Thundercrack85
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True, but "mutant" just sounds derogatory period. Genetically mutated Americans?
Um not all mutants are AmericansThe prejudice thing really only works if only mutants have superpowers.
Okay, maybe a handful of individuals who aren't mutants. But you can't have dozens of popular super-powered superheroes living in New York.
Though really the whole bigotry thing is starting to get dated. In this PC world, mutants wouldn't be called mutants. They'd be called genetically modified Americans.
Anubis said:That would fit better for the non mutant super humans. They're actually modified. Mutants however are simply born that way.
And I'm not talking about simple bigotry. I'm talking about how a person can make a difference between mutants, and super humans. It comes down to the fact that non mutant super humans used to be human and mutants never were. It's just that simple. That small explanation is the reason why they aren't trying to lynch Captain America in the streets....usually....cuz they did try to do that once. So, you know, they don't actually like the non mutants all that much either.
Um not all mutants are Americans
Do I really have to explain how that was a joke on contemporary American culture?
God, there is no ******** nerd complaint, not even the ****ing Eagles thing in Lord of the Rings, that I hate more than this one.
The X-Men work just fine in the Marvel Universe. The wider U's relative acceptance of non Mutant supers does not contradict what X-Men is about or make them out of place at all. Real life bigotry is full of nonsensical double standards, because bigotry is completely nonsensical. It's not based on any kind of valid logic. If it made sense, it wouldn't be bigotry, it would be a reasonable distinction.
God, there is no ******** nerd complaint, not even the ****ing Eagles thing in Lord of the Rings, that I hate more than this one.
The X-Men work just fine in the Marvel Universe. The wider U's relative acceptance of non Mutant supers does not contradict what X-Men is about or make them out of place at all. Real life bigotry is full of nonsensical double standards, because bigotry is completely nonsensical. It's not based on any kind of valid logic. If it made sense, it wouldn't be bigotry, it would be a reasonable distinction.
While prejudice is indeed an undertone of X-Men that happens in real life and therefore would be an applicable topic to address by any Marvel writer in any Marvel story, the idea that a spontaneous epidemic of humans gaining superpower-granting genetic mutations is something that should be applied to every Marvel story does not do justice to many of the stories that were better off without. Sometimes it just leads to awkward and poorly written crossovers that have loose, if any, application to real life morality and ethics. (Hullo, AvX.) A prime example of why the universes would be separate if story was Marvel's focus is the whole "No more mutants," nonsense. X-Men's story was putting too many random mutants in the Marvel U, so it made sense for them to do this, but the whole idea was detrimental to the X-Men plot where it is best if they are dealing with new people and new mutants constantly, so their plot suffered. When an ongoing theme benefits one story but is detrimental to another, the ideas should usually be separate.