#krakoa (derogatory)

[imperiuswrecked]

Me, an occasional Cyclops enjoyer, reading this

[darthlordcommie]

Krakoa: The Pinnacle of the Problems with the X-Men

As the title will clue you in, this post is about how the Krakoa storyline represents everything that I don’t like about the X-Men. And I say this as a big fan of the X-Men. If y’all like Krakoa, or Professor X, you probably won’t want to read this. I’m going to be heavily critical of both.

To start with, Professor X. Charles Xavier. As a character, I’m going to start with a simple truth about him in the Krakoa storyline, and it’s that he plays a similar role to Tony Stark in the original Civil War storyline (which I also despise). Put bluntly, when in charge of everything, these two characters bring out the worst in everyone around them. I will leave Stark here, as I don’t want to get distracted.

Charles Xavier is fundamentally 2 things. A rich white man, and a telepath. The combination of these things means that he spent a great deal of his life never having to deal with consequences for anything, or having to deal with systemic prejudice. This can easily be seen in his approach to activism. His idea of the X-Men bringing peace between humans and mutants is “hold up the X-Men as such morally good people that they will shame humanity into accepting them”. Which is a fundamentally stupid idea. There is never a point in Marvel comics where we see actual protestors or activists trying to argue for mutant rights. There are the X-Men, and there are terrorists. There’s never an in-between. And when Xavier decides that it’s not working, he doesn’t try to shift methods in the name of his goal. Instead, he builds an entire island and separate society for mutantkind, and says “fuck the world”. If what he is doing is not working, that must mean humanity will never accept mutants, and not that what he is doing was wrong. And of course, Xavier is in charge of Krakoa, because why wouldn’t he be? In charge is Professor X’s natural state of being. And he brings out those impulses in Magneto, as well.

Magneto is a complicated character, but his friendship with Charles Xavier is arguably the worst thing to happen to him. Professor X brings out the worst in Magneto, his controlling tendencies, his inflexibility, his belief that he is right. Ultimately, he is a character who can be egged on by those around him.

And now to talk about a fundamental flaw with the concept of mutants in Marvel. To start with, rather than being a metaphor for race, mutants work better as a metaphor simultaneously for queer people and disabled people. This is because rather than being one race, as the comics have insisted for literal decades, they’re a multicultural group brought together by something out of their control. In Marvel, we are expected to believe that everyone hates mutants because they’re mutants, ignoring the real-world bigotries that many mutants would be attacked with. And the final flaw. The most simple one. The one that brings it all crashing down. The average person cannot tell the difference between a mutant and a mutate.

Put quite simply, mutants and mutates are widely treated differently within Marvel despite all logic dictating that they shouldn’t be. One of the rare times this is brought to light is when Reed Richards admits the reason he made the FF into celebrities is because he knew that they would be hated and feared otherwise. The world of Marvel should not differentiate between Spider-Man and mutants. If there is going to be bigotry against people with powers, it should be applied across the spectrum, rather than selectively at the people born with them. It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of how bigotry works. Bigots are far more likely to tar all minorities with similar brushes than to try and tell the differences, unless they’re trying to push divisions between groups. So, if there is bigotry against people with powers in Marvel, bigots should be aiming their bigotry against every single superpowered individual, not just at the people who are born with it. Because how could they even know that someone wasn’t born with it? The average person doesn’t have a way of knowing that Spider-Man isn’t a mutant.

And this leads to Krakoa. Mutants being treated as a single identity, ignoring the multiculturalism, separated from the world, and led by Charles Xavier. I’m not going to ignore the good things about Krakoa: bringing different characters together, and allowing some characters who have been stagnant for a long time to start growing and evolving again. But overall, I cannot ignore the fact that Krakoa represents the idea that “why don’t we just take all the disabled people queer people mutants and put them in their own place”. It’s a messy thing to do, and Charles Xavier’s declaration feels more like a child saying “I’m taking my ball and going home” than a powerful ideological choice.

And that’s not even going into the politics of Krakoa. A nation governed by 12 people, who select each other, without any democratic process. Where clones like Evan Sabah Nur and Madelyne Pryor are painted with the brush that simply because they’re genetically identical to Apocalypse and Jean Grey, they’re not their own people. Where genuinely monstrous people like Mr. Sinister and the Shadow King, among others, aren’t just allowed in to the society, but allowed power and influence within it. Where the people who are resurrected are the ones Charles Xavier says can be resurrected. If Legion wasn’t as powerful a telepath as he was, he would have remained dead because of Professor X’s bias. Where mutants are treated as having value primarily because of their powers, and not simply having intrinsic value as people.

