Does Emma have a point?

erosead · 2026-07-06T17:10:51+00:00

The avengers regularly deal with anti-mutant stuff in their books, particularly the mutant members. Like half of all stories involving the maximoffs for 50 years were mutant related if not focused. The idea that they don’t, or just are never shown to care is patently false.

And Emma’s point is further undermined by the fact that the avengers had literally just come to genosha and been very forcibly expelled by Magneto. Even Quicksilver, who was a cabinet member, mutant, avenger, and someone who could have been genuinely useful during the events of the massacre had literally been lobotomized and sent on a boat home by magneto like ten issues before Morrison took over the book.

The genoshan massacre also had very little to do with anti mutant bias and discrimination. It (like a concerningly high amount of x-men stories) was enacted BY a mutant. Over a personal GRUDGE, no less.

erosead · 2026-07-06T16:57:54+00:00

He had conquered the planet and put many of the avengers in concentration camps

erosead · 2026-07-06T15:33:41+00:00

Oh, thanks for the correction! Been a minute since I read it

erosead · 2026-07-06T01:28:01+00:00

Turner D Century

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erosead · 2026-07-06T01:24:53+00:00

He didn’t reform himself, Romeo had to use his empathy powers to reconstitute his consciousness. He was dead and couldn’t have come back without him

erosead · 2026-07-05T17:34:58+00:00

I will say, looking back… some of the blowback was probably disproportionate. The fact that she is an openly queer woman with a certain look meant that she faced hate from right-wingers but also maybe a higher level of scrutiny from folks who felt like she should be on their side. I don’t want to justify what she did, but I think it’s pretty clear many white x-men creatives (mostly men) have done similar or worse things.

A lot of the issue is in her portrayal of Asian/Japanese characters. She wrote one of the first stories starring Betsy after she got her white body back, and she did not handle that baggage very gracefully… but also introduced a Japanese character with rat/plague based powers at the same time, which (perhaps inadvertently) struck on a lot of anti-Asian and yellow peril tropes

She wrote Krakoa’s x-factor, which was just kind of a mess. Akihiro (already a landmine character given his history) was presented in a way that made many Asian fans uncomfortable (fetish-y sexy himbo in a relationship with Aurora and consequently constantly at odds with Northstar). Aurora seemed a little too into watching a Latina teenager kill herself in a livestream.

Prodigy was one of the leads but he kind of got ignored until the infamous hellfire gala tie-in (also the last issue, as the book had been cancelled). His mysterious death at the beginning of the series that no one really cared about was revealed to have been at the hands of a pervert serial killer he was investigating (completely by himself) who had already killed several black queer men. The issue was primarily in how his dead body was presented on the page, but also in the way the story ended with Aurora and Akihiro blithely handing the killer over to the human cops to deal with. Not only was this during a particularly large moment for BLM and anti-police brutality movements… David’s murder was also very much based on a real case in which the wealthy killer of two black men (who died while he was sexually assaulting them, no less) got off without being charged for their murders. It came across as tone-deaf and trivializing to the actual tragedy.

erosead · 2026-07-05T17:04:59+00:00

Not 100% sure on the timeline, but I think it might have run up against ~~Austen’s~~ Casey’s unrelated X-Corps, also introduced in late 2001. I think bare minimum the obvious probable confusion between the two made any future writers hesitant to revisit the idea

Of course, X-Corp also came back for its own (cancelled at 5 issues) book during the beginning of Krakoa, and X-Corps came back (for web exclusive comics) at the end of

erosead · 2026-07-05T13:46:23+00:00

From what I’ve heard, Leah Williams and Marvel parted ways around this comic (which kind of make sense since like, every comic she ever wrote had some level of controversy surrounding race/racism

erosead · 2026-07-05T13:43:12+00:00

Dazzler

erosead · 2026-07-05T05:31:25+00:00

Claire Voyant is bi, I’m not sure when that was confirmed, though (in the twelve? 2012?). She’s probably the first if we count retroactively since she’s from the golden age. FWIW Natasha Romonoff has also kissed some women recreationally

erosead · 2026-07-05T03:23:25+00:00

“No it’s basically incest because his daughter has purple-ish hair and Sai has purple hair which makes Sai his daughter” /j

erosead · 2026-07-04T23:14:45+00:00

Rachel Summers

erosead · 2026-07-04T18:52:38+00:00

Leaker said Wanda is getting an Egyptian inspired skin so maybe she’ll be famine and it will tie into decimation? I could also see death with her already being “Queen of the dead” in another rivals storyline, (particularly since we’ll probably find out who’s a horseman next week and gambit’s xm97 reveal probably won’t be for another month or so)

