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Why is Onslaught from Marvel hated?
- Thread starter DragonSJG
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Because it was honestly a poorly told story. While the idea itself isn't horrible but the execution was terrible and lead to the also horribly done Heroes Reborn.
I think he's seen as emblematic of the trends comics had in the 90's. And being the lead in to Heroes Reborn doesn't help.
I really dig him, though his appearances after that initial story have only served to water him down and make him a joke I think. It was a good way to payoff the long-running X-traitor subplot and, while I'm sure a lot of the tie-ins were bad, the main story in the two specials and X-Men comics was well done.
I really dig him, though his appearances after that initial story have only served to water him down and make him a joke I think. It was a good way to payoff the long-running X-traitor subplot and, while I'm sure a lot of the tie-ins were bad, the main story in the two specials and X-Men comics was well done.
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For me, the Onslaught saga started off well. But the books was so inconsistent and hard to keep up.
Only time I ever followed a comic storyline as it happened, bought so many books that Summer, I really enjoyed it, too bad I didn't jump in a few years earlier for Age of Apocalypse
Only other comic saga I bought close to the time it happened was Superman's death and resurrection
Only other comic saga I bought close to the time it happened was Superman's death and resurrection
Psychic monster dude made out of the combined anger of Professor X and Magneto. Magneto ripped the Adamantium out of Wolverine's body and almost killed him, so Xavier was like "nah fuck that shit" and scrambled Magneto's brain.
But when he did it, Magneto's anger fused with his subconscious anger and grew into a psychic monster that could absorb powers from mutants who was only beaten when the human superpowered people flung themselves into his body. He couldn't absorb them, so he got unstable and died and then came back a few times in the 2000s and then went away forever.
Until he's eventually brought back in the current X-Men stuff.
Onslaught's a big dumb action figure. It's nothing special but at least it remembers the heroes are all friends on the same side instead of another hero vs. hero event.
Plus it gave us Thunderbolts.
Xavier used his powers to shut down Magneto's brain after he ripped all the adamantium out of Wolverine, and this caused Magneto's evil personality to infect Xavier and gradually make him more evil until he eventually created Onslaught from his mind.
Onslaught did one cool thing by tracking down the Juggernaut and punching him so hard he flew from one state to the next, and then was really boring for the rest of the story.
Plus it gave us Thunderbolts.
Xavier used his powers to shut down Magneto's brain after he ripped all the adamantium out of Wolverine, and this caused Magneto's evil personality to infect Xavier and gradually make him more evil until he eventually created Onslaught from his mind.
Onslaught did one cool thing by tracking down the Juggernaut and punching him so hard he flew from one state to the next, and then was really boring for the rest of the story.
Speaking of Onslaught, remember that time when Red Skull's clone stole Professor X's brain and used it to become Onslaught?
Yea but what about Red Onslaught and one of the worst marvel crossover events in history AXIS?
EDIT: TheMadTitan 'members.
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1990s extreme led to them naming a character "Holocaust".
As detailed earlier in this thread, Magneto once ripped the metal out of Wolverine's body and Xavier got so pissed that he wiped Magneto's mind. But when he did this, a small sliver of Magneto's essence attached itself to Xavier, which eventually became Onslaught.
Unfortunately yes.Speaking of Onslaught, remember that time when Red Skull's clone stole Professor X's brain and used it to become Onslaught?
*cough* I actually liked AXISYea but what about Red Onslaught and one of the worst marvel crossover events in history AXIS?
EDIT: TheMadTitan 'members.
Thank you both, comics hurt my brain!
Yea but what about Red Onslaught and one of the worst marvel crossover events in history AXIS?
EDIT: TheMadTitan 'members.
The only good part of Axis was Dr. Doom reviving Cassie Lang in a tie-in because the Ant-Man comic was launching (because the Ant-Man movie was coming out).
Anyway the Onslaught story is really garbage because Mark Waid had to canonize that Professor X had the hots for Jean back in the day.
This happened because Magneto killed the Red Skull (a literal Nazi who was currently running around with his best friend's brain) while all the Avengers were telling him that made him just as bad :(
Yea but what about Red Onslaught and one of the worst marvel crossover events in history AXIS?
EDIT: TheMadTitan 'members.
This happened because Magneto killed the Red Skull (a literal Nazi who was currently running around with his best friend's brain) while all the Avengers were telling him that made him just as bad :(
During the time he was released I looooooved him. I had the toy, and comics. I still love his character. Don't think we will ever see that character walking around in movies or anything sadly.
Onslaught's just tip of the iceberg stuff, lol. Wait until we discuss all the Spider-Man clones.
If Marvel left shit alone, it probably would've been better. It was supposed to just be an an arc in Uncanny Avengers and it should've stayed that way.Yea but what about Red Onslaught and one of the worst marvel crossover events in history AXIS?
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It's Hickman, he'll get there eventually. Or they'll use Cassandra Nova and Joseph to make a new Onslaught.
But it ruined Magneto, Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Havok, and caused Rick Remender to swear off working at Marvel.
Nothing good came of it.
I never had the money for comics growing up so I never really followed them, but I did borrow from other people and browsed them in school. I remember Onslaught, Age of Apocalypse and Nate Grey being really cool, especially since they seemed like cool huge events as far as I remembered. I remember thinking they might even merge.