Pietà Plagiarism: Difference between revisions
Yes, I know that's an in-joke based on the fact that they couldn't call her her lover. No, it doesn't make sense to use it here when it will only confuse people who don't know the joke.
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** The [[media:398px-X-Men_Vol_1_136.jpg|cover]] of ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|Uncanny X-Men]]'' #136 (Cyclops holding Dark Phoenix) is equally well known; ironically, it wasn't until the ''next'' issue that Phoenix died.
*** This cover came about five years earlier than the Crisis cover mentioned above, so it's at least passably likely that the Crisis cover was an homage to THIS one.
*** Two more X-Men examples, both all-female: The cover of ''Uncanny X-Men'' #255 shows Mystique kneeling, holding the body of
*** Subverted slightly in X-Treme X-Men #2, where the villain arranges a dead (at the time) Psylocke and bloody-and-broken Beast in a reversal of the Pietà. Might be calling back to the Dark Phoenix cover, as a good portion of the fandom indulges in Shipping where these two are concerned.
** Likewise, the cover of {{spoiler|''The Death of Captain Marvel''}} is very explicitly based on the Michelangelo work.
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