There were also the facts that X-Men has form for gratuitous and arbitrary villainising of women who get in the way of the fated love of Scott and Jean,
Yeah, there's. . .really no defending any storyline involving poor Maddie (except maybe the issue of Cable where Maddie and Jean fight on the astral plane over who is Cable's real mommy -- OK, there's really no excuse for that either, except that I'm addicted to Summers family dysfunction and thus find it cracktastically awesome).
I don't know how much you've read, Selena, but by analogy, Maddie is the original Lauren Reed, except that at least Vaughan didn't fall for Lauren because she looked exactly like Sydney. Also, JJ & Co at least cut the scenes where Lauren hypnotized Michael into loving her (whereas Marvel actually went back and ADDED same re: Scott/Maddie).
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Yeah, there's. . .really no defending any storyline involving poor Maddie (except maybe the issue of Cable where Maddie and Jean fight on the astral plane over who is Cable's real mommy -- OK, there's really no excuse for that either, except that I'm addicted to Summers family dysfunction and thus find it cracktastically awesome).
I don't know how much you've read, Selena, but by analogy, Maddie is the original Lauren Reed, except that at least Vaughan didn't fall for Lauren because she looked exactly like Sydney. Also, JJ & Co at least cut the scenes where Lauren hypnotized Michael into loving her (whereas Marvel actually went back and ADDED same re: Scott/Maddie).