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The 10 Basic X-Men Plots (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/xmen

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Transcript: "Ultimately, there are 10 basic X-men plots.

Aliens ruin Scott Summers day
The teenage female audience surrogate (Kitty, Jubilee, Armor, etc) does something cool
Bigots ruing Scott Summers' day
Storm wrestles with her leadership position
Time travelers ruin Scott Summers' day
Everything connects back to Wolverine
Literal demons rise up from Hell to ruin Scott Summers' day
Professor Xavier turns out to have done a bad thing
The other X-men ruin Scott Summers' day
The Phoenix shows up (most likely to ruin Scott Summers' day)"

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[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 2 points 9 months ago

I mean in universe Scott was the writer of the X-Men comics which is why he always appears as the leader and also why he deals with the most shit.

He was trying to make himself look cool by appearing as the leader who takes all the shit.