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Could I get a Scott Summers divider? I don’t know how feasible this would be, but it’d be cool if his eye beams were the line on the divider.

Your work is really cool!

Thank you!

I had a bit of trouble getting good images of Scott from the live action movies so I used some from X-Men '97 and the comics. I hope these are what you wanted!

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Teammate just died but family reunion time

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I want him to get a sword because we were promised the Scott-saber in X of Swords, and I am still waiting.

Plus I honestly think it would be a neat way to tie in both Teen Scott getting sword fighting lessons from Corsair in his solo, and that time Wolverine entrusted him with Muramasa to take care of Logan in a "worst case scenario".

ive seen some posts on twitter about how scott should get a sword and i think its funny bc he already has guns in his eyes. im going thru artblock also this is all ive been able to draw that hasnt been shit

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"we need to do a modern remake where Magneto is rwandan or Uyghyur" used to be the refrain and now it's "we need a modern remake where Magneto is palestinean"

and first off no we don't want a modern remake where he's not a holocaust survivor X-men 97 gave us a perfectly good story and people like it even praising how it references the holocaust without being too graphic

and do you really want to talk about which "updated backstory" to give Magneto to be "more with the times" because the answer is there and you are not ready to have this conversation maturely

Might want to stick with what Claremont wrote and keep him and Ashkenazi Jewish and Sinti Romani Holocaust survivor instead of whichever group it's most topical to shift it to

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Scott Summers and Warren Worthington III.

'ex situationship' is truly the nightmare relationship type. like we weren't ever anything but we were Something and now I mourn it like a relationship and I feel everything I would for that. but we weren't ever anything. so I can't mourn it because it didn't exist. but it Did

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Wonder Woman

Cassandra Cain

Lois Lane

Kara Zor-El

Pamela Isley

Twenty seconds. I named these five women and can give an explanation about things I like about them and why. It is not hard. It just requires giving a shit.

> "i dont like a lot of fictional women because there are very few well-rounded women in the genres i like"

> goes to blog

> main interest is dc comics

well now i know thats not true.

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There is definitely a heterosexual explanation for your really hot best friend acting on pure instinct to save your life because a part of him he thinks is pure evil and represents his time getting brainwashed acts to save you.

warren’s metal wings shot out to defend scott without his permission, giving up his position on the battlefield… scott/jean/warren is so back

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It is shocking how iconic and well known this look is for a one-time appearance on one page.

Probably helps that it's the Alex Ross and it is just a really good hero outfit.

Spyclops

X-Men: Millennial had its ups and downs, but I think this Cyclops design stands out. It's one of his more fashionable costumes IMO, perfect for sneaking or looming ominously.

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You know what the most fine thing is? Winning

And look at this man. He just said he's winning. Clearly, he's fine. Pay no attention to the ominous red background or his clear distress. He's winning, so Cyclops is Fine.

YOU HAVE BEEN VISITED BY SCOTT SUMMERS IS FINE

Congratulations!! 🎉🎊

IF YOU SEE Scott Summers is Fine ON YOUR DASH, within 72 hours you too will be fine 👍🫠😅. If U ignore this, you will NOT be FINE.

Яeblog with your favourite Scott Summers is Fine panel to be χ-TRA FIИE🔥🚨

ΦΚΔΥ?

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Also, headshots in paintball without helmets is just awful. Hurts like hell and can even open up small cuts. A quarter pass for poor aim while doing a fly by, but not cool Sam.

Don't be mean to Slim!

You're on fucking notice, Sam Alexander. Slim is participating in a Champions team building exercise paintball game vs people with way more useful superpowers, which is fine, but mocking this elongated alien's disability is hurtful. Hurtful and uncalled for.

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Honestly if I ever get around to writing X-Men fanfic (and conquer the urge of self indulgence (spoilers: I'm failing)) I would love to take a hint out of your prior reblog and push Scott out of the leader role to become Jean's 2iC/Lancer.

Fundamentally, Scott thrives in field command. There is definitely a part of him that probably feels calm and in the zone in the field. But large scale tactical decisions? Making decisions for the team, the school, all of Mutantkind? He is able to do that without hesitation but it eats at him. Look at the poor boy, it gave him anxiety.

Scott stepping back, probably after pressure from Jean and a duel, would do wonders for his mental health. Plus, we'd get to show that Jean is not just a pretty face but in some ways the powerhouse of the team.

Cyke gets a promotion

I love how Chuck is just showing Scott how all his doohickeys work, implying that this is the end of a much larger conversation, then just casually tells him that he's the captain now.

