Kitty Pryde

[Pauln6]

Yeah... she was that way from the "Mutant Massacre" through the "Fantastic Four vs. the X-Men" miniseries. Terrible writing, BTW. But for those of you who fancy Shadowcat, she spends most of the mini without any clothes on.

Terrible writing? That mini-series and the Marauders' Massacre issues just before it are still my favourites in Marvel History along with the issues where Magneto confronts Rachel's survivors' guilt (196?), where she confronts the Beyonder (204?), and where Wolverine runs her through (208?). The stories were a bit melodramatic perhaps but I don't think they were ever able to create such delicious bleakness again. PTSD Rachel was my favourite character (partly because I was such a fan of Jean and pre-Phoenix Rachel was just a seriously flawed version of her).

The Kitty Pryde & Wolverine series was quite good too as it charted Kitty's passage from child
(Sprite/Ariel) to brutalised adult (Shadowcat).

 

[Silvercrest]

Okay, I admit the writing on the X-Men side was all right... although seriously, the part about having to remove Kitty's clothing and then gratuitously leaving her on display the entire time seems a little . (Strangely, Kitty didn't seem to have a problem with it!)

But the Fantastic Four were acting horribly out of character. I mean, Johnny calling the X-Men "muties"?

And Reed was accused of deliberately flying the FF through the cosmic rays in order to experiment on them, and he couldn't remember if it was true?? (Though Ben's reaction was sure in character.)

It has been many years since I've read that mini, so perhaps I'm forgetting some of it. Am I off base here?

 

[Forbin]

Of the three actresses who've played her, I'm thinking Ellen Page was, well, absolutely perfect IMHO. Thank god the Maggie Grace rumors didn't pan out!

 

[Guy Gardener]

Doom faking entries in Reeds diary, which Reed barely a decade later couldn't remember if and what was real and what was fabricated because that point in his life wasn't pivotal or recent?

MADDNESS!

And how he weepily objected with no certainty? As if he'd raped cattle while drunk and couldn't quite remember people taking photographs of his conquests?

It's not Reed. his brain is big. He doesn't forget things. And he's ethical to a fine point. It is the Chief from the Doom Patrol, so I have no idea why it had to be Reed if only in libel also. I mean, it's what the Chief did, but he would either lie outright that this is not what he did or if he wasn't completely sure what he did, he would have lied on principle in case it might all go tits up.

Now if this had been a story about how Hank Pym experimented and mutated his wives and he couldn't remembering culpable, THAT I would believe would have the guy throwing into a Rainman defensive posture as the reality of the issue got too much for him.

But Reed?

No.

 

[Silvercrest]

Exactly.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I liked it later near excalibur 37-39, when Doom turned up at excalibur's Light House and Kitty Pryde went all coo-ee, it's Uncle Doom, the man who saved me, he saved me from vanishing into nothing, so of course I trust him even if he only saved me to spite Richards. HA! Doom left a message on their answer phone alerting them he'd be over the next day. HILARIOUS!

Doom stabbed them in the Back eventually to claim Limbo as an Annex of Latveria.

 

[darkwing_duck1]

I liked Kitty in X-3 because the actress got her character down COLD!

 

[Mr Light]

Enh, she wasn't Jewish enough

 

[Dusty Ayres]

Enh, she wasn't Jewish enough

Say what? Get the &#@% out of here!

If you really want to see her being Jewish, check out the Christmas episode of X-Men: Evolution, specifically the final moments, where

Spoiler: what she does for the holidays that relates to her being Jewish

she lights the menorah candles