What went wrong? Greg Land
What went wrong? Greg Land
Yes, in a very few years she went from practically being a preadolescent to being tremendously sexualized. It was very uncomfortable.
It's clearly time to buff her powers, give her telepathy, and start killing her on and off.
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
Puberty hit that girl like a truck.
Anyway, was there really anything all that solid about the character? Any cohesive themes or solid character identity. From here it just looks like a loose collection of traits. I'm just thinking of the other "kid X-Man" characters that have actually worked and there are usually some big concepts or themes that run through the character. With Kitty Pryde, it was usually the theme of maturity. The way she was eager to be one of the grown-up X-Men but was also in a life style where she was facing things she probably wasn't ready for. Like her romance with Collosus or losing at least three good friends (though, they're all back now). With Jubilee you have themes of loss, abandonment and found family as well as trying to embrace life despite the tragedies you've experienced. Then there's X-23. As much as I'm not crazy about there being another Wolverine, her quest to become more than what she was made to be is a pretty solid thing.
But Pixie . . . she's this cute, peppy kid, and then she goes to Limbo and loses part of her soul, and then it turns out she has two Mastermind sisters and a fairy mother, then she's Dazzler's buddy and . . . what does this all add up to? I don kind of like the Mastermind sisters bit because the two bad sisters, one good thing reminds me a little of King Lear which the Wyngardes already evoked anyway (one of them was even named Regan). But it just doesn't feel like there's anything solid there.
This. She started out fine as a kid with wings and pixie dust, and then they changed her for whatever reason to be a peppy pink Magik.
Being a pet character, as others have said and it started feeling like a replacement agenda.
And very much this:
In other words, she was turned into a Mary Sue.
I liked Pixie when she was first created, but then some writers started trying to use her to replace Nightcrawler and Magik, two characters that I liked more. Maybe if her powers were reduced a little and they moved her into another book, away from Xavier's school, she could recover her popularity. I wouldn't mind seeing her in a new Excalibur, as a replacement for Kurt. She and Meggan would be a good match.
I love this idea. The Amazing Nightcrawler has made me want a new Excalibur, and Pixie would be a great addition to that cast.
If I were writing the X-Men, I just can't see using Pixie over Nightcrawler or Magik. I can't see Marvel encouraging it either, given how much more popular the other two characters are.
Didnt they kill off Nightcrawler to push her??
I don't see how. They provide completely different roles as teleporters, Kurt is short ranged combat teleportation, Megan is long distance transportation
Kurt was killed to make Second Coming "matter", to show how dire the mutant situation was, that the soul of the X-Men died, and how important Hope Summers was