Due to the way comics are written, characters tend to ‘reset’ to their most popular version, no matter how much character or plot development this overrites.
This is even true if the popular perception of that character isn’t very accurate. Henry Pym hit the Wasp ONCE during a mental breakdown, and was horrified once he realized he’d done so. Once fans who remembered that incident got old enough to be hired as avengers writers, he’s suddenly not just a habitual wife-beater, that’s become his only sigifigant trait. He might as well rename himself Beats-Up-My-Girlfriend Lad.
No, that sounds too DC. The Batterer, maybe?
Likewise, Cyclops was originally a dutiful team leader who was a bit distant and meloncholy due to chronic depression. That was too sublte for 12 year old fans to grasp, and now that those (no longer 12) fans are writing the series, he’s just an asshole.
There’s no active Question, as the old one died and his replacement retired recently. I’d bet my Giant Sized Man-Thing against a buck that his next iteration is a wacky but cool conspiracy theorist, as he was in the JLA cartoon, despite the fact he’s never been one in the comic.
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Not really. I don’t actually have a Giant Sized Man-Thing.
You would think someone could also cure his baldness. Of course male pattern baldness still can’t be cured in the 24th century Star Trek universe. What about Cyclops, can someone fix his eyes?
Sometimes Jean grants Cyclops control over his powers for a short time. That never lasts either.
As for Rogue, I always figured once someone like Leech showed up, she’d be all over him. “Leech, shugah, can you hang out in the next room for a while? Ah really need to get laid again.”
In that case, though, it was explicitly labelled a temporary situation within that story arc, and the arc ended with Cyclops putting his visor back on. It wasn’t a case of one writer curing Cyclops, and another reverting him back to normal.
Why would they want to? The X-Mansion already spent a fortune on wheelchair ramps and extra wide bathroom stalls. Not to mention all of the handicapped parking spaces they painted
That also brings up the uncomfortable question of why all the various supers don’t make the cures possible by their super-science public. Even just a few, watered-down applications—like a prosthetic arm you could control mentally and feel things with, but wasn’t strong enough to crush clams with; or a functioning artificial eye. Stuff like that’d fund a lot of crimefighting, I’d think.
(Of course, the reasons being that if comic characters behaved reasonably, either all the story conflict would be over, and/or their world would look like this in about two years. 'Still a might irksome, though. :mad: )
Plotwise, it forces him to remain in the position of being the team’s coach, rather than being one of the players. “It” being the idea of the wheelchair, rather than the wheelchair, itself.
I don’t even pretend to keep up with it any more. It’s been way too long.
I think that was more of a lampshading of Batman having his back broken by Bane, then later healed by means I no longer recall, than a jab or reference to Prof. X, who I think had only been crippled twice by that point anyway.