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This is an amazing panel, and IMO foreshadows that Genesis can’t be redeemed. She’ll never be able to accept the new status quo. Because Krakoa is literally a real refuge for mutants, created out of a need for peace...
In this thread I talked about how some people can’t divorce mutants from genocide. And it looks like Genesis is the manifestation of that view. Feels like she’s the “so this is what you want?” To everyone who thinks the X-Men are bad guys now... https://twitter.com/vanthefirst/status/1236443107043966976
It’s an Overton Window move - pitting the X-Men against a group of mutants who are more warlike, more radical, as a way to make them seem moderate through contrast.
I suppose they knew they couldn’t change the X-Men in such a fundamental way without modelling exactly how their original path was going to end in ruin, so here comes a big bad in the form of mutants who never got the chance to escape battle. https://twitter.com/vanthefirst/status/1319761673713029121
On the “sword-bearers who may end up on Krakoa” redemption scale I’d say Death is in the lead. Where the rest of the horsemen are different flavours of “let’s fight!”, he’s had some interesting (pron. sympathetic) layers
Does my radar ping when the X-Men’s first enemies (now they’ve achieved peace) is an Angry Radical Black Family......a little.
A cynic would say that “they started out good but then became Part Of The Problem” is an narrative that appeases centrists, and very similar to how the Cotati story rolled out. https://twitter.com/vanthefirst/status/1286290225547935744
But back to the point. I think Genesis’ fate is to either stay bad or die. She put on the helmet. She commands the hordes. Ultimately, the horsemen’s only crime was being loyal to family.
But hey, maybe she did it because when Isca left + she figured “if you can’t beat em...”
But hey, maybe she did it because when Isca left + she figured “if you can’t beat em...”
