A run? No wish in particular for any specific author rn, I'm pretty happy with most of the ones who are working currently on X-titles, same with the artists, and the ones I dislike I don't think a minor change in the creative teams would fix my issues, because there's so much they'd be allowed to do. And the thing is, if I want a new creative team, it would be for a huge change to the new status quo, and I think is still too soon to introduce any significant changes to the general situation. Better in a few years.
A character? Hints about the return of Nate Grey could be interesting. Same with Legion. Also the whole Krakoa situation is pretty good to give focus to characters barely any author has touched because they're really obscure. I mean, I wasn't expecting Risque, Wiz Kid and Peepers of all people to pop-up in S.W.O.R.D. for example. So it would be nice to see that Alchemy has been revived (after what he did trying to stop the M-Pox is the least he deserves) and have Scott and Shiro be present on his resurrection, taking into account they were by his side when he died. Astrid Bloom was an antagonist back in the Emma Frost solo series and it always dissapointed me she didn't make a return after Emma became an important member of the X-Men for such a long time. So Gerry Duggan could use her in Marauders, being the most Emma-centric title currently. Lavish was the main antagonist in Kelly Thompson's Gambit & Rogue mini-series and her powers are really fitting for a twist regarding Krakoa. Blindspot also appeared in another Rogue related title, the 2004 Rogue solo series, whose powers could be pretty fitting too. And finally the characters from Geoff Johns' Morlocks mini-series, especially Angel Dust and Shatter, living as a couple and seeing Krakoa from the perspective of citizens who never had any relation with the X-Men whatsoever. Oh and Carter Ghanizakanian, but only if he's all grown up and a new villain, the lovechild of Naoki Urasawa's Johan Liebert and Alan Moore's Kid Miracleman, and way, way later. Like maybe in Hellions in 2022 Alex discovers he lives now in Krakoa but his mother is nowhere to be seen. Carter excuses it telling him he's already an adult and Annie was a human, so ofc she wouldn't live with him. Alex finds it odd but decides it doesn't mind, and later is revealed that any suspicion was just a reasonable concern.
A character arc or development? Several actually. Make Magneto and Cypher finally reunite and let Magneto show a more vulnerable side telling Doug he always considered his death his biggest failure. If Lorna and Alex haven't had an interection on panel yet, they must, especially when at the end of Rosenberg's Uncanny X-Men #22 she was asking Scott where's Alex. I don't want them to be exactly back together, only see their new weird relationship in this new weird status quo. The orginal cast from DeFilippis and Weir's New Mutants is finally back together again, so they should get some focus. I don't care in which title. Warren needs to be in Excalibur ASAP, and I won't accept any crappy alternate universe substitutes. And can somebody please (Leah Williams seems like the strongest candidate) write a scene of Rictor and Shatterstar together? But the biggest one would be revealing and exploring how Moira and Wolfsbane's relationship influenced Moira on her desire to create Krakoa. Basically if they have already turned Moira into Homura Akemi, better go all the way through and turn her into an amalgamation between Homura Akuma from the third Madoka movie and Mimi from Flip Flappers.
A special plotline? Completely agree with @pyrofn, Madelyne needs to be back. And actually I'm gonna go as far and say that Hellions is starting to go downhill after the first arc. It started in a really high note and if in the end it turns out that Madelyne was brought back only so a title will get hype and fanfare, to killed her off right at the end of the arc and never use it again, it would be really insulting. How she could be back, I was thinking about it recently and the best idea I had would be that, because Jean refused to be the Phoenix Force's host again at the end of Phoenix Resurrection, the Phoenix Force has been traveling through the cosmos searching for a new one. Finally the cosmic force finds a woman's soul who looks familiar. Ofc that soul is Madelyne, who takes her chance to be back to life and possibly become more powerful than Jean. That would make her a pretty dangerous oponent. I even thought of the new costume she could be wearing (It would be like the one Jean wore in PR, but with the red parts golden instead). And then there's another plotline I would like to use, but A) It would be more appropriate for the end of the run, and I kinda think that 2021 is too soon of a year to end this era, and B) I kinda prefer if a new writer instead of Hickman handled it, I think they could do a better job than him. I think I have some hints in my previous comments in the parst marked as spoilers, but if you're interested, it would be a twist related with Moira MacTaggert and Carter Ghanizakanian.
A character killed? Taking into account the current state of things, I don't think any death could impact the story behind helping move forward specific plotlines and then have those characters back anyway in the most egregious example. So if someone really wants to use a character's death as a new twist. It should be the revelation that some character that has been seen since the beginning wasn't the one people believe he was, or at least not in the way people believed it. But then again this is a twist for a story line that I think it's too early to introduce. But to give people an idea, it would start with a page in which Moira goes to the part of Krakoa only Moira is allowed to go, after having a serious conversation with Xavier, maybe about Moira being disturbingly insistent on the not resurrecting precog mutants rule, and in her lair Moira finds Carter, who greets her with a lot of familiarity. They start to talk, and along the bubbles we're shown two floors beneath them. The first have the X-Men wearing hospital patient clothes, in an almost vegetative state. The second have the same X-Men in cages, except there are multiple Scotts, and everyone is wearing clothes with a dark connotation: Lorna is wearing a bridal gown and smeared mascara on her face, Rahne is wearing the exact same clothes she wore the night she was killed...
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