Where people like Orphan-Maker and Empath are put onto a military strike force, instead of being given psychological therapy. Orphan-Maker lashing out and killing people at the first sign Nanny was in danger is something entirely predictable, and being imprisoned for eternity (they call it exile when it literally isn’t, it’s prison where you can’t die) for the crime of having the developmental level of a child and being put on a military strike team, is a horrific response.

There’s so much more I could say about how justice is applied on Krakoa, but I won’t. It’s truly a mess.

[ultratropicalrainforest]

The fic is gone, what was it about?

(Disclaimer: Not my fanfic.)

If you are anti-Krakoa, anti-Charles Xavier, anti-Magnet Family retcon, or anti Franklin Richards mutant retcon, you need to read this fanfic. 

[rei-ismyname]

The Phoenix/Phoenix Force sucks

If you're not familiar with Marvel/X-Men's The Phoenix catching you up on the full context is not really possible. I'll summarise the salient bits, but I definitely recommend checking out The Phoenix and Dark Phoenix sagas in Chris Claremont's Uncanny X-Men. The big dumb Firebird has appeared earlier in the timeline for better or worse, but that's the definitive phoenix story (and very entertaining.)

An abridged Publication History of the Phoenix

- The Phoenix is introduced as a cosmic abstraction, a vital entity that is part of the universe. Jean Grey is sacrificing herself to save the rest of the X-Men and this happens.

And this.

It's wild shit, totally iconic and mostly internally coherent, though it doesn't end well. Jean as the Phoenix eats a star and destroys a planet of broccoli people. A very effective use of girl power. A lot happens and she ends up sacrificing herself again. It was established that Jean is The Phoenix, now and forever.

- Rachel Grey, Jean and Scott's daughter from an alternate timeline shows up and is a phoenix host for years without any genocides or whatnot. There's angst, but it's just a part of her. Rachel was a bit of a Jean expy at times but it still made sense and was exciting. She's Jean's daughter so it doesn't take too much handwaving to accept her as a 'host.' (She still is btw, no idea how this works but I like her.)

- Over the next few decades the Phoenix showed up an awful lot. Avengers Vs X-Men is probably the most well known instance. The bird is a lot less picky about hosts now. Hope Summers is the intended host (another Jean expy at times,) but due to Tony Stark's arrogance the phoenix ends up in five other people - Namor, Emma Frost, Scott Summers, Magik and Colossus. It makes very little sense tbh, but after much needless conflict it ends up in Hope and she uses it for some cosmic magnificence.

- Over the next few decades it's all over the place. The Stepford Cuckoos, Quentin Quire, tean Jean, this Shi'Ar dude with a big sword, a prehistoric woman called Firehair, this utter dipshit called Faithful John, and others. It's become a problem of the week, deus ex machina, and worst of all - the stories are not very good. The lore of the phoenix is nonsensical at this point but Marvel was not showing any restraint. Personally, I'd groan whenever it appeared because it meant repetitive plot points and further muddying of how the thing works.

- The Avengers got hold of it and the less said about it the better. It's the mid 2010s and this supposedly unknowable universal abstraction, a god of sorts, has become frankly silly (derogatory.) The wonder has been strangled through overuse and conflicting lore. I'm actually understating it a bit - if you don't believe me check out the wiki for The Phoenix. This cosmic abstraction, one of the most iconic X-Men concepts/moments/arcs had become cringe and boring through overuse and lack of imagination.

- In 2019 Jonathan Hickman's House of X dropped and it was a great time to be an X-Men fan - the Krakoan age. A decade plus of deeply average stories and nostalgia bait were in the past and the status quo had changed in wonderful ways. The Phoenix received a mention on a data page, but it was in a list of powerful entities to give context to a new and interesting concept. At the time it wasn't necessarily foreshadowing.

