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The new Singaporean Marvel X-Men mutant and Singapore’s nerdy reputation

Why is her superpower hyper-focus? How did Marvel know this about us?

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jwjitter10 - Jitter, or Singaporean Sofia Yong, is the latest Marvel mutant to feature in Marvel's X-Men comic book canon.


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Jitter, or Singaporean Sofia Yong, is the latest mutant to feature in Marvel’s X-Men comic book canon.

PHOTO: GAILSIMONE/X

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Recently, as most of us tuned into the National Day Parade and kite-foiler

Max Maeder’s incredible race in Marseilles,

Singapore received the most unusual birthday gift ever: An X-Men character of our own.

Jitter, whose real name is

Sofia Yong, is Singaporean and part of a group known as the Outliers

in a reboot of the classic series, The Uncanny X-Men.

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