X-Men Schism - A third (or fourth) party POV

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We've heard Cyclops and Logan's reasoning for their views in Schism, and also Hope's rather (IMHO) dismissive references to Xavier's approach.

But there is another group in the X-verse, with minds of their own.



Dani calls a meeting to get the opinions of the team. Sam and Xian have already made their choice to leave for Westchester and Dani is fine with their choices since it's what they feel they need to do).



Even I think Doug is looking a little... Peter Cushing-y in that panel. Nice that it's Warlock who suggests that things might not be entirely black and white, even if Dani was already thinking along the same lines...

Dani does decide to talk to Gus, the therapist she engaged for Utopia a couple of issues ago. He asks her outright who she is choosing to side with.





Now THIS is reasoning I can get behind, and the New Mutants are probably the best team for it.

I was thinking about it and I think the membership has been in more teams than any other X-group; Dani has worked with SHIELD and the Mutant Liberation Front (undercover), Warlock was in Excalibur (during his Douglock phase), Sunspot was in X-Force, Magma has been in two incarnations of the Hellions (one under a different psyche) and so on (Shame Sam's not stll with them, he was an actual X-Man)

And the end result? The team decides to move away from Utopia, but not to Westchester (shame, I still want to see Doug reunite with his parents) and choose set up shop in a three storey house at 1128 Mission Street in San Fransico's. (An address which exists, but which is actually the local Government building, for those who follow such things)
 

Comments

[salinea]

Oh, this is awesome ♥ Dani

[big_daddy_d]

......That made such perfect sense. I'm not even sure how to react.. I want to shake this woman's hand. Too bad she's fictional or else the odds of that wouldn't be 0.

[q99]

-Now THIS is reasoning I can get behind, -

Me too :)

And personally I think it fits well with what Hope said- treat people as people first.

[brooms]

Hope's rather (IMHO) dismissive

and preachy, sanctimonious, hypocritical (since she's staying on utopia with scott and M A G S), etc.

in any place that not the marvel universe as we know it, i'd be giving dani a standing ovation, but this IS MU 616. the onus of making an effort to "go out and meet" is still being put on the mutants and the "freaks" here.

give me a book where a DECENT SIZED contingent of non-caped humans make a step forward and extend their hand for integration. have a regular human create a prestigious liberal school to attend the needs of flatscaners and mutant kids alike. make it succeed. come on.

[long_silence]

Dani and the New Mutants doing the integration thing works a lot better than Hope did.

Hope's team is full of mutants, there're no flatscans or aliens or cyborgs on her team, nothing but Homo Superior.

And Hope has been doing her damndest to isolate them from the rest of the mutant students (walking out in the middle of class and forcing her lights to follow her out, training them herself instead of letting them train alongside experienced X-men, etc).

[crabby_lioness]

I've thought from the beginning that if Scott had moved most people back to the San Francisco base, there would not have been a schism in the first place.

Whatever other motivations people have, a lot of the impetus is just to get off that damn island.

(It's a really cool island, but San Francisco is also cool and a helluva lot bigger and comfier.)

Voluntary segregation leads to your enemies building a fence around you and pocketing the key. See the Warsaw Ghetto or the Hopis.

[shanejayell]

Oooh, nice one Dani. :D

[eyz]

Neat-o!