- In 2023 Marvel was (unwisely IMO) speed running an end to Krakoa and the aforementioned concept emerged as the endgame threat. The Phoenix found its way into the story in an organic fashion and the X-Men put all their hopes in The Phoenix to defeat the threat. Kieron Gillen, under difficult circumstances and with less time than promised, actually did it! He used the Phoenix in a quality story with appropriate gravitas and wonder - and he cleaned up the lore so it made sense again. That run (and era) ended in a better place than most of us imagined it could. It didn't surprise me because Gillen is the best writer in comics today IMO, but we got lucky. He left it on a high note but Kieron Gillen is not at Marvel anymore and Tom Brevoort is in charge of X Books. I'll come back to this polycule erasing bozo.

Phoenix (2024) picks up where he left Jean and The Phoenix (and some infinity comics but let's ignore those for now) - both lore and characterisation-wise. It's explicitly solicited as a cosmic run and the first issue has delivered on that. It's not hard to imagine an ending with The Phoenix seeing itself out of the story in an entertaining way with clean lore and sense of wonder intact. Hopefully without killing Jean again 😅.

Ideally, Marvel will have the good sense to leave it alone for a few years at least. The books are already milking nostalgia and historically X-Men keep returning to the Phoenix, Apocalypse, and some new hate group/the US government deciding genocide is on the menu again. Apocalypse has had character growth (and if they ever undo that I'm doing violence) and moved on & we've just had an attempted genocide plus past victims resurrected - so I'll be generous and say they're off the table. The X line has all new writers and seems to be looking to synergise with '97 and the MCU while claiming they're going for fresh and exciting.

We might get lucky again. X-Men 97 is way past the OG Phoenix stuff and so far has avoided using bottom of the barrel storylines from that time. The 2000s contains danger, but most instances don't fit the 'greatest hits' style they've used so far. An exception to that could be Avengers vs X-Men, but I think they'd save that for a summer blockbuster if anything. I suspect a lot of people would get hype about a movie called AVX, especially if they never read the comic. The MCU hasn't been shy about reconceptualizing events for movies, like Civil War, for instance. The essence of the premise was there but the film made a lot more sense. There's plenty of other reasons (better ones even, ones that don't feel OOC and forced) for the X-Men and avengers to fight, and they'd have to set it up with Disassembled (kinda already happened, not Wanda's fault,) House of M (please no) and then all the Hope Summers/Messiah events. The Fox Movies already did the Phoenix, too, bad as it was. I don't think they'll go that way.

Secret Wars has a phoenix egg in the comics, but it's not important and it's barely an X-Men story. I don't see The Phoenix menacing our screens anytime soon, thankfully. What I fear most is editorial playing it safe and/or nostalgic (which is why Tom Brevoort concerns me - check out his Spider-Man manifesto and you'll see what I mean) and a writer returning to the well when pitching story ideas. Everyone is confident at the start of a new era bc it takes a while to internalise that Marvel repackages and reskins the same 25 tropes while deliberately presenting the 'Illusion of change.' Once the initial ideas dry up and it's crunch time it's natural to look to the past for ideas and characters to reuse. Maybe sales dip a little, or the comics are in a holding pattern waiting for the MCU to do something. Whatever the cause, it will get pitched again and Brevoort will likely say yes. I don't want to be unfair to the guy, but he's been failing upwards for years.

After all, it's happened so many times already. Metatextually, The Phoenix is a symbol of rebirth. That would be a good thing. It can be easy to mistake repetition for rebirth, but it's the avatar of life and creativity. In universe one of its roles is to destroy stagnant ideas or species. Anything that's static and has stopped evolving. Ironically it's been used in some of the worst instances of creative stagnation in Marvel comics. The Phoenix, recent goodness aside, sucks.

I genuinely hope I'm an old 'man' shaking my fist at a cloud while telling Tom Brevoort to get off my lawn. I love being wrong. Nothing would make me happier than Spider-Man or Magneto hosting the Phoenix being an Impossibility. I know I'm not the target demographic but I don't just hope these things for myself. We all deserve good stories, new ideas, the joy of being vulnerable enough to get invested in escapist media. The Mouse, like all capitalists, does not give a fuck about those things though unfortunately. They care about profit. Eh, there's always Fan Fiction. If it does happen I'll commit to a million words. 💜

Don't even think about it.

[tuxedosaurus]

Back when I was on Twitter I noticed a trend among some X-Men fans there. X-Twitter, if you will. But first some long Marvel backstory.

Wanda Maximoff, aka The Scarlet Witch, is a longstanding Marvel character, prominent Avenger, and one of few Romani comic characters.