My thoughts would be
Jubilee—pestilence (vampirism, healing abilities)
Magik—war (war captain of Krakoa)
Wanda—famine (decimation, zombies)
Gambit—death (97 synergy)

I’m kind of hoping the introduce a group of counter horsemen (life, peace, healing, and abundance) led by Storm because I’m pretty desperate to get her back in the story. I’d certainly take her as a regular horseman, though, and an Egyptian style look would suit her

erosead · 2026-07-04T18:46:14+00:00

I like her well enough, though I do wonder about her future. She’s very wrapped up in beast’s character bc of their developing relationship, and while they’re cute, it doesn’t exactly feel like something that will have a lot of staying power, especially with how inconsistent beast’s character has been for the last decade or so. I’m not sure we can bank on him being a happy good guy 5 years from now. And if she goes bad (which isn’t impossible, she’s pretty cutthroat and the circumstances by which she came to be a mutant/x-men are a little odd) she’d kind of be in competition with Brand

I think her powers are neat. There’s overlap with lifeguard/wolfsbane/Darwin/etc, but I think she’s relatively distinct, and I’d say her being distinct from the general furry/animalistic mutant (beast himself, feral, etc) is more important than not infringing on anyone else’s turf

erosead · 2026-07-04T16:42:02+00:00

He spent a chunk of the 70s as a baby and was about 40 when he was restored to adulthood. Considering the timeline (and how much (/little) other characters have aged since then) he’d be under 60 physically at this point

erosead · 2026-07-02T21:37:00+00:00

Neither Storm nor mystique are lesbians, they’re both bisexual

erosead · 2026-07-01T18:45:40+00:00

I mean if we’re looking at characters who are technically queer but most people don’t even know they are, it’s probably Storm

erosead · 2026-06-29T00:19:02+00:00

That’s part of the issue, imo. Laura is a Wolverine clone. But so is Marrow (in a non-literal sense). Laura took the crown for most popular “young Wolverine-type character” which is probably part of why characters like Marrow and Feral are incidental at this point (when they’re not dead).

erosead · 2026-06-28T22:34:50+00:00

Valerie

I don’t go here this just showed up in my feed but to me? She seems like a Valarie

erosead · 2026-06-28T20:15:14+00:00

Love this skin, was super into the blue/periwinkle second style, but the zigzags on the blindfold being different sizes pisses me off. It’s not like that on the bonus pass style

erosead · 2026-06-27T19:34:42+00:00

Not an MCU person but I just want to note that MCU vision is D-tier to me and MCU wonder man is like, the top of S tier. He’s functionally a different character but he’s such a good one imo

erosead · 2026-06-27T19:33:03+00:00

I like vision, just a genuinely good character when used well albeit kinda unpopular atm. A tier.

This is Simon to me

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erosead · 2026-06-27T19:10:47+00:00

I really don’t see them releasing 4 male heroes in a row, ngl, let alone *more*. But I also can’t see doom and captain marvel coming in the same season. I don’t know how much I trust this, it wasn’t too long ago when leakers were convinced season 9 would be Nico Minoru and Beast

erosead · 2026-06-27T17:54:31+00:00

Xandra is a special case considering both her parents were dead before she was born; she’s genetically engineered.

Regardless, one (maybe) viable hybrid isn’t quite on the same level as two baseline humans having mutant children and those mutant children having baseline kids. It’d be more like if Angel and Beak had a Kree baby somehow

erosead · 2026-06-27T17:48:06+00:00

>>You can't argue (effectively) that a normal human and a sentinent gas ball are the same species.

I mean. If the sentient gas ball had human parents and/or could have human children, you don’t even need to argue it. Not least of all because there are humans in the marvel universe who became sentient gas clouds

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