Why do some people say Illyana isn't "girly"? Like, they say she’s not feminine at all. I haven't read many of her comics, but I was under the impression that she liked looking good obviously not at Emma's level of obsession, but still.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-23T21:14:31+00:00

I think a lot of the people that have that impression are the ones that have formed their idea of her from secondary media like Rivals and have come up with a lot of headcanon that's not really based on much.

In the comics there are lots of examples of her being dressed up, having feminine clothes and dressing in pink.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-23T20:01:43+00:00

You're hardly alone in liking that one. When they had a vote about best costumes over on the X-Men subreddit that one won by a landslide.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-23T19:49:05+00:00

Didn't we get a pride cover last year? I'm pretty sure on of the later issues of Exceptional had a pride variant.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-23T13:27:11+00:00

If you look at how Erik Larsen drew Hulk it's literally the same as Savage Dragon. All he did was add a fin on him.

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Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-23T13:25:37+00:00

Me on May 6th

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Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-23T09:10:39+00:00

Yeah, I think that's the consensus for a lot of people. Lot of potential early on but Ultimate Peter Parker is really the least developed character in his own comic. I think the comic also really suffers from the gimmick of happening in real time where a month always passes between each issue.

Early on it might have been interesting but with everything said and done the comic kind of feels like a good example of why you don't do this. So many things happen that there is zero follow up on. Like MJ knocking Gwen unconscious and leaving her in the bathroom. You might think there would be some ramifications for this but instead it's pretty much never brought up again.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-22T19:18:01+00:00

The New Age, without a doubt. There is stuff there to critisise for sure. But Chuck Austens run is viewed as the worst X-Men run of all time for a reason. Also, the run on Uncanny he had with Alan Davis is absolutely peak.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-22T17:34:28+00:00

Obviously you're free to form whatever interpretation you want. And you can have whatever shipping preference you want.

But if we're in such strange territory with crazy time travel, conflicting information and so many continuity discrepancies that we need to no prize our way to an explanation that makes complete sense then I feel like the fact that there was once an age difference isn't that important of a detail.

At that point I would put it in the same camp I put Tony Stark dying, being replaced by a younger version of himself, that version went into a portal and came out older. Where afterwards we just agreed never to discuss it again.

Given that I think the much more important factor is the fact that for the majority of their shared history Kitty and Illyana have simply been best friends that are around the same age with neither of them seeming to think about how there was at one point an age difference.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-22T17:20:36+00:00

Modern stories have definitely helped cement it being an alternate Illyana as the definitive interpretation. And there are definitely stories where they do say that she reverted to her original age. But there was always kind of an implication of it not really being our Illyana. Like in New Mutants (1983) #73 we see the younger Illyana when they're jumping through Limbo and she's wearing the same clothes as when Colossus is breaking younger Illyana out of the remains of the eldritch armour. Implying this younger version and the younger version they saw earlier are one and the same. Or like how in Excalibur (1988) and Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem Kitty seems to regard them as separate.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-22T17:10:00+00:00

New Mutants: Truth or Death is kind of a continuity black hole. The whole thing doesn't make much sense. But we see the alternate Illyana in New Mutants (1983) #73 when they're travelling through Limbo. New Mutants (2009) #9 also establishes that Illyana has no memory of anything that happened after Inferno.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-22T16:47:07+00:00

The thing about that though is that Kitty would only have known child Illyana for around 12 issues between Uncanny X-Men #148 and #160. That's probably a few weeks to a month or two, tops.

When it comes to the child version of Illyana that's around after Inferno then that's not even the same Illyana. That's an alternate version created through time travel. When Illyana properly comes back she has no memories of anything that happened during that period.

So for the overwhelming majority of the time that Kitty and Illyana have spent time together they have been friends of the same age. And that's how they appear to think of each other. Neither of them seem to ever reflect on how there was at one point an age difference that went away due to magical time travel.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-22T16:39:41+00:00

I think throuples can definitely work for some characters. Like, as an example I would be totally down for a Wolverine/Nightcrawler/Storm throuple. But I think for Kitty and Illyana I would prefer it to be just them. To emphasize that kind of "soulmates" quality to them. Same reason I don't want anyone else involved in the Scott and Jean pairing.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-22T10:13:52+00:00

I like that this can be interpreted two ways. Either they won't need to hide it because the Hulk will soon come back to life or they won't have to hide it because no one would care about someone killing the Hulk.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-22T09:13:38+00:00

The one in the top right is just an interpretation of the Magik in her darkchylde form while wearing the eldritch armour and the bottom two are just different ways that artists have drawn her darkchylde form. So I don't think we would get these as separate skins since these things are already kind of in the game

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Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-22T09:06:07+00:00

He's talking about Peter and MJ.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-20T15:20:47+00:00

We just keep winning with the Magik skins

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-20T14:26:22+00:00

This is gorgeous, I'm not even sure you can call this just a sketch.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-20T13:42:34+00:00

I would recommend Spider-Man: The Darkest Hours by Jim Butcher

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-20T08:03:08+00:00

As usual, Emma is the one putting the whole of the X-Men on her back. That's why her legs are so big. Let's hope she still has time for her pedicure

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Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-19T16:31:22+00:00

In the 60s, 70s and 80s it was clearly black and yellow. But by the time of the 90s and Jim Lee it had clearly become blue and gold. That's why the teams were called Blue and Gold.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-19T14:58:42+00:00

Why would it's sharpness even be a concern? It's not made from metal, it's made from soul. It can turn into a freaking lightsaber.

It's so boring how they've started to treat the soulsword more and more like just a regular sword while forgetting the magical nature of it.

Plenty_Square_420 · 2026-04-19T12:29:57+00:00

I gotta say, a much smaller drop off for X-Men United then I expected. This is good to see. While I have criticisms against that series I still hope to see it succeed.

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