Comics Am I the only one tired of the hate?!

[Da_Lycan]

Ok I know since they were created the X-men's whole thing was being hated for being born different and yes people are scared of what they don't understand or used to. But now it just seems unneccesary. It was ok when mutants were in the millions and humans were scared of being pushed out but now there are more non mutant super beings than mutants. And lately they have been causing more threats to humans than mutants. And yet no one is forming anti groups against them to run the streets and hunt them or passing laws to stop spider-man or Luke Cage from reproducing. It just seems that Marvel doesn't want move on to something else and keep beating a dead horse to me.

 

[GambitXremy]

you can never change that about the x-men it's there core...

with the whole super human thing read civil war

 

[UraniaChang]

Hate is one emotion which is both irrational and hard to get over most of the time.

It's one of the human emotions run deepest than almost everything else.

Look at the world we live now.

 

[mightiest_mortal]

I'd say its the underlying theme. If they got rid of it and mutants were accepted the book would be just like any other superhero book.

That said, Marvel have really given it a good kicking over the years. The whole decimation has underrun half the point of the X-Men now. Theyre not a minority anymore, theyre effectively just a small gang with superpowers who fight lots of other gangs with superpowers. Theres no "millions of other mutants just trying to live normal lives" that theyre trying to protect. Theres so few mutants, If you just killed the whole lot of them it would actually save a lot more lives in the long run. Screw building Sentinels, you'd save a lot more money just giving all the "evil" villains a few million each just to live on a tropical island somewhere, miles from anywhere.

Now all the "middle ground" mutants are gone, you only have two groups of mutants left.
Group 1 : Wants to kill all the humans and rule the world or just use their powers for crime.
Group 2 : Never have jobs, all only look out for eachother and rarely socialise with non-mutants, seem to have ridiculously advanced alien technology (which they wont share with the "normal" population) and all sponge off a few Wealthy Mutants that give anyone all the money they could dreamof and a place to stay... as long as theyre a mutant.

This isnt a generalisation. Nearly all Mutants in the MU fit into one of these groups.No wonder people dont like mutants.

I call it the X-Men the Last Stand Effect (god I hated that movie). At the end of the Movie, when it all came down to the last stand, Good mutants who want to save people vs bad mutants that want to kill all the humans.. there was what.. 5, 6 Good mutants? against a whole friggin army of mutants that just seemed to want to kill everyone.

You begin to start thinking that maybe people are right to fear them and maybe it would just be common sense for a government to try and do something about them.

 

[stextc]

I think it's core to X-books that human kind doesn't like them.
Spidey gets lots of hate from JJ too so he's not exempt.

 

[GambitXremy]

ya some times i think the x-men are there own worst enemy because they isolate them selves. but now that there in S.F it's not as bad there hanging around the cities and more around human

 

[chamber-music]

I like it when the mutants where/are the minority over the there is millions of them. It makes them more outcasts even though the whole hating mutants thing is ridiculous when everone and their mom has superpowers in the Marvel U and its not like every costumed hero has declared how they got their powers so the public wouldn't know who was a mutant and who wasn't.

But really it comes down to people not really knowing much about mutants or understanding them which leads to the hate.
Plus terrorist branches of mutants kind of tars the whole mutant population with the same brush in the way that some people do with Muslims today.

 

[OutcryX]

yeah, but since when does 198 people count as a minority group? that is a species on the near brink of extinction right there. and really with ALL the 'regular' super humans and the 'good' mutants, any threat offered by the 'bad' mutants can be easily handled.

 

[Manic]

Yeah, mutants actually stopped being a minority after House of M. Prior to that, there were about 10-15 million of them worldwide. Worldwide, not just in New York or something. Put that into perspective. There are between 10-15 million Asian-Americans living in the United States, and they're still a minority group. A minority group that feels poorly represented in the media, no less.

Aside from the fact that Grant Morrison introduced the "humans will be a minority in 4 generations" thing, they were just fine before.

 

[OutcryX]

i think that was in response to the fact that white people in the US will be a minority by 2035 or something like that

 

[Manic]

Then let's be glad Marvel's editors don't run the US, or all of the Latinos would be reduced to a single family in El Paso.

 

[UraniaChang]

The core won't change until the real world sets itself on the road of total equality and non-discrimination, which isn't going to happen for another life time judging by our stubborn humanity.

 

[OutcryX]

Then let's be glad Marvel's editors don't run the US, or all of the Latinos would be reduced to a single family in El Paso.

um for the amount(or lack thereof) of Latino representation in the marvel U... i think that all the marvel Latinos DO live in a single family in El Paso...and just pose as different nationalities whenever the occasion calls for it

 

[Manic]

I bet the family consists of Arana, Victor Mancha, and half of Rictor.

 

[chamber-music]

There was Skin but he got killed off.

 

[OutcryX]

hmm.. C. Reyes is still out there, then there is Sunspot(he pulls double duty tho, black AND latino), Rictor, are Feral and Thornn still kicking..and powered?

Risque was half cuban..but very much dead now...who am i missing?

Empath is still alive...would Amara count? or is she from somewhere else?

 

[Manic]

I think Sabretooth killed Feral recently, just before Wolvie beheaded him.

Does Sunspot count? I never did figure out if the Portuguese-speaking countries count as Latin.

 

[OutcryX]

i am quite sure they count. or not. now u have me second guessing all of my life decisions

 

[Havok83]

Empath is still alive...would Amara count? or is she from somewhere else?

I wouldnt quite count her. She was part of some hidden Roman republic in Brazil. I guess location wise she might technically be, but I consider her white.

Does Sunspot count? I never did figure out if the Portuguese-speaking countries count as Latin.

Yeah he would count. Brazil is a part of Latin America

 

[Jack O Lantern]

The OP has just out grew X-Men. The mutant hate is the core of X-men, if your tired of that then you should just give them up because the next generation deserve to read stories about hate as much as you did.