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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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Everyone is Here (except Wallflower)
I'm pretty sure Wallflower is back. I mean, it's not like she was a precog.
Also, I just realized that Blindfold was possibly Destiny's great-granddaughter. So I hope when they finally lower the "no precogs" rule, both will get to meet the other. That would be so cool.
Edited by alliterator on Nov 29th 2019 at 8:00:49 AM
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Tag is back so I assume all the Purifier Massacre victims are, this is on top of Laurie being The Lost Lenore to one of the Five. I just want to see her.
Mammomax was confirmed before her. Mammomax. Chuck Austen created Mammomax!
Edited by HamburgerTime on Nov 29th 2019 at 11:01:55 AM
The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."
Binged all the X-Comics released thus far:
- O MY GOD! THEY KILLED CHARLES! THOSE BASTARDS! But not for long, right?
- Horrifying way to turn Domino's luck mutation against everyone else. Trap her and use her skin to gain luck powers? How desperate can humans get over mutants?!
- So Kitty might not be a true blue mutant and ergo, she ain't getting Krakoa. How does she take it? She makes like The Lonely Island and get ON A BOAT, MOTHERF*CKER!
- So Cannonball married an Imperial Guard named Smasher? I think I love her.
So the mysterious March 2020 X-Book has had two members of it's roster revealed: Psylocke and Havoc
This just in. X-Men #3, Cyclops, Emma Frost and Shaw have been defeated by... three lovely grannies? Do we have the source of this? This is by Hickman? Oh, well. Then it must be awesome... somehow.
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The Head of the Hydra
I assume there's context your just leaving out.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
Professional Complainer
I mean my grandma could probably kick Cyclops' ass too.
They are eco terrorists, have a supervillain group name and defeated some other unimportant mutants before, but I skipped to the interesting part.
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I have to say that this week's Excalibur including a mutant message board where ordinary mutants are discussing their opinions on Krakoa, including ones that want to visit temporarily and then return to their normal lives was a neat bit of world-building.
Edited by HamburgerTime on Dec 4th 2019 at 12:52:20 PM
The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."
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There is, at last, someone who may be Wallflower in this week's New Mutants... but she's only seen from behind, and there are a lot of blonde mutant girls. I wish I had some way of knowing for sure.
Think I spotted Basilisk from Morrison's run, too.
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's been confirmed X-Men will be the focus of Marvel's Free Comic Book Day issue
New solo Cable comic by Gerry Duggan and Phil Noto.
I like the creative team, but I'm completely uninterested in the character. At least Hellions looks unusual and weird. Seriously, though, where's the Moira X comic? Where's the one by Leah Williams and Vita Ayala?
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
Random question:
Is Sublime still a thing, or is that being ignored?
Cause while some random virus pulling the Marvel Universe version of It's me Austin! Xmen! It was me all along!!! is kinda lame, at least it would explain the ridiculous bullshit lengths that humans go to to hate and fear mutants.
I mean that's not acting like marvel citizens don't turn on literally every other hero too every other year or so. Mutants get the brunt of it but marvel citizens hate literally everyone with superpowers most of the time
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Yeah. It's a little ridiculous how ungrateful they are sometimes.
I mean, even with Civil War where it was probably fair to be a little pissed at the New Warriors for their screw up, people just completely forgot about Nitro, the one who actually blew up Stamford.
One Strip! One Strip!
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So that's where Shogo came from....did Jube's actually give birth to him?
I mean, is she his biological mother? Cause considering she was a vampire for a few years I don't know where she found the time...or how old she's supposed to be now...or anything about what's going on with her.
And Sublime teams up with the Xmen to fight a random evil(?) sister?
What did she want to do? Kill mutants with guacamole dip instead of clam dip?
.....nobody's gonna get that one. Nobody.
One Strip! One Strip!
no shogo is an adopted human
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...I thought humans weren't allowed on Krakoa?
Then again, Scott had no problems giving his dad a Krakoa flower, and Betsy invited Brian to live there.
Still, there are a lot of human members and associates of the Xmen who have been left out (looks at Karima).
I thought they were done with humans and their human shit, with human shit being literally everything connected to humanity.
One Strip! One Strip!
no humans are allowed they just have to have a mutant vouch for them. also jubilee would blow up the island if they told her she couldnt bring shogo
The Head of the Hydra
Shogo’s a child.
It’s rather common sense that they’d be okay with him living there.
What are they gonna do, tell the mother she can’t bring her child with her? That’s a ridiculous thing to think about.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."
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I mean, they're the X-Men, not the ICE.
The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."
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Give them time.
There was a chart keeping track of the resurrectees; is that still being updated?
The pig of Hufflepuff pulsed like a large bullfrog. Dumbledore smiled at it, and placed his hand on its head: "You are Hagrid now."