10 Comic Book Characters Every Reader Wants To Be
6. Kitty Pryde Its a rare thing for a super hero character to become so beloved that theyre more famous by their given name than the pseudonym theyve chosen when they put on the spandex. The X-Man Kitty Pryde, occasionally known as Shadowcat, is one of those characters. Introduced in 1980 through an editorial insistence that Xaviers School For Gifted Youngsters should really actually have some gifted youngsters running around, Kitty struck a chord with a whole host of teenaged readers who saw something of themselves in the sparky computer geek. Also, her best friend was a tiny alien dragon. Yeah, you read that right. Her piercing wit and intelligence were often highlighted in The Uncanny X-Men, as were her Jewish roots, writer Chris Claremont being intent on fleshing out the characters he worked with beyond a few catchphrases and a colourful union suit. Growing from a thirteen year old newbie, gauche and inexperienced, to Wolverines sidekick, ninja asskicker and full-fledged heroine over the years, Kittys fans grew up with her. None more than Avengers guru Joss Whedon, who readily admits that theres a whole lot of Kitty Pryde in Buffy The Vampire Slayer and that getting to write Ms. Pryde was one of the main reasons that he took on Astonishing X-Men for two years back in 2006. Essentially, if you were a female comics geek in the last twenty years of the twentieth century, you were probably a Kitty Pryde fangirl ,and you probably still are. And you still want a dragon as your best friend.