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[bryant]

What I'm thinking is this: in the DC Universe, shapeshifting is a trait associated with good guys. Often tricksters, but good guys. Plastic Man, Elongated Man, Metamorpho, Beast Boy, so forth and so on. Meanwhile, over in the Marvel Universe, shapeshifting is sinister and dangerous. Mystique, Loki, Warlock (good guy but horrendously dangerous), and of course the Skrull.

Reed Richards kind of undermines this but I think there may be a general trend here.

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[kirbyk.livejournal.com]

And of course there's a few Skrulls Gone Good - Xavin in Runaways, and I forget her name but She-Hulk's Partner in the Peter David She-Hulk run, but that's not truly a counter-example.

Morph the mutant is - he was mostly in Exiles. There's also some limited shapeshifters like Rahne, and I dunno if you'd count things like The Hulk.

The Wonder Twins are another DC good guy example, as cheesy as they are.

And of course there's the Dr. Strange/Scarlet Witch types that can do whatever the writers want them to do, but that's another issue. And similar bad guys like Legion.

I think I agree with your trend.