While I personally don't really have a problem with Feral types, given that if you catergorise Super Heroes/Villians then the majority would show up to be modelled on a some previous type. With Ferals and Gun toting Enhamced types, you have the problem of the prototypes being such strong popular characters. This gives characters of those types being immediately measured up against them and failing miserably.Originally Posted by kozzi24
I understand your problems about certain writers concentrating on specific characters, but I work from the fact that those you mentioned were very two dimensional before this concentration on them. Wildchild was a feral type, he became Kyle Gibney, kidnapped youth, this opened up more possibilty for character depth and something more than the Snarl, slash, hissy fit type of behaviour we had seen from him before. I do think that Scotts and then Simon Furmans depictions of Wildchild were some of the best in regards to what you reference as writer-du-jour's pet character.
We saw that from Wildchild during the infinity what not, but all that developement was lost after vol 1 went bye and bye and WC's treatment in X-Factor. How many times has Wolverine lost or come close to giving in to his feral side, it's a tired old plot line that gets dragged out every now and again. I work on the theory that when Wildheart first appeared in #101, he said that he was in control because of medications provided by Dept H. I hold out hope that if returned to Af and put back on that same medication than the more controlled strong character can re-emerg.
I have no qualms with what Tieri has done with WC in Weapon X because that the was the natural path to take following events in X-Factor #143. It's been shown that WC is more than an animal and could be again, but as he is at present, then yea, he's nothing more than a subservient pet who retains some knowledge of better times, surely if he still has a devotion to Aurora then it would suggest that, he is probably more human than animal. Also is his subservience down to his regression to Beastial form, or the fact that he was horribly abused by Sabretooth, who stripped away a lot of WC's humanity?
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and AF could have been called Wildheart and Af in those old AF issue. The thing is, when you don't care for the character, it can get pretty boring, which was my case. Plus, Wire is my number 2 worst AF character ever, which do not help for my liking of the character.