She was also a crucial character in the crossover House of M. She had suffered a mental breakdown caused by unaddressed trauma and mental illness, and seemingly used her magical powers to alter reality as a result. It’s revealed by the end that Magneto and Quicksilver, her father and brother, manipulated her fragile mental state to create the reality they wanted, where mutants like them ruled the world. Still in that state and betrayed by her family, Wanda lashes out at them and removes the source of their actions by depowering mutants across the globe while restoring reality.

Wanda is treated terribly both by the writer of this story and her family, manipulated into doing wide reaching things when she literally could not be responsible for her own safety, much less others’.

Since then, Wanda recovered and helped restore powers to the mutants who lost them in the story Avengers vs X-Men. She didn’t have to, but she’s a good person so she did it anyway. She also found out that Magneto is not her biological father, and thus her powers are not mutant-based.

Recently, the X-Men created a mutant-only country called Krakoa. Krakoa was written as critique of isolationist groups from the start, clearly being a cult and ethnostate. One of the cult things they did was HEAVILY demonize Wanda for House of M, making her a bogeyman to mutant kids as “The Pretender” and making her name a derogatory term. You would think that X-Men fans would use context clues to see that this was obviously bad. Unfortunately they did not.

X-Twitter LOVED ignoring all the intentional problems with Krakoa, and quickly started calling Wanda “Pretender” in real life. They were fully calling for her death and calling her derogatory terms. Obviously, this is a fictional world & character, and being directed at a real person would be way worse. But I still think the ease of which X-Twitter fell into fictional propaganda that demonized a mentally ill woman of color is VERY worrying.

X-Men comics historically have had problems showing actual diversity, and X-Twitter disregarded Wanda’s status as a real-life minority to prop up their fake “homo superior,” and shut down anyone who disagreed. I’m frankly scared by that quickness to otherize and dissonance to reality, so caught up in a fantasy that anyone with an opinion they didn’t share is deemed bad, so caught up in a fantasy that they’ll attack a real minority to prop up that fantasy.

Idk how to end this beyond saying… don’t go on Twitter, X-Men fans are often stupid and crazy, stay conscious of reality, and be kind.

[spongebobafettywap]

To quote a friend,

Nightcrawler before the Krakoa era : Idiot (affectionate)

Nightcrawler during the Krakoa era : Idiot (derogatory)

Literally! what happened to the cool Nightcrawler who was like your friend?

[imperiuswrecked]

I'm keeping some of the Hellfire Gala Fashions, because that's the most memorable thing out of this whole era.

like being an ethnostate aside krakoa was such a stupid era for xmen comics like it was so nothing

[myxmentrashblog]

#Free Toad

[celestial-ringleader]

Okay.

Let’s get this shitshow started. There’s going to be spoilers for every issue because I have a lot to say.

Firstly, let’s start with my first issue with this comic. On the first page it has the cast list of major characters listed:

It says right there in plain text that Pietro Maximoff, Quicksilver, is supposed to be in this comic. Where the fuck is he throughout this whole thing? Where has he been for the last three fucking issues of this series? Pietro was on the first cover of this series, he was there for two books, and now he’s just magically not there anymore. You would think he would be one of the most important people there given how close he is to Wanda and his relationship to Erik; but for some reason Leah Williams decided he wasn’t necessary anymore past him punching Erik.

And by the way, last we saw him, he was being wrapped up in barbed wire by Erik. After that he just ceased to exist. There was one small cameo of him in the last book but it was so tiny and so vague that it could have been anyone. How come he wasn’t allowed to talk to anyone in his family, did he and Lorna just forget their bond and now they just don’t know one another? Did he not care that Wanda is magically not dead now (which I fucking doubt because of how much he loves Wanda) or was he just not on Krakoa anymore? These are all questions I won’t have answers to because I know Leah is gonna just pretend we’re all idiots and will take whatever slop is given to us.

And now we move on to the murderer reveal.

This was fucking dumb. There’s no other words to describe just how dumb this whole situation is. What makes it worse is that Toad had no reason to be the murderer because it’s later revealed that this was a whole plot Erik and Wanda orchestrated.

