So does this fella work only with superinvolved animals because they make for better subjects or is he just a furry? He's always on about
>muh evolutionary gift to humanity
and then he just plays Old McDonald's Farm. The guy has been raised to Galactus level and he's still stuck with cyber-alligators. But then he disses out a top tier babe like Luminous and even experimented on Wanda and Pietro while being Warlock's "father" (technically he didn't create him, but he gave him a name and everything).
What's his deal?
BUMP.
Isn't he person sized? Are they just really tiny?
He can amp his size.
He tussled with Apocalypse during Evolutionary War.
Oh yeah. He's all over the place tbh. Generic mad scientist who wants to "advance humanity" and make everyone into an ultrapacifist globehead. Same as all those 60s Trek aliens who looked down on humans. HE is the guy who wants to turn humans into those guys. In recent years he's been written as more cold but that's his gist.
How you describe in that last paragraph makes him sound hardly like a villain. Is it just the means to the end that are bad? (I suppose you could make the argument that he doesn’t/wouldn’t respect freewill, but other than that he doesn’t seem that bad, though honestly I’ve often considered him an “anti-villain”.)
He's not supposed to outright evil. He's just corny and relatively generic. It's very comicbooky. There's a What If about Evolutionary War where everyone turns into a globehead and then there's a diatribe about South African whites ane Black folks coming together because now they're enlightened. Like I said, very 60s Trek. That's his character in a nutshell, a guy turned into a 60s Trek alien who wants to make everyone like him.
I have that “What If” comic. It’s not bad, kind of interesting. It does what it sets out to do well. One of the most interesting things I remember about it, if I recall it correctly, is that at the end he goes to eternity and/or existence (or the personification of one of those things or types of things) and asks them to restart existence, or something like that.
Sometimes he's benevolent, sometimes he's a villain, sometimes he's somewhere in between, utterly amoral but not intentionally evil. They've tried to explain it as his experiments on himself affect his sanity, but IRL he's just not popular or important enough for one consistent take to stick, or for editorial to force writers to be consistent, so everyone just does what they want.
The conflict between Apocalypse and the High Evolutionary happened when the HE's men were trying to genocide all of the subterranean races (Moloids, Lava Men, etc). Apocalypse fought against this as some of them were strong and able to fight, they still had the potential to evolve, and was proved right by the appearance of a Moloid that developed telepathy.
>Apocalypse after Hickman might as well be a completely different character, clone, or the original Apocalypse while the Apocalypse prior to Hickman is a clone.
Reverse that, and he might be salvageable one day. Gillen and Hickman wrecked Sinister, then Hickman wrecked Apocalypse.
why. aren't they both social darwinists?
Apocalypse believes in strife and war and whatever, which filters humans and mutants and whatever else. The HE wants to forcibly evolve everyone into ayyyylmaos. Sinister is doing it all for shits and giggles. None of them have any genuine point, they're all literal morons.
Apocalypse prior to Hickman didn't favor mutants over humans. Apocalypse prior to Hickman doesn't mind eradicating the less desirable mutants. Apocalypse prior to Hickman also acknowledge powerful humans because of his "survival of the fittest" mentality. Apocalypse after Hickman might as well be a completely different character, clone, or the original Apocalypse while the Apocalypse prior to Hickman is a clone.
>Apocalypse after Hickman might as well be a completely different character, clone, or the original Apocalypse while the Apocalypse prior to Hickman is a clone.
To be fair, he's not alone in terms of mutants who got massacred by Hickman's ethnostate/chart fetish.
The real mutants all being imprisoned inside Krakoa while clones are impersonating them would have been an easy way to end this era and fix the damage it's done, but the longer it goes on, the harder it'll be, and both the writers and a lot of fans are way too into their gay orgy ethnostate power fantasy to ever want to stop.
Hasn't this been the X-Men's core problem as a franchise in a nutshell? Both the writers and fans are too in love with their own creation for it to make any coherent sense. Crazy frickers are like HEAT except the fans and the CURRENT writers are on the same page.
Writers who are reasonably sensible elsewhere always seem to go insane on the X-books, and are constantly playing to the craziest fans. X-Men is never going to be a relatively normal cape book with occasional allegory stories ever again, it's just a power fantasy for people who think they're oppressed.
Pretty much, and don't I know it whenever someone unironically simps for Emma Frost on this very board. Remember when she was an unambiguous villain who ran a nasty sex club for the elites, and tortured teenagers? Remember when she was less redeemed and more lumped onto an escape vehicle with the X-Men, found she kind of liked being a teacher rather than an exploiter of man's inhumanity to man (and mutie) and from then on everyone pretended it somehow made sense that the power-hungry thot would latch onto Scott of all people? No of course not. X-gays are too engrossed with the idea of Emma being Scott's eye candy to actually reflect on the ethical ramifications of him boinking the Hellfire Club's queen b***h.
That's because the vast majority of X-gays never read an issue before Morrison or Gillen, and that's me being generous.
The HE has a bit of a point; it’s about advancing humanity to its fullest potential (or a fuller one anyways.)
He also made some demi-gods
>creates some demigods
>gets defeated by a demigod
I don't think he's as smart as everyone makes him up to be
His exposure to Isotope E has made him unstable, causing him to uncontrollably fluctuate from god-like power to neanderthal-level.
dunno exactly. i don't even remember if he had a role in the 90s Age of Apocalypse
He's not any different from Princess Bubble Gum.
>lekku-less twilek
There is No God
some times i wonder if AI just roam Cinemaphile learning how to human better. Who the frick would think thats a twi-lek
Frick this butthole. He killed Bova. She never did shit to anyone.
The High Evolutionary is just Plague of Gripes in space.
i'll stick to my edgy fanfics that focus on original characters and actually have things happen, thanks