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Also, the description at the bottom sounds an awful lot like the New Mutants…•• Indeed it does. With the Whim of Iron in full vigor, Shooter one day decided that the defining factor of the X-Men, the thing that made them who and what they were, was that they were a school. In fact, they had not really been a school in YEARS -- Stan and Jack had them graduate somewhere around issue 9 -- and if you asked anyone else at Marvel, or any fan, they would tell you the defining element was "feared and hated by the world they are sworn to protect". But Shooter would have none of that. It was a school! We would play it as a school, starting NOW. Of course, for people like Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Banshee, the school aspect made no sense. Even Nightcrawler had had years of training, in the circus. So I came up with the idea of bringing in a bunch of "new mutants" who would be the students and (yay!) wear the original uniforms, while the existing characters were the teachers. Shooter stomped on it, tho, claiming it WAS the "Legion of Substitute X-Men." A few years later, when it was HIS idea, this was not a problem.
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