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Doop ([info]xdoop) wrote in [info]scans_daily,
@ 2009-09-05 16:00:00

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Entry tags:char: cyclops/scott summers, char: dust/sooraya qadir, char: marvel girl/phoenix/jean grey, char: white queen/emma frost, creator: frank quitely, creator: grant morrison, group: x-men, publisher: marvel comics, title: new x-men

Grant Morrison on the Scott/Emma affair.

Back in S_D 1.0, I posted the storyline of Scott and Emma's affair from Grant Morrison's New X-Men run. I remember that there was some debate over whether or not Scott was actually cheating on Jean, since the hot sweaty sex he was having with Emma was only telepathic.

Well, here to settle the debate once and for all is Grant Morrison himself.

This is one of the questions from Grant Morrison's interview in the Comics Creators on X-Men book, which I highly recommend if you're an X-Men fan.

In your mind, did Scott and Emma commit adultery?

The way I saw it was that Jean and Scott had become remote. For me, the great emotional moment for Scott and Jean was when they ran out to die together on the moon during the Phoenix Saga. After Jean died, Scott ended up with a lot of other women. Scott was very attractive to women even though he didn't know it and I wanted to play around with that. Since he was becoming emotionally remote from Jean, because she was becoming more and more godlike, it just seemed he would naturally fall into the arms of someone more emotionally connected, which Emma actually was. Yes, it was a kind of adultery, but at the same time Jean wasn't being his wife anymore. I just felt that the spark between them had died out and it was time to give Scott someone else.











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[info]angelophile
2009-09-05 10:59 pm UTC (link)
I'm still not sure whether Jean having an identical mental affair with Logan in X-men Forever agrees with Morrison's point that they'd soured as a couple, makes Scott AND Jean look like asses, or both. It's interesting to hold up Scott's reaction to Jean's affair with Logan in that book against Jean's reaction to Scott and Emma though.

Scott's affair with Emma was undoubtedly low, it wasn't out of character. He's always been flighty with women, which always put the Jean and Scott forever! romance and styling them as one of Marvel's greatest couples on shaky ground, especially when Jean never seemed to discourage Logan either.

I don't think this story did any of the characters any favours, but I don't think the marriage was something that should never be broken, funnily enough, given my feelings about Peter Parker and Mary Jane.

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[info]okkult3000
2009-09-05 11:05 pm UTC (link)
To be fair (sort of), Scott and Jean aren't married in X-Men Forever, so it isn't quite as egregious.
Also, X-Men Forever is terrible.

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[info]angelophile
2009-09-05 11:43 pm UTC (link)
I'm enjoying it immensely. Diferent strokes apparently.

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