You mean a man who had no care for his family to begin with and has operated on pettiness? Jean has already tried in the past and the man cares nothing for her. There is literally no motivation for her to have any care for an evil clone who only seeks to hurt her real son and everyone he loves because of him being a rejected copy of the real thing.
If you like him, fine, but you can't act like he hasn't been the one who instigated since the VERY beginning murder of the mutant race through the Legacy Virus, rejecting her attempts to help him (such as when he took over Cable's mind and she reached out with Xavier's help in the 90's), and his entire goal is to kill her son (someone who has not only fought for good but established a meaningful relationship). We can actually have a conversation about Jean's treatment after he shows her he regrets his actions and is done and will work toward a new Stryfe who has proven in front of her that he is a changed man and is ready to be accepted.
Last edited by PyroFN; 07-28-2021 at 04:33 PM.
They dont need to be changed people, but they do need to not be actively engaging in villainy, especially against Krakoa. Stryfe in this very issue says he wanted to burn Krakoa down and was going to use his demon army to do so. He actually sounded like Maddie here. He's a liability and doesnt even belong in this timeline. All they did was get rid of him in present day but as we see in the end, he still exists in the future
So JEAN hs to use Esme even if Rchel was around?
Honestly its not so much that Stryfe deserves sympathy or a second chance. He's awful, screw him. Its just, for me, treating him like unforgivable evil when Apocalypse and Mr. Sinister are standing right there feels laughable.
I mean the difference is that Apocalypse actually changed quite a bit when he joined Krakoa. Still definitely morally questionable but he wasn’t gathering armies to take over the world. We know Sinister isn’t a changed man, but he’s smart enough to have deniability in all of his plots. They caught Stryfe red-handed on the war path about to murder 10 babies, what else were they supposed to do?
No, it isn’t giving them a pass. It’s them proving themselves by following the only three laws of the land. The X-Men are watching those same villains and going after any threats to innocents like Mikhail, Sabertooth, etc. It’s a law to escape persecution by humanity, not an escape from crimes you are currently committing.
Stryfe was creating a ritual that would not only have destroyed Krakoa, but broken the law of “Kill No Man” through sacrifice of babies. And it brings no alarm to you that Stryfe would try to take advantage of his amnesty of Krakoa denying no mutant to escape those crimes he was committing in the same issue? It’s nowhere near the same.
Not really. In fact, Rachel herself completely stomped Stryfe in the past.
It was most likely either a teaching moment to Esme or just a bonding moment with his son’s girlfriend as a show of support to their relationship. Either way, Rachel was busy having fun with a bazooka and telekinetically carrying babies. Why would Jean ruin that fun of a time?
"A happy ending? So unlikely. We're not having a moment here.
Wrong city, wrong people, all huddling in fear.
No one escapes the slaughterhouse, and that's just where you're at.
(You could've asked Rebecca but then Adam stomped her flat.)
You think you're special cuz you're scrappy? You're deluded, time to go.
Lucy's living on the moon but you're another dead psycho."