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Originally Posted by TheBlueMarvel

All of your points are reasonable and I get where you are coming from, but it doesn't change the original assertion that there were diametrically opposed views ('polarization') within the comic community when the event was initially published and digested, differences that apparently persist even today. Popularity and critical acclaim might correlate much of the time, but that's not always the case. There are 13 Fast and Furious movies and the franchise obviously enjoys a robust fanbase. However, that creative team isn't likely to win an oscar any time soon. No one can doubt the affect the Fast series has had on its fanbase, nor can anyone deny the importance of AoA to X-Heads. I just don't know if either have much relevance outside of the choirs to which they individually preach.

In any event, Legion/Sabretooth/Colossus are nabs for me. Legion because I've always wanted the fig - he's a bit too brawny tho'. Sabretooth because of the Exiles head and my want to get some representation for tha team - by the way, IMO Exiles does/did better what AoA/What If? only play at. And Colossus because that thing looks damn cool.

True, as polarization in the comics community will always exist and this story is no different.

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Originally Posted by Dolemite

And Marvel has made it even worse, now. I've peeked at some recent X-Men comics and apparently mutants now have their own island nation and can actually "back up" their brains and grow new bodies identical to their old ones, so any time someone is "killed" they can just be brought back to life instantly (I won't start the debate about how I think using backed-up memories means that the "reborn" person is actually a copy and not the original, but...). The point is that there are no stakes at all anymore.

Well even if it wasn't already established in Marvel that resurrections can work that way even before Krakoa, I think it was a clever way to address the endless doom and gloom of de-powerings and genocides that Marvel writers had dumped on the Mutant population and the franchise for years. How do you stop evil people from killing off all of the Mutants? Make it so they can't kill the Mutants anymore.

But believe it or not, they have addressed the idea of "no stakes" in the stories themselves, and have started a book recently that has Nightcrawler delving a bit deeper into some Mutants having no regard for life and death anymore.