#m pox

are you actually going to make me defend Cyclops, anon?

Okay, first of all, Marvel is taking their sweet time in telling us what happened in the 8-month gap, particularly what happened to Cyclops, how the mutants started getting sick, and all that. Which means, we can’t know for sure what the circumstances were that led him to do that.

What I meant when I wrote that “who can blame Cyke for doing that” thing was that, in the context of the comics, just think about what we do know happened: Black Bolt - the king of a whole people, their “spokesperson” (no pun intended) - used a bomb (in secret, and, let’s be honest, against what his own people would have wished, his wife, in particular) that sent this chemical cloud to the world which turned people genetically compatible into Inhumans, a dramatic process that caused upheaval in a world that was absolutely unprepared for it, and a transformation that not everyone who had that heritage survived. The guy at the beginning of the book, who said they dropped a chemical weapon and should be punished for it, as any other nation would have been? He’s not that off the mark, you know…

Okay, so, the next few months, the terrigen cloud reached most countries in the world, where the same thing, give or take, happened as in the US, and Medusa is still doing her best to deal with the impossible situation her husband created, with the occasional help from the Avengers (something they never bothered to offer mutants, but whatever, I’m not bitter). But then, mutants start getting sick from the terrigen, many of them (and there weren’t that many around to begin with) die, all the others are sterilized! The end of a whole species, another mutant genocide, probably less than a year, in comics time, after they’ve finally managed to recover from the last one! 

Scott Summers was the guy who had to deal with M-Day, who had to find a way to keep the surviving mutants safe, and together, who spent his whole life trying to make his mentor’s dream come true only to see more evidence each day of how unlikely that was. That experience changed him, hardened him, made him make tough decisions, metaphorically sell his soul, to save his kind. And he did it, in AvX - not how he would have wanted, but it happened. And to see all of that crumble shortly afterwards because an alien race dropped a chemical bomb on Earth that only seems to be harmful to mutants? Honestly, the man already had reason enough to be paranoid before that, and then that happens? And, what, you think the Inhumans apologized for it, that Black Bolt wrote a public letter explaining himself, or something? Of course not, but even if he had done that, how can he, or any other mutant, know for sure that wasn’t an act of war, that they weren’t targeting mutants, that m-pox wasn’t planned? Because this is not like M-Day, where the Scarlet Witch did what she did as a result of her illness; this was something the Inhuman king had been planning to do for a while, Thanos only gave him the excuse to drop the bomb. Wanda Maximoff has been paying for her actions ever since (or, well, at least up until she was retconned into no longer being a mutant), despite the instrumental part she played in fixing the mess she created, but does anyone believe the same will happen to the Inhumans? The Trial of Blackagar Boltagon? Please; the only ones who have to face justice for their actions (or you know, for simply existing) in the Marvel U are the mutants - the most Black Bolt will have to endure is losing his throne and having to watch Medusa making out with Johnny Storm.

And yes, I know Medusa has people working with Hank McCoy to try and fix it, but that’s more politics than anything else.

And your writing, Crystal is good enough to lead a book. 

To each their favorites. But, hey, at least, with Crystal leading a book, there’s a chance Luna will be used regularly once again, so I’m all for it.

Also the Inhuman hating group also included mutants, which isn’t like the friends of humanity. 

Really? Tell me where, because I checked that issue again and there were only humans and Inhumans around in that scene. Unless you thought their leader, who was flying (using a jetpack) was a mutant? The guy was yelling about blood purity, being real humans, uncontaminated or something; I doubt they would even allow mutants into their ranks. Plus, while we have seen Inhumans showing their prejudice against mutants in the X-books, we haven’t seen the opposite happen yet. Actually, what we saw was a bunch of kids from the Jean Grey School helping the new Inhumans adapt to their new reality when they underwent terrigenesis (remember Inhumanity?).

 Your claim that you were keeping an open mind was clearly bull.  

*resists the urge to use another The Good Wife gif*

*resists the urge to point out the anon isn’t in my mind and can’t make statements like that*

Look, I do like the Inhumans, but what I like is what they have been since they were created in the 60′s, not as Marvel and Disney’s poor attempts at making themselves a new equivalent to mutants that they can use in their movies and TV shows. I like the general weirdness of their society, their rules, their problematic institutions, the horror that is Eldrac, the politics, and I especially like the royal family, Medusa most of all (and Maximus, never forget Maximus). Also, Medusa/Blackagar gives me way too many feels (yeah, I’m a shipper, so what?). What I don’t like is what Marvel is turning them into these days; they’re stripping away everything that made those characters who they are to turn them into the opposite of that! Thus alienating older fans and anyone who’s paying attention, really.