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    Character » Karma appears in 1607 issues.

    Karma is a mutant with the ability to mentally possess other beings. A founding member of the New Mutants, she is one of the few confirmed and openly lesbian characters. She lost a leg and now has a cybernetic one in its place.

    Leg issues (Second Coming Spoiler)

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    #1  Edited By jordama

    Well, if you haven't heard by now, Karma lost a leg.  
     
    My thought is, should she get some Forge like prostetic, or do you think it can be reattached? The other idea was that she be in a wheel chair, like her mentor. The X-Men have all those unused wheel chair ramps I guess :)
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    Go with a new leg. Off base but i never understood exactly why Xavier used the chair.
    It was shown in Fatal Attractions that he had a Shiar tech suit that allowed him full mobility.

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    #3  Edited By Caligula
    @CATMANEXE said:
    " Go with a new leg. Off base but i never understood exactly why Xavier used the chair. It was shown in Fatal Attractions that he had a Shiar tech suit that allowed him full mobility. "
    wasn't he a telekinetic too so shouldn't he have had full mobility regardless of useful legs or not? or was it only telepathy?
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    #4  Edited By jlat89
    @CATMANEXE: 
    It really depends on who's writing him, sometimes he walks, sometimes he doesn't.
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    #5  Edited By LT1085
    @CATMANEXE said:

    " Go with a new leg. Off base but i never understood exactly why Xavier used the chair. It was shown in Fatal Attractions that he had a Shiar tech suit that allowed him full mobility. "

    Laziness. 
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    #6  Edited By Erik

    What has happened to Elixir? Why not simply attach the leg and heal? 
     
    @CATMANEXE:  
    Maybe because it taxed his powers so much. 

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    @jlat89: um, no it doesnt. he had that suit for one issue, and since Legacy he retained the use of his legs.
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    @LT1085:@erik: 
    i think he did it just to keep that handicapped parking spot...for the good of mutantkind of course.
     

    @Caligula:

    ah. misread what you said. i thought you asked if the suit granted him tk. he doesnt have it naturally.
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    #9  Edited By Erik
    @CATMANEXE said:
    " @LT1085:@erik: 
    i think he did it just to keep that handicapped parking spot. "
    Excellent point!  
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    maybe X-23 could cut off one of her legs, and they could attach it to her, then X-23 grows a new one.
    unrealistic but it would be a riot to see it. then the leg would act like in the horror movie The Hand
    whereas it would have a mind of its own, and a toeclaw of course. really with X-Club and then some
    present stuff like this shouldn't actual even be an issue.

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    #11  Edited By pixelized

    Stupid. kill her off. Karma receives more abuse than she does development. End it.
     
    Kay thanks.

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    #12  Edited By xerox_kitty

    Xavier isn't a telekinetic.  He is telepathic only.  However, given the way that other telepatic-only mutants (Psylocke & Emma Frost) have been treated, then I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't suddenly develop a secondary mutation to make up for the writer's lack of imagination :p 
     
    @pixelized
    said:

    " Stupid. kill her off. Karma receives more abuse than she does development. End it.  Kay thanks. "

    She's been receiving more attention lately in an attempt to flesh out her character more.  To be honest, I'm much happier with what she's been doing in New Mutants, then her sadistic & overly-sexual appearances in Uncanny over the last few years.
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    #13  Edited By danhimself
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    is there an official amputee list on cv?
    if not there should be because they rule!

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    #15  Edited By xerox_kitty
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    @xerox-kitty: 
    some are deceased or in limbo (same difference in comics, snarf!), but U.S.Agent, 
    Roy Harper, Steel Spider, Bishop, Forge (twice over), Constrictor, Flash Thompson,
    Deathlok (all of them), Bucky Barnes, Crimson Commando, Donald Pierce, Martha 
    Johansson (whole body of course, feel for her), most Cyberforce members, Beta
    Ray Bill, many of the Reavers, Frank Castle, Ch'od, Aquaman, Klaw, Kurt Conners,
    Ash, The Russian and Ma Gnucci off the top of my head and not including alternate
    universe, and i'm sure theres alot more. lol. i guess that would be common in the risking 
    your life game though. most cyborgs would just be automatic.
     
    edit: forgot Luke Skywalker, wheres my head today?
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    #17  Edited By pixelized
    @xerox-kitty said:

    @pixelized said:

    " Stupid. kill her off. Karma receives more abuse than she does development. End it.  Kay thanks. "

    She's been receiving more attention lately in an attempt to flesh out her character more.  To be honest, I'm much happier with what she's been doing in New Mutants, then her sadistic & overly-sexual appearances in Uncanny over the last few years. "
    For the 30+ years Xi'an has been around, she's stil so criminally underdeveloped that it just seems wrong for her life to be nothing more than a series of misgivings.
     
