r/NewMutants

I’m new to Reddit and I’m unsure how to start, but from what I understand this is a good place to find things you wouldn’t find anywhere else? Maybe I’m wrong…

but I have decided to post anyways about how much I love Doug Ramsay and think about him all the time and wish I could convert all my friends to my Doug Ramsay (and friends) fan-club because his tag on a03 is woefully empty and so is my heart. He is such a sweet and funky little guy! He finds himself in so many strange and somewhat titillating situations! His mutation is rad and he’s so nice that Emma Frost herself said he was a sweet boy and threatened his would-be aggressors with murder! Also I love his very tall beautiful wife!

Marvel even magically turned him from a twink into a twunk this year, and this still has not seemed to increase his popularity with readers. I am disheartened. I want more Doug 😖 I want a Doug (and friends) solo run. In fact I want Doug in Marvel Rivals.

To accompany my somewhat aimless cry of woe, I have included this very cute art of Doug. Credit: me several years ago during a crisis of fresh, violent affection.

Please reach out with any Doug related interest; I am prepared to provide a comprehensive reading list.

For the month of June, I’m going to make daily posts about canonically queer characters I love.

XUÂN CAO MĄNH AKA KARMA!
First Appearance: Marvel Team-Up #100 (1980)
Created by Chris Claremont & Frank Miller
Sexuality: Lesbian

I love the New Mutants so much, y’all! Dani is my favorite but Karma is a very close second (but I love all of them). There’s about a hundred things I could talk about in regards to Xuân but I’m just going hit some highlights

Originally one of the Vietnamese boat people, she and her younger twin siblings were the only survivors of a vicious attack by pirates. Xuân (sometimes incorrectly spelled “Xi’an” or “Shan”) ended up in control of her crime boss uncle and her own twin Tran, who shared the same possession power as Xuân. She was able to free herself with some help from Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four and ate her twin (she absorbed Tran’s consciousness).

Xuân was given a place and a job as a teaching assistant at Xavier’s school for mutants where she helped found and join the New Mutants class/team, including meeting Dani Moonstar, establishing a lifelong friendship (maybe more?)

A lot happens in New Mutants but I’m going to skip it (the series is fantastic but the Karma stuff is not the best part tbh). Much of Xuân’s story from here on out is usually about taking care of, finding cures for, and/or rescuing her younger siblings (I did a read-through and wrote a whole post about the interesting and messy fates of the twins on my old account here. Arguably, some of my finest work if I do say so myself)

Appearing in Wolverine’s solo as one of the many players in the Madripoor noir drama, where she was working for her crime boss uncle to rescue her siblings while also secretly helping Wolverine.

Xuân almost gets her own solo-disguised-as-a-Beast solo mini where she finally finds and rescues the twins from Spiral’s control. After finding a doctor who can treat the genetic damage Spiral had inflicted, Xuân get a to finally cut loose, attending Burning Exploding Colossal Man festival with a pair of “girlfriends” (the first real hint of her not being straight though those Venus symbol earrings she’s wearing in the Beast series feel like a hint) where she reunited with Dani and the rest of the New Mutants.

Next story is the Mekanix miniseries where Xuân and Kitty Pryde find themselves attending University together in Chicago. This is the where she is firmly established to be a lesbian, and comes very close to being the key to unlocking Kitty’s closet but it gets too real for Kitty and she runs off to experiment with Rachel instead.

Xuân is invited to teach at the Xavier Institute, where she’s just about the only member of the staff not to be a human disaster. She moves to San Francisco after M-Day with all the other X-Men. Is finally shown in bed with a woman. Loses a leg fighting Cameron Hodge alongside the other New Mutants. Moves back to NYC where she’s recruited by her old Madripoor pal Wolverine to a new X-Men team where she maybe hooks up with their bird alien teammate.

Once on Krakoa, Karma really makes the most of her time, finding a way to bring back her twin she ate, going on missions with Dani, helping establish Krakoa’s entire schooling system, and getting a great girlfriend in the winged Filipino Galura. This was an era she really seemed to be living her best life and I really loved that for her!

Xuân is a fantastic character who, despite her massive amounts of trauma (even more than your average X-Man), she’s maybe one of the most stable, emotionally mature characters in Marvel. I understand how that doesn’t always make her the most fun to write but I still adore her.

Link to Day #27

Recommended Reading (far from a complete reading guide):
- Marvel Team-Up #100
- Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (The New Mutants)
- New Mutants #1-6, 29-54
- Wolverine #4-8, 27-30
- Beast (Miniseries)
- X-Force #75
- Mekanix (Miniseries)
- New Mutants (2003)
- New Mutants (2009)
- Astonishing X-Men (2004) #48-68
- New Mutants (2019) (especially #14-24)
- Marvel’s Voices: Pride 2021
- Love Unlimited Infinity Comic #31-36
- Doom’s Division (Miniseries)

Not pictured: Trapper, Pulsar, Seeker, Scanner, Unseen

Darkchylde Mode Activated: added a few parts from the old 5-inch Toy Biz figure to bring a little vintage Magik to the mix

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I get the hate for it. The film is FAR from perfect. But I really like how grounded it is. I also like romance. Even though none of the characters use their powers until the end. When they do use their power it looks really cool!!! The casting is also great. Even though it's not really scary, I do like the horror vibe of it. And it has a really good message about mental health.

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I get why people don't really like this movie. It's kinda boring at times and it not very comic accurate. Also illyanta is racist

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I kinda wish it got a sequel

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