Different Kinds of Strength
May. 29th, 2014 12:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithThis quote, from this article, made me drop my brain. Spoilers for X-Men: Days of Future Past.
"But there’s also been no outcry at Kitty’s absence from the meat of the action because no one misses a character they hardly know."
What. The actual. FUCK?
Kitty Pryde saved the whole world, human and mutant alike. She did this by sending Wolverine's mind to the past. She sent him decades back, when her previous efforts were a few days to a week, maybe a month at most. That is beyond exhausting; it is life-threatening. And then she kept doing that after Wolverine unconsciously stabbed her, while she was bleeding to death and crying from the pain. We know she was bleeding out because Bobby explicitly remarked that she was losing too much blood.
In my mind, this is heroism equivalent to Tony Stark carrying a nuke through the wormhole. Kitty knew she was dying; they all did; it was their last stand and their last chance. She did her job anyway. And this is somehow not enough for people? What did you want to see her do, fire a machine gun with her magic snatch?
Fuck that noise. There's more than one way to be a hero and Kitty was IT in that movie.
"But there’s also been no outcry at Kitty’s absence from the meat of the action because no one misses a character they hardly know."
What. The actual. FUCK?
Kitty Pryde saved the whole world, human and mutant alike. She did this by sending Wolverine's mind to the past. She sent him decades back, when her previous efforts were a few days to a week, maybe a month at most. That is beyond exhausting; it is life-threatening. And then she kept doing that after Wolverine unconsciously stabbed her, while she was bleeding to death and crying from the pain. We know she was bleeding out because Bobby explicitly remarked that she was losing too much blood.
In my mind, this is heroism equivalent to Tony Stark carrying a nuke through the wormhole. Kitty knew she was dying; they all did; it was their last stand and their last chance. She did her job anyway. And this is somehow not enough for people? What did you want to see her do, fire a machine gun with her magic snatch?
Fuck that noise. There's more than one way to be a hero and Kitty was IT in that movie.
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Date: 2014-05-29 04:23 pm (UTC)Well...
Date: 2014-05-29 05:49 pm (UTC)If the world cannot be saved without a woman's contribution, then the woman saved the world.
And wow, we're right back to how the male members of a team get the Nobel and the female members get squat.
Fuck that, Kitty Pryde deserve a Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world. Whole team does, and that includes Magneto, wouldn't that piss off everyone.
Re: Well...
Date: 2014-05-29 06:08 pm (UTC)I don't even know why the film was about Wolverine when it was Kitty Pryde who saved the world. Nothing he did would have been possible without her. And I've seen references from other places that in the comic books it *was* Kitty Pryde who time-traveled back to change the outcome (I can't verify that, I haven't read the comic books).
Re: Well...
Date: 2014-05-29 06:16 pm (UTC)That would have been a LOT harder, because Wolverine has more leverage and his physical powers were really useful.
*chuckle* Wolverine got to play in Easy mode. Kitty would've been playing in Expert.