Gaze upon me, mortals, and tremble! For I am the brute that walks!
Pure speculation at this point. But Sunspot was originally supposed to be in X-Men: First Class
Oh, so they’re making Bobby white?
Adan Canto is Mexican, actually.
But light skinned, while Bobby is biracial with very dark skin. (At least in his original incarnation. Recent artists like above have bleached him.) Bobby was introduced to the New Mutants after a bunch of racists started beating on him for dating a white girl. And that his father was of African descent was also very important for his story, since Emmanuel was a self-made man who rose out a poverty to become a billionaire and member of the Hellfire Club.
One of the features of the original New Mutants that I enjoyed was that they were incredibly diverse, much moreso than the new X-Men. It demonstrated how mutation as an identity transcends race and ethnicity; it fits the LGBT metaphor pretty well there. And characters like Bobby, Shan, and Dani allowed the writers to explore the similarities between mutants of different origins, and how those different origins in turn affected those characters. (Think of how different Dani would have been if she were just some white chick from Kentucky.)
Casting Canto as Bobby is like casting Mark Indelicato as Miles Morales; Mark and Miles may both be of Puerto Rican descent, but Miles is black and Mark isn’t.
I don’t disagree with you, but this is the same franchise that made Sebastian Shaw into a Nazi and Mystique into Xavier’s adopted sister. What on earth makes you think they’re going to suddenly care about adapting the key themes and backstories from New Mutants?
By now the mutants they put in X-Men films are just random characters pulled out of a hat with little regard for whether they fit into the given context. It doesn’t matter to them what color Sunspot is because the extent of his character will probably be to say “I’m Sunspot, and this is my power!” before he gets killed in a big fight scene.
Hey, it’s the first time I ever saw Gambit. Let’s review:
1) Gambit chooses which decks of cards to buy by opening the package and getting his greasy mitts all over them.
2) Sentinels are running amok in the mall. Good work, Gambit of the Uncanny X-Men!
3) Gambit wears his ridiculous costume in public. I guess this is so that when mutant-killing robots are on the loose, people will know he’s a superhero, but not a terribly good one, so they won’t expect him to help.
4) Gambit is flirting with this woman by implying that he likes to masturbate a lot.
(via starscream-and-hutch)
This ad scared the living crap out of me when I was a teenager.
I remember when I first saw this ad. Definitely got my attention.
It certainly unnerved me. Though tbh I don’t think I realized it was an ad. I’m also pretty sure I didn’t realize the “submit your registration” insert was actually a create-a-character contest. (Mind you I was 12 or 13, had just gotten into comics, and, well, the fact that the first issue I read was that NM where that bullied kid commits suicide… it definitely left a mark.)
EDIT: Tumblr seems to have mangled what I added to this, so trying again.
I probably first saw this while reading a random issue of Transformers or Amazing Spider-Man, long before I got into Marvel. It made no sense to me—it certainly didn’t suggest that I needed to read the X-books or Power Pack to see what happens next. Mostly it reinforced my attitude towards superhero comics in the 1980s—they look interesting, but they’re confusing so I could never follow them.
This (along with a convoluted ad for West Coast Avengers from the same period, and Secret Wars II) runs through my head whenever I see Marvel making a fumbling attempt to appeal to new readers, or acting as if an old fan like me cannot understand the perspective of a new reader. Because I still remember being in their target demographic, and thinking I wasn’t smart enough to handle all the insider-y stuff in their comics.
why there’s never a cat in xavier’s mansion…
After each cat dies, a bunch of nerds plaster CYCLOPS WAS RIGHT posters all over everything.
(via seraangel)
Wolverine is literally the worst. “Herp herp, it’s just fine when I assault and threaten the kids I cooped up and swore to keep away from violence, but it’s not cool when anyone else does it! I’m the house psycho, not you!”
There’s also something incredibly rich about Logan bitching about someone disappearing without warning and then showing up and being a dick.
This is where the whole “The X-Men are a school” thing completely falls apart, because Marvel keeps trying to make the X-Men the faculty at said school. Just because Wolverine and Psylocke have been X-Men forever does not mean they are particularly qualified to train X-Men.
For that matter, I never see any indication that the X-Men are training their students in anything the X-Men actually do. Although I suppose that would require the X-Men to decide what they’re supposed to be doing, instead to deciding not to do whatever their last leader did to cause the most recent X-Men wanksplosion.
I can name way too many of those by issue number…
Yo dawg, we heard that nothing ever happens to Jean Grey except that her mind gets blown, so we gave your Jean Grey flashbacks to all the times her mind was blown so you can watch Jean Grey’s mind get blown by watching Jean Grey’s mind get blown.
…I forgot it was Tyler Kitsch was Gambit.
I still say they should have cast Schwarzenegger. Just imagine him delivering all these awesome one-liners.
- “When it comes to charging things with mutant energy, I am an ace.”
- “When you play with me, the cards cut you.”
- “I’ll destroy these Sentinels…in spades.”
- “I would like for Rogue and Storm to double down on my one-eyed jack.”
- “I think I need to drop a deuce.”
- “All hands on deck.”
- “Haven’t you heard? Diamonds are a mutant’s best friend!”
- “Time to give the Hellfire Club a royal flush.”
- “Time to attract Magneto to my nine iron.”
- “Time to beat the Juggernaut with some clubs.”
- “What killed the dinosaurs? Exploding playing cards!”
Introducing the The New Xavier School. | All New X-Men #3
……I like this.
Mutants gonna teach some new mutants without all the pro-Avengers crap or a niceties. Nope. Gonna teach them on their own terms. Hell yes.
Plus Erik gets to be a teacher again. And protect the next generation. Because that’s what he does best and I can’t wait.
Okay, Scott. 2 points for you, boyo. This is a direction I am really pleased with.
… Scott’s really going to go and name his hangout Xavier’s School?
And Erik hasn’t punched him yet?
“screw you cyclops I’m gonna build a new mutant school and call it the Jean Grey school”
“OH YEAH wolverine?? well I’m gonna build MY OWN mutant school! The Xavier school! With blackjack! And hookers! And it’s where you were experimented on horribly and turned into a weapon!”
fuck these dudes srsly
…I appreciate when writers are kind enough to validate my hate.
gdi Bendis. (If we’re lucky then Scott won’t be allowed near any children and all of the students will be young adults who’ve suddenly manifested.)
(P.S. this is Bendis so no, we won’t be lucky.)
(P.P.S. unless he introduces 616!Miles Morales as a mutant. Then all is forgiven.)
I am reasonably sure this is one of the first places anyone would look for rogue X-Men, especially since “anyone” would include Wolverine.
If I’m an X-Man looking for a place to hide, I deliberately pick a place that doesn’t have an ironic connection to my team, like maybe some abandoned warehouse that was important to one of the Defenders.
I wanted to post this because of how cute Illyana and Piotr look in their snow outfits, but I cannot deal with Kitty in that last panel and her ~it’s so hard being a genius.
Puttering around on a lazy afternoon in a world that hates and fears them.
(via itsinthetrees)
