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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Scott's absence from the opening lineup is important. After Jean's funeral, he needs a life that isn't simply the next X-Men mission, and the comic follows him as he tries to find one. His time with Lee Forrester gives him a setting outside...
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Xavier starts this period trying to restore continuity. Jean is gone, Scott has left, and Kitty needs an education in a place still full of grief. Naming Storm as the field leader is part of keeping that place functioning. He remains capabl...
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Kitty comes into the X-Men with intelligence, energy and a very reasonable amount of fear. She has powers she is still learning to use, adults making decisions about her future and a school whose emergencies would overwhelm plenty of grown...
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Warren Worthington comes back with history on his side. He was there near the beginning, he knows Xavier and Scott, and the mansion is already part of his life. None of that guarantees an easy fit with the people currently living in it. His...
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Piotr's first instinct is often to put himself in the way. With his armored body, he can turn an attack meant for someone else into a problem he hopes his own strength will solve. That instinct gets a frightening test during the Shi'ar cris...
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Kurt's friendship with Wolverine is one of the pleasures of this lineup. They can spend time together without agreeing about everything, and the differences give their companionship room to breathe. The Canadian trip in #139–140 brings Kurt...
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Wolverine begins this era with a new brown-and-tan costume and a trip to Canada that lets Kurt see another part of his life. The change of clothes is memorable, but the company he keeps is the more important development. By #139–140, Nightc...
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Leading the X-Men gives Ororo a new kind of exposure. Everybody can see what happens when a lightning bolt misses. A decision that leaves a teammate frightened, angry or feeling unheard can be harder to judge, and it still belongs to her. K...
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Kitty Pryde arrives at a school that has just buried someone. She is excited, frightened and eager to belong; the people welcoming her are still learning how to carry on after losing Jean. That is the starting point for the X-Men in #139. S...
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One of the Guard's smallest members begins at ordinary size in the opening lineup, dressed in purple between Starbolt and Tempest. Later in the fighting, she appears tiny. In a battle already crowded with bodies, the change makes her especi...
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Titan makes the Guard's numerical advantage feel physical. He towers over the others in the opening spread, turning a crowded lineup into something the X-Men have to look up at. His blue-and-yellow costume and huge hands keep him readable e...
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Tempest stands near the front of the Guard's first great lineup, with electricity crackling around his raised hands. His yellow-and-blue outfit gives the energy a bright frame, one more warning in a reception committee already full of them....
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Starbolt is one of the easiest Imperial Guardsmen to pick out in the launch spread. His body is surrounded by flame, making him look dangerous before he has attacked anybody. Then Wolverine threatens Oracle, and the reason for Starbolt's at...
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Smasher stands near Gladiator in the launch spread, a broad-shouldered figure in a white-and-dark uniform with red accents and goggles over his eyes. He has the familiar outline of a costumed strongman in the middle of a very unfamiliar cro...
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Quasar looks as though a piece of the night sky has joined the Imperial Guard. The dark, star-speckled body and yellow costume make him especially appropriate for a confrontation beneath a sky full of impossible cosmic machinery. His contri...
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Oracle enters the story in the middle of a battle that gives almost nobody time to introduce themselves politely. She is the Guard's telepath, a white-haired figure among opponents who can threaten the X-Men in very different ways. That mat...
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High on the right side of the Guard's opening spread is a blue-skinned woman in a dark costume and a flowing purple cape. Nightshade's placement gives her a very different presence from the fighters gathered at ground level. She adds a dark...
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Mentor barely has time to settle into the reader's attention before Cyclops hits him. Oracle identifies him as the Guardsman brought down by Scott's opening energy blast, and the confrontation becomes a full battle. It is an abrupt introduc...
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Magic's white hair, green costume and blue cape add an elaborate, almost courtly silhouette to the Imperial Guard. She appears among the original cast, away from the sustained attention given to opponents such as Gladiator and Fang. The loo...
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Impulse faces Cyclops at a particularly bad point in the battle. The X-Men have been fighting a much larger force, and their individual successes haven't removed the pressure of being outnumbered. His rounded helmet hides his face behind a...
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