'You're a leader, Scott. Now do exactly what I say.'

'But sir!'

'You're 15 1/2 now Scott, it's time to grow up.'

Maybe he doesn't want to be a leader. Maybe he wants to be an artist, man. If I could make one change to the 1963 run it would be for Scott to shave his head and take up smoking a pipe from this point onwards.

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... wasn't that the point of x-men? To be an allegory for marginalized groups.....?

How do you hit the point and miss it so badly?

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I hate Havok/Alex Summers now. Havolaris is now very clearly a completely unsalvageable relationship that always, ALWAYS has an element of sexism (usually subtle, sometimes blatant). And it all comes down to Jordan White, Tom Brevoort, Beau DeMayo, and a majority of Havok fans demonstrating why I should by how poorly they treat and view Polaris/Lorna Dane to promote him.

I’ve been a Polaris fan since 2009. Over a decade and a half. In that time, I used to say one very clear and definitive thing. I used to say that if they kept the Havolaris relationship apart for a decade, focused on Polaris and Havok as their own characters and did enough meaningful with Polaris in that time, they could come back together as a good couple.

This is what happened instead.

Jordan White forced Havok into EVERY depiction of Lorna under his control except Duggan’s run, ONLY because she won the X-Men vote. Something he found distasteful enough to try and dismiss her win as happening only because she was on Gifted. And every time Havok got forced into Lorna’s affairs, it was to frame Lorna as incompetent, weak, or incapable of having any identity outside of being his (ex-)girlfriend.

Beau DeMayo told the Genoshan genocide story without Polaris anywhere in sight, even though she was one of the core survivors in the comics. She had fucking PTSD because of it for an entire X-Men run! She had an issue, New X-Men 132, almost entirely dedicated to finding her in the rubble and her broadcasting Genosha’s final moments! But no. Not even in the fucking background. Instead, Lorna’s only appearances were two reminders of her as Havok’s girlfriend on 90s X-Factor, and a split second animation of her as a future slave.

And we have Tom Brevoort. Who among so many other things I could say, most recently had Polaris repeatedly treated like a weak damsel on the just ended X-Factor with a clear goal of fucking her over just after her great showing in Fall of the House of X all so he could force her back into relationship with Havok.

And then there’s the Havok fans. I know not all Havok fans are the same. But the ones I saw the most of, who I had the most interaction with? They ALWAYS insisted that Lorna “needs” to be in relationship with him. They ALWAYS insisted that any bad treatment of Lorna in any of this came down to Havok being treated poorly instead. That if their woobie perfect cis straight blonde white man just got a little more of the endless opportunities they keep giving him but never Polaris in her own right, it would trickle down to Lorna.

Cause we know trickle down economics works for fiction even though it doesn’t in real life economics, right?

The Havok fans I’ve seen and talked to never want Lorna to be her own fucking character with her own thoughts, feelings, experiences. Her own worth independent of Havok. They want the relationship forced onto Lorna because in truth? They’re fucking afraid that he really is a nobody ass clown and can’t hack it on his own without Polaris reduced to his ever-present manic pixie dream girlfriend. They can’t give her a single second, nevermind ten years, just being herself and building herself up toward a future benefit.

So fuck Havok.

I gave the idea of Havolaris a chance. I gave the character a chance. I gave them a decade and a half of my life to fix this shit. But they’re all just too goddamn committed to fucking Polaris over any time she gets the tiniest scrap of something good. They all love their nostalgia, with its origins of rampant sexism meant in its original time to kill the feminism she had on creation, way too much.

They have all proven to me beyond a shadow of a doubt that Havolaris will never not be sexist self-insert fanwankery, and that Havok himself will never be anything but a fuckboy who always requires making a hot green-haired woman look more pathetic and useless than him to garner any semblance of appeal.

Which still isn’t enough to keep a book from getting canceled cause it sucks shit and the majority of people don’t want to read sexist trash. But hey. That’s apparently what Havok fans want, and what people at Marvel want cause it’s the only place they can get away with being sexist (since they can’t be sexist toward Jean, or Storm, or Emma and get away with it).

Anyone who wants to try to make me think differently, don’t bother. You’re competing against a decade and a half of direct personal experience. You’re not changing my mind with a half-assed bit of gaslighting.

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x-factor (1986) abridged

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comics tumblr rn

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baby are you okay you reblogged the "we have nothing left but threats" Scott cyclops speech again