The Human Torch and “Alicia Masters”
The Incredible 4 are a household. And typically, issues get unusual inside households, particularly super-families. Living proof: Johnny Storm’s marriage to Alicia Masters, the girlfriend of Ben “The Factor” Grimm. Alicia had all the time been Ben’s love curiosity, however when Ben determined to remain in an alternate actuality, she turned her consideration to Johnny. And Johnny, by no means one to show down a date, reciprocated. Regardless of the very cheap feeling that he was betraying his pal, Johnny married Alicia—and the 2 stayed married till “Alicia” revealed herself to be a shape-shifting Skrull known as Lyja, despatched to infiltrate the crew.
Troubling as the entire debacle was, household can forgive so much, and so all is nicely with the Incredible 4. Ben and Alicia have lengthy since married and are elevating a pair of adopted children. Lyja died, resurrected, and reformed. And Johnny… nicely, Johnny just lately slept with Physician Doom’s fiancée the evening earlier than their marriage ceremony, so Johnny’s nonetheless Johnny.
Iron Man and the White Queen
When Iron Man and the White Queen Emma Frost started relationship in 2022, the coupling shocked everybody. In spite of everything, this was through the Krakoa period, when Emma and different mutants have been dwelling on their very own sovereign island nation, and after the X-Males and Avengers have had just a few fights. However the pairing quickly made sense, as each Tony Stark and Emma have been extremely wealthy jet-setters who traveled in the identical circles. Even understanding that their marriage was one in every of comfort to thwart the anti-mutant group Orchis, its arduous to hate the couple, and Marvel is even at present publishing Iron & Frost, an alternate future story wherein Emma turns into the brand new Iron Man to honor her love, Tony.
Kitty Pryde and Colossus
Relationships in X-Males are all the time tough, and never only for the same old superpowered causes. All through his legendary 17-year run on the sequence, author Chris Claremont was unable to make any of his characters explicitly queer, which resulted in lots of symbolic and inferred pairings between, say, Mystique and Future or Storm and Callisto.
Nonetheless, it’s one in every of his most regular pairings that stands out because the strangest at present. Shortly after the 13-year-old Kitty Pryde joins the crew in 1980, she catches the attention of teammate Colossus, who is eighteen. The age distinction not often will get talked about in these authentic points, however it’s arduous to disregard now, whilst writers hold placing them collectively. Hopefully, now that Kitty has left Colossus on the altar and now that she’s canonically bisexual, followers are hoping she’ll discover a accomplice that’s extra appropriate, in each sense of the phrase.
Ms. Marvel and Marcus Immortus
To at the present time, Avengers #200 (1980) stands as probably the most ignoble, ugly comedian e-book tales of all time. The storyline sees Carol Danvers, who was going by the identify Ms. Marvel on the time, discover herself pregnant and all of a sudden giving start to a baby known as Marcus. She later learns that Marcus is in actual fact, Marcus Immortus, a time-traveling variant of Kang the Conqueror, whom impregnanted Carol with himself. Worse, Carol professes her love for Marcus and runs off with him, whereas Cap and the opposite Avengers let her go. Thankfully, a follow-up story not solely revealed that Marcus used thoughts management on Carol, but additionally gave Carol the possibility to chew out her heroic colleagues for not coming to her assist when one thing was clearly incorrect.
