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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tauric" data-source="post: 1239120" data-attributes="member: 7778">Worst ideas IMHO:DK2Superman Blue/Red- I mean, really, electric powers?  containment suit?  two Supes?The current Uncanny X-Men, Nightcrawler as the son of Satan, and Archangel appears to actually be an angel.  Come on.Magneto on drugs, New X-Men.  I would have thought M was more intelligent than that, not to mention unwilling to cloud his mind.Also, the "darkening" of comics.  In New X-Men recently, Cyclops has impressed Wolverine with his ruthlessness.  One of the best things about X-Men was the interaction of Logan's agressive recklessness and willingness to kill, and Scott's restraint and determined non-lethality.  By making Cyclops (and others, such as Beast) more grim and gritty, the writers are messing with what made the team interesting, because the only difference is now the powers, not the personalities.  (And I don't buy the rationale that it is a response to the demands of a more violent reality that I've heard bandied about my LCBS.  It would be better to have the villains get more violent, and the heroes prevail without sinking to the level of "kill 'em all, God will know his own").</blockquote>