Excellent. this thread has been turned into the Cykefratboy gym sock smelling wankfest his fans deserve. Mischief managed. Mods, lock this down, please.
Excellent. this thread has been turned into the Cykefratboy gym sock smelling wankfest his fans deserve. Mischief managed. Mods, lock this down, please.
The X-Men series are supposed to be team books, where every team memeber should have their moment and have their chance to shine. but, at least in the past decades, the whole series has become Cyclops’ solo. The purpose of every other character is just to glorify Cyclops. I don’t want that happen again. I don’t mind Cyclops return but let’s hope Marvel give him a real solo book and invent new girlfriend/father figure/friends characters to glorify him. It will be better for both Cyclops and other X-men characters
Modern leadership approaches usually adjust as the environment changes. In a generally normal time, on the daily operations, there can be lots of leaders forming different groups and functioning independently with some certain defined limits(Xavier's dream, no killing, etc). However, the more urgent the situation become (M-day, less than 200 of a whole kind), the more coercive the leaders must be, the trend is shown to progress from democratic, ultimately towards autocratic (Utopia era was nearly there, but not there).
As long as the extreme emergency happens, there will always be someone to be the one. From M-day to post AvX, Cyclops was the one. After AvX (the extreme emergency passed), he dealt with the consequences. After completing that, he basically dropped everything (in UXM 600), not long before writers decided to kill him off. It actually fits the theoretical progression. And you can see, he was alive when he was necessary, the minute he was not anymore, he could be killed. Without the extreme emergency, the x-men as a whole can function perfectly without anyone (the last few years), and the democratic is generally back.
And theoretically, HE could be replaced by anyone. If writers decided to make A lead through M-day, A would be the one who got the most attention. If it was B, then it was B. Cyclops just happened to be one of the (if not the most) reasonable choices, and writers chose him.
So, no need to feel threatened by whoever the character himself/herself is, people should be threatened by the storyline itself. If the extinction is hanging above mutants' heads again and the situation can't be solved in a short term, prepare to embrace the next "supreme leader" who "gets all the spotlight", no matter it's Cyclops or A or B or C, which depends on writers. If there's no that kind of situation, then there won't be who-centric.
If Cyclops becomes centric again, it is because:
a) it comes to the crunch
b) writers' decision
c) two of above combined
So there's basically nothing fans can do about it.
Or d) you just hate the character so much every time he appears you get annoyed, which is natural, I'm not attacking anyone, just...just so you know.
Last edited by Cyyyke; 12-01-2018 at 07:14 AM.
"He did it. Summers did it."
"I don't understand...What exactly did Cyclops do?"
"He kept his people alive."
You're welcome!
You're damn right, you're a Wolverine expert now!
Regarding this preview, I'm not a big fan of Larocca's art but the preview looks intriguing and I wouldn't mind if they let Cyke keep his beard, he looks better with it in my opinion. I wasn't really impressed with most of Rosenberg's work recently but I still hope Scott's resurrection and his team up with Logan will be entertaining!