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Of all the superpowers of all the heroes that Claremont had the opportunity to write, the unique power-set of Meggan might be the most symbolically complex, offering a capacity to speak to hegemonic femininity and the pressures to conform/perform within a relationship. #xmen 1/9
Meanwhile, the introduction of Yukio in the Wolverine miniseries immediately unsettles the stereotype by portraying an antithetical figure to Mariko, a Japanese woman of unlimited strength and capability existing in open defiance of the expectations of her society. 6/9
“This performance undermines the normative codes of the female as an object of the male gaze, as well as the codes of patriarchy which these tropes support.” 5/6
The story invokes dramatic irony (where the reader knows something that the character does not) in order to create a pointed sense of sympathy and an anxiety over the cruelty of fate itself. The reader knows all along how doomed Jean is. 5/7
Canonically, Jean only consummated the relationship in the Dark Phoenix Saga, which places her sexual agency in the hands of the cosmic entity, not her own, especially after the resurrection retcon that the Phoenix was entirely foreign – not Jean at all. 3/7
It’s a fairly straightforward story, but it lays important groundwork for the mini-series that follows and, even more generally, for the defining character arc that will accompany Logan’s solo journeys for decades to follow as well. 9/9
Ultimately, Werbe sees UXM 161 as being very much ahead of its time in its portrayal of Holocaust testimony. “The language of trauma in this issue of X-Men echoes much of the discourse that would only intensify in the following years.” 7/7
This recurs in the pocket dimension she shares with Forge during the Fall of the Mutants crossover. She helps Forge recover from his injuries and then she leaves – alone – to (re)discover who and what she is within the context of a new world. 7/11
We first see it in the aftermath of the team’s battle with Garokk, which saw Storm desperately try to save the villain from death, but overcome by her own claustrophobia, she failed. She grieves alone, and Wolverine can see clearly that she needs her space to do so. 3/11