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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 into the X-Men mythology and given a second chance as a result. #xmen 1/6
This process of X-revivalism can be seen quite clearly in Carol Danvers (aka Ms. Marvel) whose first attempted revitalization as an Avenger went…very poorly. Claremont brought her back, gave her power, agency and laid a trajectory for the Captain Marvel she would become. 2/6
Mystique, created as an antagonist to Carol, was likewise brought over, and quickly became Claremont’s most-used antagonist in all of his X-Men run before taking centre stage in the X-Men film franchise and blowing up even further as a character. 3/6
Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew) intersected with X-Men very directly before becoming a major character (along with her friend Lindsay McCabe) in the first Wolverine ongoing. 4/6
Captain Britain, created by a very young Claremont for Marvel UK, got second life through Excalibur and, to his credit, Claremont did not just port over his iteration of the character but also the wonderful world-building done thereafter through Delano, Moore, & Davis. 5/6
Each of these examples, and the many, many others that could just as easily be listed, showcase Claremont’s commitment to the voices he created (or cultivated) and their capacity to reach beyond initial publication failures and often become iconic in their own right. 6/6
