User blog comment:Jet Becker/Is anybody else off McCoy?/@comment-4083966-20120112182948/@comment-4750091-20120113003911

Magneto wanted to wipe out humans. Scott wants to protect them (and does a damn fine job too). Scott's a general and does what's necessary to protect if not "his people" then his friends and family. When he set up Utopia he did so as a sanctuary. Any mutant could come on the reassurance that they would be protected from any threat or persecution. Again- we see Scott copping the blame because mutants are being attacked and he's forced to respond. Why not condemn or criticise the biggots and terrorists who threaten Mutants? I sometimes feel like people's attitude towards Scott and his situation is "Well, those Purifiers WERE trying to kill every mutant (and some humans as collateral damage), and they HAVE proven that they can and will do this on past occasions... but I mean- Scott just sent a special covert team to make sure that no one innocent would die! Wihtout consulting anyone! Could you imagine if the army of the government just did that instead of asking every civilian and citizen if it was okay to- oh, wait... tyhat's right- they don't do that... but still- these covert ops guys had to kill some henchmen trying to shoot them! I mean- crazy right?! Damn you Scott Summers! Those were hateful, ugly, inhumane terrorists! Why couldn't he just sit them down nice and comfortably and explain to them why they shouldn't kill mutants. And make sure you do it RESPECTFULLY! Pleases and Thank yous, if you would."

Scott doesn't desire these situations in the slightest and is handling them quite capably. He gets results. Plain and simple. I don't deny that he doesn't have any faults, but to say that he's unwilling to address them or anything like that is a bit unfounded. I remember during the Nation X arc Scott begging Hank to stay to help keep him in check or something to that effect.

As to him being willing to use students to murder- i don't necessarily agree with that statement either. I agree he may be training them as soldiers (and whether or not that's exclusively how young mutants should be taught is the conflict between Logan and Scott), but that is purely due to the reality they now face. Logan's school is good in principle- but if they had to face a situation like Bastion's attack during Second Coming or Necrosha everyone would be wipped out.

When has Scott ever ordered a student to "murder" someone? Remeber that murder is in cold blood, intentional and unprovoked. You could argue X-23 in X-Force possibly, and maybe he deserves some criticism there, but i still believe that's a grey area at best considering X-23's personality and history. If you're refering to Idie during Schism then that was purely her choice. Again- not murder- and a necessary decision to protect innocents. Yes- perhaps sacrificing her innocence in the process- but her decision all the same. Besides- Idie's a bloody idiot. Can't stand that girl.

Think about the other X titles that Scott's in. All the baddies they have faced since moving to San Francisco. How many of them are murdered or even killed? For example, that Lobe guy who tried to wipe the X-men out via a virus was simply stopped/captured/legally processed in Uncanny. Kruun survived his encounter with the X-men and now lives in San Francisco (also in Uncanny). "Murder" or killing is still not the X-men's default stance towards any threat. they still have their higher morality. All Scott's shown is that you have to be willing to kill someone back if they're trying to kill you and there is no alternative.

It's ludicrous to suggest that despite wearing his sandex, his ways fail to save the day.