r/kittypryde

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Give how this is described as being in a flashback there's a descent chance something horrible happens to her.

I was thinking about how the MCU should approach Kitty Pryde, and honestly, I hope they skip the wide-eyed teen rookie arc this time.

We already got the cutesy, younger version in the Fox movies. To help distance the MCU mutants from that era, what if she’s already introduced as a capable adult who shares an established past with Logan?

Think along the lines of Jason Aaron’s Wolverine and the X-Men era, competent, tactical, running things, and someone who treats Logan as an equal/friend rather than just an older mentor figure.

It would instantly show that mutants have actual history in the world, while giving us a version of the character the movies haven't touched yet.

With this page from almost a year and a half ago still being the last time we saw Nina as well as Ewing soon leaving United with a new writer stepping in I think we can pretty safely say that this plotline has been abandoned. Which is so disappointing that elaborating on exactly all the reasons it's disappointing would end up understating the fact unless we had like a 10,000+ word post specifically about how the Nina relationship is a huge disappointment.

But how would you have handled this storyline? What would you like to have seen from Kittys first queer relationship?

If we assume that all the circumstances are the same I would have liked to see the way Kitty pursued a relationship in a quest for normalcy explored in more depth. While that has always been obvious to the reader at this point it remains kind of ambiguous to what extent Kitty herself is aware of this. I think we needed significantly more of Kittys own inner thoughts, both at the beginning of the relationship and also towards the end of the relationship. Where we see her reflect on why she did the things she did and where things might have gone wrong.

If she's going to have a normal human girlfriend I think it would have been nice if she had a least two characters traits. While her being normal and the relationship being half-assed was part of the point it would have been nice if that wasn't so obvious. Where we could get an of their dynamic, what they did as a couple and what they thought was fun.

There is of course also the obvious option of simply having her first queer relationship be kissing Illyana, which lets us sidestep this conversation entirely.

Image source: Exceptional X-Men #11