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Well, I did remember Alex commented that he felt killing Gabriel was the one thing he would be more willing to do than Scott, and later answers to "X-Men don't kill" by "Good thing I quit, then." (I don't remember exactly what Alex had said at that point, I'm paraphrasing.)
Okay, so him being opposed to the violent killings during issue 1 of Dark X-men was either the same lack of knowledge of the character's history than claiming Alex came up with the Havok title when that was Larry Trask's idea, OR Alex had come to be a lot more pacific post-AXIS, which, I mean, make more sense with what was up in Hellions, and that series was honestly a good use of Alex in my opinion. So I presume AXIS made Alex more remorseful than he used to be.
Still, Alex scaring
Betsy because of his willingless to torture is wild given how both have evolved since then.