“Storm and Kitty Pryde are not the X-Men’s equivalent of Scarlet Witch and Wasp. They’re the X-Men’s equivalent of Captain America and Iron Man. (Cyclops is the X-Men’s Wasp, and also the X-Men’s WASP.) Claremont’s work on these characters, and on Jean Grey and Emma Frost, on Dazzler, Rogue, and Psylocke, on Rachel Summers, Dani Moonstar, Magik and Jubilee, are the very foundation of the modern X-Men. Because Claremont made these characters complex and compelling, and because he did not limit the sort of stories they could be used to tell, the women of the X-Men are the X-Men.”