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hey remember when marvel decided to dress up the one black bisexual man at the hellfire gala like a slur?

because i do.

i remember.

#superthoughts #supertalk #xmen #it was prodigy btw #being reminded of krakoa got me to remember this #they decided prodigy should wear an outfit with wings #fairy wings #they dressed him up as a fa*ry #aka the other f-slur #i wouldn't be surprised if they tried to get a design passed that had one of the few gay people dressed in twigs #THAT'S the level of malicious bullshit we're dealing with #thanks marvel #the fact leah williams was involved in these hellfire gala designs (especially the more problematic shitty ones)#tells you all you need to know really #ramblings

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wellnoe

obviously scott and corsair’s relationship is kind of complicated and distant in a way that is partially corsair’s fault, but i am very sympathetic to corsair!! it’s not like he walked out on his children one day, he went through a deeply traumatic experience and now has a difficult time connecting with his eldest. and to be frank, adult scott isn’t exactly very open with him.

bam-monsterhospital

as much as i have a knee-jerk reflex for being on board with setting up any and all scott parental/authority figures as shitty and damaging....... i’m a little conflicted with corsair. Sure, scott’s character mechanics and the tragedy of it all would work... BUT, what happened to corsair really makes me want the whole thing to be ammended to paint him sympathetically

and not sympathetically in a shitty ‘oh feel bad for him, he was just larping in space so hard, can’t you see he’s sorry? boo hooo’ kinda way, but sympathetic as in given understandable reasons for not returning to earth.

it’s not even difficult: you can just be like “oh well, he was told after the abduction that his boys didn’t survive the jump from the plane”. So after he loses his wife and thinks his kids are dead, he really would have nothing on earth to live for (shhh, i’m pushing aside his parents still being alive, just ignore it). SO, after claiming vengeance for katherine of COURSE he wouldn’t go back to the planet where he lost so much; it’d just remind him of his dead family.

see? done. it’s not hard, marvel.

buuut the problem is marvel’s so wishy washy with corsair, so you end up getting that scene where -while he’s failing at reconnecting with scott- him and scott get into an argument about corsair running away from responsibility and then he ends up lashing out and hitting scott. And yes, sure it’s ‘just played for drama’, but:

you don’t hit your kid, even if they’re an adult. like. can we stop normalizing doing a hit on people when we get frustrated? i don’t have the energy to unpack all the levels of horrible that is.
with the context of what scott’s lived through, (constant child abuse, manipulation and abuse at xavier’s hands, and being hit by him and other people he trusted during simple heated disagreements) it’s super fucked up. It’s extremely fucked up. Like, congrats, corsair, you just turned out to be like every other horrible father figure in your son’s life.

i don’t know. for me it just oversteps a line. the horror and tragedy of it is fascinating, but scott’s suffered enough; can’t he just have this one parental figure who isn’t an absolute creep?

#sorry for the long hijacking-of-sorts reblog #it just got me thinking #xmen #supertalk #superthoughts #corsair #don't get me wrong i still love skirting the line with corsair #a corsair who's an absolute shit gremlin #fuckin sugar-snorting wine aunt style of relative #the embodiment of chaos in your family #it's fun and works with the pirate bullshit #and ALSO works well with scott's characteristics #you see this fuckin cockroach of a man fly by the seat of his pants and you're like 'how have you survived'#and then you realized he planned the whole thing and has had plans within plans forever #and you're like 'omg... i see how he's scott's dad now'#i like THAT about corsair

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wellnoe

way back when krakoa was just getting started i saw a tweet theorizing that charles was actually walking around in a cloned scott body and i have never wanted anything more in my life

wellnoe

this one

bam-monsterhospital

oh god. that’s..... that’s horrific......... and absolutely right up charles’ alley, wow.

i automatically just assumed he was using another fantomex body.

#xmen #supertalk #superthoughts #i would hate and love that #and be on board for it #IF #iiiiiiffffffff #the writing was focused on characters #aka if i had any faith in the writing to be able to tackle such layered horror and abuse and violation #but i don't #because i mean...#just look at the krakoan era #just look at it #ugh #fuck xavier #that's my xavier tag ;w;

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cthulhubrain

i’m glad i didn’t have to worry though.

because the writing for the doom patrol series has got my fucking back.

it’s like they knew. like the version of flex mentallo in this series is a giant fuck-you to morrison, because instead of being a love-letter to toxic traditional comicbook hypermasculinity and all the baggage and bullshit that brings,

this flex is instead an absolute sweetheart and i love him.

#doom patrol #superthoughts #supertalk #the morrison hate here is strong #just fyi #like you needed a reminder pahaha #ramblings

bam-monsterhospital

goddamn, every single day i remember astonishing xmen exists, i want to rip whedon a new one and lay down everything completely and utterly disgusting and vile about his run on xmen as related specifically to scott summers.

but i’m tired and busy and overwhelmed so the rage has to keep boiling under the surface intermittently.

#superthoughts #supertalk #whedon not only decided to wipe away a character's canon disability #that's just the tip of the fucking iceberg #he also decided to do what he always does #and throw out all aspects of character #and do the whedon thing where he writes the same set of gross archtypes over and over again #it's not scott is what i'm saying #it's the complete opposite of scott #ugh i have to stop before i give myself a headache

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newx-menfan

The other terrible thing about X-Men #4…

It just made me REALLY miss the era of Scott just not giving a f-.

