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[shakalooloo]

Say what you will about Krakoa, at least the Quiet Council got the hang of how to hold votes.





Art by Tiago Palma and Brian Reber

Comments

[nyadnar17]

I feel like "I don't give a shit, do what you want" is a valid choice.

"I abstain" just makes it sound classier.

[cainofdreaming]

If you're the deciding vote it's kinda different.

[icon_uk]

She's not though. The vote before she's there is 2 Ayes to 1 Nay. The best she could do to change it is hold it to a draw, and that's not quite a deciding vote.

[blues32]

Most she could do in Bobby's favor is set it to a stalemate. If there was another person there voting with him, THEN she would be a deciding vote.

[mastermahan]

The vote here is whether to help Captain America locate survivors from the experiments in Truth: Red, White & Black. Emma wants Cap to owe them a favor (and manipulated him into asking for help in the first place). Prodigy wants to on the grounds that the subjects were all Black. Bobby doesn't want to help non-mutants.

The idea is that there's something obviously dirty and unethical about Steve Rogers' request.

[blues32]

Dirty and unethical in the fact Emma manipulated Steve into making said request?

Also, Bobby is becoming quite a jerk.

[mastermahan]

No, merely helping Steve is apparently unethical. Somehow.

[numeronone]

"X-Men United! We're all about the wild, wide world of mutants! Anyway, let's put it all on hold for whatever Steve wants to do this month"

[super_fly]

There's at least two other people on the cover who would not adversely affected by gunfire, but I can see it was important for the artist to remind readers of the qualities of Captain America's shield by having the enemy all aim *directly at it.*

[iamrman]

I suppose I can forgive Emma being unethical, because Emma's gonna Emma. Bobby refusing to help though? Since when did he become the team asshole? Is it because the people in need are Humans?

[mastermahan]

Yeah, Bobby's position is that they should only use their new Cerebro to help mutants.

[thanekos]

Honestly, mutants distrusting humans out of hand makes sense - the former is othered by an arbitrary distinction, and the latter never does anything on their own initiative to overcome it.

(If nothing else, think about the bit from Marvels where sympathetic POV character Phil Sheldon gets caught up in a mutant-hating mob and throws a brick.

Yes, more happens after that - but he was still susceptible.)