Favorite Rachel Moments!

[Nick Kal]

Just buy Uncanny X-Men #141-142, 184-209, Uncanny X-Men Annual #9, 14, X-Men-Alpha Flight #1-2, Marvel Team-Up #150 for Rachel's time with the X-Men.

Excalibur Special Edition #1-2, Excalibur #1-34, 42-67, X-Men: True Friends #1-3...

You are great.

[DDM]

You all have definitely gotten me intrigued to read the Dark Rachel stories, where she battles the Hellfire Club. That sounds great!

Rachel makes a cameo in The New Mutants #18, & she guest stars with Shadowcat & Dazzler in The New Mutants #29-31 when they--along with Storm & the New Mutants--fight Amahl Farouk & his Gladiators.

[fishtaco]

My all-time favorite character!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- Excalibur (1st Series) 35, where she argues with Dai Thomas.
- Excalibur (1st Series) 47, where she unfreezes the Technet.
- Excalibur (1st Series) 52 flashback, where she lashes out at Ahab and scars his face.
- Excalibur (1st Series) 66, where she makes fun of Feron.
- Excalibur (1st Series) 66, where she fights Ahab.
- New Mutants (1st Series) 18, where she meets Magik.
- Uncanny X-Men 141, where she sends Kate Pryde back in time.
- Uncanny X-Men 184, where she runs into a club and trips.
- Uncanny X-Men 184, where she flips out because Nick gives her orange juice.
- Uncanny X-Men 184 where she fights Selene.
- Uncanny X-Men 188, where she attacks Nightcrawler when he said that Jean is dead.
- Uncanny X-Men 187, where she calls Cyclops and Maddy in Alaska but doesn't respond when they answer because she's in shock.
- Uncanny X-Men 188, where she tells the X-Men about the Days of Future Past.
- Uncanny X-Men 189, where she remembers her life as a hound.
- Uncanny X-Men 189, where she teams up with Magma to kill Selene.
- Uncanny X-men 189, where she becomes Selene's slave and is offered to Sebastion Shaw.
- Uncanny X-Men 189, where she fights Magma mentally.
- Uncanny X-Men 191, where she teams up with Selene to fight Kulan Gath.
- Uncanny X-Men 192, where she meets Kitty Pryde for the 2nd time.
- Uncanny X-Men 194, where she fights Nimrod.
- Uncanny X-Men 196, where she sees the Beyonder.
- Uncanny X-Men 196, where she nearly murders college students while dressed as a hound. She is stopped by Magneto.
- Uncanny X-Men 196, where she and Rogue kick some punks around.
- Uncanny X-Men 199, where she has flashbacks of DOFP Scott and Jean.
- Uncanny X-Men 199, where she becomes Phoenix.
- Uncanny X-Men 199, where she talks with Cyclops.
- Uncanny X-Men 200, where she disarms 10 French cops at the same time.
- Uncanny X-Men 201, where she forms a mental bond with Nathan Summers.
- Uncanny X-Men 201, where she adds her face to the Shiar Holempathic Crystal.
- Uncanny X-Men 202, where she says, "X-Men! I've Gone to Kill... The Beyonder!!!"
- Uncanny X-men 202, where she attempts to kill the Beyonder.
- Uncanny X-Men 202, where she slaps the Beyonder.
- Uncanny X-men 203, where she tries to kill the Beyonder (again).
- Uncanny X-men 203, where she touches every being in the universe (beautiful two-page spread, that was)
- Uncanny X-Men 206, where she yells at Rogue.
- Uncanny X-Men 207, where she tries to kill Selene.
- Uncanny X-Men 207, where she runs away from Wolverine, who is trying to kill her.
