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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Hobgoblin gives Nightcrawler one of the cleverest fights in the Guard's debut. Faced with a shapeshifter who becomes a large alien monster, Kurt answers with a transformation of his own. His is a trick. The image inducer lets Nightcrawler a...
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Fang has the misfortune to meet Wolverine just after most of Wolverine's clothes have been burned away. Logan needs a new outfit, and the fur-faced Guardsman in front of him is close enough to the right size. It is a wonderfully undignified...
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Electron is another member of the original force confronting the X-Men. He belongs to the same imperial ranks as the more prominent opponents around him, adding to the numbers the visitors have to overcome. That advantage matters as the bat...
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Astra's yellow costume and long red fringe make her stand out in a crowded Guard lineup. The design has movement built into it, with the fur-like shapes around her arms and legs breaking up the clean lines of the uniform. Her clearest momen...
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Gladiator has the clearest answer to the X-Men's demand for Lilandra. She is a traitor, she is their prisoner and they will not hand her over. From his position, the people coming through the stargate have arrived to interfere with the lawf...
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The X-Men step through a stargate and find an entire alien super-team waiting for them. There is a huge crystal behind the opposition, an emperor who wants its power and a captive princess who knows why everybody should be terrified. The Im...
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This lineup is best understood as the central cast of a period, with the changes left visible rather than smoothed into a permanent seven-person photograph. 1978, #113–114: the aftermath of Magneto's Antarctic base splits the group. Phoenix...
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Charles Xavier remains the founder and teacher behind these X-Men, but the Phoenix years repeatedly put distance between his intentions and what he can actually know. His relationship with Lilandra draws him toward a much larger universe. T...
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Phoenix arrives as a startling answer to a rescue that should have killed Jean Grey. She brings the shuttle down, rises from the water and announces a transformation before anyone else has time to understand what has happened. The early sto...
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Sean Cassidy changes the age and rhythm of this team. He has professional experience, family history and enough years behind him that the mansion cannot plausibly be the beginning of everything important in his life. That becomes wonderfull...
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Piotr Rasputin is the teammate everybody can see being strong. When he changes into organic steel, his place in a dangerous scene seems obvious: stand between the threat and whoever is easier to hurt. The person making that choice is much l...
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Kurt Wagner brings an appetite for ordinary happiness into a book that can become very serious about duty. He wants to go out, see a film, spend time with Amanda and enjoy being young. After surviving another trip into danger, those plans a...
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The Wolverine of these years is still an uncomfortable person to have in a room. He picks fights, resents orders and seems ready to turn a disagreement into something physical before anybody else has finished talking. The comic gradually ma...
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Ororo can command a page simply by standing still. The cape, white hair and calm way of speaking give her an authority the team recognizes before anyone formally asks her to lead it. The Phoenix years keep opening that composed surface. At...
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Scott Summers has already led an X-Men team. That turns out to be useful preparation and a source of trouble, because these X-Men have very little interest in becoming copies of his first classmates. Wolverine pushes back openly. Storm has...
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The Phoenix years begin with the X-Men coming home from space and discovering that surviving the trip has changed Jean Grey. In X-Men #101, she rises from Jamaica Bay with a new costume, a new name and a level of power nobody around her ful...
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Moira arrives at Xavier's school in X-Men #96 as the new housekeeper. It's a deceptively modest introduction for somebody who responds to a demon attack by getting involved in the defense. The immediate appeal is practical. The house is in...
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Jean steps away from the regular team in X-Men #94, but she hasn't stopped caring about the people inside it. She is present when Xavier leaves in #97 and spending time with Scott in #98. Those connections matter before any grand turning po...
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Xavier has recruited people with remarkable abilities. He still has to work out how to teach them to live and act together. The household in X-Men #96–100 is different from the original classroom. These recruits arrive with adult habits, lo...
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Sean is older than most of the new recruits, and these first issues give him plenty of opportunities to feel it. In X-Men #96, he enters during a training session and intervenes when Wolverine attacks Kurt. There is nothing abstract about t...
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