In Comics" list. In 2016, Screen Rant ranked the X-Men 3rd in their "15 Best Superhero Teams Of All Time" list. In 2018, Vanity Fair included the X-Men in their "Stan Lee’s Most Iconic Characters" list. In 2020, CBR.com ranked the X-Men 1st in their "Marvel: 10 Most Powerful Teams" list. In 2021, CBR.com ranked the X-Men 2nd in their "Every Marvel Superhero Team" list and 2nd in their "Marvel: The 10 Strongest Superhero Teams" list. In 2022, Newsarama ranked the X-Men 3rd in their "Best superhero teams of all time" list. In 2022, CBR.com ranked the X-Men 1st in their "10 Marvel Teams That Exceeded Expectations" list. Impact The insecurity and anxieties in Marvel's early 1960s comic books such as The Fantastic Four, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, and X-Men ushered in a new type of superhero, very different from the certain and all-powerful superheroes before them, and changed the public's perception of superheroes. The superhero team has been described as an allegory to real-life struggles experienced by people rejected by society. Other versions Age of Apocalypse – In a world where Professor X is killed before he can form the X-Men, Magneto leads the X-Men in a dystopian world ruled by Apocalypse. Created and reverted via time travel. Age of X - a world in which anti-mutant sentiment became even worse due to a series of events and thus led to the United States government hunting down mutants with Sentinels and leading to "The Decimation" which severely reduced the mutant population and Magneto leads the mutants who are based in Fortress X. Days of Future Past – Sentinels have either killed or placed into concentration camps almost all mutants. Prevented by the time-traveling Kate Pryde/Widget (the adult Kitty Pryde/Shadowcat). House of M – Reality is altered by Scarlet Witch, with her father Magneto as the ruler of Genosha and in which mutants are the dominant group with humans as second-class citizens. 2005's crossover event, it concludes with a reversion to