Wakanda, as written in the earlies and not under the current guy, is awesome! So if that's what Xavier and Erik are going for then...OMGODDESS, yes-fockin-please!!!
Wakanda, as written in the earlies and not under the current guy, is awesome! So if that's what Xavier and Erik are going for then...OMGODDESS, yes-fockin-please!!!
Lord Ewing *Praise His name! Uplift Him in song!* Your divine works will be remembered and glorified in worship for all eternity. Amen!
The part where humans routinely made murder bots to wipe mutants and their kids off the map and the part where the mutants continually made themselves sitting ducks. In this story alone both of those problems took a massive hit.
Peaceful coexistence doesn't just have to be mutants and flats sitting around a campfire singing kumbaya. Eventually boundaries had to be made. The human majority responded to coexistence with mutants with deportation, large scale massacres, and sterilization via government funded vaccinations.
Something has to give. The dream itself isn't the problem it's how Xavier went about acheiveing his dream that was foolish and could be considered insane, but in light of the most recent retcon he seems like less of an insane person and more of a sadist....which is fine.
Unlike my favorite characters, I cannot read minds. Hickman's run could end up being the greatest thing to ever happen to comic books. It could also be a uranium-laced turd that this site begs editorial to get rid of. So in lieu of that, we can only debate what we've seen.
And who wrote that to be the 100% absolutely defined case?
People are acting like this is a chance for hope and change for mutants, but Hickman established that mutants are in worse dire straits than ever before. That their annihilation is an absolute certainty without Moira's extreme intervention. It's the same setup for Rosenberg's run, just with charts, graphs, and better writing.
It's totally ok that you don't. Different strokes for different folks.
For me, this doesn't redefine the X-men at all. They are still not harming humans, they've just stopped pretending they can live among them after so many genocidal actions against them. It's sorta naive to expect their dream to never change no matter how many tens of thousands of them are killed isn't it?
They are still heroes, they've just gone from acting like Superman to acting more like Batman. After what they've been through? Makes total sense. I'm excited to see them working in different combinations and with different ends than we've ever seen before.
That was the case. Despite having students crucified on his lawn his dream was peaceful coexistence and to expect the mutant community to turn the other cheek and absorb the pain so they can demonstrate that they're a peaceful people.
The one thing the Dark Phoenix movie got right was Xavier The scene where Jennifer Lawrence calls out Charles Xavier ready to jump at the behest of humans for personal glory. Is exactly how Xavier behaves
The X-Men were proactive on mutant threats when Xavier was not in power e.g. Cyclops and Storm
See, I can understand why you want Xavier's dream to be abandoned... because you never understood it.
Xavier's philosophy (at least in the comics) has been the Teddy Roosevelt status: speak softly, and carry a big stick. To not go out of their way to make lives harder for humans, but to be ready to defend themselves from humans. And that by only retaliating, they can show that mutant/human coexistence is possible.