Originally Posted by
zinderel
So, like...did you READ HoX/PoX...? Cause it made things perfectly clear that the ENTIRE POINT OF This era is that the survival of the mutant race may very well depend on EXACTLY ‘getting into bed with people who destroy civilizations as a hobby’...and getting them to work alongside the rest of the species as a unified front instead of a bunch of splinter cells working at cross purposes. They have tried it every possible configuration - from being heroes, to being straight up villains, to everything in between - and NONE of it has worked. The whole POINT of Krakoa is to do something that HASN’T been done before.
Instead of continuing petty squabbles over territory, or pitched battles over failed attempts at world domination, or bowing and scraping and licking humanity’s boots and being good little dogs in between genocides the way they’ve been doing and have done in multiple different realities, mutantkind is coming together - good, bad and in between - and agreeing to follow the rules and laws laid out by the Council for the sake of the future of their race. No more putting humanity and their wants and needs and prejudices first. Krakoa is about Mutants First, but not mutants only.
Sure, most of the villains have side schemes and back up plans and what not. Of COURSE they do. Many of the worst have seen civilizations rise and fall and wouldn’t agree to these terms unless there was some benefit to them. Like a life that isn’t a constant struggle for survival and acceptance...
If Charles and the rest had tried the same old crap as always - the crap people around here seem insistent that they go back to... - that never worked, they wouldn’t have gotten the ‘bad’ mutants onboard, meaning that those ‘worst of the worst’ would still be out there, wild cards who could - and WOULD - mess everything up AGAIN. With them onboard with Krakoa and fighting for the future together, it’s a LOT easier to keep tabs on them and make sure they DONT cross those lines and fall back into old patterns.
Sure, Shaw is being awful as usual.
Sure, Sinister is being shady.
Sure this is all likely to blow up in everyone’s faces.
That’s comics, for ya...
But, for now, these villains are operating on an island full of telepaths and technopaths and animal speakers and plant speakers and healers and biokinetics and...they are likely under CONSTANT watch, and not just by the Krakoan leadership, but the general populace is likely keeping from turning their backs to these people. Optimistic dummies (of the sort some seem to want ALL the X-Men to be again...) May trust them right away, but I HIGHLY doubt that everyone is just shrugging and accepting with open arms and complete trust. Notice how many of the ‘worst of the worst’ tend to spend a lot of time alone or with other former villains. Hell, I would not be surprised to find that there’s an ex-Villains support group a la Wreck It Ralph!
But anyway, yeah the villains are likely being watched all the time for now, this early into things. They are being given roles and are treated as equals with full citizen rights, but that doesn’t mean people have forgotten. They’re just...moving on for the sake of their race’s survival. They have no wants here, no hunger, no sickness, no homelessness, no running from government sanctioned murderbots or angry mobs out for blood. Nor are they dreading death anymore. And the longer Krakoa manages to WORK, the more likely these villains are to become FORMER villains.
Rehabilitation over retribution, with retribution still on the table for those who (like Creed) can’t get their sh*t together....
What an eeeeeevul fascist cult...