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>>10129874
>Iceman was an irrelevant OG character nobody really cared much for at the time
What a load of bullshit. Iceman was a major character. Actually, there were two main ongoing X-Men comic books series at the time: original Uncanny X-Men and newer X-Men vol 2.
Uncanny X-Men featured X-Men Gold team: Storm, Jean Grey, Archangel, Iceman, Colossus and Bishop. X-Men vol 2 was about X-Men Blue team with Cyclops, Beast, Wolverine, Psylocke, Jubilee, Rogue and Gambit. These two series had some crossovers when both teams worked together and the most recent one was Fatal Attractions, featured in Uncanny X-Men #304, X-Men vol 2 #25 and some other smaller ongoing series including Wolverine comic. X-Men Children of the Atom is loosely based on Fatal Attractions.
What Capcom did is take three members of X-Men Gold team and three members of X-Men Blue team for the game. Marvel had the final word on roster choices and they didn't want to make one team look more important than another, apparently.
1992 animated series was a different thing entirely with different rosters and CotA only took some voice actors from it. Overall the game was based on the comic books.