Maggott and WildChild should be the new Gambit and Bishop. But with way more sex work metaphors.
Maggott and WildChild should be the new Gambit and Bishop. But with way more sex work metaphors.
I mean, what is Jean supposed to say. "Hey, in your current agitated state, you will almost certainly lose yourself to the entity that has resulted in my death many times. My plan involves jamming a phoenix fragment from one of the people I despise into you in hopes you won't just spontaneously combust and can survive to maybe not have your consciousness overwhelmed by a power that has existed since time began. What you say?"
It wasn't a good situation, and Jean was understandably extremely concerned. A Phoenix incident was happening and the one person who had successfully navigated them before was on the wrong side of the rainbow bridge.
Jean with the Phoenix Force/Dark Phoenix is great and I miss it a lot. Jean with the Phoenix Force isn't old or boring, stories with them are over-told. There's no need to tell so many stories with it, let alone in stories not with the X-Men (Aaron's asgardian stuff or Thanos stuff—blegh!)
And there's certainly no need to pass it around to every other character in the Marvel universe or X-Men. It belongs with Jean. Don't want to use it? Just leave it dormant inside of her, mentioning it every now and then.
Last edited by KangMiRae; 08-29-2019 at 05:31 PM.
I think that with Jean fans it tends to go either way. And a lot of people are tired of the Phoenix in general.
I personally liked Jean without the Phoenix at first when we were still on the hype of Red and PR and etc, but now I think that Jean without the Phoenix - after what had been established under Morrison et al - is missing a facet of the character.
"We come into this world alone and we leave the same way. The time we spent in between - time spent alive, sharing, learning together... is all that makes life worth living." - Jean Grey
Beast is gay. Change my mind.
The Jim Lee / 90s costumes were pretty much all bad.
The Phoenix should have been shelved after the DPS, now it only derails Jean as a character or is whored as a cheap power up.
Jean should be able to get the Phoenix at will. As in, she says, sorry dude I changed my mind, and the bird rushes through space to get to her.
Not every X-men is A-list material, nobody should be the focus of everything but paying attention to every minor character on a franchice with as many as the X-men is a waste of time. Use them when they are needed but don't push them just because.