I’m not much of a 🐼comic fan – I collected a couple of old issues back in the day, but I’m not a voracious reader or follower of the universe by any means. I’m familiar with the classic X-Men, in particular, because my dad had a character encyclopedia that I read cover to cover multiple times as a kid. Back then, I always felt like I stuck out: I was biracial, tended to social awkwardness, and as I realised when I got a little older, queer and neurodivergent.
X-Men’s stories always resonated with me for that reason. The stories and charaꦛcters I read about depicted inequality, injustice, and discrimination, things that I felt levelled against me even from a young age because of the ways I didn’t, and couldn’t, fit in. The series has largely been about misfits, and that’s why so many people idenꦚtify with it.
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Obviously, I have a soft spot for the X-Men, but I’ve never really seen myself in its characters or stories in any tangible way. The series is very diverse, especially so in more contemporary runs, representing people of different races, religions, sexualities, genders, and even subcultures. Lots of people see characters that look like them, have similar backgrounds and upbringings, orꦗ remind them of people they know. Not me, though – till now.
I live in Singapore, which has a very rich, unique, a🍸nd weirdly niche culture that’s rarely represented outside of local media. I get it, and I’m not resentful that most English-speaking media forgets we exist (nobody talk about Crazy Rich Asians to me, please). But fascinatingly, on Singapore’s National Day, every local 💞news channel from tabloids to national newspapers blew up with the news that Marvel will have four new mutants featuring in the relaunch of the classic The Uncanny X-Men, and one of them, inexplicably, is a Singaporean teen named Sofia Yong.
I take a little issue with the spelling of her 💮first name – Sofia isn’t a common spelling in🐽 Southeast Asia. Sophia is far more common. But I digress.
Her name is Sofia Yong, but you can call her Jitter. Hilariously, her superpower is hyper-focus. She can develop talents and skills at will, but with the downside of an “immediate crash if she exerts her ability for too long”, this being more than a minute. She has a stopwatch on her “at all times&rdq𒅌uo; so she never has to slow down. She has a bit of a stutter, and struggles to concentrate and prioritise things. You read that right, her superpow⛄er is ADHD.
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As a Singaporean with ADHD, I was obviously thrilled to see someone that I could finally identify with on a base level, but I was a little confu♌sed as to why the writers would pick Singapore, of all countries, to represent. It’s cool, but also, huh? , she only learned about other countries and ethnicities through books when she was a kid raised on a dair𝐆y farm. She wanted to write characters from all over the world. In a tweet, she says she chose these countries because, “They are places I went where I was smitten in some way, and wanted to see it on the page, wanted to convey a teensy bit about what I loved there.”
Yet, despite Jitter being the first superhero I’ve ever seen that actually has the same background as me, I have some reservations about how well she’ll be pulled off. Singaporeans are incredibly identifiable because our spe﷽ech pattern and pidgin English (Singlish) is so specific. I could be in any city and be able to pick a fellow countryman out of the crowd from voice alone. While Simone said that Jitter’s use of Singlish is fairly minimal, also inclu꧒ded a weird use of the Singaporean word ‘lah’.
So far, we’ve only seen Jitter in a single panel of the comic. It’s hard to say how accurate this portrayal of a Singaporean teenager will be from that alone, obviously. But there are so many ways this could go 𓃲wrong – she could speak strangely, fall back on old stereotypes about Singaporeans, or feel completely unfamiliar because of an overly Westernised portrayal. I’m holding out hope for the second i♔ssue to assuage my fears a little, if I can focus longer than a minute on reading it.
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