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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
James Proudstar arrives near the end of the run, rather than appearing alongside Cable at the beginning. In #99, Cable approaches him about joining. James initially declines. He already has a life, a history with the Hellions and reasons no...
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Skids enters this window beside Rusty in government custody. Her field can protect them from an immediate attack, but it cannot make the authorities fair, restore their missing teammates or offer a dependable route back to ordinary life. Th...
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Rusty's place in the Cable-era thread is a boundary story. He is still part of the New Mutants' unfinished business when #87 begins, but he does not settle into Cable's training group. The Mutant Liberation Front removes him and Skids from...
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Roberto is present for the early Cable arrangement, including its uneasy mixture of enthusiasm and suspicion. He has enough experience to recognize a capable fighter, but he also remains a young man who can be impressed by larger-than-life...
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Warlock belongs to Cable's initial New Mutants just as firmly as Cannonball or Boom-Boom. He trains, travels and helps his friends during the early part of this run. His presence carries the strange, affectionate household of the older seri...
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Rahne is part of Cable's early group, even though she is absent from the lineup most often associated with the end of the series. Her friendships, fears and loyalties remain central through much of #87–97. Reducing this period to the final...
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Rictor is an awkward fit for Cable's new arrangement, and the book has good reason to let him be awkward. He thinks he recognizes something dangerous in this man. A confident voice and impressive equipment cannot settle the question of whet...
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Tabitha survives the transition with more of the old team's experience than the final lineup might suggest. She comes through the Ship period, Asgard and Cable's early missions before the last wave of recruits arrives. By #100, she is one o...
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Sam is the strongest connection between the beginning of New Mutants and the group taking shape at the end. He has served under Xavier and Magneto, led beside Dani and watched the class survive more upheaval than any school should contain....
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Cable first enters the series pursuing the Mutant Liberation Front in #87. He comes equipped for a running battle, and that appearance establishes his priorities before the New Mutants have any reason to treat him as their teacher. His rela...
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Cable's arrival in New Mutants #87 does not instantly produce the group on the final issue's cover. The familiar kids are still there, friendships are still pulling in different directions, and several of the people associated with the comi...
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Ship is the team's home and support during this transition, not a member of the field roster. Making that distinction leaves room for how unusual the arrangement actually is. The young mutants have moved into a headquarters that can speak t...
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Sally's force field makes a wonderfully clear picture of what she does for the people she cares about. When trouble comes, she can put protection around them. The Ship period also pays attention to the person who has to keep that protection...
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Rusty comes into the New Mutants with real experience leading younger mutants through danger. His fire powers are useful, but so is his habit of taking responsibility when somebody has to decide what happens next. He has already been that p...
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Rictor already knows what it is like to have adults look at his power and see a useful weapon. Joining the New Mutants brings him into a group with similar experience, but that does not make the adjustment automatic. These kids have a share...
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Tabitha arrives with opinions, time bombs and very little patience for being treated as a helpless kid. Her experience with the X-Terminators matters here. She has already worked alongside Rusty, Skids and Rictor, so joining the New Mutants...
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A living spacecraft is an unusually suitable home for Warlock. The New Mutants have always needed to recognize a person inside a body that does not resemble their own. Aboard Ship, they are also living inside someone who can answer back. Wa...
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Dani is still a New Mutant when this stretch begins. She helps the group face the end of its old arrangement with Magneto, and her powers remain part of how they protect one another. The illness that follows is so alarming because it interr...
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Rahne has a lot to hold together after Inferno. Illyana needs care as a little girl, the old school is no longer a refuge, and Dani is becoming frighteningly ill. Moving into Ship solves the immediate question of shelter without making thos...
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Roberto has very little patience left when the team reaches the ruins of Xavier's school. In #75, he throws wreckage at the Hellfire Club and discovers how badly that approach works against people who understand his powers. He is strong, fu...
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