#wes reads xmen

[kurt-wagner-official]

Post #79: UXM issues 204-206

After Kurt’s absence from the Secret Wars II tie-ins, he gets a solo story in this issue. It’s a few days after the end of that event, and the X-Men are still in San Francisco. Kurt is staying at Amanda’s, sitting outside all night and drinking all day, dodging his team’s calls. He tells Amanda about the events of his mini a few months ago, when everything was fantastical and fun. Since then, the Beyonder has destroyed his love for life by removing the faith that kept him grounded. The Beyonder might be God, Satan, or neither, but any way Kurt looks at it, his religion means nothing anymore. The Beyonder didn’t teleport him to San Francisco in Uncanny 202, which could either mean he wasn’t worthy or he was spared. Either way hurts, but worst of all is Kurt’s shame that he was glad not to go. This was the first time he was too afraid to go to his family in their time of need, and that’s just the latest blow to his heart. Unsure of who he is anymore and wanting to lash out at Amanda, he asks her if he really loves her or if she cast a spell on him. Wounded and angry, she leaves, and Kurt’s more alone and guilty than ever. He gets a distraction when he hears a “Sflaang!” in Central Park, which is apparently a unique enough sound that he realizes it’s Arcade’s kidnapping garbage truck. Looking for a chance to prove, at least to himself, that he’s a hero, he follows the truck back to Arcade’s newest Murderworld secret entrance. The victim is a seemingly normal college girl who Arcade is very bored with until Kurt intervenes. He comes alive as he battles hordes of robots and protects the girl. It seems like they’ll be overwhelmed until Kurt reprograms some of Arcade’s X-bots to attack him while he and the would-be victim slip out. It impresses Arcade enough that he lets them go, and when Kurt escorts his new friend back to her apartment, they’re greeted by soldiers who reveal that she’s actually Judith Rassendyll, the long-lost heir of Ruritania. It’s a random twist that doesn’t really set up anything, but it accomplishes its purpose of reminding Kurt that he’s still the princess saving hero he was in his miniseries. I really enjoy this issue. It’s very thematically appropriate that Kurt begins the issue questioning everything he knows and then finds answers in a world of illusions and hidden traps. It’s not spelled out in so many words, but I interpret it as him realizing that he doesn’t need to understand everything. The world makes less and less sense every day, but when he’s all alone and put to the test, he met the nonsense head-on and saved a damsel in distress while having the time of his life. Kurt as a thrill seeker is an angle that’s been explored less and less as the decades have passed, but his characterization under Claremont, which is my favorite take on him, is a man who’s most at home on an adventure. He gets his stability and peace from his own heart and beliefs, and he needs to balance that by embracing external chaos. We see here that when he doesn’t have that chaos, he lets himself weigh himself down. But when he forces himself back into his groove, he can center himself again and be himself. Before I move on, I’d like to mention guest penciller June Brigman, cocreator of Power Pack. I’m not the biggest fan of how she draws Kurt’s face, but his movement and the action in general is great.

Issue 205 is the triumphant return of Barry Windsor-Smith, this time for a Logan story, rather than an Ororo one. It’s also the introduction to this series of Oyama Yuriko, Lady Deathstrike. She first showed up in Daredevil and then in Alpha Flight, where Logan was guest starring. For backstory reasons that I don’t care to get into right now, she hates Logan. In this issue, she’s already found and teamed up with Cole, Macon, and Reese, the three Hellfire guys that were gutted by Logan and turned into cyborgs. That’s not enough villains, so they hire Spiral, who runs the “Body Shoppe” where she gives magical and/or hi-tech super duper cosmetic surgery, to cybernetically enhance them all further so they can get their collective revenge on Logan. We jump ahead to Katie of Power Pack, who’s on a field trip in Manhattan in a blizzard. She’s separated from her teacher when they encounter Logan, who’s severely injured body and mind from a battle against the villains that he’s losing. Like a wounded animal acting on instinct, he scoops up Katie and flees. With her help, he slowly begins to regain his mind and heal from his wounds. He eventually meets his enemies in battle and beats them, but refuses to kill them. They’ve chosen to give up their humanity, while his was stolen and reclaimed, and he won’t lose it again for them. He gently takes Katie’s hand and leads her home. There’s not really much for me to say here. It’s not anything new for Logan’s character- the speech he gives to Deathstrike at the end is very similar to one he gave Cole a few years ago. Format wise, it is a twist, with no narration or monologuing from Logan himself. It’s a really great issue, but mostly for the gorgeous art and incredible tension and pacing.

