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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Rusty’s place in this story needs a different introduction from the regular MLF operatives. Stryfe is using his imprisonment as a public cause before Rusty has had any meaningful say in the organization invoking his name. By New Mutants #87...
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Kamikaze appears with Dragoness and Sumo in New Mutants #93. His approach to a fight combines flight with an explosive impact. Getting hit is therefore more than a matter of absorbing the force of someone flying into you. That makes him a p...
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Sumo joins the visible MLF roster in the Madripoor story, New Mutants #93–94. His attacks emphasize bulk, strength and impact. He does not need an elaborate trick to put somebody in danger if he can bring that force down on them. That gives...
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Dragoness enters in New Mutants #93 alongside Sumo and Kamikaze. Her confrontation with Sunfire immediately gives her a recognizable point of comparison: another figure attacking through the air with intense energy, but working toward a ver...
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Thumbelina’s small size does not make her contribution small. During the attack in New Mutants #87, a damaged bomb threatens to derail the operation. She shrinks down to work inside it and gets it functioning again. In a group full of consp...
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Strobe makes an entrance quite literally. Her heat can turn an obstacle into an opening, and the team can follow her through it. It is a straightforward use of a destructive power, but it gives her a job beyond standing at the back and firi...
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Reaper carries a scythe, which gives him a recognizable silhouette before he has said much. The important detail is that a strike can interfere with a victim’s ability to move. He is equipped to make somebody helpless, not merely to give th...
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Wildside looks as if his main contribution should be claws and a nasty attitude. His interference with perception is what makes the early MLF attacks especially difficult to answer. A guard can know an assault is happening and still have tr...
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Forearm has one of those names that tells you exactly what you are going to see. Four arms, considerable strength, and a very direct job in the MLF’s attacks. There is no elaborate explanation needed before he can become a physical problem...
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Tempo’s power is the sort that can make everyone around her more dangerous. She alters the flow of time around a fight, letting the MLF act while their opponents are struggling to keep up. A teammate does not need to become stronger if the...
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Zero is easy to underestimate in a lineup full of people who seem built to break things. The others create most of the noise. Zero makes it possible for them to leave before the consequences catch up. In New Mutants #87, those portals are e...
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Stryfe surrounds himself with the language of mutant survival, then makes other people expendable whenever it suits him. You do not need the later explanations of who he is to see that part of him. His early leadership is already ugly enoug...
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The Mutant Liberation Front turns up while the New Mutants are already having trouble keeping their lives together. Rusty and Skids are in custody, their friends have been away, and people who have actually helped save lives are being treat...
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The end of Days of Future Present frees Cyclops and Sue from their Hound condition. Rachel helps restore them when the crisis surrounding the adult Franklin is resolved. Ahab’s attempt to define them permanently does not get the final word...
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Sue Richards is captured alongside Cyclops and transformed into a Hound in X-Men Annual #14. Her inclusion matters because this story reaches beyond the regular mutant teams. The Fantastic Four’s family is pulled into the same system of con...
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Cyclops becomes one of Ahab’s Hounds in X-Men Annual #14. A familiar leader is captured and turned into an attacker, and the people facing him cannot safely treat the situation as a normal fight with a normal enemy. Scott’s history makes th...
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New Mutants Annual #6 gives the Hounds a brutal introduction in action. An injured Hound receives no mercy from Ahab. The man who demands obedience kills his own damaged servant, making it painfully clear how little protection that obedienc...
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Rachel’s connection to the Hounds reaches back into her own life. Her telepathy was used to find other mutants, and the marks on her face identified what her captors had made her. That history belongs to the future she survived, rather than...
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Ahab enters Days of Future Present with a job that reaches beyond catching one fugitive. Franklin’s arrival threatens the history his side wants preserved. Ahab treats an opportunity to escape a terrible future as a threat to the future’s p...
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The Hounds need a different kind of team breakdown, because putting them beside a group like the Brotherhood without explaining the difference would get the whole thing wrong. Ahab controls them. Their presence on his side of a fight does n...
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