no, you should not analyze characters based on what they say about themselves.
This was going to be my Grand Unified Theory of Character Motivations, but I think it bleeds a bit into an even bigger picture of how I generally analyze and evaluate fictional characters, which ended up making clear to me why I spend so much time groaning in frustration when something or other gets panned as being "OOC
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Re: comic book canon - and I think that's where the problem in fandom comes in, because people will and can proceed to pick-and-choose what they consider and accept as canon, and the context thing is so very relevant because these are stories that began in the 60's (for X-men at least... I think), which means there were completely different context, issues, and ideas of society and gender and different roles. What I've also seen is fandom proceeding then into discussion of the comics by way of different "epochs" either by way of the decades, or by the primary writer in any given run. (The most recently ended was the Morrison run, for example.) And LOL - So how do people resolve jarring discrepancies? This may be in fact the question that is impossible to answer. ;)
I REMEMBER THAT MIX-UP IN THE RECAP. I did a double-take and had to headdesk a few times, and honestly, she gets the short end of the stick SO MANY TIMES that I really do think people forget how much she did manage to do with and for her goals besides outside of just "saying" the right things. *huggles her*
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