@zedster_@emerrin_lol there are similar posts about Mel too lol they relate the hate towards the character to her race and ignoring that she's an artillery mage with a defensive spell that belongs to a melee champion
@DarnellForever@BlazeBinges this is especially funny knowing that one of Storm's biggest moments when she was depowered was beating Callisto in a knife fight
@marlbluero_ An uncomfortable truth that a lot of people who begin to critique society will eventually have to come to terms with is that our complicity is bought by the things we that NEED to stay alive. It takes privilege to be able to afford other means.
@theronhart Kitty or Jubilee, maybe at least in the sequel. Though, Rogue could already be serving as the perspective character depending on how they do this film.
@RedLReviews well, we do refer to the bird as the Phoenix Force, but the reason Phoenix doesn't always work is because there are points where Jean doesn't have it, hell, she's only gotten it back rather recently in this past decade
@nuhcol__@joorsey I'd say it's the inverse that her character is so big that she outgrew any moniker.
Also I guess there's also the issue of having so many "Marvel" women, not to mention a whole group of them are related in a way that Jean specifically is an outlier of.
@mr_heartstone15@Evenadamas2 I'm still early on rn but even just in the first wave of X-Force that I'm reading, so many people have already either pointed out or called out Beast on his bullshit lmao I can't imagine how you can see Beast as a representative of mutantdom with the narrative's explicit framing.
@LDrvs93438@cyclopsnews I think it's really telling too that he hasn't had many prominent solo runs throughout his career despite being almost always being an important character throughout X-Men's history. Hell, his current solo run is a limited series cuz he'll be back to leading another team.