The Origin of The New Mutants

On this episode of History of the Marvel Universe we're looking at the comic book origin of The New Mutants!
Timestamps:
00:34 - Wolfsbane / Rahne Sinclair
02:35 - Karma / Xi'an Coy Mahn
07:14 - Mirage / Dani Moonstar
10:14 - Sunspot / Roberto DeCosta
12:06 - Cannonball / Sam Guthrie
Sources:
Marvel Team-Up #100 (December, 1980)
Marvel Graphic Novel #4 (November, 1982)
New Mutants #3 (May, 1983)
New Mutants #18-20 (1984)
Classic X-Men #2 (October, 1986)
New Mutants #41 (July, 1987)
New Mutants #11 (June, 2004)
Additional information from the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe.
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"Eighties Action" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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[@dkareemsumner8286]

I like the New Mutants the best because I kind of grew up when they did back in the late 80's and 90's. I still have the original collection of the comics.

[@JasonAlredge]

There should be videos on the other mutants teams, like X-Force and X-Factor. Great job on this!

[@sethleoric2598]

People thinking Spiderman is a supervillain at first because of the Daily Bugle feels like something i'd want to see more.

[@ZeroAnalogy]

New Mutants #1 and Uncanny X-MEN #s 166 & 167 were my jumping in point for consistent comic collecting that eventually ended in the industry bubble burst of the early/mid-1990's.

[@stevetheduck1425]

Did you miss the one where Deadpool, Domino and some guy named Gideon all first appeared in New Mutants? - and then Cable, too? This stuff gets remembered in the Deadpool movies, but does New Mutants get a look in? Only slightly, recently.

[@TanstA]

Casting Maise to play Rayne is pretty awesome. Looks just like her comic counterpart.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

She was good and her Scottish accent was very good.

[@dantheman5582]

Well, there's a petition to hopefully make a sequel or mini series to the New Mutants movie, if anyone's interested! If you're a fan of the New Mutants, PLEASE SIGN! Be sure to share this and use #MAKENMTWOHAPPEN when you share ! Let’s get to 1,500! Here's a video about it as well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp-WmYyJq9-bd6s

[@stevetheduck1425]

A proper lowland scots accent as well.

[@RollingArtDesigns]

Being born in the mid-'70s and reading comics in the '80s, I got the pleasure or growing up with these characters and I really love the X-Men but I always had a real fondness for the New Mutants! So I'm really stoked for the new movie, just hope they don't screw it up! Magik was always one of my favorites especially since she was the younger sister of one of my favorite X-Men, Colossus!

[@RollingArtDesigns]

I really gravitated towards some of the later members such as Magik, Boom Boom, Rictor, Kitty Pryde, Warlock, Warpath, Jubilee, Rusty Collins, and especially Legion!

[@logiclanguagelearningFrench]

Same

[@c.j.thedude]

Magik looks perfect. But sadly they screwed up Bobby completely changing his racially-motivated origins to be more bland.

[@curtispina2706]

I can remember reading the first issue 🧐🤔,long time ago. Thanks for the recap

[@mikevivian3648]

yeah I had missed the graphic novel that started it all but loved the comic!

[@mysticnj]

Thank you because I didn’t know who the hell they were!

[@district730]

Im 😢

[@mysticnj]

@@district730 why? I wasn’t a comic book reader I read novels instead.

[@michelmorris3382]

Karma and Dain moon star are very powerful and underrated

[@TheVetoSkreeemer]

Karma was the most underated in this comics. After a spectacular debut Claremont didnt know what to do with her.

[@stevetheduck1425]

@@TheVetoSkreeemer He made the point that she made all the other members' powers irrelevant. Rather like if the Flash had a brain, he'd be the most powerful Justice Leaguer.

[@TheVetoSkreeemer]

@@stevetheduck1425 I think that was a mistake. Besides he had no ptroblem uding Magik which was very powerful.

[@comicfan72]

Ah, my friend, you really know how to bring back the good ol’ days!

[@garyjones1688]

I love the TV show and the girl who plays magic is perfect

[@knightjedi666]

I have just discovered your channel finding your superb video on Gambit, it’s quite a breath of fresh air from the others like it. Subbed immediately.

