Oh! I just remembered that the first X-Men issues I read were the one with Psylocke AND the one where Storm and Rogue are swimming together and bonding and then Storm gets shot with the de-powering ray!
I love the depowered Storm arc so much. Normally female characters get depowered in order to make them, well, less powerful. And also to shove them into the background. And typically make them more stereotypically feminine. Depowered Storm became MORE badass, kept on being LESS stereotypically feminine (not that she really ever was, but...), and became EVEN MORE prominent, oh and also the team leader of a team of superpower mutants where she was the only non-powered one and it didn't matter. That whole arc could not have been more my id (among other things, I love "badass normal" and it's almost never written with women. It's probably my all-time favorite single X-Men arc.
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Date: 2018-12-19 01:44 am (UTC)I love the depowered Storm arc so much. Normally female characters get depowered in order to make them, well, less powerful. And also to shove them into the background. And typically make them more stereotypically feminine. Depowered Storm became MORE badass, kept on being LESS stereotypically feminine (not that she really ever was, but...), and became EVEN MORE prominent, oh and also the team leader of a team of superpower mutants where she was the only non-powered one and it didn't matter. That whole arc could not have been more my id (among other things, I love "badass normal" and it's almost never written with women. It's probably my all-time favorite single X-Men arc.