The agreement also provides Disney with the opportunity to reunite the X-MEN with the Marvel family under one roof and create richer, more complex worlds of inter-related characters and stories that audiences have shown they love. It only makes sense for Marvel to be supervised by one entity. There shouldn't be two Marvels.
It's not that she's always probing people's minds. In fact, usually telepaths like Jean and Xavier can actively block off people's thoughts to ensure their privacy. However, strong thoughts or impassioned feelings usually get sensed and Rogue's intent was so clear in that moment that it seems hard to believe it didn't jump out at Jean. Even if Jean hadn't sensed what Rogue was about to do, as pointed out, she could have stopped it with telekinesis.
In Kurt's case, I think it was both shock and disbelief that Rogue would do this. He wasn't prepared because he would never have guessed she'd do something like this especially after the tender moment they shared previously. Kurt is primed to see the good in people especially in his sister.
I don't know why this is such a shock. He was probably the most significant new villain introduced in the 90s. Was the big bad of one of the X-Men's most popular video games (which has been confirmed to have been an inspiration for this storyline). Have X-Men fans just become so used to the mediocrity of the 21st century that they can't imagine anything before that resonating still? It's like when I go on Reddit and see new X-Men readers claim they can't get into Claremont's writing because stories like The Dark Phoenix Saga and Days of Future Past are too "old-fashioned," and they only like the new stories.
Beau confirms that Maddie's vision of a child drawing the X-Mansion is Nathan. Looks like we'll see some of his childhood in the future.
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OZT was a great crossover back in the day, nanobot Sentinels are super-scary. Bastion can be interesting, but it all depends on the execution. The OG OZT was awesome, the Xavier protocols gave Bastion the perfect opening attack and he easily took down the X-men. The whole government had turned against them, and they had to escape DUMBs and sneak around.
The only thing that sucked was the ending though. Shield just swoops in and saves them. Super anticlimactic. If Beau can preserve the best parts but make a better ending, it's a solid story and excellent progression to the Sentinels in the OG season 1.
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Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!
That’s not really how telepathy works. It’s a power that can’t be turned off. It’s merely a power they ignore for the sake of their own sanity. That’s why you see them randomly catching thoughts in the comics at times.
The best way I think of it is a cafeteria full of people talking at the same time. You try to segment the voices to background and try to focus on the people you are talking to if you are with someone. If not, you try to block out everyone completely.
Thus, someone thinking loudly in their brain or having intense feelings to a telepath would be the equivalent of taking out a pair of loud speakers or a megaphone. Very difficult to ignore, no matter how much you want to ignore.
Now, consider that Trask is a suicidal, genocidal maniac feeling intense guilt over the consequences of his actions, yet still describes normal humans as separate from mutants. Make sense?
Are you saying Jean was too busy listening to Trask's thoughts and not Rogue's? The question is why nobody tried to save Trask when we know Kurt and Morph both could have and wanted to, and if Jean also wanted him dead. (which there's zero evidence of. Unlike Scott and Beast, she has shown no "I'm done with this" towards humans)
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I'm not going to deny that he's probably a fan favorite, or at least was at some point. But Bastion hasn't been in the mainstream consciousness for in decades, peaked in relevance almost 30 years ago and he's been comparatively underused ever since. That video game might have been popular by X-Men fans, but it's not exactly a cultural milestone. I can't blame people for not seeing him as a fan favorite.