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To me it has always been writer speak for... "Watch out for these guys, they can potentially be story breakers." Almost all of the confirmed Omegas are people that on a team can completely destroy all tension in a story, so yeah I just have always thought of it as such.

She is. I could have sworn there was some line or another about her having limitless potential because there is no limit to the amount of energy she can create so long as there is sound available.

Not sure. How does he feel about Immortal Death Knight Tyrannosaurus rexs?

@allaric: Indeed. Which is why time will tell the tale no matter what.

A little from column A, a little from column B.

@allaric: That was my point. I didn't call it a failure, asked you if that made it a failure...see the question mark at the end.

My example had two ideas because when Butcher took the bet, he was so confident that he said...you know what...give me another one. So not one terrible idea, but two. And that hardly somehow debunks to point of my bringing it up. The point being made and if you don't understand, I apologize for not making it more clearly, was that ideas mean next to nothing against the talent and imagination put into the final work.

@jayc1324 : None of that has anything to do with Marvel's Thor. Marvel's Thor is derived from its source material this is true, but your statement just now about Thor's name...think about that for a second. When has it been said within the pages of Thor that Odin named Thor? Within Marvel it is just as likely that Gaea named him Thor and even then the canon is completely and utterly up to the writers. The mythology nor the fans have any influence over what Marvel considers canon, no more so than historical Europe or Norse myth has in most Tolkienesque fantasy settings.

Agreed. That is something I've never got about Angel, why he doesn't do more to take advantage of his physical abilities. Someone like Beast isn't particularly more dangerous than him or even Nightcrawler if I'm being super honest. I like both of those characters but the only edge they really have physically on Angel is that they don't need to stay in the air to keep their agility and Beast is physically stronger.

As a whole I feel like most purely physical X-Men that aren't named Wolverine don't get enough love and giving them a higher level of martial skill would be in line with comics logic and probably make them more appealing as characters. Or at least that's my opinion on it.

Haha. So true though.

Depends. Are they immune to being devoured?

@allaric: Did the original Thor comic fail because of this?

I'm going to be that guy and bring up The Codex of Alera novels by one Jim Butcher. Now the reason I bring up these books is because of your statement about poorly conceived ideas being doomed to fail and well it seems pertinent to the discussion that a writer actually decided to start a novel series based on two terrible ideas in response to a bet.

As for the series itself, well Butcher made his point that ideas themselves matter a lot less than the writing put into them. A good writer can sell you people sitting around at a bus stop and make it a literary classic.

@devilsgrin81: Thanks. :) Emma makes me want to have more people join the team that aren't exactly in line with what is expected of Xavier's dream. There is a lot of middle ground between Xavier and Magneto and I for one would love to explore that more in the comics. Well that and more mutants along the lines of the kids of NYX that might as well live in a different world than the politically charged X-Men.