>>119073996She's 14 and Franklin is 16.
>>119074285You do know this doesn't stop Franklin from getting his powers again, right? All you've said I'd directly attributed to his cosmic powers manipulation, none at all about how they means for him as a mutant. And it's clear you haven't been reading this series because it didn't come from nowhere, it was part of the problems he had been struggling with since the beginning and even the X-Men-F4 book touched upon that. His powers are most definitely a mystery as they were, and what this simply does is tie him closer to the link between Cosmic Energy and TOAA, as the primary source of the Marvel universe (kirbons and all, both things close to what Hickman and Ewing have been conceiving for a while). I don't think those who are overreacting over this realize how limited the storyline would be if he remained a mutant as it is, because in order for him to surely recover his powers, he'd have to go through the Crucible, something NO ONE actually wanted to see and that it would create a rift between the Fantastic Four and the X-Men at a Bendis level. "Hey remember when you had my son killed just so you could have another ally in a fight no one signed up for?", for years and years to come. The Crucible remains one of the most extraneous aspects of current X-Men, which I'm not opposed to (sharp edges make for interesting concepts sometimes) but it's not something the Fantastic Four need.
And furthermore, I'm gonna level with you here: the X-Men don't need to be everywhere and everything, let other characters stand on their own without acting like they owe them something for being part of a race.
