Originally Posted by
jmc247
The kinda there is deserved as calling them friends is stretching it. Writers don't take risks with Lorna's supposed friendship circle while they take all the risks on her relationships that should be much much more stable as such her core relations are garbage now.
Rogue has a well-developed and cool frienemey relationship with Captain Marvel because a writer once took a risk with them and from the look of the cover in January, they are still mining that and will be in this story arc.
Magneto has interesting, strong, and provocative relationships with all of the X-Men including Storm, Jean, and on and on. Why is that?
It's because among the mainline heroines (Rogue, Storm, Jean, etc.) their core relationships were set long ago, and writers are reluctant to take risks too far from what was previously established there. Among the anti-heroes/anti-villains like Magneto, Emma, Mystique, etc. writers are willing to take a degree of risks and have relations blow up and them improve and go this way and that.
Lorna didn't have any friends among the X-Men in the 80s or 90s. She was friendly with Jean and Scott, but that was really about it. She did fight them many times, but that was possessed so writers can say it doesn't count or impact Lorna's mainline heroine status. Having anti-hero moments isn't the same as anti-hero status. Alot of characters including Jean and Rogue have anti-hero moments. I am going to be frank Lorna's problem isn't Marvel hates her, it is editorial has designated her a mainline heroine and that doesn't work for her.
The last era to understand this was the early 00s and her militancy actually produced interesting relationships with other X-Men for a short time. That ended when Austen left. I very much like Rogue's character, but am I excited to see Rogue and Lorna interact in space? Is anyone here really?
I can only hope some risks are taken there otherwise much like the many years Rachel and Lorna were on the same teams in space and on X-Factor Rogue and Lorna will be entirely forgettable as all Lorna's other friendships are. By the same token forced drama doesn't move the ball forward. It has to come from real differences among the characters.