>several members of the X-Men can't turn off their powers and whine endlessly about it
>even though there are collars that can suppress a mutant's powers
Why the fuck don't the X-Men take advantage of this?
>several members of the X-Men can't turn off their powers and whine endlessly about it
>even though there are collars that can suppress a mutant's powers
Why the fuck don't the X-Men take advantage of this?
That's like asking black people to hide being black or homos to quit being faggy.
They can just modify the collars so they're easier to take off (and maybe redesign them so they don't look so oppressive). That way it's no different than Charles using a wheelchair. And when it's a mutant like Rouge who can't even TOUCH someone without potentially killing them, asking them to suppress their powers when interacting with other people isn't unreasonable. It's not about forcing mutants to "hide their mutant-ness", it's about helping mutants whose powers make it harder to live a normal life.
>Rouge
Meant Rogue, sorry, usually better at avoiding that slip-up.
>>even though there are collars that can suppress a mutant's powers
There are also mutants, like Leech, who's power is to turn off other powers; as well as things like S.P.I.N.tech ( which involved starktech nanites that did the same thing as the collars, but internally so they'd be impossible to remove as well as being able to deliver them via a dart from a distance ); literal MAGIC ( 'member, "No more mutants"? ); and, most recently, an inoculation that would prevent the X-Gen from ever manifesting in the first fucking place.
There was an issue of Avenger's Academy where Hazmat, at young girl who has to spend all her time in a literal hazmat suit to avoid killing everyone around her as even her BREATH is that fucking toxic, got a brief visit from Leech and spent the day walking around like A Real Girl ... and you just sit there scratching your head asking, "WHY??? Why don't they just turn it off??"
TL;DR the answer is: forced drama which is just Hack Writing 101, senpai.
You want glob Herman to be able to enjoy a day where everyone does go running and screaming from the sight of him!? You want Santo to be able to enjoy having a dick and be able to masterbate!? You want Mercury to be able to touch someone without poisoning them!? Fuck you! How dare you suppress these poor Muties just so they can enjoy normal lives and not have to be expandable child soldiers in some stupid fucking culture war.
Rogue actually DOES use these collars to have sex with Gambit now that they're married.
>TL;DR the answer is: forced drama which is just Hack Writing 101, senpai.
Honestly, this is why I'm starting to get sick of mainstream superhero comics. Everyone just whines about all their problems when there are solutions within grasp, nobody ever stops to think and connect the dots, and why? So lazy writers can tell the same stories over and over again until the heat death of the universe.
Huh. Neat. Kinda pissed it took her THIS long to figure that one out.
>homos to quit being faggy.
Not an unreasonable demand, tbqh.
>nullo
what the fuck is nullo?
It'll be the newest nightmare we have to deal with.
Add N to the acronym.
No shit, how hard would it be to redesign one of the "MUH SLAVE COLLARS" into a fashionable & easy to remove (and far less explosive) bracelet or wristwatch? When I had that thought at the age of 9 I knew I was done with comic books. I think a kid did write to the comics and asked that question & got it printed, only for the writers to blow it off as "physically impossible" for reasons.
Right. In a world with Richards, Stark, Pym, Banner...
This. I wasn't cool enough to think of it being a watch, but I was like "Surely beast could take one, make a belt for Rogue, and then she could just hit a button in the middle when it's time to turn it off and go into powers mode."
>That's like asking black people to hide being black or homos to quit being faggy.
But it's not unreasonable to ask blacks to stop acting like brain-dead thugs & for homos to stop acting like they just gotta get fucked by anything in public. I don't get your statement.
It gives her a constant migraine
read the goddamn picture. it explains all you really want to know about it.
Yep. And since they have access to alien tech (see the newer versions of the Image Inducer), battery power isn't an issue. Hell, the thing could be made to run off a person's bio-electric field or something.
Bullshit. NO character who's had a Genoshan collar slapped on them in the past complained of headaches, let alone migraines. These writers need to be shot dead already.
X-Men are like religious fundamentalists who would rather let children grow up with a crippling genetic debilitation rather than seek treatment to better their lives.
And yet, so long as they're good looking enough, will attend schools to learn to control their crippling genetic debilitation (if even possible, see Cyclops & Rogue, Beast & Nightcrawler) so they use those debilitations to go to war against others with debilitations.
ffs.
Being a brain dead thug isn't an exclusively black thing, non-white user. Italians and Russians both fit the bill.
it dont work with physical mutation
nu-LOW as in a new low
I know this is all about muh civil rights but since I've yet to meet a homosexual who can level cities with his mind, I don't think it's all that unreasonable to keep mutants in check.