X-Men: The (fan fic) Series

Can we just stop and give a round of applause to Mystique?

I mean, seriously, I was on the fence about how she was going to come into things and what she wanted with Scott… but she really just blew me away here. I could go on for ages about her short but important role in this issue, but it all comes down to this: She treated young Scott like who he is, not who he will be.

True, she had her own motives. True, she may have just set off a time bomb. But so far no one has actually sat down and just talked to Scott, listened to him, accepted that he’s not the same person as old Scott. She didn’t pre-judge him. She was sympathetic and listened. It was one of the most honest and legit conversations Scott has had since he got there.

Which means because she had the audacity to treat him like a person, she’s had the biggest impact, for better or for worse. If the X-Men had simply treated young Scott with the same courtesy, then we wouldn’t be in the mess this is surely going to make.

A few other nice touches in this issue (which, at this point, I’m going to say is the best issue so far) is the bank lady who so much wanted to ‘be a mutant’ because being human is so boring.

“Everyone has something that makes them special.”

I heart you Scott, please don’t change into old Scott, please be spared suffering through an onslaught of writers using you as their whipping boy.

Also, Kitty makes an interesting teacher, focusing on combat training which only seems to prove Mystique’s point. Of course this is subtly hid under some fun young Bobby moments. He’s just so adorable in an annoying kind of way.

And the end, well, that’s food for thought… was Scott trying to remind Jean that he isn’t his future, right now he’s only his past, which included an undying love for her? Or was that Scott’s way of giving up, accepting that they will never have what they once had.

With the Avengers showing up in the next issue… only time will tell.