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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
After the Brood ordeal, Xavier wants Kitty with the New Mutants. She's younger than the other X-Men, and he sees a training group that seems more appropriate for her. Kitty is furious. She's already been through the Hellfire Club, the demon...
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Storm becomes one of the most important people in Kitty's life almost immediately. Kitty trusts her, looks up to her and gets attached enough that changes in Ororo's life affect her personally. Her reaction to Storm's new appearance says a...
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Kitty's power sounds simple until you look at what she does with it. She can get through barriers, avoid physical attacks and disrupt machinery by passing through it. With practice, she can bring other people through with her. But she still...
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Kitty Pryde starts out with headaches and a problem she doesn't have a name for yet. Then she falls through the floor. By the time Xavier offers her a place at his school, Emma Frost has already shown up with an offer of her own. That's Unc...
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The Shadow King gets hold of him, and #279 turns Colossus into the man chasing Xavier and Stevie Hunter through the wreckage of the school. Xavier has to break that control, and doing it destroys the Peter Nicholas persona. Piotr comes back...
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Peter Nicholas gets something Piotr rarely manages to have: an ordinary life built around his art. After the Siege Perilous, he turns up in New York without his old memories and becomes a painter. He also gets involved with Callisto, whose...
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Piotr eventually recovers enough to rejoin the team, and then Dallas puts him in the sacrifice against the Adversary with the others. After Roma restores them, the Australian base gives him a place on the new team, but there is still a lot...
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During the Mutant Massacre, Colossus kills Riptide. By that point, people have been slaughtered around him and his friends are being badly injured. He gets hold of one of the men doing it and breaks his neck. Then Piotr starts talking about...
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The relationship with Kitty also shows that Piotr being kind doesn't make every decision he makes a good one. She develops a crush on him when she's very young. He's older, and that difference matters. They aren't two adults arriving at the...
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Illyana brings that problem much closer to home. In #160, she disappears into Limbo and comes back years older, even though almost no time has passed for the people trying to rescue her. Piotr has missed years of his little sister's life. W...
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Proteus is an early example of Colossus having to make a decision he can't feel good about afterward. The X-Men are fighting someone who can distort reality and burn through human bodies, and ordinary attacks aren't solving it. Metal is a w...
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Xavier finds Colossus working on a farm in the Soviet Union. Piotr can turn into a man made of metal, but he isn't out looking for enemies to fight. When his sister is in danger from a runaway tractor, he changes and saves her. That tells y...
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Excalibur gives Kurt and Kitty somewhere to go after all of that. Rachel's return brings them together with Brian Braddock and Meggan, and they end up building a team in Britain. It's a very different group to live with. Brian and Meggan ha...
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The Mutant Massacre takes Kurt out of the team in a particularly ugly way. He's already been having trouble after fighting Nimrod, and he goes into the tunnels anyway because people need help. Riptide gets him in #211. Kurt can't just telep...
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The Beyonder badly shakes Kurt's faith. When somebody with that much power turns up, Kurt has questions that aren't solved by being told to get back to work. His Catholic faith is part of his life, and so are the jokes, flirting and adventu...
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Kurt's solo miniseries gives him the kind of adventure he'd probably volunteer for if somebody described it to him first. Trying to help Lockheed sends him into another dimension, and suddenly there are sky pirates, strange creatures and pl...
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X-Men Annual #4 gets into Kurt's family history through a pretty awful misunderstanding. Margali believes he's responsible for her son Stefan's death, and she puts him through a version of Hell to punish him. Kurt did kill Stefan, but the c...
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Wolverine and Nightcrawler work well together because Kurt can spend time with Logan without turning every conversation into a fight over his attitude. They joke, drink and go places together. Kurt gets to see the friend as well as the angr...
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Kurt has an image inducer that lets him hide his appearance. That solves the immediate problem of attracting attention, but it also means he has to disguise himself to do things other people take for granted. Even among people who should un...
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Nightcrawler's introduction has a whole town trying to kill him. Xavier finds Kurt surrounded by people who have decided what he is by looking at him, and gets him out before they can finish the job. Then you actually spend time with the ma...
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