On a day of national strife, I'd like to ask about a couple controversies, and how the Mutant Metaphor and Illyana as a character relates.
There's the general question of the Mutant Metaphor, and if the Jewish, Black, Homosexual acceptance era is past, perhaps trans, intersex, poly & asexual representation is coming forward in the metaphor for further waves of mutancy/diversity metaphor, identity politics etc.
My bigger point, was if Editorial has a policy about preventing eternal relationships in favor of strife & ArchieReggieBettyVeronica soap operas.
I've been called twice on the 'Polycules and Orgies' not being happy marriages, so I'd like to ask again:
Is the HoX Quiet Council officially against monogamy, asexuality, and pure homosexuality, backing instead promiscuous hetero- & bi- sexuality through 'Make More Mutants'?
Illyana's possible homo-romantic asexual orientation appears to be 'against the rules' of HoX, and they're making a point of her being oppressed and doing passive resistance against that rule plus 'kill no human'.
(I suppose Sinister's orientation of autosexuality & cloning which makes more of Himself & those he replicates, but is officially banned, as is Northstar's homosexual only orientation which doesn't precisely Make More Mutants. That is opposed to my clip of Raven's bi- trans- queer- other- orientation which seems embraced these days by Editorial and the Quiet Council... Actually with Sinister's tech, male male & female-female or 3+parent blends would be easy; ova fusion or IVG is close to a thing even in our reality.)
I'll open up the discussion to any comments anyone has about the Marvel Universe as a whole: have you seen enduring happy Marvel relationships other than kinship and the Richards, whether mutant or other, sexual or not, but far beyond just 'work relationships' ?
What about emotionally intense relationships in general?
There's Bobby & Sam plus Cypher & Warlock. Pietro & Wanda are siblings and pretty tight, and are romantic in an alternate timeline, but other enduring & less happy would be Peter & Aunt May, whatever Charles & Magneto have, Doom & Richards, Thing & Johnny, Peter & JJJ, Scott & Wolverine, Captain America & Red Skull, Sabertooth & Wolverine, Thor & Loki in terms of emotionally passionate relationships across the decades or centuries. (Belasco remains obsessed with Illyana, but I think she's bored of him at this point, treating him like 'someone she used to know')
Then there's the Kitty, Piotr, Illyana triangle from my previous post.
Exactly how much is Illyana meddling with Kitty's love life, and how much did Piotr know about it?
The line 'Make your move and stop it' coming from Piotr really boggles me; was he asking Illyana to break it up so he'd have a chance, telling Illyana to confess to Kitty, or just as Kitty's friend trying to break up KittyLord before the ceremony to prevent an even worse breakup later? Did Piotr suspect Illyana was manipulating & pulling strings in the deep background, like Fisk?
And regarding emotional passion, Kitty had a hate-on for Emma for a long time, but seems to have shifted that to Shaw...
What are your thoughts?