[@michaelleary9233]

I wonder if Xavier will appear in the next movie, I've heard they're planning to bring in Karma, Magma, and more.

[@ManTwoSeven]

Dude imagine magma damn. She'll be the powerhouse out of all of them bc her anger issues

[@jf175]

Mwhurst391 the new mutants movie is like a few weeks old but k

[@Lord_539]

@@jf175 nah it has only just been released, but its been in the making for a few years now. Only just came out due to many setbacks and delays

[@michaelking2050]

@@jf175 lol that movie was supposed to be released 2 or 3 years ago. It went through reshoots, rewrites, and sat around on the shelf till a couple of months ago when it got released

[@jf175]

@@michaelking2050 and it’s still bad lol 😂

[@HoldenMuhKnutz]

Good casting on a few parts of the film but they really dropped the ball by adding pointless elements for specific audiences. I like the horror film concept, in which would worked into an amazing film but rewrites may have caused the film’s structure to suffer.

[@stevetheduck1425]

Setting it outside of the X-Men's mansion was the problem, but that happens because X-Men First Class wrote Moira McTaggart out of the X-Men history. No Moira, no New Mutants, except maybe Xian, if the Fantastic Four find her first, as in the comics.

[@stevetheduck1425]

Other origin influences for the New Mutants late 1970s to early 1980s: David Cronenberg's film 'Scanners', the film 'Wolfen', the film 'Poltergeist', the film and TV series 'Fame' (to a lesser degree).

[@toddadams8420]

Fame... huh I never considered that but it makes sense. Very astute observation

[@stevetheduck1425]

@@toddadams8420 Thanks, it comes from living through that time (like noticing how similar Storm of the X-Men is to both Laura Gemser of the 'Black Emmanuelle' films (of that time) and Modesty Blaise's origin (a few years earlier). Just recently read 'The Shining' by Stephen King again, and noticed how the backstory of this and several other novels by him may be the Nigel Kneale TV and film serial 'Quatermass and the Pit'. Something falls to earth (most obviously in 'The Tommyknockers') it influences people to have / not have a psychic ability, causes events like the creation of an Indian burial ground, later a house (IT) hotel (The Shining), which gathers power and sentience from the capture of people with that 'ability'. The wasp symbology in The Shining may also fit, as the creatures in QATP were insects with a hive mind. - and there's a 1960s Disney film about a man who uproots his family on an urge to escape the rat-race of his job, buys a run-down hotel with a dangerous boiler, and nearly loses his mind trying to keep it operating. The Disney film has a happy ending, but Stephen King takes Happy Days and turns it into Christine, soo...

[@ibanmartinez614]

I subbed to ya cuz of the magik video..but i do enjoy how detailed you go...good job

[@carlospointofview]

Can you do a origin video for the rest of the mutant teams? Please!

[@soldaten-norbert8520]

When you said "but successful" at 4:26, all I heard was "Buttsex" Also, I like that you explained Sunpot's powers accurately. Everybody just thinks he shoots fire.

[@unigenius]

Movies seem to think so.

[@youtubestudiosucks978]

@@unigenius she absorbs solar energy and converts it to plasma. She's basicly superman but without laser vision and freeze breath.

[@stevetheduck1425]

Sunspot, Roberto, absorbs solar energy and transmutes it into strength and invulnerability. The flames came decades later, mostly in the movies.

[@awalker2011baby]

Sunspots Afro Latino heritage made him iconic to me. Them white washing his orgin in the movie made me upset!

[@barrymacdonald1157]

I agree!!

[@jupiterjazz4926]

He’s a Brazilian hero... they literally got a Brazilian actor to play him? 😂

[@c.j.thedude]

@@jupiterjazz4926 You wouldn't understand.

[@jupiterjazz4926]

C.J. Jacks Why wouldn’t I understand?

[@KachellZ]

@@jupiterjazz4926 That's like saying they got an American actor to play an American character when that character was black and the actor is white. Yes, the actor is Brazilian, but he is of lighter skin.

