X-Men Unlimited #47

[superboyprime]

"I hope you're all enjoying #XMEN Green - week by week, it's become one of my true joys to write. Just pure fun (albeit often morbidly so) and I hope that comes through in every moment." - Steve Orlando

Comments

[super_fly]

I don't expect a favorable outcome but I'm rooting for Dinosaur Man on this one

[lordultimus]

"So you admit it."

Uh, NG? Sauron literally just told you that's he's been upfront with you from day one. Why exactly are you treating this like some sort of secret agenda?

[mastermahan]

"What part of 'I want to destroy all mammals' did you not understand?"

[agharta75]

"Archosaurs will rule again!"

[nyadnar17]

I legit love the Sauron is 100% in the right here. He's been completely transparent on whats hes about.

[numeronone]

A very charitable reading of this would be that it's pointing out that, like Susaan B Anthony or Walter White before her and TERFs at the same time as her, Nature Girl has discovered that when you team up with someone from a supremacist group, they tend to focus their energies on establishing supremacy.

But I don't think that's what happened here.

[xammax]

If this doesn't end with those two just dropped to the bottom of the queue then I don't see the point of the laws at all.

[donnblake]

Can of worms here, but is Sauron a mutant these days? I thought he was just a psychic vampire were-pterodactyl who took a correspondence course in hypnosis. (And when did "identifies as a dinosaur," become his main personality trait?)

[mastermahan]

When "I don't want to cure cancer, I want to turn people in dinosaurs" became a meme.

And I'm pretty sure he hasn't been retconned into being a mutant. He's still a human who was bitten by a pteranodon and got the powers of a pteranodon, such as, um, life draining and fire breath.

...so does that mean there's a Pteranodon Totem?.

[nyadnar17]

That is how Pteranodon's hunted in ancient times!

[numeronone]

Since popular understanding of Palaeontology is shifting in some quarters from "Dinosaurs were just like in the JP movies and the action figures and books I had when I was little" (Bad) to "Who KNOWS what anything looked like or behaved like, it's all guesswork!" (Much Worse), there's a few people who might very well argue that.

[cainofdreaming]

And then there's the school of thought I belong to. Which is the only canonical one, of course.



Illustration by Murata Yusuke.

[numeronone]

…I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt on this one, though I’ll also add that “They were fuzzy and cute” isn’t incompatible with “We have better science now and can make more accurate estimations”. For instance, we now know that Sinosauropteryx had orange stripes:

[cygnia]

Racing stripes!

[blues32]

I don't think T-Rexes were quite so...floofy. I mean, that is just a big old ball of feathers. Looks like it waddles instead of runs.

[agharta75]

"But you aren't a dinosaur, you're a _ptero_saur!"

[numeronone]

"Yes, a true creature of TERROR!"

"Not like - oh, what did I expect, his ears are just little holes."

[justsotired]

"This is so much fun." The writer insisted. "I'm a naughty boy and we're all having fun!" He said, as his grim tale unfolded on the page.

[shakalooloo]

Well, at least one person is having fun?

And it is quite enjoyable seeing people's reactions here, too.

[justsotired]

I suppose that the only appropriate response is apathy.

[shakalooloo]

Is Sauron seriously confused as to why humans are primarily using apes for experiments over reptiles?

[icon_uk]

Maybe not so much confused as... disappointed.

He is a little... obsessive about such things.

[mastermahan]

So are we supposed to read that Curse's green text powers made him kill the apes? Because it's not like that's out of character.

[blues32]

Yes, that must be it. He found a way to make it about dinosaurs despite it not being in his best interest to do so. And the fact Curse didn't feel sick afterwards must mean it as done with malicious intent. She was punishing him for his "negging on" Nature Girl. I wonder if she'll protest Sauron's upcoming execution or just wish for popcorn.

I mean, the series has been telling us from the start the Curse is evil. It's possible they can conclude this series with everything being Curse's fault. Maybe even Nature Girl murdering that store manager or cashier. Whatever he was. If I recall correctly, the first time Nature Girl attacked an oil refiner plant, she insisted the workers evacuate. She didn't attack anyone who didn't attack her first. Perhaps just hanging around Curse has a corrupting influence. She doesn't just place curses on people, she is one.