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Well I think the point about the students surpassing Xavier is an interesting one. Not necessarily from a power perspective but just in their mentality. Xavier's dream of peaceful co-existence is rapidly reaching its sell-by date because mutants will soon be in the majority. The question then is how do you prevent the mutant race from fracturing and what do you do about baseline humanity? How do you build a mutant nation, form a government? The new generation of mutants needs a new mentor, which is where Xorn seems to fit in. Is it just co-incidence that his name begins with X? Perhaps where Xavier was the X in the original X-Men, Xorn's the X in the New X-Men.
Beak, Angel, the Special Class, etc - yeah, great characterisation - perhaps the most successful and well realised/developed element of the Riot arc. I haven't discussed this much becuase it doesn't require much analysis. Of course they're the ordinary joes caught up in the philosophical struggles that run throughout the book. Just a couple of thoughts though. Is Beak's beak meant to be shrinking? And have he and Angel gone all the way since the U-Men attack, or does rubber provide no barrier to mutant chicken baby gravy?
Flux, I don't think that Xorn is evil, but taking up your devil's advocate role ... what if Xorn killed Quentin because he doesn't want any other Omega level mutants to realise their fully evolved form? He may have spent all those years in meditation but he was also used to kill people - might that not have an effect on his personality? And Xorn using his energy beams - albeit filtered through his helmet - so soon after he used them to kill the U-Men does raise the question what exactly did he do in the infirmary scene? Also notice how in Jean's vision in NXM128 Xorn is lying apart from - and in front off - the other X-Men.
I still think that this is Grant probably toying with the fanboys who prefer their characters' morality to be black or white rather than in shades of grey though. |
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