Can we still have heroes and villains when most of the mutant race is gone?
My problem with this type of story telling is that it limits the conflicts to almost family squabbling. Who could it be doing this? Oh never mind it's Mr. Sinister yet again.
Amazing how even something like this (Terrigen mists - the worse story choice I think I have ever heard) doesn't push the whole mutant race to join together. How much, as readers, can we be expected to go along with? At this point even characters like Mr. Sinister and Apocalypse must seem appealing to ALL of the mutant characters.
Cyclops was heroic because in spite of everything he didn't go full on brooding dark villain, he stayed on the side of the angels even though his methods seemed otherwise. But how any one of those mutant kids wants to stay in a school in Limbo, and doesn't go "you know what, screw this. That Apocalypse guy, or Mr. Sinister is right" is beyond me. And how magneto doesn't go full on bad guy again is also something that needs a whole lot of explaining.
That arc in Axis where the mutants rally on Genysis' side (as Apocalypse) is actually how things would go down now. Not this most hated mutant in the world for standing up bull. I was always a little angry at the Jean Grey staff for essentially sitting out mutant extinction in the past, but I could swallow it because I had Cyclops' Uncanny X-men to follow, but now with this extraordinary team still sitting on the sidelines AND the O5 just ignoring the problem, it's actually too much.
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