Marvel.com’s Take 10: We Love the ’80s
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
MARVEL.com’s “secret cabal of Marvel staffers” got together and created a top ten list of favorite characters during 1980s. The Hellfire Club, the villainous group where Emma was known as the White Queen, ranks #8 on the list:
8. THE HELLFIRE CLUB
First Appearance: UNCANNY X-MEN #129 (1980)
Why They Make The List: “The Hellfire Club’s introduction not only provided the X-Men with some of their most memorable foes—and one future ally in the White Queen—but also introduced something very new to the X-mythos: class-based discrimination. Magneto and The X-Men fought over ideology, but the Hellfire Club didn’t care about any of those philosophical bouts, they just wanted to prosper. They considered themselves a better kind of mutant and felt they should have the real power. They never had any inhibitions about displaying their genetic superiority and possessed a confidence that was both inspiring and terrifying. Whereas the X-Men and Magneto fought for mutantkind, each with flaws in their methods, the Hellfire Club fought for themselves.”
Spotlight Comic: UNCANNY X-MEN #134—The X-Men battle the Hellfire Club’s Inner Circle, with the fate of Phoenix on the line!
View the full article here: http://www.marvel.com/news/comicstories.4205.Take_10~colon~_We_Love_the_~apos~80s
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