Since I submitted the Kitty Pryde and Beyonder picture, I thought that I should give a brief reply.

Basically, I have never been a fan of “might makes right”, so rationalising the Beyonder’s gleefully laughing plans to commit multiversal genocide, simply because his games with humanity weren’t working out the way that he wanted is morally reprehensible to me. I have heard it all before: Any cosmic entity has the right to exterminate any uncountable number of sentient beings on the same basis that we automatically get rid of bacteria, etcetera.

However, that assertion only works if the entity in question truly is played as so far above everything that its actions are unfortunate side effects of happenings on higher levels than our own.

If, as in the case with the Beyonder, the entity is thoroughly humanised, and regularly interacts and has conversations with loving, thinking, sentient beings, and still options to kill every single one of them until only itself remains, for no higher purpose than self-gratification, then that justification is removed. It is simply turned into a narcissistic psychopathic genocidal tyrant with too much power. I am certain that others will disagree, but that is my perception of the issue.

In addition, to me, that particular scene cemented Kitty Pryde as one of the absolutely best and most morally courageous characters in the Marvel stable.