In a lot of ways, X-Men '97 has done more justice to the characters overall than the comics have, though that's helped by, as you've pointed out, the...
I'm just waiting for a proper Arana solo by him after his bits with her in the Edge of Spider-Verse revivals and the novel he wrote costarring Miguel...
Exactly. Pat with Toxin was basically parenting an unruly child that just happened to be a murderous alien symbiote, kind of what could have happened...
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