Just because “they” wanted to tell the story that way, doesn’t mean it’s immune to criticism. My point is that it’s an added element that is not an integral part of any previous portrayal of the character/story, and in the case of the “family/kids” stuff it is an obvious manipulative tactic that has not been “earned” through previous storytelling.
I liked Endgame in the moment, but it' really a movie the more i thnk about it, the more i hate it.
Like, I dgaf about Morgan stark, she shouldn't exist. Tony Stark tells me "I know how to save everyone that got snapped, but I refuse to lose the past five years, and all the people that died because of the snap or in the ensuing five years, because I have a daughter now."
and like, in Fantastic Four, hey made it work, because they had an actual solution to save people.
The end of Infinity war shows a plane or helicopter crashing into a building cause the pilot was snapped, and there's no way to convince me "Oh well all the people in the building and passengers were also snapped"
then there's the nonsense of people being returned from being snapped, but like, exactly where they were when they were snapped? Which leads to some other horrifying thoughts!
like Infinity War and Endgame try to make thanos some guy that claims he's doing it to save people. like, got thats so much lamer than making him a dude in love with Death.
but it's also like this Jenny Nicholson Joke
y'all are bad at your job
Yes, and then a *thing* happened to them to trigger it. I find that more satisfying. I don't know what else to say about it.
In Stan's own words, 'born that way' was his shortcut to not having to think about an origin. They'd eventually grow into a metaphor for minorities (minorities that could erase your mind and stomp your house), but at the start, it was just some rando white kids who each had a super-power. I'm not even sure if the timeline for atomic testing even works for Magneto, let alone Namor or Apocalypse.
I'm not here to convince anyone that the X-Men are lame (and I keep deleting the huge paragraphs that start forming when I try to defend it), just that they don't hold up to my scrutiny. They're just super-powered heroes doing superhero stuff, they've just wrapped their power fantasy in social commentary.
I also never read a single comic that had Inhumans sprouting up around the world, so I blissfully only have my imagination of what that would be like and I think it sounds pretty cool.
Hey, I see you and I hear you, and hell yeah, x-men are lame, I'm with you.
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