Sunspot had some really great development in the Avengers but hasn’t been used lately. He is one of my favorites and has a power set that if really utilized to its full potential would make him very formidable.
And the other point is, are a company like Marvel prepared to invest time in growing characters sympathetically in the way they did years ago? Or is it easier for them to stick with the status quo? These are possible reasons why there are not so many new introductions of any type in the headline X-Men books. I think there is pressure, obviously, to keep sales high on the main X-books so there has to be some of that line of thinking.
It has been proven possible in recent times, though, to introduce new ideas with all the members of the Champions being very interesting examples. In fairness there have been parts of that series I have really enjoyed. I guess some of those characters were given too big a push too early and had to be settled back a little, but further development will surely mean most of them could hold their own in a well written solo series. That being the case, there should be nothing stopping the decent use of characters in team books.
I don’t think there’s one clear answer but rather a few answers to that question. First of all they didn’t know what to do with Bishop until recently after what they did to him in messiah complex, so there’s that, he unlike most of the list has the advantage of coming to during the franchises heyday and the popular cartoon and he was still handled poorly. Comic reader demographic is diverse, the creators are not, that simple. I hope Gentle continues to get pushed and Darwin should be getting used, awesome character not because black just cool characters. Judging from the way the X-Men landscape is looking, the x-office wants to focus on the same main group of X-Men, O5, ANAD, and 90s babies oh and Wolverine off shots and that’s it.
Yes, it's a great story the part on quotas is just plain brilliant, where Duane Freeman after his rant about color selection in the Avengers (which is a valid point!) rejoices over the fact that there's still one mutant member but not more! Priceless!
Well are you going to say the obvious answer?
I believe:
1/3 of them are ugly as in "perversion of form" or "I wouldn't trade my real life for that, power-set"
1/3 of them are Zany... "Rainbow color spectrum field with with a burger king colored suit, and generic bald black guy look", and "My power is my that my sweat is acid", "Oh, my intestines are sentient war machines."
Even the power to heal... while cool, isn't exactly the superhuman lottery imho (my opinion, I don't want to hear about how awesome it is, I know I'd just rather be phoenix, thanks)
The rest have never been on the UNCANNY X-TEAM, they've been on derivative x-groups but.... it doesn't have the same reach.
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Then there is Robert.
Sunspot is black.
Some might argue, "bi-racial" but every effort to disassociate him from the black struggle because he's brazilian, should immediately cause you to raise an eye at that person.
Thats NOT the one drop rule at play, its his first appearance that ensconced him as such, SO much and SOOO HARD that he actyally managed to stay darkskinned for decades *success*
but the reason he's SO important is the Brazilian governments actions in the Favela the past years.
The afro-brazillians have been dealing with a genocide for a few years now and erasure of the sunspots dark skin is SUPER in line with that issue.
https://www.google.com/search?q=afro...=1920&bih=1007
^ Just to save the you the research at least check out the titles^
Sunspot should be the leader of the X-men. Period.
Trained by Cable. Trained by Gideon. Brought into the hellfire club. Brought onto the Avengers. Bought A.I.M. Raised at the foot of Xaviers dream.
He's Superman, or Hyperion level, the older he gets the more powerful he becomes which is likely why the externals sought him out for sooo long.... before some writer decided that. "Oops it should be cannonball that lives forever, and goes on to lead the struggle." Even the whole Reignfire thing was him, or at least based of his genetics.
Sunspot has caught on and if there weren't ALREADY plans for Cyclops to come back you could literally have the X-men be lead by a "BLACK MALE", but think... since he's masculine, straight, and dark skinned... he is far to great a threat to the "Status Quo" of the X-men. Jesus, what if Jean kisses HIM? Or maddy or Rachel, or manic pixie X-girl.
The effects of the utter and absolute fear of black male hetero-sexuality cannot be understated in the american diaspora. So I'm shipping him with Illyana. . .
Sunspot, Illyana, Madrox. A.I.M 2019
More seriously thought.... If they can't give us an Uncanny X-title or X-men... Lead by Sunspot in 2019 after all the other things he's done this last few years? Its because they don't want, what you want in their books. -M_v
My priority is enjoying and supporting stories of timeless heroism and conflict.
Everything else is irrelevant.
After his appearance in Deadpool 2 and rumored appearance in the upcoming X-Force, I'm kind of hoping that Jesse Bedlam is going to get another shot, the way Domino has.
Bedlam, Genesis and Sunspot would be my top choices to see more of, from the OPs list, although I'd add Windshear to that list.
...Isn't https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_(Marvel_Comics) white? Or are we talking about kid apocalypse here?
My priority is enjoying and supporting stories of timeless heroism and conflict.
Everything else is irrelevant.
Latinos are descendents of Latin America; it has nothing to do with race as you can be a black Latino, white Latino, mixed Latino, etc.
Not all Latinos are Hispanic; not all Hispanics are Latino.
Also, being Black and being African aren't the same thing. A black American isn't African unless they're from Africa or has immediate ancestry from the continent and its many countries. Just like not all whites are European.
Also, Dravidians are the result of slave trade in Asia. Little known history fact which gets swept under the rug.
On topic, it boils down to the writer. I wish other characters of colour like M, Frenzy or Idie were featured as much as Storm (especially considering Storm's flat personality in recent years). Most writers want to use the core cast which is pretty much the 1991 era teams with the occasional weird modern choice like Glob.
If a prominent writer wanted to tell a story with more characters of colour, they would use them.
It's especially annoying when Glob & Mojo seem to be EVERYWHERE these days, yet Monet has been back & forth to limbo and thrown in as an afterthought with the 2 books she was in. She was in Generation X, but treated as a low priority. Then she went to Weapon X where she was mis-characterized & served no purpose.
Hell, I think Mojo was in Mr. & Mrs. X. And he & Glob have been advertised & chosen for Uncanny before Monet or Sunspot. If they're gonna try to have Mojo be a major villain, they could stand to be pushing some other X-characters. lol
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Maggott. Unique design, bizarre power set, gross but apt codename, and a distinct and interesting backstory. Joe Kelly took what I've long presumed was a random, off-hand character design by Lobdell and Madureira and turned him into an interesting person with a history and understandable motivations.So maybe the question is better phrased as which character when introduced did you think this character is going to be the next great X-men character?
Then, of course, he was redshirt-ed by Frank Tieri. Such a waste of a good character.
I wish Morrison had gotten to use Maggott. That would've been a lot of fun to read.