History Creator / ChrisClaremont

* ''ComicBook/{{Iron Fist|1975}}'' (1975):

** Claremont spent most of his original ''X-Men'' run with Jim Shooter as the editor in chief, and the two of them had frequent clashes over the directions in which Claremont wanted to take the story. Many abandoned subplots had to be dropped suddenly because Shooter vetoed them, such as Mystique and Destiny's relationship. Continuing this fine pattern of ExecutiveMeddling, Claremont clashed so badly with his editor Bob Harras that he left the ''X-Men'' franchise entirely in the early nineties, which is one of the early benchmarks that marks the start of superhero comics' [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]].

** Things that ''also'' appeal to Claremont include MindControl (and characters heroically overcoming it), body horror, characters being somehow "corrupted" into evil or [[HotterAndSexier sensual versions]] of themselves, villains who pursue the [[VillainousCrush romantic attentions]] of a heroine, and flimsy excuses for characters, usually but not necessarily female, ending up half-naked. He's also been unable to shake a rumour, started in the mid-2000s by an angry former fan, that he's actually very much in love with Storm.

** Things that ''also'' appeal to Claremont include mind control (and characters heroically overcoming it), body horror, characters being somehow "corrupted" into evil or [[HotterAndSexier sensual versions]] of themselves, villains who pursue the [[VillainousCrush romantic attentions]] of a heroine, and flimsy excuses for characters, usually but not necessarily female, ending up half-naked. He's also been unable to shake a rumour, started in the mid-2000s by an angry former fan, that he's actually very much in love with Storm.

** Things that ''also'' appeal to Claremont include mind control (and characters heroically overcoming it), body horror, characters being somehow "corrupted" into evil or [[HotterAndSexier sensual versions]] of themselves, villains who pursue the romantic attentions of a heroine, and flimsy excuses for characters, usually but not necessarily female, ending up half-naked. He's also been unable to shake a rumour, started in the mid-2000s by an angry former fan, that he's actually very much in love with Storm.

** Things that ''also'' appeal to Claremont include mind control (and characters heroically overcoming it), body horror, characters being somehow "corrupted" into evil or sensual versions of themselves, villains who pursue the romantic attentions of a heroine, and flimsy excuses for characters, usually but not necessarily female, ending up half-naked. He's also been unable to shake a rumour, started in the mid-2000s by an angry former fan, that he's actually very much in love with Storm.

* TransformationFiction: Another trait that recurs in his stories is that the character are subject to a transformation by the villains, and become something else altogether. However, due to their "indomitable willpower", they revert back to their normal selves.

After departing from Marvel in 1991, owing mostly to repeated clashes with the editorial department at the time, Claremont worked on several other projects. This includes a series of original novels (''First Flight'', ''Grounded!''), contributions to Creator/GeorgeRRMartin's ''Literature/WildCards'' series, and co-writing ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheShadowWar'', a trilogy of novels set in the ''{{Film/Willow}}'' universe, with Creator/GeorgeLucas. He also wrote an original series for DC called ''Comicbook/SovereignSeven'' that lasted 36 issues, as well as the graphic novel ''ComicBook/StarTrekDebtOfHonor''.

Christopher S. Claremont (born November 25, 1950) is a comic book writer, most famous for his work as the writer of [[index]] Comicbook/XMenChrisClaremont [[/index]] from 1975 to 1991 ([[YoungAndInCharge he took over the title at the age of 25]]), and a few shorter runs later. During his first tenure on the series, ''Uncanny X-Men'' developed from one of the least popular Marvel comics to one of its flagship titles, and spawned many spin-offs (such as ''ComicBook/NewMutants'', ''Comicbook/XFactor'' and ''Comicbook/{{Excalibur}}''). His original 16-year run on ''Uncanny X-Men'' is one of the longest tenures by a single writer on any Big Two superhero comic, if not ''the'' longest, and it was him (along with people like Dave Cockrum and Creator/JohnByrne) that turned them into the pop-cultural juggernaut they remain to this day.

** It gets lampshaded in an early X-Men issue where Jean and Scott French-kiss in front of [[CreatorCameo two men who look like Stan Lee and Jack Kirby]], with Stan saying “They never used to do that when we wrote the book!”

** It gets lampshaded in an early X-Men issue where Jean and Scott French-kiss in front of [[CreatorCameo two men who look like Stan Lee and Jack Kirby]], with not-Stan saying “They never used to do that when we wrote the book!”

* CreatorBacklash: Not so much regarding his works, but Claremont has gone on the record that he feels that both Creator/{{Disney}}[=/=]Creator/MarvelComics ''AND'' Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox has caused the ComicBook/XMen to be sidelined since the former doesn't have the film rights to the franchise and the latter does. He also argues that if Disney had bought Marvel when the latter had the film rights to all their characters, the X-Men would be the predominant comic of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse. It should be noted that this was before Marvel announced ''ComicBook/ResurrXion'', a planned triumphant relaunch of the X-Men in reaction to backlash against the sidelining.

* ''ComicBook/XTremeXMen2022'': a Sequel mini-series to his previous ''X-Treme X-Men'' run.

* ''ComicBook/XMenChrisClaremont''

* ''ComicBook/XTremeXMen2022''

* ''ComicBook/{{Mekanix}}: A limited series starring Kitty Pryde, set at a point when she's left the X-Men and is trying to live a normal life in Chicago.

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* KillEmAll: As early as the mid-eighties, Claremont has been in love with plots and scenes that involve most if not all of the cast of his book at the time dying or appearing to die. This always gets undone somehow by the end of the issue. So far, this has included the remaking of reality, with only a few survivors retaining their memories of the event in question; quick resurrections by Rachel Summers or Roma; dream sequences; alternate realities; dark futures; immediate reincarnations; or the fallen characters turning out to be robotic duplicates. Like most of his go-to tropes, this is really shocking the first time you see it, but he ''just keeps doing it''.
** The bloody massacre of the entire Grey family in ''Uncanny X-Men'' is an example of this trope being played ''completely'' straight. If readers particularly cared is another matter. The casualties included some long-running supporting characters (such as Jean Grey's parents, nephew, and niece), but most of the others were one-shot characters introduced in time for the massacre. Jean Grey's sister had already been killed in another storyline, more than a decade before.

* ''ComicBook/Gambit2022''