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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Days of Future Present brings Rachel's past into another painful collision with the people living here. The adult Franklin Richards is somebody she loved in her future. The Franklin growing up in this world hasn't lived that relationship. A...
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Rachel's escape from Mojo brings her back into contact with Kitty and Nightcrawler, along with Captain Britain and Meggan. The Warwolves and Technet pursue her, and those five end up fighting together. That becomes Excalibur. Rachel propose...
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Then Uncanny #207 takes things in another ugly direction. Rachel goes after Selene intending to kill her. This is someone who has attacked her and murdered a man who tried to help her, so the anger has a very specific history. Wolverine int...
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The Beyonder pushes Rachel toward a terrible decision in Uncanny #203. She becomes willing to destroy the universe to get rid of him and have it recreated without his threat. From her position, she sees a way to end something unbearable. Ev...
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Rachel also has to face Scott living a life that doesn't match hers. He's with Madelyne Pryor. Jean is believed dead. She can't just walk into the family she remembers and expect everybody to understand. In Uncanny #199 she visits Jean's pa...
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When Rachel reaches the present, the details don't line up with the history she remembers. Illyana is older than she should be. Xavier can walk. Storm looks different. Even the circumstances surrounding Senator Kelly are wrong. In Uncanny #...
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Rachel's powers include telepathy and telekinesis. In her own time, people used her psychic abilities to find other mutants. She was made into a Hound, forced to help hunt her own people. The facial markings are connected to that past. So a...
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Rachel Summers first appears in Days of Future Past, Uncanny X-Men #141–142. The future she comes from has mutant detention camps, dead X-Men and Sentinels controlling people's lives. Scott Summers and Jean Grey are her parents in that futu...
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By the Muir Island crisis, Rogue is back among the X-Men, with the Shadow King threatening people across the team. She's already had a very personal encounter with what he can do through the Carol duplicate. Look at how much has changed sin...
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Rogue spends the Savage Land story dealing with danger without the dependable set of powers she's used to. She has to survive, work with the people around her and get involved in the fight against Zaladane. Magneto has saved her, and they g...
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The Carol Danvers problem keeps getting worse in ways punching harder can't fix. During the Genosha ordeal, Rogue retreats from what has happened to her and Carol's personality takes over to help them survive. That gets them through the imm...
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Joining the X-Men also means refusing the future Mystique wants for her. Mystique helped raise her and still cares about her, but Rogue is making a choice to stay with people Mystique considers enemies. That's harder than simply changing a...
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Uncanny #185 is another important part of Rogue becoming a member of this team. Storm follows her and tries to help her deal with what her powers mean for her life. For a little while Rogue gets to experience Storm's abilities. Flight is fa...
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Japan gives Rogue an early chance to show what she'll do when somebody else is in danger. Most of the X-Men are taken out by poison, and Wolverine has to work with the new teammate he doesn't trust. In Uncanny #173 they go after the people...
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Rogue absorbs more than powers. Contact can bring memories and personality into her mind, while weakening the other person. Holding on too long can make the damage much worse. Her first kiss is how she finds out how dangerous contact can be...
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Rogue's first published appearance is Avengers Annual #10, and she makes a pretty awful first impression. She's working with Mystique's Brotherhood, and what she does to Carol Danvers changes both of their lives. She absorbs Carol's powers...
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Then Kitty sees the X-Men apparently die in Dallas. Doug has been killed too. She's recovering from an injury that nearly killed her and losing people she expected to come home to. Rachel's return and the trouble following her bring Kitty a...
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Harpoon hits Kitty during the Mutant Massacre, and suddenly the power that normally protects her is putting her life at risk. She can't become solid again, and her condition keeps getting worse. That carries into Fantastic Four vs. the X-Me...
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After Secret Wars, Colossus comes back with feelings for Zsaji and ends his relationship with Kitty. She gets hurt badly, while he has his own grief over someone she never even met. Then her trip to Japan becomes another disaster. She follo...
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Illyana becomes particularly close to Kitty after returning from Limbo years older than when she disappeared. Kitty was there when they lost hold of her, and she's there for the girl who comes back. Their friendship continues while Illyana...
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