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This. There is no point to 'culling' the population, less mutants =/= better stories. The 198? Was awful. Good writers make good stories, nothing more nothing less.
If you don't want to use a character, you don't have to kill them. Send them to another school, get them to quit the X-Men, or actually graduate from the school to pursue activites outside the X-Men. So many ways to write them out of the franchise (long-term or temporarily) without bringing out a cheap death for drama, that will inevitably be recton'd years later.
writing a character out generally gets them killed
It happened with Avalanche (he had stopped being a villain and owned a bar in San Francisco), he was killed by Remender in his Uncanny Avengers
And it happened with Madrox (happily married to Layla Miller living in a farm), killed for Death of X, although he is being resurrected by now.
Culling characters for having a common power set seems unnecessary. Just spread them around. Not just in the X-books, but throughout Marvel.
Remember is kill-happy with characters, I don't think he's the best writer to use as an example. Plus Avalanche is not an X-Men member or student, he took shelter with Utopia, but I don't think Toad and co were sent on missions like proper X-Men.
Second example, lots of X-Men die on the team and get the same treatment. See Nightcrawler, Wolverine, (probably Scott), etc... If a writer is deadset on cheap drama deaths, they'll use whoever they want to, whether in limbo or not, but I'm not convinced limbo increase's the chances to see a target on their backs.
Yep, that's definitely an option. If there are just extremely similar, just spread them out. But even characters with similar powers I think can work on a team together. Look at Weapon X (so many stabby stabby claws there) and X-Men with all the telepaths on the same team. Those rosters were fine.Originally Posted by Psyknight
There's lot of ways to diversify power-sets and get really creative with the same power-sets, just write them with different strengths and weakness. I actually like that we have so many telepaths, because they've been forced to assume different niches. Emma as a telepath that uses dirty tricks and experience, Jean as a powerhouse, Psylocke as a psuedo-melee telepath, Karma with mind-control and Dani specialization with illusions. Just because someone shares a skill or talent with someone, doesn't mean they use or express them the same way.
Writers just need to get creative. Look at how people use firearms or martial arts differently, tons of variance, similar powers should be no different.
Cypher has the most unique power which is understanding all alien, human, machine and even animal languages but he was killed.
So ???
I would love to see them try to off an O5 member, have it not be Jean this time around, and have it stick for a few years.
Have them try to kill a several New Mutants.
Oh and get rid of Glob Herman and Eye ball boy. Actually get rid of almost all of the kids via Legacy Virus way and only have a several live to rebuilt once more.
Laura and Gabby are exempted from the culling.
Last edited by Cmbmool; 08-18-2018 at 09:29 PM.