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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
Sunspot doesn't join the Gladiators. He is kidnapped and made to fight, which needs to remain clear even when he's standing in the same arena as their regular performers. Roberto's solar-powered strength usually gives him a direct answer to...
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Dazzler knows the Gladiators well enough to get the others close, and well enough that returning carries its own danger. She has people there she remembers fondly. She also remembers what it felt like to be accepted and applauded in a place...
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Lexi is one of the less developed named Gladiators in this part of New Mutants. His wings give the fighting cast another recognizable silhouette, but the story doesn't provide a full history to go with it. He belongs to the arena population...
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Ray's transformation gives the Theatre one of its most obvious attractions: a fighter who can become a huge serpent. In an arena built around unusual bodies and dangerous matches, that is a spectacle before a fight has even begun. It is als...
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Max Rocker is one of the established Gladiators waiting in the ring when the New Mutants get pulled into this world. His horse-like features, including his hooves, make him easy to pick out among a cast whose bodies have become part of the...
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Ivich makes it difficult for Dazzler to look at the Gladiators as a room full of anonymous opponents. Alison knows her. When she's in danger, that personal connection cuts straight through the rescue plan. The arena puts that friendship to...
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Axe already knows Sunspot when he turns up at Roberto's cell. That makes their encounter nastier than an introduction to a new opponent. Roberto is seeing a familiar enemy while he is locked up, cut off from sunlight and in no position to c...
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Finding Karma at the center of the Gladiators changes the question the New Mutants are trying to answer. They came to free their friends. Suddenly they're looking at another friend they thought they had lost, apparently responsible for what...
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Alexander Flynn appears to be the man giving the orders when Roberto is introduced to the Gladiators. He speaks through a hologram, explains the terms and expects the prisoners to cooperate. Having somebody else deliver the beatings doesn't...
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The Underground Mutant Theatre has an audience, a fighting pit and plenty of people willing to pay to see somebody get hurt. The performers are the ones who don't necessarily get a choice. That's the situation the New Mutants walk into in i...
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SCP-055: [unknown] The Foundation has an object it can look at, photograph, describe, and then promptly forget. SCP-055 doesn't have to hide behind a locked door to keep its secrets. People can examine it perfectly well. The information jus...
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SCP-054: Water Nymph SCP-054 starts out curious about people. It imitates their shapes, approaches the staff, and gradually becomes comfortable enough to stay out of its fountain while they work. Then the experiments begin. It's made of wat...
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SCP-053: Young Girl SCP-053's room needs toys, books, regular meals, and a steel safety cable for anyone who goes inside. She appears to be a pleasant three-year-old girl. People older than three who touch her, make eye contact, or stay nea...
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SCP-052: Time-Traveling Train The train shows up at 11:57 every Saturday night. Where it has been between stops is another matter entirely. SCP-052 is an old New York subway train that should have been scrapped. It appears at the same stati...
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SCP-051: Japanese Obstetrical Model This one deals with pregnancy loss, and the ordinary appearance of the object makes the story especially grim. SCP-051 is a small ivory model of a pregnant woman. The abdomen opens to reveal detailed orga...
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SCP-049: Plague Doctor SCP-049 can hold a polite conversation, discuss its research, and treat the staff like fellow professionals. That familiarity is dangerous. The plague-doctor appearance isn't a costume in the usual sense. Its mask and...
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SCP-048: The Cursed SCP Number Imagine working somewhere that contains impossible creatures for a living and still deciding one particular filing number is too much trouble. That's SCP-048. Whatever gets assigned the number has a habit of b...
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SCP-047: Microbial Mutagen A rusted gas cylinder doesn't look like much beside some of the things in Foundation custody. SCP-047 makes that a very bad reason to underestimate it. The cylinder's material slowly becomes a gas when exposed to...
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SCP-046: "Predatory" Holly Bush The quotation marks around “predatory” are doing a lot of work here. SCP-046's main file describes a mass of plants in Kentucky that draws sick or badly injured people toward it, then consumes them. The conta...
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SCP-045: Atmospheric Converter SCP-045 looks like a giant twenty-sided piece of ice, which is a pretty misleading introduction to something that can turn the air in a submarine into a disaster. Nearby nitrogen becomes water. Argon becomes s...
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