X-Men: Engangered Species is All Wrong
I was so upset by how wrong X-Men: Endangered Species was that I was almost angry. Upset about how morally and philosophically divergent these X-Men are from the X-Men of the past 40-plus years. And then I was upset about how upset I was over a fictional reality and characters, but that part will wait.
This one-shot set the stage for what will be a crossover throughout the mutant Marvel Universe this summer and takes up the important task of addressing how the mutant world has changed since M-Day. A young mutant dies, and that event is so significant as to send ripples through “the community” to the point where complete strangers show up because one of their own has died. Tragic really, as something so rare dies so insignificantly, without fanfare. At least some mutants get to die saving the world. He was, completely unceremoniously, hit by a car.
To put it another way, he died like humans die.
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