- Aug 8, 2017
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Just wanted to thank you again. Just found and read through the issue where Jubilee first appeared and she's a lot more interesting than her later appearances that I've read. Thank you very, very much.On one hand, Jubilee is the kid-character the X-Men kept on to keep them relevant to real kids since everyone else is mid-20's and older (even though all the other kids are off on X-Force). And because teen girls couldn't get enough of Wolverine & vice-verse.
Did Marvel ever address the weird way he collected little girls?
On the other hand, she was the new face of the "I'm terrified of my powers so I'm going to completely gimp myself even in situations where I should be utterly OP as all fuck" character growth story the X-Men were fond of. Like I said many pages ago, she was training in gymnastics for the Olympics, so fit as fuck for a teenager. She also accidentally completely and totally nuked a mansion without even trying in one of her earliest uses of her powers, which is what made her into a glorified sparkler due to her fear of ever doing it again.
The issue with Jubilee is that a good chunk of writers forgot that her ability for total annihilation is on par with Cyclops'. You know, the guy who atomized a mountain in Australia because it was in his way by going all-out. After all these years, she should be a character who cracks-up laughing whenever faced with a hoard of Sentinels.