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I'd seen X-men a few years ago. I remember liking it, wanting to know more about that world and those people. Rewatched it this afternoon, then on a whim rented the sequel and watched that. Overall enjoyable, but . . .
Why do they create these very sympathetic villains and then give them no sympathy? At all? I mean, the whole shebang starts with the Traumatic Childhood Event of Magneto, Mystique's introduction is similarly human ("you people are the reason I was afraid to go to school") and John/Pyro? Ok, so the kid's got a few issues with anger management. He's a kid. You know the moment when I knew he was going to turn evil? In X2, when he decides to disobey the 'wait here' thing . . . it wasn't that. Plenty of characters all over the map have disobeyed 'wait here'. It was when his two supposed best friends don't go with him. If he had been a 'good' character rather than an 'evil' one, they would have gone with him, or after him, or cared. But they don't, and it just makes me mad. I'm not usually all about the villain-love, but usually the good guys aren't the good guys because of some damn holier-than-thou complex. They do the same thing to Mystique. She's mad at humans; so is Storm. But Storm has people helping her and liking her and talking it over with her; Mystique seems to genuinely like Logan, for whatever reason, and he treats her like, well, somebody evil. They don't even get a chance.
Grr. I thought about looking for some X-men fanfic, but the relationships that are the most interesting imo are non-sexual age-gappy ones like Xavier/Jean or Logan/Rouge (ok, debatable with the non-sex, but Rouge has the whole touching thing, plus I just wouldn't want them sexual, I don't think. And fandom would totally put sex in anything and everything, and I'm just not in the mood.)
Why do they create these very sympathetic villains and then give them no sympathy? At all? I mean, the whole shebang starts with the Traumatic Childhood Event of Magneto, Mystique's introduction is similarly human ("you people are the reason I was afraid to go to school") and John/Pyro? Ok, so the kid's got a few issues with anger management. He's a kid. You know the moment when I knew he was going to turn evil? In X2, when he decides to disobey the 'wait here' thing . . . it wasn't that. Plenty of characters all over the map have disobeyed 'wait here'. It was when his two supposed best friends don't go with him. If he had been a 'good' character rather than an 'evil' one, they would have gone with him, or after him, or cared. But they don't, and it just makes me mad. I'm not usually all about the villain-love, but usually the good guys aren't the good guys because of some damn holier-than-thou complex. They do the same thing to Mystique. She's mad at humans; so is Storm. But Storm has people helping her and liking her and talking it over with her; Mystique seems to genuinely like Logan, for whatever reason, and he treats her like, well, somebody evil. They don't even get a chance.
Grr. I thought about looking for some X-men fanfic, but the relationships that are the most interesting imo are non-sexual age-gappy ones like Xavier/Jean or Logan/Rouge (ok, debatable with the non-sex, but Rouge has the whole touching thing, plus I just wouldn't want them sexual, I don't think. And fandom would totally put sex in anything and everything, and I'm just not in the mood.)