[quote=@Pandora13]
Well, they do have certain ones that represent the Xmen. And they are considered mentors and professors. (Hehe well I imagine he would)
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True!

And yes regarding the cartoons, too, although I think what they lack in the breadth of characters they make up for in the depth of the stories. Though actually, I was surprised how [i]X-Men: Evolution[/i] did handle a larger cast. When they intro'd the younger students in, I think Season 2? I was expecting them just to be background, filling in the world a little more. But they actually got decent screentime and key moments for some of them.

[i]X-Men: TAS[/i] might've been able to cover more, at least other Marvel characters, but times were different back then.
Throughout its run, though, there were quite a lot of mutants and X-Men characters we got to see, though, if only mostly as one offs if memory serves.

I mean I guess the animated series actually are like the comics in that, I think the comics do stay the same for quite a while. Like in real time we could have the same cast of X-Men for several years, and even a plot building over that course of time. It's just now that we're 60 years on, looking back at most of these stories, they all feel available right now, you know? Where as reading them when they came out might've felt the same as watching any of the series, like if you think of the run of a specific writer or rather writer/artist combo like its own series. 

Though that's coming from someone who hasn't gotten through too much of those years, yet; bits and pieces.
From that I do think the thought applies to some more than others. 
Like the [i]earliest[/i] comics, Lee/Kirby, went places, man. You never really expect what each one will feature.

Now I'm certainly not saying as time went on they grew more predictable (certainly many of the much lauded creators came later), 
just I think more modern comics follow more of a format. At least what I've read of the Utopia era, for instance, felt to me like a TV drama.

(I hope none of that came off as stupid. My mind's not firing on all cylinders today).