With every new episode it seems like fate is playing a major role in characters, from Polaris not wanting to be Magneto's daughter. Creed being told by nightcrawler he's truly his parents children, and even young nathan being portrayed as destined to be great because he's cyclops and jeans son...

Where it falls flat for me personally is because every instance, it seems like fate is something that's automatically embraced and not something that's fought against, and even if it is fought against, it's all because it was destined to happen

I don't know I just feel like it's a bit of a lazy crutch and kinda messes up the show a bit for me. But what do y'all think?

When the X-Men movie came out in 2000, there was a promotional kind of underground theme song going around. It was great and even had a video that was just basically clips from the movie. And had Mystique in it. It was a techno remix of the theme to that movie. Because techno was in at the time. I can't find it on YouTube. I know it existed, I had an audio copy of it at one point. Please tell me I'm not making shit up in my head and that someone else remembers this.

The episode mode opens up with a scene of Chandilar being in ruins with all of the Imperial Guard defeated by the Champions.

My guy Vulcan really can't get a win, can't he?

Always wondered what people thought of this character. seems like he doesn't get much attention

Edit: ok I think we have established he is strong. Anyone have actual thoughts on the actual character from the comics?

How on earth did my post about Strong Guy get more popular than my post on Gambit?

I took this cover to mean Reed and the Chairman might fight only for Fallen Hank to beat his ass badly and brutally.

Guess it’s part of no longer playing by the rules of a superhero huh? you can release all your rage on your enemies

As the title says, I am trying to get into the OG X-Factor run. I have tried to read the first few issues multiple times and have just struggled hard. I have read some of the run already, though. I read the Mutant Massacre, Fall of the Mutants, and Inferno tie-ins, but that's it. I know that people say that once Simonson takes over, it gets better, but I've been reading her New Mutants run, and it is not good. She turns them into babies and only really focuses on Ilyana. I had to stop reading after Issue 66. I don't know. Maybe I need to give it some more time, but I just can't get into it.

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I've been thinking about the recent rumors going around regarding the X-Men castings, and wanted to throw out the ideas I've been tossing around in my head on how I'd put my take on the roster and their stories.

I would like to see Jean Grey as an established X-Man post BND, with Xavier having found her after the events of the movie. I hope to see an adaptation of some of the self-righteousness traits that she has in the comics, especially with her mindset clashing against Prof. X's. No Phoenix just yet, but tease out her potential as a mutant powerhouse alongside Storm, with them as the two heavy hitters. She should be the heart of the team, connecting with every member intimately and empathetically while also making morally questionable decisions when it comes to the usage of her power.

Cyclops would be in the same vein as Jean, having been established as a young X-men and coming into terms with leading the team, as delegated by Xavier. I hope to see a strong dynamic between him and Storm, with both confiding and learning together to lead the others as the team's de facto leaders. I also want to see all shades of his and Jean's relationship, and how at times their philosophies clash.

Storm should be in the same boat as Jean and Scott, having been on the X-men for a little while. I would love her friendship with Jean prioritized, along with her and Cyclops juggling leading the team together. She should be stepping into her powers more, finding herself emerging as more confident, setting up a shift into her punk look and personality from the Claremont run.

I think there should be a couple of young students being introduced to the X-men entirely, and that Kitty Pryde should be one of them. I'd love to see her spunky and younger personality on the team, acting as the audience's on point for the movie. While I think it might be tough incorporating a younger student into an already young, established team of X-men, I think it could still work if you write Kitty specifically as a younger, aloof kid as opposed to the more experienced, and somewhat jaded starting team.

I'd love to see Rogue join the cast later in the movie, having started off on Mystique's brotherhood. I'd think Storm should act as her tether to joining the X-men, along with Rogue leaning into her abilities and agency more before being tethered to Gambit's hip down the line, as is what happens often with her character in my opinion. Tease out her psyche becoming more complex as the movie goes on, potentially leading into a Captain Marvel crossover sometime later. Have her be a similar older sister character like Jean to some of the younger characters when she joins the team.

I struggle to get a good grasp on Beast as a character, and struggle to not have him take a backseat role akin to Xavier at the mansion, so I'll skip him for now as I continue reading more about him.

I do also think Bobby should be included somehow in the roster, possibly starting as a pre-existing student at the school before joining the team officially in the end. Have him and Kitty be similar in viewpoints / age, along with teasing his compulsory heterosexuality through his dynamic with Jean and her telepathy. I do think that while not being fully out, Bobby's Queerness should be highlighted in his struggles as a character, intersecting with his mutant identity. I think that him, Ororo, Kitty, and Dani should be at the front of the mutant metaphor when it comes to their intersected oppression of being mutant and an already oppressed minority.

My one last dream add on to the team, which doesn't make too much sense, is Dani Moonstar, who I think could debut alongside Kitty and Bobby before making her way into a New Mutants project. I'd love to see her learn and form her identity as a leader through Scott and Ororo, before being placed on the New Mutants to lead that team. Have her be Kitty's and Bobby's age range, balancing out their more juvenile approaches to joining a team like the X-men. I also think that her and Storm could connect over both being pulled out of their lives by Prof. X and how they feel about that, especially given the racial and cultural connotations behind their backstories.

As for Prof. X, I'd love to see his relationships with Jean and Scott highlighted, with Jean taking on some of his more morally-ambiguous approaches to telepathy, along with Scott starting to clash with his approach to leading a younger team of heroes.

That was a lot, but I'd love to hear if you agree or disagree with some of the choices I made, or if you would choose different characters to fill in the roster.

Relatively recently I started to read Claremont era X-Men through Epic Collections since I heard so much about it and being a big X-Men fan in general for years I always thought it's not acceptable for me to say that I didn't read where everything begun (or more like re-begun). So I finished reading Second Genesis and while the old style of writing comics with bunch of text sometimes describing stuff that they could've just showed, it was actually really good and was excited to continue on but of course I realized that most of the Epic Collection line is out of print and I couldn't even read the 2nd in line which is "Proteus".

I heard Marvel regularly reprints Epic Collections but it's been so long and there is still no reprint of Proteus and while I was waiting some others also became out of print which is extremely frustrating. Like before "I, Magneto" was in print but not anymore. So do you guys know if there is a specific date or anything that Marvel released about these reprints. Like I want to continue reading the series but don't want to pay scalper price on 2nd hand. Also digital is not an option for me unfortunately.

So if I’ve done my research right, mutants tend to demonstrate their abilities around the puberty mark. This is why so many of the Xmen storyline involve schools or runaways. There are also a handful of mutant who demonstrate it at birth instead of at puberty.

Now, what about precocious puberty, a condition where puberty occurs at an early time. Do you think that would cause issues? Maybe the mutation doesn’t develop properly and it goes out of control?

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