[@arkinyte13]

Daniel Moon star and Wolfsbane are my favorites.

[@EvanDoesYT]

Wolfsbane is my 3rd favorite

[@jaydenjordan5340]

Same

[@danielwilliamson6180]

Her name is Danielle.

[@dantheman5582]

Well, there's a petition to hopefully make a sequel or mini series to the New Mutants movie, if anyone's interested! If you're a fan of the New Mutants, PLEASE SIGN! Be sure to share this and use #MAKENMTWOHAPPEN when you share ! Let’s get to 1,500! Here's a video about it as well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp-WmYyJq9-bd6s

[@lukeohalloran5886]

I really wish the new mutants movie turned out better. They had all the elements to be great but it just need to be refined. I really hope that magik is at least carried on in the deadpool franchise just without all that weird racism towards Dani.

[@Havoc-bc6oy]

I own New Mutants #1 in 9.0 condition. I hope the movie finally makes it worth something lol

[@mikebear7636]

my favorite superhero team, New Mutants 4Ever!!!

[@dantheman5582]

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[@markalhazred1182]

Great job. Concise and entertaining. As always, Make Mine Marvel 👍

[@ABN6565]

I'm looking at one of the original no. 1 copies right now. Comic books are golden

[@blackwidow7614]

Sam:Are you crazy that thing will kill you Rahne: He's right its Magic. Illyiana: SO AM I

[@dantheman5582]

Well, there's a petition to hopefully make a sequel or mini series to the New Mutants movie, if anyone's interested! If you're a fan of the New Mutants, PLEASE SIGN! Be sure to share this and use #MAKENMTWOHAPPEN when you share ! Let’s get to 1,500! Here's a video about it as well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp-WmYyJq9-bd6s

[@jalenikezeue4114]

Danielle moonstar Is such an amazing Superhero she just get more and more stronger

[@stevetheduck1425]

The comics series 'The End' shows that she becomes so powerful that she's much like a God of Death, able to make anything she thinks of real, and so is kept sedated and eventually put down because she's still breaking free. Rahne by this time is Dean of Xavier's School, and when she is killed by an attack on the school and her refusal to leave when there are people to be rescued, Dani feels it and lets her grief out across the world... heavy stuff.

[@johnrichmond5342]

I like this team. They kinda have 2 first appearances originally debuted in Marvel Graphic Novel series and then was given there own title series which #1 is just a retelling of the graphic novel.

[@slayy_expert9293]

If the movie adapted to the comic more, it would have been so much better

[@kevinboutwell]

2022 newcomer to this channel. LOVE IT. Keep up the good work!

[@Andrew_Kaehler]

Cannonball is my favorite

[@dantheman5582]

Well, there's a petition to hopefully make a sequel or mini series to the New Mutants movie, if anyone's interested! If you're a fan of the New Mutants, PLEASE SIGN! Be sure to share this and use #MAKENMTWOHAPPEN when you share ! Let’s get to 1,500! Here's a video about it as well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp-WmYyJq9-bd6s

[@Xuhtig]

Magik is so cool.

[@jasonbean591]

I have the entire first print run of the New Mutants, a full 100 issues.:)

[@markherron1407]

I saw the movie 🍿🎥 on Hulu and they're version of Young 🌱 Justice ⚖️ Titans Young X-Men and Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 Blessings and Hugs 💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜💜

[@stevetheduck1425]

Rahne was not the first of the New Mutants: that was Xian coy Mahn, Karma. edit: realised you sort of covered it.

[@THEREALUNCLEILL]

I had this book as a kid

[@paulbright5081]

Do an origin of Fancy Dan from the Circus of Crime!

[@keithscott1926]

I wish this was the movie they made because The one they did make it’s a joke.

[@gregorydixon5191]

Those children were fun back in the 80s

[@handsdown1329]

Well done.

[@garyjones1688]

Love wolf bane she's awesome

[@dantheman5582]

Well, there's a petition to hopefully make a sequel or mini series to the New Mutants movie, if anyone's interested! If you're a fan of the New Mutants, PLEASE SIGN! Be sure to share this and use #MAKENMTWOHAPPEN when you share ! Let’s get to 1,500! Here's a video about it as well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp-WmYyJq9-bd6s

[@hegyidaniel1022]

I love this channel

[@jonathanrayne]

Excellent channel!!!

