X-Men Explaining Kitty Pryde's Romantic Obsession Only Made It Weirder
Anyone who has followed Kitty Pryde's (now Captain Kate Pryde) career as an X-Men member may have noticed a particularly strange coincidence: nearly all of her romantic partners have been named Peter. Truth be told, it has happened so frequently throughout Marvel's history that it's hard to call it a coincidence. It seems like both a deliberate choice on behalf of the writers (or at the very least, they started to run with the ongoing joke once they were in on it) and a very deliberate choice on behalf of the character herself.
In the official Marvel canon, Kate has been romantically linked to Peter Rasputin (aka Colossus), Peter Quill (aka Star-Lord), and British Secret Service agent Pete Wisdom. This Peter Paradox even extends outside of the official Marvel canon, as the former Kitty Pryde also dated Peter Parker (aka Spider-Man) within the confines of the Ultimate Marvel universe. It's become such a befuddling paradox that even characters in the X-Men can't ignore it any longer.
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The Peter Paradox was finally addressed in-universe during Guardians of the Galaxy & X-Men: Black Vortex Alpha by Sam Humphries, Ed McGuinness, and Justin Ponsor. In it, Storm asks the future X-Men leader point-blank, "What is the deal with you and Peters?" Kate laughs and shrugs it off as a mild coincidence, until her best friend Magik reveals that her childhood pet hamster, also, was named Peter.
This is officially the point where the Peter Paradox evolves from being just a cute coincidence to being just plain weird. At worst, there are some bizarre Freudian implications there that are probably better left not addressed. At best, and arguably on a slightly more wholesome note,
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