User blog comment:Blinkn/The X-Men get NO respect!/@comment-4854409-20120708163853

Yeah, the Avengers are coming off as massive assholes in AvX. This is because of Marvel's insistance on making good guys fight each other so that there is supposedly no wrong side (World War Hulk, Civil War, AvX) yet this always backfires because one side inevitably ends up looking dumb, bad or downright evil (everyone but the Hulk in WWH, the Reg side in Civil War and the Avengers in AvX). Characters are compromised to create tension that wasn't there in the first place.

Part of the X-Men's charm is that they're hated by people yet strive to help them anyways and a lot of the drama/philosophy of the series is "why should we help people who want us dead?" and how the characters deal with this question. The fact that the X-Verse has always been a bit separate from other Marvel titels result in a pretty big plot hole in why people loathe mutants yet love many super-humans.