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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Then there's Lila Cheney, which is a ridiculous amount of complication to add to Sam's life. She's a rock star, an interstellar teleporter, and a thief. The relationship starts in the first New Mutants annual, so this is happening while Sam...
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The Beyonder killing and restoring the team leaves Sam struggling along with the others. In #38, being alive again hasn't restored anything like their normal enthusiasm for school or training. He transfers to Emma Frost's Massachusetts Acad...
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Sam and Dani sharing leadership gives the New Mutants two people who won't always approach a problem the same way. Dani can be more confrontational. Sam is often trying to keep everybody together and work out what responsibility he has to t...
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Early Cannonball is powerful, but watching him try to control where he's going is another matter. He launches himself with that blast behind him, and his protective field lets him survive impacts that would wreck an ordinary person. Steerin...
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Sam Guthrie's first big decision as Cannonball is realizing he's working for the wrong person. In Marvel Graphic Novel #4, he's a Kentucky kid working in a coal mine. His powers emerge during a cave-in, and he gets himself and another miner...
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Dani stays in Asgard when the others leave in New Mutants #87. She wants to help put right the damage Hela did in the Valkyries' name. Her friends are going home, and she's choosing to remain behind because she believes there's work she nee...
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The later Asgard material takes the Valkyrie connection somewhere much uglier. Hela's control reaches Dani, and her friends are dealing with somebody they know and trust being turned against them. The Valkyries and their connection to death...
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Being brought back doesn't make the Beyonder experience disappear. The restored kids are struggling badly, and Magneto lets most of them transfer to Emma Frost's school because he cannot work out how to help them. Dani refuses to go. In #39...
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The first Asgard trip changes her again. In New Mutants Special Edition #1, Dani helps a winged horse and forms a bond with him. That's Brightwind. That bond brings her into the Valkyries, and now she's dealing with a whole set of responsib...
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Then New Mutants #18–20 brings the Demon Bear right into the middle of it. Dani has been living with the belief that this thing killed her parents. She goes out to face it alone, and it nearly kills her too. For a large part of the story, s...
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The school doesn't turn Dani into somebody who politely follows every instruction. She questions people, gets impatient, and is perfectly willing to argue with the person in charge. She starts out using Psyche before changing her name to Mi...
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Dani Moonstar has already been through a hell of a lot before the New Mutants even have their own monthly book. In Marvel Graphic Novel #4, she believes her parents are dead. Her grandfather Black Eagle wants Xavier to help her control her...
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By the point I'm at now, Sean is active again after years of being pushed away from the main team by his injury. He's helped search for the missing X-Men and been involved in the Genosha crisis. His connection to Moira and Muir Island is st...
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Pairing him with Forge for the search for the missing X-Men gives Sean something useful to do beyond standing around waiting for everybody else to come home. The team has scattered, and finding people isn't as simple as calling the mansion....
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The return of his powers is more involved than Sean waking up one morning and being fine. The Retribution Virus story in Marvel Comics Presents gives him a temporary restoration. Later, the Morlock Healer helps make the recovery last during...
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Sean and Moira give him something else outside the team. Their relationship and his place on Muir Island let him have an adult life that doesn't depend on being available for every mansion emergency. Then the Moses Magnum fight in #119 dama...
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Cassidy Keep adds another side of him. Sean has a family history, a home, and a cousin who can turn a trip there into a fight. Black Tom and Juggernaut aren't a minor inconvenience. Tom brings the personal grudge, and Juggernaut brings the...
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Giant-Size X-Men #1 brings him into the rescue team, and he stays for the new X-Men rather than returning to occasional guest appearances. His power is easy to describe badly. He screams. But he can use sound as an attack and keep himself i...
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Banshee's first appearance in X-Men #28 isn't the introduction of a willing new teammate. He's being forced to work for Factor Three, with the Ogre keeping him under control through an explosive headband. So the X-Men meet him as a threat b...
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In #248, he finally leaves the X-Men to try to sort himself out. His experience with Gateway and the Dreamtime brings up how fragmented his sense of himself still is. Being on the team has given him friends, a relationship and somewhere to...
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