Oh, Meggan...

[lyssie]

Every so often, I remember that most comic fans think women in skimpy clothing with big boobs are bimboes. And none of them were more quitessentially that than Meggan from Excalibur. And I'd agree... Except that Warren Ellis pretty much blew that assumption out of the water.

Under his reign she was smart, and sometimes, she did things like this.

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[unanon.livejournal.com]

Oh Meggan, my beloved barefoot superheroine. *misses* How I HATED some of the ways Claremont wrote her...i.e. little more than Brian's personal blonde floozy sex-toy. *sigh*

I bet it was under Ellis' run that she and Kurt had all that interesting Chemistry, wasn't it. *Grumbles*

[seraphic-slayer.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love you for posting that because this was one of the very first Excalibur comics I read and watching her do that made me love her SO much.

*I* want those powers!!

[samy.livejournal.com]

I'm going to disagree. I thought having a character who was a desperate hanger-on with no life of her own was what made Meggan a strongly unique character in the Marvel Universe. During Ellis' run she was just made into an interchangeable hyperpowerful female energy manipulator with no flaws of naivette, simplicity or clinging -- basically turning her into a two-dimensional Jean Grey/Sue Storm stereotype. Just a powerful woman, and nothing more. Me, I feel we had MORE than enough of that type of women already, and Ellis' Meggan was a huge step into the direction of being a very generic comic book heroine.

Plus, he tried to make her badass. There are characters who should be badass, and there are characters who...*shouldn't*. I'll let you guess which I think Meggan falls into.