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▲ 119 r/Cyclops_EmmaFrost

“Cyclops was right” has now just turned into a mockery now that it has been capitalized and acknowledged by Marvel. Leaving us with shallow versions of Cyclops and Emma.

This is just me voicing my personal frustration as a fan of Cyclops and someone who enjoys both his relationships with Jean and Emma.

Revolutionary Cyclops has now just been turned into a mockery of an edgy phase he went through while not having Jean by his side. Ignoring his development, turmoil and how he broke from the mould of the “status quo”. Now, I may not have personally enjoyed Morrison’s run as much but I enjoyed Whedon’s run and what followed after as he slowly became this revolutionary figure.

Now seeing it being rewritten as “Cyclops was just a sad edgy boy without Jean, and Emma needs no man!” is just eye-rolling. Just typical shallow reductions we have constantly been plagued in superhero comics to keep the status quo of corporate templates and fans who enjoy characters being in a forever stasis.

Seeing United mock it with Emma personally saying it in a true “girl boss” moment where she complains “what did I see in someone as controlling as him.” As if we didn’t READ and SEE what she saw in him in him when she personally psychoanalyzed him and saw WHY he was controlling and UNDERSTOOD it. She knew he would still love Jean because Jean was an important person in his life, his wife, someone who has been with him since childhood. But that didn’t mean he couldn’t love her as well. Many people go through many loves in their life.

Emma saw the revolutionary in Cyclops. Sided with him and understood him. As he saw redeeming qualities in her and understood her. Revolutionary Cyclops didn’t immediately happen because “Jean is gone”. It happens with him realizing things about the world and shedding off the dogma he knew when he was a young and so deeply believed in. People do that. They re-evaluate things they thought were true and find new truths.

And to also see Cyclops fans those we even say “Cyclops was right” celebrate the capitalization of this as if they aren’t being mocked. Just frustrating. I know I’m never going to get a good written and respected Emma and Cyclops unless some radical change happens in editorial or some other Marvel product. But for now, all we have is being thrown a bone of Cyclops’ radical thinking only for him to be put in the status quo box.

u/TayluxSwift — 8 days ago
▲ 471 r/lightcannon+1 crossposts

Lux invited a friend over!

I saw a lot of positive responses to my mean girl Lux arts so I wanted to make more - but I also saw a lot of Lightcanon replies too so I said hell why not I could lean in to that direction...

u/TayluxSwift — 8 days ago