When? When editorial needed a bad guy for AvX (Scott), IvX (Emma). Neither of them made any sense, and have since been completely ignored even by the characters that participated in them. What makes you think they won't throw Bishop under the bus again when they need a time travel bad guy?
That's called tone-deafness. On paper, putting two major time travelers in a grand conflict sounds cool. Or they thought that one's existence made the other redundant (which is true).
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They had Bishop go because he was one of two characters on the X-Men to regularly go through time, the other being Rachel. You're insinuating that they did it because he's the black guy who time travels, when in all likelihood it was that he was the time traveler who happened to be black. It honestly sounds like the story was written for Trevor Fitzroy to be the bad guy, but they didn't want to bring him back for some reason.
It was definitely racially insensitive to have a black man’s undoing and character assassination at the hands of an old white man and a white girl. No doubt about that. But I’m sure it wasn’t done out of any particular malice for the character or that it was done solely because Bishop was black.
Since I've been on CBR (around 2012), the X-books forum has always been by far the most negative in the entire site. Name a popular run that people look at fondly now and at least 60% of the forum members hated it when it was actually running lol. Only the Wonder Woman sub-forum comes close in negativity and even that ain't really close.
Hickman's run isn't gonna be any different so I think JDW should honestly just not read the forum. It's not worth it at all lmao
My observational experience so far has actually been the opposite. People hyping up a writer and their writing, playing defense to criticism and complaints, then by the end the defense part drops away. Only exception being when it's events/stories clearly designed to tear the X-Men franchise down.
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The negativity was there but all I can remember from that time you talk about was the thread that wasnt devoted to x-men...someone even tried to get a Fantasy football league together!!!! That thread always had the most responses.
I remember all other sections of CBR hated going to the X-Men part because everyone was so snarky.
That hasnt changed.
The main topic at the time was if homosexuality was natal or environmental factors. Crazy stuff.
Actually its still there...I just never click on it. lol
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Hopefully one day users understand that trying to undermine and devalue entire works by constantly calling them "filler" or "useless" may not put them in the best light with a group editor or the attached writers.