Originally Posted by
MechaJeanix
I am curious about Scott being cowardly, ineffectual, and a poor leader, outside of Teen Scott. Even if he has had moments, they weren't allowed to define him. Scott has been allowed to have this Shakespearean arc that most of the other characters, and especially the women characters do not get in the X-men. Outside of Clarmeont a lot of the male writers focus on Scott and Wolverine. Claremont did devote a lot of time on Storm, Rogue, Kitty, others. Claremont with all his problems did write women characters like actualized people and not support for the men. He didn't always center the males like we came to experience in the 90's and beyond in the X-men. I think this supports some of the fan conflicts : those of us that want women/minority characters centered and those who expect X-men to be the story of Scott Summers or Wolverine or Xavier. Hickman during a recent interview did act like the X-men were the story of the Summers family and in a Rosenberg issue he had Moonstar say to Scott that it was always the Scott story or the Scott and Jean story or Scott and Logan.
It wasn't always the case. I recently read the entire Uncanny run and as mentioned before in Claremont's classic run I'd argue Storm was the star. She was the heart of the team. She was focused and centered. The history of the X-men hasn't always been a man's story, but in recent years we have circled back to it and my fear is that this aspect will long continue. Again, it is a wait and see and I hope that I'm wrong. I will be happy to be wrong and will admit to being wrong.
Like I mentioned before some of us were spoiled by X-men Red, because Jean became a leader and Scott wasn't around. She was beginning to get some of the development that the Cyclops character got when she was dead. Now he's back and she seems way off and it just gives early 90's vibes and also call back to the early original X-men days.