User blog comment:Blinkn/The X-Men get NO respect!/@comment-821254-20120712182307

I think a lot of what has been said here is true. That maybe this hasn't completely thought out, because a lot of whats going on here seems out of character for people like Cap, Daredevil, etc... Talking about mutants like their things, weapons and not people.

And if the X-Men have become villains in the eyes of the Avengers maybe its because as Psylocke said they've had their backs against it countless times and where were the Fantastic Four or the Avengers?

Real world considerations I think are responsible for a lot of the disconnect between mutant issues and other superheroes. The only reasonable thing I can think of for why the Avengers weren't involved whenever the X-Men were threatened is that it would have caused continuity problems, because it would be ridiculous and ignoble on the Avengers part otherwise.

The X-Men have proven themselves as street, national, world, and galactic level heroes but still all the Avengers see is weapons or amateurs who need to do as they are told by the real heroes. My question is how many of the Avengers got to choose to be heroes and how many of the X-Men got chose to be mutants. The only choice the X-Men made that should be looked at to reflect the quality of their character is this "Mutants pledged to protect a world that both hates and fears them."

Its true that at one time or another X-Men like Magneto have on the wrong side but then so have some of the Avengers. That said Magneto is made out to be SO terrible, and he kind've is but so were the people he could be compared to like the ones who created the Sentinels, or members of human supremacy groups, governments that experimented on and used mutants like weapons.

The only character whose actions over the last two years finally make any sense now are Cyclops. He read the situation and while I still don't like everything he has done, apparently the X-Men, young and old, really do need to be prepared for anything.

As far as Wolverine goes, I don't like that he is shown to be willing to kill Hope, because it "needs to be done" so did killing Jean, but could he do that? Again I haven't read the books yet, but if Logan never once has moments doubt about killing Hope then they've got his character twisted, if Cap supports his actions without question then they just have his character completely wrong. While this event will no doubt prove interesting to read I think it will do more harm than good to the reputations of previously highly regarded characters and the Avengers as team. Unlike the one on one battles of past that Spider-man alludes to where heroes duke out personal issues or were being misdirected, as Kanali said "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."