Where were the Avengers during all of this?

>Most X-Men writers have the Avengers and the rest of the MARVEL characters absent of their stories.
This keeps bugging me as I read through. Why not just keep them separate? I actually thought an idea involving this
>Pietro and Wanda are ported from the X-Verse to the Marvel verse
>Join the Avengers as they don't actually exist
>Get help because they're abused child soldiers in their father's mad quest in a superpowered race war
>Become heroes

We have a winner.

1. God Loves Man Kills was originally conceived as a "What If..." graphic Novel. Basically "What If Magneto was killed by humans?" was the central theme/plot, with the main theme being the X-Men and Xavier dealing with the implications of a martyred Magneto and trying to bust Stryker before Magneto's death became public knowledge and mutantkind declares jihad on normies.

2. God Loves Man Kills happened after around the time that the Avengers were in chaos from Hank Pym's nervous breakdown and trial/retirement once he proved that Egghead framed him. So they were busy dealing with that.

Minding their own business.

>Where were the Avengers during all of this?
The X-Line doesn't make any sense at all in the larger 616 universe, user.

Hickman hung a lampshade on it during his Avengers run ( see image related ).

It gets even more moronic when you remember that scary "monstrous" mutants like Hank Pym were active members of The Avengers and monstrous non-mutants like the Hulk were as well ( in fact Hulk is a founding member! ).

But this is mostly just what happens when you take "occasional crossovers between popular characters in one-offs" and try to turn them into "a coherent shared world."

I mean: how exactly is Gotham every on the verge of being destroyed when Bats can just call in the fucking League? How can something like No Man's Land ( or the rehashes of the same like during Snyder's run ) ever happen in a world where Superman exists??

Answer: Justice League/Avengers is an excuse to put all the toys in the same sandbox and shouldn't be paid any attention to *outside* of said sandbox.

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1: If you write stories where your heroes need other heroes to come and save them, it makes your heroes look like losers. This happens very rarely for that reason.
2: God Loves, Man Kills was not originally intended to be a canon story, and was never mentioned or referred to until 20 years later when Stryker was used as the villain of the second movie, and Claremont wrote a sequel to his story.

>"monstrous" mutants like Hank Pym

He's not a filthy mutie he's an Antl-over.

>God Loves, Man Kills was not originally intended to be a canon story
Just like, for example, Killing Joke.

Has that seriously never happened?

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Miller's Man Without Fear as well until a few years later when they retconned Typhoid Mary into being the prostitute Matt accidentally killed when he tracked one of Kingpin's goons into a brothel.

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>How can something like No Man's Land ( or the rehashes of the same like during Snyder's run ) ever happen in a world where Superman exists??
Snyder did use the league though. They all were taken out during End Game even.

Sentinel tech is so inferior, it would be like a Model T joining him.

Superman tried helping Gotham during No man's land, it didn't work out well