So what purpose is there to having Toad confess to a crime he didn’t commit? If you ask me this just reeks of Leah forgetting that this was actually supposed to be a murder mystery with a trial involved and she decided to just make a random person from a hat the murderer only for their crime to be nullified like three pages later. I’m so glad it didn’t turn out to be Pietro because that would’ve made me so pissed, but this....this is just pathetic storytelling. To have a murder mystery work you need to have multiple suspects all with some motivation to kill Wanda, you need to have interviews, trials, intrigue as the plot thickens with more evidence pointing in different directions. But none of that was here. This was just a kaiju fighting magic fest with some murder mystery sprinkled on top because Leah realized last minute “oh wait! This issue is called Trial of Magneto! Guess I have to add in some trials on the last issue and have Erik feature more than in the last four books!” I don’t care if I’m exaggerating because this is what this tells me, as a reader.

She expected us to be fucking dumb and accept anything that landed on our laps that had Magnus Family written on it.

How come we had to wait four books before we got to see Wanda and Lorna interacting at all? I love this page but why did it take Leah this long to make them interact. And once again, why is Pietro not there? He wasn’t there for the trial, he wasn’t there for the fight, why is he not here with his sisters? Lorna and Pietro have probably the healthiest bond of the Magnet siblings and were friends before they found out they were family, so why would he not be there to support her after all the time he spent with her in ANXF?

Again, I know the reason why, but it’s just monumentally disappointing that we get this in the last issue and Pietro isn’t even included.

Okay...this genuinely made me happy. I’m surprised they remembered Joanne and I’m glad to hear that Kyle and JP get to have a kid to raise together. Not a big fan of the emphasis on “mutants only” but it actually made me smile.

Also, I’m so excited to see where this leads. I don’t know John Proudstar a lot but this definitely makes things much more intriguing for what could come afterwards. And basically everyone I’ve talked with this about was excited that John was back so yeah!

-*long sigh*- Wanda..I’m so sorry for this piece of shit. You deserve so much better.

So I guess to summarize my thoughts on this entire series: at first I thought I was gonna absolutely despise it by the last issue, and I still do, but what this makes me feel the most is extreme disappointment. This could have been a game-changer, this could have had so much more and could have led to so much more, but this does absolutely nothing for the story of Krakoa as a whole. Let’s just think about it, what did this actually accomplish? Wanda’s still alive, Erik is still on the Quiet Council, the rest of the Magnet family was barely in it so nothing happened to them; so what did this really do? It introduced a better resurrection process and made Wanda not hated anymore (which I still don’t understand how her doing this “redeemed” her at all) That’s it. That’s all this damn comic did for the story. This entire goddamn comic run was a five-issue waste of my fucking time. I got so excited to see what could happen after the first issue and nothing happened.

How can you have one of the most controversial marvel families and completely drop the ball? Anyone could have written better shit than this and could’ve done so much more. Like by the end of this I lowkey wished Pietro would’ve been the killer because at least then we would have SOMETHING going on. I don’t care how much magic and kaiju fights were in it, this comic was full of absolutely NOTHING. I don’t care how much OOC talking there was, nothing happened to the characters or the story and this issue is already forgettable. The only reason I remember the events is because I just read it, by next week I’ll probably forget it because of how little impact it has.

The first issue had so much promise, so much potential, and it was ruined. I know I’m gonna get people saying some shit like “well a lot of people had their hands in it so it’s not Leah’s fault!!1!!!” and I’m gonna say this: I don’t care. This was still her fucking story and she dropped the ball, editors do have a say but she’s still the main writer. This is her comic. And by the way, this is a trend for her writing because X-Factor isn’t any better (and no, having queer characters in it doesn’t save the comic, it just makes me roll my eyes when that becomes the one defense I see people have). I’ve seen fan theories that ended up being so much better than this comic, I’ve even started writing my own speculation into an AU, and I’m still in complete shock about this damn thing.

Of course this sounds like I’m beating a dead horse, especially with how much I’ve talked about Pietro not being there, but at this point I don’t give a fuck. Pietro not being there was the first sign this was gonna be bad and I was bang on the money with it, especially with the supposed “murder reveal” as if anyone cared about the murder by the end because we were too busy trying to sift through the bullshit of the third and fourth issue. Also why the hell are the Avengers even here, where is Jericho?

There was no trial, there was no plot, there was no intrigue. It was boring, mindless noise with pretty art. We were promised Magnet Family and a Maximoff retcon and we got this instead. This comic is a fucking joke and I hope Leah Williams never gets hired to write something again after this.

