Why did Marvel randomly decided to destroy their most popular black character at the time...

Why did Marvel randomly decided to destroy their most popular black character at the time? Were his crimes ever retconned?

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Cheap drama

Alternate futures don't count

Moira worked with Magneto and Apocalypse in some of her lives in order to try to subjugate humankind
Jean erased the entire Here Comes Tomorrow timeline as White Phoenix

>most popular black character at the time
>Bishop
Pick one

Wasn't he literally a fucking mutant quisling who almost fucked mutants up in his own timeline? Hell, there was a what if where his sister went back instead of him, and she literally inspired humanity to completely genocide all mutants.

Bishop has never been even in the top 5 of most popular black Marvel characters.

and they didn't retcon anything he did, they just kinda hand-waved it

Which is the most popular black character in the big 2?
DC: John Stewart, Cyborg?
Marvel: Black Panther, Blade?

>>most popular black character at the time
>>Bishop
>Pick one
most popular black male chaarcter

Storm was always more populr than him

It's clearly Storm

Storm is also generally their most-popular female character, as much as Marvel hates to admit that.

Because marvel editors are racists.

>most popular black male character at the time
>Bishop
Pick one

If you said "most popular black male X-men character" then I might agree since you can count the number of Black males in the X-Books on one hand

War Machine > Bishop

Absolutely no one likes War Machine

And still less people like Black Cable

This. Rhodey right now only exist to remind the audience that he is Carol's boyfriend

War Machine and Black Panther might be more popular now but Bishop beat them both before (and was beaten by Storm)

Fucking everyone likes War Machine, the fuck

I'd say Bishop had a legitimate claim of being one of the most popular around 1992-1996, but not so much by 2008 when Messiah Complex happened, after years of being relegated to lower-tier X-books.

Marvel do just periodically think they can completely destroy a character and either they'll get away with it because they don't think there are enough fans to care, or they have no awareness of their own history, and think their characters are so indestructible that no degree of damage will ever permanently taint them.

They never got retconned, they just mind raped him into forgetting he did it.

>Storm fans still refuse to accept the 1980s ended
There was a time when she was Marvel's most popular black character, and an overlap period when she was their most popular heroine, but that was a long time ago.

Overall, I would say Black Panther.

At DC I'd argue either Black Lightning or John Stewart. John remained popular even after the JL cartoon ended(though DC prefers to push other lanterns) and the TV show did wonders for BL.

Cyborg's push failed because they refused to move him beyond the man vs machine crap and make him fun.

Static should get popular again since DC is finally on better terms with Milestone.
Storm is still popular with fans, she never fell off the map or got screwed over by weird editorial decisions.

I would say she's the second most popular black character at Marvel.

I'm a Storm fan and I agree with you. She stop being popular around the early 00's and is only held up now because Marvel lacks any Black female that can top her.

>Storm is still popular with fans, she never fell off the map or got screwed over by weird editorial decisions.
Making her the trophy wife of Black Panther was a pretty weird editorial decision. Anyway her popularity dropped really fast the moment Jim Lee took over Claremont and she never recovered. Even during X-Treme X-men she wasn't doing much. She is completely irrelevant now

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He was black Cable, and nothing about him was special or unique in 1991

Because early 90s were all about inventing all new characters with dark edgy personalities and asymmetrical costumes with ammo pouches.

While the late 90s were all about killing, forgetting or burying those same characters and pretending they never existed while propping up the same old 60s characters again.

Darkhawk, Sleepwalker, Night Thrasher, Shatterstar, Thunderstrike, Generation-X, Fantastic Force, Force Works, Rage, a lot of all new characters were invented around 90-91 for some new wave of Marvel, but were all dropped by the end of the decade. Bishop was one of them.

But Bishop has stuck around since his introduction, and they made him an attempted baby killer 20 years later.

Because social media wasn't powerful back then

>Bishop has never been even in the top 5 of most popular black Marvel characters.

Were you even around during the 90s? Bishop was a part of the X-Men and actually made it into the cartoon, so back in the 90s that meant he would've been more popular than Black Panther and Luke Cage at the time to the younger audience. Bishop lost popularity when Quesada took over and nearly everyone involved working under him didn't give a shit about the 90s characters and focused more on characters that were around during Silver and Bronze Age.

Storm was popular back in the 90s partly because she was also on the X-Men. In the 00s and 10s Marvel wanted to focus more on the Avengers stuff instead of the X-Men and that was how Storm got sidelined.

At Marvel? Black Panther, definitely.
At DC? Probably John Stewart.

Bishop is black?

He was an Australian Abbo but black people thought he was black and now Marvel said they don’t want to hurt their infantile feelings so Bishop will be portrayed as both black and Abbo in stories going forward.