- Uncanny X-Men 207, where she breaks a mirror in the Morlock Tunnels and tries to put it back together.
- Uncanny X-Men 207, where she covers her face with her hand as a symbol of how she uses her telepathy to mask her facial tattoos when Kitty and Peter show up.
- Uncanny X-Men 208, where she attacks Wolverine and nearly gets him hit by a train.
- Uncanny X-Men 209, where she dances with Spiral.
- Uncanny X-Men 444, where she makes fun of Emma Frost.
- Uncanny X-Men 445, where she sings White Room by Eric Clapton.
- Uncanny X-men 446, where she emerges from the sea, like Phoenix.
- Uncanny X-Men 447, where she defeats The Fury.
- Uncanny X-men 448, where she falls down the stairs.
- Uncanny X-Men 449, where she punches Viper in the face.
- Uncanny X-Men 450, where she kisses Nightcrawler.
- Uncanny X-Men 450, where she fights pirates with Nightcrawler.
- Uncanny X-Men 450, where she parties at Wannabees.
- Uncanny X-Men 452, where she fights Emma Frost (again).
- Uncanny X-Men 452, where she becomes the Hellfire Club's Warrior White Princess.
- Uncanny X-Men 453, where she meets Red Lotus.
- Uncanny X-Men 454, where she kicks the crap out of Selene and kisses Red Lotus.
- Uncanny X-Men 461, where she becomes an X-baby.
- Uncanny X-Men 463, where she fights Pete Wisdom.
- Uncanny X-Men 466, where she meets Terry Maguire.
- Uncanny X-Men 466, where she meets her extended family.
- Uncanny X-Men 467, where she gets a nifty lookin' tattoo.
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 9, where she disturbs Cyclops by wearing her new Phoenix costume.
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 14, where she eats a cheeseburger and a coke and fights some burglars, while wearing that sexy hat.
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 14, where she kisses Scrapper and the whole sky lights up in the shape of Phoenix.
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 14, where she gives Jean the cold shoulder.
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 14, where she fights Ahab.
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 14, where she yells at Wolverine for gutting her.
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 14, where she gets into a cat fight with Jubilee.
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 14, where she says, "I am fire! And Life Incarnate! Now and forever, I am Phoenix!!!"
- X-Men Unlimited (2nd Series) 11, where she remembers leading Ahab to Havok, where he killed him.
- X-Treme X-Men 41, where she takes Bishop's brain out of his head.
- X-Treme X-Men 44, where she is freed from Bogan.
- X-Treme X-Men 45, where she manifests a Phoenix tattoo and the Crimson Dawn shadows together.
- Excalibur Special Edition #1, where she founds Excalibur.
- Excalibur #5, where she says, "Death!!!!!"
- Excalibur #3, where she takes down Juggernaut.
- Excalibur #6, where she turns Kitty's pajamas into baby clothing.
- Excalibur #22, where she fights the Shadow King.
- Excalibur #24, where she meets Saturnyne.
- Excalibur #24, where she dresses up as Kitty.
- Excalibur #17, where she kills the spy.
- Excalibur #17, where she kicks that slaver in the balls.
- Excalibur #16, where she escapes the kitchen they are being cooked in with Kitty.
- Excalibur #24, where she gets annoyed at Lockheed for tugging at her wig.

