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There is definitely a heterosexual explanation for your really hot best friend acting on pure instinct to save your life because a part of him he thinks is pure evil and represents his time getting brainwashed acts to save you.

warren’s metal wings shot out to defend scott without his permission, giving up his position on the battlefield… scott/jean/warren is so back

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It is shocking how iconic and well known this look is for a one-time appearance on one page.

Probably helps that it's the Alex Ross and it is just a really good hero outfit.

Spyclops

X-Men: Millennial had its ups and downs, but I think this Cyclops design stands out. It's one of his more fashionable costumes IMO, perfect for sneaking or looming ominously.

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You know what the most fine thing is? Winning

And look at this man. He just said he's winning. Clearly, he's fine. Pay no attention to the ominous red background or his clear distress. He's winning, so Cyclops is Fine.

YOU HAVE BEEN VISITED BY SCOTT SUMMERS IS FINE

Congratulations!! 🎉🎊

IF YOU SEE Scott Summers is Fine ON YOUR DASH, within 72 hours you too will be fine 👍🫠😅. If U ignore this, you will NOT be FINE.

Яeblog with your favourite Scott Summers is Fine panel to be χ-TRA FIИE🔥🚨

ΦΚΔΥ?

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Also, headshots in paintball without helmets is just awful. Hurts like hell and can even open up small cuts. A quarter pass for poor aim while doing a fly by, but not cool Sam.

Don't be mean to Slim!

You're on fucking notice, Sam Alexander. Slim is participating in a Champions team building exercise paintball game vs people with way more useful superpowers, which is fine, but mocking this elongated alien's disability is hurtful. Hurtful and uncalled for.

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Honestly if I ever get around to writing X-Men fanfic (and conquer the urge of self indulgence (spoilers: I'm failing)) I would love to take a hint out of your prior reblog and push Scott out of the leader role to become Jean's 2iC/Lancer.

Fundamentally, Scott thrives in field command. There is definitely a part of him that probably feels calm and in the zone in the field. But large scale tactical decisions? Making decisions for the team, the school, all of Mutantkind? He is able to do that without hesitation but it eats at him. Look at the poor boy, it gave him anxiety.

Scott stepping back, probably after pressure from Jean and a duel, would do wonders for his mental health. Plus, we'd get to show that Jean is not just a pretty face but in some ways the powerhouse of the team.

Cyke gets a promotion

I love how Chuck is just showing Scott how all his doohickeys work, implying that this is the end of a much larger conversation, then just casually tells him that he's the captain now.

'You're a leader, Scott. Now do exactly what I say.'

'But sir!'

'You're 15 1/2 now Scott, it's time to grow up.'

Maybe he doesn't want to be a leader. Maybe he wants to be an artist, man. If I could make one change to the 1963 run it would be for Scott to shave his head and take up smoking a pipe from this point onwards.

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... wasn't that the point of x-men? To be an allegory for marginalized groups.....?

How do you hit the point and miss it so badly?

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I hate Havok/Alex Summers now. Havolaris is now very clearly a completely unsalvageable relationship that always, ALWAYS has an element of sexism (usually subtle, sometimes blatant). And it all comes down to Jordan White, Tom Brevoort, Beau DeMayo, and a majority of Havok fans demonstrating why I should by how poorly they treat and view Polaris/Lorna Dane to promote him.

I’ve been a Polaris fan since 2009. Over a decade and a half. In that time, I used to say one very clear and definitive thing. I used to say that if they kept the Havolaris relationship apart for a decade, focused on Polaris and Havok as their own characters and did enough meaningful with Polaris in that time, they could come back together as a good couple.

This is what happened instead.

Jordan White forced Havok into EVERY depiction of Lorna under his control except Duggan’s run, ONLY because she won the X-Men vote. Something he found distasteful enough to try and dismiss her win as happening only because she was on Gifted. And every time Havok got forced into Lorna’s affairs, it was to frame Lorna as incompetent, weak, or incapable of having any identity outside of being his (ex-)girlfriend.

Beau DeMayo told the Genoshan genocide story without Polaris anywhere in sight, even though she was one of the core survivors in the comics. She had fucking PTSD because of it for an entire X-Men run! She had an issue, New X-Men 132, almost entirely dedicated to finding her in the rubble and her broadcasting Genosha’s final moments! But no. Not even in the fucking background. Instead, Lorna’s only appearances were two reminders of her as Havok’s girlfriend on 90s X-Factor, and a split second animation of her as a future slave.

And we have Tom Brevoort. Who among so many other things I could say, most recently had Polaris repeatedly treated like a weak damsel on the just ended X-Factor with a clear goal of fucking her over just after her great showing in Fall of the House of X all so he could force her back into relationship with Havok.

And then there’s the Havok fans. I know not all Havok fans are the same. But the ones I saw the most of, who I had the most interaction with? They ALWAYS insisted that Lorna “needs” to be in relationship with him. They ALWAYS insisted that any bad treatment of Lorna in any of this came down to Havok being treated poorly instead. That if their woobie perfect cis straight blonde white man just got a little more of the endless opportunities they keep giving him but never Polaris in her own right, it would trickle down to Lorna.

Cause we know trickle down economics works for fiction even though it doesn’t in real life economics, right?

