The parents got divorced and the mom was um.... *shrug*
So yeah, the introduction of the greatest X-Man of all time and the first teenage crush for many a young reader and... anyway.
One thing that I've always found odd is how we'd get these storylines about the X-Men and Hellfire Club racing to be the first to indoctrinate/recruit these mutants that popped up on the radar/Cerebro/whatever... Kitty, Dazzler, Blob, etc, but at the same time over the years, dozens and hundreds of mutants just manifested, grew up and went about their lives. Some appeared as grown villains, some as civilians, and sometimes we'd get an explanation like "Xavier gave them the speech but they refused" or "Xavier kept tabs on them but didn't feel like recruiting them." Over the years, entire teams and communities of mutants would appear...
But it makes stories where both sides absolutely have to have someone like Kitty feel a little unusual.
There’s definitely a shift starting about just how numerous mutants were. Particularly in the pre All New All Different era, each individual mutant was treated like a major deal who could tip the balance of power.
And then you find out there’s an entire civilization under the streets that Cerebro somehow missed.
I blame crappy cell reception for the Morlocks staying off grid. Yes, in 1983.... ot's the MU, Reed Richards and Tony Stark probably had the internet by 1966 but didn't tell anyone (Reed just forgot he'd invented it, and Tony was waiting for the best moment to launch it)
Later retcons would link the Morlocks existence to Dark Beast, so he might have come up with some shielding tech.
I'd actually forgotten that particular retcon, which has never made a lot of sense. But I could certainly have seen him doing something to make mass detection more difficult.
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I know the dad was nuked on Genosha
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So yeah, the introduction of the greatest X-Man of all time and the first teenage crush for many a young reader and... anyway.
One thing that I've always found odd is how we'd get these storylines about the X-Men and Hellfire Club racing to be the first to indoctrinate/recruit these mutants that popped up on the radar/Cerebro/whatever... Kitty, Dazzler, Blob, etc, but at the same time over the years, dozens and hundreds of mutants just manifested, grew up and went about their lives. Some appeared as grown villains, some as civilians, and sometimes we'd get an explanation like "Xavier gave them the speech but they refused" or "Xavier kept tabs on them but didn't feel like recruiting them." Over the years, entire teams and communities of mutants would appear...
But it makes stories where both sides absolutely have to have someone like Kitty feel a little unusual.
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And then you find out there’s an entire civilization under the streets that Cerebro somehow missed.
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(How exactly did Cerebro miss that?)
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Later retcons would link the Morlocks existence to Dark Beast, so he might have come up with some shielding tech.
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