Uncanny X-Men #25-26: Buying Villains From Wish

Our enemy is El Tigre. Who is El Tigre? Just some random generically "Mexico/Central/South American" villain whose entire thing is finding ancient artifacts to sell for money. He finds half of an amulet that gives him superpowers, and draws him to the other half that is in a NYC museum. X-Men fight him, he escapes with the other half that also turns him into a god (Kukulkan, a Mayan god that was of course badly adapted into this story). They then research the amulet with the help of some books that Jean borrows from the Metro College library, and they head off to generic Central/South American country and win through cutting off his power source. Oh, there is also a subplot of Cyclops is going to confess his love to Jean finally, but then he accidentally hits Angel with an optic blast and injures him badly, and Angel accuses him of doing it because they were in competition for Jean before passing the fuck out from the injuries. We'll see how that revolves soon.

X-tra Notes: Guys. We need some mutant enemies. Or some of those "world that hates and fears them" enemies. This has been 8 issues in a row where the villains were just generic things that any superhero would fight. I get it. This is early X-Men. This is kind of before they really solidified what X-Men means. And truth be told, they were just trying to write something exciting every week. And yes, I know even at the height of X-Men, the eras I really LIKE they fight a lot of other stuff, but even during those eras the "evil" mutants and bigoted humans were always there in the backdrop. But this just lacks all the magic. God please let there be a good "X-Men-y" villain soon.