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Rogue proved herself heroic, or at least nobler and kinder than the average villain, after only her first 2 or 3 appearances. She proved herself worthy of the team to Wolverine's satisfaction on their first adventure, as shown on the previous page, and saved the lives not only of Wolverine and Mariko, but, in relatively quick succession, Cyclops, Xavier, and Storm.
Still, there remained some lingering doubts about her loyalties.
She cottoned to her new adoptive family, yes, but, what would happen if an attack came, not from neutral villains, but her old adoptive family?
Readers did not have to wait long for an answer; the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants launched a 2-pronged attack against the X-Men just weeks after Rogue's "adoption" ...
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Happenstance (and Marvel's creative team) has Rogue's character arc occurring against the backdrop of a secretive, and more than somewhat pernicious, move by the Morlocks. They frame the apparent suicide of a street urchin as the death of youngest X-member Kitty Pryde. There are disturbing hints the death was in fact murder of the young girl, and indeed, one thing the X-Men do consider as a possibility is that the young girl was killed by a 3rd party. However, they initially believe the Brotherhood responsible, and would have gone after that group for revenge were it not for Logan sussing out the plan.
Ultimately, the interaction with the Morlocks leads to the salvation of Colossus, who agree to allow the X-Men use of their healer. This is in exchange for the promise by Kitty to wed one of their love struck own, mainly because Morlocks leader Callisto thinks the arrangement emotionally satisfying revenge against X-Men leader Storm, who has demonstrated love and care for Kitty equal to that of any adoptive mother for her daughter. Striking at Storm's "heart" as it were, even as Storm literally did when she dueled and won against Callisto in single combat. The unsung hero who makes this possible, however, is the convert from the rightly-maligned Brotherhood who put Peter at Death's door. This is a full circle transaction that cements Rogue's place with the X-Men. She has defected from her own group, saved the lives of several of her new family, stood up to her mother, and now, for a second time, agonizingly endures a near-lethal experience to reclaim someone from Death.
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The X-Men are a team of globetrotters.
Unfortunately, many of the villains they fight are world-travelers, too.
So, it should come as little surprise that, for all their business in New York, the X-Men next find fanfavoritespar Marko during a journey to the UK:
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Well, at least one of them next found Juggs ...
(Full-team engagement will follow soon, though.)
The showing above by team-separated Alison Blaire underscores the claim made last page -- it was NOT a shameful thing for Dazzler to get the better of you in the 1980s, however unlikely she presented as a combatant. Even at low power levels, lost, disoriented, and on the verge of collapse, she would overachieve like nobody's business.
Unfortunately, she WAS at the end of her rope there, alone, lost, tired, and without a significant power source. Though she brought Jug to his knees there, he eventuality recovered and overtook her, and now having no reserves, expended the utmost of the little remaining power she had, and dropped so exhausted from the effort that Jug mistook her for dead and regretfully buried her. Thankfully, Dazzler's power is such that she eventually was able to slowly absorb just enough ambient sound energy to prayerfully send a shot up through the ground that her searching teammates noticed before she blacked out again, almost certainly for the last time ...
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Wanted to see if I could isolate the images on a page with mobile.
Possibly underscoring just how thick the metal of the vault she broke was.
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Rogue is a superlative lifeguarder.
So much so that I'm toying with the idea of seeing if, in her early appearances, she has fewer, comparable, or more saves than either Supergirl or Superman.
Again, I first encountered Rogue as the beautiful, helpful, flying tank from the X-Men show, for which the following was a typical display:
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But such was a true image of her even a decade earlier, regarding the woman she CLAIMS she was trying to kill before joining the X-Men:
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And it proved true even regarding people she actively wanted to clobber.
Rogue had no great love for Spiral for instance:
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Yet wasted no time in redeeming her life from sure death when the following presented (with perhaps a little help from Fred Dukes, aka The Blob) ...
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Rogue could be counted on to be altruistic, in other words.
The following scene is quietly awesome in how it illustrates that above statement
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