Generation Hope #5 - "The Daddy Issue"

[laughing_tree]

With the exception of the complete death of the town she was born in, she's not someone whose experienced a large amount of anti-mutant prejudice. She didn't grow up with it. So she's aware she's a mutant, but her actual experience of what it means to be a mutant is different from any other mutant whose grown up in this world. She doesn't have the basic assumption of, 'This is how it has to be.' She may be naive, but on the other hand she's also got this ability to imagine things different from how they are. -- Kieron Gillen

Comments

[scorntx]

In a lifetime of "didn't think this through" moments from Charles, that... somehow isn't the worst, but it should be.

Not that I think Erik's response actually would be "yes".
(He's probably just thinking "you didn't think this question through" super-hard.)
Since the days of Claremont Magneto's been against the notion of indiscriminate slaughter of innocents, mutant or human.
Except when poorly written.


Charles's expression after Magneto asks "what do you think?" is a man who desperately wants to go back to the days when he could just mind-wipe anyone who disagreed with him.

[shadowseeking]

...wow does Hope's little lecture to Xavier sound stupid as hell.

And so is Gillen's quote. Man he wrote her and her stupid Lights as such an annoying Mary Sue squad and it really made me hate this entire series.

[scorntx]

Judging by Xavier's response, Hope's lecture is supposed to sound at least a little stupid.

She is, after all, a moody teenager.

[morallyambiguousscience]

I dunno, Hope's stupid lecture, as obnoxious as it was, is better than the current state of things with Krakoa where coexistence and diversity are the enemy and mutants are superior.

[mastermahan]

You think that outfit is inappropriate for teaching, Hope? Oh, you have no idea. That might be the most conservative outfit Emma owns.

[zachbeacon]

So she expressed herself like, well, a moody teenage girl who is used to being treated like the second coming.

But I don't think she's wrong.

Calling yourself "Gifted" or "Superior" does sort of imply you think you're better than the humans you claim to see as equals when you're all just people.

And hiding in a school in upstate NY (or a series of island nations) does make it look like you don't actually care about that "peaceful coexistence " you claim to want.