Summer's Family Bullshit
As a character who is introduced as an orphan who has no family to go home to visit during breaks, Scott Summers has a stupidly large growing web of convoluted relatives. In Summer's Family Bullshit we'll keep track of each family member introduced throughout the history of the X-Men.
- Alex Summers (Havok), Scott Summers previously unmentioned, so secret he didn't even tell his friends, brother is introduced in Uncanny X-Men #54
- Christopher Summers (Corsair), Scott Summers father is actually not dead and is in fact a space pirate.
- Turns out Corsair's parents, Scott's grandparents, Philip and Deborah are still alive and living in Alaska.
Xavier Did A Bad Thing.
Xavier is first introduced as a wise mentor and leader to the X-Men, but very quickly it becomes obvious that this dude is just kind of an asshole. It would be impossible to catalog EVERY time he was an asshole (hell, it would be impossible to just catalog every time he kept something to himself that he should have shared with the class), so instead, I'm going to hit what I think are highlights.
- Attracted to Jean Grey who was a minor and his student at the time.
- Completely mindblanked Vanisher to the point that he didn't even know who he was.
- Pretended to lose his powers to teach his students a lesson.
- Faked his own death.
- Makes a machine that would bring Juggernaut back even if he wasn't there set on a timer and tells no one.
- Erases Bobby and Hank's parents memories of them being mutants, even though they were 100% accepting of them.
- Berates Scott for not abandoning his hospitalized girlfriend to go try to save the rest of the X-Men when he literally couldn't have done anything about it anyway.
- Doesn't tell anyone in the X-Men about the entire mutant research facility that he and Moira run that also imprisons dangerous mutants.
- Interrupts a council meeting of the Shi'ar Empire because he is sulking.
- Insults Scott's leadership abilities rather than admit Scott actually understand the new X-Men better than him.
- Mind blast Dark Phoenix while Scott is actually getting through to her.
- Starts a romantic relationship with a woman he basically was acting as a psychic therapist to.
Death, Taxes, & Resurrection
Comic book characters have a bad habit of not staying dead. Notoriously so. Here, I'm going to keep track of characters who have "died" and then come back. Each X will be a death, and each O will be a time they've come back. This will include times where it is revealed that the character "didn't really die", unless it happens in the same storyline. Anyone who just dies once and never comes back will not be listed.
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