i am so tired of love triangles. especially wolverine/jean/cyclops
“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
I think I’d rather have relationship drama play out very minimally in my comics. X-Men has been fine about it with Hickman, it’s present but not front and center. With the movies I thought it was mostly okay in both Fox-Men and the MCU. Sometimes the relationships are the best part of a movie, Logan is my favorite movie and that whole movie was about relationships. As I’m typing this I think I’m realizing that I don’t care specifically for romantic relationships on the page/screen more than anything.
Jean/Scott/Emma as it is in the comics is too spicy for Disney.
Honestly for me it always looks like adults acting like stereotypical teens. You have a good point about being toxic, because someone in a love triangle always comes off as "incel-y" and can't take a hint. It's a bit creepy, especially with everything that's happened in the real world. I mean, didn't Emma mentally manipulate Scott?
This soapy stuff is one of those things I'm always iffy about with the X-Men, or any other comic for that matter, and would rather not suffer it in rhe MCU.
Yeah a lot of people have pointed out that under modern standards Logan was sexually harassing Jean for a while and Emma definitely should not have had sex after offering him counseling.
Of course you can always have love triangles without those elements, but I don’t think you can do it justice in a 2 hr movie where there will undoubtedly be tons of other characters and stuff going on.