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The Fifth Color – Leader in Red
I don’t think I’m fooling anyone when I note that Marvel’s merry Mutants are bite-sized metaphors on the human condition. Each one had their own little quirk or personality touch that makes us think about ourselves and our place in the universe. Lonely girl who can’t be touched. Check. Ice queen who’s more empathic and natural when she puts down her facade of material power. Check, though it’s a new turn on Ms. Frost when her reup’d power set. There’s the teenage girl who feels like she fades out of the room, the sensitive man behind a layer of steel, the intellect of a genius in the body of a beast, the list goes on. Try it yourself on long car rides or waiting for the bus!
Boiling each X-Man down to their essential humanity seems super easy in the case of Cyclops. He’s the blind guy at the steering wheel. The one guy who can never truly control his powers yet tries to control the entire world around him, and can’t see the world outside a single shade of red is in control of the X-Men team. Yes, yes, there’s a lot more to that and it could be easily disagreed that this isn’t his essential point (I eagerly await your comments below), but for today, let’s humor the lady and say he is a man who can never see anything but red trying to lead possibly the most colorful organization in town.
How’s he doing?
- October 16, 2009 @ 03:00 PM by Carla Hoffman