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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Senator Robert Kelly in the ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' comics and related media. In the two films for example, there is evidence of siding with both parties. In the first film, he implies that he is for gun control (a Democratic position) for the same reasons he is pro-mutant registration. A deleted scene in the second film implies, by a newspaper clip about a speech that he gives and the Democrats had a response to his speech, that he is a Republican. The issue is skirted in the comics as well and it falls on the writer of the story to make a hinted alignment. However, seeing as how his stand on issues not present in our real world is his only defining political characteristic, it mostly boils down to rhetoric a party would use to justify the reason for the registration.
** However in the "Making Of" featurette of ''X-Men'', called "Mutant Watch", he is given the suffix R-KS, which means that he is a Republican from Kansas.
** In the comics, however, he is canonically from New York, which usually elects Democrats. Add to this the fact that he supports gun control, and uses this as a reason why he also supports mutant registration ("There is no difference!" he says, "All I see is weapons in our schools!"). There's also the fact that that Mutant Watch special feature had a, um, ''surprise ending'' that was most definitely
* ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'' identifies the political parties of the future US as merely "Ruling" or "Opposition."
** Though one panel shows the Smiler in the background identified as D-Callahan, and during the presidential election Callahan is given blue as his states' background colour versus The Beast's red. Given that it's an arbitrary amount of time in the future, there's no real reason to even believe the "D" or the colour blue would still stand for "Democrat" - they may have reverted to [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-republicans-were-blue-and-democrats-were-red-104176297/ the pre-2004 convention of "blue is us and red is the other guy."]
* ''[[Ex Machina]]'' has Mitchell Hundred running as Independent candidate for Mayor of New York City. Despite his overall left-libertarian leaning, he is constantly courted by the Republicans. In the final issue, {{spoiler|1=he becomes Vice President for a [[Alternate History|successful]] John McCain}}.
* In one ''[[Captain America (comics)|Captain
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