I LOVE RACHEL ANNE SUMMERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[newscott]

Rachel loses her patience and destroys an ogre's castle.

[DDM]

Rachel loses her patience and destroys an ogre's castle.

That happens in Excalibur #13. Rachel is almost transformed into a demon too.

[riotgear]

This intrigues me. And I am getting the 40 years of X-Men dvd rom on Thursday!! I had forgotten. So DDM, I shall have access to those issues in color. I am really excited now!!

Thanks everyone who has posted so far! I am enjoying reading these recollections. :) And I am writing down every single issue number you guys post, so that I can read them all.

Here's a good list. It's missing a couple, like New Mutants #18, X-Men/Alpha Flight, and Marvel Team-Up; but it's pretty comprehensive. It's listed roughly in the order of when it happened in her life, so you can see that issues that had flashbacks that happened before another event, although published later, are listed first. It's not exact, but here's a start:

Summers, Rachel Anne ("PHOENIX III"/"Mother Askani"/"MARVEL GIRL III"
Uncanny X-Men #141
Uncanny X-Men #142
Uncanny X-Men #188 (Flashback)
Uncanny X-Men #199
X-Men Annual #9
Uncanny X-Men #200
Uncanny X-Men #201
Alpha Flight (vol.1) #22
X-Men: Heroes for Hope #1
Secret Wars II #7
Uncanny X-Men #202
Secret Wars II #8
Uncanny X-Men #203
Secret Wars II #9
Uncanny X-Men #206-209
Excalibur (vol.1) #64 (Flashback)
Excalibur: The Sword Is Drawn
Excalibur (vol.1) #1-8
Excalibur (vol.1) #-1
Marvel Comics Presents #31
Marvel Comics Presents #32
Marvel Comics Presents #36
Marvel Comics Presents #37
Marvel Comics Presents #38
Excalibur (vol.1) #9-11
Excalibur: Mojo Mayhem
Excalibur (vol.1) #12-19
Excalibur (vol.1) #20
Excalibur (vol.1) #21-25
Excalibur (vol.1) #26
Quasar #11
Excalibur (vol.1) #27
Fantastic Four Annual #23
X-Factor Annual #5
Uncanny X-Men Annual #14
Excalibur (vol.1) #29-34
X-Men: True Friends #1-3
X-Men: Spotlight on the Starjammers #2
Mighty Thor (vol.1) #427-429
Marvel Comics Presents #73
Quasar #23
Sensational She-Hulk #26 (Flashback)
Sensational She-Hulk #26
Excalibur (vol.1) #35-41
Excalibur: Possession
Excalibur: Air Apparent
Excalibur (vol.1) #42-52
Excalibur (vol.1) #75
X-Men: Phoenix #1-4
Cable #83
Cable #84
Cable #85
Cable #86
Cable #92-95
Cable #7-8 (Flashback)
Adventures of Cyclops & Phoenix #1-4
Cable #23
Uncanny X-Men #-1
Cable #65
Cable #71
X-Treme X-Men #40-45, 46
X-Men (vol.2) #157
X-Men Unlimited (vol.2) #11
Uncanny X-Men #444-447
X-Men Unlimited (vol.2) #6
X-Men (vol.2) #165
MK Spider-Man #6
X-Men Unlimited (vol.2) #8
X-Men (vol.2) #174
Uncanny X-Men #462-465

[Daithi]

Instead of listing almost every Rachel appearance, if you wanted to find the classic moments I'd suggest

Days of Future Past TPB
Essential X-Men 5
UXM #199-209
Classic Excalibur TPB - Collects Excalibur : The Sword is Drawn and the first 5 issues of Excalibur.

That would give you DoFP Rachel, Normal Rachel, Hound Rachel, Phoenix Rachel and Excalibur Rachel. Plus they are all good X-Men stories to boot.

[slively]

