TheCorpulent1
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It was the culmination of the Twelve storyline.
He had a fair run on the FF a few years ago. What made it just fair was that he KEPT USING X-MEN VILLIANS! It was just too bizarre.Agreed
People are holding on to his former glory, he's out of ideas. Why can't Claremont move on to other characters maybe if he stopped leaning on his X-Men cred he'd get better ideas.
Damn I ain't been here in a while
Same here. He used to be 1 of my favorites. Not so much anymoreYes. Yes, he is.
I wish I could still like Cyclops. I'm glad he's rising to prominence again, at least. Who knows, maybe like the Avengers after Disassembled he'll have a s***ty status quo that I can't get behind for a while and then slowly revert to what he was originally all about.
Cheating on your wife is one thing. Making out with the woman you cheated on your wife with on her fresh grave.....dick.Eh, womanizing I can deal with. Lots of great men have screwed women they allegedly love over. Even Jim Gordon cheated on one of his wives.
It's just one of Cyclops' many crimes of dickishness.I'm much more annoyed with Cyclops abandoning all of his ideals in the name of security. That's never a good idea.
It's the worst of them to me. Whatever personal baggage he might've had, I liked Cyclops as the stalwart leader of the X-Men and chief advocate of Chuck's dream. Sure, the X-Men killed people now and then and employed Wolverine, but I just chalked it up to their being the "feet of clay" type of heroes. Not everyone has to have a Batman-level aversion to killing. But organizing a hit squad, spitting on Chuck's (and, once upon a time, his own) ideals, and generally turning the X-Men into a paramilitary organization in the name of survival at any cost is just not heroic to me.
"the old ways don't work, Xavier's and Magneto's feud resulted in almost total extinction"
They already have MagnetoIt's even less about being unheroic than it is about being not the X-Men. Like oh okay so you've decided on a win at all costs, ends justify the means philosophy. Ballin', change your name to the Brotherhood, get Magneto and Mystique on the team and call it a day.
...what?
"Realistic" is becoming the worst word I could think of to apply to comics, personally. It's used as an excuse to tear heroes down far too often. "Realistically, if someone kills people in your camp, you totally kill some people in theirs." No. Superheroes are superheroes in the first place because they're supposed to hold themselves to a higher standard. That was exactly the principle that Chuck founded the X-Men on. Winning by sacrificing all of the ideals that separate you from the people who've wronged you isn't winning at all, as far as I'm concerned. But I guess that's why I still consider Superman cool, whereas the vast majority of readers seem to think he's an obsolete boy scout.![]()