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The new Singaporean Marvel X-Men mutant and Singapore’s nerdy reputation
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Jitter, or Singaporean Sofia Yong, is the latest mutant to feature in Marvel’s X-Men comic book canon.
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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.
