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always loved takeshi but his krakoan era has truly made me INSANE about him. holy shit what a look
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well. they're not niche but Roberto and Sam are my most beloved. I do love taki (wiz kid) too. this is river karmirage btw I wish I could send asks from sideblogs but alas 😔 also my most niche favorite guy (gender neutral) is ryoko sabuki/radiance, who has a terrible costume and like. 8 total appearances. but I think she's so neat and she could be so interesting
hiiiiiiii here’s people !
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X-Men: Red #7 - "The Winning Side" (2022)
written by Al Ewing
art by Stefano Caselli, Federico Blee, Fer Sifuentes-Sujo
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cable and wiz kid's friendship actually makes me physically vibrate when I think about it.
like. two months ago nathan was younger than taki, pretending he was just as much of a badass as the version of cable everyone was familiar with, and taki just sees right fucking through him. he calls him something like "unearned confidence covering up a bundle of nerves stretched over a barrel of imposter syndrome." and nathan thinks taki's brilliant. he trusts taki -- hell, he probably looks up to him a little bit, because taki isn't even eighteen and he's in charge of a whole space station.
and then the old cable comes back, but he still has this faith in taki. because when he met him, he was younger. when you're that age, people older than you seem so together, so trustworthy. but he doesn't trust taki all the way, so he presses him, and taki responds by shorting out the t.o. virus in his system.
(okay, taki also wakes him back up.)
and then they go on and fight judgement together. they start digging into abigail brand's secrets together. and cable tells taki to stay on the ship to keep him safe. he gives taki command of s.w.o.r.d.
it's these kinds of things that make me love comics actually? like. here's a grumpy old (sorry cable) man with a backstory full of war and crazy shit and an adopted daughter he had to raise in said war/crazy shit. and here's a paralyzed seventeen-year-old tech wiz with blue hair, a chip on his shoulder the size of the iceberg that sunk the titanic, whose superpower is technology and also snark. and they treat each other like equals and they're friends and cable looks out for taki like you would a particularly shenanigan-prone younger sibling and taki actually lets him do that and. yeah.
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I think that Quentin Quire and Takeshi Matsuya should meet and have a standoff over who can be the more bitchy, genius trans mlm
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Incredible work by two faves
// X-Men '92: House of XCII (2022) #2
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This actually marks the very last New Mutants story in the order, a cute little tale about Artie, Leech, and Taki
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During the fateful night of the Hellfire Gala, Sunspot is having a meeting with Jamie Madrox, Layla Miller, Wiz Kid and Trinary on X-Corps Island. Suddenly, all of their eyes turn white and "I surrender" is heard in their minds from Xavier's telepathic command. Then, they get the 'Red Triangle' mental protocol to resist Xavier's psychic command. Later, at the aftermath of the Hellfire Gala attack, the mutants on X-Corps Island are huddled together as they mourn for the loss of Krakoa and the unfortunate mutants. Jamie Madrox is distraught over his dupes who were killed in the Hellfire Gala massacre. Sunspot mourns for the loss of his best friend, Cannonball. Sunspot goes outside and punches the defunctioned Krakoan Gate. Layla Miller talks to Sunspot, telling him that he's needed to keep working on X-Corps Island.
X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic #129, 2024
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The Tournament of X
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Round 1A:
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Do you think there are any problems with the metaphor in X-Men comics? As in how some mutants are actually dangerous? And do you think stories that directly address race(I.e, Black Panther) are better than the metaphor?
Obviously, there are some problems, but they're not insurmountable.
As to the "actually dangerous" thing, this is why the mutant metaphor works best in the context of the Marvel Universe and people who think the X-Men should be separate are wrong. The Marvel Universe is full of people who are dangerous who aren't mutants - mutates, super-scientists, Inhumans, Eternals and Deviants, aliens, gods and other supernatural entities, magicians...the list is endless.
The fact that human society is just fine with a lot of these other groups but specifically hates and fears mutants speaks to the inherent irrationality of prejudice.
That being said, I think the metaphor works best when approached in an intersectional manner, when it recognizes that when you are mutant and Other in some other way - whether that's Kate Pryde or Max Eisenhardt being Jewish mutants or Kurt Wagner being a visible mutant or Ororo being the most prominent African and African-American mutant or Jean-Paul Beaubier or Bobby Drake being gay and mutant or Takeshi Matsuya being disabled and Asian-American and a mutant, and so forth - that you have a different life experience from a mutant who can pass for what is considered a "mainstream" human.
Because that's what makes the protean nature of the metaphor so useful - it's not just about race and so it can be used as a social commentary that changes with time.
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Happy disablity pride month! Shout out to all my disabled superheroes!!
Moonknight- Marc Spector, Steven Grant, Jake Lockley
Daredevil- Matt Murdock
Winter Soldier- Bucky Barnes
Thor Odinson
Echo- Maya Lopez
Hawkeye- Clint Barton
Professor X- Dr Charles Xavier
War Machine- James Rhodes
Dr Strange- Dr Steven Strange
Edit:
Sun Spider
Jubilee- Jubilation Lee
Cyclops- Scott Summers
Wiz Kid- Takeshi Matsuya
Iron Man- Tony Stark
Nebula
Hellion- Julian Keller
Misty Knight
Destiny- Irene Adler
Madame Web
Forge
Karma- Xi’an Coy Manh
(Pls let me know if you can think of anymore!)
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