Just wanted to drop a totaly biased opinion on the Storm vs. Vulcan fight from X-men Red.
Ever since Deadly Genesis i could not give a damn about Vulcan.
He came from nowhere, getting retconned into X-men history via an, in my opinion, mediocre story that tried to alter the backround of a much more important and impactfull story in the X-men franchise (what ever Giant Size was as good quality wise as some claim is debatable), which was just adding to the "Xavier is actualy a massive jerk and hypocrite" characterization that has become worse since the 2000's, all so there could be a secret 3rd Summer's Brother who is also mega powerfull (much more than his brothers who are actualy developed and prominent characters), who then went on to basicly Squatch Match a bunch of established characters to remind the reader how powerfull he is.
Everything about his "rise" to power and prominence felt artifical and "unearned" to me and everytime he appears i check out. There is no fascination, intrigue, interest or even love to hate about the character from me, just annoyed apathy.
So seeing Storm, a character who "earned" all her power and had them developed to that state and level of complexity over decades of continuity, putting him in place quickly, in a perfectly functional way that doesn't need out of nowhere elements, was basicly one of the more enjoyable appearances of Vulcan to me. Sure he will stay around and Ewing will (likely futily) try to expand him as character and perhaps give him a more dramatic rematch down the line, but for the moment this was great.
That being said, i do wonder about an opinion of you good Storm fans.
Which established character would you consider "worthy" of being able to go up against Storm and potentialy win?
Yupp. Agree with GT 100. Deadly Genesis was a contrived **** retcon to introduce **** characters. (Say what you want, you will not convince me otherwise)
As much as they're now "canon" and "fan favourites" Vulcan and Co. will always be less-than characters to me. So I'm not even going to waste time and energy shouting and arguing with idiots who clearly don't know or want to know better. Let them wear their stupidity and ignorance like a HFG outfit for all I care...they'll still look and sound like rubbish.
My Summer rain. My rooftop in Japan. My quiet in the storm. *cries* Al Ewing is GOD...Praise His name! Uplift Him in song! Glorify His works!
Got to admit, the "fan service" excuse is a new one to me.
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But in a way you have just given it life here. No offense but I don't see the point of bringing it into an appreciation thread. I would have preferred never having to read unless that person has posted it here for it to happen. Just seems like unnecessary negative energy.
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Last edited by Daedra; 05-21-2022 at 11:51 AM.
Ommadon: “By summoning all the dark powers I will infest the spirit of man So that he uses his science and logic to destroy himself. Greed and avarice shall prevail, and those who do not hear my words shall pay the price. I'll teach man to use his machines, I'll show him what distorted science can give birth to. I'll teach him to fly like a fairy, and I'll give him the ultimate answer to all his science can ask. And the world will be free for my magic again.”
people who think like this simply don't know how her powers work and dont know all she has done in canon. storm has defeated trion, death, adversary, houses eternity in her consciousness as well as an army of the lethal legion, where only one of those members easily dispatched gladiator. vulcan doesn't have any feats that compare to Ororo. people bern underestimating her abilities for far too long. so happy to see she is getting the respect she has rightfully deserved.
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!!!!!
I mean he later raged holy hell that Vulcan couldn't absorb Storm's lightning. You know, the lightning that was all his power that Storm had control over and snuffed it out of him.
I'm just still on cloud 9. Not just about this but just the fact that Storm is finally in the hands of a writer that is capable of writing all aspects of her character. Not one that's just going to give flashy feats and no story or one that's going to name drop a title and then proceed to do nothing with her *Cough* Duggan-Marauders *Cough*.
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Faves: Ororo Munroe♥ Maxima Of Almerac♥ Donna Troy♥ Mari Jiwe McCabe♥ Jean Grey♥ Cyclops♥ Monet♥ Wanda Maximoff♥ Jubilee♥
CHECKMATE
GA: "She moves fast"..
F:"Compared to who?"
GA:"Hold her!"
F:"Does it look like I'm not trying!?"
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Think about it. Storm is never truly powerless regardless of her surroundings. Unless Vulcan decided to fight her with some form of energy not native to the universe I don't see how he was gonna out will her
Faves: Ororo Munroe♥ Maxima Of Almerac♥ Donna Troy♥ Mari Jiwe McCabe♥ Jean Grey♥ Cyclops♥ Monet♥ Wanda Maximoff♥ Jubilee♥
CHECKMATE
GA: "She moves fast"..
F:"Compared to who?"
GA:"Hold her!"
F:"Does it look like I'm not trying!?"
♡♡♡
She ain't a bad actress but I've watched her very long time ago. These days, I don't know how much experience she has under the belt but when I saw her in one of the Disney Shows she was meh to mediocre to okay as an actress.
I agree, but will he be able to kick Storm's butt is what I wonder since now when we have Storm beating Vulcan who has beaten a lot powerful characters in the past like Black Bolt, Adam Warlock and so on. Storm is on an entirely different level. I wonder if that has something to do with her semi-energy form on one of the issue covers.
After vulcan I am not going to doubt ororo under ewings pen again. Theorizing is fun but it kinda made the storm Vulcan battle feel underwhelming to me at first till I fully processed it. So I think we should wait on the issue. But Gain theorizing is superfan and hyped us up for the book.