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Knights of X#4 features the first kiss between Rachel Summers and Captain Britain , Betsy Braddock . The moment suffer out for both cleaning woman , but particularly for Rachel , whose condition as an LGBTQ+ ikon among fans be in the first place in headcanon until just now . The kiss validatesyears of subtextual storytelling , as noted by The Claremont Run , an salient academic analysis of Chris Claremont’sX - Mentenure .
laughable book fans do it Rachel ’s significance extends far beyond this moment . She emerged from a saturnine , alternative time to come to become a cardinal ten - Men character and powerful cosmic human body who likely plays some role in the MCU finally . That may come sooner than later on , as no variance of Rachel exist in the Marvel multiverse , making her truly unique .
Days Of Future Past
Rachel Summers debut inUncanny X - Men#141 , a watershed issue that beginsDays of Future Past , amongthe best X - Men comic record book storylines ever . Rachel , the girl of Cyclops and Jean Grey in this dark dystopian time to come , wreak a vital role in the history by using her powers to send Kate Pryde ’s consciousness back in clip to her younger self .
Though Kitty Pryde served this function inX - Men : Days of Future Pastto send Wolverine back in time , Rachel ’s import to this moment in all probability means she will factor in if the MCU ever revisit it on screen .
Unique In The Multiverse
The Uncanny X - Men#462 reveal Rachel Summers is singular in the multiverse . No other variants of her exist in non-finite realities and timelines , which is one reason the Phoenix Force selected her as its host in earlier cartoon strip . This echoes America Chavez ’s MCU position at the moment , thoughcomic book fan recognise America Chavezhas many stochastic variable in the Marvel Universe .
This event , drawn by Alan Davis , who bring so much to Rachel ’s story inExcalibur , also feature an other and decisive instant between Rachel and Betsy , who accompany Rachel to The White Hot Room .
Traveling To The Present
Rachel finally travels to the present day after realizing that Kate Pryde ’s otherwise successful time travelling ploy did n’t commute the future as expected . Rachel arrives in Earth-616 to discover a past different from the one she experienced . Most notably , her birth mother Jean Grey , died duringThe Dark Phoenix Saga , meaning Rachel can never be in this timeline .
This leave Rachel heartsick and unsure of her place among the X - man or in the multiverse . Her suffering and isolation only amplify as time goes by , leading to trigger-happy consequences .
The Hound
Rachel ’s injury goes far beyond feeling out of prison term . Later level break that Ahab , a cybernetic supervillain , capture Rachel as a new fair sex . He rack and brainwashed her into becoming a Hound who hunted other mutants . Worse yet , her psionic exponent thrust her to have the pain in the neck her victim did .
Rachel rebelled against Ahab but her ordeal scarred her for life . She retains disfiguring tattoo Ahab and others branded on her as a Hound , though she hides them with her considerable telepathic ability .
Unlimited Power
Rachel Summers rank among the most powerful telepaths in the Marvel Universe and that is just the get-go of her exponent . Her telekinetic power equal her mother ’s , and she also possesses the power to chronoskim , the time journey mechanism she used to send Kate Pryde back in time inDays of Future Past .
These powers alone make Rachel unbelievably hefty , but when she became host to the Phoenix Force , Rachel instantly counted amongthe most sinewy cosmic beings in the Marvel Universe , with mogul over the fundamental construction blocks of existence .
Fighting Galactus
Rachel ’s power in the Phoenix Force received its greatest spotlight inExcalibur#61 when she struggle Galactus . Alan Davis , easily amongthe safe 10 - Men artist ever , renders Rachel ’s cosmic might in several iconic splash pageboy where she overwhelms Galactus and prevent him from devouring a planet in mysterious space .
This conflict occurs while Rachel undergoes a major evolution in her connection to the Phoenix Force , a key raw material in her history electric arc during her time with Excalibur in the belated eighties and former 1990s .
Joining Excalibur
Rachel joins Excalibur , the British 10 - Men branch , after a so - far unexplored period on Mojoworld . She returns to Earth after the X - Men apparently die inThe Fall of the Mutantsand joins fellow survivors Kitty Pryde and Nightcrawler as they connect with Captain Britain and Meggan . Phoenix move around through the multiverse in an early Marvel Comics depiction of it duringThe Cross Time Caper .
Rachel have several highs and lows during her tenure with the squad and uprise deeper ties to Kitty and Nightcrawler , which would become her core friendships in the comics over the years .
Relationship With Kitty Pryde
Rachel divvy up connections with Betsy in the comics , but for many devotee , her primary relationship is with Kitty Pryde . That only pass water sense aswriter Chris Claremont himself intended the two to eventually get together , but Comics Code restrictions in the past coerce nigh all LGBTQ+ theatrical in the Marvel Universe into subtext .
Fans picked up on it , andKitty herself became an LGBTQ+ icon , with her romantically coded relationship with Rachel and Magik the subject of much fan and donnish interest .
Complicated Family Dynamics
Rachel ’s relationship with her family in the present accept years to untangle . She ab initio avoids revealing her true identity to Cyclops , leading to many complications down the route . When Jean Grey returns , Rachel ’s warmness for her goes nowhere as Jean rebuffs the idea she ’s the mother of someone from another timeline . These complex dynamic offer the MCU a pot to potentially delve into .
thing finally get better and together with her half - brother Cable , the Summers home is far closer now in the Krakoan era than ever before .
Romance With Betsy
Though Rachel ’s romantic connection to Betsy pay off years of devotee surmisal about Rachel , it culminates a relatively recent pairing in the comics . Rachel and Betsy share X - Men ties going back to the 1980s , but the comics only recently began hinting at something beyond friendship with the two .
Their romance first begin overtly unfold in the latter issues of the most recentExcaliburvolume , which ended this year and morphed into Knights of X.Knights of Xunfortunately ends with issue # 5 , but writer Tini Howard mean to run Betsy and presumably Rachel ’s story forrad in a young title .
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