Lord Ewing *Praise His name! Uplift Him in song!* Your divine works will be remembered and glorified in worship for all eternity. Amen!
"Danielle... I intend to do something rash and violent." - Betsy Braddock
Krakoa, Arakko, and Otherworld forever!
The same reason why Batman never gets to kill Joker..."for story reasons".
Besides that obvious reasoning, Bullseye is human, a Vampyre or Dark Elf or Alien or Sentient Robot is not. Bullseye can and has been incapacitated and imprisoned...do tell, how would you incapacitate and imprison a Vampyre, a Dark Elf? (not that they can't be, but it is usually with greater difficulty than going up against a human foe).
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Lord Ewing *Praise His name! Uplift Him in song!* Your divine works will be remembered and glorified in worship for all eternity. Amen!
You can put a vampire and a dark elf in a prison just like Bullseye.
Make no mistake, I am in favor that sometimes heroes have justified killing. But there is an obvious hypocrisy of when they do it and when they don't. The average dark elf that invaded Earth in War of the Realms is no different from a human soldier, only more sadic.
And by real world standards, what do we do to sadistic serial killers who've been judged and found guilty according to human law?
And as I've mentioned human law...How would that apply to predatory Vampires and Aliens and Dark Elves once they've been held and placed before a jury?
Lord Ewing *Praise His name! Uplift Him in song!* Your divine works will be remembered and glorified in worship for all eternity. Amen!
It's hard for me to listen to someone not in my position. A caterpillar can't relate to what an eagle envisions.
Its a big reason I never liked the X-men outside of solo series.
Its definitely hypocritical that aliens/vampires/etc. get slaughtered while human enemies get punches pulled. It has to do with the level of the threat compared to how powerful the main characters are, too me at least.
I wonder if that 'innocent girl' wasn't a terrible person in the first place, one of the rich jaded folk invited to the Bloodstone estate to hunt and kill sapient creatures for sport, with the help of demon trackers... It's not really clear if she was one of the hunters who got tagged by the warwolves she was hunting, or some random civilian who somehow wandered into the middle of the Bloodstone estates private hunting preserve.
Seems like a waste of the character, but perhaps there's something deeper at work here.Also I'm still not over Cullen just randomly being being evil now.
Its really bizarre for Cullen to doing this, specifically, because he went through a massively traumatizing experience of Arena which is pretty close to being hunted for sport.
I think the problem with Excalibur is that it feels like a collection of C-plots, and not a cohesive A or B plot to it.
I'm not so sure Shogo's getting the boot. If Howard didn't want to bother with him, why not just have Jubes leave him with the older kids on Krakoa or something? It seems more like Shogo's dragon issues are Jubilee's hook into this story. Though I wouldn't be surprised if he gets aged up at some point; we've already touched on fey environments having odd effects on mortal children.
When someone kills a vampire, it's usually while said vampire is feeding. Even Blade doesn't usually go after them if they're just minding their own business. In fact, there's a whole city of monsters right under NYC and now there's an offshoot of that on Staten Island.
Umm...where did the warewolf even get that girl? Didn't Cullen just buy them from the zoo? Did Cullen put some poor girl on his property just for them to catch and skin?
They may or may not be building toward his exit. I do think they may be working toward something built around the theme of belonging and where Shogo belongs. Compare Krakoa to Otherworld. In Krakoa, Shogo is just a non-mutant human child. The only one of his kind on the island. Otherworld, by contrast, turns Shogo into something that belongs there. Both of these contrast to most of the planet Earth where he could fit in reasonably easily if it weren't for the fact he were being raised by a mutant.
I sure hope they don't get rid of him. I know all the arguments against him staying around. But one of the big themes with Jubilee always seemed to be "found family" and nothing really pushes that theme forward more explicitly than Jubilee being an adoptive mom.