Like renegade post-AvX Cyclops was just…fun.

Now we’re back to the “I am afraid I will fail everyone/disappoint Xavier/be a bad leader” insecure Scott…

GIF by solidsmax

bam-monsterhospital

but that’s what he’s been about since 1963, my dude. giving-a-fuck is cyclops’ bread and butter.

post avx doesn’t show a badass scott who doesn’t care anymore, it shows a broken, suicidal cyclops. A cyclops that the entire world (including close friends and family, including people he has done everything for. ... the xmen.) has turned against no matter what he did for it; no matter how much he bled, no matter how much he sacrificed and fought. yet he still cares, still deeply cares about all of them.

if you don’t want a character that’s constantly questioning themselves and battling their fears of fucking up/mistakes and their constant self-destructive perfectionism, then you don’t want scott summers.

you want someone like... wolverine, or something.

#supertalk #superthoughts #it's literally his whole thing #from how he views his own powers #to how they work/don't work especially with the brain damage #to him having to carry all the responsibility #first for people he loves #then for all of mutantkind #etc #scott summers #xmen #his nightmare was one of the few in-character bits we've gotten from this krakoa era #it's really bare-bones basic and doesn't do anything justice but... welp

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wellnoe

so in deadly genesis we find out that professor xavier mindwiped scott, something that is treated as a huge violation because it should be and so on and so forth. did we ever find out if jean knew about that?

wellnoe

anyway i think this is a topic that it makes sense to ask about/revisit if they are supposed to be together and also because they had a psychic link for a really long time. it seems to me that there are two options that kind of make sense and are fun.

option 1 is that she does, and went along with it bc she saw it as protecting or helping scott. we know that jean is more-or-less comfortable keeping secrets from scott, even secrets that concern him. also, scott and jean and the management of scott and how jean is a part of that or feels pressured to be is kind of interesting and something that could be asserted to be a very big part of their o5 lives to make this make sense. also also, jean has sometimes been hinted (or absolutely stated) to know more about what’s happening with the x-men than any of the other o5, in part bc of the role she sometimes assumes of charles’s confidant.

option 2 is that she doesn’t, that she never noticed bc she wasn’t there and they didn’t yet have a psychic link and she grew up with scott, so charles‘ psychic presence in scott’s mind seemed like a natural growth due to how much he appeared in all the x-men’s minds. in this option, i can see jean being very upset when she does find out, both because of the intrusion but also because it was something charles kept from her. even in x-men 25, when charles asks jean to help him do something she thinks is morally wrong, he at least brought her along.

one of these paints jean in a better light than the other, probably, but both could result in dramatic storylines i think.

#i love this #here's another question: since the revelation of all of this came at a point in which she was dead #when she came back #and eventually scott came back too #have they ever discussed this?#has she learned of this via other people?#she's currently living on the moon with vulcan sometimes #so... she has to know SOMETHING right?#superthoughts #supertalk #xmen #jean grey #scott summers #vulcan #deadly genesis #fuck xavier

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ndscottsummers

jean: ugh now that i have madelyne’s memories of sleeping with alex i can’t look him in the eye scott: madelyne’s memories of what

bam-monsterhospital

also, in other superhero comics news, i just read through all of the 2017 Mister Miracle series last night and it was actually decent! whaaaaaaaaaat.

like, i really don’t like tom king’s writing, but this comic was actually decent and an improvement on most of the tropes and pitfalls that mark king’s work. It was good surreal horror, Mitch Gerads’ art in it is amazing and gorgeous, showed barda and scott at their best, and just fjasklf;dsa. I really like it ouo

(it’s very disjointed, and while it’s supposed to be, sure, since that’s the point, the reader is supposed to notice something’s wrong with reality, I’m talking in the way king does dialogue and his choices towards character actions and interactions. also, i appreciate the explorations into mental illness and how prevalent it is and how it’s there forever that this comic attempts, but because it’s king, the explorations are surface-level only and just implied rather than explicitly acknowledging anything of substance. like the difference between giving mental illness the understanding, respect, and gravitas it deserves versus looking up symptoms on wikipedia and stopping there. This comic has a lot of potential with its themes, buuuuuuuut doesn’t quite deliver. but i still liked it.)

#supertalk #mr miracle #dc comics #apokolips #new gods #also the rewriting of granny goodness with scott and barda being amicable and loving #is bullshit #i understand it's supposed to be fucky and this is a diff dimension or whatethefuckever #but fuck that #no #thoughts #superthoughts #rambling

bam-monsterhospital

i just absolutely hate how xmen is now inhumans.

they’ve made the xmen the inhumans. de-humanized pompous alien fucks who are sooooooo superior to everyone else and live on their own lil island/satellite/alien zone.

it’s the opposite of what xmen has been, the role it has played not only in marvel comics but in superhero comics period since its inception. it’s the opposite of what drew people to xmen in the first place. it’s spitting in the face of what was important about xmen, and i’m so fucking tired of marvel.

#supertalk #xmen #rambling #superthoughts #inhumans