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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9315627" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I would imagine it's because they need Madelyne Pryor to do at least two of the storylines they've done (and probably other future ones), either because replacing her with Jean Grey doesn't work, or because they actively want to replace Jean Grey with her in some of them. Having Madelyne Pryor in the story gives you a lot of potential to "mess around" with the character who is like 98% Jean Grey without "tainting" the main Jean Grey and making "Jean Grey is a dick" become the meme.</p><p></p><p>The side-effect of that though, is that you're inevitably going to run into some amount of "Cyclops is a dick" as a result. And the "running out of ways to progress the relationship" was absolutely behind most of the "Cyclops is a dick" - I don't know if they'll have time to get into most of those.</p><p></p><p>Also he's not the audience surrogate in either this or the original cartoon. So comparing him to JD or Ross definitely makes sense for the comic, where he often was the "normal guy", who it was easy for the main target audience of the era to see themselves in, but it doesn't really make sense for the cartoon. </p><p></p><p>To be specific - the audience surrogate in the original cartoon is absolutely Jubilee - the '90s teenager. Watching the first few episodes of the original cartoon makes that extremely clear. In the modern cartoon, you could make a case that role has transferred to Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa - who has a very similar introduction to the team as Jubilee did, which is is surely quite a conscious decision by the writers), but it definitely has not transferred to Cyclops (Scott Summers).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9315627, member: 18"] I would imagine it's because they need Madelyne Pryor to do at least two of the storylines they've done (and probably other future ones), either because replacing her with Jean Grey doesn't work, or because they actively want to replace Jean Grey with her in some of them. Having Madelyne Pryor in the story gives you a lot of potential to "mess around" with the character who is like 98% Jean Grey without "tainting" the main Jean Grey and making "Jean Grey is a dick" become the meme. The side-effect of that though, is that you're inevitably going to run into some amount of "Cyclops is a dick" as a result. And the "running out of ways to progress the relationship" was absolutely behind most of the "Cyclops is a dick" - I don't know if they'll have time to get into most of those. Also he's not the audience surrogate in either this or the original cartoon. So comparing him to JD or Ross definitely makes sense for the comic, where he often was the "normal guy", who it was easy for the main target audience of the era to see themselves in, but it doesn't really make sense for the cartoon. To be specific - the audience surrogate in the original cartoon is absolutely Jubilee - the '90s teenager. Watching the first few episodes of the original cartoon makes that extremely clear. In the modern cartoon, you could make a case that role has transferred to Sunspot (Roberto Da Costa - who has a very similar introduction to the team as Jubilee did, which is is surely quite a conscious decision by the writers), but it definitely has not transferred to Cyclops (Scott Summers). [/QUOTE]
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