Issue 206 returns to the rest of the team, still chilling in San Francisco. Ororo’s patrolling the streets beating up would be muggers and making friends with the local cops. She returns to Jessica Drew’s apartment, where everyone is just living for the time being. Kitty has a date with a guy who I guess is a friend of Jessica’s. Claremont kinda assumes people have read his Spider-Woman stuff from a few years ago. Anyway, the important thing is that we get to see worried mom Ororo. Anna opens a postcard from Madelyne that she sent right before Scott left, inviting the team to visit them in Alaska. Anna and Peter think it’s a good idea, but Rachel freaks out at the idea of her father and stepmom. For once, Anna gets to be the mentor. She tells Rachel that they both have ghosts they’ll never be fully rid of, but by facing them they can put them at ease. Anna, finally back in San Francisco for the first time since Avengers Annual 10, has accepted her own past and the fact that Carol’s a part of her, even if she’s still a long way from really forgiving herself or fully healing. She tells Rachel the first step is talking to Scott. We get a brief interlude of Amanda, who’s left the country for a lengthy tour as flight attendant. We learn that she’s tried and failed to call Kurt a few times over the last few days. She also thinks about how this maybe breakup has been building for a while, mainly because of Kurt’s questions about his past and Amanda’s weird reluctance to help him figure it out. Back to the main story, the chilling is, as usual, violently interrupted, this time by Freedom Force. Mystique and Destiny didn’t show for this one, but Pyro, Avalanche, and Blob are joined by new recruits Spiral (whose motivations for being here are still incredibly vague) and a new Spider-Woman. There’s a big long battle, which the X-Men actually lose, in large part due to Anna grabbing Spiral and being overwhelmed by her weird mind, giving Spiral control of her body. The day is actually saved by the cops that Ororo befriended earlier. They tell Freedom Force that the X-Men are heroes is SF, and if Freedom Force wants to take them they’ll need a warrant, which they don’t have cause without Mystique and Destiny they’re all idiots. They leave, and the X-Men have to clear out before they return with papers. Rachel decides that Anna’s right, and it’s time to talk to Madelyne and Scott- but at that moment in a San Francisco hospital, Madelyn is being wheeled in as a Jane Doe. There’s one more stinger, this one of Kurt. He’s bidding goodbye to his new friend Judith, who’s off to face her destiny as queen. Kurt finally has his groove back. He doesn’t seem to care about his breakup anymore. I feel bad for Amanda but I hated them together so this is for the best (until it starts back up again like always). He’s ready to get back to a life of heroism and adventure. This was a solid issue with a great thematic moral, which is that you never really find stability, just another rug that’ll be pulled out from under you. The X-Men finally found a city where they aren’t universally hated, but the feds came in and ran them out of town. Rachel’s finally decided to talk to Scott and Madelyne, but that chance is already gone. It doesn’t bode well for Anna, who feels like she’s making progress with her Carol brain. The only X-Man thriving is Kurt, who as we saw a couple issues ago is relearning how to embrace uncertainty. It’s a soft setup for the next two arcs, where everything the X-Men think they’re holding onto will start being unraveled very quickly.

#wes reads xmen

[grabyoursaintsandpray]

X-Men '97 creator Beau DeMayo says Episode 5 was just “our warm-up” “Episode 8-10 is my big one ;)"

#Read this quote and thought of this #Still sobbing #x men 97 #xmen 97 #xmen #beau demayo #X-Men #how we doing gambit nation? #Because im fucking wrecked #X-Men 97 #x men animated series

[wingsofahoneybee]

watching the X-Men show (1992-97) with max and i completely forgot how fucking hideous xavier's chair is

forklift certified looking ass bitch

#i havent read the comics in years but we started watching the original show after loving xmen 97 #and i love it its everything to me #but the chair.... #that stupid ass gokart looking shit its so fucking goofy #bee talks #xmen #x men 97 #x men

[thischerik]

Charles: I have edge!

