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Ororo the Wind-Rider, First of Her Name, She-Who-Swam-with-Acanti, Hadari Yao, Mistress of the Elements, Founder of Krakoa and Shaper of Mars, Goddess Among Mutants, Regent of Sol
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...said about a literal-death-goddess's infatuation with the poor alien's powers.
In a number of ways, New Mutants (as a series) has been about confronting a loss of innocence, which leaves me wondering what that process might have more fully looked like for Warlock had it...
...to fight back the bar's serving maid.
Because the woman is Asgardian (read: superhumanly strong), Doug's shame feels less about losing his fight against a girl, but instead more about the words she chooses in his defeat:
"No god, no hero––he is less than nothing."
...and the New Mutants, along with Ororo, are magically summoned into the Realm of the Gods.
Even if LifeDeath II offered her closure as she learned to embrace her humanness in the face of her mutant erasure, Loki's machinations prove a deadly lure for her that will test her...
...team are planted early in issue, hinting towards the vices or insecurities each of the kids will later have tested in Asgard.
Of them, it's Illyana's self-importance, Doug's insecurity, and Roberto's waning interest in fighting for a world that hates and fears him.
...cope with the loss of her identity and alternations made to her body without consent. It's a heavy beat that feels like even more closure for Ororo following LifeDeath II, closure that Loki otherwise seeks to upend.
The seeds of Claremont's coming character work with the...
...no Loki, and rarely can an overtly powerful man take space in Claremont's books without being smitten with Ororo.
After meeting up with the New Mutants and helping to exorcise the Shadow King from Xi'an's body, Ororo has fallen into the role of helping a similarly suicidal...
...there to make good on their first mission at Val's direction.
There's something purposefully sickening about seeing Freedom Force desecrate this somber space on a day committed to remembering the brutality done upon the Holocaust's survivors, especially within the context...
...to both mock and comfort Val Cooper, Mystique saves herself and her team, masterfully offering the one thing the United States will never be able to turn down: an army to serve in their name and at their discretion.
It's a power play for her survival, but one that says...
...a straightforward answer–again in line with its broader message, does the morality of intention matter in the face of its impact?
The two heroes spring their surprise attack on Mojo, whose sense of singular importance assumes that Longshot has arrived with an army, as no...