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...terrible care, Warlock is resistant to make the same choice to the same ends. And with both, the line between nature and nurture is rarely clear.
Much as Lilandra earlier feared, Charles finds his greatest purpose as a teacher–a role he comfortably slides back into as the...
...rescue the remaining New Mutants, but both groups are forever changed by their experiences.
Dani and Berto's reflected thoughts worrying of their friends eventual respective "corruption" brings the book back to its theme.
Is that who they are? Or what they were made to be?
...Illyana reclaims her arcane might.
It is an impossible choice to ask a child to make–and yet it's one that Charles, arguably one of the few men other than her brother she trusts, tells her she must make alone.
Illyana risks losing her self to save her friends and a match...
...she needs to submit herself to the darkness, again and again, for the sake of those she loves.
For the relative safety that she might have found among the Starjammers, rescuing her friends means abandoning the light she's found in her soul absent Limbo's influence, and so...
...first time in her adolescence, she is actually safe.
Illyana recounts the Mutant Massacre to Charles and the Starjammers, breaking down into desperate apology as she explains how the New Mutants were separated across the time stream.
Illyana's tragedy is that to be a hero...
...a book for children, and a cruel twist for Claremont to put the character through even if she is swiftly rescued by Charles and Carol.
Illyana wakes in the infirmary, screaming that she won't be made a slave again, and breaks down in joy with the realization that, for the...
...again as a possession to be bought and used.
It feels (cw // child sexual abuse) deliberate that in the moments following her loss of control in Limbo, Illyana is again the subject of victimization with obvious sexual elements.
The "pleasure ray" is open sexual assault in...
...met with too many determined answers, but it does reground the book in one of its strongest truths: the kids are at their best when they're together.
With Magik conspicuously absent over the last several issues, New Mutants #50 visits her in an unending battle against the...
...when writers–and in this particular instance, white writers like Chris–use their own vantage point to tell stories about marginalized experiences.
It'll always risk being a story from the top looking down.
...Claremont has chosen Roberto, the second-most visible (well, only other in 1987) Black main character across both of his titles.
While it certainly feels like the logical extreme conclusion of Berto's rage throughout the series, the book's indulgence of the mutant metaphor...