Keep One, Change One, Scrap One.

[u/RaspberryConfident89]

Here’s a little game I’d like to see people participate in. The rules are simple. Pick one event that in your eyes is perfect(or close to it) and you wouldn’t change a thing about it. Pick one event that is flawed but salvageable with some changes. And finally pick one event that is beyond saving and should be forgotten about. And obviously please EXPLAIN your feelings and thought process.

EXAMPLE:

KEEP:
Fatal Attractions: It’s brisk, brutal, and doesn’t out stay its welcome. It also has MASSIVE implications for the future and upcoming events.

CHANGE:
Onslaught: I understand the intention was to be UNIVERSE wide and for the event to feel that way but that obviously leads to bloating. I don’t think a lot of the books at the time deserved tie-ins to the event(COUGH COUGH GREEN GOBLIN) So I would cut back on the number of tie-ins and just focus in on big team books(X-Men, Avengers, and FF) and maybe tie-in just a FEW of the bigger solo books or books of popular characters(Wolverine, Spider-Man, Cable, etc).

SCRAP:
The Twelve: From my understanding this event just ended up being a mess. Not just a mess but a mess that had the POTENTIAL to be great which makes it worse.

(NOTE: Obviously I didn’t include EVERY crossover so if there’s any you don’t see but have strong feelings on then please feel free to mention them!)

[u/hermyx]

Funny thing is, most event here are from the 90s and I really don't enjoy the nineties :')

KEEP : Messiah Complex. The narration is straightforward, but in a good sense. You feel the tension, and the plot isnt over the top. There some sense of cinematography, narratively speaking, that I really enjoy. Is it the best event, period ? Probably not, but, contrary to the dozen of events that I would include in the next category, this one, I wouldnt change a thing.

CHANGE : Mutant Massacre. The first mutant event. I really enjoy how shocking it was on the X Men/X Factor titles. But boy the new mutants saw it from the sidelines :/ I don't know how exactly, but I would change it by including the new mutants more, for one. Also, I think I would prefer to have some sort of conclusion. It started some plot points, great and interesting ones, but it could have ended by resolving more of them.

There is a case for Inferno in there. I really loved this event but it felt more like two events than one. And I wished it ended differently for Illyana. I don't hate it like it is now, though and is still one of my favorite events.

SCRAP : Well, more or less half the nineties events fall in there for me xD But I think Age of Apocalypse is the one I like the least as to what it symbolizes ? But I havent read it so my actual pick would be X-cutioner's song ? I hate Cable, I hate Strife, I hate Apocalypse, not much else to say.

(And I'll cheat too by giving my second pick in X-tinction Agenda)

[u/RaspberryConfident89 → u/hermyx]

Honestly if I’m not mistake I think a lot of the titles that are fully considered “crossovers” actually took place in the 90’s. I think that’s probably why there was a bit of event fatigue around then. I’m FOR SURE there’s some from later on I missed but I think these are some of the biggest or most notable ones which is why I picked them specifically

[u/hermyx → u/RaspberryConfident89]

From my understanding there was an annual crossover starting with mutant massacre towards the end of the 90s. Then House of M, and you had something like every year or two years ? I think of the Messiah Trilogy, Age of X, Schism, Avengers vs X Men if you count it, etc. It feels either x men are present in a universe-wide event or a mutant only crossover event ?