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final boss when you unlock him as a playable character:

Jk I love Magneto, he was so silly in Utopia

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Am I the only one who sees the hypocrisy in this?

So I've recently started reading the X-Men series, and I just finished Schism. While I liked the philosophical differences, I feel like the roles were a bit forced and made wolverine look like a huge hypocrite, and another factor that I really disliked is how in the aftermath people try to paint Logan as a hero and keep glossing over his X-force?

X-force was a tough, and arguably morally incorrect decision on Scott's part, and it received the appropriate backlash from the team, from Kurt, Beast and Storm, but it feels wrong to me that they just decided to roll with it when Logan put together an X-force that was arguably worse than the original?

I understand that the main point of contention between Beast and Scott was the fact that Hank thought Scott was getting off track from the original principles of the X-Men, that he was making decisions that put the team in danger, (Specifically the point what when Beast was leaving Utopia with Bobby he mentioned how Scott was never the one getting tortured) and I understand why he made the choice to leave but it feels strangely out of character that he would accept Logan's judgement? He doesn't agree, sure but he accepts it.

It just doesn't sit right with me, I might just be missing something, and while I agree that the uncanny X-force runs were quite nice, they were built on hypocrisy and the existence of the Uncanny X-force is a contradiction to Logan's stance during Schism and his role as an avenger.

So I don't know, does it get better or do the writers just love painting Scott as the villain, or am I completely misreading the situation?

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The fire Hazard siblings deserved better

Someone pointed out that azula cared more for zuko and he did for her and I can't stop thinking about it. His entire life, zuko was constantly over-shadowed and compared to azula so it's only natural for someone to grow jealous. But, more than that azula quite literally made his life hell with playing pranks on him, teasing him and actually burning him. So it's only natural for zuko to grow up fearing and even hating azula, even if he does see her as a sister.

On the other hand, we know that azula's a perfectionist and a control freak. Pretty evident from the whole beach episode and even the spirit temple comic, she doesn't understand love and freindship because no one really showed her any. Sure, she had Mai and Ty Lee who probably treated her like a freind, but even at that point she only knew how to control people. Which is why, I think throughout her life she saw zuko as something she could control and keep by her side. She probably thought that zuko would always choose her. It's pretty evident from the fact that in book 3 she lied to her father, the most rebellion she's shown, for his sake. Infact, she disobeyed direct orders to bring him as a prisoner, but rather found a way to bring him home as her brother. Apart from that she clearly saw zuko as a landmark, as a reassurance. That all she had to do was be Better than him. Better at bending, better at politics etc. Because that way she had her father's attention. (Pretty obvious from the "You can't treat me like Zuko")

Personally, I feel like they deserved so much better, especially azula. I feel like, if zuko had made an effort to show azula that he cared about her, not out of fear but out of love, and if azula had tried to be nicer with zuko instead of belittling him, things might have been different. It's impossible for them to have the same dynamic as Sokka and katara because their situations were as different as day and night. Katara and Sokka had to rely on eachother to survive and to protect the village while Zuko and Azula had to compete for their father's favor. Still, I feel like they could have a much better relationship than actively trying to kill eachother and maybe even work together as slightly-less-maniac-but-still-disfunctional siblings.

Also you can't convince me that Zuko and Azula wouldn't make THE MOST POWERFUL DUO ever

Edit : Lu ten. The answer is lu ten

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Pirate Zuko is such an underrated concept

One thing I find really unrealistic with ATLA is that zuko spent 3 WHOLE YEARS on a ship sailing across a world submerged in war and not once did he get a moral crisis? Especially while counting the fact the Iroh is literally part of a huge organization? So I feel like it's very likely that a year or two into his banishment zuko's like: wait a minute, something doesn't add up. And proceeds to commit full blown treason as a PIRATE, and the entire time Iroh is gently preparing him for Rebellion and overthrowing his father. Just think about it, the betrayal, the feels, the bloody atrocities of war and how it affects literal children who are forced to fight it, the inhumane cruelty of spirits, and the painful realization that each person carries potential for both good and bad.

This whole concept has quite literally been torturing my brain for WEEKS.