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From: lmaher@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Wed, 31-Oct-84 21:12:00 EST
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>Note 172      Re: OC (operant conditioning and nin
>shark!hutch                                  1:12 pm  Oct  4, 1984
>
>I don't think that what is happening to Kitty in K&W has a lot to do
>with operant conditioning.  What actually is happening there is that
>the author read too many Eric Von Lustbader books.
>I suspect that Kitty is being prepared in a similar fashion, except that
>...
>that it is there.  The training-under-brainwashing method won't do this
>reliably because it is unstable in sufficiently intelligent people.
>Also, she has had Xavier's training in mind control.  She should be able
>to throw off the conditioning.

And I'll bet she does, probably in time to defeat the bad guy.
The obvious guess is that "killing" Wolverine will snap her out,
but with three issues to go that's too premature.

>SPOILER WARNING:
>
>Oh, by the way, in "Ninja" when the hero inevitably manages to safely
>disarm his "possessed" lover, she snaps the conditioning, but retains
>the full set of skills she was given by the bad guy.  This is interesting
>because she realizes that she hasn't got the discipline nor the maturity
>to safely hold those skills.
>
>It will be interesting to see what they do with Kitty in this regard.

I bet she does the same, and loses the skills.  Which would be
a real shame, because I'd *like* to see Kitty remain deadly
(even if she's not really a midget, just short :-) ).
Have others noticed that the most bloodthirsty of the X-Men/Newts
are the young women: Rachel (so she's really 34 - sue me),
Amara, Danielle, Illyana, and possibly now Kitty are willing to
kill if the stakes are high enough, just like Wolverine.
Seems to me Logan could take these 5 and do some *serious* damage
to Operation Wideawake, Shaw Industries, and Henry Peter Gyrich.
Hey, there could even be a mini-series in this!  We could call
it, let's see...  Wolverine and the Weasel Pack! :-)


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