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I don't want to debate about who is the most powerfull or who should win: Authors will do whatever they want anyway.
But those comments reminded me that many X-Men have powers that are only "kept in check" because they are unwilling to kill their adversaries. Inverted X-Men should be more than eager for blood and use their powers in the deadliest way. Which would be quite different.
For example, Nightcrawler can teleport part of someone body (the last time it was shown was in Axis: Révolutions 2). Kitty can render her hand solid inside someone else body (she did it a few times). Or a TK can squash someone's brain/heart to pulpe (Jean gave a stroke to someone that way) and so on.
It's kinda weird not to see the inverted X-Men use their powers in more gruesome ways and with less restraint. (Guess we can be glad about it as it would have really ugly results for the characters themseves)
That's another silly thing about Axis: The heroes are shown to be evil, bloodthirsty, without morality and yet, nobody managed to kill anyone. So they can all walk away from that more or less clean. Or at least clean of murder.
You can even say that about villains a lot if the time. There are a million instances where the villains have captured the good guys and could have killed them. But they usually don't. That's kind of how comics work. The body count is always unrealistically low. And overall that's probably a good thing.
Also keep in mind that not all the X-Men are present at the battle. So those worrying about the X-Men getting a beatdown...well...Thor required a magical axe and Apocalypse was doing very well till then.
A team of Storm, Havok, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Rogue, Colossus, Apocalypse could definitely be taken out by Thor + Apocalypse Kryptonite, Supercharged Hulk, etc..
Think Rogue is still active though.
Last edited by ExodusCloak; 12-19-2014 at 01:32 PM.
I like Cheung, but his inker is not doing him any favors. Looks choppy and not up to his regular standards.
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To be honest a lot of superheroes(not all bt good chunk of them) have their powers "kept in check" only by their essentially good nature and not being a sociopath. After all ALL superstrong characters(evenif "weak" like Spidey) had to CONTROL their strenght 24/7 least accidentally causing a carnage of unbelivable level(think about a friendly fist-bump by the Thing, or Colossus or the Hulk...unless they control their strenght with extreme precision the risk of snapping someone arm off is considerable..I always found weird how much fine control superstrong guys have!)
In Marvel Zombie series it was stated that took 1 week for zombified Marvel heroes to KILL NEAR ALL HUMANKIND!! this give an idea of what unchecked superheroes can accomplish....
with regard to an avenger's fate; doesn't "synergy" sort of require wasp to, you know, die?
Again? After all the trouble the first time and undoing that one caused? Stupid synergy if that is the case.
In the meantime, having read the preview, the trope "Evil Feels Good" definitely comes to mind, since the Inverted Avengers are so bent on not being reverted to their former (more) heroic selves. On the upside, Jim Cheung does a pretty good job drawing the Superior Iron Man armor.
The spider is always on the hunt.