I'm Doing Just Fine

Alpha Flight:

I made a little joke a while ago about how Heather was the only one even remotely qualified to lead Alpha Flight was Heather. Referring to the twins as Drama Starter #1 and Drama Starter #2 (which is which is entirely up to you).

I don't think Jeanne-Marie, where she is at the time, would be able or even want to lead Alpha Flight. She's in a constant struggle for control with agency over her mind, body, and relationships. Considering that no one on the team respects her or takes her seriously she'd have a hard time gaining their trust. At the end the team would either dissolve or Aurora would have to step down as leader.

X-Men:

I don't ever see Aurora becoming an leader of the X-Men. Mainly because that title goes to A-Listers, Storm, Cyclops, Professor X, Emma Frost. Also it truly belongs to a character who has a strong connection with most of the team and considering that Aurora has never been an official X-Man, she doesn't really qualify.

X-Factor:

I can see Aurora leading X-Factor (2020), in the circumstances that Jean-Paul is sick, injured, or, as I write him in my Renegades fic, on paternity leave.

I think Aurora would have the trust and respect of everyone there. I think there would be issues Aurora's crippling self-doubt, Akihiro's overprotective tendencies, she might try to please everyone and end up pleasing no one.

However I think once she overcomes those obstacles and puts more faith in her own authority Aurora's own strengths will start to shine through.

Her compassion, her smarts, her reason, and her sense of justice.

This one is starting of storng with the inclusion of my beloved Beaubier twins, in the backgrounders. They are two characters that the Macchio adaptation excludes. Characters appearing in both adaptations include Frederick Dukes (The Blob), Shiro Yoshida (Sunfire), John Proudstar (Thunderbird), Julio Richter (Rictor).

The Takeshobo adaptation, keeps a lot of the characters from the orginal episode, however both adaptations ommit one mutant, that being Mystique who can be seen in several background shots in 1x07.

The fight scenes in this version are also better than the Macchio version and possibly the animated series.

For Comparison:

And in this version of events both Aurora and Northstar get lines.

Then we get more awesome fight scene and it's just awesome, everyone looks so cool!!!

Shiro's obilogatory telling the X-Men to fuck off speech.

You could at least say thank you to Gambit. He is the one who brought the key to unlock the collars in all of these versions.

Anyway 10/10 comic, 100/10 adaptation