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With the aid of an image inducer, Nightcrawler is able to pass as non-mutant (a skill that all of the other X-Men during Nightcrawler’s tenure more or less possess unaided).
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In his essay “Dirty Hands and Dirty Minds: the Ethics of Mind-Reading and Mind-Writing,” philosophy professor Andrew Terjesen raises a number of arguments about the paradigm-altering power the X-telepaths possess.
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The comic book speculation market that quickly evolved around comics in the 1960s and 1970s has become an integral component of comics culture, but due to its specific nature and
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UXM #231 offers a bizarre story in which Magik must team with Colossus in order to save the New Mutants from Baba Yaga. Strange in premise, the issue nonetheless offers
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Even at his peak, Claremont’s writing credits were not all successful, but his famous attachment to the characters that he developed often resulted in characters from failed books getting sucked
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Nearly a decade after creating the character for Iron Fist, Claremont brings Sabretooth into the X-Men universe directly in order to provide a pivotal contrasting character to Logan, one that
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The launch of Kitty Pryde represented an important structural transition for the series, introducing a young female viewpoint character (highly unusual), but it also created connective tissue across books as
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In the second clash between Wolverine and Archangel, Claremont uses the chaotic backdrop of the X-Tinction Agenda event to reiterate longstanding character disputes and dynamics, turning a simple gladiatorial contest
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Former Marvel EIC Jim Shooter gives an interesting account of how the Claremont/Byrne tension continued to impact Marvel’s publishing line even after the two creators split up, describing an ongoing
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One of the more common character tropes that Claremont uses is the idea of the being who is fighting their own dark destiny, and – more often than not –
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The famous consummation scene between Jean and Scott in UXM 132 features an important assertion of Jean’s sexual agency and power, setting up some of the prominent symbolism that will
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Comics scholars on X-Men have, historically, identified the 1982 Wolverine mini-series as the first X-Men spinoff, and in this decision lies a judgement call to treat “Dazzler” as an external
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