When I post about X-men ships, it’s generally just Kitty/Illyana content, but I want to be clear that my ideal X-Men romantic relationship is like that picture of Anne Hathaway in Twelfth Night if Kitty was in the Anne Hathaway spot, Illyana was in the Audra McDonald spot, and Rachel is in the Raul Esparza spot
the bane of my existence is when male comic writers get their hands on Kitty Pryde and are like “and now she will do something revolutionary: grow up!” and they’ll act as if they were the first ones to ever do that because they personally have been infantilizing her since the 80s so they ignore the fact that she’s been “growing up” for forty fucking years.
I’ve been reading the old Excalibur comics and I’m just really fond of Rachel and Kitty…. girlfriends on their weird british space-time study abroad adventure.
The Later Recruits by Christian Petersen Havok (1970) Storm, Wolverine, Nightcrawler (1975) Shadowcat (1980) Rogue, Psylocke, Gambit (1983/1986/1990) Pixie (2008)
A large part of the identity of mutants in the Marvel universe is the fact that they represent minorities, and therefore, face a certain level of bigotry and prosecution. Now that the X-Men are set to join the MCU, why would the general public have a distain or dislike of mutants, considering other superpowered characters are treated like heroes, like The Avengers? I have a proposition.
I think that the concept of mutant hatred being politicised makes a lot of sense.
I think that governments and people in power preferring superpowered beings that they can control, and therefore branding anybody outside of that, especially people without a platform, the way that most mutants are portrayed as more or less everyday people rather than kings, billionaires, gods, etc. is a good and easy target for them to weaponise the public’s perception into anti-mutant, pro-government, pro-military propaganda.
The foundation’s already there with The Sokovia Accords, with various governments being much more in favour of controlling superpowered individuals rather than letting any of them freely act of their own individual or group accords. Mutants can simply be a face for that general sentiment to be perpetuated through propaganda. Yay War Machine, yay Captain America. Characters who have already been proven to have saved the world in large, well-known conflicts like what happened in Avengers: Endgame already have a certain level of public goodwill that governments would find hard to fight against, but newer, or lesser-known, or everyday mutants don’t have that same level of goodwill, nor influence, nor power (theoretically), that characters like The Avengers already have, and so could much easier be marketed as threats to the everyday public.
Also, seeing as not every mutant has powers that would largely benefit most governments, but there’s also some that could be weaponised dramatically, it’s believable that various governments would want to deter mutant goodwill as propaganda against other governments potentially using them, while also giving excuses not to put mutant-positive propositions forward themselves because mutants aren’t always powerfully useful for self-serving politicians and governments. If it doesn’t directly and selfishly help them personally, then they aren’t going to support it, and instead weaponise that disregard in an attempt to further their own agendas.
“Mutants are too variable to be trusted, or more accurately, used.”.
For those keeping track, some of the first issue would have been posted before at the JBF…
Thatfirst panel of page 2 was first shown as a sneak peek February 10, 2019.
Page 3 was first posted July 10, 2018, then the scripted page on July 11, 2018.
Page 4 was first posted July 12, 2018, then the scripted page on July 13, 2018.
However it contained the “Wolverine threatens to spank Kitty” panel. On August 6, 2018, the page was tweaked with new art, leaving only the group shot and the falling panels from the original as seen here.
Yes, nearly every villain worth the name has made a pass at Storm and you know it’s really bad when the characters bring it up. Which is even funnier coming from the pen of Chris Claremont who is the father of this Ororo trope.
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