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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Magneto's place in this chapter needs its own label. He becomes Xavier's successor at the school near the end of 1985, rather than serving as a regular member of this entire 1983–1986 field lineup. Folding him into the group without that di...
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Xavier belongs here as the teacher and headmaster, not as another member filling a regular field position. His decisions still shape almost everything the team is trying to do. Who gets shelter, who gets another chance, and who has to share...
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Scott belongs in this era spotlight, but not as though he is standing in the same place for every issue from 1983 to 1986. Marriage and family pull him toward a life outside the mansion. When he comes back into the X-Men's orbit, the team h...
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Kitty is still younger than most of the people around her, but the group can no longer treat her as somebody whose only role is to learn from the adults. She has opinions about how they behave, and enough experience to recognize when being...
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Colossus is usually the person a fight can put right at the front. Turn to steel, take the hit, and give everybody else a chance to move. That role can make him seem easier to understand than he actually is. The gentle artist and the armore...
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Nightcrawler's warmth is a large part of what makes the mansion feel like a place people might actually want to live. His humor and ease around friends matter, especially when so much of the outside world treats his appearance as a reason t...
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Wolverine has already become part of the household by this point, which makes his choices harder to shrug off as the behavior of an outsider. He knows these people. They trust him in dangerous situations, and he has enough influence that hi...
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Storm's change during this period starts before she loses her powers. Her appearance changes, and the quieter, more remote figure some of her teammates were used to becomes harder to fit into their expectations. The mohawk is the obvious vi...
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Rachel reaches the X-Men carrying a history they cannot remember. She comes from the nightmare future associated with Days of Future Past, where being a mutant could mean captivity, persecution and death. Her connection to Scott and Jean is...
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Rogue joining the X-Men is awkward in a way that a new costume or a training session can't fix. The team knows her as an enemy, and Carol Danvers has every reason to see her presence at the school as a betrayal. Rogue needs help with what i...
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Rogue showing up at Xavier's school is a pretty good place to begin this stretch of the X-Men. She has already hurt people the team cares about. Letting her through the door means asking those same people to work beside her, and Xavier's de...
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SCP-070: Iron Wings SCP-070's wings are too heavy to offer him much freedom. They're made from jointed iron bars and chains tipped with barbed arrowheads. They emerge from a man's back, move independently, and can lash out or anchor themsel...
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SCP-069: Second Chance SCP-069 can continue a dead person's life, copying their memories, mannerisms, fingerprints, and DNA. Leave it alone with a fresh body and the body disappears. The person apparently comes back. Except SCP-069 remember...
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SCP-068: The Wire Figure SCP-068 starts as a wire person small enough to fit in your hand. Give it an electrical current and it immediately starts looking for metal to make more of itself. The copies help build further copies. Once it reach...
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SCP-067: The Artist's Pen Pick up SCP-067 and your hand might start writing things you weren't planning to tell anybody. The old fountain pen never runs out of ink. Holding it puts their writing arm under another influence. The pen can prod...
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SCP-066: Eric's Toy SCP-066 used to be the anomaly you might want to spend time with. Pull its strands of yarn and ribbon, play a few notes, and something harmless would happen. Once it became a friendly kitten. Another time it produced a b...
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I managed to read a pretty good way into what I was dealing with on Grimm Fairy Tales last night. There's still a long way to go because I'm working through the Red Agent series. There are three different ones and I'm on the second one. The...
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Finished up Hellchild and Red Agent #1–5, and now I’m into Red Agent: The Human Order. Still working my way through the Arcane Acre era of Grimm Fairy Tales. There’s a lot to get through, but I’m making progress.
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The opening snapshot and the later changes need to stay separate, particularly because this stretch leads into a much longer version of the post-Phoenix team. 1980, #139: Storm is the field leader. Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Colossus, Angel a...
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Kitty tells a story about a dragon before she meets one. In #153, her bedtime tale for Illyana turns familiar people and things into a fantasy adventure, including a dragon named Lockheed. That creature belongs to the story she is inventing...
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