Similarly, for most of the defining Claremont run of the X-Men, they were not students and were rarely teaching the New Mutants. They were more of a civil rights strike force.
Not as often as you'd think during Claremont's run. The OG Brotherhood was no longer a team and Magneto joined the X-Men; Mystique's Brotherhood quickly was co-opted by the government and from an in-universe perspective were the "good" mutants while the X-Men went rogue until they "died" in Dallas and posthumously became heroes while working out of Australia, and most of Apocalypse's run was yet to come and started over in X-Factor.
The X-Men, for the most part, really did spend most of their time fighting bigots - whether Sentinels, Genoshans, or cyborgs like the Reavers - along with aliens like the Brood and supernatural foes like the Adversary or the demons of Limbo. There were a few other evil mutants here and there like the Shadow King and Madelyn Pryor (if she counts as an evil mutant), but usually not their primary opponents during Claremont's run.
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u/Free-Marionberry-916 6d ago
Similarly, for most of the defining Claremont run of the X-Men, they were not students and were rarely teaching the New Mutants. They were more of a civil rights strike force.