Then she gets 42 issues of her own series, plus the graphic novel and the Beauty and the Beast miniseries. There's a lot between her first meeting with the X-Men and her actuall…

Then she gets 42 issues of her own series, plus the graphic novel and the Beauty and the Beast miniseries. There's a lot between her first meeting with the X-Men and her actually moving in with them. She's dealing with jobs, performances, family problems and people in the entertainment business while superhero problems keep interrupting. Some of those interruptions are enormous. Her solo book gets her involved with Galactus and Terrax. She's not spending the whole run fighting somebody who wandered into a nightclub. The movie story is another big part of why her career becomes such a mess. Once being a mutant becomes public knowledge, prejudice gets attached to everything she's trying to do professionally. Making something good doesn't mean people will give it a fair chance. And Rogue is an enemy in those earlier stories. That's worth remembering when they're later expected to work together. Alison has personal reasons to be suspicious of her. The reader knowing Rogue has changed doesn't erase what Alison went through.