Eh. Wanda + Vision. Wanda + Simon. Wanda + Hawkeye. Wanda + Voodoo. Hawkeye + Black Widow. Black Widow + Daredevil. Hawkeye + Mockingbird. Wasp + Pym. Wasp + Stark. Pym + Jocasta. Pym + Tigra.
There's been a ton of bed-hopping in Avenger's mansion. And don't even get me started on Johnny Storm's love life, over at Four Freedom Plaza...
Later she slept with the real Pym though, in Avengers Academy.
The rest still count (even the Doombot, because their was still an Avenger involved, Hawkeye). Which reminds me. Hawkeye + Moonstone. Dude sticks his arrows everywhere!
And the point is, the X-Men are hardly the only peeps having gone through multiple partners, and had their share of relationship drama, in the Marvel Universe.
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Do we know the room arrangements in the Sextant?
Are the Five all shagging each other?
How are the New Mutants rooms set up?
What about the New X-men’s rooms?
Just what are Laura/Darwin/Synch doing with their free time?
These are the poly questions I have.
I'm not personally into polyamory, but I think this is an interesting twist to the grueling, tired love square between Emma/Jean/Scott/Logan and is kind of a cool idea for a newly liberated 'mutant culture'.
Well, the responses have been very interesting.
We have people who:
- Like Polyamory, and are excited to read about it in the X-books
- Are Okay with Polyamory, but don't want to read about romantic relationships in their books
- Are Okay with Polyamory, but have problems with the challenges it brings to the cast & narrative (using established characters vs. new; underdeveloped or skipped transitions clashing with established lore, etc.)
- Don't like Polyamory - FULL STOP
I expected a lot of responses to be...for lack of a better word, prejudiced against Polyamory as a concept (and I was not disappointed).
But, I was heartened to hear that, for many, it's just narrative preferences, and for some, good ol' fashioned fanboy possessiveness.
(Of which, I have been guilty of too).
Probably the most interesting take, which I actually hadn't even considered, was someone hinting that their disapproval of polyamory for established monogamous characters is because the cyclical nature of Superhero comics means that eventually there will be a return to the status quo (monogamy). This means that rather than it being a profound character change, the adoption of polyamory would be more akin to wearing a hat, that they would then take off when enough time passed and people grew bored.
I may not agree with this assessment, but that is a very valid concern.
When it comes to gender and sexuality, where there is fluidity for some but not others, that is something to keep in mind when writing and consuming these stories.
Literally on the first page.
Also, other people were able to raise their objections/frustrations about the poll without sounding condescending.
That you would invoke letting go of nostalgia while advocating for Jogan...
I chuckled.
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Lord Ewing *Praise His name! Uplift Him in song!* Your divine works will be remembered and glorified in worship for all eternity. Amen!
Thinking about it further: for a quartet who have issues with fidelity, polyamory could really be a great solution for them. Not everyone has it in them to be monogamous. I don't think it could ever work for me...but this makes a lot of sense for them and I don't see the harm.
I'm somewhere between Strongly Approve and Neutral.
In the future, I strongly suspect the people saying you shouldn't have poly relationships will be remembered as fondly as the people 30 years ago saying you shouldn't have gay romances or the people 30 before that saying you haven't interracial romances in fiction.
They got rid of the doors to their bedrooms, because no matter what, *somebody's* gonna wake up with Rahne snuggled up at the foot of their bed. But it's not a sex thing.
(Usually Dani. Never Ilyanna (who usually sleeps in Limbo anyway). Or Doug, oddly. There might be some residual guilt there...)