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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
The Head of the Hydra
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Having reading a lot of weekly manga, I can concur weekly is indeed bullshit.
It’s something no one should go through.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Surrounded by weirdoes
Wonder how the X-Men take all these extinction events at this point.
"Oh, look, another asshole is trying to commit genocide. If I survive, remind me of getting a tux for my space travelling cousin's wedding"
Wake me up at your own risk.
The Mad Doctor
Do you guys ever wonder if the X-Men have some kind of drinking game for these events? Because I certainly want to be in on it. It's always one of the following:
- Mutant extinction
- Mysterious new "incurable" disease
- Time travel/alt. universe hopping (Bad Future)
- Genetic experimentation
- Mutant oppression
- Weird other dimension stuff
Just for once, I'd like to see a decent future other than Old Woman Laura.
Edited by Dr.XXX on Aug 10th 2018 at 9:56:27 AM
The X-Men strangely encounter aliens a lot too.
Yeah, the story doesn't focus on the anti-mutant prejudice, since the aliens wouldn't care about that.
Professor X and Magneto have been compared to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. Given their Refugee from Time status, have they ever met or known each other? Would be neat if they acknowledged the similiarities
Does Apocalypse stop aging at some point, or does he just age slowly and has used mad science and his powers to keep the reaper away?
The Mad Doctor
Immortality Begins at Twenty I suppose for Apocalypse
Look, for all the crap we give Grant Morrison, he did something different with the X-Men. Sure, the sentient bacteria colony was stupid and all and it led into a cliche Bad Future, but at least some effort was there.
Edit: Even CBR ran an article about Mutant futures and it was recent
Edited by Dr.XXX on Aug 11th 2018 at 4:39:31 AM
I love how even after getting the X-Men back Marvel is still doing events about Mutants getting killed. The people who wanted the Inhumans dead seemed to not realise that Marvel loves to kill as many Mutants as they please.
Right now, we have barely got past the Mothervine experiment, Proteus on the loose (wich, according to Bishop, led to a potential bad future) and that woman that kidnapped Collosus during his bachelor night, there's still the new sentinels of Cassandra Nova, and both extermination and Disassembled are coming.
Ultimate Secret Wars
Surrounded by weirdoes
Given that at this point, Laura having her bowl of cereal knocked over would cause a bad future, the Proteus thing doesn't seem like much.
Wake me up at your own risk.
On a lighter note, looks like Banshee's back! Even by "shocking" comic book death standards, that one was just mean.
Banshee has been out of the ring for a decade. Also as people have said they really need to cut back on the mutants in peril stories and fight the staus quo.
The Mad Doctor
Can we get a cast of twelve to sixteen year olds and make Xavier's School for Mutant Outreach actually feel like a school? Or maybe we should run a story where there are regional branches connected by an underground network. It would be great seeing the X-Men not limit themselves to the East or West coast and expand to Japan, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Western Europe, and South America. Come on, the X-Men have enough rich people to make this a reality.
The X-Men won't fight the status quo simply because Disney/Marvel needs the status quo to stay rich. At the very least, they need to not make mutants so hated by everyone, I'm sure some humans would be ecstatic if their neighborhood had their own Captain America.
It'd be fantastic seeing mutant school aside from Xavier's. And they don't even have to have any actual connection to Xavier or the X-Men. In fact, maybe some of the schools could outright reject any association with the X-Men, arguing the X-Men's history of violence has hurt the mutant cause. You could even have another mutant school located in New York City that sets itself up as a contrast to Xavier's, providing mutant kids and education that doesn't involve learning how to fight giant robots, aliens, or other mutants.
And yeah, have mutant schools all over. New York, LA, New Orleans, Phoenix, Philadelphia - just spread out around the country. And other countries would have similar schools. And they'd be teaching the millions of mutants around the world. Because there should be millions of mutants. Not all of them with eye-lasers, either. A mutant who can detach and re-attach his body parts. He'd be taught how to keep himself together. A weird and absolutely useless power that he'd still need some help controlling, thus justifying his presence in a mutant school, but who's clearly not cut out for Future X-Man training from Xavier's.
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The Head of the Hydra
Eh reattaching body parts isn’t that useless of an ability.
With enough training you can easily come up with a martial art that takes full advantage of the potential such an ability would allow.
Ms. Fortune from Skullgirls has the power to detach her body parts for one.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Of course it'd be useful. Just look at Arm Fall Off Boy.
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We all need that level of confidence. The guy tears his own arm off, slams it on the table, and demands a job. He's an inspiration.
Now that you mention an LOSH comic, I got me to thinking if X-Men have ever crossovered with that team? I mean sure they kind of did in spirit with the Shiar Empire who are basically Legion expie but, like the Avengers (who eventually crossovered with the actual Justice League after yeara of interacting with the Squadron Supreme), they should at somepoint have some kind of adventure with the team. After all both groups have an insanely huge roster, complex story telling that was innovative at the time, and have fucked with timelines very often (only difference beinf LOSH manage to maintain a stable timeline that remains to be a kind of idealistic future).
Takat Empress
We don't need purple death robots in the first MCU X Men.
Mileena Madness
The Mad Doctor
I'm more baffled why the Marvel Universe would invest in giant purple death bots and aim them at mutants in the first place. I'm sure the omnipresent alien invasions would give you more reason to hate aliens rather than mutants. Seriously, the general public would hate aliens more than mutants:
- The Kree tried to annex the Earth plus are responsible for the Inhuman threats like Thane
- Skrulls once impersonated everyone's loved ones and government figures as well as superhumans
- Symbiotes are Lovecraftian goo who will take you over or devour you unless you play Justin Biber music to repel them
- Deathbird and Annihilus ... just look at their names.
Really, the only alien race that didn't make Earthlings mad are the Kymellians
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
But getting serious, you make an incredibly good point, but all I can say is Marvel logic man. Marvel logic.
One Strip! One Strip!
Sentinels being used for non-Mutant related purposes would be pretty cool. That has to have happened at some point, right?
It'd be fun to see alien weapons just rip right through some Sentinels.
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But guys this might the FINAL adventure?!
Mileena Madness