Cyclops' plan?

[salinea]

2 pages from Uncanny X-Men #11 & 3 pages from AvsX #3



HEY I MADE THAT JOKE. SORT OF.



There's your "solid, unqualified win", Cap.



Here Tony makes one of those "you're starting to sound like me" speech that Magneto has been giving Scott a lot lately.











Scott plays dirty.

I like it.

Comments

[icon_uk]

Because the Avengers have ignored the advice of the only people on Earth who HAVE dealt with the Phoenix, in one case one of them was a host for the Phoenix for years and was a much admired hero for it.

Cap and Iron Man's plan seems to be based on pretty much total ignorance of the Phoenix.

[atom_punk]

Counter question: while it's true that the Avengers are acting rather blindly here with regards to the Phoenix, do the X-men actually have a better understanding of it?

I ask because my Marvel trivia is rather weak and I don't know if the X-men ever had a means of defeating the Phoenix beyond perhaps killing the host.

I've been told by people on scans_daily that in the past the Phoenix wasn't a hostile entity (barring of course Dark Phoenix) but from the way this crossover was set up it seems something has changed and the Phoenix is now apparently destroying planets.

From our perspective as readers we know this change is likely for whatever contrived plot-driving reason the editors and writers needed, but in-universe it seems like something has changed about the Phoenix so for all they know the X-men's knowledge may no longer hold true.

[salinea]

Oh, they've both been very foolish and hasty in drawing conclusions and attacking the other team when they should have gathered data for best understanding.