Mesmero has definitely surpassed Unus and the Vanisher (Vanisher has even been a hero in a quite popular run, even if they had to blackmail him with a brain tumor)
Mesmero has definitely surpassed Unus and the Vanisher (Vanisher has even been a hero in a quite popular run, even if they had to blackmail him with a brain tumor)
I'm obvious pissed at that image.
Emma as a villain: 1981-1989, 2017-Present
Emma as a hero: 1991-2016
Now my math isn't great, but the second year set is FIFTEEN YEARS LARGER.
Emma is depicted in that pic with her oldschool White Queen outfit aka from when she was a villain.
Magneto and Callisto are on it too.
White Queen Emma makes sense. if she had her Astonishing or even Black King costume I would have been mad, but this just takes into account that the HF and the White Queen are still iconic X-Villains.
Black Tom is my hero.
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
i mean rogue's greatest accomplishment as a villain was ruining an avenger's life so maybe to x-fans she was always a hero
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
"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
She got that status by being the third string antagonist of one of, if not the most iconic X-Men series of all-time (PS/DPS), and then by being the main bad guy of Kitty's comic debut. During that whole time, she was (like most comic bad guys of the time) cartoonishly evil. Torturing people for giggles, exploding horses, releasing rapid dogs against kidnapping victims. She was one step away from snickering as Shaw tied helpless virgins to railroad tracks (which given the HFC's fondness for bondage may have happened at some point).
I take away Emma's time as a villain with the HFC because she was never less interesting. She was another cut and paste stupidly evil villain with no more motivation than "hurt people for giggles". She was just another pin from the X-Men bowling ball to knock over, fully interchangeable with Shaw, Leland, Pierce, or Selene.