Homo Superior - Exiles First Challenge
I finished the first time-changing-challenge for the Exiles, "Sins of the Father," last night. I nearly had a heart attack. Charles is the bad guy. It's as though they read my mind and decided to write one of my secret favorite AU stories. Charles is the sociopath, driven into rage by the wrongs he's seen done to mutants, calling mutants "homo superior" - and Magneto is the teacher, the one who would lead. The only thing that was missing was the Charles/Erik backstory.
The thing is, I think Charles is possibly even scarier as a villain than Magneto, because Charles' power allows him to directly manipulate people the way Magneto manipulates metal. Charles puts almost all of Phoenix, Arizona into a coma with just a thought. I can't help but think it would be a matter of weeks before Charles had rendered the threat of humans null and void.
I think it's more painful to see Charles as the bad guy, and the Exiles seem to feel this way, too, because, to some degree, we always expect that of Magneto. Charles had represented reason in the face of madness. He had been good, he had fought against Magneto's plans for mutant superiority and now, he was going to make those plans come to fruition.
There's one panel that has a city block in ruins, and then Charles, barefoot, walking into the picture. There's something about his bare feet; he should be vulnerable, and instead he's destroying the city.
I really am fascinated by the good guys going bad/bad guys turning out to be good plotlines, which it seems is going to make me a devoted Marvel reader. It's part of the reason that Prisoner of Azkaban remains close to my heart, and and why, despite not really being a Harry/Draco fan, I'm drawn in by stories where Draco seems to be a bad guy and turns out to have been secretly helping the good guys all along.
The worst thing about the Exiles episode was how little we got to see of Leader Magneto, (and, of course, the afore-mentioned lack of Charles/Erik, Which I am SO tempted to write. Except, as we all know, it's more than likely that it will turn into this 47-chapters-long epic and you'll never see any of it for years except for snippets of Charles and Erik bickering and angsty posts where I start asking deep questions about why either of them has to go all evil and....I am still so tempted to write it. Well, perhaps I'll file it away for later.) Where I stopped reading last night, the Exiles has been transported to the trial of Phoenix, and I can't even imagine how they're going to do what they have to do. This is turning out to be a really captivating series.
The thing is, I think Charles is possibly even scarier as a villain than Magneto, because Charles' power allows him to directly manipulate people the way Magneto manipulates metal. Charles puts almost all of Phoenix, Arizona into a coma with just a thought. I can't help but think it would be a matter of weeks before Charles had rendered the threat of humans null and void.
I think it's more painful to see Charles as the bad guy, and the Exiles seem to feel this way, too, because, to some degree, we always expect that of Magneto. Charles had represented reason in the face of madness. He had been good, he had fought against Magneto's plans for mutant superiority and now, he was going to make those plans come to fruition.
There's one panel that has a city block in ruins, and then Charles, barefoot, walking into the picture. There's something about his bare feet; he should be vulnerable, and instead he's destroying the city.
I really am fascinated by the good guys going bad/bad guys turning out to be good plotlines, which it seems is going to make me a devoted Marvel reader. It's part of the reason that Prisoner of Azkaban remains close to my heart, and and why, despite not really being a Harry/Draco fan, I'm drawn in by stories where Draco seems to be a bad guy and turns out to have been secretly helping the good guys all along.
The worst thing about the Exiles episode was how little we got to see of Leader Magneto, (and, of course, the afore-mentioned lack of Charles/Erik, Which I am SO tempted to write. Except, as we all know, it's more than likely that it will turn into this 47-chapters-long epic and you'll never see any of it for years except for snippets of Charles and Erik bickering and angsty posts where I start asking deep questions about why either of them has to go all evil and....I am still so tempted to write it. Well, perhaps I'll file it away for later.) Where I stopped reading last night, the Exiles has been transported to the trial of Phoenix, and I can't even imagine how they're going to do what they have to do. This is turning out to be a really captivating series.