That said, maybe it's about time to nip the whole thing in the bud. The X-Men have been around for as long as most of their Marvel brethren, but it's always felt like their shelf life is a little shorter at least, so long as everybody's too scared to move too far the original premise, even though it's getting a little stale. Like, surely by now people should've gotten used to mutants a little bit, or at least their should have been some progress made? Even accounting for the weird sliding timescale of the Marvel Universe, which has seen Frank Castle go from Vietnam to Gulf War vet for instance, that doesn't really scan. And just, they've clearly started to run out of ideas a little. They realised they had way too many characters, so Scarlet Witch undid that in House Of M. Wolverine got killed off for a bit. Now there's all this ridiculousness with the teen X-Men time travelling into the present day and, as of yet, not returning. Otherwise, they just keep rehashing the same old tired storylines, conflicts and villains. Speaking of...
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