#ivx

[bozemane]

Ivx (2016) #3

Writers: Jeff Lemire, Charles Soule

Penciller: Javier Garron

[rei-ismyname]

What would Cyclops do?

I wonder if Marvel will ever live down teasing some mysterious unforgivable atrocity done by Cyclops for a year only to reveal it was... altering a Terrigen Cloud, and it wasn't even him. Ironically, he almost certainly would do it; it's just not that big a deal at all. I was pretty excited before the reveal, like shit yeah they actually pulled the trigger. I should have known, because they'd been trying for years.

Don't get me wrong, I love seeing this angsty white boy suffer, but what an anticlimax. It's really funny to me that Marvel spent about a decade trying to villainise the dude and failed pretty miserably. Young Scott's misery worked at first for shocking acts like killing Xavier, less so by the time of Death of X. Indeed, it was an important plot point that Hank and Logan were incredibly biased if not straight up lying. The teen O5 bailed for a reason.

Amadeus Cho referring to him as 'young Hitler' was not just a miss but flat out ridiculous. Impossible to take seriously. Specifically arguing over 'evil' in warped hypothetical moral relativism. Nobody here blinks at that analogy either; highly educated and experienced supers just acting like idiots. The moral judgement stands, accepted by Scott himself, with the decision being whether they should condemn the teen based on his future self's actions. Maybe that's part of it. Scott Summers takes criticism quite seriously and generally listens to his friends. His guilt over killing Xavier especially meant he never really advocated for himself.

Obviously there's some subjectivity in play with that but I feel like the dude was vindicated for the shit people were actually mad about. Hope/Phoenix, the Terrigen Cloud, X-Force to a degree, trashing The Avengers, uh, rescuing mutants from SHIELD/cops, etc. Even the impetus for Schism - using children in battle - made sense only if you forget what genre it is and ignore the context. It almost feels like everyone else went crazy for a decade or so. Here's Storm on some 'not all mutants' shit, said while cowering in Limbo a few months before going to war with the Inhumans.

Magik - you were there too, lol. You were on team 'fix the Terrigen Cloud.' Dunking on IvX is low-hanging fruit of course but I do wonder what it is that brings Marvel back to this dry well over and over. Even right now there's shades of past pariah Cyclops in how characters react to him. Rogue has chilled out a bit now but the tension is still there. One of many off aspects of Chuck Hunt was Scott Summers generally being less popular than Charles Xavier, which sounds crazy. Honestly, I wish they'd actually make him do something worth complaining about.

[watkinschow]

Inhumans vs X-Men triple sketch card for Upper Deck's Marvel Premier 2021/2023 set, featuring Karnak, Gorgon, Black Bolt, Magneto, Jean Grey, & Medusa, and Emma Frost

[azulso]

[browsethestacks]

IvX #01 (2016)

Black Panther 50th Anniversary Variant

Art by Mike Del Mundo

[zeddfrost]

#whiteQueenWed

‘Oh Rogue, you poor naive dear, it was always going to be both…’

From IvX # 6 by Lemire, Soule and Yu

[howhow326]

❄️Robert-Iceman-Drake Official Reblogged

🌫Biggs Dikkulus

I still can believe how horrible things are for Inhumanity right now... we got almost wiped out and it feels like no one cares... Why does the world hate us? We just wanted to survive...

🐺Weapon X-69

Gee, I wonder if there was any group of people that could have related to you and maybe even help you if you didn't have your big green mustard cloud stinking up the place??? Oh well.

🌫Biggs Dikkulus

Actually fuck this!!!

YOU MUTANTS ARE OUR OPPRESSORS TOO!!! THAT WHOLE WAR BETWEEN US WAS A SET UP BY EMMA FROST (who is with the X men again gee I wonder why) BUT YOU BIGOTS STILL HATE US FOR SOMETHING YOUR LEADERS WOULDN'T EVEN COOPERATE WITH OUR LEADERS FOR!!!

AND THEN YOU PEOPLE APPROPRIATED ATTILAN CULTURE FOR YOUR STUPID CRACKOA OR WHATEVER IT'S CALLED AND NONE OF YOU EVEN TRIED TO REACH OUT WHILE WE WERE DYING!!!

FUCK ALL OF YOU PEOPLE I HOPE THE ROBOTS KILL YOU OFF AGAIN BECAUSE YOU AND THE HUMANS DESERVE IT!!!

🐺Weapon X-69

Just call me a mutie and go 🙄

⛈️Hadari-Yao Follower

And this right here is why nobody in the mutant community fucks with Inhumans. In all the years leading up to the Terrigen Crisis and even in alternate future timelines, not nobody with Inhuman DNA ever lifts a finger to help a mutant ever. "Why didn't Krakoa ask us for help?" bitch, why tf would we want to??? The last time I checked, your forbidden city is more closed off and isolated then mf Wakanda?!

But sure, mutants are just as bad as humans for, checks notes, surviving 2 extinction events and trying to build something for ourselves afterwards only to have it ripped away from us again and fight to save humans/Indicks who will not lift a finger to help us (at least the Avengers did something this time I guess).

❄️Robert-Iceman-Drake Official

I fucks with Inhumans...

🌫Biggs Dikkulus

STAY AWAY FROM ROMEO!!!

❄️Robert-Iceman-Drake Official

Just call me a mutie and go 🙄

#bitch #Mad that I got more Dikkulus than you? #Maybe your name should be Smalls

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[farsight-the-char]

IvX was an entirely terrible event. Some of the memes were good, though.

Been looking for this post for reaction images purposes.

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(Emma Was Right).