Erik: You really don’t.

Erik: You are literally the most wide-eyed person I’ve ever seen.

Erik: You have the face of a cartoon lamb.

#OKAY ERIK THANKS WE GET #source: modern family #no bc Charles’s eyes onG bruh #I love reading cherik fics bc the descriptions of his eyes are immaculate #thischerik #cherik #incorrect x men quotes #erik lehnsherr #charles xavier #incorrect cherik quotes #x-men #magneto #professor x #xmen #marvel #xmcu

[wolvertooth]

wait hold up. why was the pit considered traumatizing????? wasnt he literally just living out whatever greatest fantasy he wanted????? whys he acting like he is was tortured on the daily tf

#sabretooth #victor creed #💜 #*has like 10 orgies a day* i cant believe the xmen would do this to me ): #how long was he even in there? like what? a week? #like bro shuttttt tf up u literally got sent to heaven what are u goin ON about #unless we read those comics completely wrong which is.....highly possible lmao #i may also be vague blogging abt a certain member in my system rn shhhhhh

[violentdevotion]

wait do you have a fav boys character yet ?

i really like butcher but i feel like that's a basic answer and also the wrong answer. in another world id like frenchie but i can't get over how much i hate the actor. I love maeve theres never a moment she's on screen where im thinking get this woman outta here she's always entertaining to me. i like starlight but (and this is probably a bit nasty to say) there's smth a little uncanny valley about her sometimes where when she's talking im not listening but staring at her face trying to see what features throwing me off. I hate ashley but the actress played an insufferable character in jessica jones too and I really appreciate her ability to play The Most annoying woman you know.

centrist answer i like them all (except stormfront. hated her before i even knew she was a nazi. she was on insta live and i was waiting for her to explode and die) but my fave would have to be butcher bc i find im rooting for him the most and constantly justifying his actions. but sometimes karl urbans accent pisses me off. also black noir but he doesn't Do anything so it's hard to have him as a fave bc he's barely there.

#ameeras.got.mail #kieran tag #ik men like soldier boy so ill wait to see him do some evil disgusting horrendous thing that would make most ppl go ew he sucks but make #cis men ages 18-35 go wow hes soo cool #i like kimiko too but i dont think im allowed to say shes my fave when sometimes when shes like i dont want to be a weapon anymore :( im #mad at her and thinking get over it. i like mm but hes kinda this mother hen character and i dont rly tend to favour characters who are the #rational voice of reason like can we please get some conflict here #hughies whatever. i rly like his dad though lets go simon pegg #in the 7: homelander sucks. i find a train fun but his athlete storyline wasnt compelling to me personally bc the more i thought about it #the more i thought his superpower sucks. despite it all i find the deep kinda fun. i like that hes a scientologist. #didnt like transparent. was meh about lamplighter. didnt like whats his name sonicboom?? had a personal vendetta against that hijabi supe #we saw for like 2 seconds girl what are you doing there !!!!!! why are you playing into the diversity market !!!! #like edgar but in the way everyone likes giancarlo esposito's characters #nadia is whatever she was always meh to me even as a background character but i rly love the idea of having the superpower to explode #peoples heads with your mind i cant help but think of the xmen and think about if there was a mutant with the ability to explode heads with #their mind and that was their only ability and what a hard fucking sell that would be for xavier #(ive never read the xmen comics and have only seen some of the movies so i like to imagine charles xavier as lilo in the lilo and stitch #cartoon where every episode she would find an experiment with a unique function to destroy and would have to find it a home where it could #help instead. like yeah this experiment fattens people up and eats them lets put him in a resturant or smth #but with mutants #this mutant makes ice lets send him to a fridge company. this mutant explodes heads lets.... erm. #)

[alternis]

the worst thing is if you gave me a line up of random x-men i'd be like "ah yes thats maggot, the south african whose mutation is two giant maggots, and next to him is lifeguard, an elaborate baywatch joke" but give me a lineup of any dc characters from outside of the gotham metro area and im like. well i recognise firestorm!