My all-time favorite character!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- Cable and Deadpool 9, where she covers her eyes when Deadpool shows her his package.
- Excalibur (1st Series) 35, where she argues with Dai Thomas.
- Excalibur (1st Series) 47, where she unfreezes the Technet.
- Excalibur (1st Series) 52 flashback, where she lashes out at Ahab and scars his face.
- Excalibur (1st Series) 64, where she dons the Dark Phoenix costume.
- Excalibur (1st Series) 66, where she teases Feron.
- Excalibur (1st Series) 66, where she fights Ahab.
- New Mutants (1st Series) 18, where she meets Magik.
- Uncanny X-Men 141, where she sends Kate Pryde back in time.
- Uncanny X-Men 184, where she runs into a club and trips.
- Uncanny X-Men 184, where she flips out because Nick gives her orange juice.
- Uncanny X-Men 184, where she takes a bath for the first time in (probably) a decade.
- Uncanny X-Men 184 where she fights Selene.
- Uncanny X-Men 188, where she attacks Nightcrawler when he said that Jean is dead.
- Uncanny X-Men 187, where she calls Cyclops and Maddy in Alaska but doesn't respond when they answer.
- Uncanny X-Men 188, where she tells the X-Men about the Days of Future Past.
- Uncanny X-Men 189, where she remembers her life as a hound.
- Uncanny X-Men 189, where she teams up with Magma to kill Selene.
- Uncanny X-men 189, where she becomes Selene's slave and is offered to Sebastion Shaw.
- Uncanny X-Men 189, where she fights Magma mentally.
- Uncanny X-Men 191, where she teams up with Selene.
- Uncanny X-Men 192, where she meets Kitty Pryde for the 2nd time.
- Uncanny X-Men 194, where she fights Nimrod.
- Uncanny X-Men 196, where she sees the Beyonder.
- Uncanny X-Men 196, where she nearly murders college students while dressed as a hound. She is stopped by Magneto.
- Uncanny X-Men 196, where she and Rogue kick some punks around.
- Uncanny X-Men 199, where she has flashbacks of DOFP Scott and Jean.
- Uncanny X-Men 199, where she becomes Phoenix.
- Uncanny X-Men 199, where she talks with Cyclops.
- Uncanny X-Men 200, where she hovers in midair.
- Uncanny X-Men 200, where she disarms 10 cops at the same time.
- Uncanny X-Men 201, where she forms a mental bond with Baby Cable.
- Uncanny X-Men 201, where she adds her face to the Shiar Holempathic Crystal.
- Uncanny X-Men 201, where she gets tickled by Nightcrawler.
- Uncanny X-Men 202, where she says, "X-Men! I've Gone to Kill... The Beyonder!!!"
- Uncanny X-men 202, where she attempts to kill the Beyonder.
- Uncanny X-Men 202, where she bitchslaps the Beyonder.
- Uncanny X-men 203, where she tries to kill the Beyonder (again).
- Uncanny X-men 203, where she touches every being in the universe (beautiful two-page spread, that was)
- Uncanny X-Men 206, where she yells at Rogue.
- Uncanny X-Men 207, where she tries to kill Selene.
- Uncanny X-Men 207, where she runs away from Wolverine, who is trying to kill her.
- Uncanny X-Men 207, where she breaks a mirror in the Morlock Tunnels and tries to put it back together.
- Uncanny X-Men 207, where she covers here face with her hand as a symbol of how she uses her telepathy to mask her facial tattoos.
- Uncanny X-men 208, where she wanders around New York, bleeding.
- Uncanny X-Men 208, where she attacks Wolverine and nearly gets him hit by a train.
- Uncanny X-Men 209, where she dances with Spiral.
- Uncanny X-Men 444, where she teases Emma Frost.
- Uncanny X-Men 445, where she sings White Room by Eric Clapton.
- Uncanny X-men 446, where she emerges from the sea, like Phoenix.
- Uncanny X-Men 447, where she defeats The Fury.
- Uncanny X-men 448, where she falls down the stairs.
- Uncanny X-Men 449, where she punches Viper in the face.
- Uncanny X-Men 450, where she kisses Nightcrawler.
- Uncanny X-Men 450, where she fights pirates with Nightcrawler.
- Uncanny X-Men 450, where she parties at Wannabees.
- Uncanny X-Men 452, where she fights Emma Frost (again).
- Uncanny X-Men 452, where she becomes the Hellfire Club's Warrior White Princess.
- Uncanny X-Men 453, where she meets Red Lotus.
- Uncanny X-Men 454, where she kicks the crap out of Selene and kisses Red Lotus.
- Uncanny X-Men 461, where she becomes an X-baby.
- Uncanny X-Men 463, where she fights Pete Wisdom.
- Uncanny X-Men 466, where she makes a slam dunk.
- Uncanny X-Men 466, where she meets Terry Maguire.
- Uncanny X-Men 466, where she meets her extended family.
- Uncanny X-Men 467, where she gets a nifty lookin' tattoo.
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 9, where she disturbs Cyclops by wearing her new Phoenix costume.
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 14, where she eats a cheeseburger and a coke and fights some burglars, while wearing that sexy hat.
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 14, where she kisses Scrapper and the whole sky lights up in the shape of Phoenix.
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 14, where she gives Jean the cold shoulder.
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 14, where she fights Ahab.
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 14, where she yells at Wolverine for gutting her.
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 14, where she gets into a cat fight with Jubilee.
- Uncanny X-Men Annual 14, where she says, "I am fire! And Life Incarnate! Now and forever, I am Phoenix!!!"
- X-Factor (1st Series) 68, where she brings Cable into the future (and looks cool, too).
- X-Men (2nd Series) 165, where she meets her grandparents, again.
- X-Men Unlimited (2nd Series) 11, where she scares everybody out of a restaurant because she's screaming at Havok.
- X-Men Unlimited (2nd Series) 11, where she remembers leading Ahab to Havok, where he killed him.
- X-Treme X-Men 40, where she sticks her hand through Bishop's head and knocks him out.
- X-Treme X-Men 41, where she takes Bishop's brain out of his head.
- X-Treme X-Men 44, where she is freed from Bogan.
- X-Treme X-Men 45, where she manifests a Phoenix tattoo and the Crimson Dawn shadows together.

