The question of the X-men's morality seems to be bleeding into something unnecessary. I hope civil discussions are still possible regardless of one's interpretation of the work.
"This is starting to sound like a bad comic book plot"
-Spider-man
“Evil is evil...lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same."
-Geralt of Rivia
Heh.
Alternative hot take: The X-Men, since their inception, have ALWAYS had to remind everyone they encounter that they are the good guys.
"Feared & Hated"
For the creative team to reiterate that fact in the interview, just feels like reassurance -- especially since there is all this talk by readers believing that taking a hard stance on no longer being victims = villainy.
It was pretty clear that Orchis is horrendously evil, they were experimenting on mutant children and the X-Men mission right from the beginning in X-Men #1 was to rescue all the mutant children that were being held by Orchis at their base.
Magneto was torn about going after the pre post-human, but Scott said that the mission was to rescue the mutant children and the Quiet Council would have to decide if they want to investigate further or pursue Orchis further.
Storm's anger becomes way more justified when you realize that the Orchis agents were experimenting and torturing mutant children. Now it makes a lot more sense why the X-Men would despise these Orchis agents and scientists.
We are MUTANT..Krakoa, FOREVER!!! “Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité”
So they really are the good guys and acting heroically...imagine that.
If one didn't have a brain to think for one's self, one would have been led to believe that Scott and the X-Men have all turned to the dark side, drinking human blood with the Mephisto while sitting on thrones made out of the skulls of the humans they killed for sport.
HiX-Man must have read all those CBR posts and rushed to re-write his scripts.
Lord Ewing *Praise His name! Uplift Him in song!* Your divine works will be remembered and glorified in worship for all eternity. Amen!
Well said. I too rolled my eyes at how evil Orchis truly is and felt good about my previous decision to 100% back the X-Men on their new direction. The issue was delightful to me, I truly loved all of it.
I would have liked to see a little more from Rachel but I get the feeling she'll be explored more as she doesn't seem all too happy with everything.
"Danielle... I intend to do something rash and violent." - Betsy Braddock
Krakoa, Arakko, and Otherworld forever!
See, there's that broad painting strokes again.
Not all humans hate mutants. Not all Avengers are a-holes. Not all mutants are good guys. Not all Marvelites despise DC. etc blah blah.
That's on me though. I was just making a joke that may be laced in some truth that not all readership acknowledge the X-Men as good guys.