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i bet she's never had a backstreet guy

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I rewatching X-Men :)

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gazing at the stars, thinking about Mystique, listening to Simple Plan..........

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Do you know what the best litmus test for what type of Marvel fan someone is (in my experience)? I’m serious when I say— Hank McCoy. I can tell if you’re an MCU-only, movie only, animated series watcher, used to read X-Men comics, still read X-Men comics or primarily read Avengers comics person just by asking how you feel about Hank McCoy. This strategy has literally never not given me all the answers I could want from someone.

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Hi. The creator of Spider-man 2099 won't see a penny from Marvel or Sony as they profit from his work. Please consider donating to him as he is currently in the hospital stacked with bills.

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god held his face & knew him & it still didn’t save him

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It's my #1 babygirl's birthday today, you know what that means!

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wolverine from x-men has tboy swag!

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how do you think scott and jean’s relationships with charles differ?they seem pretty clearly different to me, but i have a hard time putting my finger on what exactly the differences are.

I think a key difference is that, for a long time, Scott was a lot more dependent on Charles than Jean was.

Scott was an orphan when he joined the X-Men. He had previously been homeless, abused, and part of a criminal organization. Jean comes from a family that is, if not perfectly understanding, loving and stable.

As a teenager, Scott relied on Charles; if he lost Charles, there was nothing to keep him from becoming homeless again and nothing to give his life direction or to provide security while he figured out what he wanted that direction to be.

Jean has always known that her horizons were broader than the X-Men. She had her parents to fall back on. She chose to leave the X-Men and pursue a college education. And while both Jean and Scott had Hank and Bobby and Warren, I think Jean viewed them as actually her friends, while Scott viewed them more as an extension of the life he had been given by Charles.

In saying that Scott was reliant on the X-Men, I’m not passing judgment on Scott or his skills or his actual capability to survive in the world. When the Professor faked his death, he was able to get a job. When he left the X-Men following Jean’s death, he was again able to get a job, and he was also able to make friends pretty easily. Scott can survive outside the X-Men; he just doesn’t think he can.

Because his sense of self-worth is so tied up in the X-Men, because he believes they are the only thing he is suited for and the only thing he can contribute to, Scott doesn’t have the ability to question Charles. Questioning Charles would mean questioning the life that Charles chose for him, and Scott can’t do that because if he does, he has nothing left.

Jean, however, is able to see Charles more critically. She does owe him a lot; he helped her after the initial manifestation of her powers, after the death of her best friend when she was just a child. But she has a lot more of a safety net, and, unlike Scott, she hasn’t been raised by manipulative and abusive people who will punish her for any questioning of their authority. I think she starts to question Charles and his means pretty early, and what that means is that by the time the late 80s and 90s come around, she’s long since made peace with who and what he is. She has chosen to forgive him and to believe in and love him even knowing that he isn’t perfect, isn’t always truthful or trustworthy, that he doesn’t always make the best decisions.

X-Men #30 is a good illustration of the difference because both Scott and Jean get to tell the Professor what it is that they owe to him. Jean says, “I’m proud to dance with the man who taught me that being [a mutant] should in no way limit the happiness I can enjoy, or the love I might share with those I’m blessed to call my family.” And Scott says, “If it weren’t for you - for your guidance and courage, for the sense of purpose you’ve given me - I would have been lost. You saved me, gave my life meaning, gave me hope, gave me the chance to become something more - better - than I would ever have been.”

Jean is saying that Charles taught her to love more fully and be happier, that he taught her to enrich her life and embrace herself as a mutant. Scott is saying that Charles gave him a life, and that without him, he would have been lost, would have been someone who wasn’t as good. And Scott, even in this issue, can’t shake the habit of calling Charles sir.

So when Scott snaps, he snaps a lot harder. He’s believed in Charles all his life, he has believed that Charles is responsible for his whole life and for everything good that Scott is, so Deadly Genesis and the Danger arc really shake him, and he reacts quite strongly because he’s never questioned Charles before.

When Xavier is revealed to be compromised, Scott’s view of himself is called into question. If Scott was good because that’s what Xavier made him, and he can no longer believe in Xavier as perfectly good, then who he is has to shift. I think that’s why Scott is so harsh with Xavier during the Astonishing and Utopia eras, because he has to distinguish himself from him, because he has to develop his own morality and ideals. And that’s why sending Charles in to talk to Phoenix!Scott doesn’t work. Because Charles decides to rely on Scott obeying his orders unquestioningly, and he doesn’t do that anymore.

On the other hand, Jean’s response to the Danger arc and Deadly Genesis is… nothing. She was dead when those things happened, and because comic writers don’t really want to revisit events from 15 years ago (fair enough), we don’t get to see what she thought of them or how they might have changed her view of Xavier. So we still have a Jean who is generally positive towards and trusting of Charles Xavier.

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Scott summers: (trying to buy some soup ingredients at the local grocery store)

19 year old employe who has been told repeatedly that cyclops is extremely banned from the store for mutant extremist crimes and to never let him enter under any circumstances: excuse me sir are you that bitch that shoots lasers out of your eyes

Scott summers:

Scott summers: no

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And now he’s in color!

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mr struggle

#scott summers #cyclops #xmen

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making a tv show about a character and then not featuring the named character because, despite owning a gazillion dollars, you're too cheap to actually pay your workers living wages to do a worth-while product. that is the marvel experience

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#that one scene in midsommar #why would you do that 🥺 #she hill

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Russell Dauterman - Storm

#ch: ororo munroe #art