Parody Because audiences had seen these classic Westerns, they had expectations for any new Westerns, and when these expectations were inverted, the audience laughed. Perhaps the earliest parody film was the 1922 "Mud and Sand", a Stan Laurel film that made fun of Rudolph Valentino's film "Blood and Sand". Laurel specialized in parodies in the mid-1920s, writing and acting in a number of them. Some were send-ups of popular films, such as "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"—parodied in the comic "Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde" (1926). Others were spoofs of Broadway plays, such as "No, No, Nanette" (1925), parodied as "Yes,
Kitty Pryde superhero identity as the Star-Lord. In the "X-Men" film series, Kitty was portrayed by young actresses in cameos: Sumela Kay in "X-Men" (2000) and Katie Stuart in "X2" (2003). Ellen Page portrayed the character in "" (2006) and "" (2014). She is ranked #47 in IGN's Top 100 Comic Book Heroes. Kitty Pryde was introduced into the "X-Men" title as the result of an editorial dictate that the book was supposed to depict a school for mutants. "Uncanny X-Men" artist John Byrne named Kitty Pryde after a classmate he met in art school, Alberta College of Art and Design in