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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
I kinda wish the X-Men dressed more uniformly. With the Avengers, it’s kinda okay since they’re a motley crew of A to B-Level superheroes who work on their own turf and have their own villains, but with the X-Men they’re all for mutants/mutants rights and I wish their outfits were just a bit more consistent with each other. I mean, Karma and Kitty Pryde are still rocking their student gear really.
With the exception of Dazzler the cartoon lineup was comprised of the most popular X-Men of all time, at the time it was made. Dazzler's inclusion in the cartoon was mainly because she was appearing in Uncanny X-Men at the time. By the time the game was made she might already have left, if not she would still have been the least popular character in the game. It's also possible the game devolpers didn't like her powerset.
As for Iceman; he was a long standing Marvel character who was then appearing in X-Factor and had also already regularly appeared in a Spider-Man cartoon. Also for some reason Iceman is a popular character to put in video games, he's probably appeared in more than Cyclops.
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It's incredibly retroactively hilarious how negative the reaction was when he was announced for the X-books. Nearly everyone thought he'd do something horrible. What that was wasn't exactly well-defined, but I guess there was a fear he'd ignore Gillen as he (apparently) ignored the previous writer on Avengers.
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Weeeeeell... he kinda' did. Not just the previous writer, but most of the writers in the entire history of Avengers up to that point. He killed off Scarlet Witch, Vision, Hawkeye and even Ant-Man, (Scott Lang,) and completely ignored the fact that Wanda (SW,) did remember her children, and never went crazy over it before, just to get the story he wanted. His subsequent run on the series then went on to not really rely on past Avenger's stories and — up until Mighty Avengers — not many past Avengers members either, though whether or not that's a bad thing is up to the reader. Kurt Buseik's run was the exact opposite, relying so much on past stories and members that it bordered on Continuity Porn. (The run was still great though.) Whereas with Bendis, you don't feel like you're missing out on much, exactly because he doesn't rely nearly as much on past Avengers comics, but it makes the experience feel kind of hollow and not very respectful of the classic Avengers as a result.
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My recommendation? Wash that down with the first part of Carey's Legacy, which is all about Charles and how he Must Make Amends.
Oh, yeah, that. There was a rumor circulated by Bleedingcool that something about his time-traveling in Age of Ultron is going to kill him somehow, and indeed the AU #9 cover shows his regular!self stabbing his AU!self.
Actually, Marvel could kill off Wolverine while still having multiple ongoings. Just have his ongoings all take place at periods where he was still alive. Hell, a full year of comics could cover a period of a day or two.
But they probably won't kill him off.
X-Men X-Pert, my blog where I talk about X-Men comics.Say, I had an interesting thought recently. Probably crazy, but hear me out:
Is it possible Bendis likes the X-Men better than the Avengers?
I noticed that he was the one who gave the Avengers the most What the Hell, Hero? scenes during and after AvX, and that combined with the fact that he's bringing an A-game to the X-Men that he never brought to the Avengers, well, it has me thinking. It's a very strange thing to say about someone whose name is virtually synonymous with the Avengers books these days, but...
So I just read Uncanny X-Men #143 (Kitty vs. a demon - such an awesome comic). There was a letter from Kurt Busiek, saying that he was dropping the title. He'd felt that the series had been going downhill since #113, and he particularly hated the Dark Phoenix story. He seemed to feel that Claremont was ruining the very characters he'd essentially created in the first place.
I have to wonder if he still feels the same way about it today. Or if he's since said, "OK, yeah, I was wrong, the Dark Phoenix Saga was amazing."
Because seriously, holy shit, there was just nothing else at the time that even compared to it. Claremont and Byrne were just on a totally different level of storytelling from everyone else.
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I remember reading on Wikipedia that Bendis was a HUGE X-geek as a kid, so much so that he adapted one of the X-Men Starjammers stories into prose and won a contest with it. The judges praised the originality of the plot, not realizing it was an adaptation, and Bendis was all like, "You guys really haven't heard of the Starjammers?"
So I basically assume Bendis had a to-do list or something.
Step 1: Keep at least one of those Ultimate books away from Mark Millar. Earn wide acclaim.
Step 2: Piss off Avengers fans, write new Avengers team with popular X-Man.
Step 3: Bring Avengers into conflict with X-Men.
Step 4: Stage a bloody coup to gain control of X-Men. Maybe confide in Brian Wood. Must find incriminating photos of Kieron Gillen to ensure cooperation.
Step 5: Write awesome X-Men stories.
Step 6: Kidnap Stan Lee and drink chalice of his blood in arcane ritual, cackle madly.
Step 7: Gain power of flight, declare self King of Comics, rule world, build golden statue of Spider-Man fighting cocaine statue of Wolverine.
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In the Ultimate Universe, his hair turned blue because they had to give him kangaroo and gorilla organs after he almost died. He got all blue and furry after Weapon X messed with him, but he never looked like a cat, which is sad, because Lion!Beast is the best beast.
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