Quote Originally Posted by Hypestyle View Post
this was an underrated mini. And it also led to absolutely nothing in terms of her development after that, unfortunately.
This was 1985 going into 1986.

I guess Claremont hated her and saw her as an 'inorganic' character because of the cartoon show. The offices were probably getting letters about "where is Firestar?" They brought her in the storyline leading to #200, and that's it. DeFalco wrote the mini series. In the end, she decides to go on her own, but not join the X-Men or New Mutants. It wasn't until she was brought into the New Warriors series (1990) when she got any use.

Firestar would have made a good addition to the X-Men stories at the time. The war with the Marauders, the Fall of the Mutants, the Evolutionary War, the Siege Perilous era and Australia.
Wait, is it true that Claremont didn't want anything to do with her? That would explain why Firestar got transplanted to the New Warriors (which got lumped into being a Spider-Man franchise back when the offices were segregated), and the Avengers. It's admittedly odd for a mutant to have practically no presence in the X-Universe, so that would make a lot of sense.