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Laren Farmer
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Posted: 22 April 2015 at 5:14pm | IP Logged | 1  

I just saw a news story on this...and it's surreal for me to even type those words, in conjunction with this topic...but apparently, Kitty Pryde is marrying StarLord. 

And I realize that they've aged Kitty far beyond her original age....but really that's too bad...as this would have been the perfect chance to make Peter Quill the Jerry Lee Lewis of outer space.


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Bill Guerra
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I just saw this on Yahoo. I was floored! Kitty Pryde is old enough to get married now?? I mean, I know she's no longer 13 1/2 years old (heck, she turned 15 the same year I did), but is she actually a full-fledged adult now?

I guess I've been away from Marvel longer than I realized.
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Posted: 22 April 2015 at 8:47pm | IP Logged | 3  

There was some flipflopping of her age, but she was depicted as over 18 during certain points of the Excalibur run in the late 80s/early 90s. And she's been aged up since then.
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"sigh"
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Jason Schulman
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Posted: 23 April 2015 at 2:34pm | IP Logged | 5  

And yet Franklin Richards never ages. (Does he?) 
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Jason Schulman
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And I agree with JB -- superheroes, as a general rule, shouldn't get married. (Exceptions: Reed and Sue. In their case, nothing changed -- they were already engaged when introduced. And Katar and Shayera were already married when introduced, I think.) 
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Is the real Kitty Pryde married JB?
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Is the real Kitty Pryde married JB?

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No idea.

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Laren Farmer
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Despite all the mistakes and weirdness that's gone on with different characters over the years...for some reason this gets to me. 

If I recall correctly, the original concept for Kitty was a NORMAL 13 year old who discovers she has a mutant power. 

Now, instantly this was undone when she was made intellectually gifted as well. 

And for decades now she's had a pet dragon. 

And she was possessed by an ancient ninja spirit at one time that gave her martial arts skills which she retains. 

But now...she's not only old enough to get married....but old enough that when her fellow X-Men see that she's said yes to the proposal...they are all happy and cheering for her.  Nobody saying or thinking "Don't you think you might want to wait until you're a little further along into your twenties?"   So does that mean she's ALREADY well into her twenties?  Quite possibly. 

Also...she is proposed to while floating in space with her space hero boyfriend.  And isn't her also the heir to some Alien empire?  So Kitty will now not only be married bu will be an outer space Princess/Empress/Queen?  

Now most of what I've written above are things that seem perfectly acceptable to me for certain characters...but for it all to happen to a single character?  And for that character to be...Kitty Pryde?



      
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Kip Lewis
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I thought I read somewhere that this might
not be the "real" Kitty, but one who is
coming from the multiple worlds of Secret
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I did like that the Bleeding Cool headline for this story was, "Two Marvel Characters Outed as Straight".
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http://www.newsarama.com/23632-
star-lord-kitty-pryde-enter-secret-
wars.html
It looks like it is the
Kitty Pryde of Age of Apocalypse.

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