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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Robbie Baldwin stands out immediately in a lineup full of armor, weapons and serious expressions. Speedball's bouncing movement and colorful energy effects make him look as though he has wandered in from a different kind of comic. That visu...
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Namorita brings an Atlantean presence into a team that already pulls its members from very different corners of Marvel. She belongs beside the mutants and the science-powered heroes without needing to share their origin. The New Warriors' i...
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Vance Astrovik is using the name Marvel Boy here. His power is telekinesis, but the New Warriors' investigation gives him things to do that are not reducible to lifting the heaviest object in the room. Against Boom-Boom in New Warriors Annu...
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Firestar is Angelica Jones, and her presence gives the New Warriors a direct connection to people on the other side of the opening clash. She is not looking at Cable's group as a row of completely unfamiliar costumes. That makes her attempt...
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Richard Rider gives the New Warriors an immediately recognizable kind of force. He can take to the air, move quickly and hit hard. In a crowded fight, that combination means he can cross the space between a teammate being threatened and act...
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Dwayne Taylor is the New Warriors' leader, but looking across this group makes it obvious that leadership is not being assigned by raw destructive power. He is surrounded by people who can fly, project energy, move objects with their minds...
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The New Warriors belong in this series because of the way they cross into the mutant books, not because they are another version of the X-Men. They have their own name, their own relationships and their own reasons for being together. Kings...
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Ship deserves a place in this era without being counted as a sixth mutant on the field roster. The enormous vessel X-Factor inherits from Apocalypse is a home, a means of transport and eventually an acknowledged person. Learning to live the...
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Bobby Drake is central to the moment this version of X-Factor becomes possible. In #25, he uses an ice duplicate to make Warren believe he has killed him. It is a dangerous appeal to an old friendship, and it helps break Apocalypse’s hold....
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Warren Worthington returns to his friends in X-Factor #25, but he does not return to the life he had before Apocalypse. His blue skin and metal wings make that immediately visible. The wings can cut and fire blades, turning the power once a...
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Hank McCoy does not enter X-Factor’s public-hero period as the blue, confident scientist everyone might expect. He has a human appearance, and the effects of Pestilence’s touch are leaving him stronger while his intelligence deteriorates. U...
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Jean Grey’s place in this X-Factor is both very familiar and increasingly difficult to describe. She is a founding X-Man working with four old friends, but the events surrounding Phoenix and Madelyne keep changing what it means for her to b...
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Scott Summers has a different public responsibility once X-Factor admits that its members are mutants. He can no longer separate the people supposedly doing the hunting from the people conducting the rescues. His words and his team’s action...
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X-Factor’s second chapter begins when the cover story finally ends. Cyclops, Jean Grey, Beast, Iceman and Warren Worthington are still the five people at the center of the book. What changes is the life they can lead together, and what the...
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Domino takes an operational role above the Edinburgh fight in X-Men Annual #15. She and Chord remain with the aircraft, keeping evacuation available while the others engage the threat below. Her assignment is organized around what the team...
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Feral gets the group past an obstacle through precision in New Warriors Annual #1. Faced with the laser security beneath Xavier’s ruined school, she moves through the beams and switches the system off. The others can follow because she has...
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Shatterstar’s confrontation with Night Thrasher in New Warriors Annual #1 goes beyond defeating an opponent. After gaining the advantage, he prepares to kill him, and Nova intervenes. The scene makes his judgment a problem for the people ar...
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Warpath asks an important question before the first major fight in New Mutants Annual #7: why is the Alliance of Evil attacking targets that appear to have little significance? James recognizes that pursuing the attackers will not explain t...
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Boom-Boom helps investigate at a computer. In New Warriors Annual #1, she enters the collected energy signature into Cerebro and searches for a match. It is part of the group’s work to understand the threat, and it gives Tabitha something c...
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In New Warriors Annual #1, Cannonball protects his teammates. When Chord fires an explosive shell toward X-Force, Sam extends his blast field around the group. The scene gives his contribution a different shape: instead of being the person...
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