She’s not a superhero. She’s a weirdo.
What does that matter? The X-Men are weirdos.
In the first episode of Netflix’s Stranger Things, there’s a slip of an X-Men reference. It’s tiny, barely there.
“Race back to my place? Winner gets a comic,” Dustin says, as he and Will speed home.
“Any comic?” Will says, before taking off into the darkness. “I’ll take your X-Men 134!”
That mention of a specific X-Men comic is the last thing Will says to his friend, and to the audience, before disappearing. And it’s not just a random comic book in Dustin’s collection.Uncanny X-Men No. 134 is one of the most popular and significant issues in X-Men canon. It kicks off the most important X-Men story in Marvel history, and it contains the first appearance of one of the most destructive forces in the X-Men universe. And viewed through the lens of Stranger Things, it’s both a taste of what’s to come on the show and an homage to the X-Men character known as Jean Grey.