[@user-ip1vk8rx3q]

*Los Nuevo Mutantes 👍*

[@Vrinara]

Wolfsbane has always been one of my favorite characters in Comics. Mainly because she's a fucking werewolf basically. It's honestly sad what happens to her in the comics. It really makes you think about how bad the world is. I honestly liked the New Mutants movie and it is sad they wont be doing another movie.

[@danielwilliamson6180]

Wolfsbane could had Wolverine's daughter.

[@nulfater]

Never liked New Mutants, until Liefeld took over, couple of issues I bought were slow and the art wasn’t to my taste. So nice to get a quick origin recap

[@teresaravenshaw5477]

Liefield's when I began to hate it.

[@namlynal]

I was thinking Donald Tramp lol 😂

[@rudeboyjohn3483]

Pretty similar, with trump just being bionically enhanced with faulty shitty pieces

[@marvelswadeteamup400]

The movie was great, they just need to bring them back!

[@marvelswadeteamup400]

To fill in the story

[@district730]

Can u do one on Firestar

[@stevetheduck1425]

Like how Stephen King's book 'Firestarter' is almost exactly the same story, except for how her parents were 'altered' to create a mutant?

[@twtfilmproductionthenametw1791]

Amazing

[@Zayak0X]

Do all students have to become x men?? Can’t they just live there or do they have to be a part of his soldier like team

[@foldabotZ]

I think it’s a matter of necessity and circumstances. The majority of students of Xavier’s school don’t have to become X-Men. These kids became X-Men/New Mutants because the main ones were missing and Prof. X had to assemble them due a threat.

[@mosesblackthorn8237]

This is one of the things that bug me about all of the X-Men movies , they never start from the beginning. the X-Men and the new Mutants have an awesome origin story. I can understand feige wanting to introduce the X-Men one at a time. Each character has such a deep background that putting them all in one movie like Foxx did just takes away from the whole thing that made the X-Men great in the first place. The director of the New Mutants movie he claimed to be a big fan but when you said that you didn't care about racism , I immediately wanted to know what comic book did you grow up reading. That's what the X-Men was all about man.

[@c.j.thedude]

Obviously he does care about racism. He cared enough to completely change Sunspot's origin story and skin tone and piss off countless people who wanted to see it done right. Fuck that movie. He's whiter now in the comics too. Racism. (Sigh)

[@mikevivian3648]

the only thing I liked about the fox movies was Kitty Pryde and even then it was a small part! Hopefully Marvel will do a better job with her.

[@kraken8255]

Love the video 🦑

[@pashe01]

Great job

[@trentonphillips1732]

My favorites are Boom Boom and Rictor

[@nemonbuckery5512]

I love them!!!!!!!! 80s ALL-DAY!!!!!!😁

[@33TimberWolf]

I didn’t mind the addition of Magik in the movie; but I was disappointed that they completely erased Karma from the team’s origin. Hopefully they find a way to include the Hellions in New Mutants 2.

[@danschumacher5427]

Are they are making a sequel?

[@33TimberWolf]

@@danschumacher5427 I hope so. If Marvel has time / money for an Eternals movie (or Morbuis / Moon Knight), then they have to make movies that people actually want to see.

[@devonjohnson5592]

Can you do the origin of team x i just feel like the rest of the marvel universe for forget about the specific team. So when you have the time putting together this video me know

[@devonjohnson5592]

I misspelled that at the end just let me know when you're ready to do the video of the next couple of days

[@coreyjackson1123]

Sinister cause presents the force awakens on KZbin

[@garyjones1688]

Magma is my favorite she has the power of magma manipulate any type of lava and she's Brazilian

[@stevetheduck1425]

Well.... technically Roman, but they were an offshoot Roman colony in Brazil, so...

[@alvaferjoe2117]

Magik?

