Habakkuk
Name: Russell Patterson
Bio: A mid-40s curmudgeon in training... you have a problem with that, Sonny?Married with two cats and no kids, living in the Deep South. Been reading comics off and on for about as long as I can remember (I still can't get an issue of Justice League of America from my childhood out of my head - aliens arrive as little blobs with a single eye and start cleaning everyone's clock to the point that they turn Aquaman into a mer-man and when all is darkest they call on Hawkman for back-up and he has flown off to Thanagar leaving them in their hour of need. Never found out how it turned out and it has bugged me to this day). Returned to reading them in high school, reading John Byrne's run on Fantastic Four and the like. I kept a hand in now and again for a few years and have just recently begun reading again in earnest.
Stranger things have happened...
In the scene with Colossus and Kitty and Namor, Kitty is thrown through the mechanical monster to disrupt it. There is cool illustration of her suit smashing on one side and her flying out through the suit on the other side, having phased through the robot. The problem I just realized is that the suit is being employed to allow her to interract with the outside world since she is in a perpetually phased state and that would mean that to her the suit is solid or else she would be unable to wear it. So doesn't that mean that when the suit hit the robot, she wouldn't pass through the suit but instead be flattened against the side of the robot?
Yeah, yeah... I know... thinking about it too much.
I think the key to this donnybrook will be found in alcohol: Dazzler has been consuming it and Hex has not. In the case of the former, it will reduce her reaction time and mess with her judgement. Sure, she can create light which travels 299,792,458 meters per second, but if she can't get her act together to produce it or if her aim is off due to her significant inebriation, then things may go badly for her. In case of our pal Jonah, the absence of alcohol in his life for a couple of days may have heightened his resolve and made him a wee bit testy for anything that gets between him and something with a kick. Think of it like those stories about mothers flipping over cars from adrenaline alone when their child is trapped, expect replace the toddler with a bottle of scotch and the soccer mom with an ill-tempered guy with some significant plastic surgery challenges.
Factoring in the alcohol, I am going to have to side with Mr. Hex.