User blog comment:Johnnybravo44/X-Men: Regenesis Vol 1 1 review by Johnnybravo44/@comment-4136718-20111021211531/@comment-61022-20111024042342

Obvious plot device. They're creating drama for later story lines. If everything went neatly as per characters past histories there wouldn't be much by way of surprises or by way of having conflict later down the road. There is more story telling potential doing a story about Jubilee having to fight Wolverine (her father figure as you mentioned) and the potential internal conflict on top of the external one. Or if say a character crosses the line and leaves one side for the other. A writer can explore why say, Colossus, chose joining Cyclops's team over Wolverines despite his long history and friendship with Wolverine.

Colossus is also a bad example as being "best buds" with Wolverine. Because they have been at odds many times in the history of the X-Men. Two that immediately come to mind is when Colossus cheated on Kitty Pryde with Zsajz during the Secret Wars and Logan forced Colossus to man up to it leading to a bar brawl. The other one would be when Colossus left the X-Men to join the Acolytes after Illyana died of the Legacy Virus. Wolverine considered him a traitor and during the Fatal Attractions storyline would not have hesitated to slice him up.

It might seem retarded at first glance, but think about it honestly for a second and think how boring it would be if characters just mindlessly joined a side on preconceived notions from the fanbase.