Cyclops' Daughter Finally Has the Awesome New Costume She Deserves
The X-Men's Rachel Summers, daughter of Cyclops and Phoenix from an alternate timeline, finally has the awesome costume she deserves. Cyclops' family tree is one of the craziest in comics. He has a forgotten half-brother, a son who's older than his father because of time travel, and a daughter who originates from an averted dystopian timeline. The last of these, Rachel Summers, is a long-standing X-Man in her own right.
Unfortunately, poor Rachel has never had great luck when it comes to costumes. For years she dressed in an S&M-style outfit that was a homage to her history as a "Hound," a mutant who was enslaved and forced to hunt others of her kind. When Rachel went under the alias of Marvel Girl, she adopted a rather impractical miniskirt — especially awkward given she tends to spend a lot of the time levitating. But now, at last, she's been given the costume she deserves.
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Tini Howard and Bob Quinn's Knights of X has given the X-Men a Medieval makeover, stranding a group of them in the mystical realm of Otherworld and giving several of them striking new costumes. Rachel now dons a cool armor, complemented by a sweeping scarlet robe that's designed to look spectacular when she's levitating. Most striking of all, though, Otherworld has amplified the fiery effect that typically accompanies Rachel's power, a nod to the years she spent as a Phoenix host and her time as a member of the first Excalibur team. Fire blazes from both her hair and hands, sweeping behind her like a comet's tail when she launches herself through the air.
Rachel Summers' new look is an impressive one, presenting her as a combination of a knight and a mage — an approach
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