Over in the Loki thread, every time a new writer gets ahold of him, we have a mild panic attack, for this very reason. Especially lately, as face turns have been undone left and right in other books. (and as a fan of face turns in general, this makes me sad. I love face turn stories in lots of different things.) So far, Loki's been pretty lucky, nearly every writer that's gotten ahold of him has gone along with the changes (even if Aaron played with it by having him pretend to go bad again for a while there, and kinda backslide a bit, but he corrected course in WotR #1). He's had a couple stories where it was clear the writer wanted him to be a bad guy, but they were minor appearances that didn't have an impact on his direction. Generally they've progressed it, so it's been this steady progression where he went from villain, to anti-villain, to anti-hero, and now it appears straight up hero (though i presume with a bit of an edge) after WotR, even though he's going on to the 5th or 6th writer that's controlling his story (and several others adding side stories that support it). It's like the ideal, i think the slower progression helped make it more believable, and I wish other characters could get that too. But telling a story over the course of 10 years and 5 different writers is very rare these days, and I suspect the Thor editorial should get a lot of credit here because of that. so something like what happened with Creed and the inversion to speed the process up some is going to happen a lot of the time, because that is one way that a writer can be more sure that they get tot tell the whole story. But as you said, that's not a guarantee. And a more sudden shift does make it harder for it to stick, I think. But you never know when a new writer will come along and just decide to undo it all with little more than a handwave. It happened to Sandman and Emma Frost, after they had their turns last a really long time, so...
This is merely an assumption..its never been proven. It was last referenced when Moira Mctaggart was alive and played her behavior modification scam on an infant...
Magneto has been on the X Men's side most of the time since 2009. And even when he crosses the line, the intent was always just. It was never about him wiping everyone out or being on top post Claremont. Morrison tried that silly road but even he had to use the kick drug as an excuse for the odd behavior.
Magneto is driven by rage? Not quite. He survived when his sister and parents were gunned down...they killed his daughter by not letting him save her...his wife turned on him for killing those who prevented him from being a hero to his daughter..Isabella was killed by the American CIA just because he went after Nazi war criminals ....its a long tragic tale but it's why he cant ever be Captain America, Spider Man, or Storm.
magneto feeds hungry people signposts, he's a hero
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Galactus being the Lifebringer was an original, fresh and interesting take. Reverting him without exploring the potential of that status quo was lame af.
Does Marvel have any real villains anymore even.
I mean besides most of their "heroes" that is?
Batman - Daredevil
Lots. Mephisto, Red Skull (he seems to be coming back), Dormammu, Kingpin, Malekith is being a turbo villain right now, Carnage (with an entire event surrounding him starting pretty soon)... I mean, i could go on... most of these are in absolutely no danger of turning face, at least not any time soon, with literal Nazis and remorseless serial killers among the bunch. And a bunch of new ones have been introduced recently, too. Marvel is in no danger of running out of baddies.
I guess my thing is that I just don't see Galactus as a true villain to begin with. So what Ewing did with him was fun and lasted months longer than I thought it would, but the reversal itself only got to me because Galactus chose to bring Norrin Radd down with him.
Yeah, we freak out whenever a new writer comes along lol
I mean, I feel like we feel safer with Loki than we used to, but there's always that threat that he'll go bad. Of course, compared to other characters, you can legit have five different Lokis running around and it'll be fine and not completely confusing.
remember when brubaker nuked zemo's character development so he could tie bucky to a rocket and disappear
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No? Are you referencing the Secret Empire tie-in or something else? Zemo had been chaotically neutral until that unexplained move to lead Hydra and restart the Masters of Evil. During Brubaker's cap run, he was mainly trolling Bucky. That was because he didn't consider him to be worthy of the shield.