There's nothing magical about Maddie in this verse. She's a clone of a powerful telepath and she calls herself the Goblin Queen but there's no implications at all of demonic pacts or anything. Even her being evil for five minutes has a mundane explanation, some kind of failsafe control Sinister implanted in her during creation. Everything our heroes saw can be attributed to psychic nightmares and mindeffery.
The Adversary...I dunno, they don't even try to explain it in the show, do they? If so, my bad.
Krakoa really dropped the ball with magic. Selene was right the X-Men are vulnerable to magic.
Telepaths threat
Teleporters threat
Magic people - not coordinated enough
There's "magic" and then there's magic. I draw the line at leprechauns I can't even read that Gen X issue.
Right? I already speculated on possible rosters but the last two episodes brought some new direction for characters that could be interesting. I would guess:
Blue:
Magneto as the mentor
Cyclops as the leader
Rogue
Archangel
Psylocke
Sunspot
Bishop
Magik
Beast as tech/science support
Gold:
Professor X as the mentor
Storm as the leader
Jean Grey
Wolverine
Nightcrawler
Jubilee
Morph
Colossus
Forge as tech/science support
Each team has at least two flyers, one Omega, one muscle, one teleporter, one melee, three female members, two POC, one blue mutant, one queer member, one science person and one telepath.
A picture would last longer darling...
Cyclops was too against Rogue's actions to take her and Magneto's side.
They have a million characters to balance, they can't focus on everyone's favourite character and do them all justice. Polaris wasn't even old the show that much, she was just Ice Man's ex-girlfriend that he hadn't realized ditched him months ago, that's it. I think she has maybe 5 minutes of screen time in the old show, it's kinda of hard to make her into a bigger character when she wasn't in the old show much.
I like that we’re seeing more and more some of the individual characters getting jaded and radicalized: Scott, Hank and Rogue.
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Ghosts of Genosha minicomic focused on Polaris, written by me and drawn by Fin_NoMore.
Polaris 50th anniversary minicomic written by me and drawn by Mlad!
Gallery of Polaris commissions (without NSFW or minicomics)
-storm unwarped the rock adversary was using to crush her.
-she grew out a full head of hair from a mohawk.
-she converted adversary, an ancient demon god, into her classic xmen outfit.
this wasn't her mutant powers that allowed her to do that but her ancestral divinity/magic.
ALL HAIL THE HADARI YAO, THE OMEGA'S OMEGA, BEYOND OMEGA, THE VOICE OF SOL!!!! NOW AGAIN THE ONE TRUE AND ONLY GODDESS OF THE X-MEN AS CLAREMONT INTENDED!!!!!