So... what do I do...
First we start with some of the X-men already there visiting the Fantastic Four, members of the X-men that are actually friends with the FF. Let's have Storm, Wolverine, maybe a member of Generation X or two there to see Franklin (since he used to live with them,) No Magneto. Leave that guy at home.
The team is there to have Mr. Fantastic just run a check on some of the stuff they're doing now, the clones, Krakoa, that sort of thing. They don't exactly trust Sinister in Apocalypse so thought thought having somebody else double check the numbers would be a good idea. They also want to inquire about Franklin and see what's going on with him, worried that it might be affecting other mutants. (I also want one of the Gen X kids to talk about the growth spurt Franklin has had since they last saw each other.) The subject of Franklin going to Krakoa is brought up and Reed thinks it's a bad idea.
Somehow the Thing comes up with the idea that he can chaperon a brief visit.
I actually really like the idea of Thing being on Krakoa. he may be a human, but he knows a lot about what it's like being hated and feared just for being different and even mentions that he looks more like a mutant than half the X-men do. On Krakoa, Franklin doesn't really care for the place. It feels a bit weird to him. Thing however, loves it. Partying all the time with people that don't care how he looks, even having some of the more physically deformed mutants talk about how they've always looked up to him. Other mutants though, don't like the fact that he's there at all, much less the fact that he's acting like one of them.
While Ben is partying, Franklin is kidnapped by Sinister who plants evidence pointing to one of the FFs enemies. Let's say Dr. Doom, because you have to have Dr. Doom in these stories, prompting the rest of the FF into action, as well as members X-men who were supposed to look after him. They attack Latveria, with Doom thinking it's because they learned of some of his own experiments with mutants. Doom is defeated but manages to get the teams back on the right track of the real abductor and decided to come with them for payback.
Getting Apocalypse, Sinister, Doom, and Magneto into the same room should make for some interesting character interaction, probably even a good fight at some point.
Eventually Franklin escapes but with his memory wiped of what happens. The Fantastic Four warn the X-men that they're playing with fire, the mutants ask Thing to leave, and Sinister now has good samples of Franklin's DNA for some sketchy evil clone business he's working on.
Admittedly, this probably needs a bit of work.
"To the X-men then, who donīt die the old fashioned way and no matter how hard we try, none of us die forever" Uncanny X-Men #270, Jean and Ororo
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Well, for one, I would want the covers to be more dynamic than just the standard hero poses. We should’ve gotten a cover of Franklin in an X-trainee suit or even the F4 wearing the 90s x-clothes & the X-Men wearing the traditional F4 costumes. It would’ve been so cute.
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There’s no sense in being this factional about comic book franchises.
That's all I needed to hear. I don't need to continue this any further.
I'll just end this with, the X-Men aren't real minorities and other characters have been treated worse by Marvel. The Fantastic Four being an example of such characters. You talk about leeching while so many premises and characters have been taken by others or team-ups where one fanbase doesn't like it. If that's called leeching then the X-Men are far from being the only ones who experienced this, and they have also benefited from it if we are going by this definition.
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The problem is, i dont see how the x-men are the only ones treated baldy in those crossovers.
In AvX they werent generic villains, you could say that they become accidental antagonists but also protagonists. The Avengers also didnt look like the epitome of morality.
IvX was worst but once again, the Inhumans look worse in that crossover and ultimately failed to them.
That's completly fine, when we have a sequel to this book and we have pages dedicated to sue being called a terrible mother and how the ff are pretty much dangerous failures, but instead of any of the fantastic four countering those acusations, they just look to the air or the page cuts, since the title will just be a covert x-men story with the team up label on it.
When that happens you can complain about 4 + X.
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