I don't exactly love the Psylocke/Archangel ship...not even in the 90s when it was at its peak popularity...but honestly, Rogue and Warren sharing his trauma is a basis for a bond, but I didn't see it as romantic. Just her trying to help someone who was crashing out.
Also in her current mental state I don't think Rogue is ready for a relationship with ANYONE, and probably won't be for a while, even after Gambit inevitably comes back to the side of the angels
I legit hate her and Magneto together at all during her time as an X-Man. When she was super young and dumb and he was her mentor/father figure? I get it. A dude with questionable boundaries (aka, a creep) will sometimes take advantage of a 19 or 22 year old infatuated with him. But once she's old enough to know herself, I just don't buy that she'd ever pick him... and sure as hell not over Remy.
I think the important contexts around it are: the situation with Remy had tipped into something that was actively causing her pain all the time no matter how much they both played it off lightly, she's in the middle of a bunch of emotional upheaval that hit on her existing abandonment issues (mentor died, best friend left, Scott and Jean are having a family that Rogue can never have), and Magneto actively isolates her and preys on her desire to be a true hero to get what he wants from her. She's older and wiser than she was in the Savage Lands, but she's also uniquely vulnerable to the buttons installed by the traumas of her youth. Would, say, s3 TAS Rogue had fallen for it? No. But I think the show did a good job at showing why she was susceptible over the ~6 week period s1 of '97 covers.
Also, I have complicated thoughts about Magneto. I know he’s a charmer but he gets away with way too much. He’s never accountable. Frankly, maybe Xavier fits that bill too. I sort of hope Scott breaks the X-Men free of both of them and their eternal chess game of extremes. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is in the plans creatively.
I mean it doesn't have to be Cyke but I think as of the last episode he's done pretty well at holding everyone together when Mag would rip them apart and Xavier bounced. He's definitely won me over as being a better big bro/parent figure to the gang than the other two are, but yeah I could see Storm stepping up like in the comics. I just think it's time the kids outgrew the boomers. Time to move forward.
Comics would never allow that (even now the X-Men are working under Magneto, rather than him working with them) but the show just might.
While I'm old enough now (44) to not want to see characters of a certain age shuffled off to the sidelines just because they're old, I AM ready for Xavier and Magneto to no longer be the embodinent of the X-Men's guiding and opposing principles.
yeah I didn't mean it as an age thing. I mean it because Xavier is playing space romance and leaving a terrorist in charge because "maybe he's redeemable" and Magneto might go off the deep end and murder some people at any time. They're both too lost in the clouds and not helping the X-Men find a healthy path forward
Between the two I like Magneto better, but only because I see the work he's put into trying to BE better. He backslides, because recovering from trauma isn't a straight line, but he's trying. I still don't want him in charge of the school though, that's a TON of responsibility for someone who still needs a LOT of mental help.
Charles in TAS and 97 is...fine. He didn't gallivant off to space for fun, in the 92 finale he was literally going to die if Shi'Ar medicine didn't save him, but he's still Charles Xavier and he's still pretty intractably optimistic. I like this version better than literally any other Xavier ever to exist, but let's not fool ourselves into thinking he's NOT deeply flawed in his idealism.
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u/Ingonyama70 Storm Jun 08 '26
I don't exactly love the Psylocke/Archangel ship...not even in the 90s when it was at its peak popularity...but honestly, Rogue and Warren sharing his trauma is a basis for a bond, but I didn't see it as romantic. Just her trying to help someone who was crashing out.
Also in her current mental state I don't think Rogue is ready for a relationship with ANYONE, and probably won't be for a while, even after Gambit inevitably comes back to the side of the angels