I LOVE RACHEL ANNE SUMMERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You are one dedicated Rachel fan!!! I am in awe. *makes copious notes*

[slively]

Instead of listing almost every Rachel appearance, if you wanted to find the classic moments I'd suggest

Days of Future Past TPB
Essential X-Men 5
UXM #199-209
Classic Excalibur TPB - Collects Excalibur : The Sword is Drawn and the first 5 issues of Excalibur.

That would give you DoFP Rachel, Normal Rachel, Hound Rachel, Phoenix Rachel and Excalibur Rachel. Plus they are all good X-Men stories to boot.

I have read DOFP. And I have the UXM issues. I need to get Classic Excalibur definitely. In fact, I am going to order that right now! I do have a few of the Essential volumes, but not 5.

This is excellent! Thanks guys. :)

[Beni]

Maybe not specific moment or moments, but I liked the stories of End Of Greys and Wandrin Star. If there is a story arc that would cause sympathy or attachment to the character, it would be those two story arcs because of the impact to Rachel's life as well as to those close to her.

[worstblogever]

I liked the X-Men Unlimited story where Havok and her get a meal at a diner... it's honestly the first time I actually found the character sympathetic, at all. She's done pretty well for herself, since.

[Tilt]

Bitch slapping the Beyonder was pretty cool.

[worstblogever]

Bitch slapping the Beyonder was pretty cool.

I think it still rates below Nightcrawler suckerpunching Mephisto, but that is impressive, and needs to happen more often.

[Beni]

Bitch slapping the Beyonder was pretty cool.

I realized that I keep getting confused between the Beyonder and the Watcher for some reason..

But, what was the reason for Rachel slapping the Beyonder here?

[Tilt]

I think it still rates below Nightcrawler suckerpunching Mephisto, but that is impressive, and needs to happen more often.

If Kurt got to punch Mephisto then I hope Peter Parker gets to anally rape him with a jackhammer or ....something!!! Something really horrible.

I realized that I keep getting confused between the Beyonder and the Watcher for some reason..

But, what was the reason for Rachel slapping the Beyonder here?

He put all the X-Men in danger of getting killed by Sentinels created from Ray's future and then gave her a huge power up to deal with it. It's all part of his manipulation that plays out in the next issue. And then I think they clash again in Secret Wars 2 but after all these years I've still never read that. lol

someday...