I'm with the Avengers because the X-Men think that Hope can control the Phoenix. Sure Rachel Grey did it but c'mon! All the other hosts failed. The X-Men should think more about this rather than say "Save us oh mighty Phoenix!". The Avengers are acting smart because they want to keep Hope in custody so she won't bond with the Phoenix.

Logan.

I am on the Avengers side also. It is a big gamble to trust Hope that she can handle the pheonix. Especially if she can't handle the pheonix that can mean alot of lives are at risk.

I'm on the Avengers side because Scott is taking a massive risk assuming Hope can control the Phoenix and that the Phoenix will restore the mutant race instead of destroying the planet. It drove Jean Grey insane and in the end she committed suicide to stop herself from turning into a massive threat. Has Scott forgotten this? The Avengers are being sensible and rational about this scenario whereas the X-Men are taking a gamble with billions of lives. That's not acceptable from my standpoint which is why I'm on the Avengers' side.

I'm with the X-Men, but I don't particularly like how either side is going about handling the situation. Cyclops isn't being sensitive enough towards Hope and he is putting way too much pressure on her. Sure, saying you're the savior of an entire species is bond to have some stress with it, but he doesn't have to be such an ass all the time. Also, I know the Avengers want to take Hope into custody, but I just can't help but feel that that would just lead to her death and I couldn't shake that vibe when I was reading the first issue.

Obviously it is a big risk, but going from thousands of mutants and growing to hardly even 200 and stagnant is pretty depressing. The five new mutants when Hope first arrived were a definite sign that Hope really could be the mutant messiah, so I really do want to see some new mutants arrive.

X-men all the way. People use dark phoenix as an excuse even though Jean was manipulated by mastermind and thats what unleashed dark phoenix she didnt just lose it. Jean was in control for years so I don't know where all this "it toyed with her" crap came from and last but not least I doubt the phoenix is gonna be happy if hope is killed and will probably take its anger out on earth.

Avengers. I don't see Hope controlling Phoenix. If it ends up that way though it will only be a matter of time before she explodes.

X men just because I have compassion for Hope, plus Cyclops didn't convinced Wolverine in Wolverine and the X-Men #10 but he convinced me, I'M WEAK :'(

I'm with the Avengers. Cyclops is acting like a douche bag in this event, which sucks because Cyclops used to be my favorite X-man back in the day.

I'm on the Avengers side because they are always ready to do whats right. They aren't attacking the X-memen because they are Mutants(hell Beast and Wolverine are on the Avengers). They are trying to ensure that the Phoenix does not return to Earth. Sure it's been described as a symbol of both destruction and rebirth but we've only really seen the destruction part. I wouldn't risk the entire planet on the 50/50 chance that a giant fire-bird doesn't incinerate my homeworld. Also Cyclops fired the first shot.Lots of the X-men used to be villains Magneto , Namor (For a little while he was in Norman Osborn's Cabal), Emma Frost( The Frickin HellFire Club!!!) and Colossus is now the Juggernaut! Danger also went a bit rogue a couple of times. The Avengers are in the right because they have reason to be worried. They just want to protect the planet. I also think that if the entire Avengers roster went all out ,they could overpower the X-men (even if all of the powerful Utopia Mutants join in).

Avengers without a doubt, from the beginning of the whole event the X Men acted liked nothing but crazed religious zealots and Summers was basically their Manson, willing to sacrifice six Billion people to save a few hundred. And even after they did get the Phoenix Force power what did they do? hunt down and lock up the Avengers simply because they judge them to be a threat (All irony must have been lost to them) heck, Namor destroyed a country just out of spite.

I have to say the X-men because so far this series has been making the X-men out to be bad guys, the middle arc of this series to me was just the Avengers over reacting and starting a war that could have been averted. There was no reason at the moment during the middle of this event to attack the Phoenix Fives home and take Hope, this is just my opinion but the X-men have really just been getting the crap end of this event.

X-Men there cooler. It's like asking who's better between Griffin and Snape, Snape might be the rivals but to me there still cooler. I'm not sure really, if this goes on any longer I'm just going to say "Fuck it I dont care who wins I want this to end already"

@joshmightbe said:

@PurpleCandy: I'm just going to go on record as saying messing with the Phoenix force is generally a bad idea and the X-men should know better. The Avengers are just responding the same way as all the other intelligent races in the universe have responded. With the totally rational fear of the goddamned giant sun-eating fire bird that can and has instantly destroyed worlds on a whim.

So if something is unpredictable you should build a weapon to kill it? The Hulk was pretty unpredictable and they decided to get rid of him aswell, look how that turned out.

The logical reaction would have been to give the Phoenix what it wants (Hope) in an attempt to please it.

Cyclops and the X-men didn't want to use the Phoenix until after Cable came back from the future and told Scott that he had to make sure that the Avengers didn't prevent Hope from becoming the host.

@joshmightbe: It's not always the right decision though look at Galactus and how Reed said he was necessary. They should have let Hope become the host and then if it turned out that the Phoenix was going to destroy the planet then use the weapon against it.

@Skunkstein: It's not all destructive though and if it wanted to destroy the planet why didn't it do so the other twenty times it had the opportunity?

@joshmightbe said:

The Avengers aren't being anti mutant they're anti unpredictable force that eats solar systems being fused with a teenager

now thats scary

@Osian2 said:

@joshmightbe said:

@PurpleCandy: I'm just going to go on record as saying messing with the Phoenix force is generally a bad idea and the X-men should know better. The Avengers are just responding the same way as all the other intelligent races in the universe have responded. With the totally rational fear of the goddamned giant sun-eating fire bird that can and has instantly destroyed worlds on a whim.

Cyclops and the X-men didn't want to use the Phoenix until after Cable came back from the future and told Scott that he had to make sure that the Avengers didn't prevent Hope from becoming the host.

i want x-men to win but marvel tuned them into the p5 and corrupted them, so avengers will win.....BOOOOOO