Transcript: "Ultimately, there are 10 basic X-men plots.
- Aliens ruin Scott Summers day
- The teenage female audience surrogate (Kitty, Jubilee, Armor, etc) does something cool
- Bigots ruing Scott Summers’ day
- Storm wrestles with her leadership position
- Time travelers ruin Scott Summers’ day
- Everything connects back to Wolverine
- Literal demons rise up from Hell to ruin Scott Summers’ day
- Professor Xavier turns out to have done a bad thing
- The other X-men ruin Scott Summers’ day
- The Phoenix shows up (most likely to ruin Scott Summers’ day)"
I feel like it was intentional.
Scott was the kid in class that reminded a teacher to assign homework.
He was undoubtedly a good guy, but he was the boyscout. So kids reading liked it when things went wrong for Scott. His whole purpose was to get fucked with for following all the rules.
His eyes are a portal to the responsibility universe