"It Isn't a Competition": Marvel Is Really Tired of X-Men Fans Pitting Two Heroes Against Another

Responding to sports fan question on his Substack Thomas Nelson Page , Brevoort give vent about some funny Holy Scripture sports fan ' tendency toward tribalism , in regard to their favourite characters , even remark that he nearly had to turn off the commonalty for several previous posts after the argument between Storm suspensor and Jean Grey exponent became too combative .

In a moment of full candor , Brevoort went as far as to hint that divides like this in the fan residential district , peculiarly when they devolve into incivility , gnaw at his motive to do further rooter Q&A session .

Tom Brevoort On “This Seemingly Unending Rivalry”

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Brevoort wrote :

I am scram just a niggling bit tired of this seemingly unending rivalry between the tempest sports fan and the Phoenix fans . It is n’t a competition , they ’re both important . And if you jazz one specially greatly , that ’s fantastic . But we do n’t want to knock down the other one for display sexual love for the first . You ’re asking me a question about something my author suppose online . Just like the questions that I suffice here , though , none of it is prescribed until it appears in the actual tale . So I would say that for get answer to these kinds of query , the thing to do would be to keep an eye on tempest and PHOENIX . But I ’m not going to wade into this online competition and I do n’t require it invade this feature film any more than it already has . I ’m certainly not going to respond to a secondhand statement take out of context like this . I infer that you only want answers , but the answer that you and a crowd of others seem to want are those that pump up your pet while putting down somebody else ’s . But they ’re all my responsibility , and so I do n’t have a hotdog in this fight .

X-Men leaving Krakoa gateway X-Men #35 variant cover

Notably , Brevoort ’s reply boiled down to the mind that some readers are less interested in lore , and more interested in being " right " about the lore ; that these readers are track after some form of exoneration for having the " correct " discernment of their preferable characters . This is an unfortunate extension of the Hellenic " superhero vs. superhero " debate – one exacerbated , like many conflicts , by the cyberspace – which Brevoort himself afterward acknowledged can be part of the fun of being a comic Word sports fan .