If it were like 4 teams of 5 kids, it would’ve been manageable, but very little control was set in place, so you ended up with girls like Armor and Blink leapfrogging proper training, characters built to be leads like Wind Dancer and Surge who went nowhere, and Morrison standouts like Dust and the Cuckoos taking wallpaper and one-liner positions.
No More Mutants was kinda dumb.
But...
Decimation, Messiah Complex, Manifest Destiny, Utopia, Second Coming... they got a lot of good stories out of it.
Dark does not mean deep.
Or Or It can also be simply be said that Quesada just cared didn't about Spider-Man or X-Men and it's history. Hence such shitty big retcons that happened in both of them lol
But I believe think that Quesada did have a hand with New X-Men and assuredly One More Day(because he wrote that book)
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That's my feel on the matter as well. I could deal with a dozen or so Russian mutants introduced in X-Factor, or some Chinese mutants in Alpha Flight, but sixteen *million* mutants in Genosha? That's just crazy. Particularly since we've seen how actually *common* incredibly powerful mutants with global-affecting powers of telepathy, weather control, whatever, are. (in just two dozen X-Men, there's like *three* Omegas, imagine how many Omegas there should be with 16,000,000 mutants!).
It had gotten ridiculous. There never, IMO, should have been more than a few thousand mutants, and no more than a few hundred with super-hero / super-villain tier powers. While I loved the Academy X era, and would have loved more books devoted to the other squads, such as Rogue's Advocates squad (of which we literally know only their names and powers, having seen them all of once), or the less-used members of other squads, such as Quill, DJ, Network, Trance, Match, Wolf Cub, Dryad, Spectre, Bling!, Indra, Kidogo, Gentle (who was literally the only member of 'Storm's unnamed squad' we knew!), etc.
It's still a little ridiculous in some aspects, due to a lack of creativity. It seems like every generation has to re-invent the wheel. Forget Skids, let's make a new Force Field Chickie with Cecelia Reyes, er, I mean, Unuscione, no, wait, Armor! Forget Tempo, we need a time-manipulating mutant girl, how about Timeslip, or, Lacuna, or, Kiden Nixon, or, Sway, or Tempus! Surely, if I throw enough young time-manipulating girl-mutant darts at the board, one of them *has* to stick!
The minority metaphor was straining, since the 'minority' outnumbered many actual nations! (Krakoa, at least, is a tiny little island 'nation,' as nations go.)
They thought Scarlet Witch didn't have enough gendered hysterical tropes attached to her.