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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Peter is enormous in his steel form and still very new to the life he has chosen. That combination gives the early Colossus a useful awkwardness. The other X-Men can look to him whenever something heavy needs moving or something dangerous n...
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Kurt wants to enjoy being alive, even when he has landed in a house where everybody seems to be carrying a private emergency. His teasing helps give the new X-Men a social rhythm. He is willing to prod at somebody's dignity, make a joke or...
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Wolverine is difficult company in these first months. The danger isn't confined to whatever enemy happens to be outside the mansion. In the Danger Room in X-Men #96, Kurt's teasing draws a genuinely violent response. Sean stops the session...
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The demon in X-Men #96 makes a useful early test for Storm because the fight cannot be solved simply by everybody hitting harder. Kierrok is tied to the cairn on the school grounds. Once Xavier identifies that connection, Ororo goes after t...
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Scott is the surviving link to the original field team, which makes him responsible for people who don't share the history that once made his instructions familiar. The opening of X-Men #96 leaves him alone with his guilt over Thunderbird....
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Krakoa brought a large collection of heroes together. Living with one another afterward is a different assignment. By X-Men #96, the continuing field team is Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Nightcrawler, Colossus and Banshee, with Xavier at the...
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There isn't one enlarged original-team lineup that covers all these stories. The changes are part of the story itself. X-Men #27–29, 1966–67: Mimic briefly joins the original five. His departure comes well before the arrival of Lorna and Al...
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Xavier's return in X-Men #65 provides an answer to the team's most painful absence. It also reveals how much he was prepared to keep from them. He has been hidden beneath the school, preparing for the Z'nox invasion. Changeling maintained t...
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Alex Summers enters X-Men #54 at a graduation ceremony. Scott is proud of him. There is a perfectly ordinary future visible for a moment, before the Living Pharaoh's people carry Alex into a story he never volunteered to join. That starting...
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Lorna's first X-Men story begins with lost time and strangers who seem to know more about her than she does. In #49, Bobby finds her in San Francisco, far from home and emerging from a trance. The green hair she has been concealing is one v...
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The X-Men grieve their teacher in X-Men #42. The later explanation in #65 changes whose death they witnessed, without making the death itself disappear. Changeling had taken Xavier's place. Facing a terminal illness, he wanted to use the ti...
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Calvin Rankin arrives with a spectacular shortcut. Stand close enough to the X-Men and he can reproduce their abilities: wings, strength, ice, optic blasts and psychic power all collected in one body. His membership in X-Men #27–29 is brief...
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Bobby can be the youngest person in the room and still be the first one to notice somebody needs help. In X-Men #49, he sees a young woman walking into traffic in a trance. He uses his ice to interrupt her path and gets her clear of the car...
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Warren's wings make him the easiest original X-Man to recognize from across a page. They also make an injury painfully specific. When the wings are damaged, the ability that most visibly defines him is the thing he cannot count on. In X-Men...
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Hank still looks human in these stories. His large hands and feet, tremendous agility and strength do the visual work. The furry blue Beast belongs to another stage, and putting that appearance into this period loses the particular oddness...
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Jean is building a life outside the mansion while remaining one of the people the X-Men rely on most. Her college attendance gives the late original-team stories a different rhythm from the founding days. She can come back for a weekend, re...
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Scott's first reaction to a teammate getting hurt is to put himself on trial. In X-Men #27, Warren is recovering from injured wings, and Scott cannot get past the possibility that he failed him. Warren tries to take away that burden. Scott...
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The original five didn't spend the whole 1960s standing in the same formation. The yellow-and-blue school uniforms give way to individual costumes. Jean goes to college. Scott questions whether he should be leading. The school loses the man...
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Going back briefly to the quantum computer SCP that interested me more than most of them because I just recently spent a lot of time studying real quantum computers: how they work, how they function, how the ones and the zeros correlate bac...
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SCP-065: Destroyed Organic Catalyst SCP-065 is what remained after somebody decided an anomalous object needed to be destroyed. The Global Occult Coalition broke a stone figurine on a farm. The effect expanded across the property, killing o...
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