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Claremont is on record as being opposed to gendered superheroine codenames. As such, none of his female character creations have the word “girl” or “woman” in their superhero names, a
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By virtue of its mutant species premise, X-Men comics evoke key philosophical aspects of a genre of Science Fiction called posthumanism, one that focuses on exploring how the end of
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One of the most pivotal marketing strategies for Marvel was the construction of shared universe storytelling, and though X-Men was often its own isolated corner of the Marvel universe, Claremont’s
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Though innately dysfunctional, the Mystique/Rogue relationship combines profound affection, bad choices, and poor communication. Despite the extremes of the fictional world they occupy, the pair reflect a lot of how
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At the time of his departure from the book, Claremont had spent years cultivating Forge into a dynamic leading character. This was quickly undone, however, with the soft reboot of
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The long and tangled history of Nightcrawler’s “Bamf” doll shows how, within the context of long-running serialized stories with highly flexible fantasy metaphors, even something that begins as a simple
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In hindsight, a scene in UXM #196 subverts the trope of the talked-down hero in order to provide some foreshadowing of Magneto and Rachel’s respective eventual failures to live up
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Though Claremont tends to play things very loose with structure, in his early years on UXM he does quite frequently use a common screenwriting technique in which the plot reverses
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Leading up to the UXM #200 trail of Magneto, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, led by Mystique, decide to align with the protections of government sanction and negotiate to rebrand
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Rachel Summers can offer a poignant commentary on the concept of integrating into society whilst struggling mentally and emotionally, and the extent to which that sense of incongruity can leave
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Though already an Omega-level mutant, expert thief, and melee fighter, Claremont also built a delicate, but hard-to-trace, thread by which we can perceive Storm as a magical being as well.
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Claremont has cited “Terry and the Pirates” as an inspiration for his approach to both comics in general and X-Men specifically. Created by artist Milton Caniff in 1934, the comic
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