fajrdrako | Marvel Comics I Want to Come Back, and Soon...

This came out of my conversation with

fairestcat today. We were talking about Marvel characters we haven't seen in a while and want to see again.

My Top Ten Marvel Comics Characters I Want to Return

Cable. Looks as if I'm getting my wish with the coming Avengers X-Sanction. I hope Cable is well written! Some writers just seem to not know what to do with him... and turn him into a grandfatherly boy scout. I want timeslides, I want his training youths as soldiers, and I want him to carry a very big gun.
Pete Wisdom. Aah, Pete Wisdom. It seems so far that no one really knows what to do with him, or how to write him, except Warren Ellis. So I hope Warren Ellis finds a way to slip him into Secret Avengers, or feels inspired to pick up the character again. Or, failing that, that some other really good writer decides to take him on: Matt Fraction or Peter David could do a great job. At his best, Pete Wisdom should be a cross between Constantine and James Bond. Bonus points if he's busy helping Kitty Pride experiment with sex.
Forge. I want him back in his original role as a variation on the Tony Stark theme with an aboriginal streak. I want him edgy but sane, sexy, competent, individualistic. A cowboy inventor. A sharp, incisive brain. Perhaps someone still recovering from the loss of Storm. Not a madman, not a villain.
Nightcrawler. The soul of the X-Men. Sweet, brave, clever, with a tragic past. I've written slash about Nightcrawler. It just isn't the same without him!
Ivan Petrovitch. Black Widow's old friend, who was with her through thick and thin, a faithful companion - until he turned out recently to be a perverted madman whom she had to kill. I was dreadfully disapointed. I loved the old Ivan. So I want the dead killer to turn out to have been a clone or skrull impostor, and I want the real Ivan to come back, faithful and noble, and be an agent of SHIELD.
Shinobi Shaw. Sometimes one just latches onto a certain villain....
Exodus, Bennett de Paris. I mean, really, how many mutants were Crusaders in the twelfth century? Again, I like him best when he isn't crazy. He has a lot of potential. Another favourite villain - if done right.
Clive Reston. Another British secret agent, this one associated with the team that recruited Shang Chi in the fight against Fu Manchu. His father was James Bond; his granduncle was Sherlock Holmes. He was damned sexy.
Nomad, Jack Monroe, the one written by Fabian Nicieza, who did an American version of Lone Wolf and Cub with the infant Bucky in a backpack, and a character who reminded me of Dick Grayson.
Bethany Cabe, once Tony Stark's bodyquard and lover.