Whilst the New Mutants were designed to be similar in a lot of ways to the original X-Men team, their inception was heralded by the renewed popularity of the main mutant team after years of flagging sales. It was the diverse All-New, All-Different X-Men - with Canadian Wolverine, Native American Thunderbird and Japanese Sunfire - that made the book a hit. So co-creators Chris Claremont and original artist Bob McLeod set out to make the New Mutants equally as diverse, if not more so. The main X-Men still skewed mostly straight, white and American, with Sam Guthrie aka Canonball being of the same stripe and somewhat a minority in his own team. Karma, or Xi'an Coy Manh, hailed from Vietnam, and you can bet her backstory involved a certain amount of trauma from Americas war with the South Asian country. Mirage, aka Danielle Moonstar, was Cheyenne. Sunspot was a Brazilian called Bobby De Costa. And Wolfsbane was the Scottish Rahne Sinclair, with a ridiculous accent to match.