Temptress

Born from the darkest corners of the Marvel cosmos, Temptress made her mark in The Uncanny X-Men #232 in 1988 — a key issue straight out of the gate, courtesy of the legendary creative partnership of Chris Claremont and Marc Silvestri at the height of the Copper Age. Claiming dual ties to both the fearsome Brood and the X-Men themselves, she's a character wrapped in fascinating, tension-filled allegiances, sharing her pages with heavy hitters like Storm, Scott Summers, Logan, and Alison Blaire. Her catalog footprint may be small, but with a key-issue debut and that charged web of connections, Temptress is exactly the kind of discovery that makes deep-diving into late-'80s X-Men back issues so rewarding.