Psylocke recreating her body had the worst timing because Disassembled came right after, and then AoXM right after that. It'll be interesting to see what is happening with her in the Dawn of X.
Psylocke recreating her body had the worst timing because Disassembled came right after, and then AoXM right after that. It'll be interesting to see what is happening with her in the Dawn of X.
"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
I really like the idea of him being a "Wolverine" villain, rather than a recurring X-Men villain.
The way things are now, someone on another forum posted what could happen with the character. Not ideal, but the best thing for him these days.
He's lost his edge & effectiveness as a villain in the X-verse period. And all of his good appearances since 2017 have been in outside books.
Unpopular opinions huh...
-Wolverine is an over-hyped, over exposed mess of a character who should have stayed dead and didn't need the multiple replacements he got when he was.
-House of X/Powers of 10 isn't going to fix anything. Its going to make a bigger mess of X-things for an extended period of time.
-Magik's been more of a villain than a hero and should have just gone back to Limbo and stayed there
-Magneto needs to just stick to being either a good guy or a bad guy for a nice long while. Ping-ponging back and forth is getting ridiculous.
-The Iceman solo was a good book despite some of the issues and one of the best X-books to come out for awhile
-The X-universe is full of plenty of characters who could maintain some solid solo books if they had decent writers and editors gave them a chance.
YES! That's the thread that got me thinking. First I wanted to get away from him being a born mutant cause 1. there's too many, and 2. I want his character concept to be about exploitation.
I'd warp him with Captain Britain's Slaymaster in order to contrast the two characters. Captain Britain as heroic masculinity that's outlived it's era, and Sabretooth/Slaymaster as it's inverse: toxic masculine domination via exploitation that persists and corrupts. The Wolverine comparisons would persist, but Wolverine seeks atonement, whereas Sabretooth seeks domination.
“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
I dont feel Magneto has done much ping ponging back and forth. He had a long stint as an anti hero from Claremont's Excalibur up until the end of Bunn's Blue last year. Thats almost 15 years. He's only had two major appearances since then (X-men Black and Disassembled) and he was more neutral there given the stories.
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“Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.” Goethe
Magneto being a member of the X-Men and just hanging around like he's Rogue is mega wack
I don't blind date I make the direct market vibrate
I loved 'Michael Xavier' Magneto from New Mutants, but he was always struggling with his nature(knowing he could never be like Charles, not really), and it's almost like his Hellfire Club membership(which he started with Storm, but she moved more away from that(especially after the whole Fall of the Mutants thing being 'killed' and all) leaving only him interacting with Selene, Sebastian, and Emma on the regular) corrupted him back to villainy(especially after he lost Cypher and then the whole class of kids when they went off on their adventures), where he eventually(after all that Savage Land craziness) becomes Claremont's X-Men vol 2 1991 Magneto, who we basically had all through the 90s. I think that's basically the best Magneto; leader of his people(first the Acolytes on Asteroid M/Avalon, and then Genosha in the later 90's), powerful and ruthless when necessary, a statesman, something of a messiah, with the grandiose self-image to match that. He's noble, but still scary, like a really charismatic cult leader/terrorist.
Bunn's Magneto was like a serial killer. I just don't see how we can accept him as a 'hero' if that word has any meaning anymore. I think Magneto is best as his own entity apart from the X-Men. They can occasionally work together against a common enemy, but they shouldn't be hanging out on the regular. Magneto has his own viewpoint and the power to back it up. He doesn't need the X-Men, and they shouldn't want to work with him unless they have no other choice. I feel the same about Emma. She's better off on her own, with her own team/school/group like the Hellions/Hellfire Club.
Let the flames destroy all but that which is pure and true!
Speaking of Magneto, here's an unpopular opinion: he should have stayed dead after Claremont left the books in 1991. X-Men vol. 2 #3 was the perfect ending for him and the character arc Claremont had written for him.