Since it's been some time since I actually went with the thread's purpose:
In our universe where the sliding timescale is a thing, the X-Men shouldn't have any overall leader that isn't Cyclops or Storm if any of these two are alive.
"But other characters should have a shot at it!" No. You don't see people going out of their way to say that anyone should have a shot at the Phoenix Force (since that comes most from writers than readers) or at wielding Mjolnir or being a herald of Galactus. The only runs people ever care about have one of these two as leaders anyway. I don't mind auxiliary teams like X-Force, X-Factor or Excalibur. But X-Men should be Scott and/or Ororo alone.
we need an x dudes dating sim to fund the xline
Sunspot should always be colored dark as hell because his power is a literal melanin metaphor fantasy.
While I like Bishop and Cable on occasion, the time traveler from possible future/alternate reality thing should never have gone beyond Rachel.
If we have to have one other, I'd pick Bishop.
X-men under Jean leadership was pretty good. Very few times X-men weren't under Scott leadership
Well, this will come as no surprise to anyone, right?
The entire Vulcan retcon was a horrible train wreck. The "rewrite" the core X-Men (where the new team comes together to rescue the original) - and say there was a team in between?
One we never knew or saw?
Because Professor Xavier erased everyone's memories due to shame?
Hold on - so when John Proudstar dies a few weeks later - wiping out everyone's memory of John Proudstar (namely, you know his brother, especially?) didn't happen?
How does that make sense?
And then to say Katherine Summers was pregnant at the time of the abduction? When repeated stories and panels show her not to be?
What?
And somehow that made more sense than to use Adam as a genetic make up of D'Ken (looking for an heir) using Katherine's DNA (clearly she's got good genes, since she produced Cyclops and Havok) was too complicated? (You know, as Fabian who introduced the "Summers brotherS" comment - intended to do with Adam)...
The longer version is here. If you're so inclined.
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Well to be fair, Maddie was NEVER intended to be a clone of Jean in any single way... that came much, much later, when they decided to do X-FACTOR and needed an easy reason for Scott to leave... Jean alive... OK. But him just bailing on Maddie seems harsh. Oh. Let's just make her a clone of Jean.
Effing horrible.
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