#i literally learned to read from my brothers xmen comics. the earliest comic we had was the end of the onslaught arc #i know xmen you cant even imagine #and yet! i do not read marvel comics any more. i fell in with the batfolk and now my home is forever lost to me

[smallblueandloud]

okay actually the new volume of marauders was really sweet 😭

#i'm a basic bitch you give me kitty being Kitty and i get emotional #sb and l rambles #sb and l reads comics #xmen #i have finished AXE and marauders and caught up on immortal xmen #now i do actually have a test tomorrow morning so i'm gonna go back to studying for that #but ARGH we get to see KITTY TALKING TO HER DAD i am VERKLEMPT

[ethereal-evei]

cried on the bus tonight, it was sunset and I was on the bus back from the supermarket and when we turned a corner everyone started gasping and pointing to everyone that the blue super moon was rising - everyone was taking turns looking down the isle and calling people to tell them about it. in that moment we weren't strangers and the moon was huge and it was orange and when I got off at my stop I stood and watched everyone also stopping in their tracks to take a photo or even just look. the same thing had happened earlier with this insane sunset. its the last day of winter and the way there was such beauty in the setting sun in the west and the rising moon in the west I don't know how to word it but it really makes me think there is good out there. like we are all connected through the beauty in thins and want to share that with whoever we can strangers or not. its times like these I just want to keep wrapped up under my bed for the days I don't feel like there's any left. at some point I will reword this to be more poetic but it was just such a moment; I haven't felt this human in so long . I need to make sure there is solid evidence it did happen even if its not the prettiest its here and it was real and I was alive to witness it

#ive been re watching all the xmen movies recently where Charles keeps talking about hope and Erik keeps trying to come to terms with it #its this enduring conflict and I was always on magnetos side because he might not be doing the perfect thing but at least it was something #but as there is so much anger and pain there is good too - and tonight I felt it #I've never been good or even okay at keeping a journal - I'm also a nightmare at being consistent with be reals #the last time I wrote to myself was a letter I found taped on the back of my bedroom mirror saying she hopes it gets better and we stick it #out to the next Lorde album. I read it days after the release of solar power and lost my mind #“everybody wants the best for you but you've got to want it for yourself” that moment was the first time I think I actually did #anyway. its 1am and I have to go on a side quest for vintage Levis - make cookies - finish so much work - go to the gym - do some recording #I am so sorry for the rambling but its now officially spring and its my goddaughters (best friends cat) birthday #things aren't perfect but I think im okay with living through it this time. #I will continue and I will meet her in the middle of a street on a sunny day #and god isn't it mine

[lesbianillyana]

this is kinda toxic but do you guys have like a character/fandom/pairing/etc that you physically CANT read fic for bc the version in your head is so strong and so specific that someone would have to be a mind reader to get it right for you

#the only xmen fic i have ever read has been ones specifically recommended to me (and i enjoy it every time!) but the thought of #just browsing thru ao3 for it make me ill #i feel like maybe this is more common w comic ppl bc of how we tend to pick and choose which canon parts of characters we accept as 'right' #or 'in character' #and how that looks different for everyone #which is how you end up with very different characterizations even in like canon actual comics let alone in fan communities #does this make sense?

[kurt-wagner-official]

