franklin has black hair nowadays?
Why is it that the FF have to request such a courtesy rather than the X-Men offering it as a means of smoothing the deal out? Franklin’s case isn’t like many of the mutant youths that they’ve gotten over the years. He’s from a loving family who accept him for what he is and isn’t from a world of prejudice. Hell, the FF are good friends of theirs and could potentially be an asset in collaborative efforts with Franklin. But instead, no such offer was made and instead it was that they could simply take him away to an island that his family could not go to in which case any visitation would be strictly one-sided on the part of a minor’s decision. What parent in their right mind would be okay with that?
The FF never asked to see the island, they just immediately said no before anyone could get a word in edgewise
Originally Posted by The General, JLA #38
No parent on Earth that is parenting will allow his/her children to live outside the family house without a damn good Reason.
I can think of a few of them, but in the case of Franklin he simply hasn't one, if anything he's living the life in a very privileged background with a loving and supporting family at his back.
His parents are right to question Xavier's motives and as long as he's minor, they are right to tell him he still got to live with them.
You'll be pressed to push this narrative of the FF being bad parents.
And they have no Lesson to receive in that department from the X-Men of all people.
In all those scenarios, Sue and Reed are still Franklin's parents, and said Franklin is still a minor. Xavier shouldn't have done what he did, as Reed pointed out to him, the situation would have resolved itself once the kid became an adult legally, but Xavier has a timetable it seems.
"The means are as important as the end - we have to do this right or not at all.
Anything less negates every belief we've ever had, every sacrifice we've ever made."
"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"No justice, no peace."
Il glad we're all on the same page that the FF made up their mind abt Krakoa without any information. Prejudiced ### #####.
I see those as completely different situations. There's exploring creation and then there's building a sociopolitical power base based on drugs, a legion (heh) of powerful mutants, and eventually buying the rest of the planet. One is altruistic, the other is self-serving.
Originally Posted by The General, JLA #38
"The means are as important as the end - we have to do this right or not at all.
Anything less negates every belief we've ever had, every sacrifice we've ever made."
"Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"No justice, no peace."
One is sending the kids they've spent the past 5 years raising off on their own into the dangerous expanse of the multiverse with a robot and a single adult as their only chaperones.
The other is refusing to let their biological son visit a place he wants to go to where he feels a kinship with its inhabitants because they don't want to "split up their family"
Maybe they should have explained themselves to Franklin