Anyways if y’all are looking for good comics to read after this, go read All New X-Factor and Quicksilver: No Surrender. Both comics treat Pietro’s character right and have some proper Magnet Fam sibling bonding along with an actual plot. I don’t know Wanda or Lorna well enough to recommend comics for them, but if anyone wants to put in recommendations here or send in asks with recs in them I welcome it.

[opticblasting]

god what really pains me - as someone who ships scottemma, jeanscott, emmajean and jeanscottemma is that krakoa era had the potential to make it work but under gerry duggan and jordan d white it never will. krakoa really opened up with the promise of being 'different' - and then we had that "somewhat" under hickman's tenure, with emma and scott spending tender moments, jean and logan, and while scott and jean were married too. but now its all just domestic in the sense that there's none of that anymore, any shared moments are rare and there's no conflict - its all assumed to be perfect. and it irritates me to no end because the polycule is possible - and even if you don't want to go there the premise of an open relationship is possible too - but instead of any of that we're back to how things used to be but in a very regressive sense on top of that because there's no drama or anything. which doesn't work for any of these characters. like there's all these scenes of how emma is the one who revives scott every time and she's the first to see him after every rebirth, how jean is free instead of just being a housewife (fwiw i only like jeanlogan when percy writes it bc he writes it well, its never written well under anyone else), and even jean and emma - while catty - have somewhat of a fine friendship now (maybe even more). or even just the history of how scott moved on from jean to emma that got regressed time and time again, like you can build on the fact that he's in love w emma, but jean used to be the love of his life and she's back and they're in a new frontier where they can TRY something new together instead of having to choose between one or the other. jean finally being free instead of being tied down (both in the sense of the phoenix that she let go of, as well as the restrictions of marriage because krakoa is meant to be different) to pursue her own choices. logan who's moved on too maybe giving it a shot (which percy writes really well with him thinking he's underserving), and even with kurt and ororo - kurt with whom he's had some of the most tender moments this entire era overall. but no, instead of capitalizing on the promise of new we're stuck to the same old same old like its the 90s again - and i mean that in a derogatory way.

absolutely OBSESSED with the dynamics of jeanscottemma atm. like the potential that has, the power that has, the international implications that has,,

[imperiuswrecked]

Isn’t it kind of harsh to not give Deadpool residency on Krakoa at this point?

I want Krakoa to burn and if letting Deadpool live there achieves this then yeah they should let him.

[darthlordcommie]

Just figured I’d clarify my position on Krakoa. I dislike Krakoa as a concept, and a lot of the specific Krakoa-era storylines. I like seeing different characters who often get shafted get more of the spotlight. But it doesn’t outweigh the negatives for me.

[residentmiddlechild]

Can’t wait for when the X-Men are back in Westchester again and are pretending like they didn’t try to take over the Milky Way.

[cyclopsanddeadmemes]

The current X-Men run looks great

[moontours]

The only good thing about krakoa era is the kwannon content and getting to just rip apart everything terrible about this island. As fun as it is sometimes I wanna take a breather from ragging on the mcu and I can always count on krakoa to let me down <3

EXACTLY ! its giving us good kwannon content so im thankful for tha <3 and it does make for fun discussion too

[spongebobafettywap]

People sent you a lot of stuff about nightcrawler but the other 2nd Gen X-Men got the short end of the stick too during Krakoa

Sean Cassidy was skinned alive by Moira then got into Kurt's cult and got possessed by the Spirit of Vengeance and then the plot forgot about him

Piotr got possessed in the first quarter of the plot, stayed like that for years with no one noticing and once he got out of that situation, the writers had him tear out his own brother Mikhail's heart out of his body

Storm was turned into a girl boss (derogatory) to the point they "can't have her on any X book anymore" so they will move her to the avengers in July and defeated Nimrod with one thunder strike

Yeah I heard a little about that, making Moira an Aunty Ruckus but for mutants and genocidal towards her own race is insane and I can't believe that this isn't something I don't hear more outrage towards.

Unfortunately Banshee has been treated like crap for decades. This just the latest in violating his body and killing him or making him possessed by some evil and I have no idea why the writers have such contempt for him.

Colossus being possessed and no one noticing sounds like a worse version of Superior Spider-Man. Killing his brother like that could be a good story if it was written well.

Yeah gotta move all their big name X-Men to the Avengers books to try and help them sell better lol. I don't mind X-Men joining the Avengers but it's weird how they often do it in a way where they act like these characters can't be in more than one book. But Wolverine gets to be in multiple books?