Stephen A. Smith\u2019s dream X-Men draft gets roasted by fans for one glaring omission Stephen A. Smith Show | Marvel ComicsStephen A. Smith made his picks for a dream team of X-Men, but fans are roasting him after he left out Jean Grey. ESPN\u2019s Stephen A. Smith is a prolific voice in the world of sports, but he\u2019s not afraid to jump into other forms of media, either. He often answers questions on his YouTube podcast about a variety of topics and has gone viral in the past after picking his Pokemon starter and pleading with Rockstar to put him in GTA 6. Now he\u2019s dipping his toes into comics after being asked to draft heroes for one of Marvel\u2019s premier superhero teams, but fans have quickly pointed out he missed a big one. Fans roast Stephen A. Smith for omitting Jean Grey from his X-Men draft On The Stephen A. Smith Show, Smith responded to a tweet from ESPN\u2019s Mina Kimes asking about his top three X-Men draft picks. \u201cFirst off, Wolverine,\u201d Smith responds. \u201cLet\u2019s get that out of the way. We\u2019re definitely going Wolverine. I\u2019m doing to do that.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m going to tell you Beast,\u201d Smith continues. \u201cI can do that. And how can I go against Storm? I mean Halle Berry, what do you want me to say? I\u2019m not going against Halle Berry, okay.\u201d Stephen\u2019s picks are a pretty solid base X-Men team, but the comments weren\u2019t 100% on board. In fact, a few users called him out for omitting one incredibly powerful character: Jean Grey. 1) Jean 2) Wolverine 3) Rogue or Storm. Nobody else deserves mention for top 3 lol \u2014 Chris Robinson (@c_rob15) February 9, 2024 Many users were quick to accept it, calling his top three picks solid enough. But others pointed out Jean is a powerhouse, both as a telepath and as The Phoenix. Jean, who has been a consistent team member since the very first issue, has also had the most wildly fluctuating powers over the years. Those powers were at their peak in The Dark Phoenix Saga, a story in which a cosmic entity turned Jean into a villain strong enough to destroy planets. Beast over Jean Grey or Rouge? \u2014 LakersSpin (@LakersSpin) February 9, 2024 Never let this man draft again Wolverine and Storm are definitely my top 2 but you gotta have Jean Grey in there\u2026 a brawler, a psychic and an elemental who can control the weather\u2026 that lineup is nasty work!!! \u2014 James Hellams (@Jamieh711) February 9, 2024 Fans who want to see Jean at her full power can find her in the currently ongoing Fall of the House of X event, wherein the Krakoa Era of the X-Men is coming to an abrupt and violent end. Jean will also appear in the upcoming X-Men \u201997. There\u2019s no news on a live-action Jean Grey joining the rest of the X-Men in the MCU just yet, but it\u2019s bound to happen sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Stephen A. Smith\u2019s dream X-Men draft gets roasted by fans for one glaring omission Stephen A. Smith Show | Marvel ComicsStephen A. Smith made his picks for a dream team of X-Men, but fans are roasting him after he left out Jean Grey. ESPN\u2019s Stephen A. Smith is a prolific voice in the world of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}