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Marvel Unlimited wants to know-Avengers or X-Men?
- Thread starter Dalek
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X-Men are cool but the stories just get too fucking complicated for me.
So yeah, I gotta go with the Avengers, who can be just as confusing but most of the time not.
So yeah, I gotta go with the Avengers, who can be just as confusing but most of the time not.
I grew up on X men, X men also had more to say on a general basis, so that's my choice. I have no doing that avengers is the bigger property now and will get more attention since it's the center piece to the last decade of the marvel movie universe though.
No hate on that, they earned it.
No hate on that, they earned it.
I guess that's why X-Men doesn't quite work for me. It's so vast that it feels at conflict with the rest of the Marvel universe. Like, how can this many mutants exist and not be involved in every single Marvel story line.
I would have gone with Avengers if you asked me last year, but right now we're Dawn of X baybee so got to go with X-Men
X-men has the better team while Avengers has the better individuals (Spidey, Cap). Based on comics I pick X-men but the MCU really bumped up the popularity of the Avengers.
That's the thing, a lot of mutants are. There's plenty of mutants not even regularly associated with the X-Men. Daredevil's Typhoid Mary is a mutant, Avengers villain Whirlwind is a mutant. Before being retconned because of the show, Quake/Daisy Johnson was a mutant. Of course, Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver were mutants before all of the rights bullshit (and need to return to being mutants ASAP),.
And given the flexibility of it, any supervillain that hasn't already been specified as being an alien, powered by magic, or a genetic experiment is likely a mutant if they have superpowers.
And usually, big Marvel stories tend to feature the mutants in them. The real disconnect comes in when the X-Men do some shit and the Avengers aren't in the background at the very least.
I prefer Avengers due to its wider breadth. The singular focus on mutants, especially in recent years, often carries with it a pretty negative message about humanity in general, which I generally dislike.
The X-Men used to be pretty involved with Marvel outside of their stories (or bringing the rest of Marvel to their stories), it was only in the 00s after decimation that they strongly split into their own thing, likely inspired by the movies, with the few times the rest of Marvel is brought up being just to show them as jerks or call them out on not being involved with the X storylines. They still pop up in non-X events though.
The X-Men are an actual team with a point of commonality that gives the entire team a through-line and coherent narrative. The Avengers are, at best, an ensemble cast where characters get wildly differing levels of narrative focus and often have little or nothing to do with the larger "team" story.
The MCU only makes the Avengers work because it basically conflates "The Avengers" with "Literally The Entire Marvel Universe".
The MCU only makes the Avengers work because it basically conflates "The Avengers" with "Literally The Entire Marvel Universe".
Both are great.
But I'm sorry but the MCU has spoiled me despite growing up with old school X-men.
So my vote goes to Avengers.
Edit: Kinda funny cause I was so into Spiderman and X-Men but had no clue about Captain America, Iron Man or Thor in the 1990s/early 2000s but after watching MCU movies - completely turned around.
(Dont get me wrong, I enjoyed FOX-men - just not as much as MCU Avengers).
But I'm sorry but the MCU has spoiled me despite growing up with old school X-men.
So my vote goes to Avengers.
Edit: Kinda funny cause I was so into Spiderman and X-Men but had no clue about Captain America, Iron Man or Thor in the 1990s/early 2000s but after watching MCU movies - completely turned around.
(Dont get me wrong, I enjoyed FOX-men - just not as much as MCU Avengers).
Spidey is not a mutant, though he did substitute teach at the Jean Grey Institute for awhile.
I feel like Grant Morrison solved this problem but as soon as he was off the books EVERYONE CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD
I grew up reading X-Men. The Chris Claremont and Grant Morrison books were my introduction to comics. (Weird introduction. I was reading old Chris Claremont paperbacks while reading the current Morrison issues.) So they will always have a place in my heart.
I honestly never really branched into The Avengers. They seemed to have less female characters I was interested in.
I honestly never really branched into The Avengers. They seemed to have less female characters I was interested in.
If you would have asked me in the 90s I would have answered X-Men without hesitation. I used to play X-Men on the playground, and I still remember who got to be Rogue's boyfriend. Watched the 90s cartoon, played the hell out of the arcade game, etc. I was a pretty big fan all the through Ultimate X-Men.
But now, it's Avengers all the way. Starting with the New Avengers comic line, and then all the MCU stuff.
But now, it's Avengers all the way. Starting with the New Avengers comic line, and then all the MCU stuff.
People are complaining about the amount of X-Men, which I get, but who are even in the Avengers at any given time? They have so many cast changes and off shoots I have no idea what "Avengers" even refers to in this poll.
But Logan is a Mutant, X-Man, and Avenger. Who also did side against the X-Men in that crossover, which as a subscriber I know is being pushed in the what you should read section, and not a new event so it checks out.
