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@lykopis: @Lifeguard85: I second theses.

I think your quite wrong when it comes to Emma her and her progression as a character. Emma herself has come along by far more than most characters. Emma was once said to be one of the X-Men's greatest villains and to come from being a great villain to one of the greatest super heroins I think it an amazing progression in itself. Especially when you find self in love with one of the one leading heroes and leaders. Though some people think that Emma is a bitch but I think more of it as a defense mechanism for her personality especially when reviewing Emma history. Emma as she has said had become a proverbially diamond even before Genosha. Personally I think Emma has a long way to go before she comes more "human" in a sense like we saw in X-Men: The End when she was her own children. Emma has lost a lot from her students (numerous amounts) to her own business which she personally gave up for Scott. In the end there are some hard choice that the X-men and their leaders have to make and some times (or then often) it's Emma who takes the choice in her hands and makes for everyone even when it she knows it'll make her seem still like the villainess she use to be.

Emma lack of fighting in battle I think is a personal choice before her and the team (and the writers). Her telepathy is a key factor in planing and keeping the team in connect with each other so I think Emma is mainly needed to do things mentally then physically until she needs too. This is a mostly a trend with people with mental powers other especially those without power that includes telepathy or other mental projections ie. Psylocke, Exodus, Jean Grey, Rachel Grey, Nate Grey, etc. who all have telekinesis or psychokinesis. Also we don't know what Emma personally knows in combat as she rarely takes the time for it and I think you need to give Emma the benefit of the doubt because Emma could easily mental "download" combat knowledge from any of the X-men and their opponents and we doubt know if she's already done it and is has her combat skills waiting in the wings until it's time for her to really fight for her life.

Also, Emma has never been stabbed with a adamantium knife. The knife in which you are speaking of was made of vibranium not adamantium. And even I don't think Emma is vulnerable to it because you also have to take into consideration that the weapon was especially for designed to take out Emma using Nimrods mutant database (which all the weapons that took down the mutants at the school during Stryker's "Crusade where made specifically to take down certain mutants such as knife, the mental probes/blocks that his soldiers had placed in their minds to defend against psyches, and the special bullets used for Hellion (Julian Keller) which passed through his telekinetic shield). Also, I agree that Emma should be a 10 tonners when it comes to strength but I think it maybe proportioned to the weight of her diamond form. It's not like Emma muscle become plates of diamond over lapping each other but her form as a whole becomes diamond which her strength would be proportioned to it. Also I think that Emma having a "flaw" in her diamond is perfect become it means that Emma isn't as perfect as would like to be bring her down to a human level. Emma's flaw can be only broken/cracked another diamond ie. the diamond shaped bullet in which Esme of the Stepforc Cuckoos had Angel Salvadore shoot her with (the diamond that we see everyday are usually shaped by another diamond cutting it by a mechanic). I don't see that happening often.

Anyways I think Emma is perfect as she is.

@x_29:

Co-signed. It's hard to choose between the two of them.

@EnSabahNurX: I think so too. Do you know if she has been seen using this "energy" blast again.

Maybe the last is the stored energy "stole energy" from the items she's pasted through in the past?

@Hysteria: I think after it was stated that she was that tall and one artist drew her like that and then another went to draw her they just forgot it. The same with Arclight (Phillipa Sontag) who was nearly the same height but was shrunken down after a while. Frenzy and Arclight haven't been their stated heights for a very long time and I kind of think it's better that way. I mean it would be kind of weird at times if she wasn't shrunken down but more so because of her interacting with other characters such as her and Scott who is stated to be 6'3. Anyways I think we can say that even though it says Joanna is 6'11 she probably shrunken down to 5'11 in artist scale and that's what it'll be until someone points it out to an artist or some comes up with a reason why Joanna size is different now (maybe another ability of hers).

@GreyGoose:

Technically the Vertigo and the Marauders are never really dead because Sinister has vats of their genetic makeup and makes clones of them each time hey are killed. So it's more of saying that we probably will not be seeing that "Vertigo" again but we'll probably be seeing a her clone again in the future if they decided to bring her back.

