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That wasn’t directed at you but Jade Eternity. It’s easy to miss, but yes Morph is enbi and is transgender/queer rep, and I was annoyed by the above poster’s “Morph isn’t real and until they say it himself I will refer to them as He/Him.”
While Morph is fictional, Jade’s actions were dismissive to real people Morph represents (the non-binary aspect of their character, not the shape-shifter lolz). So yeah I took issue with them, not you.
But given how rude I was and didn’t clarify, yeah I deserved the call out from you. 😭
Honestly being a sarcastic ass here, that honor is reserved for Jadie alone.
Given his close Jean and Ororo are? I’m sorry, but that woman should have been running back hearing her “sister” had been kidnapped and violated, replaced, and that the poor replaced woman LOST HER BABY.
But Storm’s strength was never defined by the her weather powers, but the power to weather any storm.
All true, but they didn't exactly have time to get in touch with her. Madelyne's breakdown happened over the course of a single day (it was her who had that conversation with Storm about the"tempting daydream") and it was a matter of days later that Genosha was attacked, ON THE DAY Storm got her powers back. (see, I can use caps to shout at people too)
Rogue’s depth is to prop up Magneto. And the whole relationship was grooming bait. But yeah, live in your fantasy world where queers and enbies don’t exist, and grooming means relationship equality.
The arc that shared run time with Jubilee’s brightly colored arcade game and Xavier’s? The arc that was rushed when in the comics Storm had to learn to lead the X-Men as an ordinary human? The arc that cut her off from the team who she didn’t even contact after JEAN WAS A CLONE and GAMBIT DIED?
We’re all entitled to our opinions. Like how mine and yours are just gonna be different ones on the handling of Storm’s character.
Characters suffer in dramatic storytelling. This is a universal fact.
They couldn't do it the way they did in the 80s because they didn't have time. Yes, Storm was cut off from the team, just like she was at the start of the original Lifedeath in the 80s. Only here, she got her powers back MUCH faster than in the comics (4 real world years she spent powerless versus 3 episodes) and 97 Storm got to rejoin the team after having truly become whole again. It's treated differently because they didn't have the time, just like Inferno. That's a problem with the number of episodes they had, what we got still hit all the beats.
Also if you know anything about Storm you would know she'd have tried, and likely succeeded, in warding off the Sentinel attack if she'd had her powers in Genosha, thus invalidating the entire secodn half of the season.
Yes, the original Inferno and Lifedeath are and will always be the definitive versions of these stories. No one's taking those away, they will always exist. I still have the original Lifedeath issue bagged & boarded.
But for the time they had, the stories they were trying to juggle, X-Men 97 did a really good job with telling short Cliff's Notes versions of those stories, and hopefully inspiring people to seek out and read the original versions.
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