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thenotoriousscuttlecliff · 2 days ago

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The older I get the more I realise there is just nothing to Jean and Logan as a couple, he's just the cool bad boy alternative to her straight laced boyfriend, and no writer has ever bothered to develop them beyond that. Logan really has more of a dynamic with Scott than he ever had with Jean. When written well, Scott and Jean feel like genuine partners with neither character overshadowing the other, but when she's paired with Logan, Jean seems to just become the love interest or worse a prize for Logan to win for being a good person, the relationship always reduces her.

#x-men #logan #wolverine #jean grey #scott summers #cyclops #marvel #when you look back at the movies they do nothing to establish any kind of connection between jean and logan #it's just instantly goes to “hey i'm hot and so much cooler than cyclops”#the comics aren't any better #claremont just kind dropped it in out of the blue #but didn't do much with it before jean died #and then retroactively tried to make it seem like they had some deep connection #but still barely did anything with it #since the two were always on different teams #and felt like it was put to bed when she married scott #marvel no doubt not wanting her to be a cheater #but then morrison got the x-men #scott became the cheater #and the jean/logan started to be a thing again #but still never took off in a substantial way #then jean died again #was gone for over a decade #and even in the krakoa era when they were shown to be poly #barely any depth was given to the relationship #and in retrospect it feels like the writers were more interest in jean and scott as a couple and co-leaders of the x-men #and logan was just added as a poly partner to put that love triangle to rest #now it seems to be back to just jean and scott #and she's off being an intergalactic hero with a stay at home husband #never once thinking about logan

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