Free Comic Book Day: Uncanny X-Men

[Grunty]

I honestly think it would do the franchise WONDERS to have mutant/ human relations improve to the point where background characters can retire and get day jobs in the world w/o getting killed off or put in camps/ prisons. The franchise has sooo many characters and a lot of them have sorta been forced into combat BECAUSE the everyday is so bad for mutants. The franchise can still have your standard bigoted supervillains w/o the average Joe being a raging bigot.

Agreed.

Nobody expects or wants the relation between the general population of normal humans and mutants to be super friendly and all forgiven out of nowhere.
After all normal humans allready struggle enough with tollerating and/or accepting anyone not matching certain shared social, cultural, religios or ethnic traits they have.
But the overall direction of the comics over the past decades have leaned far too much and often into extremes, which robbed the "mutant experience" of any sense of normality, joy and mundanity, which would imply or suggest how these people, especialy those who aren't heros or villains, actualy manage to get through their daily lifes.

What makes this worse is that without these balancing factors, every additional instance of bad things happening to mutant make them much less impactfull or shocking to the reader, but rather give them a reason to be indifferent.
It's like reading about the Thirty Year's War, which hasn't been a popular setting for many works of historic fiction for a reason.

So it's certainly about time for some recovery and return of some sense of everyday life and joys for the general mutant population.