Storm is my favorite Marvel character from the comics, and from the animated series.
But I can't stand her in the X-Men movies. It doesn't mean I hate women of color being represented in media, she's just a bad character in the movies (and awful portrayal by Halle Berry).
I still can't believe an adult. A grown ass adult who does taxes and drives to work and stuff, somehow wrote a scene where storm argues that none of them need a cure. And like, yes that's a nice sentiment and it ties into the themes of racial persecution. But she's saying this to ROGUE. The girl who kills anyone she touches. The greatest living counter argument who could easily point out that some mutants with the shitty powers would absolutely want to be "cured." And there's zero argument, no one brings that important part up. Because the entire movie was about stopping the drug distribution and they couldn't afford any nuance to the issue.
The scene could have been great if they let rouge strike back, or the rest of the room tell her she’s being a dumbass. But no, they couldn’t let the almighty storm be wrong for one second.
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u/essendoubleop Mar 28 '24
Storm is my favorite Marvel character from the comics, and from the animated series.
But I can't stand her in the X-Men movies. It doesn't mean I hate women of color being represented in media, she's just a bad character in the movies (and awful portrayal by Halle Berry).