Post #23: UXM Annual issue 5, Avengers Annual issue 10, and UXM issues 151-152

This annual costars the Fantastic Four. Other than Hank’s periodical appearances, which don’t really count as a crossover, this is the first proper team-up story Claremont has written. Just as a general rule, when I’m writing about team-up stories with characters not under the X-umbrella, I’m mostly gonna breeze over the parts with other heroes to focus on the X-Men characters, cause I don’t wanna lose focus in this post series. I do love the FF and maybe I’ll write about them, but not today. The exception will be when those parts of the story are adding to the X-parts, like in some later FF crossovers where there’s focus on cross-team relationships and thematic parallels between the two families. Here, though, they’re just here for the creators to have fun with and to boost sales. It is interesting that right after Byrne left to write and draw Fantastic Four, Claremont writes a Doom story and now an FF one. Maybe their  relationship has improved with distance, or maybe he’s trying to piss him off. Anyway, most of the FF is kidnapped by the alien Badoon, who have tracked and killed a Shi’ar messenger looking for Xavier. Susan escapes and goes to the X-Men for help. The Shi’ar’s last words were of Arkon, and Scott still has his teleportation lightning bolts, so the team goes to his world. This is Kitty’s first official mission, and she tries to wear another ridiculous self-made costume, but they make her change. The Badoon conquered Polymachus and captured Arkon, and once their military is stronger, the plan to conquer the Shi’ar as well. Before going into the field, Kurt and Logan have a follow-up to the conversation they had after their trip to Canada. Logan says that this is war and he’ll do what’s necessary. Kurt says he can’t and won’t stop him, but he wants him to remember the value of life and the gravity of killing, even when it’s justified. Kurt believes that Logan can and should try to change his killer ways. They put the conversation on hold as the team splits up to attack different areas of the Badoon citadel. Peter finds himself overwhelmed by a Badoon monster, but when it threatens Kitty, he’s overcome with berserker rage and defeats it. We’ve seen before and we’ll see again Peter’s temper. He’s not the traditional stereotype of a battle happy strongman. He’s typically more of the gentle giant archetype, sensitive and loving with a preference for peace. But he subverts that too with a temper second only to Logan’s. It’s a nice character decision that sets him apart from a lot of other bricks. Sue frees her team, and there’s a few pages of Brent Anderson (who’s back for this issue by the way, I forgot to mention earlier) having fun with the huge ensemble until Reed does some science to destroy a big self destructing machine and save the day. The X-Men have inspired the people of Polymachus to revolt and win back their world. Before the X-Men go home, Ororo and Arkon kiss and tell each other they wish they could be together, but neither can leave their world and their responsibilities. Ororo says she lives single by choice, and rarely regrets that, but does now with Arkon. Compared to her teammates, Ororo has very few love interests of the course of her history, and I’m very glad for that. Over the years, other than T’Challa, which is a relationship that I honestly find bland and underdeveloped, and Forge, which is an on again off again thing that’s very interesting but should have ended in the eighties, her relationships have either been short lived and forgotten or censored for being gay. I think it’s the best thing for the character; she’s very independent and free, and I feel like most of her possible love interests intentionally or unintentionally stifle some parts of her very complex personality. She only feels like she’s fully herself when she’s single, and it’s good for characters like that to exist. That being said, I do think that she and Logan having a quasi-romantic friends with benefits situation would be really interesting for both characters, since I have similar thoughts about Logan, and it would be a unique relationship in the franchise. But I’ll talk about that later. Overall, this was a fun and inconsequential crossover, but it does plant the seeds for some great FF/X-Men stories down the line.

Avengers Annual 10 actually takes places before issue 150, which Carol had a brief appearance in, but it doesn’t have much affect on the series until after, so I think this is the best place to read it to maintain the flow of the series. I’m gonna speak very briefly about the plot cause most of it is about the Avengers (duh). I will be focusing on Carol Danvers, because she’s about to briefly join the X-Men, and Rogue, because this is her first appearance and origin (also just in advance I’m gonna call her Anna just to fit the pattern, but that wasn’t revealed as her name until I think 2004). Some backstory: in the worst Avengers story ever written, retroactively called the Rape of Ms. Marvel, Carol was mind controlled by a time traveler named Marcus, who “persuaded” her to fall in love with him and because of weird time travel give birth to him. He was only able to permanently exist in a pocket limbo dimension, so Carol went there with him and all of the Avengers thought it was romantic. In this story, the Avengers find out she’s mysteriously back when she falls off a bridge in a coma. Jessica Drew saves her and calls Xavier, who says that her conscious mind has been completely erased. This is revealed to be the work of Anna, who absorbed her powers permanently and as a side effect her personality. On the orders of Mystique, her adoptive mother, she beats up the Avengers, stealing their powers before breaking the Brotherhood out of prison. The Avengers stop them, but Anna and Mystique escape again. Anna actually gets very little character work in this issue; she’s mostly just gloating about how strong she is and beating everyone up. The Avengers go to the X-Mansion to speak with Carol, who breaks down and tells them the full story: they all accepted Marcus’s story at face value and didn’t question when he said he was no longer controlling Carol, but because of time travel stuff, as soon as they returned to his dimension he aged to death. Carol was able to reopen his portals and return, wanting to rebuild her life away from the Avengers when Anna attacked. From a meta standpoint, this is probably the best way to handle the follow-up to such a horribly conceived and written story. It kinda paints the rest of the Avengers as truly terrible people, but that’s for the best so we can focus on Carol. This is the downside to a huge shared publishing universe: if one author writes a horrible story like this (David Michelinie was the writer of Avengers, but I think Jim Shooter has taken the blame for this story), then the next writer has to deal with the implications. And if one author writes a story that every other author hates, what is the validity of that story in that character’s history? Hank Pym and Peter Parker have both hit their wives in anger due to a writer/artist miscommunication. Later writers ignore the Peter incident, because it was out of character and should never have happened, but for Hank it’s defined him for decades. Which is the right approach? It’s a question that needs to be asked more. It won’t come up much on this blog, because when one man writes the series for 17 years, and most of the spinoffs are by either him or Louise Simonson, who he works closely with, there’s very little disagreement between creators and nothing is forgotten. Which for the most part is a good thing, because Claremont and Simonson are great writers, but there are occasionally some questionable choices, and for better or worse those are always undeniably canon and important.

