OK, you've reassured me and I'm now going to start on Whedon's X-Men.

I must point out though, reading the concern over Emma as solely down to Whedon fan issues is an over-simplification. (On those Whedon fan issues, I agree that a lot of it is down to pissed-off Wes/Lilah shippers and people who don't know the difference between "naughty" and "evil", but I do think there's a kernal of truth about older or less "innocent" women suffering more violent and irrevocable fates after sex than younger women or men in Whedon's shows.)

There were also the facts that X-Men has form (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelyne_Pryor) for gratuitous and arbitrary villainising of women who get in the way of the fated love of Scott and Jean, that Grant Morrison fans already had reasons to be pissed off about the indecent haste and tortured plots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xorn) with which Marvel retconned controversial aspects of Morrison's run and suspicious that Whedon had an editorial mandate to make Emma simply bad again, and that there was and still is general upset in superhero comics circles about recent years' arbitrary villainisation of female characters seemingly for the sake of it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_Cain) or to support (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Loring) implausible plots (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_Witch).