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...and potential leader of the X-Men. By isolating the youngest Power sibling from the Pack, Claremont is able to contrast Katie against the youngest X-Man, Kitty Pryde.
In our last issue of Uncanny, Logan pointed out that, aside from Kurt, Kitty is the next most qualified...
...is that their parents–nor their building's superintendent–have any memory or recollection of who the kids are.
When you think about it for more than a few seconds, this is, quite plainly, a terrifying situation for any child, even a superpowered child, to wake up in.
Felt like bringing this fun @karen_xmenfan doodle back today for no particular reason...
...when Nimrod reconstitutes his destroyed body with seemingly no effort at all. The Days of Future Past may have been averted, but if Nimrod is left unchecked, an even darker future awaits all of mutant kind.
...the robot, but her phasing abilities prove ineffective at overcoming his hardware, launching the girl backwards and headlong toward a steel girder, rescued by Rogue with moments to spare.
Obviously, a lot of later X-Men canon takes its inspiration from Claremont's Run, but...
...of mutant kind. One by one, the entire team falls to Nimrod's assault.
Even Logan, whose berserker rage has slashed the X-Men out of more than one corner, proves ineffective against Nimrod's excessive strength.
Kitty makes her own attempts at disarming...
...the being's raw force enough to prove Cain's undoing.
Rarely has a battle in-series felt hopeless–Jean's turn as Dark Phoenix perhaps the most recent example–but Nimrod (and what we know of his human allegiance and directives) introduces new concerns for the future...
...against with brute strength alone; often, they had to rely upon their wits to outsmart and disarm their unstoppable foe so that the resident telepath could disable Cain's attack.
Nimrod, however, has no such issue taking the Juggernaut off the board...
...Juggernaut back into the plot alongside Nimrod's official debut before the X-Men helps set the stakes of the monster-machine's presence in our timeline even before he faces off with the mutants.
To wit, Juggernaut has rarely, if ever, been a foe the team has managed to win...