I feel like almost every romantic relationship in X-Men comics during the 80s was pretty bizarre. I guess the creators dealt with some hefty sexual repression.
Nightcrawler dates his adoptive sister.
Colossus, who was about 19, becomes romantically interested in a girl who just entered puberty.
Cyclops marries and has a kid with a girl who looks exactly like his dead girlfriend. Then when said girlfriend comes back, he ditches the look alike and barely feels bad about it.
Rape or some sort of sexual abuse is often implied, specifically when someone is mind controlled or captured, which happens all the time.
Everyone eventually winds up in some sort of bondage.
Empath forces two Xavier institute employees to go have sex in the woods for like a week.
Cypher, who was supposed to be around Kitty's age (early to mid teens) had a flirtatious relationship with Psylocke, who was supposed to be in her mid twenties at least.
So, you have pedophilia/statutory rape, sexual assault and incest (sort of).
Why did Wertham try to get these things banned again??
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