#New X-Men

[zed-sabre]

going back to my comfort subject: assigning pokemon teams to comic characters i like

[thenotoriousscuttlecliff]

Emma Corrin as Cassandra Nova in Deadpool and Wolverine

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[karenxmenfan]

Jean Grey (15/x)

[verdantflamingo]

"I'm cheating on the redheaded GIRL with a blonde WOMAN who is everything she's not and everything I need."

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A few final Yes:

Yes, I started making this picture about two months ago when I first came across this meme…

Yes, I know this isn't the point of this meme…

But Yes, I am addicted and this is the first thing that came to my mind.

Yes, I'm not at all ashamed that I changed the homo meme to a straight one... Well, maybe a little, but not so much...

And Yes, Scott, for a change, thinks in Times New Roman.

[spaceshiprocket]

Emma Frost by Frank Quitely, Tim Townsend and Hi-Fi Design

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★ 【MUGI】 「 X-23 & Hellion 」 ☆ ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow me! insta • x • bsky

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[zonedelicious]

In the X-Men fandom this scene is constantly brought up to call the character Noriko racist, call the entire book racist, and even call the fans and writers racist. And as a Muslim fan of Academy X I am very confused at this harsh reaction because to me it is obvious the story is siding with Sooraya.

For starters X-Men can be very VERY racist and islamophobic. I've recently been reading Claremont's New Mutants and it's painful how racist that book is to Arabs. I wanted to stop reading because of the racism.

But I do not get this reaction from Academy X, which is my favourite X-Men book.

I think a lot of people don't know what kind of book Academy X is. Academy X is a book about delinquents. The main characters are a bunch of asshole kids. The appeal to me is seeing these shitty kids grow and become better people. Yes they make mistakes that's the point. They're stupid kids.

Noriko is one of these kids. She was homeless at a young age because of the poor relationship with her family and because of this she's afraid of ever showing any vulnerability. Choosing to rather lash out at others. It's a realistic coping mechanism.

The scene with Sooraya shows this as Noriko is projecting her own trauma onto a poor girl who only wanted to be nice to her. Yes it's shitty but that's the point. We're seeing how their personalities and viewpoints clash, and how Sooraya is challenging Noriko's beliefs.

I do not see how anyone can read this as the book being racist when the scene even shows Sooraya sad. Something like this never happens when an X-Men book is actually islamophobic. Yet people never react as harshly to actually racist X-Men books as they do to this.

It's actually very similar to a scene at the start of Ms Marvel, where Zoe is racist to Nakia. We can clearly see both scenes are suppose to make you feel uncomfortable and make you side with the Muslim girl. And both Zoe and Noriko are humanized despite being bullies.

We even get a conclusion. Some say this isn't enough, but remember that Noriko refuses to show emotions, so the fact she's willing to go against her instincts here is interesting. It's more interesting to me than simply having a generic anti racism speech.

Again Sooraya is entirely humanized here. The comic is understanding of her struggle. I do disagree with the way she's drawn at times, but the writing makes her a character I could relate to. And reading this conclusion only makes me more interested in both characters.

Sadly neither character ever got a proper character arc after the comic ended. But to me that just makes me wish there were more comics of this group where we do see Sooraya and Noriko become close friends like Nakia and Zoe. It makes me think of writing my own story with them.

I love this book and what it means for Sooraya. I love seeing Sooraya's relationship with the Hellions, Jay and Laura. This is still her definitive comic, so why are we dismissing it entirely because of one scene that exists to make us relate to her?

It's very strange that this one scene, that to me is well made and relatable, is being used as a way to hate the characters, the comic, and everyone who likes it. Most hate isn't even coming from Muslims so is it just performative outrage and misunderstanding?

Or maybe this scene hits at home for some people? With the conversation being very realistic and grounded, people may see themselves in Noriko. Maybe they had a similar reaction towards a Muslim girl and are remembering it.

Noriko's stance isn't even that different from ex Muslim feminists who say similar things. The issue is how she is projecting onto Sooraya. And maybe that's what makes people uncomfortable. The complexity this conversation has in the real world.

