Originally Posted by
Vic Vega
The Illuminati understood everything but their own pre-existing personality issues.
They thought they could get Captain America to sign off on premeditated mass murder.
They thought they could condone genocide in self defense (other than the char who was already a mass murderer).
They thought they could get Namor to play nice in a group setting without Captain America around to calm him down(Namor treats his old war buddies better than everybody else).
They thought they could tell Doctor Doom to sit down and shut up and that he actually would do it.
But everybody on that team has a rep for being somewhat arrogant (other than the Beast, maybe).
Which...works if you aren't invested in seeing these character treated like icons with an innate sense of right and wrong.
So it was interesting to see what a team of commanding Reed Richards, Doc Strange, Beast and T'Challa types would get up to without the Caps, Hawkeyes, Sue Richards and Jean Greys around group to counterbalance them.
And it got ugly.