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I said Nightcrawler, since he has always been one of my tops: I love his love of adventure, his joy in the hero's life with all its ups and downs, his searches for love and acceptance, and his compassion and dedication. Plus I've always wished I could teleport!
That said, I would be lying if I didn't admit that there are a couple of other characters I love equally:
Kitty Pryde: I love her heart. I love her dedication. I love her ability to push through being scared shitless to do whatever she has to. I love the way she struggles with her life challenges. I love that she has the perspicacity to mourn for what her life deprives her of without being bogged down by depression. And yes, I love that she was arguably the first "out" Jewish superhero, who really claimed her Jewish identity.
Colossus: Awesome power. Tortured soul. I love his philosophical angst about his life and his goals. I love his loyalty and dedication. And I love how someone with such an aggressively physical power and body is so introspective, and loves art and poetry, and skinny Jewish girls....
Wolverine: OK, everybody digs Wolvie. I know, it's so unoriginal. But the epic of the gai-jin ronin who really wants to be samurai is so enticing to me, it's just such a wonderful literary motif....
Close seconds: Storm, Jean Grey, Dazzler, Longshot, and Banshee.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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