Whatever it may be, Noriko still clearly grows after this arc. We do see her become a great leader who stands up for her friends. And even if she has issues to deal with, she was slowly becoming a better person.

In conclusion I love this book because it's relatable in how it portrays its characters. I like Sooraya being a Muslim character who's also a protagonist and a big part of the story. I hope more people give this book a chance and see the charm of it that I see.

Anyway time to go listen to anime music and imagine my OCs hanging out with the Academy X kids (need to draw that one day).

[fionapplespiano]

X-Men 97 speed running these iconic comic storylines like

So far we’ve had

- Inferno

- Lifedeath

- Cable being sent to the future

- The Genosha genocide

- Scott and Jean’s marriage problems including a psychic affair and Jogan’s resurrection🤮

And we’re only halfway through good lord, we’re gonna be on Krakoa by the season finale

[zed-sabre]

I just miss these kids

[rzc11]

This freaking Phoenix look on Jean was just absolute fire. Here Comes Tomorrow

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Cyclops by artist Dan Panosian (Baltimore Comic Con, 2010).

[rei-ismyname]

Prodigy becomes a supervillain

David Alleyn's mutation is passive telepathy - he absorbs information and skills by being in proximity to people. He's a very successful student across the board, but the absorbed information fading means he has to work twice as hard. He's also got major imposter syndrome.

He asks Emma Frost and Dani Moonstar for help and advice, and it's revealed he has a mental block stopping him retaining knowledge.

After some hemming and hawwing, it's decided they'll remove the block.

It works! He tests it on a Beast lecture, retaining all the information. Woo hoo.

Next he tests it for combat ability, beating Wolverine in a Magneto helmet up. So far so good. (Also, Dani Moonstar is taller than Wolverine. Most people are. Maybe she's meant to be in the background.)

Here's where shit starts going off the rails. David realises he's wasting his potential in school and starts making plans for meeting people to round out his knowledge base. Henry Kissinger, WTF? There's three war criminals on the list and most of the rest are uber capitalists. He should have made a better list.

His personality starts to get colder as he becomes more focused on his plans.

Such as curing AIDS and cancer at the cost of Elixir's life. Ends justifies the means.

Fast forward a little and he's POTUS. Somehow he figures nuking China will bring world peace (thanks Kissinger.) Dani tries to stop him and he kills her.

While he has the X-Men as his special forces and the Hellions framed as terrorists, people start to realise he's an evil motherfucker. He kills anyone who opposes him.

Psych! It was all a dream. Is it just me or is this terrible advice and super irresponsible of his teachers? They showed him his WORST FEAR, not the future. His fear is that he fundamentally changes as a person and becomes a murdering warlord. It traumatizes him and fucks up a bunch of social relationships and is presented as him learning something/being wise.

Is there no way to just remove a little bit of the block? Or just stay away from war criminals? Narratively, I get that they're never going to change the status quo to that degree, but maybe they should! I'm glad Prodigy has remained a character of focus and unsurprisingly he's an extremely ethical person. Or is he?

[karenxmenfan]

Megan Gwynn, Pixie (34/x)

[demon64]

You know what would be pretty cool? An X-Men animated movie in a style similar to the Spider-Verse movies. Just instead of the usual X-Men characters, make it about the younger mutants Like say this group:

They all got varying powers and abilities, and you kinda gotta admit, the visuals some people could do with these could be awesome.

While X-23 is a top contender for lead, I say make the lead of this theoretical movie Prodigy. That's the guy with the bug-eye looking goggles for those that don't know. He can telepathically copy any skill from anyone. As an example, say he's playing basketball, he can copy the basketball skills of the person he's playing against.

Mostly anybody of this group could be the main character. I only say mostly anybody, because while I love Rockslide, I think he works best as a secondary or supporting character.

We don't need more multiverse movies, so it being set in a singular universe works. Have the usual X-Men characters act as mentors, they've seen enough that they could pass down that knowledge to students and help them.

If anybody wants to add some ideas, that's cool.