I wish I could say I was surprised...

[iamrman]

X-Men: Red #8.

Oh, look. The Shi'Ar encouraged war crimes. shocked Pikachu face

Comments

[nyadnar17]

Imma be real, with those three empires its very hard to tell what is consider a war crime and what's considered taco tuesday.

[mastermahan]

That's the problem with the Ten Shames. How did they narrow it down to just ten?

[blues32]

Oh, they just let the dead Empress back on the throne, did they? Nobody had any issue with that?

[mastermahan]

It's not like an empire of shapeshifters are their ancestral enemies or anything.

I imagine the Shi'Ar are just sick of regime changes at this point. They change leadership almost as much as the UK. "Artificial teenage daughter of Lilandra and a human? Literally hatched months ago? Fuck it, as long as she's not a megalomaniac she'll be better than D'ken, Deathbird, or Vulcan were."

[beyondthefringe]

and yet Deathbird is her advisor.
Absolutely nothing can go wrong there.

[scorntx]

Well, so far, nothing has.
... okay, Xandra got murdered, but that wasn't actually Cal's fault for once.
And she got better anyway.

It's a little eerie.
Just waiting for the other shoe to drop. Waiting, and waiting, and waiting...

[cainofdreaming]

Well, the arms dealer in a big bubble did. Immortal rulers are bad for business.

[cainofdreaming]

Goading Kree to kill Skrull, or vice versa? Waste of resources when they could just have waited five minutes, really.

[scorntx]

"MWA-HAHAHA! You have fallen for my plan! My FIENDISH PLAN! Which was to make you do what you would've done anyway!"

Presumably the Kin Crimson covered this up because it made the Shi'ar look kind of stupid.
As opposed to all the things the Shi'ar have done that make them look really stupid.

[mastermahan]

The Ten Shames aren't the Shi'ar's worst crimes. It's their biggest bloopers. Number 1 wasn't even a genocide, it was an attempted genocide that resulted in the Shi'ar receiving a brutal asskicking.

[scorntx]

Judging by what's been shown of the Kin Crimson, this sounds completely plausible.

(They're like the Shi'ar Knights of Ren...)

[lordultimus]

Since when do the Shi'ar have a concept of war crimes?

[blues32]

Since they were found out by the Skrull and the Kree which are currently in a tense alliance. Suddenly it's a good idea to make amends before they declare war on them.

[numeronone]

NTM, their Gods are kind of defunct thanks to Jane Foster

[dan_ingram]

"Our empires fought for literally millions of years, but we were totally going to make peace that time!"

Also, love how the Shi'ar are held more responsible for tricking the Kree, than the Kree are for actually carrying out the attack.

[zylly]

I've been enjoying this run and the SWORD run that lead into it, but I find myself struggling to figure out what Brand's overall endgame is. Granted, I'm not great with figuring out chess master types to begin with.

I get a big feeling of "Only I am smart enough to keep the entire galaxy from plunging into chaos and anything I do in pursuit of that is justified."

[scorntx]

Her overall plan seems to be taking over the galaxy / universe / delete where applicable for The Greater Good.

But she's making the stock villain mistake of using unnecessarily laborious and circuitous methods to get there, sometimes involving manipulating people to do things they probably would've done (or let her do) anyhow.
Like, one of her late-stage plans is replace SHIELD.
Which, given there is currently no SHIELD to begin with, seems like she could've just stepped in there and persuaded the world's governments to begin with.

[zylly]

Yeah, there's needless levels of bastard to her planning, on multiple levels.

[shadowpsykie]

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