Finally back to the main series, where Cockrum is taking a break while a whole committee of artists fill in, Xavier gets a letter from Kitty’s parents saying they’re pulling her out of the school so she can go somewhere with kids her age. Which since they don’t know she’s a mutant is a very reasonable move, because if I were a parent I would think it’s very weird that the second youngest “student” is 19. Kitty is heartbroken; not only is she leaving the place and people that make her happiest, she sees this as an attempt to get her even farther away while they’re going through their divorce. And worst of all, they’re sending her to Emma Frost’s Massachusetts Academy. Emma Frost is the White Queen of the Hellfire Club, the first villain Kitty ever faced, and still alive after apparently dying fighting the Phoenix. Kitty’s whole world is falling down around her right when she’d regained stability, and her instinct is to lash out and blame her parents. But Xavier confirms they’re acting of their own free will, so there’s nothing he can do. She says her goodbyes and promises to visit, and kisses Peter, which means I can no longer ignore the elephant in the room I’ve been avoiding mentioning- Kitty and Peter’s relationship. They’ve been flirting and attracted to one another the entire time she’s been on the team, which is so very creepy since he’s at least 19 and she’s 13. This is one of those instances I was talking about last paragraph, where Claremont really should have been stopped, but since he’s the only writer for both characters for so long their relationship can’t just be softly retconned. This is by far my least favorite part of the run, and I hate that to this day it’s still the main on and off relationship for both characters. Ororo drives Kitty to her new school, and when Kitty is off with her orientation advisors, the White Queen appears, swaps their minds. Ororo, in Frost’s body, is a prisoner, why Frost heads back to the X-Men with an evil plan. At the mansion, the second creepiest X-couple, Kurt and his adoptive sister Amanda, are having a walk by the lake when they’re attacked by Sentinels under Shaw’s control. They destroy just as “Ororo” returns and takes them all out. Meanwhile, the real Ororo picks the lock on her cell and goes to Kitty. Unlike Frost, who’s having a great time with the powers of Storm, Ororo is both lost without the power that she put so much of her identity in and overwhelmed by her new telepathic powers. She flashes back to her time with Jean when her own telepathy was growing out of her control, and pulls herself together. But when Kitty tries to run, she accidentally hits her with a psionic attack, knocking her out.

