Fandom High School

"Sometimes, no matter how much time you've put in with a team or how well you've done leading them, you're going to have to step aside and let someone else take charge. Either you're approaching a situation from the wrong direction, or somebody else has a better skill set for the job and you have to let them go for it. Or maybe you're starting off with a new team with an already-established leader and you need to build some trust."

Or maybe a guy with a metal skeleton is convinced that the best way to save the day is to have two people throw him onto the Statue of Liberty so he can use his metal claws to stab the Master of Magnetism and everyone decides to let him.

"Once you've farmed out the leadership duties, your responsibility becomes support. Check your ego and do whatever you can to help." Like shooting Magneto in his face from a long distance so Mister Stabby can actually move at all and stab him.

"In a lot of ways, this secondary role can be tougher and more critical than regular leadership. If you remember back several weeks, we watched a video about how to start a movement via a lone man dancing in public in the middle of a large crowd. The man delivering that talk made an interesting point." Scott checked a notecard to read the quote. "'The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself... The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.'”

In Logan's case, he would have been a lone nut who couldn't help but stand still while world leaders were mutated into unstable beings who would shortly explode into liquid.

"Without people to lead, the person who steps up isn't a leader. And without a capable number two, it's very tough for them to be a good leader."

"So, since this is a group reasonably focused on leading - otherwise, you've probably been in the wrong classroom for the past couple months - I wanted to open discussion to times you haven't lead. How do you deal with support roles? Is there any specific time you think you did especially good - or bad - work because you weren't in charge?"