Interesting. Cap and Stark sure are the top-names that come to mind when thinking who should punish and incarcerate Cyclops, especially how both of them got-off completely like a pair of Karma Houdinis from bringing the country to war based on their personal ideologies. Yet Cap dies and everything is forgotten. He should be regarded as the worst kind of terrorist (or realistically, he would be) for what he did. And Stark? He got, what? A telling off by his friends and a wrist-slap by Thor when he came back and that was it.
Cyclops was RIGHT. All along. If the Avengers hadn't interfered, the Phoenix would've reached Hope and it would've restored the mutant race, no fuzz. IF the Avengers were concerned they should have approached the X-Men peacefully and tried to talk things out. What did they do instead? They flew a metahuman-packed Hellicarrier into the flight space of a sovereign state without permission or even so much as a declaration of intentions. And they DEMANDED Utopia to hand over one of it's citizens, just like that. And why? Because Wolverine, the reputed cold-blooded killer who spent decades trying to have sex with Scott's wife told them that was the only way to do it. Right. Then he tried to kill Hope the minute he had the chance. What they did... It is an act of war. If Russia moved it's navy right to the coast of the U.S, would the U.S be wrong to take it as an act of war and retaliate?
Every bad thing that happened in this act is the Avengers' responsibility. They attacked the X-Men, they attacked the Phoenix and split it into Five hosts who weren't mentally ready to hold that kind of power. Hope, even pre-Spidey, pre-Iron Fist and pre-Wanda, she was ready, she was born to do this, she is the Chosen One and she fulfilled her destiny.
So yeah, Scott was in the right in the beginning. It's not a matter of what could've happened, its a matter of what did happen, and what did happen was Hope was able to control the Phoenix and bring back mutants, like Scott said she would. When the Avengers messed that up, he did what he thought best (fixing many things that were wrong with the world) under the circumstances, which weren't ideal. That's what Cyclops is, he is the man who will make the choice nobody else has the guts to make. It doesn't matter if it makes everybody hate him, because he can take it. He doesn't care about how he looks to you, he cares about doing good and he cares about the well being of his race. He has to, because in spite of the fact that the mutants were ont he brink of Extinction, nobody else even lifted a finger to try and fix it. And sure, his actions were tainted by the Dark Phoenix, but, as I said, that's on the Avengers heads, Scott alone shouldn't be held accountable as he was possessed.
So yeah, Scott was right and Cap and Stark behaved rather like hypocritical douches, which is a damn shame, since I love Cap.
Oh and Also, I particularly loved Reed putting Cap and IM in their places. You listen to what the world's smartest man has to say about this. When Reed has to tell you you're kinda being a jerk, you know something's wrong.
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