I know Maddie has her fans, but I think she's the one character, just the one, where you can apply the sentence "this character is a mistake" literally. Plain and simple. Her existence is justified by the fact that Claremont wanted to have his cake and eat it too, because he needed to retire Scott to give Storm time to shine, but wanted to go through the route that made Scott look like he was completely obsessed with Jean and nothing else. If you asked me to choose one thing for Hickman to reboot out of canon, it would be Madelyne's existence. I'm glad they forgot Wood brought her back and hope nobody goes down that well again.
"Wow. You made Spider-Man sad, congratulations. I stabbed The Hulk last week"
Wolverine, Venom Annual # 1 (2018)
Nobody does it better by Jeff Loveness
"I am Thou, Thou Art I"
Persona
Marvel should just have turn Maddie into Jean's reincarnation with amnesia, she wins her memories back and she returns to be Jean Grey again.
Well, I like Maddie a lot. But I like her because of Inferno. So people saying "Omg Marvel ruined this random civillian love interest that for no reason looked exactly like her husband's dead girlfriend by actually creating an explanation for that and making her a great villain" always feels pretty ridiculous to me.
"Wow. You made Spider-Man sad, congratulations. I stabbed The Hulk last week"
Wolverine, Venom Annual # 1 (2018)
Nobody does it better by Jeff Loveness
"I am Thou, Thou Art I"
Persona
"This is starting to sound like a bad comic book plot"
-Spider-man
“Evil is evil...lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same."
-Geralt of Rivia
Look it was 90s, Tony wasn't hip enough anymore, so the "too cool for school" remplacement was needed . Being serious, yeah it was bad, at least you can find some positive stuff in the Clone Saga, not so much in The Crossing. To be honest, writers got really weird in the 90s with some characthers, like Wolverine turning into a noseles beast or Punisher turning into a black guy.
"Wow. You made Spider-Man sad, congratulations. I stabbed The Hulk last week"
Wolverine, Venom Annual # 1 (2018)
Nobody does it better by Jeff Loveness
"I am Thou, Thou Art I"
Persona
I like the concept of Madelyne but I don't think she's ever been used to her fullest potential. It honestly would just be easier to make her Jean's reincarnation, and give Jean that needed edge of being a badass "flatscan" for a while before her powers / memories would resurface in time for X-Factor. Inferno could be a story that centers entirely around Magik, who is ultimately the single character to come out of it with lasting consequences - bar maybe Cable but surely something could be done with him then as well.
"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
Not really a edge, but another love interest that isn't Scott. And the whole "I shouldn't be attracted to this guy oops" that put a minor flaw
It's stronger on movies. I still don't get why it is so important to comicsthe triangle has been more of a thing in outlets that casual fans are more apt to know the characters. Thats why it matters