The Havok fans I’ve seen and talked to never want Lorna to be her own fucking character with her own thoughts, feelings, experiences. Her own worth independent of Havok. They want the relationship forced onto Lorna because in truth? They’re fucking afraid that he really is a nobody ass clown and can’t hack it on his own without Polaris reduced to his ever-present manic pixie dream girlfriend. They can’t give her a single second, nevermind ten years, just being herself and building herself up toward a future benefit.

So fuck Havok.

I gave the idea of Havolaris a chance. I gave the character a chance. I gave them a decade and a half of my life to fix this shit. But they’re all just too goddamn committed to fucking Polaris over any time she gets the tiniest scrap of something good. They all love their nostalgia, with its origins of rampant sexism meant in its original time to kill the feminism she had on creation, way too much.

They have all proven to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that Havolaris will never not be sexist self-insert fanwankery, and that Havok himself will never be anything but a fuckboy who always requires making a hot green-haired woman look more pathetic and useless than him to garner any semblance of appeal.

Which still isn’t enough to keep a book from getting canceled cause it sucks shit and the majority of people don’t want to read sexist trash. But hey. That’s apparently what Havok fans want, and what people at Marvel want cause it’s the only place they can get away with being sexist (since they can’t be sexist toward Jean, or Storm, or Emma and get away with it).

Anyone who wants to try to make me think differently, don’t bother. You’re competing against a decade and a half of direct personal experience. You’re not changing my mind with a half-assed bit of gaslighting.

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x-factor (1986) abridged

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comics tumblr rn

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baby are you okay you reblogged the "we have nothing left but threats" Scott cyclops speech again

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How the man who has on multiple occasions stabbed both Scott, Jean, their children, and grandchild win out over the third half of the OG Jean love triangle who has had non toxic homoerotic subtext with Warren since forever?

As a proud Scott/Warren shipper this always had me fuming. I swear, I would be in the Summers House hating on Logan until he moves out. Reverse Parent Trap this situationship.

Krakoa was so fucked up for Warren. Imagine finally being with the guy you always had a crush on and the girl you always had a crush on who are married and have opened up their relationship and then you die and end up being part in charge of the corporate bullshit side of things and while you're busy having shareholder meetings and worrying about your stock price fucking LOGAN WOLVERINE enters the relationship with the two people you've wanted to be the third for since you were a teenager. I'd end it all.

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How the man who has on multiple occasions stabbed both Scott, Jean, their children, and grandchild win out over the third half of the OG Jean love triangle who has had non toxic homoerotic subtext with Warren since forever?

As a proud Scott/Warren shipper this always had me fuming. I swear, I would be in the Summers House hating on Logan until he moves out. Reverse Parent Trap this situationship.

Krakoa was so fucked up for Warren. Imagine finally being with the guy you always had a crush on and the girl you always had a crush on who are married and have opened up their relationship and then you die and end up being part in charge of the corporate bullshit side of things and while you're busy having shareholder meetings and worrying about your stock price fucking LOGAN WOLVERINE enters the relationship with the two people you've wanted to be the third for since you were a teenager. I'd end it all.

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I feel like I will see that broken smile Cyclops waiting for me in a dark alley, and that will be the last time I am ever seen again.

Everything is okay with Cyclops!

I love how Scott's face is drawn exaggeratedly animated with a painted on smile while he's supporting Magik, who's having a serious crisis of faith and power incontinence. We'll just

-Fix ourselves 💊

- Retrain ourselves🏋️‍♂️

- Help students 🚸

- Revolution! 🔥🔥

Easy peasy lemon squeezy! Everything is fine. I'm okay. You're okay. Okay? Revolutionnnnn

Okay?

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You have to admit it's kind of funny that two of Charles Xavier's most consistent traits spanning multiple iterations of the character are a. constantly being taken by surprise when non-human-passing mutants reject his liberal assimilationist vision of human/mutant coexistence, and b. being an actual, literal telepath.

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Even in his stint as a non body jacking hero, Otto Octavius is still an asshole. His time as the Superior Octopus is marred by so many crimes, including but not limited to:

- Identity Fraud

- Coercing Supervillains

- Constantly belittling people

- Being creepy about his ex

- Allying with Hydra

- Allying with Hydra

- What possible more do you need to hear, he allied with Hydra during Secret Empire

- Oh, and also fucking around with cloning and causing another Spiderverse event

So yeah, Ock is a real bastard in 616.

Spider-Man 2 is a good movie but it got Doc Ock completely wrong.

Otto Octavius isn't a well-meaning man who was corrupted by cybernetic tech.

Otto Octavius is a right bastard with an enormous ego and inferiority complex who would've become a villain one way or another because he's the kind of guy who comes up with elaborate schemes in place of therapy.

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Hypocrisy is inherently unfuckable.

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To get loosely taxonomical for a second, I think there are two loose strains of superhero deconstruction-

If superheroes were real- real in the sense of being an institution in the same way that any profession is an institution, what would that look like in practice, "superhero" being a sociological category, a thing you can be without getting laughed out of the room - how would it intersect with existing institutional power dynamics, how would it be informed by or reproduce the toxic dynamics that exist in comparable institutions? The who's paying for this strain.

If Superheroes actually had to live under the constraints of the genre as presented- all that meta bullshit, all those retcons and identity crisis's and crisis crossovers and clones and time travel and intergalactic turbowars and deaths and reanimations and carcinogen inhalation that gives you super strength and on and on and on- how would you not go buckfuck insane? The How do you live like this strain.

These intersect in many ways. Some works go heavier on one or the other, some try to do both. But it's a quick little taxonomy I've been sitting on.