#by the author's insistence that she is a hollow force of arbitrary evil

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I think Mother Righteous might actually be the worst villain I've ever seen

#x-men #comics #comic books #marvel #immortal x-men #or at least the Kieron Gillen version #we've gone 17 issues and numerous tie-ins merely to arrive at #just another version of Mr. Sinister but without the personal connection to Cyclops/Charles/Maddie #and she has become a perfect storm of anti-interest #she has explicitly no motivation for anything she does (her goal was all programmed in and she pursues it without reflection) #and instead of holding any feelings about how her creator designed her the audience is denied any sort of conflict or pathos #by the author's insistence that she is a hollow force of arbitrary evil #neither is there intrigue through which the reader might theorize about her methods and short term objectives #the basic structure of the story precludes this by always having her act with information we are never given #except for when she acts directly contradiction to any information we do have #we can't even look to her as a dark mirror of the protagonists and wonder at how they will or will not thwart her because she never #even interacts with other characters except to reveal she already won off-page while you weren't reading