Okay: in Civil War, SHIELD is going to start going after unregistered superheroes. With assistance from those who have registered, they will make a task force of honed skill and power in order to take down most of Earth’s Mightiest and Co., right? I’ll follow that. Only if you can explain to me why SHIELD hasn’t done this before for supervillains. I mean, if they really want to get rid of vigilantism, then they have to provide better security for the common man. And if they have the manpower to take down someone like Captain America, then why is the Rhino a problem? Supervillains create the need for superhero and if the average policeman or even SHIELD operative could handle them, then there wouldn’t be a need for that something extra your average costumed hero provides.
Which makes me think of something else: so we’re getting rid of all the heroes? Xavier’s School at Westchester is now an ‘internment camp’? Sentinels seen as protectors of mutants and humans? Heroes will be ‘hunting’ down traitors? What’s Rachel Grey think of all this? Now while I’m not historian when it comes to Days of Future Past, I do remember some key points that sound awfully familiar. So far, all I’ve seen Rachel Grey do is talk to a therapist and rent movies. Mind you, I can’t really say the X-Men are doing anything to better their postion regarding their home-turned-internment camp. But is that where we’re headed?
Hrm. Maybe we’re going to find ourselves in Claremont’s alternate future, run around with that as the reality and then Rachel Grey, maybe Wanda as some retribution and, oh say, the Sentry, are going to combine forces, and do what Rachel was supposed to do when she came back and that’s fix the Days of Future Past reality from coming true. Then we’ll get a huge reboot back to the 80’s… I don’t know. I’m just thinking outloud again.
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Well rachael also smashed some Shi’ar. Of course, it was after they killed the entire Grey family. Way to be a hero, kid. But what you’re talking about reminds of a few years ago, after Morrison’s run, when the X-Men were affiliated with the government, as agents of the XSE. And nobody stopped and said “Hey, wasn’t that the group that Bishop hunted down mutants for before he came to our time period?”
I tell you though, if the reboot to the ’80s gets rid of the Sentry, I am totally on board.
And nobody stopped and said “Hey, wasn’t that the group that Bishop hunted down mutants for before he came to our time period?”
It makes you wonder: who edits this stuff?