@AgeofHurricane: I feel the same. I want Sofia back with Julian and Surge back with Prodigy. Scarlet Witch really f'ed a lot of couples up when she took away their mutant powers but it also helped a lot of characters realize who they where/are without there powers.

What if when SW does what she goes to help people get different powers then the one before???

It's always a toss up when it comes to Gen-X Monet and X-Factor Monet for me. Mostly because I'm a huge Monet fan and I've written more things about her then I can remember. I think I like/love/favor both of them equally but at the same time I think I favor Gen X more at time if not only before the memories of it and thing we got learn about Monet and now it just feels like Monet is at a stand still. Like some of you guys said we all wish Monet would take more of a lead in X-Factor which she hasn't done yet - possibly only when her father was kidnapped, when she fought Ballistique and possibly some others. Also I think I liked Monet in Gen X because we saw a lot of what was under Monet's "M" persona - we got to see her breakdown and bond Jubilee after the death of Synch which was a fleet for her has Jubes was like her moral enemy and we also got see Monet's family and know of their past and now we have nothing and all we can assume is that the twins after safe and still have their powers as Mo hasn't spoken of them.

But also as much as I love Generation X I love X-Factor. I love sister/best friend relationship with Terry/Siryn and her friendship with Shatterstar because the conversation are always hilarious and he's such as new born child compared to Monet and I even thought I sometimes dislike her attachment to Strong Guy its good to see that even Monet is capable of having friends. Oh and I loveeeeeeeeee her dislike or such I her despising Layla because I feel like Monet takes the words of my mouth when she talks to Layla and I feel that it takes Monet quite some strength not to back hand her and dislocate her (Layla) whoe jaw if not knock her head off.

Conclusion I wish we could have some of the old M so we could see more of her sisters and Penance and have the story full explained and I also love the new M who really is a force to be reckon with even in her sleep.

@Lifeguard85: @Elixir95: In Gen-X Monet is stated to be the oldest after Jono I think. I know that what ever the age the twins was half of Monet's actually age. So they where 8/9 which would mean that Monet was possibly 16/18.

When Monet first appeared in comics is was stated that one her first powers that she showed as a child was flight more so levitation and when the twins take on Monet as a physical form one of the powers that they mimic or that use of their own is telekinesis (Claudette possesses it I think) but anyways Monet power of flight is from flight by her own will or force but from a low-level telekinesis ie. tactile telekinesis. Basically I think Mo flies under tactile telekinesis as Monet's other abilities such as her super-strength and invulnerability aren't an extension from it. Not by far. Monet has a super high density skeletal mass, superior muscle tissue, and she has denser muscle mass than that of a normal human which gives her several of her superhuman abilities. Also, Bishop noted that M possesses a "superior excellent rating" in all human physical categories. Which I think by the quote itself solves this question in a nut shell as he's stating that Monet as whole is "perfect human being". Both physically and mentally Monet is able to accomplish what would take a normal human being after thousand of years of evolving and a full scale of their brain being opened ie. allowing them abilities such as telepathy and telekinesis. Anyways I think Monet does fly by low level telekinesis as her at least one her sister possesses tk and Monet in several timelines displays telekinesis ie. X-Men: The End - Monet is shown using very advanced telekinesis and even uses a kinetic energies a concussive force blast. Also I just remember that Synch when he would mimic Monet's abilities he could use telekinesis and that was even after the real Monet was release and the twins had left.

No. Well I don't think so. It's been stated that Monet even before having her powers her ego was already at a high which was caused by the constant dotting of her father and grandfather and when her mutation manifested it only boosted her ego and cause her to create her "M" persona. But I do think that her thoughts of her being perfection helps boost her powers at least some as confidence is everything. Also I love that you thought of this. I think If Monet had child with Darwin that would be a cool concept for powers for the child.