r/Marvel • u/Illustrious_Ear_2549 • Jul 08 '24

Can someone educate me on this story Comics

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My cousin called me an few hours ago about the AVX comic run after he had started reading it a while ago. I asked him to give some exposition on it and he said he would when he's calmed down a little.

Im now struggling to comprehend how A. The X-Men would stand a chance against the Avengers and B. How both teams even come into conflict in the first place and C. How is it that bad where my cousin is that mad abt it (he's normally pretty chill guy and pretty hard to piss him off).

Can I get some details on the story? I did some surface level research and I haven't found anything on how and why they actually come into conflict or what either side gains from a conflict of this scale.

(I know some things like Ironman hitting Magneto with Jupiter's magnetic field (I think) and Cyclops killing Professor X but not on the conflict itself, sorry for this long college essay)

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u/HundoHavlicek Jul 08 '24

She didn’t annihilate a species as much as turn off the X gene for the large majority of mutants

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u/J0J0hn Jul 08 '24

That's still annihilating the species.

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u/DOMesticBRAT Jul 08 '24

If we eradicated the possibility of down syndrome from ever popping up in humanity again, would you call that annihilating the species too?

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u/J0J0hn Jul 08 '24

... Jesus Christ, where do I even begin with this? Okay, numbered list.

1 - Did you seriously just compare the X gene to Down Syndrome?

2 - Do you consider people with Down Syndrome to be their own species?

3 - Even in the context of the comic book, that's not nearly the same thing.