Basically Bendis has turned Hank McCoy into an impotent mad scientist. This extends to all three versions he has given us. And like every other character in Bendis' X-Universe, he's also sexually frustrated. Again, we have the idea that Jean is perfect and unattainable and it's implied that Hank bent the rules of time and space so he could pine away at his old crush. Or something like that. Which is why I have retcons of established relationships. Anyone who followed Claremont and Morrison X-Men knows that Hank and Jean are best friends and deeply respectful of each other. The problem with Bendis is that he only understands male/female relations from a sexual POV. He has no idea that people get together for reasons other than hormones. What can you say about the lame/incompetent mutants he features in UXM? The healer dude lusts after the Cuckoos. The fat one basically a non entity. The skinny one who vaguely turns into other people (wtf kind of power is that?) is also a non entity. Hijack? Who cares? Tempus could be interesting because her powers are cool, but all we know of her is she's Aussie and has a knucklehead for a brother. Do these people have parents or friends? Are we to believe to these people would drop them just because they are mutants? These questions of integration, which have always been central to the X-Men mission, are completely and utterly ignored by Bendis. He hasnt' bothered to give the UXM team an external threat to bring them out of their seclusion. The closest we get is Scott's speech at the university and then....nothing. He rather conveniently uses Magik as their personal "mutant greyhound" to teleport them in and out of trouble. Oh, and if anyone gets killed on his watch, he's got a healer for that. Therefore we have no consequences. SHIELD has conveniently become super stupid, allowing a known terrorist to impersonate an agent and generally letting Maria Hill get owned by Cyclops at every turn.
And the reasons all of these characters act this way is because the man writing them is narrow minded. Then again, I think we're seeing the backlash to Grant Morrison and Peter Milligan, who each gave us ideas of what the X-Men could be. Marvel has spent the last nine years undoing the things they disliked about Morrison's run. We still have to put up with Scott/Emma despite the fact that they shouldn't still be together. They kept the Cuckoos and Quentin Quire, sexing up the teen girls and making Quire significantly more cool, having forgotten the trauma of death and enlightenment. Gone is anything that might me yucky. No more Ernst, U-Men, Beak, or low class Angel. They're far to creepy for the Hollywood mutants. Better to have the generically appealing Armor and Wing, one dimensional enemies like 'Danger' and the incredibly one note Breakworld. And while we are at it, let's dispense with intelligence and wit, what we need is 'snark', immaturity, and no consequences.
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