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word of advice : SPOILERS forMarauders#10
Marvel’sX - Mencomics have confirmed Kitty Pryde wo n’t be raise … through the normal way . Death has always been something of a revolving room access in superhero cartoon strip , and that ’s particularly the display case for the X - Men , who are strongly associated with cosmic forces of demise and resurrection .
Jonathan Hickman ’s X - Men relaunch accept the unusual step of know this from the outset , giving the mutantstheir own elbow room of resurrecting anybody who has died . This is achieved through a combination of Cerebro genial recording and five mutant powers solve in synergy . In a twist , though , Gerry Duggan’sMarauderssuggested fan - pet Kitty Pryde could be the exclusion to the rule - and that was tested whenKitty died , killed by Sebastian Shaw .
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This week’sMarauders#10 confirms that Kitty Pryde ca n’t be resurrect through the ' normal ' means . The issue ends with a tag shot in whichthe Five- Hope Summers , Elixir , Tempus , Proteus , and Goldballs - are brook over another go resurrection nut , clearly foiled and devastated . It fall to Goldballs to voice the thought clearly run through all their minds ; " With all due respect , sir , " he tells Professor X , " I do n’t retrieve it ’s us who are doing anything wrong … I just do n’t cogitate Kitty can be upraise . " Xavier reluctantly agrees .
It ’s annihilating news for the 10 - homo - and also for readers . Over the years , Kitty Pryde has become a reader surrogate in the comics . The X - Men ’s unfitness to resurrect Kitty thus creates a fascinating distance between readers and the raw mutant biotic community , a decision that is doubtless knowing on Marvel ’s part . It ’s peculiarly disappointing given Kitty Pryde ’s raw status quo , asRed queen regnant of the Hellfire Corporation , was a really interesting way to use the character .
But the story of Kitty Pryde may not be over . Marauders#10 is framed by two letter ; the first is a painful read , sent from Kitty toNightcrawlerimmediately before her fateful last mission . The other , however , is Nightcrawler ’s reply . The most unearthly of all the X - Men , Kurt Wagner has resolve to get Kitty back , one way or another . " Science may not solve your whodunit , but I intend to , " he writes , predict Kitty he will work through his sorrow and then work to bring her back . Nightcrawler is no alien to death and resurrection himself ; he sacrificed himself in 2010 ’s " Second descend " event , only to retrovert from Heaven itself some time afterward . His role in the Jonathan Hickman era has been a unusual one , evidently seeingNightcrawler give up his organized religion and turn over founding a unexampled mutant religion , a move that has earned assorted chemical reaction from readers . It search as though Nightcrawler is about to become a central player in the future of theX - Men- as he reckon out the reasonableness Kitty Pryde ca n’t be resurrected , and lay matters correct .
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