Proof that the X-Men have the crappiest lives of any fictional characters

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The X-Men have been around for 48 years, but in the comic books, they've been saving the world for approximately 16 years. In that time, there's been so much crushing tragedy in their lives that it's downright comical.

Unlike Superman or Spider-Man, the X-Men have never had their entire history rebooted, so deaths, magical resurrections, marriages, and divorces just keep piling on like automobiles on some sadistic freeway that ends with a brick wall. And if we're to compress their entire history into 16 years, their story becomes a non-stop carnival of characters dying every other month. Xavier's isn't a school - it's a damn grief crisis center.

First off, some of you may be wondering where I got the "16-year existence" figure. According to TV Tropes, Stan Lee introduced this ratio in the 1960s, and Marvel's more or less stuck with it:

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