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That kind of thing sprang from Shooter's insistence that the characters establish their powers as soon as possible (at extremis he used to say by page three!) and Chris using whatever scene he was writing to do so.

A truly absurd example happening in "Mind Out of Time", the second half of "Days of Future Past". When the X-Men enter the Baxter Building, I had Wolverine just walk in, figuring the Sentinels, having guards posted on the perimeter, would not bother with something as trivial as a locked door. Shooter, who had previously complained about Storm's "extra power" as a lock-pick, insisted she should show that ability in that scene, so Chris scripted the page as if it was Storm entering the building first. And, of course, he used the scene to have her remembering her African background. Terry was instructed to redraw Wolverine as Storm. (He told me he was briefly tempted not to, as it struck him as funny to have Logan with Ororo's memories!)

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Did they do that? Talk about missing the core of a character!!!