#wolverine spoilers

[brw]

not to bother more people but like... ive said it before and i will say it again; there's nothing wrong with an evil hank. i do think he absolutely has dubious morals, dubious ideas, dubious motivations that could be exploited in ways to make him the worst possible version of himself. it's what makes him an interesting character–that there are so many ways he could be evil, so many events in his life that would be a villain origin story in any other characters' history, and yet he remains someone who tries to think about ethics, that makes his friends laugh, who is considerate and kind and likes to play music and quote shakespeare.

the thing isn't that hank is evil, it's the fact that hank is just unbelievably , cartoonishly evil. he's not a convincing character anymore, because every evil aspect of him is so greatly exaggerated he genuinely feels like a star wars villain more than anything else. wherever as before, while Hank was questionable, even at his worst moments you could always empathise with him or at the very least understand where he was coming from; he's clearly torn up while doing shit for the illuminati, or while he's working with dark beast in endangered species, or when he's teaming up with supervillians to cure the legacy virus or when he's faced with his consequences in all new x-men. even during ivx, when his reasons were bogus, you at the very least could understand where he was coming from from an ethical perspective even if it was fucking stupid.

And every time where Percy has had an opportunity to display an understanding of Hank or even like reference anything that might be consequential or interesting or impact him, he just doesn't. Like it does feel like there's zero consideration into how a character like Hank would actually evolve into an evil character, which Dark Beast did. Dark Beast was interesting because despite being a clearly and overtly evil person, he also had emotional draws even he hadn't managed to rid himself of; one of the most interesting comics with Dark Beast is X-Men Unlimited #10, where he's unable to kill Hank's parents after hearing about their genuine love for their son.

I'm not convinced if asked Percy would comfortably name who Hank's parents actually are. And it's unfortunate because it ends up feeling like Percy has a shockingly naïve idea of what evil people look like despite the actual content of his comics. That they're clearly and overtly insane, cruel, sadistic, literally making torture stations in space or killing their closest friends and are overall easy to hate and easy to dismiss as being nothing like yourself. And no, not every villain has to be a deep nuanced portrayal of corruption and how even those with the best intentions can become warped and lead astray, but Hank was once a nuanced character. He was interesting, once.

What made Hank so interesting again, was that he could have very easily been evil the moment he became blue and furry, but wasn't. He became an Avenger and when that didn't work, applied himself to the Defenders. He was kind. He made friends. He played the guitar and was deeply upset when he couldn't anymore when he became catlike. Like when he says in New X-Men #117, the reason he avoids violence is because he believes in other, better, bigger things.

Again. I do think Hank can be morally questionable and dubious and do incredibly unethical things in the name of the greater good.... but he is also someone who loves his friends and that doesn't stop being a factor. Evil shouldn't be a supervillian who will literally shoot some of his closest friends in the back and use their bodies against their will and break a submarine in half condemning men with families and children to death, we don't need that. It doesn't serve any purpose than a cartoonishly caricatured antagonists for heroes to take down. What makes a morally dubious Hank interesting is the fact that people can still at least understand where he's coming from. Understand his thoughts and motivations and when done well even relate to them. That he could still be loving and caring and funny and kind and still do horrible things, because being evil doesn't miraculously remove your ability to make jokes.

It's just frustrating. Because I feel like the only thing the increasingly ridiculous feats of evilness do is just make it more and more likely that the next status quo will just reset Hank rather than deal with all that unless they just want full on Cassandra Nova deranged villain. And it's annoying because there are so much potential here but instead that's being ignored in favour of the shock factor and it's frustrating because I do enjoy the darker side of Krakoa–but there's no believability in making a bunch of clones to make up for your team, who will probably end up turning on themselves in like an issue for again, shock factor.

Anyway I'll get off my soap box but basically I think Hank would be more interesting as an actually morally grey character rather than all out evil, or at least an evil person you can understand and share motivations with. Instead he's literally just cartoon character villain with a little more blood and gore than usual.

[qsilverspidey]

MORPH TELLING WOLVERINE "I LOVE YOU LOGAN, STAY WITH ME" WHILE LOOKING LIKE JEAN, THEY CAN SAY IT BECAUSE THEY FEEL IT.

WE GOT A LOVE CONFESSION BUT AT WHAT COST. I'M GONNA JUMP OFF A CLIFF

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[grabyoursaintsandpray]

X-Men '97

Season 1 Episode 2: Mutant Liberation Begins

[soggywert]

history repeats itself

[counterspelling]

Endless X-Men 97

We must get them away from Rogue!

[langernameohnebedeutung]

(x-men 97 spoilers)

Another installment of:

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[solidsmax]

X-MEN 97' 1.01 | To Me, My X-Men

[wiha-jun]

X-MEN '97 To Me, My X-Men

[the-songs-we-knew]

So it’s gonna play out like this, right?

[stormandforge]

*elevator music*

This made me chuckle in the middle of quite an intense episode. Let it be known that X-Men '97 does humour as well as it does drama.

[thevulturesquadron]

Just so everyone is on the same page. In episode 3 we had:

Morph comfortably walking in on butt-naked Logan

Goblin Queen serving cunt

Disheveled titties-out Magneto.

As a queer person, I can confidently say we won with this one fellas. Good time to be alive.

[brw]

at least hank has finally gone into homoerotic villainy. even if it's with wolverine of all people.

[skrankku]

WHERE DID THEY GO.

(+transparent version for meme purposes.)

[undercovercannibal]

X-Men ’97 1x10 “Tolerance is Exctinction - Part 3”

[univemma]

Storm and Morph stuck in Victorian era England with a feral Wolverine:

[remysrogue]

did morph seriously sit at logan's bedside and say i love you or was i hallucinating