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quinine92001
20:37 / 28.02.02
I have stated this once before: I believe that Xavier is evil. He is and always has been behaving in a manner similar to other Morrisonlike characters such as Niles Caulder or Sir Miles. Within the unconscious mind of the World's Most Powerful Telepath there is a urge to destroy possibly unlocked in the mental battle with the Shadow King so many years before. That is why he has created the X-Men cells in the first place. They are merely antibodies protecting the world from him. Prof. X , acting as god, sends his Christ-children, whipping boys/girls, and scapegoats to save the world. He constantly puts them in precarious situations that he has created by sending them on adventures and simulations in the Danger Room. The path of destruction has passed down to his son Legion, is present in his “twin sister” and his own twisted psyche, Onslaught. These concepts are trying to unravel life as we know it. His children of the atom are just pawns that he controls in a degenerate battle of chess against himself. Isn’t it evident in the ethical mindwipes he performs oh so often? He claims that taking a human life is wrong, yet he is willing to erase aspects of people’s personality in an instant. What is the difference? He is another example of a mad god trapped in his own creation.
 
 
Trijhaos
09:20 / 01.03.02
Isn't Legion dead? I thought he died after the whole Age of Apocalypse thing.

If Xavier created the x-men to protect the world from himself, how do you explain the "evil" mutants like Magneto?

What about his dream that humans and mutants will live in harmony? Isn't that a noble pursuit?

Sure, Xavier has done some unethical things in his time, but nobody is infallible. Sometimes, you have to do something distasteful for the greater good. If mindwiping a few people means that thousands of others would live, wouldn't you do it? I know I would.

Sometimes the ends justify the means.

I'm not sure I'd call Xavier evil; misguided perhaps, but not evil.
 
 
The Natural Way
09:20 / 01.03.02
That Xavier being evil thing is such a load of crap. Cassandra's evil enough for both of them. And, for fuck's sake, Xavier is just another mouthpiece for Grant's radical utopianism - God, why isn't that just obvious?
 
 
The Natural Way
10:05 / 01.03.02
Sorry. Being a grouch again. Still stick by what I said, though. But in a nice way.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
12:01 / 01.03.02
I agree. I don't think that Xavier is evil, I think Cassandra is evil. And I don't think they are the same person - that's such an old X-Men idea, and yr already citing all these old X-Men stories, and that's not what Grant is on about. Those stories have already been written too - there's no good reason for this to be Onslaught II. That's cheesy.
 
 
The Natural Way
12:48 / 01.03.02
No, I do think they're basically the same person.

- They're twins - always a metaphor for a unified *soul* (I'm a twin, and whilst this sort of thing does my head in, I know *how things are*)

- They're sharing bodies.

- Grant is obsessed w/ Groffian birth trauma. The Archons weren't separate from their "servants".

- I'm pretty sure she'll be beaten by some form of integration. Grant's hot thing: an end to war...blah.

The "same person" thing fits w/ the themes Grant plays w/. And, whether or not it's ever made explicit, Cassy and Charles are definitely two sides of the same thing/coin/whatever. You may as well say they're *one*.

Pissed. Sorry if this post is a mess.
 
  
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