Ororo tries to flee with Kitty, but Frost returns and accidentally causes their car to crash. Kitty saves who she thinks is her enemy, and Ororo tries to tell her who she is. Kitty’s not convinced, but she agrees to go along to save the X-Men in case it is the truth. At the mansion, Shaw turns Logan over to the guards that he gutted in the basement of the Hellfire Club. They survived and were upgraded with cyborg components, and they and Leland torture him to what they think is his death. But it was an illusion cast by Amanda, who the villains don’t realize has powers. Kitty and Logan save their friends, and Logan has a reunion with Cole, one of the bionic guards. Cole begs for death, saying his current existence is worse, but Logan basically calls him a little bitch who’s not worth it. Logan knows that being physically augmented doesn’t take away your humanity, but maybe Cole didn’t have any to begin with. In the past, he would have just killed Cole without hesitation, but now he knows there’s other way. It isn’t mercy though, because Cole wants to die. I think this is Logan starting to agree with Kurt’s idea that even a justified kill weighs on Logan’s soul, and the pathetic Cole isn’t worth it. Meanwhile, the storms Frost has created are out of control, but Ororo, with the mind swapping gun in her hands, takes control of Frost’s mind to reverse the process. She then shoots her, reclaiming her body, and though they are high in the air, she saves Frost from the deadly fall. But when she immediately attacks, Ororo lets loose on her for her horrible acts of violation against Ororo and her friends. She fully intends to kill her, but she’s stopped by Logan of all people. He says that killing changes and taints you, and although he won’t stop, he thinks Ororo shouldn’t give up on being better. He’s very right, because when Ororo does kill, in the upcoming Brood Saga, it changes her, and it’s a long time before she finds herself again. But that’s all later. Right now, the battle is won, but since they’re unable to expose the other group without exposing their own identities, the X-Men and Hellfire Club parts ways hating each other but in peace. Overall, a pretty good arc, but far from the best Hellfire story. It says some interesting things about the violations of mind control and body stealing, but those themes will be done much better in upcoming Carol/Anna stories and in the Brood Saga.

#wes reads xmen

[mimiri22-6]

I have to give it to marvel, specifically the X-Men series.

Charles and Erik do be gay and in love

It's either a testiment to how I can only catch vibes when the vibes are from fictional characters, or the vibes were that strong that 7 year old me was seeing rainbows. Either way the vibes were stong because even as a kid I was bullheaded and didn't even have the word 'gay' in my vocab, but I for sure knew they were more than friends.

#x-men #marvel #specifically the movies because i was a wee baby child and the only books I read ranged from dorkdiaries to geronimostilton #...also it's been years since I've even seen a clip of one of those movies. they still be gay right???? #erik lehnsherr #charles xavier #xmen #professor x #magneto #xmen movies #also i was a bit homophobic when i was little. mainly because people around me framed being gay as bad #specifically a tomboy a supposed lesbian and justin beaver that one time #tho i was more confused on why it was bad but kept up face just to fit in. i never like went out of my way to hate them. #just kept distance to kept face w my shitty relatives #if anything being told they were evil made me want to approach them more. to talk w them and see for myself #huh. that really is a testiment to how we gravitate towards eachother. #oh. that went off topic...oh well *send post*

[saltedcoffeee]

thinking abt writing a fic where charles gets confronted w how much he actually uses his mutation n getting all butthurt so he goes okay watch me!!!! n starts taking the suppressing drug again n at first ppl r like aw man maybe we should apologize :( n then they realize their heads feel a lot emptier than usual bc theyre so used to him being a sort of passive presence in their subconscious. yes its horrifying for everybody involved.

#i think charles being an all-knowing fellow without even trying is a concept that is rlly scary #like i love his character n mutation but u have to realize the man does not know what personal space is #even when hes not actively reading ppls minds he can still always hear their surface level thoughts n thats!!!disturbing actually!!! #on one hand : not his fault we know he cant just turn it off yk #on the other : we know from raven n erik that they can absolutely feel him in their mind even when hes not doing anything #not saying charles is an ethical king who did nothing wrong btw <3 we love a morally grey slay #his sense of privacy is just skewered bc he doesnt know where hes supposed to draw the line #according to raven n erik hes always past the line lmao n although theyre not completely wrong they defo enabled him to get worse #ignore all that would you #xmen #x men #charles xavier #drugs mention #should i tag this as long post ? wtf happened in the tags #thoughts

[thischerik]

charles wanting to kiss even when erik gets mad at him for something dumb

#erik loves charles in his head but sometimes he snaps bc he doesn’t want charles to read him loving him even when charles is being stupid #and the he probably begs charles to go inside his head again bc erik as we all know has a thinky vieled telepathy kink #IM BACK BAYBEE #I forgot how I used to fandom and I’m starting to remember #textposts on screencaps!! #I forgot we all love that #I might start doing more of this depending on how circus attractiony it gets #thischerik #cherik #incorrect x men #incorrect cherik quotes #charles xavier #erik lehnsherr #james mcavoy #michael fassbender #x-men #xmen #incorrect x men quotes #x men first class #incorrect pictures

