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Zesiul In reply to KyranSawhill [2014-06-12 01:20:22 +0000 UTC]

Yeah thats what I love about these new comics so much. Theres no black and white answer to everything. He's a murderer who's done so much wrong, but claims he wants to change that and make things right for his race of mutants. There are clear points to him being bad and good, I don't even think he knows for sure what he's capable of. Very interesting story, and thats what I like to see.

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KyranSawhill In reply to Zesiul [2014-06-24 08:56:47 +0000 UTC]

I don't disagree, though I wouldn't call him a murderer, since the Phoenix Force was causing him to lose his humanity and taking over.

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Zesiul In reply to KyranSawhill [2014-06-29 20:43:56 +0000 UTC]

So he says, but the phoenix in my opinion was only amplifying what was already there. He wasn't helpless, just lustful with power. Either way, he is running from capture and hiding. He is an enemy to the current X-Men, and to many more. Good intentions or not. I love it. 

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KyranSawhill In reply to Zesiul [2014-08-13 06:18:23 +0000 UTC]

In the comics, Cyclops asks Kitty Pryde that if he thought, even for a split second, that he had committed patricide (he considered Xavier a father figure), that he would have taken his own life out of guilt. And yet he still feels guilt, because he felt powerless against the Phoenix and, for all his talk and all his ego, there was nothing he could do to prevent it from corrupting him and forcing him to murder the man who made him who he is. He feels somewhat responsible because he thinks he should have tried harder to control it, but that doesn't mean there was anything he could have done. I'm sure Jean felt the same way when the Phoenix blew up a star, ending billions of lives in just moments. If she had any control over it, she would have stopped it. So would Scott. 
As for running from capture and hiding, why wouldn't he? His goal to preserve mutantkind and train these new mutants suddenly appearing all over the world, so that they can learn how to control their powers and live in a world that hates and fears them, is much more important than sitting in a cell his whole life for a crime he willingly didn't commit. Helping these new mutants is his way of atoning for 'his' sins. It's his way of honoring Charles Xavier's dream. Most of the students he saved were being persecuted by humans when their powers manifested. When Fabio Medina was found, he was being harassed by police when he didn't even know what was happening. When Hijack was found, he'd just been shot by a police officer (who was saying some rather mutant-phobic things) and his girlfriend was in danger of being shot too. When Triage was rescued, the police were holding him because he healed a friend who had been temporarily dead. When Eva Bell/Tempus was discovered, an entire S.W.A.T. team was on their way to attack and arrest her, when all she'd done was stop a fight between her brother and her friends (by literally stopping time).
These kids were all being mistreated by authorities simply for being mutant. Because they were misunderstood and people fear what they don't understand. Even they themselves didn't understand. They had no intentions of harming anyone around them, yet they were "guilty until proven innocent," as Scott put it. So of course they ran. Of course they hid in the New Xavier School, which was off the radar (the old, refined Weapon X facility). Whether legal or not, Scott Summers saved each of them and offered them a place where they'd receive proper training, education, and treatment.
But you're right; good intentions or not, it makes for a great story. 
Sorry for the rant. I got in a nerdy typist mood just now. 

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Zesiul In reply to KyranSawhill [2014-08-13 14:13:22 +0000 UTC]

I still think he is a villain. Not a textbook one, but he doesn't seem to be the same Scott we once knew. The feel of real power has literally changed him. Wether or not he was in control with the Phoenix isn't really important, the Phoenix acts as a part of yourself. It's an extension of all sides of you. 

Do I believe he feels sorry for killing the professor? No. 
Do I think he's actually trying to rebuild the mutant dream? No.

I believe he is a calculating, cold person. Who has alternative agendas that may come to be present one day soon. You don't have to agree, or even try to understand why I came to these conclusions. That's why I enjoy this run in the comics. They can take many forms of meaning. There's no right or wrong, just characters. 

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