Your Unpopular/Controversial Opinions on the X-Universe

[yogaflame]

Storm is too powerful.

Everyone else is just too weak....

But I agree with the concept: Storm is too strong and wise to be so minor in the events these days. I hope whatever Hickman has in store for her Giant Size issue is meaty enough to serve her strengths.

[Su_Whisterfield]

The following X-Men should've lost their mutant powers in M-Day. Most have other skills, powers, professions or interests that the opportunity provided. Most could've STILL been viable X-Men or staff with no powers.

Rogue
Gambit
Psylocke
Bishop
Mystique
Nightcrawler
Kitty Pryde
Beast
Archangel
Havok
Dazzler
Colossus

Kurt was more creatively written in Excalibur, when he could only ‘port once a day (Kitty was well written too, but of course, her powers went the other way in that period, being ‘on’ all the time).

[Havok83]

Kurt was more creatively written in Excalibur, when he could only ‘port once a day (Kitty was well written too, but of course, her powers went the other way in that period, being ‘on’ all the time).

When was this?

Speaking of Excalibur...Marvel shouldnt have cancelled the first series when it did and they most certainly shouldnt have gotten rid of the bulk of the cast on the flagship X-men books to make space for Kitty, Kurt and Piotr

[yogaflame]

When was this?

Speaking of Excalibur...Marvel shouldnt have cancelled the first series when it did and they most certainly shouldnt have gotten rid of the bulk of the cast on the flagship X-men books to make space for Kitty, Kurt and Piotr

When Kurt woke up from his coma(from the injuries he sustained in Mutant Massacre), he was still hurt and couldn't teleport often(or at all) without intense pain and weakness, almost killing him at times. It took a long time for him to get strong again(and be able to rapid teleport, and carry people, and go far). In modern canon he has far exceeded his classical limitations. But during that early Excalibur run, he emphasized his acrobatic fighting abilities and leadership qualities. Almost akin to Ororo's time after losing her powers and all that.

[CRaymond]

Marrow should be trans.

[CRaymond]

Jamie Braddock should be trans.

[Agent Z]

M-Day should have been an opportunity to push a bunch of secondary and tertiary characters to the foreground.

[Glio]

In a way I agree with the fact that Storm is too powerful. When she is "just" an omega with a reasonable scope of her powers, she is fine, she has great destructive power but defensively she is only human. Summon hurricanes, hail, lightning ... All that seems reasonable to me.

Stories where she starts doing things like "controlling solar storms", "getting air out of people's lungs" or "becoming invisible" no longer seem reasonable to me. There are stories where she even causes earthquakes and controls lava, which I can't even understand anymore. Yes, the writer comes out with some unusual explanation but it always seems asspull.

Exactly the same thing happens to me with Magneto.


Regarding Jubilee, she is powerful. But like Cyclops for example, they very rarely use their powers to the fullest because
1) They are afraid of collateral damage
2) It would be very boring. They would end the fights on a panel by vaporizing everything in front of them.

[Snoop Dogg]

Limited powers = forces creativity, requires more thought to be put into conflicts, leads to more interesting encounters

Broad powers = encourages laziness, makes it harder to raise stakes, forces the reader to suspend more disbelief

That is why knife-fight Storm and nail-hurling Magneto are so baller.

[CRaymond]

Regarding Jubilee, she is powerful. But like Cyclops for example, they very rarely use their powers to the fullest because
1) They are afraid of collateral damage
2) It would be very boring. They would end the fights on a panel by vaporizing everything in front of them.

X-writers never explored creative, strategic, and nonlethal applications of her specific style of pyrokinesis. I agree she is powerful, but the circumstances of her tenure with the X-Men never allowed her to be seen as anything more than a reluctant sparkler. Sidelined with the X-Men, then being the plucky veteran amongst teens with more interesting stories, then getting crucified, then losing her powers to M-Day, then becoming a vampire.

[PrezValentine]

Limited powers = forces creativity, requires more thought to be put into conflicts, leads to more interesting encounters

Broad powers = encourages laziness, makes it harder to raise stakes, forces the reader to suspend more disbelief

That is why knife-fight Storm and nail-hurling Magneto are so baller.

That's why I'll never understand people who prefer broken ass Hamon over well established Stands.

[Havok83]

Regarding Jubilee, she is powerful. But like Cyclops for example, they very rarely use their powers to the fullest because
1) They are afraid of collateral damage
2) It would be very boring. They would end the fights on a panel by vaporizing everything in front of them.

Vaporizing everything? LOL...no one wants or expects that. Most of the time Jubilee is written more like a nuisance


I mean they could at least make her damage more than Chibi Moon

[TheCape]

That's why I'll never understand people who prefer broken ass Hamon over well established Stands.

Joseph make it look cool. But yeah, Hamon could be literally anything, that s@#% was broken.

[spirit2011]

X-writers never explored creative, strategic, and nonlethal applications of her specific style of pyrokinesis. I agree she is powerful, but the circumstances of her tenure with the X-Men never allowed her to be seen as anything more than a reluctant sparkler. Sidelined with the X-Men, then being the plucky veteran amongst teens with more interesting stories, then getting crucified, then losing her powers to M-Day, then becoming a vampire.

Yeah I don't think they explored jubilee powers, she can do more than fireworks

[houndsofluv]

Marrow should be trans.

Jamie Braddock should be trans.

I'm super intrigued by these , care to shed a lil more light?