orangedodge reblogged
#x-men#comics#marvel#comic books#reblog#illyana rasputina#kitty pryde#katyana#i voted 'the moment has passed'#it's the closet to my own view but still not really there#while i'm sure there's just an element of cowardice#and of homophobia/biphobia#within either the x-office or higher up at marvel/wdc#i've never really bought the 'they're too popular' for marvel to risk it#argument that gets thrown around because are either of them#more important to marvel than iceman?#or mystique? or felicia?#of all the things working against them i think that's the least of it#i think the biggest barrier (which plays into both of the first two poll options)#is that kitty has not been a part of illyana's story in 34 years#(the reverse has been true. but most of the audience wasn't alive#the last time kitty was in a new mutants story)#if you're an illyana fan who knows her from Gillen's X-Men or from Strange Academy#or Ayala's New Mutants#you would not know that illyana and kitty even know each other#without going through a lot of supplementary effort to read through hundreds of very old comics#we've even had writers/editors on x-men who didn't know they were friends#(see: utopia era when they hated each other out of nowhere)#so tbh i dont think it's something they could just pull the trigger on#it would take a lot of prep work and idk if doing so would even be well received by illyana/nm fans