[@210SAi]

Magik doesn’t join them until much later

[@MerryMarvelite]

Magik deserved a video of her own! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZaXpXqegt5slas

[@210SAi]

@MerryMarvelite I asked a question on that Magik video: Whose idea was it to make Magik’s origin story so demonic just to age her up?

[@bradygibson2]

Sunspot is awesome

[@dantheman5582]

Well, there's a petition to hopefully make a sequel or mini series to the New Mutants movie, if anyone's interested! If you're a fan of the New Mutants, PLEASE SIGN! Be sure to share this and use #MAKENMTWOHAPPEN when you share ! Let’s get to 1,500! Here's a video about it as well: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp-WmYyJq9-bd6s

[@danielwilliamson6180]

I went to see the movie. Good movie. Not great. Not perfect. I like it. I don't care what the critics say. I bought it on DVD 4 days ago.

[@leolopez8064]

Where is magik ?

[@MerryMarvelite]

Magik deserved a video of her own! kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZaXpXqegt5slas

[@unigenius]

She's not one of the original 5 New Mutants

[@stevetheduck1425]

When New Mutants began, Illyana Rasputin was on Muir Island, Moira McTaggart's facility for dangerous mutants, and later went with McTaggart to Israel and found out about Professor Xavier's son David, who becomes the mutant Legion, who has his own TV series, three seasons of it.

[@luizcarlospintoteles5920]

Can you make a video of the origin of the incredible hulk

[@TayNewNerd]

On poiny

[@robertb8673]

Wait!!! CIA Moira? Prof. X big love?

[@unigenius]

Yes, her. But, in the comics, she was never a CIA agent. She was a Scottish genetics researcher who focused on mutants.

[@robertb8673]

@@unigenius ok! Thank's! 👍

[@bobbymoore2076]

Ok

[@dingle2987]

Pretty sure her name is pronounced Ruh-nay; not rain.

[@MerryMarvelite]

rahnesinclair.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-do-you-pronounce-her-name.html

[@dingle2987]

@@MerryMarvelite Well, alright then. I guess I've been mispronouncing it for years then. Good to know.

[@unigenius]

@@dingle2987 one of my favorite storylines and plays on her name is "Rahne of Terror."

[@void8081]

👍

[@marvelswadeteamup400]

They look like klaw clones 😭💀

[@kingsufi6164]

so, what happen to the x-men when they disappeared now? hmm.......

[@a8t859]

AUGUST 2020 Hopefully

[@210SAi]

That movie’s not gonna do well: too many delays, reworks and now COVID19

[@Noa......]

@@210SAi The movie sucks.

[@210SAi]

@180 not surprised I saw a review and it looks like it should have gone straight to DVD but apparently the contract stated they wouldn’t allow that...

[@rc75905]

Actually....

[@MVSXNXO]

1.5 speed, thank me later

[@pyaytsone9717]

Thx u

[@jeffcox6539]

The movie could have been hellava lot better.

[@tylermatthew349]

The movie would been better but I hope we see them mcu soon

[@dragongeraldb]

I read these stories and liked the first bit but when that garbage art form started being used on their comics it killed me.

[@user-yb6tk1ru6x]

I think it's pronounced psi key... Not psych... 😆😆😆

[@stevetheduck1425]

Psyche is Greek and means 'soul'. It's intruguing to me as the name first really appears in an ancient Greek legend 'Eros and Psyche' which is the prototype love story. The passionate, loving (Eros) Wolfsbane meets the soulful, cool and responsive lover 'Psyche' (Soul) Moonstar. The classic definition of a yin-yang relationship in Greek Myth terms.

[@TheTribalgame]

That movie was trash. Things like this is what disney should be making shows about

[@timothyricherson6595]

This movie was one of the worst film's ever sucked all the way thru Damn shame

[@vangler6492]

It's funny because the movie was supposed to come out like three years ago , yet was stalled for unexplained reasons.

[@tylermatthew349]

Look I guys the new mutant movie wasn’t too good but that’s you both opinion and second I hope they be x men movies mcu because soon they gotta be forgotten but not x 23 in Logan movie to as well

[@Maniac536]

Origin of Kamala Khan?