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Recently from a post on bounding into comics, new X-Men editor and chief - Tom Brevoort gave his personal thoughts/opinions on one of the biggest failures of The Krakoa Era
Tom Brevoort: one of if not the biggest failure of the mutant teamâs recent Krakoa era was, simply put, that it turned Marvelâs Merry Band of Mutants from selfless heroes into blatant killers.
This is true as many detractors of the Krakoa Era pointed out how the X-Men's morals (or a lack of) were abandoned and their value for human life was essentially non-existent
the first year of that Hickman/Krakoa stuff. They seemed like the bad guys of their own books, and the idea that they would team up with all of their mutant villains and welcome them into the fold just because they were fellow mutants was ludicrous. Let us not forget some of the messed up things that a lot of these villains did to the X-Men, mutant and humankind in the past
Let's not forget how the X-Men became drug dealers, extortionists, a high-level sex cult, terrorists, child kidnappers, manipulators and later emotional abusers (Franklin Richards) of said child because he wasn't really a mutant, psychological abuse, and above all... MUTANT SUPREMACISTS!
They were no longer the heroes and pretty much became the villains
The X-Men fight for a world that hates and fears them. It's what makes them heroes. The Krakoa era was disgusting by abandoning that premise and giving up on Xavier's dream. people didnât like seeing their favorite superheroes kill willy nilly and be a psycho cult that hates anyone that doesnât agree with them or mutants that donât conform to their views. The X-Men are just in a really bad spot in these times.
Brevoort bluntly asserted, (âMy philosophy boils down to this: I donât think that the X-Men should be casual or gleeful killers.â
While they have certainly been in situations where lethal force was called for and appropriate over the years, I donât think that this should be their default setting,â he argued. âAnd one of my big complaints about the end of the Orchis War was in how readily and even joyfully some of the X-Men murdered their foes. Thatâs fine for some charactersânobody is going to question Wolverine killing a bunch of people (though I feel that even he has certain rules of engagement which he will honorably try to follow). But seeing Nightcrawler teleport a couple of hapless Orchis goons into deep space and leave them to die just felt wildly out of character and wrong to me.â
If our heroes are going to be heroes, then they have to be held to a higher standard than that,â Brevoort posited. âWe said it a lot back in DEATHLOK thirty-plus years ago: youâve got to do whatâs right, not whatâs easiest. Iâm sure that weâll have plenty of moral grey area that we can explore, but I do think that the days when the X-Men would casually throw around lethal force and laugh about it thereafter are over now.â )
The Krakoa era was one of the best eras in X-Men comics, or at least it began as one. Bravoort will have to excuse me, but I don't want the merry band of mutants, I'd rather have the United mutant nation against the rest of the world, with everything the goes with it.
Long live the first Krakoa age, may we see the second one soon.
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You're missing the point, which is nobody was standing up for mutants so they took matters to their own hands, this doesn't make the other heroes their enemies the same way Wakanda is not the enemy of everyone else in the world.
Mutants taking care of their interests and standing up for each other, I think this is the key.