#Neal Shaara

[braddocklegacy]

X-Men Annual (2000)

[celadons-penultimate]

If I had my way, X-Corp (pre-Fall of Krakoa) would've been the white-collar business version of IMMORTAL X-MEN:

-Monet St. Croix

-Emma Frost

-Astrid Bloom

-Lourdes Chantel

-Reeva Payge (THE GIFTED version)

-Christian Frost

-Adrienne Frost

-Angel

-Neal Shaara (+new mutant name)

Not to mention, Slick would've been resurrected to match the self-image he used as his glamour illusion, and he'd be the nosy intern who knew everybody's business.

[onlylonelylatino]

New X-men by Phil Jimenez

[tournament-of-x]

The Hole

Contestants Index

[cool-lets-try-this-again]

Betsy Braddock has had enough serious on-panel relationships for them to form a full x-team.

I feel like there have been worse lineups, maybe...? Fantomex is really the only one you’d have to keep an eye on at this point. (I know he and Cluster aren’t separated anymore, but I feel like that’s a mistake. I liked Cluster, she was fucked up but she had a kind side.)

[bringbackwendellvaughn]

[synapticsim]

Let’s Get X-TREME! Day 6!

The 5th Anniversary Celebration of the Lair 2.0 continues tonight! And it’s X-Treme!!! That’s right! New X-Men Sims featuring the X-Treme X-Men, and tonight we have the Pyrotechnic: Thunderbird, aka Neal Shaara!

Pick him up here!

And don’t forget to stay tuned in to see what the next drops will be!

[wellnoe]

i really love jean and cable in the 90s. jean and cable talking while scott is recovering from surgery, cable bringing jean to help rescue scott, jean and cable talking about the x men and scott’s death, cable being stuck on a small boat while jean and neal shaara flirt. cable basing his program where he fights apocalypse off jeans program where she relives scott’s death. i like them!!!!!!!

[random-movie-ideas]

Next up, we have the less essential characters who I'd still rather have around than not:

Alison Blaire AKA Dazzler

John Proudstar AKA Thunderbird

Shiro Yoshida AKA Sunfire

Sam Guthrie AKA Cannonball

Rahne Sinclair AKA Wolfsbane

Roberto da Costa AKA Sunspot

Dani Moonstar AKA Mirage

Ilyana Rasputin AKA Magik

Evan Daniels AKA Spyke

Jamie Madrox AKA Multiple Man

Tabitha Smith AKA Boom Boom

Xuan Cao Manh AKA Karma

Forge

Kevin Sydney AKA Morph

Tyrone Johnson AKA Cloak

Tandy Bowen AKA Dagger

Neena Thurman AKA Domino

Jean-Paul Beaubier AKA Northstar

Neal Shaara AKA Thunderbird

Valerie Cooper

Longshot

Kevin Plunder AKA Ka-Zar

The Shi'ar

The Starjammers

X-Factor

The New Mutants

Henry Peter Gyrich

Graydon Creed

Kavita Rao

Jason Wyngarde AKA Mastermind

St. John Allerdyce AKA Pyro

Dominikos Petrakis AKA Avalanche

Vincent AKA Mesmero

Black Tom Cassidy

Donald Pierce

Ophelia Sarkissian AKA Viper/Madame Hydra

Yuriko Oyama AKA Lady Deathstrike

The Reavers

Amahl Farouk AKA The Shadow King

The Marauders

Callisto

The Morlocks

The Four Horsemen of Apocalypse

The Purifiers

Mojo

Rita Wayward AKA Spiral

Herbert Wyndham AKA The High Evolutionary

Nimrod

The Brood

The Phalanx

Essential Characters to Include in an X-Men Series

These are the most important characters you'll want to include when making an X-Men series:

Charles Xavier AKA Professor X

Scott Summers AKA Cyclops

Jean Grey AKA Marvel Girl/Phoenix

James Howlett/Logan AKA Wolverine

Ororo Munroe AKA Storm

Marie AKA Rogue

Kitty Pryde AKA Shadowcat

Hank McCoy AKA The Beast

Kurt Wagner AKA Nightcrawler

Bobby Drake AKA Iceman

Remy LeBeau AKA Gambit

Pyotr Rasputin AKA Colossus

Warren Worthington III AKA Angel/Archangel

Betsy Braddock AKA Psylocke

Jubilation Lee AKA Jubilee

Alex Summers AKA Havok

Sean Cassidy AKA Banshee

Lorna Dane AKA Polaris

Rachel Summers

Lucas Bishop

Nathan Summers AKA Cable

Laura Kinney AKA X-23

David Haller AKA Legion

Moira MacTaggert

Lilandra Neramani

Senator Robert Kelly

The Xavier Institute for Gifted Youngsters

Eric Lehnsherr AKA Magneto

Raven Darkholme AKA Mystique

En Sabah Nur AKA Apocalypse

Nathaniel Essex AKA Mr. Sinister

Madelyne Pryor AKA The Goblin Queen

Victor Creed AKA Sabertooth

Cain Marko AKA Juggernaut

Mortimer Toynbee AKA Toad

Fred Dukes AKA The Blob

Pietro Maximoff AKA Quicksilver

Wanda Maximoff AKA The Scarlet Witch

Sebastian Shaw

Emma Frost

William Stryker

Kenuichio Harada AKA The Silver Samurai

Arkady Rossovich AKA Omega Red

Bolivar Trask

Master Mold

The Sentinels

The Brotherhood of Mutants

Weapon X

The Hellfire Club

[braddocklegacy]

Betsy Braddock —> Training/Sparring

[celadons-penultimate]

Neal Shaara needs a new code name; the Thunderbird name makes sense for John Proudstar (& James for a bit) cause it ties to their culture as Native people.

By referring to Neal Shaara (an Indian man) as Thunderbird (when that has no part in Indian culture at all), they're basically conflating Indian culture w/ Indigenous culture (after generations of Native Americans being wrongly referred to as "Indians").

(Note: There was a time Neal Shaara was gonna be called Agni, named for an Indian deity of fire, iirc; it's not the name I'd prefer for him, feels a bit too on-the-nose, but at least it would have made much more sense irt both his culture & his powers.)

[spearclosetcomics]

New X-Men #132 (2003) Grant Morrison Phil Jimenez Andy Lanning

[tournament-of-x]

The Tournament of X

Fun Fact!

There are 12 contestants in this tournament who share their codename with another character, of whom 2 pairs have codenames that only differ by a “y” versus an “i”! These codename-sharing contestants include:

Benjamin Deeds and Kevin Sidney, AKA Morph

James “Logan” Howlett and Laura Kinney, AKA Wolverine

John Proudstar and Neal Shaara, AKA Thunderbird

Genesis and Evan Sabahnur, AKA Genesis

Douglas Ramsey and Alisa Tager, AKA Cypher and Cipher

Evan Daniels and Gary Walsh, AKA Spyke and Spike

[comicwaren]

From X-Corp #004, “A Carrot on a Stick”

Art by Alberto Foche and Sunny Gho

Written by Tini Howard

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