User blog comment:BigSleep/Newsarama's "The 10 Worst X-MEN Villains of ALL TIME!" List/@comment-1895174-20130218232844/@comment-5786520-20130219001442

Madelyne Pryor the wife I like a lot. I thought that was really interesting and sad. Madelyne Pryor the supervillain was dumb. I think some people should just be human. For example, Flash Thompson as Peter Parker's high school bully, so that Peter Parker has to swallow pride daily in high school, because he doesn't want to out himself as Spider-Man is fascinating and really uncomfortable; Flash Thompson later turning into the Hobgoblin is lame (really, Midtown High School graduated Spider-Man, the Green Goblin, the Hobgoblin, and the mother of the Grey Goblin; what are the odds?). Madelyne Pryor living as the pale next-best-thing to her husband's true love is painful and pathetic. Her reconciling her love with Cyclops in those circumstances is really interesting. Madelyne Pryor as the Goblin Queen is lame. The Sentry's wife was interesting, because she was just a human woman in love with and afraid of an enormously powerful man surrounded by historical and cultural icons. That's amazing. How lame would it have been if she were secretly an android? With all that said, I really like Rachel Summers, who's basically a doppelganger; not strictly speaking, but, yeah, a doppelganger. So, as a rule, it's not ironclad, but Dark Beast is lame.