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[[Chris Claremont]] (born 1950) is a comic book writer, most famous for his work as the writer of ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' from 1975-1991, and a few shorter runs later. During his first tenure, ''Uncanny X-Men'' developed from one of the least popular Marvel comics to one of its flagship titles, and spawned many spin-offs (such as ''[[New Mutants]]'', ''[[X-Factor (comics)|X-Factor]]'' and ''[[Excalibur (Comic Book)|Excalibur]]''). You can spot a comic he's written instantly from the dialogue, known by some fans as "Claremontese."
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Mystique/Destiny, Karma, Northstar
** Surely it's more "Every woman is bisexual"?
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* [[Kill'Em All]]: As early as the mid-eighties, Claremont has been in love with plots and scenes that involve most if not all of the cast of his book at the time dying or appearing to die. This always gets undone somehow by the end of the issue. So far, this has included the remaking of reality, with only a few survivors retaining their memories of the event in question; Mystique wiping out an entire team of X-Men before we find out she's in Murderworld; quick resurrections by Rachel Summers or Roma; dream sequences (most recently with a sequence in ''X-Men Forever'' where Kitty has a dream about Wolverine massacring the X-Men); alternate realities; dark futures; or immediate reincarnations. Like most of his go-to tropes, this is really shocking the first time you see it, but he ''just keeps doing it''.
* [[Kudzu Plot]]: The man loved his subplots. But he never followed through on three quarters of them. Often, he never got the ''chance'' to follow through, because he'd be shuffled to a different book partway into his elaborate storyline and the new writer would take it in a different direction. Probably the only time things went more or less as he planned even after he moved to another book was with ''[[Excalibur (Comic Book)|Excalibur]]'', as after a couple of years of not much happening in it, his co-creator Alan Davis returned to the book (this time as both artist ''and'' writer) and implemented their original plan. Since ''Excalibur'' was relatively obscure and isolated from the other X-books at the time, and no other creative teams had any real clue what to do with it, the status quo was basically intact when Davis returned and thus his and Claremont's plans were still viable. Every other time one of Claremont's stories has been interrupted by [[Executive Meddling|staff changes]], that's not been the case.
* [[Luckily, My Powers Will Protect Me]]
* [[The Magnificent Seven Samurai]]: [[Sovereign Seven]]
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