Kitty was introduced in the early 80s, when the comics landscape was changing. She represented the evolution of the super hero. She was perky. Funny. Smart. Soulful. Human.
Kitty could “phase” through solid matter, and render the objects she touched intangible. Her power might be considered passive, but she couldn’t just phase her problems away. Having a physical power that rendered her body untouchable allowed writers to pay extra attention to her ingenuity and courage. She was the hero of the future, the voice of a new generation, and she could save the day with a superpower that was essentially the opposite of violence.
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Do you like Ellen Page in the role? I think she does a good job.
She is really good. Perfect casting from the comic books. I am glad they found room for her in the next film.
I never much cared for the Kitty Pryde character during her early years. It just struck me as wrong how she was a little kid running around with all these adults who seemed to constantly be astonished by how awesome she was for some reason that I could never recognize. She just came off like a self-insert character someone would write into an X-Men fan fiction.
Maybe she got better with other writers, maybe she got some actual character development in a story that I just haven't read yet. If you like her, more power to you, she just didn't do it for me.
She's also one of those odd exceptions like Jean Grey, were none of her superhero names ever seemed to stick. Sprite, Aerial and such. Shadowcat is probably the one thats stuck the longest, and aside of being connected to her real name Kitty, I don't get that one at all.
Shadowcat was from her ninja days with Wolverine. But you are right, unless you have read good stories with her you don't now how great she actually is.
She as also introduced at a time when the NEW X-men were really firing on all cylinders and her young mutant perspective was key to that success of that dynamic.
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