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About Colossus's needing air in armored form...
I remembered a few times reading that fact over the years. Somebody elsewhere noted that Claremont and Cockrum had him suffocate in space bound to Starcore, which is true. However, I pointed out that the same team showed Colossus didn't need air underwater, as Michael Penn showed through the link in his post.
I chalk this up to the earlier tale being so early in the run of "New" X-Men stories, the newer characters were still being developed. Sort of like how Superman couldn't fly, nor did he have x-ray vision or super-hearing in his earliest stories, but in later comics he had those powers and any stories dealing with his origins for decades never showed a time when he didn;t have those powers as an adult (heck, he had them as a baby in later tales).
If one must have an explanation, here is my attempt at a No-Prize:
Cyclops is the person that determined that Colossus was suffocating when the hull of the space shuttle the team is in had been breached. The omnipresent narrator does not indicate that Colossus is actually suffocating, nor does Colossus have any dialogue of thought balloons that suggest it. The next time we see him on panel after that brief scene is when he is fighting inside the star base. So... maybe Cyclops was simply in error in his assessment of what was happening with Colossus?
Edited by Matt Hawes on 10 September 2020 at 9:48pm
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