Issues and grievances
I do get why
Marvel Comics does what it does. They
make every characters life as hard as possible, give them a little hope,
something to hold on to before snatching it away and giving them a death, or a
defeat or something along those lines. I
get it, I really do. But what really
annoys me is the direction Marvel has taken the relationship with Cyclops and
Emma Frost.
When Emma first came onto the scene,
she was portrayed as an evil woman, working for the villainous Hellfire Club. As the years went on, she has evolved into
one of, in my opinion, the central X men, maybe even into one of the Top 5 (the
others being Cyclops himself, Professor Xavier, Wolverine and Jean Grey, with
Beast, Storm and possibly Iceman just missing out). Currently she is the second-in-command to the
X men who stayed on Utopia with Cyclops in the frankly awful Schism event. After many hurdles, not least being the Dark
X men saga, Emma and Cyclops have turned into one of the Marvel Universes top
couples. And now Marvel does the obvious
and throws a problem into the mix. Albeit, a rather large, very powerful, very arrogant problem. Namor.
Now the signs have been there for a
while and I know I’m a little late to the scene but I’ve got to ask why? There is always going to be the Cyclops-Jean
fans and the Cyclops-Emma fans. You
might have guessed but I’m on the latter. And I think all those on the Cyclops-Jean side should grow up and
realise times change. She’s dead. Yes, she’s coming and most certainly always
will come back, but she and Cyclops are gone. There’s always going to be ‘something’ there but don’t forget it was her
who pushed Cyclops into entering a relationship with Emma. And now they’re both happy. But then Mr “I’m king of Atlantis and because
I’ve decided I like you, ‘one-eye’ here should get out of the way” comes into
the mix. Sorry mate, jog on. I do like Namor, I think he’s a great
character with lot of potential but all this going after other bloke’s girls is
getting old. First Sue Storm and now
Emma. When is it going to end?
Now the kiss that happened in Fear
Itself after Namor stopped Emma from suffocating Hope was just ridiculous. The whole thing of her ‘thinking he was
Cyclops’ was pure and utter rubbish. Cyclops has got red eyes hat amazingly glow in the dark and are pretty
hard to miss considering he wears a giant visor on the front of his head! All I ask is why Marvel? Just to keep sales up? Really? I’ve got to say that there are many people who read comics because we
love them, not because we want to know if Emma NS Cyclops stay together.
In my opinion Cyclops has become a
great character as his relationship with Emma has progressed. He’s not just the two-dimensional guy who
always fell for the red headed telepaths and blindly followed every order
Charles Xavier gave him. With Emma he
has become the second greatest leader in the whole of the Marvel Universe
(Steve Rogers being the other) and has been shown to have to deal with some extremely
difficult situations, not least being the Mutant Messiah, Hope Summers and
being the representative of every Mutant on the planet. His team has been torn apart by Wolverine,
someone he thought he could trust. Many say
Wolverine was right in Schism. I don’t think
he was. Look back through history. Wolverine has put many children in danger,
Kitty Pryde, Jubilee and many more. To throw
a hissy-fit and say Cyclops is using them as soldiers is him being the biggest
hypocrite.
So I ask Marvel now to leave Cyclops
and Emma alone. Maybe give them the wedding
and the ‘happy ever after’ they deserve? By all means, throw in a couple of fights, betrayals, team ups and
deaths for the X men but leave them be. It
might turn out better that you think. Maybe
a story involving Cyclops having to choose between the X men and Emma and their possible children……
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