    Leong and Nga will be dead next.
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    #18  Edited By danhimself
    @xerox-kitty:  that wouldn't surprise me if it was...remember that episode of the 90's X-men when Warlock turned into a leg for Forge?
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    #19  Edited By xerox_kitty
    @danhimself said:
    " @xerox-kitty:  that wouldn't surprise me if it was...remember that episode of the 90's X-men when Warlock turned into a leg for Forge? "
    lol!  That was so bad, but enjoyable! 
     
    @pixelized said:
    "For the 30+ years Xi'an has been around, she's stil so criminally underdeveloped that it just seems wrong for her life to be nothing more than a series of misgivings.
     
    Leong and Nga will be dead next. "
    Yep.  That's why I'm happy for Zeb Wells to try & flesh her out (no pun intended) a bit more.  Instead of the sick stereotyping (the lesbian queen of the female harem). 
     
    They may as well be for all the appearances & growing they've made over the last 30 years ;p
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    #20  Edited By MrMiracle77

    Shame Forge isn't around anymore.  The X-Men would be sportin' all manner of cybernetic limbs if he were.

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    #21  Edited By jordama
    @MrMiracle77:
    Yeah, he went bonkers and I'm pretty sure he's dead, but its unconfirmed
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    #22  Edited By Mr. Mercury

    Karma has went through a lot yet they haven't developed her character or powers to match that at all.

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    #23  Edited By nicknicholby

    Karma is one of my favorrite characters.  I grew kup reading the New Mutants and was always pissed that she wouuldd return for a hot minute and then disappear to take care of those needy little siblings of hers. 
    I hope that this allows her character to be fleshed out. 
    She interested me because of her resilance.  She survived Vietnam and her sadistic brother and uncle.  She was strong enough power-wise to control spiderman and all of the Fantastic Four.  She survived the Shadow King and being turned into a huge fat slob.

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    #24  Edited By nicknicholby

    sorry my keyboard makes mee tyype eextra letters all the time
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    #25  Edited By jordama
    @nicknicholby:
    thats all good points, she really should be a used a lot more. I forget all the things she went through, just because they dont respect her.
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    #26  Edited By LT1085
    @CATMANEXE: Xavier may have used the chair for so long as kind of a tactic with the "students". When he is on his mission to restore his mind and they go through all the ways he has 'secretly' manipulated so many people like a hypocrite over the years. It could have been the whole wolf in sheeps clothing thing. . Flaunt a weakness to mask a strength. Hide in plain sight.
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    #27  Edited By davidkenneth

    Why are so many characters losing body parts, this is really starting to anger me
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    #28  Edited By Illyana Rasputin
    @CATMANEXE said:
    "is there an official amputee list on cv? if not there should be because they rule! "
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    #29  Edited By Degalon

    @MrMiracle77:

    Yeah, now that he's actually NEEDED for once, he's long gone, lol.

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    #30  Edited By fodigg

    @MrMiracle77 said:

    Shame Forge isn't around anymore. The X-Men would be sportin' all manner of cybernetic limbs if he were.

    Well, Jeffries and Forge are pretty equivalent.

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    @davidkenneth said:

    Why are so many characters losing body parts, this is really starting to anger me

    Me, too. I think some writers think losing body parts = angst, and if the X-Men do anything, it's indulge in angst.

    That said, I also don't get why Elixir couldn't re-attach or grow her a new leg. At the very least she should have a cloned leg made to replace the old one or a more human looking cybernetic leg. It's funny how they have tech that allows them to go into space, create holograms and build energy weapons of every conceivable size but their medical technology doesn't seem any more advanced than advil.

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