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I have to say that the X Men franchise has been going on for decades. Maybe not as many as the Superman franchise has, but it still has quite a number to it.
One thing I am certain of is that the franchise seems to be subverting Status Quo Is God in recent years. Magneto and Professor Xavier seem to be fading into the background, with Cyclops and Wolverine taking their places. A lot of villains associated to the X-Men have been killed off and have actually stayed dead so far.
All this gives me the general impression that the franchise is trying to reinvent itself. Do you think that's what's going on here?
Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 29th 2023 at 10:02:23 AM
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...That is actually fricking brilliant. And even if later writers ignore it, there's probably nothing they can do to really outright erase or contradict it later. It explains so much, while also taking care of a number of Continuity Snarls naturally caused by a sliding timescale. (Including most stories dealing in some way with the Soviet Union.)
edited 6th Feb '16 9:57:29 PM by kkhohoho
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To be fair, though, X-Men: Worst X-Man Ever doesn't actually take place on Earth-616 (or Prime Universe or whatever). It takes place on an Earth with, like, the most recognizable X-Men. So Cyclops is still the leader of the X-Men, Professor X is still alive, and so on. And Miranda (and Bailey, the main character) don't actually have 616-counterparts (yet).
edited 6th Feb '16 10:13:01 PM by alliterator
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...Oh.
Well dagnabbit.
edited 7th Feb '16 8:30:56 AM by kkhohoho
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Miranda was kinda awful though. She was just waiting for Bailey to kill himself and take out Riches before she changed anything, like girl his life had been unending misery ever since he figured out he was a mutant. He got stuck at the worst x-men ever table, with Cyclops, X-Man, Maggot, Skin, and Magneto's clone for goodness sake.
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Cyclops was at the Worst X-Man Ever Table? Huh?
Presumably, she still has limits to what she can do. The story still had to reach its conclusion; she couldn't do anything until it did.
edited 7th Feb '16 7:40:48 PM by Tiamatty
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You Give Me Fever
According to Magneto's self demonstrating article, I've been pronouncing his name wrong for as long as I've known X-men.
Do the goofs at Marvel even know the term magneto existed before X-men and that might be the reason everyone pronounces it a certain way?
That's why he wants you to have the money. Not so you can buy 14 Cadillacs but so you can help build up the wastes
yo whos ripping on maggott here
fite me irl
Can I say that I'm sick of all the Ron the Death Eater treatment Cyclops gets in the X-Titles? Like, I know this is all a slow build to whatever X-Men/Inhuman storyline that got down the pipeline but the problem with dragging out this vague terrible thing that makes Cyclops the anti-christ is that the payoff will not live up to all the buildup.
Either what Cyclops did won't be as bad as they made it out to be or he did something so out of character that it won't make sense.
they will probably never reveal it just like they never revealed what fury whispered to Thor to make him unworthy
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Jeez I feel so bad for Scott. Everyone just keeps shitting on him (even his own past self) & it's so horrible I get teary eyed whenever I think about it. 
I'm pretty sure Aaron has said they will reveal what Fury said to Odinson.
And yeah, the "what Scott did" shit is just obnoxious.
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I have a feeling whatever Cyclops did, I'll react "is that it?"
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You know, a couple years back, EIC Axel Alonso said Scott was his favorite Marvel character of all.
I'm still puzzling over whether he was lying or if he's one of those people who likes seeing their faves put through the wringer.
The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."
You know, I am really sick of the X-Men's current "Scott Summer's is the Devil and everything he says or does is bad" schitck.
Like, Scott could go to the school with chocolates and ask to form a truce and they'd act like he was the cause of diabetes.
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Ward Churchill told me the chocolates have M-Pox.
...wow, what an obscure joke.
The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now." It may also be that he's not the one coming up with the things being done to Scott.
Well, give it a few years, he'll be back as the leader of the X-Men again. I'd say probably by 2020.
Because permanent change is bad, as far as the Big Two are concerned.
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I wonder if Hellion will ever make an appearance in Wolverine. Warren might get intimidated if he shows up, heh.
edited 19th Feb '16 6:12:07 PM by slimcoder
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Adult Scott may not be favoured all that much in the Alonzo era, but I think that's the whole point of 05 Scott's journey...that young one isn't saddled (yet) with all the things that soured opinions on adult Scott and he has an uphill battle to try and redeem his name to the world at large.
edited 20th Feb '16 12:44:36 PM by Zarius
So anyone reading Extraordinary?Reactions? I kinda found it barely ok.
I'm not the nicest bloke you've ever met, but I do me best. Yeah, overall, it's not impressing me. I'm not a fan of the Legacy Virus 2.0 storyline. In the most recent issue, Storm was just written poorly. She's no stranger to telepathy. She's been inside mindscapes before. She probably knows more about this sort of thing than Teen Jean does. And yet, she's written as though she's never done something like before and is out of her depth and needs Jean to hold her hand.
Plus, the constant references to "What Cyclops Did" are obnoxious. Either tell us what he did, or shut the fuck about it until you're ready to tell us. Seriously, do one or the other. Don't keep teasing and dragging out the mystery. It's obnoxious. They want us to hate Scott but won't tell us why we should. To hell with that.
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Jeff Lemire isnt that great on team books,but hes solo titles like Bloodshoot are pretty good.Btw,I found his Old Man Logan to also be pretty good.
Reviving Cyclops as an Inhuman hybrid was a nice twist,I have to admit.Also,Im getting really sick of Inhumans everywhere.
edited 22nd Feb '16 1:03:34 AM by 8Kids
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I think it's obvious that even Marvel themselves don't know what Scott did.
I actually wish that they kept the Cyclops Inhuman clone alive and tried to rehabilitate it, because that would have been an interesting storyline.
So far, the most interesting storyline in EXM has been Colossus and Magik.
Though yes, Marvel Afterlife should definitely have some good natured fourth wall-leaning on the nature of death in comics.
The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."