Like I said, Age of Apocalypse had like the most realistic take on Kitty Pryde but in the sense of taking her to where she’d logically go and that’s being a bloodthirsty assassin considering her training in-canon. For some reason likely because it’s too provocative, it got undone and was rendered apocryphal. Even though that’s the one situation where she’d effectively cease being a Mary Sue.
In the sense of taking her to where she’d realistically become. She does have a vicious temper that literally gets her into fights and killing people. She’d have no issue assassinating people out of hire and would make for a good mercenary. But it’s something not too many people do even if it does make sense. She’s not necessarily evil.
But I guess having her be an antiheroine leopard mercenary, even if it’s realistic (and also takes some of Claremont’s ideas for her), seems too provocative. Though a new X-Men storyline might make it permanent.
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