I’ve said it multiple times: as long as a faithful rendition is given afterward*, I will accept any excuse to bring back Synch.
*Of course let him evolve, character-wise, afterward, but his “fresh start” should be a strong reminder to us of what a great character he was, and the evolution a natural-feeling reaction to how the world around him has changed. Maybe he even mostly stays true to himself, who knows...I don’t write fiction.
If he just gets brought back and is horribly characterized or limbo’d off, don’t even bother.
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Yeah, the 'formula' for native American characters appears to be mystical totem-theme and a name based on [color] + [animal] like Red Wolf or Black Crow or Chartreuse Marmoset (I may have made one of those up...), so it's always a thrill to see someone like Forge or Dani, whose mutant power and codename have nothing to do with their ethnicity (although both get dragged occasionally in stereotypical directions, with Forge's flirtation's with native American shamanism, or Dani's use of a 'psychic bow and arrows').
Now I’m feeling guilty I was going to suggest warping Forge with Shaman, and Dani with Talisman.
Didn't Thunderbird teach Warpath the magic ritualistic dance they used to defeat Selene?
Well-since we got Miles Morales running around from another universe...
The question has to be asked WHAT ELSE & WHO Else came with him.
Whose to say the Ultimate version of Synch is NOT walking around somewhere.
I have always wonder who Judge really is. I thought he was Falcon's dead Nephew (but Falcon's book dispelled that). Whose to say he's not Everett whose powers has not kicked in.
just out of general curiosity, any interviews where Mr. hickman directly speaks on this?
In retrospect-- and of course, in retrospect reveals many things not intended as negative.. it's interesting that as much as the X-Men from the 80s forward came to be known as this veiled (racial) minority allegory, the team(s) up until a certain point had only marginal people of color active at any given time. The O5 of course, had nobody. Then with the Giant-Size Team, Sunfire's nationalism prompted him to leave after what, one, two issues? Thunderbird got to be a grand sacrifice after the same number of issues. Two POC gone, just like that. Oh well.
-- No adult black men in their prime until Bishop comes along in 1991. (Gateway's magic aboriginal was, of course, kind of a doorman; Sunspot was a younger black-brazilian teen.. No American black teens, alas)..
I'm not hip to the depths of folks created from 2000 forward. Hopefully it's more than 2, 3 characters, who can do some cool things and do well in fights?
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As far as prominent, male people of color in the 2000s? There are frankly very few that have ever gotten spotlight, I can list them on one hand: Prodigy, Gentle, Indra, Genesis. All of the other prominent PoC students were girls.
"We come into this world alone and we leave the same way. The time we spent in between - time spent alive, sharing, learning together... is all that makes life worth living." - Jean Grey
I feel like beyond being a meme of a character that Goldballs never really amounted to much, to be completely frank.
As for Hindsight... eh. Everything about his character in Generation X was just a romance arc, where his Jewish/White love interest got the lion's share of the focus.
"We come into this world alone and we leave the same way. The time we spent in between - time spent alive, sharing, learning together... is all that makes life worth living." - Jean Grey