It's clear you and I won't agree so let's just agree to disagree. Xmen under Chuck Austen was trashily entertaining like American daytime tv, it was so over the top, it was literally anything goes.

Bah, what do you have against Azazel? I'd rather have Nightcrawler be the bastard son of an ancient-mutant-warlord-turned-major-demon-who-was-basis-for-archetype-of-the-redskinned-devil than some generic Eurotrash noble (they don't even have barons in Germany anymore). Even Chris Claremont approves of the irony of the…