This was rough to read through, especially doubling down on the Emma stuff. Well, all I can say is thank Krakoa we’re in a new era.
Everyone had a clean slate on Krakoa and unless you screwed that up post-amnesty (poor Sabes), it isn’t an Emma thing it’s a storytelling thing.
I can't start #FreeCreed because I feel he'll be out by next year anyway.
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
It’s not about being right/wrong, the goal is survival. Mutants weren’t gonna found a nation-state if they keep fighting over someone cheating or someone leaving their wife and kid or someone blowing up a planet or someone forcibly splitting the X-Men down the middle. And again, it isn’t only Emma being forgiven, it’s literally every mutant on Krakoa. The fixation on Emma would make sense if everyone else was also being punished but they aren’t.
the earlier you get behind it, the more of your body he won’t eat
"Wow. You made Spider-Man sad, congratulations. I stabbed The Hulk last week"
Wolverine, Venom Annual # 1 (2018)
Nobody does it better by Jeff Loveness
"I am Thou, Thou Art I"
Persona
Yes, she is the Phoenix, but according to the retcon, she physically didn't do the deed, it was a clone of her. Jean takes responsibility for the incident because of that, but to all purposes, she didn't actually perform it, so is just a case of heroism 101.
If you want a better example of a mass murderer of Phoenix's scale that has gotten away with it, Lucas Bishop is a better example of that.
"Wow. You made Spider-Man sad, congratulations. I stabbed The Hulk last week"
Wolverine, Venom Annual # 1 (2018)
Nobody does it better by Jeff Loveness
"I am Thou, Thou Art I"
Persona
Yeah, I kinda have a hard time believing he's remembering things correctly. I mean, Blue I'd believe, but Uncanny? That was right after Hickman left Marvel, and before Hickman spent all that time negotiating fruitlessly with DC about Legion...
I do definitely believe the idea that they were given a directive not to change things, but because of HoX? That flies in the face of everything else we know about the genesis of the project.
(Also, given that Hickman is American, the date on the script, 11.02.18, could easily be November 2, 2018)