I'd say Sunspot is more like Angel coming from wealth and being charming. Cannonball is more like Cyclops with his struggle to control is powers, though Dani is the one whose leadership abilities are compared to Cyclops.
Sunspot is the Iceman analog.
Dani was the something of Cyclops/Storm analog.
But really, whenever they do the whole original 5 counterparts, at least one character is always off.
The five lights:
Hope=Jean
Idie=Iceman
Transonic=Angel
Primal=Beast
Velociraptor=?????Quicksliver
Zero= ??Jean
Cerebro’s fake X-men
Grey King=Jean
Rapture = Angel
Landslide = Beast
Crux = Iceman
Chaos =Havok/Cyclops
Mercury = ???? Colossus
Last edited by Will Evans; 05-05-2020 at 07:39 AM.
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The OG NM almost feel like a deconstruction of the 05 to me...explicitly diverse and given a deeper emphasis on characterization/character development that the O5 didn't get in their early years...but then again that's basically what Claremont already did with Giant-Size , its definitely a style thing for him
imo most of the time a team "mirrors' the O5 or other older counterparts its usually just coincidence - down to tropes etc.
You said she wasnt in the first issue and he simply corrected you in that she was.
How would it have been better for her had she been a member in #1? She became the breakout star once she joined and to this day she manages to be one of the, if not the top NM. CC did things right with her and it gave the other characters a chance to shine before Magik stole the show
I mean she wasn't in the first issue as a member of the New Mutants team or else she would have been in that cover.
She officially joined the team at issue #14 before Cypher and Warlock joined so other characters like Cypher didn't get a chance to shine before Magik stole the show.