[dmercer91]

jack's best friend always treating luke like a younger brother but he's just so obviously in love with her

my personal theory is that luke falls and pines hard

he can get a little 🤏 delusional

also- quinn would think luke pining is hilarious

movie day, lh43

a quiet knock on your door knocked you out of your book, head turning in the direction of your bedroom door at the hughes’ lake house and casing your hoodie to droop out of its spot and into your eyes

you took it off your head, telling whoever it was to come in and closing your book in your lap. you smiled when you saw luke, looking like a deer in headlights

“hi, lukey. what’s up?” his face went rosy and you adjusted in your bed, fixing the blanket on your lap.

“um. supper’s ready. quinn made grilled cheese. he’s calling it gourmet,” he scratched the back of his neck and you giggled, biting your lip slightly

“would you mind bringing it up for me? im pretending to be mad at your brother so im having ‘movie day’ without him. i’ve just been reading,” you added movie day in air quotes, and luke finally cracked a smile, nodding at you and quietly turning to go back downstairs and grab your food

when he came back, he had his plate as well, and he gave you a sheepish look.

“i thought maybe we could have actual movie day, so i brought mine. can i…?” he trailed off, shifting his weight onto one leg

you nodded happily, moving over in your bed and patting the spot next to you.

luke grinned to himself, making his way over and sitting down, stiffening slightly when you leaned against him and took your plate from his hand

“you can pick the movie, lukey,” you handed him the remote, taking a bite of your sandwich and grinning when you determined that quinn’s gourmet grilled cheese was made with kraft singles.

he flicked through the movies on some of the apps you were already logged in on, eventually landing on xmen first class and looking down at you to confirm that what he’d chosen was okay

you nodded slightly, adjusting further into his shoulder and taking the remote from him to turn up the volume.

his face went hot when your hand had brushed his, and he quickly took a bite of his food to try and mask how flustered he’d gotten from just a small touch

“i told jack we were watching top gun, just to egg him on,” he whispered, eyes lighting up when you smiled and laughed.

his eyes stayed mostly on you throughout the movie, especially after you’d both finished eating and you started playing with his hair. you’d moved up so his head was on your chest, eyes zoned on the movie while he looked up at you, enamoured.

eventually, he nestled closer, grabbing your attention.

luke wasn’t a world renowned cuddler, so it raised suspicion. “you okay, lukey?” you brushed his hair out of his face and he nodded sleepily, pretending to be focused on the movie

you giggled “sleepy?” he hummed in response, bringing his eyes back up to yours.

“you’re not usually a snuggler, just wanted to make sure. you can talk to me, lu,” you squeezed his face a little, earning a smile

he knew that your words were meant to be coming off as jacks best friend, who’d been around for years, just wanting to help someone you’d known forever

but deep down he really, really wished that your words were meant to be subtle flirting, or letting him know how you felt

“if you fall asleep you can just stay, lukey,” you ruffled his hair, turning your head back to the movie

he nodded into you, tucking his head up into your neck

“thank you, baby,” he stiffened at his own words, the pet name coming out by accident

you only kissed his temple, not paying any mind to it.

he sighed in relief and closed his eyes, trying to fall asleep

#e’s 500 celly! #e’s blurbs! #luke hughes #luke hughes x reader #hockey imagine #nhl imagine #new jersey devils #umich wolverines

[smallblueandloud]

gee, summers kids! how come your dad lets you have the COOL genders?

uncanny x-men (1963) #184 // x-factor (2006) #45 // deadpool: all in the family (TPB)

#xmen #rachel summers #ruby summers #cable #nathan summers #sb and l rambles #sb and l reads comics #gender #finding a genderfuck panel for nathan was hardest because i haven't read much about him but! of course deadpool had my bck #hi yeah i'm back to thinking about scott's kids and specifically how they all have some gender shit going on #really it's rachel and ruby who have it canonically but! we cannot forget nathan's whole Thing #with possibly one of the queerest characters in marvel (love that guy)