Pro-tip!

[lisaquestions]

Never try to explain Scott Summer's love life.

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[iraenicole.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it something like his love of his life died 5 times and she at one point used her powers to make him love Emma Frost instead? And then they made out on Jeans grave.

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Something like that, but in this case it was the way Scott skipped out Madelyne Pryor to cheat on her with Jean, noting that Madelyne was Jean's clone.

And of course, Jean's many deaths, falling in love with Emma, etc. Yeah.

[iraenicole.livejournal.com]

Ah okay I hadn't heard of Madelyne Pryor before. Does Wolverine ever get a chance with Jean or her clone? Does he have a thing for her like in the movie and 90s series? Or does Cyclops keep all the women to himself in revenge for the rough treatment he got in the films?

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Wolverine had a thing for Jean in the comics, but I don't think it went anywhere.

Madelyne Pryor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelyne_Pryor) was a character who first appeared in the early 80s, and died toward the end of the 80s during the Inferno crossover (during which time she became a demonic supervillain). Anyway, she and Scott had Cable, who was kidnapped by Mr. Sinister, and then sent into the future for Apocalypse to raise, or something. Except Scott and Jean were called psychically to the future to help raise Cable, and...

see? It's headache-inducing!

[hexyhex.livejournal.com]

I've been in that exact same predicament.

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how often this happens!

[hexyhex.livejournal.com]

I've learned. The answer to any question touching on this subject matter is "It's because... *pause*... it's messy."

[cericonversion.livejournal.com]

At first I thought "What, repeatedly getting serious with spinoffs of the love of your life?"

[hexyhex.livejournal.com]

Ha!

Well, there was this one time with a skrull... man, did THAT get complicated!

[cericonversion.livejournal.com]

Dating shapeshifting aliens means always having to say "As seen in issue #16...." It's a nuisance after a while.

[heinousbitca.livejournal.com]

What's worse is that i know a dude named, wait for it, Scott Xavier Summers.

Needless to say, i complain a lot less about my name compared to what kind of mockery you *know* he took in school.

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Poor guy.

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Of course, I went through a period of "If I can adopt a girl, I'll name her Cassandra Autumn."

Which, idk, might've been crueler than it seemed at the time.

[heinousbitca.livejournal.com]

Just keep her far, far away from anyone named anything like Wolverine.

[cericonversion.livejournal.com]

The obvious answer here is that we need Cyclops/Hawkman slash. The complexities of their respective backgrounds can then cancel each other out, leaving us with some nice simple yaoi.

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Creepy Stalker JLU Hawkman or Constantly Revised DC Hawkman?

[cericonversion.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of the print version.

[floorcandy.livejournal.com]

At least you're not trying to explain his family tree.

Or his offspring.

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

Look at my conversation with Iraenicole!

Of course, that's a pretty simple one, and doesn't invoke Rachel or Nate.

[floorcandy.livejournal.com]

I did just now.

The thing that I always thought was crazy was that people rip on DC for having their big cosmic reboots when Marvel is in desperate need of a similar reality punch just for the X-Men canon alone. O.O

Maybe that's why they keep making animated series that are reluctant to step very far out of the height of the Claremont era.

[miz-evolution.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO

[amokk]

This is what happens to characters that are almost 50 years old.

I just read this post, must have missed it earlier.

[kynn.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the big-ass X-Men relationship chart? Logan is a slut.

[radiumhead.livejournal.com]

He likes telepaths. Some of them die. Boom, explained!

[lisaquestions.livejournal.com]

That doesn't really explain it. It summarizes it.